Deletion of Harambe

Comment: We might want to let this one run another couple of weeks, as per , both to allow emotions to cool and to see how long the press attention continues, although in this case it may be extended by the advent of the silly season
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:RAPID)

Comment: to a section in Cincinnati Zoo, for all the reasons User:Salvidrim lays out, especially , but also, as someone says above, this is not Balto|Balto the Sled Dog; the gorilla is known only for its ambiguous reactions to a random and unusual event.  It is analogous to keeping a bio of an individual known only for having been in the wrong place at the wrong time when a freak event happened.   You have to be struck by lightening 7 times to rate a WP article Roy Sullivan - tongue slightly in cheek on that example, but look at Lightning strike and notice how few such article we have.  We have a List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States by decade, not numbers of such articles.  I am bringing these despite WP:OTHERSTUFF in an honest exploration of what our  standards are, and because I am exploring the justifications for keeping this
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ONEEVENT||WP:ONEEVENT)

Comment: The article has gotten heavy coverage in the present, but it is too soon to say whether the death of Harambe will have lasting impact or if this will just end up being a |notnews-grade event. I think the odds of this article eventually meeting notability requirements are quite high, but this is obviously not justification for a long-standing keep. Given these facts, I would recommend closing the article as keep per  and then re-nominate it in a few weeks if notability has not been determined, or moving it into draft space and only moving it back into article space if and when notability is proven. I would prefer keeping per , since there is a lot that can be said about the gorilla that is source-able to reliable sources, and because there are a lot of people searching for Harambe (the Cincinnati Zoo page normally had a little under a hundred views per day, but exploded to several thousand a day after the indicdent, indicating that a lot of people are searching for information on the gorilla and that it would be more helpful for our readers to keep the information in article space at present https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Cincinnati_Zoo_and_Botanical_Garden
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS||WP:RAPID)