Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cadborosaurus

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The result was keep‎. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:22, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cadborosaurus

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Canadian legendary creature / aquatic cryptid of dubious notability. Lots of primary sources used (newspapers from middle 20th century), and passing mentions in cryptid pseudoscience works. There is, however, a Scientific American article (blog?) tackling this https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/the-cadborosaurus-wars/ , in which a more serious scholar effectively says this is bad science. Still, it gives it a bit of notability. Can we find enough in other sources to warrant keeping this (WP:SIGCOV does require coverage in multiple, reliable sources, and so far I'd say we have just one?) _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:20, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements, Animal, and Biology. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:20, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Leaning keep, this book on Columbia University Press has a chapter regarding the cryptid. Geschichte (talk) 20:44, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In addition to the sources already in the article and the one mentioned above, Cadborosaurus appears in the academic secondary (tertiary?) sources Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology, p. 80 (has its own entry) and Seeungeheuer - Mythen, Fabeln und Fakten, p. 73-77. Daranios (talk) 11:04, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just realized that the latter is a translation of Monsters of the Sea. Daranios (talk) 15:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep based on WP:BEFORE. I'm persuaded this is discussed in enough sources. I wouldn't object to a merge if someone found a better way to organize this, maybe related to the folklore of the Kʼómoks or shíshálh Nation. Shooterwalker (talk) 18:58, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The sources presented above do show that this is a cryptid that actually has received coverage in reliable sources, beyond local and fringe sources. For example, the "Abominable Science!" book, despite the silly looking cover, appears to actually be a book discussing the real world origins of the belief in cryptids, not a WP:FRINGE text discussing them as being real, and seems to have quite a bit of coverage of Cadborosaurus. No prejudice against a future Merger discussion, as mention by Shooterwalker above, though I suspect that if the reliable sources are integrated into the article, that would probably not be necessary. Rorshacma (talk) 15:29, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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