Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Puppy-throwing marine video incident
Viral videos can be notable, as evidenced by AFDs deciding to keep several of them, or at least no consensus to delete, such as the Obama Girl video I Got a Crush... on Obama (no consensus) or the video about an Asian girl whose dog pooped on a bus and she refused to clean it up, Dog poop girl ('''Keep''' in 3 afds). Star Wars kid, about a young man swing a golf ball retriever like a light saber ('''Keep''' in two AFDs). The video about a profane old Chinese man on a bus The Bus Uncle, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 7, 2007. An old man cursing someone on a bus, a dog pooping on a bus, or a child swinging a golf ball retriever like a weapon is surely no more encyclopedic than a U.S. Marine killing a puppy, if the latter got enough news coverage.  This one got substantial coverage in multiple independent and reliable sources. See List of Internet phenomena for more trivial things which became notable via the internet. This  not "media coverage" of a trivial event, as is addressed by since no reporter made the video. It is an internet phenomenon
— User:Edison, 05:01, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)