Deletion of Killing of Cecil the lion

Comment: WP:CRIME: "A person who is known only in connection with a criminal event or trial should not normally be the subject of a separate Wikipedia article if there is an existing article that could incorporate the available encyclopedic material relating to that person." This is also applicable if the victim is an animal. => Keep the article that way. Relevance is almost assured by /CA. This is more comparable to the Black Dahlia case: Short would not have gotten an article (just about her), but the killing became notable. Special:Contributions/2A02:8108:9BC0:18D4:7D63:A17A:F180:6CB7|2A02:8108:9BC0:18D4:7D63:A17A:F180:6CB7
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: I'm not sure if the Oxford study establishes notability, but it seems to be that Cecil was locally famous before his death. Maybe someone with some Google-fu can sort through the flood of recent news stories to find some older references? Do we have otability (animals
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: WP:NOTNEWS, no coverage of the animal outside his death. no evidence his death has any lasting impact. The article is also rife with  issues
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)

Comment: a perfect example of the worst excesses of blindly reprinting every news story and social media share that appears on the internet. We're not really building an encyclopedia any more, merely a blogospherical buzzfeed redelivery system. 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: The event is receiving extensive coverage for a reason, Cecil was a famous lion ''before'' he was killed. If he wasn't a famous lion there wouldn't be so much, um, uproar about his death. Per 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: doesn't have an article about Cecil himself and is just |news, this will be forgotten about in a few months probably. Maybe merge into something about it, like Wildlife of Zimbabwe or Crime in Zimbabwe though
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: per .  There is nothing in the sources to indicate this warrants an encyclopedia article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: I don't see how this animal is notable, and the rest is 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)