Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Motorized recliner incident
I am not unsympathetic to the inclusionist position here, but I do not feel it is consistent with the |notability guideline at hand.  Because Edison mentioned Larry Walters in support of keeping this article, I think it's valuable to contrast the two situations.  In both cases, someone converted a chair into something else (aircraft, car), got arrested, and had the story reported in a zillion newspapers.  Walters' flight was |"a precedent or catalyst for something else of lasting significance" -- several plays, poems, songs, TV episodes, and a Danny Deckchair|major studio motion picture were based off the event; the event under discussion has not been such a catalyst.  Interest in and reporting on Walters' action was |diverse and |sustained, including requests for late-night talk show appearances, efforts by the Smithsonian to acquire his chair, an advertising campaign with Rolex, and follow-up reports years later including coverage of his eventual suicide in ''People''; in contrast, coverage on this event has been much narrower -- the event happened, the chair was auctioned off, and La-Z-Boy objected to copyright dilution in the media.  It is conceivable that this event will |in time meet the expectations in the guidelines, but ''at this time'' it is more akin to one of the |"and finally" stories deemed likely not notable by the guideline.  As a separate response to one other supporting claim, the FindLaw Blotter blog entry linked by Alessandra Napolitano ''might'' be a reliable source (although I am uncertain), but it is certainly not what is normally contemplated as a law review article
— User:Squeamish, 20:21, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:EVENT||WP:EFFECT||WP:DIVERSE||WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE||WP:CRYSTAL||WP:DOGBITESMAN (Wikipedia:Notability)