Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colorado balloon incident
This is the clearest example I've seen for a long time of why we need . We do not cover every single incident for which there is a burst of news stories. This is a late silly season story that nobody will remember next week, let alone next year. A boy not being carried away by a balloon is not an unusual incident worthy of an encyclopedia article. The "keep" arguments basically amount to "I saw a news report about it on telly, it must be notable
— User:Fences, 00:09, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)