Talk:Cheshire Cat

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Contents 1 Requested move 1.1 Voting 1.2 Discussion 2 Perception and Cheshire Cat theory 2.1 Result 3 Pratchett 4 Original Research?

[edit] Requested move

Cheshire Cat is a proper noun, and is referred to as thus. --Apostrophe 22:08, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Voting

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~

• Support, as you said, it is a proper noun. Thue | talk 23:42, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support as above. Rd232 ^talk 12:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. I agree. ^N_i^g_h^t_s^t_a^l_lⁱ_oⁿ ✉ 13:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Is clearly a proper noun. Another case of Wikipedia Lowercasing Gone Mad (WLGM), methinks! FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 02:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Perception and Cheshire Cat theory

Anyone fancied writing something about this? I know about it only in very vague and possibly inaccurate terms. Someone much more qualified would be better placed to do this. nayf

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Anyone want to do a write-up on why the Cheshire cat was a Cheshire cat and not some sort of other cat? --Dante Alighieri 02:53 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)

Seems it was just named after Carroll's home county. If there's another reason, I don't know of it. --Camembert

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Should the "c"at be capitalized in the title? --Menchi 21:53 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)

That would require a disambiguation page, since Cheshire Cat already exists. :-) Evercat 21:55 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)

• There probably should be a disambiguation page then. It's confusing to have capitalization-based distinction in article titles, I think. --Improv 17:07, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Might be just me having a weak constitution, but the pic of AM's Cheshire Cat is really disturbing. Would it be overreacting to place some sort of warning with the picture so that younger audiences can avoid being mentally scarred?

• I think it would. Not even the photos on Holocaust have a warning, and if they don't, why should the Cheshire cat? "Disturbing image" labels have been generally held to be inherently biased, (who decides what is disturbing and what is not?) and so the Wiki tries to avoid them in the interest of neutrality. Besides, the Wiki isn't responsible for the mental health of younger audiences - the parents they should be surfing with are. [[User:Premeditated Chaos|User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 22:01, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Result

Moved. WhiteNight ^{T | @ | C} 05:45, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

moved.

[edit] Pratchett

There's also a remark about the Cheshire Cat in Pratchett's Mort, I do not have access to the source text, could someone please fill it in? :) --Ouro 09:55, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Ouro 10:05, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original Research?

While an interesting treatise, the bit about being "God of Wonderland" sounds STRONGLY like original research without any cites, so I have tagged it as such. 68.39.174.238 02:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right - how did we miss that before? I removed it entirely; if the writer wants to return it, it will have to be better supported. - DavidWBrooks 11:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)