Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephanie Birkitt
WP:BLP1E certainly does not say that we should punish someone who is in the news by deleting their article if it has existed for years, and if it had plenty of independent and reliable references with significant coverage to satisfy  before the news item surfaced, as she did. Checking http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=Stephanie+Birkitt&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_user_ldate=1996&as_user_hdate=2008&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p0&as_scoring=a Google News archive for 1996 through 2008: There were several items which described her appearances in Q&A columns. There was a  story about her from Entertainment Weekly in 2002: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,238358,00.html. In 2002, she was number 21 on USA Todays http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/popcandy/2002-12-18-candy.htm list "Pop Candy's 100 People of the Year
— User:Edison, 14:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)