Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Many-finned sea serpent


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The result was   Withdrawn by nominator. — Bellhalla (talk) 10:58, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Many-finned sea serpent

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Fails WP:RS. No significant coverage in multiple reliable sources,. Fails WP:N.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 07:52, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep (and maybe rename). The article states it is cited by a classical source: In his book, On the Nature of Animals (second century CE), Greek military writer Aelian.... Also, if you Google for the keywords related to the sightings, you find a fair number of hits reporting about the cryptid, see e.g. here. It could be that the article title is not the most common name of the cryptid, however. --Cyclopia (talk) 08:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment The google ghits you mentioned shows 0 RS, please pick up some reliable sources which cover this topic in detail. Otherwise it fails WP:N. If you search for Cetacean Centipede, google shows many ghits, but none of them is RS.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 08:25, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Have you heard of "books"? They predate Google. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:10, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep As far as cryptozoology goes, if it was good enough for Heuvelmans it's good enough for wikipedia. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:10, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Nomination withdrawing Withdrawing this particular nomination because it is mentioned in some ancient texts.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 10:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


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