"::I am simply asking that WIKI stands be applied and not the sensibilites of a warring faction. I would agree that this is not high on any scale of importance, what the issue is to me is that is WIKI going to allow open editing o nthis article or is Pats1 going to get to delete anyhting he chooses and claim ""non-notable"". If so then greater WIKI principles are violated because one guy thinks he WP:OWNS an article and he and his followers can ""shout-down"" dissenters by false claims of majority rules. So, to the substance. I don't want to overstate the importance of this, but I don't want it to be understeded either, the speech is what it is, nothing more nothing less. I don't think making comparisons to other players and their speeches suits this discussion because I could point out hundreds of things in NFL project articles that are not ""notable"" in someone's opinions. So, on the merits this is verifiable and it is a NPOV. It is notable because it is national press. I have never seen that conference mentioned in USA Today ever. I have read that paper since 1985 or so. Now, could I have missed it in previous years? Sure. However, I think it got national news becasue of WHO was speaking. That ends the discussion, really. A separate discussion is whether it should be in the article, but one step at a time. It is notable under wiki standards. Under wiki guidelines, yes. Is it NPOV? yes. Is is verfiable? Yes. Can it be deleted because of ""majority rule""? No. Should a real WP:CONSENSUS be reached? Yes.72.0.36.36  
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