Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oscar the Pug

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. The suggested transwiki to Wikinews isn't possible; they're licensed under CC-by-2.5, so cannot accept GFDL material. —Cryptic 00:06, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oscar the Pug

News item, not encyclopedia item. Samw 19:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Interesting, but not encyclopaedic. More fit for Wikinews. The coverage of Oscar is tangential, really - it's not about him but an event with which he was connected. Should Oscar himself become famous, then no prejudice against bringing his article back. GassyGuy 20:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
• Don't Delete - It's a story of about a dog that ended up having an impact on society in a strange sort of way, similar a court case. User:bdwmonaco\bdwmonaco 22:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikinews  Funky Monkey  (talk)  02:02, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• Don't Delete - encyclopaedic because it was something that altered university honor codes all around the country. Henry1948 12:53 EST 10 October 2006

It happened in September! There's no way a national revision of university honor codes has even come close to occurring yet. It's not like this was even news that spread to campuses all over the country; it's much more of a local interest story, unless you've some sort of proof to the contrary. GassyGuy 19:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• Don't Delete - a google search for the words 'oscar', 'myspace' and 'vcu' should offer proof that it was more than a local interest story. concerning the universities, you may be right. however i was emailed the story (even though i am from richmond and had thus already heard about it) by a friend of mine who works for a major university in Minneapolis. i guess it's just one of those things that's hard to define. Henry1948 16:24 EST 10 October 2006
• Delete. Even if the information in this article was properly sourced per WP:V, which it is not, the subject is not sufficiently notable to warrant an article. Perhaps the event is notable, but not the dog alone. --Satori Son 03:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to wikinews, if they don't have an article on this topic. If the topic does ultimately have a widespread effect, then it might be notable at that time, but at present, it fails the test. Vectro 23:35, 17 October 2006 (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.