Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Nomination Withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Dusti^*poke* 23:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo[edit]

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Non-notable alligator farm and petting zoo. TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 19:42, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arkansas-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:52, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This is a historical zoo founded in 1902. I've found plenty of references and will be adding them over the next day or so. - Hydroxonium (talk) 23:35, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - The article has some good refs and does appear to be notable. The article has been around since June and has had a few editors so not just one person trumping it up. I say give it six months probation and if it doesn't improve in that time re-list for AfD. ZooPro 02:07, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

June 2007, just to clarify how long it's been around. - Hydroxonium (talk) 09:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wow sorry my bad I didn't know it had been here that long I assumed it was a recent article, Seems ~~very stupid~~ odd to have an AfD after all this time. Keep now for sure considering it has been brought to WikiProject Zoo's attention, might even make it a collaboration project. ZooPro 10:38, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Not because it is too new to delete ("Give it time...") or too old to delete ("...after all this time") as those are not meaningful reasons. It has received substantial coverage in independent reliable sources, passing GNG. - SummerPhD (talk) 12:44, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw nomination by nominator — It would appear to have now been adequately shown to be notable, so I withdraw the nom and recommend a "keep" closure albeit with two comments: The argument that it "seems very stupid to have an AfD after all this time" is addressed in WP:ARTICLEAGE. On the other hand, I seem to have committed the WP:JNN error, for which I apologize to the community. Regards, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 13:17, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you kindly, TransporterMan. I sincerly appreciate you re-visiting this AfD. Kind regards. - Hydroxonium (talk) 16:56, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies TransporterMan, I did not mean that to sound like a personal attack at you. ZooPro 22:58, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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