Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tapire-iauara
This isn't the first one of these cryptid stubs at AFD, and I generally approach them – fairly or not – with the initial assumption that they will be contrived, pseudoscientific dreck backed up by |fringe sources, if anything at all. To my surprise, this appears to be a legitimate folklore topic. The best source is ''Man, Fishes, and the Amazon'', which dedicated https://books.google.com/books?id=LV61jUi1glsC&pg=PA110&dq=%22Tapire-auara%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGrI7X8oDcAhXP7VMKHd3WBzkQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Tapire-iauara%22&f=false a couple of pages to the creature's mythology and folklore. But it does receive attention in other works as well, including an https://books.google.com/books?id=tckPAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Tapire-iauara%22&dq=%22Tapire-iauara%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGrI7X8oDcAhXP7VMKHd3WBzkQ6AEIQjAF admittedly brief treatment by Jacques Yves Cousteau in ''Jacques Cousteau's Amazon Journey
— User:Squeamish, 19:28, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:FRINGE (Wikipedia:Fringe theories)