Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/All Ball

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 00:31, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The votes were 6 merge, 7 keep, 0 delete.

All Ball
Minor trivia, probably will never get expanded. I suggest it gets merged into Koko. JoaoRicardo 20:36, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * No need to VfD for merging, be bold, move the content into Koko and turn into a redirect. For what it's worth, merging sounds like a good idea to me. --fvw *  21:52, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)
 * Keep. It needs work, but I remember both the cat and the news when it was killed. Trivial? Maybe, but not enough to delete. :)
 * Koko's Kitten - book
 * Google results "All Ball" cat - 4090 "All Ball" zoo - 925 --Bookandcoffee 22:53, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Comment I've made a tentative start to expanding the article. Btw All Ball was male not female, as stated in the original article. Megan1967 03:04, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh! I remember reading about All Ball in National Geographic, and seeing him on television, when I was growing up. I hadn't heard of his sad demise. :( I'm going to add him to Category:Historical cats. Keep! Samaritan 00:21, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Encyclopedic.  RickK 00:49, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Koko. Joyous 02:09, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable feline, expand article. Megan1967 03:32, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Koko until either article is long enough to merit a split. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 10:07, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Apparently Koko's had a few more pets to put here - All Ball would be the most significant, as the first. Put that in, along with photos (I remember All Ball made the National Geographic frontpage) and any sign conversations Koko has had with All Ball and I think we have a small but sufficient article. Gaurav 18:39, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect until Koko is too large. Rossami (talk) 23:55, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I like User:Gaurav's proposal.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 02:08, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strengthen my keep with Megan1967's expansions (and fact-checking). Samaritan 03:21, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but cross-reference from Koko. I'll clean up the language a little.  All Ball has an identity of his own and played an important part in the debate over whether animals can feel and express emotions.  Not only that, but lots of schoolchildren will try to find All Ball when they write their reports.  Delete?  Give me a break. User:Cbdorsett
 * Merge with Koko. Bacchiad 17:33, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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