Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gävle goat

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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 keep. 1ne 09:13, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gävle goat

Is an article about a giant straw goat really noteable? Blood red sandman 10:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Redirect to Gävle, there's already a section on it there, and it's linked from yule goat. It's rather (in)famous, though :) -Obli (Talk)? 11:23, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Alright, it's clearly outgrown the Gävle article since last time I checked it, make the above statemet a 'keep'. I never knew there was this much to know about the gävle goat... -Obli (Talk)? 18:01, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect per above. --Terence Ong (T | C) 11:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect per above.Addhoc 12:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • The answer to the nominator's question is "yes". Keep. Uncle G 13:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. The Gävle goat gets its own article on Swedish Wikipedia. Seems to me that this particular goat is the most celebrated of all. Could not be merged into Yule Goat without dominating that article or the interesting narrative of the years when the goat was built and burnt being lost. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Very important part of Swedish history. --Brad101 15:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect yeah... ST47 17:47, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Strange, but real-life culture. Karol 18:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, famous attraction. Punkmorten 20:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Important culture-related article. Hello32020 21:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge the high points into Gävle (especially the tourist from Cleveland), and the sources; but the whole list should be BJAODN'ed, with our thanks to the authors. JCScaliger 22:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep although it needs a tone polishing. The Yule Goat is an icon of Swedish culture (see also the misnamed Dalecarlian horse), this is a big deal, not some kind of joke. The words "modern folk tradition" come to mind. --Dhartung | Talk 23:23, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep We need more articles about 3-ton Yule goats and less articles about pokemon. --Xrblsnggt 02:36, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep This goat has been featured in newspapers around the world. Keep it, if it's deleted before December 13th, we write a new one! In the spirit of the good ol' Gävle goat.... =P FreddyFred 03:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I just wanted to state for the record that this article was nominated for deletion while I was working on it and compiling information. As you can see in the history log the nomination was activated 18 min after the article was created (I guess it was spotted after like 10 min). That's little unfair. Giving me (or anyone else for that matter) no chance to even develop the article. But thanks to the initial action from Uncle G, but foremost, Yomangani for his amazing editing skills, 4 days later this article looks superb! So some patience before nomination shoulden't have hurt..... FreddyFred 06:02, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - obviously notable and one of the few WP articles that has made me laugh (although that's not a policy for keeping it, obviously). Yomanganitalk 09:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per the above reasons. --Myles Long 23:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Article is informative. --Falcorian (talk) 04:57, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep after having built 3 of them and seen one burn on CNN I must use my POV powers and vote for keep :-) Stefan 02:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep without redirection. Thank you Wikipedia, this was a very interesting read. RFerreira 07:11, 29 August 2006 (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.