Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Four (American snakes)
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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 01:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Big Four (American snakes)
Core article information is bogus. Jwinius (talk) 23:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
- Delete. I can find no reliable sources using this terminology. There are more than four venomous snakes in N. America[1] and the "main" types number three[2] or two depending on classification methodology. Four are listed here but these are sources of lower reliability than some others. Quite a few of the sources I found discuss only snakes of a certain region like a US state (Texas, Florida), and again numbers vary as high as six. The only reliable uses of "Big Four" are the Big Four (Indian snakes) (ex.). --Dhartung | Talk 02:58, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
- Delete - Unless it gets reliably sourced before AfD closure. Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 02:59, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
- Delete Subjective, arbitrary unreferenced choice of four snakes. Omits other rattlesnakes which are a hazard in some regions of the U.S. Information about which snakes do most of the bites, or which snakes cause most of the deaths, could be included in the Snakebite article, which does not appear to give regional breakdowns. Edison (talk) 15:28, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
- Delete - looks like made-up classification--RedShiftPA (talk) 17:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
- Delete: Nonsense. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 21:13, 11 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.

