Talk:Chris (sheep)

A news item involving Chris (sheep) was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 24 October 2019.

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This article was tagged for speedy deletion under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion but a reviewing administrator or uninvolved experienced editor declined the request on the basis that: " gained international fame in September 2015 after being sheared of a record amount of wool" is a claim of significence. This article should not be tagged again for speedy deletion under the same criterion and, unless a valid, separate speedy deletion basis exists, further attempts at deleting this article should be made via the proposed deletion process (prod) if uncontroversial, or the article taken to articles for deletion (AfD) for debate on the merits.

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DES ^(talk) 19:48, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Contested deletion

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... Chris the sheep has set an unofficial world record for amount of wool found and sheared on a sheep, previously held by Shrek (sheep), whose article has stood unopposed for some time. Also of importance is the surprising amount of adoption offers and dangerous procedure that put Chris' life at risk. --Sιgε |д･) 19:25, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have explained it on my talk page MONARCH ♔ 19:40, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy declined as above. DES ^(talk) 19:48, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Language

Why is Chris called nothing but sheep throughout? Chris is referred to with the masculine third person pronoun once, so I take it that Chris was a ram. But what happened to the words ram and ewe? Cheers 31.209.196.121 (talk) 23:54, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I changed sheep to ram a couple of times for precision and style. Yes, he was a ram. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 08:22, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]