Deletion of Motorized recliner incident

Comment: WP:NOTNEWS,   twaddle, a stupid human-interest story one finds at the end of their local news alongside heartwarming stories of the dog that can bark Ode to Joy or the 90 year old farmer still on the job
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ONEEVENT||WP:EVENT)

Comment: I am not unsympathetic to the inclusionist position here, but I do not feel it is consistent with the |notability guideline at hand.  Because Edison mentioned Larry Walters in support of keeping this article, I think it's valuable to contrast the two situations.  In both cases, someone converted a chair into something else (aircraft, car), got arrested, and had the story reported in a zillion newspapers.  Walters' flight was |"a precedent or catalyst for something else of lasting significance" -- several plays, poems, songs, TV episodes, and a Danny Deckchair|major studio motion picture were based off the event; the event under discussion has not been such a catalyst.  Interest in and reporting on Walters' action was |diverse and |sustained, including requests for late-night talk show appearances, efforts by the Smithsonian to acquire his chair, an advertising campaign with Rolex, and follow-up reports years later including coverage of his eventual suicide in ''People''; in contrast, coverage on this event has been much narrower -- the event happened, the chair was auctioned off, and La-Z-Boy objected to copyright dilution in the media.  It is conceivable that this event will |in time meet the expectations in the guidelines, but ''at this time'' it is more akin to one of the |"and finally" stories deemed likely not notable by the guideline.  As a separate response to one other supporting claim, the FindLaw Blotter blog entry linked by Alessandra Napolitano ''might'' be a reliable source (although I am uncertain), but it is certainly not what is normally contemplated as a law review article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:EVENT||WP:EFFECT||WP:DIVERSE||WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE||WP:CRYSTAL||WP:DOGBITESMAN)

Comment: The deletion argument here is blatant .  Claims that topics have to have lasting historical significance are hand-waving prejudice because many/most topics are just not that important.  Clicking random article a few times we have Travis Lee (wrestler), Oxnard Elementary School District, Izzy Lang.  It's only after getting through mundane stuff like that that we come to a timeless topic like structural rigidity and such topics are a fraction of our content.  So, to pick on the recliner incident just because it seems wacky is contrary to |core policy.  The incident has had international coverage and has made it into at least http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VX-xBv_fcrQC one book.  Notability does not expire and so this topic passes the |notability guideline
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:IDONTLIKEIT||WP:NPOV||WP:GNG)

Comment: spaced ndash}}This topic passes , coverage in numerous third-party reliable sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)