Talk:Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

message: This statement near the top of the article has been in the article since 2006 but I just read the story and I was struck by its child-like tone.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.88.9 (talk) 18:06, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  notable for its frightening and serious tone 

message: Article merged: See old talk-page here. - Fuzzygenius (talk) 22:12, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fg's explicit addition permits verification that all the prose content from Darzee was merged into the accompanying article (tho in their next edit they discarded all but four words of it, presumably as duplicative or overdetailed).    The subsequent blanking of talk:Darzee, the target of their piped lk, offers mostly confusion, which its history can dispel.--Jerzy•t 06:19, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Merge of Darzee into RTT) 

message: i had to read rikki tikki tavi at school (7TH grade) and i thought the story was very well written and was very life like.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.179.30.184 (talk) 21:14, 2 November 2009‎
The content of the following box is actually the net result of five edits on a day in Nov. 2011, and two on a day five months later. All six, except the one duly made (in November) by Signbot, were made from three IP addresses within the same half of the 74.179... block of 65K IPs.One of the 5 IP edits has the effect of obscuring the fact that an earlier one of them 
# stored approximately 47,000 bytes of text onto the en:WP servers (on which it presumably remains accessible to all), and 
# purported to place it under Wikimedia licenses (which in the US at least, IIRC, gain their force from the fact that in the US there is always a copyright).
--Jerzy•t 06:19, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Editor reviews) 

message: "Paul Vaderlind, Richard K. Guy, and Loren Larson wrote a mathematical book and an ancient book about Cleopatra, The Inquisitive Problem Solver, that references Rikki Tikki Tavi in several problems"
:You cannot publish "an ancient book" in 2002. Also "wrote a mathematical book and an ancient book about Cleopatra" suggests that they wrote  two books.   
Ileanadu (talk) 13:54, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books - A modern yet ancient book?

message: A colleague found 
:  two .. cobras, ... who had the run of the garden while the house was unoccupied. 
and without comment edited the last word to "occupied". I am restoring "unoccupied", believing that the text implicitly suggests that, and does nothing to suggest the opposite.   First, i assume that the use of "while" refers to concurrent time, and not contrast between conditions: One can say "I am human, while Rikki is a mongoose", because human and mongoose are inherently in contrast. But a contrast between cobras in garden and house occupied is not suggested here; those two past situations were causally (and temporally) harmonious, as are the two current ones, since it is the people occupying the house who interfere with the cobras' having the run of the garden. There is no reason to treat "while" as suggesting anything more than "same time".   Near the middle of the Adelaide e-book are an illustration and a caption “In the Dark He Ran Up Against Chuchundra, the Muskrat.” The next dozen or so 'graphs after them have dialogue, until one beginning "Rikki-tikki listened." The 4th one following that begins "“But are you sure...”"  The dialogue between the cobras continues:
: Everything [is to be gained]. When there were no people in the bungalow, did we have any mongoose in the garden? So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the garden; and remember that as soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.”
: “I had not thought of that,” said Nag. “I will go, but there is no need that we should hunt for Rikki-tikki afterward. I will kill the big man and his wife, and the child if I can, and come away quietly. Then the bungalow will be empty, and Rikki-tikki will go.”
   All their concern is that people attract the mongoose (as Rikki's mother counseled regarding people, or at least Europeans), which is bad for the cobras. They want the run of the garden, and show no interest in the house except as the place to go in order to drive the people away.   If it's i (and the numerous previous editors who found no fault) who is mistaken, you're going to have to overcome this evidence.--Jerzy•t 07:26, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  House unoccupied 

message: Please somebody insert this youtube video in to main article, thank You )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRryHN--Za4
37.6.24.129 (talk) 16:54, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV adaptation by USSR SOYUZMULTFILM 

message: Rikki Tikki Tavi is NOT in The Jungle Book. It is its own, separate story and was published separately.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.188.113.221 (talk) 22:28, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not in Jungle Book.