Reigning Spelling Bee Champion N’Adom Darko-Asare’s profile on Wikipedia deleted?

It seems the profile of N’Adom Darko-Asare, the reigning champion of Ghana’s The Spelling Bee competition has been deleted from the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

She represents Ghana alongside her colleagues at the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition in the US.

During an interview, the N’Adom expressed optimism, stating that “I will do my best to make Ghana proud at the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee”.

On 9 February 2023, a wiki editor tagged N’Adom Darko-Asare’s article for deletion with the reason that she is “notable only for one event” and as a minor, she needs to be protected to prevent her from being a subject”.

The notability claim here is that she won a spelling bee competition, which is not grounds for permanent inclusion in an encyclopedia as it fails the ten-year test for enduring significance—and while there are a couple of genuinely reliable sources here, the article is also heavily reference bombed to a lot of primary sources that don’t support for notability at all.”

The editor cautioned with the intention to protect Darko-Asare from harm stating that “we also have an established rule that due to the potential for a Wikipedia article to cause harm to its subject (e.g. becoming a magnet for vandalism or attack editing), we have to be especially vigilant and strict about the notability of children.”

Another wiki editor, Bearcat who opposed the assertion that she is “notable only for one event” explained that: “Who, ten or twenty years from now, is going to be looking for information about past winners of spelling bees