Talk:Cats in ancient Egypt

message: I placed the intro-rewrite tage because the introduction has nothing to do with cat in ancient egypt. It talks about statistics in the United States which has nothing to do with this topic. It would be nice for someone who knows something about this topic to rewrite and replace the current intoduction. --Tainter 18:24, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm rewriting the intro, and eventually the entire article. It has a lot of useful information but isn't assembled or organised meaningfully, and the page has no citations or references. I'll work on it :) -- Editor at Large • talk 11:21, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
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message: I've never learned to do this but how do I nominate to have 2 articles merged? This and the History of cats article (which is completely lacking in history and just mentions some mythology stuff from not Egypt), I don't see enough in the other religions yet to warrant a stub for a couple of sentences about black cats, cait sidhe, maneki neko and Frejya using them as steeds for her chariot. In Cats in Mythology Article we could have them all together comprehnsive like, mostly dominated by this with the other stuff off with Mohammed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 13:52, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the articles should be merged as both pages have enough content to warrant separate articles, but I agree that there should be a Cats in mythology article. There are many references to lions and tiger in various cultural mythologies, it would be nice to have an article bringing together all of these ideas.--Kpstewart (talk) 02:04, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Cats in Mythology]] 

message: I doubt there's any hard data  related to this.  So far, the words are speculation even if very likely. Codwiki (talk) 20:37, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You need to be much more specific before we can discuss this and make changes as necessary.  Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors  (talk) 05:24, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cats In Everyday Life? 

message: Like the message at the top from 2008 says. On this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_IX#Demonization_of_cats it uses the sources:  
 
Thorpe, Vanessa (2014-03-29). "Black death skeletons reveal pitiful life of 14th-century Londoners". The Guardian/The Observer. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
This Vox Rama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_in_Rama apparently shows catholics of that time thought there was a satanic cult headed by a black cat. How is this related to ancient Egypt? It is possible that the black death originated in ancient Egypt: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0310_040310_blackdeath.html and the wiki article here already says cats were valued for hunting vermin such as rats. Anyway I am planning on making some edits. Popish Plot (talk) 14:40, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Cats didn't have anything to do with the Black Death other than kill rats infested with the fleas that carried the bacterium.  That's interesting about it originating in Egypt/North Africa.  Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors  (talk) 04:46, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this related to the black death at all 

message: There should be a general date here for when the Egyptians domesticated cats.  Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors  (talk) 04:38, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  When were cats domesticated in Egypt? 

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message: Some of these are depicted as so long-eared and long-limbed... are we sure they are always cats and not servals?  Correctrix (talk) 23:15, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cats? 

message: Lions are "cats" only in a colloquial sense. You removed sourced conten without even trying to explain that. From your edit history I gather you have a thing about lions, but this is about the ordinary housecat (Felis silvestris catus). Kleuske (talk) 11:05, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm trying to address the  and improving this page. And all you do, is reverting to the same unimproved state of 4 years ago. This is extremely frustrating!! Why don't you help to improve it instead of disrupt such efforts? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 11:25, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In that case, add citations. Do not delete content. Kleuske (talk) 11:43, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

text: That is what I did, adding refs!!! But for the old content, I did not find any reliable ref. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 11:50, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  On reflection, I think I was wrong, here. Apologies for the inconvenience. Kleuske (talk) 11:59, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

text: I just discovered that large parts of the old content was copy-pasted from this website : see http://ageac.org/en/news/the-veneration-and-worship-of-felines-in-ancient-egypt/ , some statements even word by word. The last remaining one is "In 1888, an Egyptian farmer uncovered a large tomb containing more than eighty thousand mummified cats and kittens outside the town of Beni Hasan." which needs to be rewritten. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 12:18, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  If there is any text in the article that has been plagiarised from a copyrighted source, you are within your rights (or even obligated) to delete it as a copyright violation (and your should identify that it is a copyvio in your edit summary). For your information if someone restores the content verbatim (that is: without rephrasing it) you are entitled to revert the readdition without it counting toward the three revert rule. Removing copyvio is exemption number 5 to the rule. TheVicarsCat (talk) 12:59, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Well, yes, I know. Am trying to find a source and once found will rewrite this statement. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 13:09, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Probably the best solution all round. Best of luck with the sources. TheVicarsCat (talk) 13:13, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You may have seen the recent revision of the lead. I leave it up to you to remove or keep the  template before this section. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 16:44, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panthera vs Felis sylvestris 

message: ‎ As mentioned in my edits, large parts of the content that you restored constitute copy-vio, as this was copy-pasted word by word from a book. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 16:18, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: My click was accidental.--MONGO (talk) 21:03, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  revert? 

message: "Cats in ancient Egypt were mummified and buried in large quantities, hence held a special place in the culture of Ancient Egypt. "
I've written similar, attempting to accommodate the constraint of our style, but I am imagining something is firing correctly today may have an improvement. First things first?:
"Cats in ancient Egypt were widely represented in the iconography and social or religious practices of Ancient Egypt, fulfilling a practical role in the region's culture during life and were often mummified and entombed."
Without reading through the article, this may set things up for the rest of the content. cygnis insignis 06:02, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  section 0 

message: Hello
I am new to Wikipedia and I am currently working on a project for a class. I noticed that this article could be improved and I will be working over the next 2 weeks on it. 
I would love to hear from anyone who has any suggestions or concerns. I will be working on it in my sandbox User:NZMKZ/sandboxcats before I publish any changes. 
NZMKZ (talk) 15:45, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Edits  

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