Talk:Insect fighting

message: The insect training section is absolutely ridiculous. I read stuff like that and it has no place in an encyclopedia. There is no “insect language,” insects won’t expect ANY “move” and insects certainly do not punch and kick, nor have favorite “finishing moves.” This section appears to have been added as a piece of fiction. Maybe in the insect fighting world they really believe this, if they do, this section could be re-written with a more serious approach. Rip-Saw 11:31, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While absolutely hilarious, unfortunantly this must needs be removed. Uncturage 16:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it's funny but not what we really want to see for wikipedia. As such I've tagged the article for lack of references/sources and original research. --SRHamilton 03:21, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone continues to add the insect training portion of the article back in. Rip-Saw 00:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insect Training 

message: I'm not saying that's wrong, it just amuses me by its absence.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 06:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it. :-) Steve Dufour 14:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 'in the media' section lacks a mention of Pokémon 

message: I recently read a book about ants and it seems that insects do have blood after all, even if it is not red. I will take the disclaimer off of the first sentence. Steve Dufour 13:54, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Blood again

message: its broadcast on japenese tv live,someone put it in Luke12345abcd (talk) 00:48, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  japan 

message: This article has nothing to do with animal rights. The article does not discuss or make any mention of the subject, the article is only about the activity. How then is this within the scope of the wiki project and why does it have an Animal Rights navbox on it? Alhanalem (talk) 06:29, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit late to respond, but I've seen objections to it on animal cruelty grounds. By definition, it's a blood sport. It's true that the coverage of insect fighting as an animal rights issue is not discussed in the article, but... well, it's a stub. It's not expected to be complete at this stage. Tezero (talk) 03:59, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Animal Rights

message: Some of the references in this article strike me as doubtfully encyclopedic, and I commend them to the attention of other editors. However, the following one, which I have removed, is at once redundant, unencyclopedic and spam. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bug-fighting-and-Invertebrates-collecting/220632987954269 Anyone wishing to replace it, please justify its presence here on the talk page. first JonRichfield (talk) 19:49, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I had thought that a more general discussion of arthropod fighting might be nice to have here, but I don't really see much about any kind of insect fighting other than crickets. I had also thought that a disambigation page here would be useful for reader convenience, since we have articles on cricket and spider fighting (even though spiders aren't insects)...but I guess that might encourage classification confusion, so I suppose the redirect is the best option. Chubbles (talk) 14:34, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

text: Hmm...it seems beetle fighting is a thing, too...that indicates perhaps a general article is merited after all. Chubbles (talk) 14:40, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: These are Refs???

message: Japanese Bug Fights was merged here after a very poorly-attended and poorly-reasoned AfD. This merge should not have occurred; Japanese Bug Fights is a web series, but the only !vote in the AfD mistakes it for a class of activities. Chubbles (talk) 13:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate merge