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Hippos

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Hungry Hungry Hippos	Hippocrates - Hippopotamus - Pygmy Hippopotamus - Horned Asian Hippo - Horned Hairy Hippo - Hippogriff - Malagasy Hippopotamus - Augustine of Hippo - Hippocampus

This is my first Featured Topic nomination, so apologies if I got the formatting wrong. I think you could make the case that Hippopotamus should be the main page of this topic. I went with Hungry Hungry Hippos, because there are scholars (I am personally agnostic) who consider Hippocampus not to be a form of hippo. Please note that Hippodrome, which is not GA, is actually an unrelated type of building which is used primarily for horse racing and not hippo racing. Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to working to address any objections during the course of this FTC. --JayHenry (talk) 23:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April Fools? :) What does hippo mean anyway? And why are all these hippo- articles so high-quality? Fascinating. Wrad (talk) 23:26, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I like hippos. --JayHenry (talk) 23:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I hope it passes. Wrad (talk) 23:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Wrad. I will quit in fury if it does not pass. I've been working on these articles for eight months. --JayHenry (talk) 23:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So "hippos" is greek for "horse"? Wrad (talk) 23:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the article doesn't go into this, but Hippopotamus is a construct of universal grammar: when people see the animal they automatically know to call it Hippopotamus. The Greeks started calling equines Hippos because Solon noted that horses were pathetic versions of hippopotami. --JayHenry (talk) 23:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – For the sake of topical completeness, you would have to add Hippocratic oath to get my support. Otherwise, a fascinating collection. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 00:01, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose—Criterion 1.b. "The articles have a clear similarity with each other under a well-defined topical scope." What is the similarity of content? Zginder^{(talk) (Contrib)} 00:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Why, hippos, of course. But I would include Hippodrome; there is nothing in the article saying that you can't race hippos in it. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 00:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Hippos frighten me. Tuf-Kat (talk) 01:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Sure you don't have them confused with Heffalumps? Wrad (talk) 01:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. They are not all related per the criteria. Maybe try a hippo (the animal) FT instead. 02blythed (talk) 09:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April Fools is over, close this nomination! igordebraga ≠ 13:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Closed as April Fools joke

You forgot about the Hiphopopotomus. --The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 14:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]