Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pumpkin-headed deer

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The result was delete. --Coredesat 04:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pumpkin-headed deer

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Deers with their heads in punpkins? Funny but a bit too much of a trivia thing to be encyclopedic, I think. Maybe there is something here to include in a artice about wild animals behaviour in a human environment - is there any out there? - but is not enough to stand on its own. - Nabla 14:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Classic example of interesting-but-not-notable. --Stlemur 14:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with deer by creating a section about the interaction between humans and deer. --Masamage ♫ 15:33, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as trivia, this is for the That's Life! (or similar wacky section) page of something like Reader's Digest but is too broad and trivial to make a meaningful encyclopaedia article from. Shame, as from the name i was expecting some kind of new frontier in genetic engineering. tomasz. 16:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Humorous bit of news trivia, but nothing to indicate this is a verifiable phenomenon worthy of an encyclopedia article. There is some potential for inclusion of some of the sources in the deer article but again, it is largely trivial so I'm not sure a merge is warranted. Arkyan • ^(talk) 16:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete A good illustration that not every water-cooler story belongs in an encyclopedia, even if it is on TV and in several newspapers. See the essay WP:NOTNEWS for more discussion. Edison 18:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete not suitable for an encyclopedia; although its an amusing story. Bigdaddy1981 19:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as trivia (should we have an article on every possible amusing-animal-event?), and note that none of the references actually seem to be of incidents involving pumpkins. Also see Least-Notable Wikipedia Article Contest Results - I pretty much agree with the reasoning given here. Mdwh 21:12, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Wikipedia is not paper. If I saw a pumpkin-headed deer I would want to be able to look up what it was all about and what to do about it. If this is indeed a common occurence and not just a one time thing, it deserves its article. Stevecudmore 16:56, 30 May 2007 (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.