Deletion of African lion

Comment: this is a highly Wikipedia:Notability|WP:Notable topic that has been covered in various Wikipedia:Reliable sources|WP:Reliable sources and contains a lot of information that would be difficult to merge in other pages, which renders this article's nomination for deletion a case of . For example, the Cat Specialist group, which https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/32616/A_revised_Felidae_Taxonomy_CatNews.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y revised subspecies in 2017, http://www.catsg.org/index.php?id=108 continued to use the name "African lion" to describe the genetically diverse population of lions in Africa which are split up to northern and southern subspecies, as it continued to use the names of other notable populations that aren't recognized by them as subspecies anymore, and admitted that there was uncertainty over their reclassification of the subspecies, due to a lack of morphological analysis, and the fact that two recently recognized subspecies of African lions apparently overlap in Northeast Africa|northern parts of East Africa, which is based on the work of https://www.nature.com/articles/srep30807?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution Bertola et al., who showed that African lions are divided not just into northern and southern subspecies, but https://www.nature.com/articles/srep30807?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution also that these subspecies are divided into different clades, such as African lion#Northeastern clade|snortheastern and African lion#southern / Eastern clade|southeastern clades within the southern subspecies, which had members that migrated to places where other clades are present to form genetic admixture|mixed populations in different parts of Africa. In addition, different results from genetic analyses, such as on lions in Central Africa, show that the division between the northern subspecies isn't always clear, because, for example, though one assessment grouped lions in the northern part of this region, which are supposed to belong to the https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/32616/A_revised_Felidae_Taxonomy_CatNews.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y northern subspecies, separately from lions in Southern Africa, which are supposed to belong to the southern subspecies, another https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10592-017-1039-2 assessment grouped certain lions in northern Central Africa with lions in Southern Africa. This isn't in the main page ''Lion
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Comment: We have numerous pages about other types of animal and plant.  For example, the nominator has created numerous articles about different varieties of ''Banksia''.  There are numerous books about the African lion and so the topic is especially notable – a list of titles follows.  Relevant policies include , ,  and 
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