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it's so funny. Of all the things the things that might be problematic about this article Topsy's inclusion never even crossed my mind as a possible point of dispute! So I don't really know what to say. I'm not trying to force a POV and the distinction between animal euthanasia and animal execution
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Yeah, that's the thing, Topsy ranks right up there re: "animals killed as a public spectacle". That would be another list and feel free to put her at the top of that one. But WP:WIKIVOICE is policy, we really can't make a claim she was specifically executed.
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probably has a lot of qualitative, emotional attributes I'm not equipped to evaluate, but yeah, I don't know, I mean...they sure did make an extravagant show out of killing her publicly.
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Topsy meets the lists exclusion criteria "elephant euthanasia", they describe how she was put down because they could no longer maintain her. Topsy is also excluded per
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and euthanasia is excluded in the next sentence. That leaves us with inclusion criteria that the animal had to be
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Nance, Susan (2013). Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus
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Tagged this as having no precise (and actually contradictory) inclusion criteria - namely
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Three out of the first 4 entries do not fit the inclusion criteria -
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