Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pet raccoon

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was redirect. --Rhobite 00:25, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Pet raccoon
I've merged the useful bits to racoon in a section on raccoons as pets, this page in unencyclopedic--nixie 04:37, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to raccoon. RickK 05:47, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, for only one very specific reason. Raccoons are not the easiest of animals to have as pets. We already have an article for pet skunk for pretty much the same reason. That said, I agree the current article is a mess, with Image tags pointing to external JPG files. I would like to give the author some time to upload the images and clean up the article. -- Brhaspati 05:56, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
 * Merge with Raccoon. Radiant! 09:07, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, look at what the highly popular Featured Article pet skunk became. Dan100 12:51, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and give it a chance for cleanup. The consensus at Talk:Raccoon (two people) was for a separate article for Pet raccoon. Perhaps should have been discussed there before being listed here as vfd. DialUp 20:12, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You do notice that nixie says that he/she has already merged the pet raccoon information into the raccoon article? So now we have two articles with the same information.  If we keep this article, we will need to undo nixie's edits.  RickK 21:11, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw that, and also that nixie had delinked Pet raccoon from Raccoon. No reason given on the talk page and no attempt to seek a consenus. Not required I know, but it would have been the polite way to go. Nixie's addition was nicely written by the way. DialUp 21:40, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect until such time as someone decides to write a real article on the subject. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 22:25, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Leave merged in raccoon until such time as it's large enough to break out on its own. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 18:08, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

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