The strange case of Lindsey Scherf and Wikipedia

You go on her page every few days?

Either she is making the changes or she has a lunatic stalker like that guy who posted crazy stuff on letsrun and stalked Emily Infield.

Um, no. You just click on "View History" and it shows every change that has ever been made to a Wikipedia page by date, who made it, and what the change was. Just in December alone, changes were made on Dec 5, Dec 10, Dec 11, Dec 18, Dec 21, Dec 22, Dec 23, Dec 26, and Dec 31.

Did she go to Scarsdale high school?

yes

I recommend this recent piece from Harper’s by Ben Lerner:

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The Hofmann Wobble,

Ben Lerner

Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory

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Wasn't there someone posting here recently claiming that Lindsey died? Really weird.

dude how did you figure this out haha

Is she dead?

Wikipedia does have something similar to a changelog

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lindsey_Scherf&action=history

Lindsey Scherf is considered a big enough deal to have a wikipedia page??

There are so many people with wiki pages who should not have one.

There are high school stars who amounted to absolutely nothing thereafter with full wiki pages, like...those can be deleted.

Like Mary Cain?

who?

en.wikipedia.org

Alexandra Kosinski

Alexandra Kosinski (born March 29, 1989) is an American distance-runner. She broke the U.S. high school girl's national record for the 1600 meters in 2007. She went on to attend and run with University of Oregon in cross coun...

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Sorry to be a troll, but if these three get pages, then a whole lot more people should, like everyone who placed in the top 5 at nationals each year right?

All three set national hs records - which many would consider noteworthy. Wikipedia contains lots (mostly?) info on individuals most of us would consider either irrelevant or of minor importance, that’s kinda it’s job. So if they get a page more power to them, nobody is making you read it.

Seems likely the op is the one editing it.

Some may be self-written

Wikipedia doesn't have like an annual meeting where they decide which irrelevant athletes to make pages for, it's just if anyone decides to make a page for someone (including that person themselves!) they can do it as long as they're adhering to some quality/style standards. So if you want the #5 shotputter from NCAA nationals in 1993 to have a page, you'll have to do it yourself.