Talk:Weasel

message: Related to the above discussion - It seems some editors have assumed the article is about Mustela nivalis only, and others that is is about the genus; eg the length is given as max. 217mm which is actually shorter than the max size of nivalis according to its own article "Least weasel", and certainly shorter than the max length of other mustelae, which are listed further down as being included in the article topic. Suggest this article be moved/retitled "Mustela", with appropriate redirects, and anything referring to nivalis only be moved to the "Least weasel" article if not already there.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Newburyjohn (talk • contribs) 10:05, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification needed re article subject

message: Ha-ha! Vitriol 12:46, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I removed  from the article as I'm not seeing why it should be here. It appears to me as a joke. If you believe the template should remain, please explain. --Midnightcomm 02:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed it 129.93.50.170 01:50, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article's neutrality is compromised by "weasel words". 

message: Anyone got reliable references for pack behavior in weasels?  (added by user:74.67.79.158)
:All species I know about are essentially solitary.  seglea 23:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pack Behavior 

message: I believe that there are at least seven members of the weasel family.
weasel
wolverine
mongoose
mink
marmot
ferret
fisher
WRONG! The mongoose is part of the mongoose family, while the, marmot is not even a carnivore -- it's rodent. Here are the animals in the weasel family that I can think of:
*badger
*weasel
*stoat
*wolverine
*fisher
*marten
*grison
*skunk
*zorilla
*sable
*polecat
*ferret
*otter
*mink
Dora Nichov 13:49, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  members of the weasel family 

message: Is it true weasels do a hypnotic dance in front of their prey? I'd like a source on this. 130.215.112.54 22:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hypnotic dance

message: Can I add Weasel Stomping Day as a (quite controversial) reference in popular culture? Or are we avoiding that? The Lilac Pilgrim 10:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's really about stomping weasels, it sounds to me like a valid pop culture entry, if a citation is available. Agyle 04:07, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This stuff is great, and citations are obviously available if you look but, in my opinion, stuff about Weasel in popular culture belongs in a separate article, maybe. Without references, it looks kinda wrong, though interesting. Thing is, it doesnt fit with the rest of the article, like Mustelids, Mustela africana, Mustela altaica ...etc.; though an attempt has been made.  Weasel Stomping Day already has an article page, so does Al Yankovic. Just adding stuff to WP is great, but adding it to the right article, or even a new article, is even better. Newbyguesses - Talk 04:54, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird Al song? 

message: H3nryH3nry 20:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What's wrong with this?

message: I wanted to make a wikiproject about ferrets and weasels but it became to small a range so i have made a bigger wikiprojects including all animals in the Musteloidea super family which include both ferrets and weasels and much similar animals. Support would be appreceated.
you can find it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Weasels
i also made a little template for the project,
	This article is within the scope of the Weasel WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles relating to Ferrets, Weasels, and other Weasel like friends. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
I hope you like it.
This wikiproject is for the superfamily of Musteloidea which currently and surprisingly does not have an article yet. This superfamily includes ferrets and weasels and all of our other furry little weasel like friends. Please put your name on it so this article could have it's very own wikiproject outside of wikiproject animals.
Teh Ferret 19:51, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Wikiproject 

message: What about saying a word about Pop Goes the Weasel somewhere in this article? 195.56.77.16 13:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested addition 

message: The pop-culture section of this article is far too large, perhaps even larger then the factual information about the weasel.  Most other animal articles either limit the pop-culture to a small % of the total article, or eliminate it all together.  I propose this article do the same.  Trivial pop-culture should not outweigh factual information.  65.167.146.130 (talk) 15:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe the popular culture stuff could be moved to a dedicated article?  Anyway, I removed the "expand" tag since it seems unnecessary. Spalding (talk) 14:17, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  recommend removal of pop-culture section 

message: I removed this line until a reference can be found. That's a bit too strange to remain uncited. Reb42 (talk) 23:49, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religions Revering Weasels 

message: Table aint working.. I dont know whats wrong, just passed by =) 24.132.178.117 (talk) 19:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone fixed it. 24.132.178.117 (talk) 19:35, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table 

message: is the picture vandalism? i've found a better picture.
File:WEASEL.JPG  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Solar Flute (talk • contribs) 01:32, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: picture

message: I think a while ago there was an article called 'list of fictional weasels' but apparently it was deleted for some reason. Can anyone make another one?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.112.224.72 (talk) 06:45, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to have been incorporated here: List of fictional animals (other)#Weasels.  I've made a redirect there from a new List of fictional weasels.  Richard New Forest (talk) 15:19, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of fictional weasels 

message: I have suggested that Weasel war dance be merged here (assuming that article is legit and can have some refereces added), presumably as a new section, as it is too narrow in scope to be a stand alone article. Ecphora (talk) 12:12, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it might be more appropriate for it to be merged with Ferret, given it's actually more of an observed behavior of pet domestic ferrets. --AzureCitizen (talk) 18:35, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It should probably be merged with neither, since both display it, and both duplicating the content and linking one article to another's section seem like bad form to me. Oreo Priest talk 09:52, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: The page is locked, but there's some obvious vandalism on it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpell (talk • contribs) 12:33, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Right now, the page only describes the literal creature itself.  I think a lot of people, myself included, may have come to this page wondering why the word "weasel" is used to describe a sneaky person or what a sneaky person does, such as "weasel words."  A quick dictionary.com search does not explain this in any etymology sources I see, except for the following:
: The verb "to deprive (a word or phrase) of its meaning" is first attested 1900, so used because the weasel sucks out the contents of eggs, leaving the shell intact; the sense of "extricate oneself (from a difficult place) like a weasel" is first recorded 1925; that of "to evade and equivocate" is from 1956. A John Wesilheued  ("John Weaselhead") turns up on the Lincolnshire Assize Rolls for 1384, but the name seems not to have endured, for some reason. 
: weasel. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weasel (accessed: February 16, 2011).
Perhaps actual or purported characteristics of weasels could be described to explain why the word "weasel" is used in this way.  And please, don't use weasel words to explain it. Midtempo-abg (talk) 18:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is already an article Weasel word, which covers that subject.  This article is about the animals, not the word "weasel", and in fact in British English most of these animals are not called weasels.  We mustn't forget that Wikipedia is not a dictionary).  I'm not sure what the figurative meaning has to do with this article (I think anyway the egg thing probably only applies to the Least Weasel). A "see also" might be helpful, or a hatnote though there is already one for Weasel (disambiguation).  A section on actual or purported characteristics could go in the least weasel article. Richard New Forest (talk) 22:07, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figurative use of "weasel" 

message: After searching the OED and several online Old English dictionaries (http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/ http://home.comcast.net/~modean52/oeme_dictionaries.htm http://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/), I have found no references to the alleged word "weatsop". However, I have found two forms of an ancestral word to "weasel" that match well with the modern form: "weosule" and "wesle".
I suspect that "weatsop" is a modern misspelling, as "weat" is not an Old English word, and "sop" does not exist ("sopa" and "sopp" exist, but (following the comcast site) mean "sup, sip, draught" and "offula, sop", respectively).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.53.52 (talk) 20:48, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Weatsop" 

message: Is there any good reason why the word "polecat" in the Terminology section links to the Wiktionary page for that word, rather than to the Wikipedia page?Czrisher (talk) 21:13, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polecat 

message: A nate of weasels seems to be a pack of weasels, judging from context. How come I couldn't find it in the Oxford English Dictionary? Different spelling? Sprocedato (talk) 07:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nate 

message: Well. According to the map Mustela's range does not comprise Anatolia, Indian sub-continent etc. This cannot be true and is in conflict with the map in the entry on Mustela nivalis (the least weasel), and with its own text in the Mustela entry. Can the map be corrected or replaced?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.96.145.226 (talk) 08:21, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Map showing the range of the Mustela 

message: http://laughingsquid.com/ozzy-the-weasel-adorably-interrupts-his-humans-video-games-by-playing-with-his-thumb/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benvhoff (talk • contribs) 01:45, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasels as pets? 

message: Unbelievable picture and story:
*The Tale of the Weasel and the Woodpecker 82.171.6.217 (talk) 09:11, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Scorpion and the Frog]] or The Weasel and the Woodpecker? 

message: Substituted at 10:21, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The word nateoccurs in the Japanese Folklore section of this article. I can find that word neither in the Oxford English Dictionary nor the Merriam-Webster Unabridged.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrundin (talk • contribs) 17:35, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I was confused by it too.  I might not know all the weird words for different groups of animals, but no dictionary seems to know this one either.  It also isn't used anywhere on the searchable Web except when copied from this article.  On a closer inspection this usage seems to be an obscure meme from 2012 related to Nate Ravitz and Fantasy Focus (podcast).  See the bottom of  for a direct evidence.  Before the edit that introduced this paragraph on Apr 1, 2013 as a translation from Japanese Wikipedia (which uses イタチの群れ so yes, the intended meaning is what everyone suspects) there was at least one vandalism related to that “Nate is a weasel” thing. –MwGamera (talk) 11:43, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is "nate" a word? 

message: Though I am not an expert at weasels I would love to learn 166.137.163.38 (talk) 02:02, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where can I find the European weasel sleep in Europe 

message: I am researching on weasels. I love to learn about animals 166.137.163.38 (talk) 02:03, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where can I find the European Weasel sleep 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: California Natural History

message: Weasel in Hungarian is “menyét” 24.193.36.121 (talk) 00:41, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Also, what would this add? Listing the translations for every language would obviously be clutter, why does the Hungarian translation matter specifically? Cannolis (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 April 2023