Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willy (whale)

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The result was Delete. Chetblong^{T C} 01:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Willy (whale)

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A whale skeleton? How is that notable? Clarityfiend (talk) 02:08, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - Until Wikipedia:Notability (whale skeletons) is created, I'm going to have to say delete to this one. There is no notability to a whale skeleton. This is definitely pretty odd. Jd027^chat 03:44, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Alright, so a skeleton could be notable, I'm still going to have to stay with delete for the lack of notability, reliable sources, and the fact that it was stuffed in a warehouse for a few decades. Jd027^chat 14:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete, no independent attribution of notability. While a skeleton certainly can be notable (see Sue (dinosaur)), there is nothing in Google News Archive to indicate this skeleton ever received significant secondary coverage. --Dhartung | Talk 04:49, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
  • I hate using words like "nothing" when a single GNHit [1] from this [2] can prove the statement false. -- RoninBK _{T C} 10:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Hey, I can be wrong. I believe I searched on "willy" instead of "whale", which would have found any articles about the naming. --Dhartung | Talk 06:29, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. unnotable. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 05:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete My question is why would a whale skeleton be named after a movie that was released only 20 years later? Other than that, seems to be an on-campus oddity only notable within that school. Nate • (chatter) 07:21, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Because according to the university's website, the skeleton spent most of those twenty years boxed up in a warehouse, and only after it was assembled and displayed that it was named. -- RoninBK _{T C} 10:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Ahh, didn't understand it at first (and the reasoning was buried in a part of the article I wouldn't normally place it in). Thanks for pointing me to where it came from. Nate • (chatter) 06:04, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Gary King (talk) 09:26, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. A single exhibit in a museum (or in this case, a university) is rarely notable, and this one has not received a lot of attention. Actually, when I saw the title, I was expecting to see an article on Keiko (orca), the whale which actually performed in Free Willy, and this whale caused a bit of a stir when it wound up in a Norwegian fjord at the end of its life. Suggest redirect there afterwards. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable dead baby whale! WWGB (talk) 06:04, 22 February 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.