Deletion of Colorado balloon incident

Comment: While it's true that | Wikipedia is not news, WP does cover major news events. You may or may not know this, but on the homepage of WP is an entire section devoted to breaking news. Yes, a family seeking media attention doesn't have the same global weight of something like the October 2009 Lahore attacks or some guy getting canonized by the pope, but guess what? Both stories are on the homepage. Maybe the  fanatics should go delete those "news articles". Sheesh. On Twitter the Falcon's story dominated trending topics for the entire day. The pope never made a blip on the radar. You can't dispute the notoriety that millions of people were concerned with the subject. --Special:Contributions/75.34.181.114|75.34.181.114
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS||WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: The people citing  need to work on their reading comprehension skills. I guess they're thinking of the sentence "Routine news coverage of such things as announcements, sports, and tabloid journalism are not sufficient basis for an article," but there was nothing routine about this&mdash;it was the front-page story on every major news outlet for the better part of the day, and there will likely be additional developments and follow-up coverage for several days. The point of the notability requirement is to ensure that WP doesn't cover topics that are so obscure or trivial that they won't be properly sourced or reviewed. The huge number of people participating in this AfD suggests this isn't an issue in this case
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)