Talk:Carp

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Help requested. I am writing about a fish locally known as "Aspen", translated to "rapacious carp". Anyone knows what thiseferences, otherwise it seems more like speculation than actual fact.

An expansion of the Carp's place in Chinese mythology and legend would be nice. -Toptomcat 22:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This article is not meant to be a carp apologist's piece of propaganda!

I am fairly irritated to see that this article had again been turned into a a carp apologist's piece of propaganda!

Please, whoever you are, do not do this.

You may like carp very much, and that's fine, but we must recognise that carp are an invasive species, and they DO, without dispute, cause serious ecological damage in many of the waters they are introduced into. There is strong anecdotal and mounting scientific evidence of the damage they have caused in the Australia's Murray-Darling system in particular.

You like carp, that's fine, you want to talk about eating them and their role in European and Asian culture, that's fine too, but don't bend or whitewash the hard facts about their negative impacts.

Codman 04:30, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Carp apologist? Please, calm down. It is only a fish. If you have concrete changes to propose for the improvement of the article, then make them. -Toptomcat 18:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible POV issue

"The movement and introduction of carp for frivolous reasons such as sport fishing should not be tolerated."

My emphasis added. Does this constitute a breach of NPOV? Sounds like the imperative is a bias, but I'm not exactly sure. --Agharo 03:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)