Talk:History of Edinburgh Zoo

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Change of article focus
Until recently this article just had a very long list of events in the zoo's history. While I was rewriting the list as prose I realised that a lot of the later "history" is just an incomplete and not particularly notable set of news stories. A lot of these don't add much, in my opinion. I'd like to remove a lot of the information, keeping only details which have some broader relevance to the zoo's history. For example, if a citation can be found showing that the 90's really were a bad year for disease then it might be useful to keep some of those examples, but the lists of animals from the next decade seem a bit random. I'd like to expand the sections on events like the war, foot-and-mouth disease, the Highland Wildlife Park, Voytek etc and dramatically shrink or remove a lot of the later information. What are people's views on this? If nobody responds here I'll just go ahead and do it. --Noiratsi (talk) 09:19, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - Go for it! It looks much better already, but animals are born and die at zoos all the time, and I agree that most of that is not notable. I also agree with your proposed expansions, which are about the things that actually mattered historically and are currently kind of overshadowed by what amounts to "birth announcements". Don Lammers (talk) 16:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

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