Talk:Vole

message: I propose that we move the main vole article to vole_(animal) or vole_(rodent) and create a disambiguation page for the other meanings. This should solve some of the edit/revert battles that are going on and frankly would remove unnecessary information that doesn't correspond to the bulk of this article.  Proponents of the other meanings (mostly anonymous users apparently) would be free to flesh out full articles about the slang meanings of the word without diluting the main article.  
Very few articles on wikipedia have other meanings paragraphs, this style of supplying definitions is more appropriate for a dictionary.  Encyclopedias (Wikipedia included) tend to have full articles for each individual meaning of a subject.
I'd be happy to create the necessary topics and move information around if this would be an acceptible solution, although it might be easier if someone with more wiki-skills than I did it. Suppafly 21:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the rodent vole should still go here, but an alternate meanings section could be added to the top.  See mouse, rat, hamster, squirrel, etc.  These alternate meanings all derive from the animal vole, and the animal is far and above the principle meaning of the word.  Alternately, the code  could be added to the top of this page and a vole (disambiguation) page could be set up to account for the alternate meanings.  See firefly for an example.  I really disagree with having the page vole be the disambiguation page instead of the page for the rodent.  --Aranae 00:24, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that, that would probably be a better solution.  What's the best way to proceed? Suppafly 18:31, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I've made the changes mentioned above.  Please feel free to edit or completely overhaul these.  --Aranae 01:49, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good! Suppafly 20:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for Disambiguation 

message: Is it worth adding as section regarding he confusion between the two animals, and distinctions? Neither article has such a section, but I've many times heard people confuse the two or use the terms interchangably. ThuranX 04:58, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vole/Mole? 

message: This claim is unsourced, and on the surface seems very unlikely. I'm not an authority on voles or Salmonidae, but I'm suspicious this is vandalism. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 156.34.223.61 (talk) 18:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salmonidae (a fish) prey on voles? 

message: the Vole Clock page is less than one paragraph. It could easily fit into the main article as a section. Strongly suggest merger. Northfox (talk) 12:17, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: They are totally unrelated, that doesn't make sense. Adding Vole Clock to an article about archeological dating and referencing it in the Vole article makes more sense, if vole clock is so unremarkable that it doesn't deserve a page. 65.169.210.66 (talk) 21:31, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That proposal is a joke, right? Or do you really think we would merge a non-notable unrelated stub into this page?--The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 22:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: PS: IMO the stub needs to be expanded and references with more than one source so articles like this here can link to it.--The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 22:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  merger proposal 

message: In the "Description" section, it is stated that "Females tend to be larger. Males tend to be larger sometimes though." How does that work and is there any reason it should be there? Petgoldfishesed (talk) 21:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  females are larger but males are larger? 

message: In Liverpool and elsewhere, they are known as "field mice". They are known as cheeky little animals.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.253.48.190 (talk) 11:43, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liverpool 

message: The article currently says "Voles can create and will oftentimes utilize old abandoned mole tunnels thus confusing the land owner into thinking that moles are active." What's that supposed to mean? Surely voles cannot create old abandoned mole tunnels.  If a vole has just created it it's not old, it's not abandoned and it's not a mole tunnel. JIMp talk·cont 05:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed that section. It's trivial and does little to improve the article, so if it is causing problems it should just be cut. -- LWG talk 18:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd sentence 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vole_Clock redirects here but is not mentioned. I therefore suggest to introduce a section 
== Voles and Archeology (Vole Clock) ==
As a result of the large genetic variety seen in voles populations are easily distinguishable. Remains of voles, molar theeth for instance, can therefore be used to distinguish strata in archeological excavations or even to estimate the age of the stratum. This is commonly referred to as vole clock.

It might be that there was a paragraph on this (with missing citations) which can still be found on pages that obviously copied the wikipedia article (see http://www.enotes.com/topic/Vole ) and which for whatever reason was removed from the wikipedia article. I guess, this indicates the presence of wikipedians with strong preferences on whether or not a section on vole clocks/archeology belongs here - this is why I put this on the discussion page instead of directly introducing the section into the article. 
If for whatever reason it is decided that this does not belong here, the redirect from Vole_Clock should be removed.
--Y4cy (talk) 15:47, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Since someone cut the vole clock info from this article, I've reverted the old Vole Clock article to its pre-merger state. -- Gordon Ecker, WikiSloth (talk) 07:07, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vole Clock 

message: What is the range of the vole(s) in North America? 108.190.152.66 (talk) 14:52, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range? 

message: I can't  find a way to edit this on my phone but the Dutch version of this exists and is called "Woelmuizen". Bart (talk) 02:25, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the language code for Dutch? - UtherSRG (talk) 11:12, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add language Dutch