Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hedgehog Day

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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 Delete --JForget 23:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hedgehog Day

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Article reads like a personal essay into the claim by some hedgehog fans that the Romans had a Hedgehog day upon which Groundhog Day is based. It appears to conclude that the claim is unsupported. It is possible that this be trimmed and redirected to a footnote on the Groundhog Day page, or simply deleted as a bit of nonsense. SilkTork *YES! 00:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Comment No, it's better to have more than two sets of eyes look at hoaxes. They usually get WP:SNOWed anyway. --Dhartung | Talk 06:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NOT#OR. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 01:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per Brewcrewer. Risker (talk) 04:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per CPPMcE. Do wild hedgehogs even live in Italy? I know they're in parts of Europe and Asia, but I somehow can't imagine Julius having one as a pet. -WarthogDemon 04:33, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Yes. However, they were regarded as vermin during antiquity, so no, no one kept them as pets. Celarnor Talk to me 09:36, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - smacks of OR. ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 05:37, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, there is a predecessor to Groundhog Day -- Candlemas. (Our article fails to mention the hedgehogs, but there are some book references.) But calling it "Hedgehog Day" is really synthesis. --Dhartung | Talk 06:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Not necessarily a hoax. Pliny The Elder discusses the ability of hedgehogs to detect the coming and going of winter in his Natural History; however, he never mentions a celebration of a specific day. In any case, as there hasn't been any material written on the matter, it's or as much as something can be. Delete. Celarnor Talk to me 09:33, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Yeah, I don't take it as a hoax, either -- just WP:SYN that even (!) uses another Wikipedia as a source. Nice try, but we don't do that sort of thing here. --Dhartung | Talk 20:14, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge: There are many hits for "hedgehog day" on the Internet which could easily cause someone to come to Wikipedia looking for further information. The article should be shrunk (drastically) and merged into Groundhog Day with a redirect. It is not spread as a hoax. It is spread as a "fact" by those who believe it. It is also celebrated as an actual holiday by hedgehog enthusiasts. So, I do not feel that the information should be simply deleted. It should be retained in a smaller form. -- kainaw™ 23:04, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I agree that it's not a hoax, but a well-meaning if misguided essay.SilkTork *YES! 11:58, 26 March 2008 (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.