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The result was redirect to Nathalie Loiseau#Personal life. Consensus that coverage is insufficiently sustained, a variant of BLP1E and would also be purely be based on a joke rather than an actual animal. Two Keep !votes were discounted for being WP:ILIKEIT examples, however a fairly clear consensus would have existed anyway. Additional relevant information to the joke can be added to the redirect target article if thought appropriate (non-admin closure) Nosebagbear (talk) 15:28, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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BLA1E, animals known for one event. Not every one-day human interest story needs an article. Fram (talk) 10:26, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. The cat has received extensive media coverage in France, the UK, the US, Russia, Germany and probably many other countries, which is quite rare for a cat, and we have many other articles such as Freya (cat). In any event it would be more reasonable to merge & redirect the article to its owner Nathalie Loiseau than deleting it. --Tataral (talk) 10:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Update: Apparently her office has clarified that the cat does not actually exist in response to the media coverage[1]. In light of that: delete or redirect. --Tataral (talk) 18:39, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 10:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 10:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 10:56, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge into Nathalie Loiseau per WP:ATD. The topic here is not so much the cat as it is Loiseau's joke. Loiseau's article is currently quite thin and so there's no need for a spinoff yet. Andrew D. (talk) 12:08, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• If the cat doesn't actually exist then I'm going with Delete as the Loiseau article already has a mention of her joke. Andrew D. (talk) 20:09, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, I guess? There is definitely coverage, although I find a silly joke about a cat's name pretty weak material for a topic. I might argue this cat is famous because the owner is of note and therefore a merge is best, but you can't really prove the owner's fame is why the coverage occurred. Sometimes cats just get famous, or the Daily Fail is low on child dismemberment stories for the day. I also think that at some point WP:GNG works best without convolutions or complications, where reliable extensive coverage = notable, silliness aside. MidwestSalamander (talk) 12:15, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • GNG requires sustained coverage, not a one-day or one-week article across the world, but evidence of lasting notability. There are many silly, endearing, spectacular, ... things which get their 15 minutes of worldwide fame, usually in the pages with unimportant news or as clickbait online. These things don't meet the WP:GNG, see the WP:SUSTAINED section of the GNG. Fram (talk) 12:50, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent point. I vote delete or redirect per Fram. MidwestSalamander (talk) 13:13, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:BLP1E; clear case of WP:RECENTism based on a single joke. Mélencron (talk) 12:58, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Nathalie Loiseau per Andrew Davidson. WP:BLP1E on its own. What little coverage and information about the cat comes from Loiseau's joke. Better to incorporate that coverage into her article. Bkissin (talk) 17:41, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Wait, if the cat doesn't exist, why does the article exist? Delete Bkissin (talk) 21:30, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Nathalie_Loiseau#Personal_life where the joke is covered. ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 22:30, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. Fine with a redirect, though am also nervious about the redirect with the infinitely more notable base topic. SportingFlyer T·C 05:30, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep this beautiful article. Buster Reynolds (talk) 12:54, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, per Buster Reynolds. Short, sweet, a good article. Must we devour our own best short works? --Doncram (talk) 05:56, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Nathalie Loiseau#Personal life a joke that can and should be merged into the reason for notability which is the BLP. Widefox; talk 15:34, 25 March 2019 (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.