Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Couch Guy: Difference between revisions

:<small class="delsort-notice">Note: This discussion has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Internet|list of Internet-related deletion discussions]]. [[User:Spiderone|<span style="color: #996600">Spiderone</span>]]^{[[User talk:Spiderone|<span style="color:brown">(Talk to Spider)</span>]]} 15:40, 16 October 2021 (UTC)</small>

::There is definitely an argument to be made that the event does not bear encyclopedic significance; however, I wrote the page not because it was simply "a man sitting on a couch . . . and his girlfriend showing up" but the fact that it spawned a trend with an audience of several millions and achieved significant media attention as an example of the toxicity of Internet sleuthing. [[User:NovumChase|NovumChase]] ([[User talk:NovumChase|talk]]) 16:54, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

*'''Comment''' that my creation of the page was intended to cover the viral video and trend (colloquially called Couch Guy), '''not''' the individual, who obviously fails to meet the standards of [[WP:BLP1E]]. The page was meant to be in description of an event itself—hence the descriptions of parodies and reactions to the ''video''—and I made an edit to improve clarity that the page is about the ''video'' colloquially called Couch Guy. [[User:NovumChase|NovumChase]] ([[User talk:NovumChase|talk]]) 16:48, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

**{{re|NovumChase}} If that is your intent, then I would point towards [[WP:EVENTCRIT]]: {{tq|[r]outine kinds of news events (including most crimes, accidents, deaths, celebrity or political news, "shock" news, stories lacking lasting value such as "water cooler stories," and [[viral phenomenon|viral phenomena]]) – whether or not tragic or widely reported at the time – are usually '''not notable''' unless something further gives them additional enduring significance.}}