Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everybody Draw Mohammad Day
I can certainly see how  (''Wikipedia is not for things that you or your friends made up. If you have invented something novel in school, your garage, or the pub, but it has not yet become well known to the rest of the world, please do not write about it in Wikipedia. Write about it on your own website or blog instead.'') might have seemed applicable when the article was nominated, but it clearly doesn't apply in this case. The article clearly meets the . As for , that guideline is problematic for ''any'' current event, because it requires "coverage that persists over a period of time"; this article seems to meet most or all of the other elements of that guideline. Going on, that guideline says "The duration of coverage is a strong indicator of whether an event has passing or lasting significance...However, this may be difficult or impossible to determine shortly after the event occurs, as editors cannot know whether an event will receive further coverage or not. That an event occurred recently does not in itself make it non-notable." In this case, I think there's likely to be some persistance of coverage, due to the tie-in to what seems to be an ongoing clash between the Western value of free speech and the somewhat widespread desire of some Muslims to prohibit depictions of Muhammad. Although 201 (South Park) was the proximate inspiration for this, it's clearly also related to other instances of this conflict, such as the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Viewed in that light, as an episode in a much larger continuing dispute, I think this does have persistant notability
— User:Cmadler, 15:01, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NFT||WP:GNG||WP:EVENT (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day)