Talk:Cow tipping

message: I don't know if this is enough for the main page, but I think the card "Friendly Bartender" in the game Hearthstone qualifies as a honorable mention. A cow/tauren bartender which emotes "Don't forget to tip your tauren." when summoned and "Bottoms up!" when attacking is hilarious. IMHO.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:71B1:A:FF:0:0:1 (talk) 15:50, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: sounds lovely! feel free to add it to the section. That also reminds me I should add mention to the Depths of Wikipedia account. - MountainKemono (talk) 13:35, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture honorable mentions 

message: Change from: "Cow tipping is the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment. The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend,[1] and stories of such feats viewed as tall tales.[2]"
To:  "Cow tipping is the purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment. Cow tipping refers to pushing over cows only and does not include pulling methods such as grabbing cows by the neck or legs as is done in steer wrestling, or methods which use ropes to push over cows such as cow casting. The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend,[1] and stories of such feats viewed as tall tales.[2]"
Jax0987 (talk) 20:08, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: . The purpose of the lead section is to summarize the body text. Steer wrestling isn't mentioned in the body text, and casting is already covered in the next paragraph of the lead. ~Anachronist (talk) 20:45, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 July 2023 

message: Change from: "These claims, to date, cannot be reliably verified,[5] with Jake Swearingen of Modern Farmer noting in 2013 that YouTube, a popular source of videos of challenges and stunts, "fails to deliver one single actual cow-tipping video".[32]"
To:"These claims, to date, cannot be reliably verified,[5] with Jake Swearingen of Modern Farmer noting in 2013 that YouTube, a popular source of videos of challenges and stunts, "fails to deliver one single actual cow-tipping video".[32] While several YouTube videos show examples of people taking down cattle, these involve pulling on the neck or legs of the animals, like steer wrestling, and not pushing the cattle over."
Jax0987 (talk) 13:09, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: , but using different words. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:01, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: But why? Steer wrestling really has nothing to do with cow tipping. --ZimZalaBim talk 02:58, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Because these are examples of getting a cow to fall to the ground from a standing position. I agreed with the proposal that it's a worthwhile and encyclopedic distinction to make. The article already includes a lengthy description of "casting" as a means to topple a cow, so why not a brief mention steer wrestling? It's just one additional sentence. I don't have a strong view on this, so in the spirit of WP:BRD I'll leave it up to  to make a case for restoring the sentence removed by . ~Anachronist (talk) 14:34, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 21 July 2023 

message: If anyone was cow tipping it would be on youtube. It's not. With all those cameras out there, and people putting everything under the sun, and moon on youtube, there's no cow tipping. Best statistical proof in the world. 2600:8807:5400:28F0:4B1:D602:D837:1F70 (talk) 09:57, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Youtube cow tipping evidence 

message: First paragraph; fourth sentence
"The concept of cow tipping apparently developed in the 1970s, though tales of animals that cannot rise if they fall has historical antecedents dating to the Roman Empire."
2601:543:4200:DE0:4C94:9E86:A6D8:2E9D (talk) 22:50, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Needed request