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Talk:Farm cat

message: This article is useful as a portrayal of the 'working cat' in agriculture. There are a whole series of articles about Working Dogs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Working_dogs - such as sheep dogs and guard dogs. Why not let people know cats can be useful to humans too?
Mfgreen 01:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

message: Recent research has shown that cats aren't very effective pest control, especially wrt rats. Farm or barn cats are also contributing to wildlife predation and are not commonly used in places like Australia due to this. Additionally there are ethical concerns about the practice of keeping barn cats in much of the same vein as the criticisms of outdoor cats. This entry appears to only present the pro-barn cat POV when it's currently a hotly debated topic. Minty420 (talk) 08:27, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you got any sources that cover this? It's probably the best place to start if you wanted such a section EditorInTheRye (talk) 19:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we add a 'controversy' section?
Talk:Maltese cat

message: The following material, contributed by 63:23:33:171 was interesting but unencyclopedic. If 63:23:33:171 <B>(do you think you might identify yourself a bit better?)</B> can supply some source references for the material, it may be appropriate for inclusion. I've already copy-edited it into something a bit more encyclopedic. <B>But how do we know the stated material is true? Where did the information come from?</B> The cat deserves a longer article. Thank you, 63:23:33:171, for your effort. Together we should be able to improve the article.
Snezzy 03:15, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving "historical"  entry to Talk: 

message: During the Black Plague in Britain the Maltese cat literally saved Europe from extinction. Regardless, this breed rarely appears on the charts that hang in veterinarians' offices.
 
When the Plague first broke out, its cause was unknown; it was eventually determined to be carried by fleas. Fleas, and presumably the disease, had been around for a long time, so why should there suddenly be an epidemic? The cause was the cats--not what the cats did, but rather what they did not do. Over time, England had bred their cats to magnificent sizes. Beautiful for show, they had become useless at catching, killing and eating vermin. 
 
The British feline was no longer able to get into the small spaces where rats and mice hid. The rats proliferated, and their fleas brought the Plague.
 
The small Maltese Cat has tiny ears, tiny paws, a short tail, short legs, short fur, and the solid color and appearance of a gray rat. It has a somewhat flat face with round, green eyes, and a loving expression. In <B>(an unknown year--what was it, please?)</B> the English imported large numbers of these Maltese cats. They were not recognized as a special breed, and for centuries remained just the Maltese cat. In recent history <B>(years???)</B> the Maltese breed has been recognized in America, but currently seems to have been forgotten and for most purposes is extinct.
(End)
Snezzy 03:15, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical material from 63:23:33:171 

message: The article states: "The blue variant of this breed was so common that many thought it was its own breed called the British Blue."
This begs the questions "What happened that the blue variant is no longer so common?" and "Why do people not believe anymore that the British Blue is its own breed?"   71.87.23.22 (talk) 01:27, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Blue
Talk:Minx cat

message: This appears to be an entry that discusses a common spelling mistake. It then lurches into the dictionary defintion of Minx (it is pretty common here in the UK in that meaning hence its appearance in Austin Powers and its use by Simon Cowell) and being a dictionary definition got the main Minx entry deleted (I've changed it to a disambiguation page).
I did go looking for something more solid on this and all I came up with are results pointing back here (or to mirrors) and to a page listing common search engine typos.  Beyond that we get nothing but typos. I can't think that a common spelling mistake is really worth an entry (Hell I don't think a big assed list of them would be, beyond this I suppose: Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings) but I could be wrong. 
Best solution if nothing is forthcoming: Turn this page into a redirect to Manx Cat. Any references to a Mynx can be put into the Sphynx (cat) entry and the redirect from Mynx pointed there. If someone wants to start an entry on the Mynx they can do so there not here. (Emperor 01:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed the disputed tags to split ones. I can't find a proper tag to describe what needs doing. The dictionary definitions of minx need discarding (as they are covered in wiktionary), the material on the Mynx* should go to the Sphynx (cat) entry (and that redirect changed to point to that) and the material on it being a common spelling mistake can either be removed or put in Manx cat (and this entry redirected to that). I suppose I could put this up for deletion and then we could add any notable bits into other entries but I'd prefer to go the splitting route first. (Emperor 02:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: More keeps being removed from this page and there is little left and a lot of that could be safely removed. As there have been no objections in a few days I'll split this page up and turn it into a redirect. (Emperor 23:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed/split

message: I don't see "Minx" as an adjective. It's a noun. Using it to describe a cat seems redundant ("she's a minx" means something like "she's catty," I thought -- "a minx" is some sort of fighting feline). 
The Hillman Minx car, in the 1950's, was a very small automobile (smaller than a Volkswagen beetle)-- its name probably meant to suggest that it was sprightly and energetic despite its tiny size and low power (I only know of it that our family owned two of them -- a grey one with yellow ear-flaps, and later a red one -- the Minx could not go fast, so its driver had to outwit other cars rather than overtaking them...). 
Perhaps the minx relies more on wit and slyness than on physical strength? Ameliaz 03:07, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its linked in from the disambiguation page: Minx. (Emperor 03:11, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the Hillman Minx?
Talk:Level (magazine)

message: Is the Level name really written as "LeveL"?--Printz sapte 18:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is. Khutuck (talk) 01:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please give reasons why it should be like that. Both the Czech and Romanian sites, when not showing it as LEVEL, show it merely as Level. Not even the magazine title is capitalized like LeveL. Printz150 (talk) 14:07, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Bradford Washburn

message: Page lacks his WWII service. This is covered in his biography by Roberts. 171.66.85.181 (talk) 18:44, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not surprising.  Editors are encouraged to obsessively dwell on as few aspects of a topic as possible, backed by as few sources as possible.  I'm might have a few book sources lying about which may help, too. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  11:29, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: WWII
Talk:Mokelumne River

message: I question whether it is correct that the river "[meets] its confluence with the San Joaquin River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta."  My belief, supported by the picture, is that the river flows directly into the Delta, not into either of the Sacramento or San Joaquin.
I'll look into this further.  If my belief is confirmed, I'll make the change unless I see objection here.
--Joaquin Miller (talk) 20:52, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the article is accurate in this instance.  See for instance the USGS topographic map image here.  Best regards, —Stepheng3 (talk) 18:46, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

text: Regarding above comments, the Mokelumne River is deemed to be distinct through the Delta but divided into North and South Mokelumne Rivers south of Walnut Grove until they re-converge Just north of Highway 12 and flow into the San Joaquin river a little south of that.  The map that may be found at www.coastal.ca.gov/ccbn/delta_boating_map.pdf is easy to follow.
The Mokelumne River's confluence with Cosumnes River near Thornton, CA is noteworthy as their interaction impacts the Consumnes River Preserve as well as the uncontrolled Consumnes's capacity to back up the otherwise controlled Mokelumne river and threaten Thornton with flooding. Craig T.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:5E15:4179:6544:2980:81F0:9A7E (talk) 23:19, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

message: — Assignment last updated by Hea7her (talk) 17:52, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: California Natural History
Talk:Operation Kindness

message: I noticed the template about the article being like an advertisement. I was rewording and deleting some content to improve the article, and I realized nearly all of the content was taken directly from the "About Us" page of Operation Kindness's website, unedited. I removed it as I believed it was plagiarism and added the non-profit organization stub template. If that was a wrong move for any reason, feel free to revert me as I am a newfag at Wikipedia. lollolololol 76.105.250.102 (talk) 06:21, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism?
Talk:Monrovia High School

message: This page needs serious cleanup.  Anyone else want to do it?
216.165.237.135 02:21, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Monta Vista, Cupertino, California

message: The claim that "'Monta Vista' means "mountain view" in Portuguese[citation needed]" seemingly does not make sense. My guess is that the name is actually supposed to be Italianate, not Portuguese. 
There were indeed Spanish explorers in early California, as well as descendants of Native Americans, Spaniards, and Mexicans; but the area around Cupertino, Monta Vista, and Montebello Ridge was originally dominated by Italian immigrants, and many of them working in the wine vineyards, orchards, and ranches. There is some speculation as to when the first Italians arrived in California and worked in agriculture, but apparently, there were some of them here much earlier than others, and many of them were skilled workers. The name Cupertino is actually given by de Anza in tribute to St. Joseph of Copertino, a town in Italy, and it's been variantly spelled.  Montebello is also a common name of Piemonte, Italy, as there were many Piemontese immigrants working in the wineries like nearby Picchetti, and even what was the earlier Montebello Ridge, and the adjacent orchards and ranches in that vicinity.
Note that the Italian word "mónta" means "mount", but it can also mean "covering", as in the Italian word "copertura".  So, the name "Monte Vista" is not only similar to nearby "Mountain View" in its meaning, but also that of Cupertino itself.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.202.143.106 (talk) 22:20, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monta Vista Name
Talk:Montara, California

message: The implication that California State Route 1 follows an old railroad route at Devil's Slide sounds dubious in the extreme.  There is no railroad anywhere in this area, and due to the local geology, it's hard to believe railroad builders even in the 19th century would have selected the Pacific Coast side of the San Francisco peninsula as a route. — QuicksilverT     
@ 16:46, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Railroad route? 
Talk:Montclair College Preparatory School

message: Hi -- this page links to the wrong David Weintraub.  I am working on the bio for him but it isn't up yet.  The one out there now is a politician.  This will have to be corrected but I don't know how to do it so this is FYI for the future.  --Alzbeta (talk) 14:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Montclair, Oakland, California

message: Although it is often heard in the past two decades or so in common parlance, there remains no proper name for the hills in Oakland south of Round Top.  Neither the CSAA maps, nor the USGS maps, nor the federal gazetteer recognize the toponym "Oakland Hills".  Neither did Professor Lawson who surveyed the Hayward Fault through the hills of Oakland.  It would be proper to refer to Oakland hills, little "h", or to mention what I've outlined above, or to mention that although not a proper toponym, that there is a common usage in the past two or three decades.  But it is definitely not the function of Wikipedia to invent names.
As to the link, the article linked is not about a geographic feature as used in the text of this article, but to a district or neighborhood, which presents it's own inherent problem in that this article has the neighborhood named Montclair.  If Montclair is actually distinct from the Oakland Hills neighborhood, then the link is entirely inappropriate since it's, well, false.  Two different neighborhoods. Tmangray (talk) 06:42, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Oakland hills not a proper name
Talk:Monte Sereno, California

message: Now a start class, and it fails B class because:
*Not useful to all readers..Has scant coverage of schools, public services. and virtually no coverage of natural features, roads etc.
*Referencing is poor.
Feralfeline 05:27, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes to assessment
Talk:Monte Vista High School (Spring Valley, California)

message: Can anyone provide a reliable source for the supposed rivalry with Mount Miguel High School that has been repeatedly added? Unless there is some evidence of a significant rivalry between the schools this should not be mentioned. Meters (talk) 04:25, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rivalry 

message: This ref  was added to the header. It cannot stay there, and since I can't see the ref I don't know how much of hits section the ref covers. User:Dyl.MV please clarify so that we know can be  sourced to this ref. Meters (talk) 05:20, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Montebello High School

message: I cleaned it up a little bit.  Let's find the facts instead of throwing biased statements out without backup.  Chadlupkes 16:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd question whether the flag thing is relevant enough to be mentioned, especially without any references at all. --Bonadea 15:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: References have since been added. I do think it should be mentioned, as it's in the Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes.com) and continues to be discussed on e-mail around the Internet a year later, often without explanation that it wasn't Montebello students who inverted the flags. So it's notable by Wikipedia standards. Lawikitejana 13:49, 9 July 2007 
The relevance has nothing to do with which high school the students were from that did this.  The issue goes far beyond.  Also, it is a distortion to say "one student" did this.  It is clear (see photos) that many students were involved, present, and supportive.(UTC)
Where were the teachers in all this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.102.0.213 (talk) 03:02, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Monterey Bay

message: Not only is the map for this page pretty ugly, it's just straight up wrong. Some pretty innacurate locations compared to actual maps, and the most glaring issue is the fact Prunedale is called pruneville. Wouldn't hurt to be fixed Qneiro (talk) 06:07, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Map 
Talk:Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

message: :While there, she was involved in an argument with Stephanie Thornton over the ATOC issue, and was fired from her position several days later while she was en-route to Monterey. The Superintendent selecting committee was required to meet again, and selected William Douros, the Santa Barbara County regulatory manager of the oil and gas industries there. The offshore area of the Santa Barbara coast is an important area along the California coast for oil drilling. That area is particularly known for the large offshore 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.
Statements about living people need to have cited sources. W Nowicki (talk) 01:08, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another one 
Talk:Monterey Canyon

message: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/monterey/ax/primary_fs.html
"Scientists once thought it was simply eroded by an ancient river dating from a period when sea levels were lower. Now most agree it was created by titanic collisions between plates of the Earth’s crust."
If the current scholarly consensus leans toward a tectonic origin for the Monterey Canyon, don't you think it would be nice for Wikipedia to reference it? Janko (talk) 06:45, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are aspects of this topic which could form a very interesting article.  (Unfortunately I am engaged in other projects.)  E.g., see the article by Riggs et al. (Science, 5 July 1996) about evidence that there once was a river flowing from what is now Texas through Nevada, and presumably into the Pacific at some point on the California coast. - J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:12, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erosion or Tectonic Collision?
Talk:Monterey-Salinas Transit

message: If you know the name of an MST bus, please add it  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redtroll (talk • contribs) 02:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bus Names 

message: The article claims daily ridership of 4,792,300.  Based just on population of the region, this figure cannot be correct.  What is the correct figure, or label? --Aaron Antrim 18:17, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daily ridership 4,792,300 (FY 2006)? 
Talk:Monterey State Beach

message: importance arises from high  vistitation and high recognition in natl and even intl venues. Anlace 23:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: assess
Talk:Monterey State Historic Park

message: The California State Park's operating agreement for the Cooper-Molera property has expired, and this historic site is no longer part of the Monterey State Historic Park.
http://parks.ca.gov/?page_id=956 As such, the content concerning the Cooper-Molera should be relocated, probably to the Trust for Historic Preservation page, or to its own wiki page.
2600:1010:B00E:E4A3:1CF5:6D41:EFEA:F7D8 (talk) 16:07, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relocate Cooper-Molera 

message: I have removed a tour or room booking site wejunket.com that was used as a reference. Graywalls (talk) 00:44, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: possible spam/inappropriate reference removed
Talk:Simon (cat)

message: A stone plaque with the same inscription and a carved 'cameo' of Simon hangs on the wall in the lobby of the PDSA Hospital in Durnford Street, Plymouth, Devon. Is this a copy of the Ilford gravestone or is it the original and so has been moved away from Simon's grave? Plutonium27 (talk) 03:18, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're referring to the plaque shown in the picture in this article - https://time.com/5396568/simon-cat-war-medal/ then the answer is no, it isn't a copy: nor does it resemble the gravestone shown in the Wikipedia article. Maurice Sturt (talk) 14:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gravestone 

message: How is this notable? - Geofferic (talk) 07:10, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems pretty notable to me, it was obviously in the news in the UK at the time and it is sourced. There are many other similar articles about animals in war on Wikipedia. I seen no reason that it should be merged, as there is quite a lot of information here and it would only clutter up the HMS Amethyst article. --Hibernian (talk) 20:52, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable ... How? 

message: Upon closer inspection, the text of the page has its origins in this edit by Jackyd101 on 24 October 2006. The earliest archive of the MartimeQuest page is dated 10 November 2007, at the bottom of which it states, "Page created Oct. 5, 2007." It is therefore clear that the MartimeQuest page is a copy of the earlier Wikipedia text, rather than the reverse. I am therefore removing the Copyvio tag. Nick Cooper (talk) 17:24, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Good detective work! I've run into several similar copyvios myself over the years. In one case, when reading the text that WP supposedly plagiarized, I recognized some sentences that I had edited myself (but not originally written)! WP has been online long enough that we're seeing this more and more. Fortunately, the founders saw the wisdom of keeping complete article histories. - BilCat (talk) 18:24, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alleged copyvio 

message: https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/bizarre-stories/unsinkable-sam-cat-wwii/ note that the cat named sam is identical to the cat named simon here. 65.95.193.195 (talk) 05:11, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  spurious story or photo
Talk:Smudge (People's Palace cat)

message: My God, this cat was old! She lived to be well over twenty, whereas most cats don't live past fifteen. Zadduel86 (talk) 02:25, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Oldest Cat Ever!

message: There's another cat called Smudge that features in a meme, should this be mentioned in some way to avoid confusion? SonnikuSan (talk) 18:24, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no article for the other Smudge, so you can't really do a disambig...  There's a short explanation of the meme at List_of_Internet_phenomena#Images and that's it 162.208.171.22 (talk) 06:20, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Just reverted a hatnote attempt, there's still no good target for it... Woman yelling at a cat maybe? 162.208.168.92 (talk) 05:28, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Tried a different hatnote and was instantly reverted.  I feel like it should be there somehow as it is the top Google result and has clearly shown to be confusing to readers.  Woman yelling at a cat is still not a good target as of right now since it mentions only Taylor Armstrong and Kyle Richardson by name, but not Smudge.  Thoughts welcome.  162.208.168.92 (talk) 21:11, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meme cat 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved   (t · c) buidhe 04:10, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Smudge (cat) →  – Per WP:PDAB, since we already have Smudge (Blue Peter cat), this one should be disambiguated too. 162.208.168.92 (talk) 03:32, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 9 April 2021
Talk:Montgomery Street

message: A bunch of unsourced original research was restored because it could be verified.  So I will give it a few days to be sourced.  If no work is done, I'll remove it again. BE——Critical__Talk 05:18, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Much of the article consists of simple facts that anyone can verify by reading a map (such as the fact that it terminates at Market Street). I'm having difficulty verifying a couple key claims, particularly the one that it is considered the "Wall Street of the West" and the timeline for the waterfront's movement eastward.  I'd love some help here.--Stepheng3 (talk) 18:21, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Found you a ref - the 2nd one, it seems - for the "Wall Street..." name, and that book chapter might be useful for more info too. Not difficult to find - googled montgomery street "wall street of the west" and it turned up. PamD (talk) 19:31, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

text: In fact page 20 of the ref includes discussion of the old shore line, which might help your 2nd point. PamD (talk) 19:33, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Pam. That's a fabulous source for anyone wanting to expand this article, but I don't see the info I'm missing.  I'm starting to resent whoever created this articles (without citing sources) so I'd better take a break now. --Stepheng3 (talk) 19:58, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Restored material