Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old Coaly

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 - not a very strong consensus, but a perponderance of keeps to deletes, combined with policy-based arguments on (one) keep results in a keep. Cheers, WilyD 15:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old Coaly

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A mule who helped build the Penn State student union in the 1800's. While he played an important part, he is not worthy in and of himself of an encyclopedia article. The Evil Spartan 21:09, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

• Move to BJAODN because WP:ILIKEIT. Of course, Coaly is notable among mules but not among Wikipedians. Shalom ^Hello 22:24, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable (to anyone outside Penn State, and perhaps even them too).Terraxos 02:10, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep doesn't have to be notable to everyone.-Todd(Talk-Contribs) 02:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. As notable as any other mascot. I would think his inclusion in WikiProject Penn State alone would demonstrate his notability. —xanderer 14:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, inclusion in a WikiProject is a poor reason for inclusion on Wikipedia. For example, the information from articles on several Penn State buildings and the Willard Preacher were merged into other, more significant articles. Same thing should happen here. --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 21:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep, verifiable sources and apparent evidence of notability. Bigdaddy1981 17:28, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Merge into Old Main; we don't have any references outside the Penn State website and the PSU collegiate newspaper. --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 21:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 03:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep: notable enough to have places at Penn named after him is notable enough for WP, I think. A fun little article. Otherwise, merge as above. -- phoebe/(talk) 00:05, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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