The result was keep. J04n( talk page) 19:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Thoroughly trivial and created in blatant violation of our not-a-newspaper standards. The previous nomination was dominated by people who attempted to argue that it was a huge thing that would always stick around in our collected memory (e.g. "This story will not go away or be forgotten"), but no evidence was presented that such would happen. Everything presently on the article is trivial (e.g. YouTube information on how many hits the video gets) or several-years-old news sources, and the sole piece of coverage I can find in JSTOR is this article, which gives it a single paragraph as part of a discussion about the lack of civility in American culture. To quote the article, the subject of the incident became "an instant, if likely fleeting, celebrity" — this prediction has become true, because no solid sources time-independent of the incident are giving it consistent coverage. Nyttend ( talk) 20:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC) reply
In fact, the wildly popular phrase of 2007, 'Don't taze me bro,' was a plea from a conspiracy theorist that exploded into the pop-culture lexicon because of the Internet.
The public nature of the TASER controversy is perhaps best illustrated by the now-famous YouTube video of a Senator John Kerry speaking engagement in which a University of Florida student says 'don't taze me, bro' to police officers right ...
The result was keep. J04n( talk page) 19:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC) reply
Thoroughly trivial and created in blatant violation of our not-a-newspaper standards. The previous nomination was dominated by people who attempted to argue that it was a huge thing that would always stick around in our collected memory (e.g. "This story will not go away or be forgotten"), but no evidence was presented that such would happen. Everything presently on the article is trivial (e.g. YouTube information on how many hits the video gets) or several-years-old news sources, and the sole piece of coverage I can find in JSTOR is this article, which gives it a single paragraph as part of a discussion about the lack of civility in American culture. To quote the article, the subject of the incident became "an instant, if likely fleeting, celebrity" — this prediction has become true, because no solid sources time-independent of the incident are giving it consistent coverage. Nyttend ( talk) 20:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC) reply
In fact, the wildly popular phrase of 2007, 'Don't taze me bro,' was a plea from a conspiracy theorist that exploded into the pop-culture lexicon because of the Internet.
The public nature of the TASER controversy is perhaps best illustrated by the now-famous YouTube video of a Senator John Kerry speaking engagement in which a University of Florida student says 'don't taze me, bro' to police officers right ...