Talk:Allison Stokke

Internet fame
"Even her Wikipedia page highlights more her Internet fame as 'sex symbol' than analyse her sports career." Very well done guys. ©  Tb hotch ™ (en-2.5). 18:23, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There is a very good reason for this article focusing on internet fame of Stokke and not her career: she has not performed at a notable level as a track and field athlete (see WP:NTRACK). Her notability comes from the extensive sources exploring the phenomenon of sexualization of her as a young woman and a female athlete, hence the article reflects that balance and adds the academic and journalistic discussion on that subject in relation to Stokke. It would be completely wrong for the focus of the article to be that she was the 19th best American collegiate female pole vaulter of 2010 (see deletion discussions). Even so, this article still contains an exhaustive summary of her noteworthy pole vaulting achievements. Wikipedia articles are for documenting social history, not reconstructing it. SFB 19:20, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Even her internet fame as a "sex symbol" is due more to public attention focused on Allan Stokke due to his history of creative defenses when handling sex crime cases.  The attention was initially caused most directly by the case in late-2006/early-2007 involving Orange County police officer David Alex Park, though an earlier case where he challenged a 16 year old girl's claim of "mental anguish" by pointing out she was unconscious when his clients gang raped her seems to be what really spun up the Internet Hate Machine.  SymbolicJester (talk) 09:19, 13 August 2018 (UTC)