Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Llama hiking

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 keep. No consensus for a merge exists here. Further discussion may take place on the talk page as to whether a merge is appropriate. Jujutacular ^talk 22:22, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Llama hiking

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Unnecessary article duplicating paragraph about llamas being animals of burden in here. Formerly blatant advertisement of an entertainment company in Smoky Mountains, sadly was turned into this, instead of being completely removed. Other pleasure rides using animals are either deeply embedded in the history (horse riding, Sled dog), culture (donkey rides) or sport (Camel racing) - on the other hand there is no article on camel rides offered to tourists in Egypt or other Arabic countries. Lukasz Lukomski (talk) 21:45, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Step 3 of the AfD process was not completed correctly. It has been fixed. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 16:19, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 17:07, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- The article says nothign that could not be included in Llama. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above; no need whatsoever for a standalone article on the concept of taking llamas with you while hiking. Glenfarclas (talk) 02:57, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The topic is notable, being covered by international media, e.g. Llama trekking takes off. If the topic is best covered in the main llama article then this would best be achieved by merger, not by deletion. Colonel Warden (talk) 07:13, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Ample results from Google news and Google book searches, this a verifiable thing, and there articles and books written entirely about it. Dream Focus 15:11, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for {{rescue}} by the Article Rescue Squadron. SnottyWong ^express 19:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Llama. There is no reason for a content fork to describe a very specific way in which humans occasionally use llamas. This can all be discussed at the main article. SnottyWong ^express 19:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Snottywong. Hipocrite (talk) 12:57, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep per Dreamfocus. Massively notable subject, there are hundreds of news articles specifically about this topic. Just been researching it for a while and theres stacks of hits saying how beneficial they are for children especially disabled children and most especially autistic ones. Didnt see a single sceptical source, so sounds like this is a most worthy topic as well as being highly notable. Opposed to a merge as there isnt enough space in the main article to accomodate the interesting and useful information that can be relayed specifically about Llama trekking, hopefully the recent improvments illustrate this. FeydHuxtable (talk) 16:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Snottywong Thruxton (talk) 20:23, 12 November 2010 (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.