Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elephantosauripus


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The result was delete. MER-C 05:03, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Elephantosauripus

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Needs references for verification. ubiquity (talk) 17:38, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Could not locate reliable sources for notability verification. Comatmebro  User talk:Comatmebro 18:02, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing on Google Scholar or my university library search. FourViolas (talk) 18:39, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Archaeology-related deletion discussions. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 19:09, 1 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. The source provided is something like the Korean version of answers.com, and so is very far indeed from being a reliable source. Like other -ipus genera, this is intended to be an ichnotaxon (a trace-fossil "genus" based on dinosaur tracks). Others are indeed valid. Ultrasauripus is a substub, but at least minimally referenced. Megalosauripus is currently no better than this article, but has a complicated history that could easily be fleshed out into a real article. Elephantosauripus, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have any currency in academic literature; all references to it that I can find are from dubious Korean sources. Google Scholar returns a big fat goose egg. I suspect this ichnotaxon was proposed by someone, probably in a dissertation or maybe a minor conference poster, but never received any traction nor acceptance. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 16:43, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:40, 7 October 2016 (UTC)


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