Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Depopulation of cockroaches in the ex-USSR countries


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The result was   keep. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  00:40, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Depopulation of cockroaches in the ex-USSR countries

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Not notable urban legend. No academic sources. News sources do not talk about actual depopulation of cockroaches nor about the history of the urban legend, only mention its existence Alex Bakharev (talk) 04:57, 19 February 2009 (UTC) LordShonus (talk) 11:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Is there an English source somewhere? Spanish? German? Portuguese? Italian or French? Because my Cyrillic sucks. Otherwise everyone will need to take your word for it. It's difficult to make a call given the available information. On the other hand, for a meme or urban legend, the sheer number of sources cited there (including Pravda?) would make me lean towards a keep. Are you fluent in Russian? Can you explain a bit more what this is? § FreeRangeFrog 05:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Having looked at it, Alex is right, there is no in-depth discussion of the urban legend, but merely mentions of it. This is one of those examples where an abundance of sources is making it look notable, where in fact it is not. --Russavia Dialogue 05:30, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Russavia. KNewman (talk) 06:57, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep A real phenomenon of ecological interest. The publications are relevant, I checked a few of them & could understand enough to tell they were substantial discussions of the subject.. WP rtcle dfoes not have to give an "in depth presentation"--very few WP articlse actually do. it just has to give a sourced presenttion of a notable subject. DGG (talk) 10:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Although I do not speak or read Russian, nearly all the links seem to point to explanations of the alleged phenomenon, thus taking it's existance as a preconciet. Despite the excellent referencing, I would suggest that there's just not enough to justify keeping it at this time.
 * Keep, it sounds like there are multiple substantial discussions of this topic in reliable sources so it passes WP:GNG. I'm trusting DGG's evaluation of "substantial". NaturalExuberance (talk) 12:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Perhaps the article needs a change of title, but it is pretty well sourced, particularly in comparison to most of our articles about urban legends. There's no reason that those of us in English-speaking nations would have heard this, but I see enough proof that this is as notable there as the cat in the microwave is here. Mandsford (talk) 14:09, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep Seems to be quite a bit of media coverage. Computerjoe 's talk 19:49, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment survived AfD on RU Wikipedia. ru:Википедия:К удалению/25 июля 2008 (search Депопуляция таракановых в странах СНГ). Computerjoe 's talk 19:51, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Interesting, even if it doesn't count. So which one is "keep" the green light with Оставить, or the red light with Удалить?  Mandsford (talk) 20:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. They did walk away for a few years, at least here on the island... but they are coming back, slowly. Blame Canada. NVO (talk) 20:26, 19 February 2009 (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.