Project:Requests for deletion/Requests/2014/Category:Mammals of Great Britain
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The outcome of this request for deletion was to File:Symbol keep vote.svg Keep. No consensus to delete. I also note that this is not for a country, but for an island, which could be more relevant. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:05, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Category:Mammals of Great Britain[change]
Fayenatic london has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: on the Simple English wiki, this is the only category for mammals in a particular European country. Most animals found in any country in Europe are also found in neighbouring countries. Therefore we should not categorise mammals according to individual countries. The main English Wikipedia just abolished country categories for mammals in Europe, see here. We should do the same, and merge the four members of this category up to Category:Mammals of Europe.
Please discuss this request below, but keep in mind that you shouldn't vote on everything and that there may be options other than "keep" or "delete", such as merging.
Discussion[change]
- Technically, Mammals of GB meets our criteria, because the category has four members and what happens on English wiki categories is irrelevant.
Context: In most of Europe the mammals are more or less the same, except that in Britain and Ireland the fauna lacks those species which did not get over before the flooding of the land bridge at the end of the last ice age. We have no endemic mammal species in Britain. But it is obvious that we do not use this category much, and I think it might be a good idea to delete it. I can always bring over the List of mammals of Great Britain from English wiki. I thought that would be a good idea, so I did it.. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:48, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
- What I'm saying is, it can't be deleted on our usual criteria, but I agree it's not of much use. Macdonald-ross (talk) 05:53, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
This request is due to close on 20:09, 25 April 2014 (UTC), seven days after it was filed, although it may be closed earlier due to WP:SNOW.
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