Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Animal furniture


 * 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   keep. Splitting discussion should take place at talk page, no consensus for deletion at this time. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:03, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Animal furniture

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Seems to have very little relevance to Wikipedia. References are borderline at best - the first is a book for entrepreneurs which has nothing to do with animals or pets. The second is a book on cat breeding and the preview on Google Books, which has been linked to in the reference, has only one mention of "Cat furniture" which is a caption. The external link provided in the "See also" section leads to what appears to be a commercial website "architecture for dogs". The content this article covers, e.g. dog beds, litter boxes, kennels, scratching posts, etc. seems to be well covered by existing articles, and I have never heard the phrase "animal furniture" used in common language. teb00007 Talk &#8226; Contributions 14:44, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. A search of google books and google news archive indicates that this is a highly notable topic.  The topic includes both furniture made for animals (a modern trend toward increasingly extravagant pieces) and furniture made from animals (a notable trend in the Victorian era).  The article is relatively new and was a stub at the time of the nomination.  I will do a bit of work to build it up over the next couple days. Cbl62 (talk) 15:59, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Another possibility would be to split the content into two articles (one on "Pet furniture" and the other on "Wardian furniture" -- the name given to Victorian furniture made out of animals) and keep the existing page as a disambiguation page. But I do not think the existing page should be deleted in any event. Cbl62 (talk) 17:14, 27 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Split into two separate pages and keep as dab per Cbl62 and kind-of precedent at Animal transportation (which used to be what is now Transportation of animals). Not much more I can say here. Ansh666 01:36, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per cbl62. Nice expansion; I had not considered furniture made from animals. Hmmm... Now what is baby furniture made of? XD ☯ Bonkers The Clown  \(^_^)/  Nonsensical Babble  ☯ 04:04, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ...oh god why... Ansh666 05:49, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * "Can't sleep, clown will eat me" is the result, that's for sure. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:43, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Devilish grin * ☯ Bonkers The Clown  \(^_^)/  Nonsensical Babble  ☯ 09:42, 28 July 2013 (UTC)


 *  Keep but Split It is a reasonable search term, but the two meanings have no connection with each other so should not be in a single article. I am unsure about use of the term Wardian furniture as a title, however. A search on Google suggests that Wardian in respect to furniture normally applies, and applied, to the Wardian case for plants. The 1896 Strand magazine article quoted does not mention Ward, and an article about Rowland Ward suggests that he faced a good deal of competition, and it was used as a brand name. The citation for the Wardian furniture name actually sticking as a generic term dates from 2011, and the dictionaries only have Wardian case. I see no evidence that it is the term under which people would be likely to look, and none that it is the 'proper' name for furniture made from animals. --AJHingston (talk) 10:13, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
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