Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African kestrel


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:48, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

African kestrel

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Pointless and unneeded. Delete per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds — out of focus 23:44, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't see anything wrong with this article. All of the species listed are notable, and grouping them in one place by geography can be useful. There is precedent for this approach; see, for example, Old World vulture and New World vulture. --MelanieN (talk) 19:31, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the vulture examples are more based on taxonomy, not geographic distribution. The fact that there are 4 kestrel species is not taxonomically significant. The word 'kestrel' itself is just a term used for a few birds in the genus Falco, so kestrels as a group don't have very much taxonomic significance either. — out of focus 19:48, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. This is a meaningless subject; the article simply covers a few species that happen to share a common name and occur on the same continent. MelanieN's "precedent" is no such thing; as Focus said, Old and New World vultures are actually real taxonomic groups (the subfamily Aegypiinae and family Cathartidae, respectively); African kestrels are not. I suppose we could redirect the article to kestrel, though. Ucucha 00:19, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 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.