Deletion of 2014 Norfolk helicopter crash

Comment: per . Also, there is no deadline; we can easily recreate this in the future
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: News coverage is . The article deleted herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/2012_Virginia_Beach_F/A-18_crash had lots of routine coverage too
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ROUTINE)

Comment: This is not a notable accident. |Wikipedia is not a memorial, nor is it a |news service, and having generated "quite a bit of news coverage" does not establish  that is required for |notability
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTMEMORIAL||WP:NOTNEWSPAPER||WP:PERSISTENCE||WP:N)

Comment: I've checked the latest news about this and it looks like there is nothing particularly significant ever since. 2-4 deaths is (still, unfortunately) a relatively frequent death toll, similar to that of private aircraft. This is already commemorated in 2014 in aviation anyway and can be expanded there further. If something important about it surfaces in the future, the article can be recreated, but so far  (even though I generally believe in the zodiac astrology
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL)

Comment: per . Fatal helicopter accidents while always sad occurrences are not that uncommon, particularly in the military. No indication that this has lasting significance. Unless something emerges over the next few days indicating possible lasting effects or something particularly unusual, it should be deleted as failing established policies on notability of events, particularly air crashes. We do have articles on 2013 Vauxhall helicopter crash and 2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, but they are seen as more unusual events which may have lasting effects on how helicopters are operated. The following AfD decisions (all delete) are relevant: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 French helicopter crash (French military helicopter crash kills 7), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 Antarctica helicopter crash (4 killed from research station), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 Berlin helicopter crash (2nd nomination) (1 police officer killed). In contrast 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan was kept, but it was "the worst loss of U.S Military life in a single incident in the Afghanistan campaign" and hence important for the history of the war
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: so that this well-written article can continue to be developed and to give time for an informed assessment of whether the event is to have enduring significance. This is what rafts|draft space is for
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:D)

Comment: per . There seems to be no reason to think that this sad accident will have any long-term ramifications or will receive prolonged coverage
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: If not for  we wouldn't be having much of a debate. There are tons of military accident accidnets like this littering the archives of Aviation Safety Network and many of them with much bigger death tolls than 4 but no article. The difference between those and this- It happened yesterday
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENTISM)

Comment: per . No indication of anything notable or of lasting consequence in the accident. We don't keep non-notable articles in case they one day become notable
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: I see no real |rush here.  It's certainly not routine for an American asset to crash in the incredibly featureless Norfolk marshlands with four fatalities.  So, like NorthHunter, it's a little to early to say
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:There is no deadline (WP:DEADLINE)