Template talk:Did you know/"I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday"

"I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday"
Created by Smallman12q (talk). Self nom at 15:57, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * ... that MSNBC's senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended indefinitely after he called Obama a "dick" on the Morning Joe?
 * Symbol question.svg I'm not sure this is notable; these sorts of news gaffes happen all the time and just because a lot of people comment on it doesn't necessarily mean it's notable.
 * Also, I'm not sure the title is the best title. It doesn't seem like a very encyclopedic description of the event (a more WP-like title would be something like "Mark Halperin's comments about Barack Obama" or yada yada). r ʨ anaɢ (talk) 21:12, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Is this incident separately notable? Shouldn't this be part of Mark Halperin? I don't think article will survive an AfD, if somebody files one. Also, just from reading the article, it sounds as if Halperin had a potty-mouth problem before this latest live gaffe, so the proposed hook's claim he was suspended only for this one incident would be hard to prove.  Sharktopus talk 23:37, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Virtually all the sources say he was fired for the remark. If you disapprove of the title, feel free to rename.Smallman12q (talk) 11:39, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

I put a Merge tag on the article. It looks like a WP:FORK of Mark Halperin that gives WP:UNDUE weight to public humiliation of a living person. I do not mean to criticize the article's creator or submitter for this, however. It is completely understandable that something so public and WP:RECENT attracts attention, but this incident should go back into the person's article and have no more WP:WEIGHT there than is appropriate to the length of the rest of the person's bio. Sharktopus talk 12:16, 30 July 2011 (UTC)