Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World chicken population

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.

The result was Merge and delete. Despite the wide variety of bolded comments; every participant was amenable to incorporating this information into Chicken rather than leaving it as a rather sparse and inherently limited independent article. The main article is indeed rather long, but these statistics should probably be split out as part of a larger section if a split is indeed deemed necessary. Decltype (talk · contribs) is also correct that no attribution is required here as the article's sole content was composed of statistics taken directly from a source. Hence, I have the inestimable privilege of correctly closing an AfD as merge and delete. ~ mazca ^talk 21:08, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

World chicken population

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It seems to be an example of listcruft. Tckma (talk) 13:02, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: It could be mentioned in the article for chicken, but in itself it could lead to a list like that for every species on earth. Seb az86556 (talk) 14:01, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and would propose merging this into chicken. (I love merging with chickens. Doesn't everybody?) This referenced information would add to that page, and supplement the map graphic there nicely. The "listcruft" essay really doesn't constitute grounds for deletion. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:01, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to chicken. Ihcoyc/Smerdis makes a good case as usual, and I'd like to add that there are few circumstances in which it's appropriate to cut well-sourced material from Wikipedia, none of which apply here.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 19:38, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep this isn't listcruft, as chickens are a major agricultural product (unlike almost all other species) and even a brief search is enough to find plenty of figures for the size of the global chicken population. No objection to a merge. Hut 8.5 19:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and delete (keep reading): It seems that the list has already been merged. While the merge was not performed correctly (there was no summary mentioning the source article), I don't think it really matters. The original article contains a single sentence that gives the source for the numbers, and the numbers themselves. The numbers are not eligible for copyright, and the sentence has been changed. I would say that the dreaded merge and delete is acceptable in this particular instance, since none of the merged information requires attribution. The redirect in itself has very little value, I think. decltype (talk) 00:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The article about chickens is unusually large (60+ KB) and should probably be split, and this would be a natural for the section about agricultural production. Mandsford (talk) 12:49, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 19:41, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WP:ITSCRUFT is not a valid reason for deletion. Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 17:56, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.