Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Stephe Koontz

The person who flagged this for deletion called it a "poorly referenced" article but Stephe Koontz has been written up in (and the article was footnoted from) major national sources like NYT, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, LA Times. and others.

I think claiming it's "an inclusion freebie" is demeaning. There are multiple articles on Wikipedia about local city councilmembers including people who are even less "notable" like this person from Atlanta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Moore.

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I'm the person that this article is about (I'm not sure who wrote the above), someone asked if they could make an entry for me. I had no idea I wasn't allowed to correct or add information to an article about myself. In fact this whole process is extremely confusing and I'm probably responding in the wrong place.

The only reason I agreed was I know parents with trans kids find these sorts of articles inspiring for their children, who are constantly under attack. At this point I don't know what to do to fix what this bearcat guy is complaining about (basically saying the national press about me is not noteworthy?) without touching it myself.

I'm also concerned that if anyone can just come along and maliciously change the pronouns or otherwise write something abusive, which is VERY common for transgender people, this whole exercise might be a bad idea. The fact my article was picked out almost instantly for deletion in this way seems odd and bearcat's comments seem pretty hostile, maybe that is just how he always writes? Stephekoontz (talk) 01:20, 24 April 2018 (UTC)