Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Ethelbert the Whale
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was: keep . ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:17, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Non notable whale of an article Legacypac (talk) 23:51, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
- Keep. Notability does not apply to draft space. Actually, there may be enough here for an article on Ethelbert; the event of his hunt, killing, and display; or on Whaling in Portland, Oregon (Oregon has an unfortunate track record with whales, incidentally). @Legacypac: when performing the required tasks at WP:BEFORE, what led you to determine that the coverage online (ie [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]) was so inadequate that the draft not only should not be moved to mainspace, but was so exceptionally bad that the draft had to be brought to MfD only two months after its creation? VQuakr (talk) 08:52, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
- We don't usually have articles on individual animals. This is a WP:NOTNEWS situation. Any coverage is of the "oh look, something unusual happened" variety with no long term implications or impact. This topic would never survive an AfD, and yes we can consider notability in Draft when deciding if a Draft should continue to be worked on. Legacypac (talk) 09:16, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
- We have lots of articles in individual animals. Most individual animals don't have articles, of course, - that would be silly. That this draft's topic is about an individual animal is an observation - not an argument for or against deletion. What specifically in WP:NOTNEWS do you feel applies here? This certainly isn't routine coverage on sports or celebrities, which seems to be what that section actually discusses. As an event, I think this meets the criteria in the guideline - its coverage spans 85 years. VQuakr (talk) 01:00, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
- We don't usually have articles on individual animals. This is a WP:NOTNEWS situation. Any coverage is of the "oh look, something unusual happened" variety with no long term implications or impact. This topic would never survive an AfD, and yes we can consider notability in Draft when deciding if a Draft should continue to be worked on. Legacypac (talk) 09:16, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
- Keep per WP:NMFD and VQuakr. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 14:24, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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