Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy
I'm going to |disregard policies and guidelines for a second and go all the way back to |the five pillars. The very first one is "Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia." When it comes down to it, deletion policies and guidelines are aimed to guide us towards figuring out what actually belongs in an enyclopedia. This simply isn't encyclopedic content &ndash; it's news. Regardless of how viral it is, when it comes down to it, in a few years nobody is going to look up something like this in an encyclopedia. If it really is something that needs to be looked up, probably the first place to look would be news archives. Wikipedia is not a news archive, it is an encyclopedia
— User:Shirik, 20:23, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:IAR||WP:5P (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)