Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zombie chicken


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. nio clear consensus for a merge target and is insufficiently sourced so we would be merging original research anyway. There is insufficiently sourcing to be a standalone article Spartaz Humbug! 05:19, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Zombie chicken

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The term "zombie chicken" appears to be a throwaway phrase coined by some farmer or abattoir worker and quoted in ONE press article. It has no notability, no other sources other than the quote from one man, and should not be in the encyclopedia. Border on hoax, perhaps PETA inspired? ► RATEL ◄ 03:49, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete I cannot find any published sources on this online, and not of the half-dozen chicken keeping books I've read (even historical ones) include any mention of this. Delete as non-notable or possible hoax. Steven Walling (talk) 04:29, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: A Google News Archive search and a Google Books search return information related to zombie chickens. Cunard (talk) 04:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The "zombie chicken" hits I see on the Google Books search do not seem to have any bearing on the article in question. ► RATEL ◄ 05:30, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment - I doubt this is a hoax. The Press Democrat mentions them.--Rockfang (talk) 05:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Your link does not work for me. ► RATEL ◄ 05:30, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah. It died for me too.  I even tried archiving the page, and that didn't work either.  I still don't think it is a hoax though.  I don't have an opinion on the notability and I'm indifferent to whether the article gets deleted or not.--Rockfang (talk) 05:58, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Cached version, not sure if it's the right article though. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:43, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Smerge Selectively merge to Chicken. There are not enough reliable sources to establish the notability of the term for us to need a stand alone article. The composting of spent egg layers is verifiable and should be merged. (I find puzzling that there is no market for the stew meat, and the claim that covering a huge pile of dead chickens with sawdust turn them to compost. I would expect bones to be still there a couple of years later, not what one expects to see spread on a farmer's field. Efficient composting should involve at least grinding up and mixing with soil and agricultural plant waste. I doubt that random "composting," in the form of covering a mound of carcasses with a bit of sawdust, consistently generates the high temperatures needed to sterilize. See p 163 and following at Commercial chicken meat and egg production(2002) Edison (talk) 15:13, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Support the smerge proposal. ► RATEL ◄ 03:48, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:41, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Suggest we smerge as per sysop Edison's proposal above. Seems the best thing to do by far. ► RATEL ◄ 23:33, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge per Edison - this is not an independently notable facet of the larger topic. - 2/0 (cont.) 03:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Transwiki to wiktionary. If they won't have it (A neologism or even a protologism), then we certainly shouldn't.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:43, 14 August 2009 (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.