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This is a collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Animal. It is one of many deletion lists coordinated by WikiProject Deletion sorting. Anyone can help maintain the list on this page.

Adding a new AfD discussion

Adding an AfD to this page does not add it to the main page at WP:AFD. Similarly, removing an AfD from this page does not remove it from the main page at WP:AFD. If you want to nominate an article for deletion, go through the process on that page before adding it to this page. To add a discussion to this page, follow these steps:

1. Edit this page and add {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PageName}} to the top of the list. Replace "PageName" with the relevant article name, i.e. the one on the existing AFD discussion. Also, indicate the title of the article in the edit summary as it is particularly helpful to add a link to the article in the edit summary. When you save the page, the discussion will automatically appear.
2. You should also tag the AfD by adding {{subst:delsort|Animal|~~~~}} to it, which will inform editors that it has been listed here. You may place this tag above or below the nomination statement or at the end of the discussion thread.

There are a few scripts and tools that can make this easier.

Removing a closed AfD discussion

Closed AfD discussions are automatically removed by a bot.

Other types of discussions

You can also add and remove other discussions (prod, CfD, TfD etc.) related to Animal. For the other XfD's, the process is the same as AfD (except {{Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName}} is used for MFD and {{transclude xfd}} for the rest). For PRODs, adding a link with {{prodded}} will suffice.

Further information

For further information see Wikipedia's deletion policy and WP:AfD for general information about Articles for Deletion, including a list of article deletions sorted by day of nomination.

Archived discussions (starting from September 2007) may be found at:

• WikiProject Deletion sorting/Animal/archive

Drinah Nyirenda (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Subject fails WP:GNG and WP:PROF. No evidence of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. Article is based on sparse and trivial references with no clear demonstration of notability. THE ONE PEOPLE (talk) 18:52, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Academics and educators, and Africa. THE ONE PEOPLE (talk) 18:52, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Food and drink, and Animal. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:24, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Unfortunately, the PROF test works against administrators rather than researchers. Bearian (talk) 14:02, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Swineherd (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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bare dicdef plus trivia --Altenmann >talk 05:18, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:42, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I think a prose article could be created out of this. Bearian (talk) 00:14, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  "Out of this" you cannot. Rehashing trivia leaves them trivia. But to expand,... --Altenmann >talk 01:29, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 06:49, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Biblical sourcing, that's new for AfD... This is a DICDEF with a bunch of examples thrown in... I can only find mentions of a movie with this name or articles about pig herders. I suppose with proper etymological sourcing, you could have an article about the word... This isn't that. Oaktree b (talk) 13:32, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This is just a synonym for Pig farmer, which to save you time, that's just a disamb page. Angryapathy (talk) 15:21, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Western Canada Wilderness Committee (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I believe the topic fails to meet GNG. While I'm not the greatest at looking for sources, the only coverage I found was mentions of the organization in relation to protecting an owl species, but nothing that covered it at length. Also, while I realize that the present quality of the article doesn't determine its suitability, the condition right now is a big problem. The entirety of the current content was written by an employee of the organization named Stephanie Gribble, and is entirely sourced to the org's own website (yes, there's one other citation, but it only verifies when a law was passed and says nothing about the article subject). -- Fyrael (talk) 03:28, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Animal, Organizations, Education, Environment, and Canada. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 03:39, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - but it's in need of a total rewrite, which I'm happy to help with once this AfD is over, because it is currently written as though it were the organization's website and has a large WP:COI problem. There are a very large number of sources in Proquest going back over 30 years; this group has done a lot. You can get proquest access through The Wikipedia Library; highly recommended. FalconK (talk) 00:11, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's a great recommendation. I had never heard of The Wikipedia Library before this, and I was recently trying quite hard to get access to JSTOR. -- Fyrael (talk) 03:01, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Participants are encouraged to remove any COI or unsourced material while the AfD is still open, reducing it to a stub if necessary, which would make it easier to adjudicate this case based on the notability of its subject rather than the quality of the content.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 11:42, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. Mediocre.marsupial (talk) 09:02, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]