Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/YouTube cat abuse incident
or '''Merge''' into Internet vigilantism. - Per , we've got to "get it right", and the article will need to be watched closely for violations. (Yes, both articles are now on my watchlist.) Still, it meets the criteria, and the arguments for deleting seem to me to boil down to .  Whether or not we like it, this is an event that is shaping and defining how we relate to the Internet in the 21st century, partly because of what happened, and partly ''because it's getting so much attention''. A comparable event in a year won't get the same media attention, and would likely not meet our notability standards. For now, this is what it looks like when new cultural ground is broken. Freaky, huh? I don't remember anything in my childhood comparable to "U.S. cat abuser punished by the internet".  Whenever the histories of the Internet are written, and this event is put into a historical context, then we'll deal with it in those terms, but until then, I think it passes muster. What I don't understand it what would make a kid want to do that to a cat
— User:GTBacchus, 02:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP||WP:IDONTLIKEIT (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)