Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malee (elephant)

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 merge to Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. If there's anything that an editor thinks is appropriate in the target article, probably not more than a line, then feel free to mention it. However, if this merge isn't preformed in a timely manner any editor should assume that nobody wishes to move any material, and should go ahead and create a redirect without moving any content.

On that note, User:DN-boards1, feel free to make a copy in your userspace, if you want to. (non-admin closure) Kharkiv07 (T) 15:18, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Malee (elephant)[edit]

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Article on recently deceased elephant belonging to zoo that while being reported media-wide probably doesn't have enough RS coverage to justify an article and may be TOO SOON. I have some doubts but it's probably best to discuss here. 177.142.118.61 (talk)

Malee was always known. She was always in the local news every birthday. They built a giant pagoda-type habitat just because of her. There was a lot of coverage throughout her life, she's certainly notable. DN-boards1 (talk) 22:45, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not notable: As per WP:N, a subject must have "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Reliable sources should, ideally, be "secondary". The only sources cited, here, are from the Oklahoma Zoo where the elephant once lived. There are a few newspaper articles about the animal's death. Isambard Kingdom (talk) 00:08, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's actually indeed had coverage outside of the Zoo. DN-boards1 (talk) 00:18, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 October 3. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 00:20, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No evidence of encyclopedic notability. Subject fails WP:GNG. Coverage is extremely thin, mostly consisting of press releases from the zoo and some purely run of the mill local pieces. There is nothing that indicates why this elephant is different from all of the others in zoos. -Ad Orientem (talk) 17:21, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and above editor. Searches revealed nothing to show that this particular elephant meets notability criteria. Ad Orientem's analysis seems pretty spot on. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 18:03, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as original speedy-tagger. All coverage appears to purely run-of-the-mill. --Finngall ^talk 21:40, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oklahoma-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:27, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:27, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep If I recall correctly, Malee was the first elephant born in Oklahoma. At the very least, we should userfy it. DN-boards1 (talk) 02:06, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't remember "first born in Oklahoma" in the guidelines for establishing notability. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:17, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft and userfy I suppose if it helps the author and there's not much for a better separate article and I'm not seeing this being merged and mentioned at the zoo's article as there are likely several other elephants at the zoo. SwisterTwister talk 05:16, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect what content can be salvaged to Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, if there is no consensus against it at the article. Otherwise delete. HighInBC 05:20, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden per HighInBC. No indication of passing WP:GNG. If DN-boards1 would still like a user space draft, the current content can be userfied. --Nick⁠—⁠^Contact/_Contribs 16:44, 9 October 2015 (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.