Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Incendiary Pig

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, so keep. -Splash 21:03, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Incendiary Pig
Delete As far as I can tell, this is a joke article (note the smiley in the comment of the first history entry). The only reference I have been able to find to them is as a unit type in the computer game Rome: Total War. Caerwine 04:42, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Yes, there really was such a thing.  As memory serves, it was used by the Mongols once, at least, along with incendiary cats (sad to say).  The Mongols started a siege of a city, and demanded all the pigs and cats from the city.  The city folk complied in hopes of getting the Mongols to leave.  Instead, the Mongols tarred and set fire to the pigs as described, and tied burning material to the cats' tails.  The poor panicked animals ran for home, and the city was burned down.  I'd put this all in the article, but I don't have a reference to cite.  Let's keep the article and see if someone comes up with something.  --A D Monroe III 19:47, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless sources provided, in which case keep. Sdedeo 21:30, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I once worked on a computer system for the Saudi Arabian Ministry of the Interior (their state police). One of the programs involved keeping track of a list of things which the Saudis considered crimes.  I noticed a listing for "arson using an animal".  I asked one of the Saudis working with us what this meant, and he said that it's a common crime in Saudi Arabia to tie a donkey to a cart, load the cart up with hay, set fire to the hay, and whip the donkey into your neighbor's fields.  (Another crime was "whitearm", but I never did get an explanation for what that meant.)  Zoe 22:25, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm sure there is some off-hand reference to this in some old chronicle, but only when that reference has been found should it be included. In Military history of the Roman Empire, where it belongs. / Peter Isotalo 19:49, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * weak keep Well, it is in a video game . Roodog2k (talk) 20:35, 7 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.