Deletion of Resignation of Sarah Palin

Comment: the decision to be made here is not whether to delete or keep the page but whether it is more appropriate to present the information it contains in a stand alone article or as part of a parent article. This is a purely editorial decision that should not be made at |AfD
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:AFD)

Comment: per 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ONEEVENT)

Comment: The event should of course be in WP, but in her article, not its own.  Para 4 of  applies
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: back to the main page per #NEWS. This is not an individually notable subject. If it's too long to fit into the parent page, it should be trimmed down, not given a standalone article. The Resignation_of_Sarah_Palin#Reaction|Reaction section, for example, is largely trivial and non-encyclopedic
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: The nomination wants a |merger and so has come to the wrong place. The topic has great notability and so should not be deleted per our |deletion policy, "'''If the article can be fixed through normal editing, then it is not a good candidate for AfD
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Merging (WP:MERGE||WP:BEFORE)

Comment: to Sarah Palin: the  and  arguments say it all. This is just a passing news event of temporary interest, but of little long-term significance, and should rightly be covered as a subsection of the Sarah Palin article rather than having this kind of in-depth coverage. We're not exactly talking Death of Michael Jackson here
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENTISM||WP:NOTNEWS)