Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colorado balloon incident
WP:NOTNEWS until or unless it has a future societal meaning. As-is it's just a sectioned news article that walks through the event. Just because something gets mass media coverage doesn't give it an automatic ticket to an entry as many people here seem to think it does. How about an entry for the child that got run over by a train? That even had video with it! No. WP isn't a dumping ground of stories of strange things that happen to children. This is why the news story is archived. That's where people are free to read about it later. Only the greater social angle of it snowballing suits the definition of the "impact" of this that it needs be worth keeping, and that's being reeeeeeeeealy generous under  since this whole matter will never be spoken again by next week. If it's to be kept, it needs to focus on the global hype over such a seemingly minor news event
— User:Datheisen, 11:26, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ONEDAY (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day)