Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of animals by common name

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The result was delete. PhilKnight (talk) 15:00, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of animals by common name[edit]

I think that even with wikilinks, this would fall into the indiscriminate collection of information category. To find a specific animal we already have the index and this list is no help in finding by taxonomy. At present it is an highly selective list and could possibly be considered a copyvio from here. - Sgroupace (talk) 05:09, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This list doesn't appear to possess any of the advantages listed at WP:CLN#Lists - there's no possible annotation or expansion which is possible with this format, and the sorting scheme doesn't appear to aid navigation. If you're looking for a particular type of armadillo, for example, it's much easier to simply look up armadillo and drill down from there than it is to find the species name in this list. Moreover, a quick comparison of this list and that article quickly shows that, even in the sections of the alphabet which are currently covered, there are a lot of species missing - the list only mentions four species, while the article mentions around twenty. Zetawoof_(ζ) 06:01, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, don't see the benefit of this. Punkmorten (talk) 09:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and Zetawoof. Not a helpful list at all. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells• Otter chirps • HELP!)} 14:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Agreed. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 05:20, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, otherwise this will become a list of all animals, which is both too huge to maintain and pointless. JIP | Talk 14:03, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Even though I think it would be good, I have to agree with User:JIP.

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