Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California


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The result was   keep. Likely however, the two pages should be merged; or at least renamed. Courcelles 21:35, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California

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This is a clear violation of WP:NOT, as this is noting more than a bird spotting checklist for a single county. Doesn't list its sources, but it is likely to a verbatim copy of another list, making it a likely copyright violation. Daniel 15:41, 14 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep The topic is notable per WP:LISTN. For example, see A List of the Land Birds of Santa Cruz County or Birds of Santa Cruz County: a list.  The article does list its source - the nominator does not appear to have read the references section.  You can see details of that source at http://santacruzbirdclub.org/SCZchecklistJuly312006.pdf.  As our version is summarised and reformatted and the information is plain facts then this seems to be fair dealing.  It would be trivial to reformat the table further and add more sources, if required.  Warden (talk) 16:07, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note - the reason this was broken into two articles was because in 2003‎ articles over 35K in size received advisory warnings to break the articles up into smaller bits. There's no reason today against combining these two into one articleKingturtle = (talk) 16:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * What's the other piece to which you refer, please? Warden (talk) 16:24, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Never mind - I see the continued link now. Warden (talk) 16:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:17, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:17, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:18, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California. Satisfies LISTN. Merge List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California (continued) into List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California. It does not appear that the resulting list would be too long. James500 (talk) 17:03, 15 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California, list is notable, although the two articles could probably be merged into one article without it being incredibly huge. Ncboy2010 (talk) 13:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Although the list clearly could use some improvement of individual entries, it also clearly meets the notability requirements of WP:NOTESAL. Nothing about this list runs afoul of WP:NOT. --Mike Cline (talk) 21:22, 19 December 2011 (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.