Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sailor monkey

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The result of the debate was move to Monkeys on ships. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:05, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sailor monkey

Doesn't eppear to be a term actually used. delete UtherSRG (talk) 21:05, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, he said surprisingly. The term may or may not be right, but the subject itself -- the practice of keeping monkeys on ships -- seems to be, I guess, established, at least in fiction. Imagine what this article would like if we left it to someone to research. Could be entertaining. Can't believe I'm saying this. Paul Klenk 21:35, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Note added by Paul Klenk: I found three mentions of this practice on the Web and posted them at this articles talk page. Paul Klenk 21:56, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

• Title looks like a neologism. Rename to Monkeys on ships or something. Kappa 21:58, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This doesn't seem to be a real term. Many animals have been kept as pets on ships — cats and dogs used to be commonplace too and I have heard of more unusual ones, e.g. a seal on a Second World War cruiser in the Arctic. There is a case for an article on ship's pets but not this. Incidently there is a curious bit of folklore about a monkey on a ship described in the article on Hartlepool. Jll 22:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and maybe rename as per Kappa. Penelope D 22:24, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and rename as per Kappa. Trollderella 09:18, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Rename to Pets in ships to cover this quite usual practice of the era of sailong ships, and allow to expand with entries for civilian and military ship's mascots, etc. (Note, "in" rather than "on" is the appropriate maritime terminology.) Peter Ellis 20:24, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

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