Talk:Derrick the Mountain Lion

Redirect or not?
I redirected this page to Oklahoma City Barons since I didn't feel that Derrick has any independent and notable significance apart from the team, and there isn't as yet much to say in an article about Derrick other than he's a AHL mascot. The fact that some NHL mascots and one other AHL mascot have pages didn't enter into my edit at all -- an article about Derrick has to justified by itself. If anyone disagrees, please feel free to undo my redirection (I'll certainly not edit war about it!), but keep in mind the notability guideline, which is a useful guideline to what subjects could be notable enough to have their own article, instead of being subsumed in a parent article. I just took a look at Coco the Bear, and I'd recommend a redirect Hershey Bears for that article due to lack of independent notability as well, but I'll wait and see what general consensus is on redirection of mascot stubs. Perhaps the Ice Hockey wiki project might have some useful guidance.

Anyway, I'm not going to revert a reversion, if that is chosen, but I do think that, unless the article is fleshed out past a stub with referenced text demonstrating independent notability, somebody else is going to come along and redirect it. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 16:38, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Standardisation
See... I agree with ArglebargleIV, but I wish to comment further. There's a total lack of standards here. When it comes to team mascots, here I am, trying to do something good and expand Wikipedia and the team information for the Oklahoma City Barons and I have it redirected, because the people here before me can't pull their fingers out and decide whether team mascots bear enough significance to warrant having their own Wikipedia pages or not.

I don't know who's in charge of all this, but standardisation should be straight across the board.

There's no "he's right" and "I'm wrong" or "I'm right" and "he's wrong" in this matter - there just happens to be a case of double standards. Either all team mascots can have their own page, or none of them can.

Russ Jericho (talk) 16:53, 1 September 2010 (UTC)