Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck


 * 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 of the debate was speedy close. It's not appropriate to use AfD solely to promote a merge. fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 09:22, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck
I have no problem with this topic, but this article can't reasonably be expanded in the future, in that we are extremely unlikely to have a well-known researcher observe - or experiment with - additional homosexual necrophilia in mallards. I suggest Merge into necrophilia and link from homosexuality in animals, primarily because it already has a section in necrophilia. Alternatively, it could be renamed so that the topic discusses this specific incident or research paper. Deco 04:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to Ig Nobel Prize which is the source of its notability -- Samir  धर्म 04:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge as Samir suggests. Shenme 04:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Samir. I was very suprised to see this title, I have a book of the Ig Nobel Prizes somewhere. Viridae Talk  04:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per Samir's suggestion.--John Lake 05:00, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per Samir. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 06:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to Animal sexuality. Animal_sexuality already talks about it so not much content (if any) has to be merged.  I'd rather it not redirect to IgNobel, though Animal_sexuality#Necrophilia should mention it. —Quarl (talk) 2006-07-02 08:55Z 
 * Merge to Animal sexuality per Quarl.-- blue 520  10:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per above (interesting to note how times change - this almost certainly would have been WP:DAFT or even WP:BJAODN a few years ago). SM247 My Talk  10:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment its an actual published study. Viridae Talk 11:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * (Rolls eyes) That's the point. Some of us are allowed to have a sense of humour. SM247 My Talk  11:22, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to Ig Nobel per Samir. ~ trialsanderrors 17:44, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - main content of article already present in Animal sexuality. This article adds nothing more. A link to Kees Moeliker paper from the animal sexuality article would be enough - and I'll add that. SilkTork 21:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there any reason to delete the history; why not redirect? —Quarl (talk) 2006-07-02 21:42Z 
 * Delete redundant per content at animal sexuality, this is an extremely unlikely search term so no redirect makes much sense. This is essentially a joke, anyway. Just zis Guy you know? 22:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The article title is essentially the title of the paper (modulo the scientific name for 'duck'). Redirects are cheap; why not keep the redirect to prevent recreation; and keep history. —Quarl (talk) 2006-07-03 09:38Z 
 * Delete as per JzG. --MCB 05:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as notable scientific paper with respectable references, or, more likely since from the above votes that has WP:SNOW chance of happening, at least merge The title is a likely search term for anyone who has ever heard of the paper, and I, for one, will now likely never forget it. Much as I'd like to. Wow. AnonEMouse (squeak) 12:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per above. Zos 23:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge, for reasons stated above. We don't need a separate article for each animal that displays such behavior, or each instance of it. (Still, I find it amusing that Wikipedians rush to get rid of any article that isn't absolutely necessary, when there's clearly no shortage of webspace or bandwidth. I'd vote Keep if it wasn't hopeless.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikivader (talk • contribs) 01:00, 4 July 2006  (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.