Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monkey hanger

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The result of the debate was keep. -- BD2412 ^talk 17:04, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Monkey hanger

• Strong Keep This is true I am from Hartlepool and this story has been told for years, Monkey Legend

Hoax, non-notable. Neologism, probably unencylopedic. I mean, google reveals only 800 hits or less, so I'm slightly suspicious. Delete. -- Natalinasmpf 9 July 2005 12:29 (UTC)

• Strong Keep, as a Monkey Hanger myself, I can confirm that it's NOT a hoax, and it's certainly notable enough, I think. It's a term used by people all over Britain to refer to Hartlepudlians. See Hartlepool. The article needs work though; I'll help with that if it survives. jamesgibbon 9 July 2005 13:25 (UTC)
• Keep It is definitely not a neologism. The legend comes from the 17th century I think. ~~~~ 9 July 2005 13:43 (UTC)
• Keep Please. ~~~~ 9 July 2005 13:43 (UTC)
• Keep Have a look at This article. Too crazy to be fake, anyway. NowWhereDidIStickThatBanana? 9 July 2005 14:27 (UTC)
• Keep, this is absolutely true. A few years ago, the citizen of Hartlepool elected a man in a monkey-costume as Mayor — he called himself 'Angus the Monkey. Yes, really. -Splash 9 July 2005 14:40 (UTC)
  • Not quite as foolish as it sounds, since the guy in the monkey costume was the mascot for the Hartlepool football team: so it was an official monkey costume. --Calton | Talk 9 July 2005 15:43 (UTC)
  • This is true. I remember laughing when I heard that his main policy was along the lines of "free bananas to school children". I'm slightly surprised it's taken until now to get a WP article, actually. -Splash 9 July 2005 15:49 (UTC)
• Cleanup Poorly formatted, but Google says it's real.
• Keep. This story even showed up in Get Fuzzy. --Calton | Talk 9 July 2005 15:43 (UTC)
• Keep. Real. If you go to Hartlepool's website you can probably confirm it - certaintly the identity of the Mayor will be confirmed there. Morwen - Talk 9 July 2005 16:10 (UTC)
• Keep. I can confirm it's a real story. The Stuart Drummond story is true, too. Weird stuff. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:14, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The article seems correct provided the phrase 'according to local legend' is left in. There is a good write-up of the Mayor on the Guardian website. The BBC have Realplayer Video of a telephone interviewwith the Mayor and a write-up of the legend and discovery of a monkey bone on the beach. --Timffl 00:48, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Interesting tidbit of British history/culture. Capitalistroadster 00:50, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. --Edcolins 14:01, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

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