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Swineherd

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bare dicdef plus trivia --Altenmann >talk 05:18, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:42, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I think a prose article could be created out of this. Bearian (talk) 00:14, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Out of this" you cannot. Rehashing trivia leaves them trivia. But to expand,... --Altenmann >talk 01:29, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 06:49, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Biblical sourcing, that's new for AfD... This is a DICDEF with a bunch of examples thrown in... I can only find mentions of a movie with this name or articles about pig herders. I suppose with proper etymological sourcing, you could have an article about the word... This isn't that. Oaktree b (talk) 13:32, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is just a synonym for Pig farmer, which to save you time, that's just a disamb page. Angryapathy (talk) 15:21, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do not delete – this is a common enough term, we should surely have a page of some kind at this title. Probably best to redirect to Herder – unless a better target can be found? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:48, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect (with possibilities) per User:Justlettersandnumbers. Swineherding was related to but distinct from pig farming, and was important historically. Herding, though it could do with expansion, is a better target than pig farming, which doesn't really have any history section. Swineherding is almost certainly a topic someone could write an article about, but what's currently there is basically a dicdef plus trivia, and that's not an article. Which is a shame. I wish we had better coverage of historic occupations and other topics about historical everyday life. -- Avocado (talk) 12:48, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Pig farming, as per WP:FORK. This a change from keep, due to new information. Bearian (talk) 01:03, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]