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The result was keep‎. ✗plicit 23:50, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG; no sources. Merge with Jack Hanna. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 23:29, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
    1. Sheppard, Deirde (2022-08-29). "Parents' Guide to Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures". Common Sense Media. Archived from the original on 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2024-05-13.

      The review notes: "Animal Adventures is somewhat lighter and breezier than other wildlife shows. Kids will find it sweet when Jack kisses a dolphin and may lobby for scuba lessons when they see him jump into a pool filled with colorful tropical fish. One word of caution: Although the show has plenty of endearing moments, some episodes include a few graphic encounters as well."

    2. Plympton, N. (1997-03-11). "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures: Baby Boomers". Video Librarian. Archived from the original on 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2024-05-13.

      The review gave three out of four stars. The review notes: "Television personality, author, and director of the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, Jack Hanna is the amiable on-camera host of this informative, lively program about the care and feeding of baby animals in captivity. ... A no-frills nature documentary with its fair share of entertaining facts. Two paws up."

    3. Finkle, Jim (2005-02-14). "Small Distributor, Big Plans". Broadcasting & Cable. Vol. 135, no. 7. p. 11. ProQuest 225325749.

      The article notes: "The company's most successful show, 15-year-old Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures, is available weekly in 93% of the U.S. In a good week, it has pulled in higher ratings than The Ellen DeGeneres Show. ... The household rating for Animal Adventures is averaging 1.5 this season, putting it somewhere around No. 85 among the 153 shows rated by Nielsen. It is tied with NBC Universal's The Jane Pauley Show. The FCC has been one of Hanna's biggest supporters, awarding him the U.S. government's seal of approval: Animal Adventures can be included as part of a station's requirement to broadcast at least three hours of educational programming each week."

    4. Murphy, Thomas J. (April–May 2000). "Gross and Goofy Adventures of Jack Hanna". Boys' Quest. Vol. 5, no. 6. Bluffton News Publishing. p. 2. ISSN 1078-9006. EBSCOhost 2931692.

      The article notes: "Have you ever been knocked over by a gorilla or bitten by a shark? Such is the life of Jack Hanna in his weekly series, Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures. ... Hanna does part of each show from his base camp at Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, Florida. But he also travels all around the world. ... Hanna loves working with animals. Even so, it is not an easy job. He was bitten in the leg by a lion just last year. And a five-foot-long crocodile leaped out of his hands and grabbed the end of a $40,000 camera. ... Another painful episode happened thanks to an emu. An emu is an Australian bird related to an ostrich. "He kicked me in the groin," said Hanna, putting me out of work for three days!""

    5. Olson, Catherine Applefeld (1997-02-22). "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 8. p. 82. ProQuest 227103088.

      The review notes: "The animal magnetism of Jack Hanna continues to charm a growing TV audience, and now video retailers have a chance to do the wild thing as well. Three first-time-on-video titles "Baby Boomers," "Gorilla Quest," and "It's Elephant Time!"- spotlight a trio of his most popular programs. Automatic winner "Baby Boomers" is an up-close and personal visit with the truly young and restless, including baby giraffes, gorillas, Africa's wondrous native sons. Lighter than National Geographic, but substantive enough to qualify as educational programming."

    6. Watson, Mary Ann (Winter 2001). "Jack Hanna: He's a Natural". Television Quarterly. Vol. 31, no. 4. p. 66. EBSCOhost 503839288.

      The article notes: "When his series Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures began in 1993, I was delighted by the opportunity to watch him weekly. The show aired early Saturday mornings, in the block of time reserved for children's shows. As I watched, though, I began to notice something a little odd. The commercials weren't all for kids' stuff. There were ads for moisturizing lotions and room fresheners. It turns out I wasn't the only middle-aged woman who found the Homo sapiens as much fun to watch as the other species on the show. About 49 percent of viewers were women between the ages of 18 and 64."

      The article notes: "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures, which he hosts with daughter Kathaleen, airs on the PAX network six days each week. It's also syndicated internationally ... One of the most fascinating episodes of Animal Adventures was a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation and logistics involved in producing a Jack Hanna segment for Good Morning America."

    7. Oakley, Mat; Harris, Paul; Kalina, Paul; Farrant, Darrin (1998-07-02). "Programs - Saturday". The Age. ProQuest 363301539. Archived from the original on 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2024-05-13.

      The review notes: "From the opening sequence of this American wildlife show for kids, it's obvious that Jack Hanna loves what he does. There he is with parrots on his head, or skidding around in a Land Rover, or running away from a lion. This man, unashamed goon that he is, has a show pitched at just the right level for its audience. Today's effort, called Mating Games, has Jack asking: "Just how do animals fall in love?" To answer his question, a series of experts are wheeled on to explain how jellyfish, camels and condors, among others, do it. Jack receives each nugget of information with exaggerated wonderment and, in turn, makes every fact seem wonderful."

    8. Mendoza, N.F. (1994-05-08). "Shows for Youngsters and Their Parents Too: Now entering 'Weinerville' on Nickelodeon, where the puppets are people too". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2024-05-13.

      The article notes: "Conservation is a serious message to television's Jack Hanna, but animals' innate ebullience lends a light side to his "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures," now in its second season. ... Hanna, whose "ZooLife" ran for two years in syndication, has been the director of the Columbus Zoo for 16 years. ... "Adventures" expands the original "ZooLife" format, which was set exclusively in zoos and featured Hanna interacting with the animals. The show will travel throughout the world this season with planned excursions to Africa, Australia, the Guatemalan rain forest and the Galapagos Islands."

    9. Less significant coverage:
      1. McKinney, ErinMarie (2000-09-17). "Animal Magnetism - Hanna's Passion Helps Keep Columbus Zoo in Spotlight". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2024-05-13.

        The article notes: "His syndicated wildlife show, Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures, airs on 230 stations in the United States and 62 other countries. ... VideoTours produces Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures, the top-rated wildlife show in syndication, which will enter its eighth year this fall. Company President J.R. Johnson said VideoTours and Hanna normally work without a contract."

    There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

    Cunard (talk) 11:18, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Although it can be said that a few of the sources from the analysis above are "run of the mills" reviews, but regardless SIG coverage is established here. X (talk) 14:28, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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.
  • Post-close comment: So why doesn't someone edit the article to add in the new sources? Mvcg66b3r (talk) 23:54, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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