Reinstate Mike Pollock's Wikipedia Page

The Issue

In June 2016, voice actor Mike Pollock's page was nominated for deletion and was removed, with the nominating users citing a lack of notability & sources, thus leading to the page's deletion. Citing his work in not only the various Sonic The Hedgehog series, but many others including but not limited to Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & more should be enough to validate the claim that he is in fact notable. 

"A person is not notable because they are known for something" is the claim of one Wikipedia user who called for the deletion of Mike's page, when in fact, if we really edited Wikipedia with the same mindset that these users that had a hand in the deletion of Mike's page have, thousands of other Wikipedia pages related arts & media should be deleted as well.

If we applied that quote to all of Wikipedia, then there would also be no point in having user pages on the site as well since just editing on Wikipedia is a single source & also isn't very notable. To me, starring in a decent number of games & television programs should be considered more notable than the thousands of people who have their own user page for editing a handful of articles.

Another point opposing users made was the lack of sources & citations, citing most of it was linked to Sonic The Hedgehog related sites. While this is true, the article could have easily been cleaned up with sources & citations edited to meet Wikipedia standards.

The solution that was proposed & made was deleting Mike's page & redirecting it to a small section of the Dr. Eggman article. This is a very unfair & dehumanizing "solution", for he is notable for more than his work in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. My proposed solution is to reinstate Mike Pollock's Wikipedia page, but to re-write & edit it to meet Wikipedia's standards. Either that, or we might as well mark the thousands of other Wikipedia pages for deletion citing the same reasons these people did. 

So, where should we start? Should we help to clean up & grow Wikipedia, or should we leave other beloved & notable actors, actresses, topics & more like Mike without a proper page for the people of today and tomorrow & slash the numbers of Wikipedia? You decide.

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The Issue

In June 2016, voice actor Mike Pollock's page was nominated for deletion and was removed, with the nominating users citing a lack of notability & sources, thus leading to the page's deletion. Citing his work in not only the various Sonic The Hedgehog series, but many others including but not limited to Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & more should be enough to validate the claim that he is in fact notable. 

"A person is not notable because they are known for something" is the claim of one Wikipedia user who called for the deletion of Mike's page, when in fact, if we really edited Wikipedia with the same mindset that these users that had a hand in the deletion of Mike's page have, thousands of other Wikipedia pages related arts & media should be deleted as well.

If we applied that quote to all of Wikipedia, then there would also be no point in having user pages on the site as well since just editing on Wikipedia is a single source & also isn't very notable. To me, starring in a decent number of games & television programs should be considered more notable than the thousands of people who have their own user page for editing a handful of articles.

Another point opposing users made was the lack of sources & citations, citing most of it was linked to Sonic The Hedgehog related sites. While this is true, the article could have easily been cleaned up with sources & citations edited to meet Wikipedia standards.

The solution that was proposed & made was deleting Mike's page & redirecting it to a small section of the Dr. Eggman article. This is a very unfair & dehumanizing "solution", for he is notable for more than his work in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. My proposed solution is to reinstate Mike Pollock's Wikipedia page, but to re-write & edit it to meet Wikipedia's standards. Either that, or we might as well mark the thousands of other Wikipedia pages for deletion citing the same reasons these people did. 

So, where should we start? Should we help to clean up & grow Wikipedia, or should we leave other beloved & notable actors, actresses, topics & more like Mike without a proper page for the people of today and tomorrow & slash the numbers of Wikipedia? You decide.

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Sterling Armstrong-CatePetition Starter
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“On Wikipedia, notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. For people, the person who is the topic of a biographical article should be "worthy of notice" or "note" – that is, "remarkable" or "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded" within Wikipedia as a written account of that person's life. "Notable" in the sense of being "famous" or "popular" – although not irrelevant – is secondary. This notability guideline for biographies reflects consensus reached through discussions and reinforced by established practice, and informs decisions on whether an article about a person should be written, merged, deleted or further developed. People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. - If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may not be sufficient to establish notability. - Primary sources may be used to support content in an article, but they do not contribute toward proving the notability of a subject. People who meet the basic criteria may be considered notable without meeting the additional criteria below. Articles may still not be created for such people if they fall under exclusionary criteria, such as being notable only for a single event, or such as those listed in What Wikipedia is not.”

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Petition created on July 11, 2016