Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trump orb (2nd nomination)
OK, so I'm not sold on the inelegant title "Trump orb" (it wasn't even his orb!). But this rises to a level beyond just a "meme"—and incidentally, the main difference between notable political moments like this, and ones in the past, is that we just didn't use the word "meme" yet. (Was Clinton's reference to Sister Souljah a Sister Souljah moment|"meme"? What about Bush shoeing incident|this? Point is, plenty of peripheral political minutia is "notable" in context.) Trump touching the orb was notable in many people's minds because it marked a very visual turn from Trump's declared "anti-globalist" policies on his campaign to the realities of his governance. Wikipedia has to balance policies like  and perceived "RECENTist" tendencies with the RECENTist reality of culture outside Wikipedia itself. People are interested in encyclopedic assessment of moments like this—a place where a range of commentary and sources are assembled and balanced in line with other Wikipedia policies. Further, it's the kind of thing that people will continue to look up over time. Naturally, https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=all-time&pages=Trump_orb interest spiked months ago, but that's the long tail in action—and the end of the long tail has value, too. At the very least, a summary section on this should be merged into 2017 Riyadh summit, maybe a mention on Donald Trump on social media
— User:Brandt, 17:04, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RECENT (Wikipedia:Recentism)