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.
Delete Original research. As I was just saying on the talk page, the template and category are funny, but as an article, it reflects a term best known inside Wikipedia itself- see 211 Google hits minus Wikipedia. I've no problem with the subarticles; exploding snake may not be tremendously notable, but for the purposes of building upon a weird and wacky project started with exploding whale, a BBC story is notable enough for me. It's just exploding animal, itself, that bothers me. Where's the sources? CanadianCaesar06:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Didn't Dave Barry start the whole 'exploding animal' meme? I think there could be a place for a 'list of animals known to have exploded', but this article as written now doesn't make a lot of sense. Perodicticus 09:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
He has a chapter on it in Dave Barry Talks Back. Not sure if the link will work, but you can check out the book at Amazon [1]. -- JJay14:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. But with reservations! Sorry to be a citation nazi, but this article needs to cite its sources. If Dave Barry's book can be used as a legitimate reference, please cite it in the article (though not as a blanket reference; if anyone has read the book, he or she should cite specific page numbers). I also think that various related articles (the shorter ones at least) could be merged into this article—that might give it more legitimacy. -,-~R'lyehRising~-,- 17:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I took the liberty of wiki-formatting the reference. It was not quite what I had in mind, but you certainly fulfilled the spirit of my request! Still, the book itself would be a better source, but I won't belabor the point. Also, the article is rather short and probably should be marked as a stub, though of what kind I have no earthly idea—perhaps a new Detonable fauna-stub? (Not serious on that last point.) -,-~R'lyehRising~-,- 21:18, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
weak Delete - is a bit from one humorist really enough to hang an article on? Is the idea actually notable??? Not every gag idea is an article! The cites seem tenuous, not all are related to this topic. Also, perhaps the part about dynamiting whales just belongs in the whale article and the rest under WP:BJAODN??
Comment: Why is there an article on a comment from a book, but not an article on the book itself? Suggest you make the article about the book (Dave Barry Talks Back), then make 'exploding animals' redirect to the book
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