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The result was Delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lesser frog[edit]

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Nobody would ever search under "Lesser frog" for any of the frogs listed on this disambiguation page. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:00, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep this and the other frog DAB pages. No reason was given why "nobody would ever search" for this term. Egsan Bacon (talk) 17:15, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep "I would never search under 'lesser frog'" doesn't mean "Nobody would ever search under "Lesser frog"".NotYetAnotherEconomist (talk) 21:33, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Think again, people. Lesser here is an adjective modifying words than frog. If this were a page listing, say, "Smith's lesser frog, Johnson's lesser frog, forest lesser frog, swamp lesser frog", this would be a logical disambiguation page. But that's not what this is. This is a page listing "Lesser balloon frog, Lesser banana frog, Lesser Chini frog, Lesser spiny frog, Lesser swamp frog, Lesser swimming frog". It is completely illogical to group them together on a disambiguation page. —Anomalocaris (talk) 09:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unlike the members of the dab page "ornate frog", none of the above species are known as "lesser frogs". A search of GoogleScholar showed no (zero) frog species known as "lesser frogs", as did a more general search on Google. There is a lesser frog-eyed gecko which is not of interested here. Anomalocaris's point is well taken, this is not a likely search term, and none of the outcomes are so known. As a result of none of these being known as "lesser frogs", this would seem to fall under WP:Disambiguation#Partial title matches. --Bejnar (talk) 16:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree with Bejnar that that the term "lesser frog" is not an obvious shortening of any of the common names of these animals. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:48, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Seems to be a WP:PTM violation, and http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Lesser%20frog indicates it's not a search term. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 19:47, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beautiful frog. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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