Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of shootings by dogs in the United States


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The result was Delete. 331dot (talk) 11:50, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

List of shootings by dogs in the United States

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This is kind of an interesting topic but seems to fail WP:LISTN cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 19:05, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for considering it! The topic of the article is a constant presence in the news, and similar lists are published often. Note the first link, from the Washington Post: Carbel84 (talk • contribs) 19:05, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/27/a-dog-shoots-a-person-almost-every-year-in-america/?utm_term=.31edf0ee23f2o
 * https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mans-worst-enemy-6-negligent-gun-owners-who-were-shot-their-own-dogs
 * http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-shocking-truth-about-gun-violence-by-dogs/
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 21:23, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 21:23, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 21:23, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete this 🙄 This is such a one off thing that it can’t even warrant an encyclopedic article. I tried to find sources and it overwhelming talks about dogs being shot. Washington Post is not enough.Trillfendi (talk) 23:16, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Trillfendi, this is actually surprisingly common. I’m still adding instances but this is more common in the US than shark attacks, which has a list of its own. -Carbel84
 * that's because shark attacks are an enduring cultural phenomenon. Books and movies have been written about them. Just because something exists doesn't mean it meets our criteria for notability. Also, please sign your posts with four tildes at the end, like this: ~ . Thank you. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 00:58, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate that the topic appears prima facie absurd, but this is an event which occurs very regularly. There are at least 20 more incidents in the 21st century I haven't yet added. Wikipedia has, for example, a list of fatal and non-fatal wolf attacks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks), and a list of fatal and non-fatal bird attacks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_attack#Birds), both of which are -less common- than the phenomenon in this list. I'm not working from spurious lists like Cracked.com, as the citations in the article so far should make clear- just pointing out that there is a cultural interest in this.Carbel84 (talk) 17:08, 9 November 2018 (UTC) And sorry, one thing I would like to stress here: The common thread in most of these incidents is a hunter who set his gun down on the ground, in a boat, or somewhere else a dog could reach it. If this list makes it plain that this is not an isolated freak occurrence, then just maybe one hunter will take pains to better secure their firearm and this list will have done a service matched by few topics on this site.Carbel84 (talk) 17:22, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a collection of news reports on unusual things. Ajf773 (talk) 01:17, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Carbel84 has provided links to news article that provide lists of dog-shoots-person, satisfying WP:LISTN. Given the notability guideline has been met, there seems little more to be said. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:29, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are lots and lots of spurious lists published. That doesn't make them notable. Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWSPAPER on a slow day. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:05, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per Clarityfiend.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:29, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. Also, the title suggests that dogs are actually shooting a gun voluntarily at someone. Pichpich (talk) 16:53, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete This is one of the worst articles in existence. It also strongly reeks of recentism. I do not believe this didnt happen at other times. Lastly not news very, very, very much applies here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:18, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable. Except for the WaPo article the cited references that are reliable sources report individual incidents, not a list of events or coverage of the subject in general. Alternet and Cracked.com are clearly not reliable sources. One single article is not enough to show "significant coverage" as required by WP:GNG. FOARP (talk) 10:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - pure trivia Spiderone  22:32, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete I think we should add this to WP:DAFT -JonathanLa (talk) 23:11, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


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