Photographer Laura June Kirsch on Her Wikipedia Page's Creation and Removal

In February, photographer Laura June Kirsch learned via a Google Alert that an anonymous editor had created a Wikipedia page about her. The entry described her as an American photographer documenting music, nightlife and alternative subcultures, and cited her 2021 book Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: Emerging Adults In The Age of Hope. A tech-savvy acquaintance traced the page to a man who had written numerous Wikipedia entries, largely about women artists. Kirsch questioned the sparse bio and whether she was expected to expand it herself. Three months later, a stranger running a digital marketing company contacted her by email, saying the page had been deleted for containing too little information and offering to restore it. Kirsch, skeptical of the approach, nonetheless assembled a fuller biography with links to coverage of her work. The account, published by Hyperallergic, traces the page from its anonymous creation to its removal and the unsolicited restoration pitch.