Talk:Jumbo

message: Um, can we get a citation on the elephant's ashes being kept in a peanut butter jar in the office of the Tufts athletic director?  It just seems...unusual. Especially with the specific brand of peanut butter jar being stated. -Toptomcat 02:46, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Peanut butter jar

message: 23-July-2007: I have created a "History" section, merging and removing the "Trivia" section.  It is a common technique: generate an intro summary, then move original details into full sub-sections (such as "History"), where there is more space to merge trivia points which would crowd an intro; then keep adding subsections until all trivia statements find a home.  Usually, a "History" section can absorb a lot of trivia, with ample explanations to connect facts.  -Wikid77 10:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History/trivia 

message: In the french article it is said that he was captured in Abyssinia, in this article he comes from French Sudan. Which origin is correct? 114.45.160.208 (talk) 13:59, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: According to "New source" (see below) "The place was indeterminately what was borderland Abyssinia and the Sudan and is now Eritrea..."   —E:71.20.250.51 (talk) 04:18, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: French Sudan or Abyssinia?

message: There is a new potential resource that seems to be well researched.  Since I am "retiring" from WP soon-ish, I thought I'd post this here:
* — "Limited preview" on Google books
 —E:71.20.250.51 (talk) 03:44, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New source 

message: The intro should present the weight (in kg too) and height and put that into perspective with what does the average of his kind weigh. Nergaal (talk) 23:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: When I was a kid, there was a large elephant skeleton on display near the dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution; there was something on the sign about its being the largest known, or something like that.  In later years, I took this to be Jumbo, though I don't remember reading it at the time.  Are you sure about where the skeleton was displayed years ago? Shocking Blue (talk) 18:58, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Museum of Natural History Display? 

message: Substituted at 20:43, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: As noted above by multiple people, this article employs a childish tone.  As it turns out, this is copied without attribution from the Simple English Wikipedia article.  Copying from another Wikipedia article without attribution is a violation of the site's license, which causes the entire text to become a copyright infringement.  I have reverted to the version immediately preceding the introduction of infringements in late 2014 and deleted the infringing edits.  If you want non-problematic content from those edits (non-copyvio text, better citations, anything else), let me know and I'll retrieve it for you; I just did this myself with the infobox, which had been improved since 2014.  Nyttend (talk) 14:18, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If it turns out that the content that you removed and blocked from public view is simply from that simple English page and you wanted to strictly address the copyright issue, you can simply copy the same content back again onto this page with a comment that has "Content in this edit is translated from the existing Simple English Wikipedia article at :simple:Jumbo; see its history for attribution." This is per WP:CWW. That will solve the copyright issue entirely. Changing from simpl English tone into an English article is a separate issue that doesn't get fixed by blanking out half of the page. That can be done through copy-editing. By blanking out in mass like this, we might risk losing content and references that were added and gathered through hundreds of edits by hard working editors. Z22 (talk) 20:47, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Childish tone 

message: The article mentions the English word "jumbo" comes from the name of the elephant, but there doesn't seem to be anything about where the name of the elephant came from. Is there any information on this? Do we know when (who) bestowed the name upon the elephant? Do we know anything about where the name comes from (e.g. why call the elephant "Jumbo" in the first place)?
This article: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/word-jumbocome/ indicates that "jumbo" existed as a slang term for "a big, clumsy person, animal or thing" in 1823 (predating the elephant). It also indicates that the name may have been bestowed in England (by Abraham Bartlett or Matthew Scott), with no indication of what the elephant may have been called prior that point. It doesn't cite any references, so it's probably not a reliable source, but if we had one, it would be nice to amend the article with it. -- 129.59.122.107 (talk) 18:57, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Name?