Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heene ballon incident


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The result was redirected to Colorado balloon incident, which already has an active AfD listing. —David Levy 23:40, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Heene ballon incident

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Does not appear to be notable; just an isolated one-day news story that turned out to be a farce. Spring Rubber (talk) 08:49, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wow. A balloon that flew around Fort Collins for two hours. This story does not deserve an article and it doesn't deserve mentioning in the "Fort Collins" entry. There are 120,000 people in Fort Collins. That's 120,000 life stories. The city was founded in 1864. The news media cares more about the balloon than the town, but I don't think we should give them equal air time on this site.--Drknkn (talk) 09:12, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. per above.--Karljoos (talk) 10:50, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOTNEWS Sanguis Sanies (talk) 11:28, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment There's already a more expansive article at Colorado balloon incident, and a more expansive deletion debate going on at WP:Articles for deletion/Colorado balloon incident. Shall we close/redirect this one?  JUJUTACULAR  | TALK 11:59, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete because this is simply news (and we are not a news source). --NellieBly (talk) 13:02, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per everything. • Anakin (talk) 13:12, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Procedural redirect or Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. Redirect this duplicate article to Colorado balloon incident, just as Falcon Heene was redirected there and let the AFD continue there. By the way, the title is misspelled. Edison (talk) 15:48, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Definite sense of deja vu here.--JohnnyB256 (talk) 19:54, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy Redirect to Colorado balloon incident. Full disclosure, I've nommed that article for deletion; as Jujutacular points out above. See WP:Articles for deletion/Colorado balloon incident; but in any event there clearly does not need to be two articles on a single event.  It should be retained or kept based on the merits which are much more fully debated in the other AfD.  I propose the Redirect be speedy to prevent complication due to forking. TJRC (talk) 23:10, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is nothing more than a spelling mistake, Article already exists at Colorado balloon incident. - Ahunt (talk) 23:39, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.