Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Centre for Fortean Zoology
I won't mince words: this organization peddles pseudoscientific nonsense, and I would prefer it not be given a platform. However, this organization's expertise in baseless hooey has been cited a surprisingly massive number of times by reliable sources. For example, BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-15167866 1, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7942954.stm 2, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-38260413 3, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19815457 4, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5180404.stm 5, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kvjdh 6, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-21603269 7, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4720797.stm 8, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7377360.stm 9), ''The Guardian'' (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/jul/24/conservationandendangeredspecies.internationalnews 1, https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/sep/08/orang-pendek-sumatra-mystery-ape 2 (authored by the organization's director), https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/29/dna-sampling-exposes-nine-yeti-specimens-as-eight-bears-and-a-dog 3, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/zoologists-on-the-hunt-for-tasmanian-tiger-declare-no-doubt-species-still-alive 4), ABC News (Australia) (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-30/extinct-or-elusive3f3a-fresh-bid-to-find-tasmania-tiger/5057664 1, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-15/tassie-tiger/5095522 2, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-10-10/dna-tests-to-determine-big-cat-claims/2121312 3), Swissinfo (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/-yeti-skin--sells-at-geneva-auction/30517682 1), ''IGN'' (https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/29/capcom-offering-50000-for-evidence-of-real-life-monsters 1 (after the organization partnered with Capcom of all things, https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/29/how-to-be-a-real-life-monster-hunter 2), ''The Times'' (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/video-adds-weight-to-loch-ness-monster-eel-theory-j6nlsj0q3 1, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-loch-ness-monster-all-scientists-can-find-are-eels-wgp3tmcs8 2), ''The Daily Telegraph'' (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6247868/Mysterious-Orang-Pendek-apeman-spotted-by-British-expedition.html 1, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/25/cheetah-spotted-barnet-prompts-police-call/ 2, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1994752/Big-Foot-and-Loch-Ness-monster-could-exist.html 3, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4983344/Ancient-legend-of-Satans-visit-reawakened-by-footprints-in-the-snow.html 4), CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lake-monster-manipogo-winnipogo-1.4681105 1, the ''National Post'' (https://nationalpost.com/news/world/grainy-images-show-tasmanian-tiger-didnt-go-extinct-80-years-ago-group-claims-it-isnt-a-bloody-kangaroo 1), Al.com (https://www.al.com/wire/2011/07/new_answers_in_mystery_of_selm.html 1), ''The Independent'' (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/in-the-footsteps-of-the-yeti-the-hunt-for-mande-burung-890306.html 1).Essentially, while I hate that this organization is notable, they are clearly notable. If anything, I believe based on performing  for this organization the article Jonathan Downes was wrongfully deleted. At the very least, however, as this discussion is currently heavily leaning ''Delete'', this should be a redirect to the article 'Cryptozoology', as the article's 11,000+ page views over the last two years and the amount of reliable sources that cite them indicate this is a plausible search term.Furthermore, the nominator's claim that "Downes authored this article himself" is misleading at best: Downes https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Centre_for_Fortean_Zoology&oldid=19801100 created the article back in 2005, but this was his only contribution, and critically, literally no aspect about our current article is the same. This is akin to saying that an IP editor https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&oldid=2814496 wrote our article on Barack Obama
— User:TheTechnician27, 15:34, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BEFORE (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)