Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of national animals


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Armbrust The Homunculus 13:04, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

List of national animals

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Most of the content is uncited and much of it is wrong; heck, some of it is unofficial, i.e. it includes animals which are not the national animal of the country in question. Some of the listings aren't even for nations. It violates WP:MOSFLAG. It's hard to patrol and unlikely to ever be reliable. Furthermore, the contents would likely be better off in each individual country, anyway; I claim there's no significant benefit to breaking it out and displaying it here. On the other hand, the pictures are nice. Yamla (talk) 15:06, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Rcsprinter123     (warn)  @ 16:39, 7 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep AfD is not a cleanup. Issues like this can easily be fixed and sourced correctly with a little hard work. We have other national lists too so there is no reason to delete this one.  Jay  Jay What did I do? 17:36, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per JayJay.--Dmol (talk) 22:38, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per JayJay - The nominator can fix it, WP:SOFIXIT applies. – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  22:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Reliable sources are readably available, so notability is not an issue. Also, all of the issues raised can be fixed by editing, so deletion is not appropriate. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 02:07, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep The list is useful. It just needs to be fixed. This is an example of WP:BB. --Jersey92 (talk) 02:43, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per Davey2010. Cmt: There are thousands of articles that should be deleted before this one. --Seduisant (talk) 03:04, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. This can be easily fixed. Indeed, we have a model on how to do a list of this kind in the form of List of national birds, which covers a very similar (indeed, overlapping) subject matter. Lockesdonkey (talk) 18:01, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
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