Talk:Aspirator (entomology)

message: This is a hoax.  Article was voted on and deleted, now similar plausible untrue article has been put back by an anonymous user.  What to do now?Quill 22:16, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Replaced with redir to poodle hybrid to hopefully discourage in the future.  Elf | Talk 21:18, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of the device is common in the UK. Anyone studying biology at highschool will most likely have made a simple pooter for collection of invertebrates in leaf litter etc. user:jimjamjak (talk) 11:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: This article should be semi-protected because it gets vandalized a lot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BewarePETeacher (talk • contribs) 00:41, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
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message: It would probably be a good idea to redirect the article to aspirator because it appears a pooter is much more commonly referred to as an aspirator. But still, this article might be a hoax. It has been nominated for deletion before.
Atterion(Talk|Contribs) 17:09, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is a cross-cultural issue. In US English it's an aspirator. Elsewhere it's a pooter. Same thing, mind you, but aspirator can also mean several other things, whereas pooter cannot - well, not really. So I prefer the status quo. Naturenet | Talk 07:53, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, there's a whole lot of "fart" references to "pooter", and the interesting thing is that a Google search using "pooter -fart" to remove those hits does not make a difference and suddenly pop up aspirator hits.  As a matter of fact, the only way I got pooter to get me aspirator hits was by using "pooter aspirator" as my search term, and the top results hits were this WP article #1, followed by etsy.com (somebody selling something), followed by a .com site that called it an aspirator and sold them, and then not a US site, but an Australian one, was the first instance of calling a pooter a pooter (as it were).  At the very least, then, the "cross-cultural" argument is a fabrication, or just what everybody thinks without any objective truth.  Therefore, if the proper title of the item is an aspirator, it should be called that, and if it therefore needs a dab for multiple meanings, so it needs a dab. MSJapan (talk) 05:27, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Also, it's a real surname (I found a "de Pooter"), and also that of the main character/writer (Charles Pooter) in The Diary of a Nobody, which seems to be a more researched topic than an aspirator gun.  So perhaps the wrong end of the stick is what we have here; I would think on the basis of notability, the book trumps the item.  I think that we should therefore change this to "aspirator gun" and create a semi-pro'd dab page to deal with the slang and other uses of the word. MSJapan (talk) 05:37, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

text: I've gone ahead and moved Pooter to Aspirator (entomology). American English or not, Aspirator is much more widely used in books, journals, and other reliable sources. This article still appears quite WP:OR, and needs more grounding in published sources. --Animalparty-- (talk) 03:55, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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