Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/November 9th, 2010 Southern California Missile Launch
Wikipedia:RECENTISM#News_spikes|News spike "articles are valuable for future historical research" according to the Recentism essay. At the moment the article lacks a long-term perspective, but it's hard to claim that it was just wacky news without potentially major consequences. For more than 24 hours, most of the mainstream media of the world's superpower published media reports which gave the impression that that same superpower, with over 800 military bases around the world, was totally powerless in explaining a missile launch just a few dozen km from one of its major cities. The potential implications could have been a new international war to anyone reading several "independent" mainstream media and assuming that the news was |reliable given that it came from several different "reputable" sources. Whether or not the missile meme will survive along with other conspiracy theories remains to be seen, and whether media analysts/academics decide that the media frenzy is important will require some time to see
— User:Boud, 23:04, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)