Talk:Maverick

message: I also commented on Samuel Maverick's talk page.  Samuel Maverick is the person whose actions led to the common use of the word "Maverick".  There should be some mention of this in these 2 pages. Dyinghappy (talk) 05:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Samuel Maverick]] - the original Maverick 

message: In the 1840s, Samuel Augustus Maverick was a Texas cattleman who refused to brand his cattle because he said it was cruel to the animals. Rather than hail him as a humane hero, his neighbors denounced him as a damned hypocrite because his kindness enabled him to lay claim to all the unbranded cattle that wandered onto his range. Lawsuits and shoot-’em-ups are said to have followed, but the result was a triumph of eponymy: the cattleman’s name, Maverick, became the word for an animal that bore nobody’s brand.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.150.192.237 (talk) 00:04, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a nice little article on the whole McCain/Palin Maverick ordeal. It may be slightly biased, I admit, but it does take opinions from the actual Maverick family. -CamT|C 11:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately that link to New York Times, like virtually all links to that newspaper's WebSite, goes into redirection loop. Is there an accessible copy/version of that article anywhere?  198.144.192.42 (talk) 12:42, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maverick Origin of term. 

message: States "Sometimes it means to swear to one." This seems ambiguous and I haven't found any obvious examples by Googling it. Should it be removed? Lars (talk) 17:56, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed as part of a general cleanup. tempodivalse [☎] 15:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition at top of page 

message: The current text is all well and good, but I came here to find out what a "Maverick" meant when applied to people. (Not McCain, incase you're thinking that). And then I get here, and find that there is no actual way to find out. I resorted to using Google define:maverick to figure it out.
Perhaps adding this in? Or if it exists, reorganising the data to ensure it's the easier part to find? Clintonio (talk) 02:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no Wikipedia article, as far as I can tell, that deals with that use as separate a topic. Did you try the Wiktionary link? The term as it relates to people is defined there.--ShelfSkewed Talk 04:18, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

text: *Disambiguation pages are not articles; they are navigation pages with their own manual of style. Per those guidelines, I have removed the dictionary definition ("Rather than including a dictionary definition of a word, create a cross-link to our sister project, Wiktionary.") and the Refimprove tag ("References should not appear on disambiguation pages. Dab pages are not articles; instead, incorporate the references into the target articles."). There is already a Wiktionary template in place; and the Maverick brand is mentioned in the Lorillard article, so if any referencing is needed, it should be done there.--ShelfSkewed Talk 12:51, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Dulce et decorum est...", when colleagues "do double duty" by also serving as object lessons for generations of future colleagues, in this case in about the span of canonical human gestation! SS's second take -- that the lexicographic meaning is far from being focal for our coverage. Nevertheless, the [[WP:PAPER|(presumably trivial) lexicographic facts do not per se make unmentionable the etymology underlying the (dominant) eponymous sense of the word. Jerzy•t 14:31, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Maverick