Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Slater
Could someone explain how Steven Slater has a non-low-profile after the media moves on?  His last few seconds of his 15 minutes of fame are nearly over. Unlike Chesley Sullenberger, he is not likely to be honored by the airline industry and his occupational groups for a lifetime of achievement in his profession.  Unlike the Balloon boy hoax there's no deeper story here about premediating a media hoax and child abuse.  Unlike the many notable performers in arts and sports cited for  above, which is not an argument to make, but an |argument to avoid, he doesn't have a record which distinquishes himself among others in his category.  If this fD passes, we will have to establish a category for persons who have saturated global media for 48 hours so that ''any person'' at some threshold of media coverage ought to have a Wikipedia article for ''any reason or no reason at all''. Slater's story is ''superficial'': he blew up in unprofessional way, deployed the evacuation chute, and was arrested.  Everything else is coverage about the coverage
— User:Patsw, 12:48, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS||WP:ATA||WP:A (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)