Talk:Stalking Cat

message: Hello, I'm Just Tidying Up. I performed a major overhaul of this article last month; see  and . I'd like to ask for help with continuing to expand and improve the Stalking Cat article. 
The section about the time SC spent in Washington with Tess and Rick is probably the strongest, because it was covered in a detailed article. Some areas that could use expansion are:
* His childhood
* His adult life before undergoing the transformations
* The experiences that inspired him to undergo the physical transformation
* The time he spent in California
* The time he spent in Nevada at the end of his life
There are multiple sources which have not been fully plumbed, particularly the audio interviews. I would like to invite others to work on expanding this article. If you have sources, I encourage you to list them here, in the "potential sources" section below. Also if you knew SC or if you know of others who knew him, please invite them to participate. Thank you. Just Tidying Up (talk) 14:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I will also say: looking at the chronology, there are gaps. The section on Stalking Cat's early adulthood drops off in the early 80s, and the story does not pick up again until the mid-2000s. There's a gap of about 25 years (from Stalking Cat's early 20s to his late 40s) where there is no coverage in the article. I would greatly appreciate help finding and sourcing information for this gap, and for the other bullet points listed above. Thank you. Just Tidying Up (talk) 15:31, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as childhood goes, they mention having an abusive step-father in The World's... and Me. Other than that, I wish I knew more as well, especially on matters where there seem to be some contradictions (some obits referred to Cat as transgender yet still used male pronouns; Shannon Larratt mentioned something about Cat being in Vietnam despite enlisting after the US had pulled out of Vietnam).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.46.98.220 (talk) 06:32, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major rewrite 

message: Please list viable sources here, particularly those that are unused or underused. Just Tidying Up (talk) 14:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential sources

message: Regarding recent edits by  regarding Stalking Cat's gender identity, are there any reliable sources to back up the notion that Avner was transgendered? All of the sources currently cited in the article (some of which discuss his body alterations at length) refer to him in the male gender. Only a single source indicates that his alterations were modeled after a female tiger. A single statement in one source is pretty weak alongside numerous other sources that refer to him as male without raising his gender identity. Also, for what it's worth, I met Avner a couple of times several years before he died and did not get the impression he was anything other than a cis-gendered male. --mwalimu59 (talk) 19:51, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender identity 

message: Clearly this person was a kind, gentle, and beloved member of many communities, and is greatly missed. Stalking Cat was clearly notable. But we have several problems with this article from a Wikipedia standpoint. For someone who was covered fairly extensively in popular culture, many of the sources here are blogs, or only sourced to one person's personal statements or opinions. I am going to have to cut some of the details here for this article to meet WP/encyclopedic standards - unless and until reliable sourcing can be found. Friends of this person, please don't take it personally; this is a policy issue about sourcing. I will be detailed in my edit summaries. Please see WP:RS and WP:IRS. I encourage writers interested in this person's life to seek other publishing venues if you want to explore the things we can't host here. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 18:18, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing