Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Animals by Number of Bones


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 20:45, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

List of Animals by Number of Bones

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I question the utility of this list. It is essentially an expanded trivia item - "which animal has the most bones?" - that currently is set up as a hodgepodge of random taxonomic levels. Even if constrained to, say, families or orders (and accepting the vast variability that exists at those levels - basically giving the mean), this will be a rather pointless list. Some discussion would maybe make sense in context in an article on evolutionary osteology; but I don't think we have such a thing at the moment, and as a standalone this strikes me as physiology cruft (not a common category...). -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Biology-related deletion discussions. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NLIST is not met. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:26, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:12, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete ludicrously WP:INDISCRIMINATE trivia list. Why would you bother trying to list the number of bones in every vertebrate animal, and how is it encyclopedically useful? Dronebogus (talk) 21:16, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per others. Completely WP:INDISCRIMINATE trivia, and has no clear, defined scope at all. Would be impossible (and pointless) to try and list the thousands and thousands of vertebrates by bone count, and family level listing would be disingenuous. AryKun (talk) 07:24, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I was basing the concept of this list off of a similar list, List of animals by number of neurons which I felt also had undefined scope and also has broad taxonimical categories and would also be impossible to accomplish (i.e. listing every organism with neurons). TomLum (talk) 12:15, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Created an AfD for the latter. AryKun (talk) 04:25, 30 December 2021 (UTC)


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