Talk:India (cat)

This article was nominated for deletion on 24 October 2008 (UTC). The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This article was nominated for deletion on 21 June 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This article was nominated for deletion on May 22, 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Agreed, Ragib, this article is meaningless. Why not merge the list of presidential pets with list of "largest presidential bowel movements by weight"?? What? That page doesn't exist??? I'm sure someone will address this deficiency immediately... Surely, folks, Wikipedia is about meaningful information, not useless flotsam like this? Do we have lists of pets kept by other world leaders? Posthocergopropterhoc (talk) 17:06, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, this meaningless entry has survived yet another AfD. I hope the people who voted keep will continue their support for the article by showing us *how* this can be expanded beyond the few sentences it has now. I'm waiting to see that. Thanks. --Ragib 03:30, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know why the cat was named India ?--71.163.67.245 18:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Read the article. --Ragib 18:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Added a Response in India to External Links. Should it be extended ?--71.163.73.45 20:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

He, He, I, for one take it as a complement they named a black cat India ;) --hydkat 21:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I think it's sad people would be offended by it. The joke, of course, is that Bush would almost certainly not be offended to know that 101 dogs had been named after him, so the "revenge" backfired. What people in India probably don't know is that India is historically a moderately common girl's name in the American South. I knew a girl in high school whose name was India Jane, and Ashley Wilkes's sister in Gone with the Wind was named India. —Angr ^{If you've written a quality article...} 16:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Merge

This article has little scope to expand beyond the few sentences currently present. The presidential cats are not notable by themselves, so devoting a whole article on a cat is not necessary. Any information can be merged with List of United States Presidential pets, which lists other pets kept by US presidents. I do not see any proof that this particular cat has any notability by itself, other than being a presidential cat, and having a whitehouse.gov page on it seemingly written for kindergarteners. So, I propose merger of it into List of United States Presidential pets and making this into a redirect. --Ragib 10:11, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, merge this article. Has no information and only has two lines. Gman124 ^talk 21:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I totally agree, strong merge. Whatever next George W. Bush's tadpole! Seth Whales (talk) 20:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Oppose. The article looks fine to me; a merge to GWB is absurd as the article is overstuffed as it is, and the List page is targeted at a very brief summary, perhaps a sentence or two - which this article certainly is not. India may not be Socks or Buddy, but it's notable enough for me. --Gwern (contribs) 00:23 14 September 2008 (GMT)

Oppose per Gwern. --Pete Tillman (talk) 21:05, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge. Rates a line in GWB.--Regents Park (sniff out my socks) 21:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge – no brainer. What's next, an article on Tinker Belle? Is this what we've come down to on Wikipedia? I vote for merging with the List. The clear lack of content in this article is evidence enough that it shouldn't stand on its own. AreJay (talk) 22:15, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge But why was the discussion notice put on WT:IND ? --gppande «talk» 16:04, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, India (disambiguation) links to this. So definitely, this discussion is relevant to WT:IND-interested editors. --Ragib (talk) 19:32, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge: ' Noteable ' with respect to Bush only. -- Tinu Cherian - 06:54, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge with List of United States Presidential pets. What makes it notable to have a separate article? --KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 15:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge or I'll nominate if for AfD, where the result will likely be merge anyway for the rationale provided by Tinu. VG ☎ 07:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge No inherent notability, and scant coverage even in the context of being a pet of a notable owner. Edison (talk) 15:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Oppose The article is well written, and has same (or even more) notability than Barney the dog. Fixman^{Praise me} 15:25, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Merge' What's next? Separate page for the pets of actors? Or maybe athletes? Nonpoint74 (talk) 19:43, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I think we have a consensus about merging this article with List of US Presidential pets. In that case, I will merge it in a couple of days. --Ragib (talk) 06:58, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, merge with list of Presidential Pets and put a short mention in the GWB article if there is not one there already, but as the cat just died you might want to see if it's changed in the next few days before merging. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 15:50, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

have you no respect for the dead?--204.78.0.199 (talk) 16:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Do the pets of the Queen of England or the President of Ireland or, perhaps more appropriately given the title, India's head of state, receive individual articles? The only reason there can be no consensus on this is that there are more than enough American editors to support this recent news story. --➨♀♂Candlewicke _S^T _# :) 17:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Don't merge with the list of Presidential Pets since that is a overview list, create a article something along the line of Presidential pets belonging to George Bush and then merge this article and barneys into a single one. Peachey88 ^{(Talk Page | Contribs)} 01:28, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

merge seriously, why is this even a debate? what has the cat done? do any of the other presidential pets have their own pages? if so, then this page may be warranted, but i doubt that they do. it's not warranted, the cat is in no way special, just cos it belonged to the president. if we have this page for this cat, we need to find out all the other famous people with pets and get pages made!!! 77.97.18.22 (talk) 22:07, 7 January 2009 (UTC)