SarahSV
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The Wikipedia community was deeply saddened in early May to hear of the death of SlimVirgin, also known as SarahSV or Sarah, who began editing in November 2004 and became an integral, respected, and influential member of the community. She was foundational in developing many of Wikipedia's core policies, including biographies of living persons, no original research, and verifiability, and drew on her wide range of interests to write some of Wikipedia's finest content.
A prolific contributor, her edits, numbering more than 177,000, give insight into the project's often difficult evolution since its early days. In March 2005 she was nominated for adminship and passed with a majority of 77 to 1. SarahSV's intelligence, direct manner, broad range of policy knowledge, and lucid writing were highly regarded, and for many years her talkpage was the second-most-watchlisted, after Jimbo Wales'. Several editors, on learning of her passing, described her on her talk page memorial as "irreplaceable" to Wikipedia. Her final edit was on April 18, 2021.