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[edit] Jackalope

I am offended at the missing jackalope in this article. Also, perhaps a little expansion on the different sorts of cultures that enjoy this class of critter.

When I was a young scout, we were taken into the woods and told to search for snipe. Later, imagine my angst when photographs of snipe appeared making the good fun in the woods to be, eh, not as fun? -- carol 07:42, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Here is a question that I have, as with some of the modern definitions for autism, is there a psychiatry definition for people who create cryptids and perhaps a ranking of their danger to be among other humans? -- carol 07:44, 8 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolSpears (talk • contribs)

Huh? I'm not aware of any diseases that make you create cryptids... As for including the jackalope, this is meant to be a prose article and for a lsit of cryptids see, well, List of cryptids. :) The article's still in its early stages and the list is pretty rubbish, which is why I'm working on it off-site. Good to see you followed me from commons; as you can see I'm a bit more in my element here. :) Cheers, Spawn Man (talk) 09:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Heh, the study of virus and of the people who invent them is always interesting to me, but I was trying to bring to mind the groups of people who invent and then either pretend to believe in these mythological critters or who need to believe. Then I was thinking about atrophied brains. The familiarity with your user name made me think that the response to my suggestions might be a little less defensive or aggressive -- whatever it is I have been experiencing here on English Wikipedia.

It was a good enough hook. I admit it. -- carol 13:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

??? What was a good hook? I wasn't intending to be defensive or aggressive - sorry if it came across that way. I'm unsure of your post's actual meaning - Familiarity with my user name? Atrophied brains? It's all a little confusing for me... *Shuffles feet* Spawn Man (talk) 21:10, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Heh. I would type something about eyerolling except the french and their seemingly preferred publisher seem to own that statement now. I was inspired to 'find' images of all different variety of jackalope and kin -- would that be useful anywhere? -- carol 04:53, 11 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolSpears (talk • contribs)

Erm, not sure about what eyerolling and the French have to do with anything lol, but there's an article on the Jackalope here if you wanted to add images there (I'm assuming that's what you were refering to...?) Cheers, Spawn Man (talk) 05:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Drat, those are somewhat legitimate photographs of Jackalope. At home, approximately every 30 miles you can find a bar with a real one hanging as a trophy -- I never ever thought I would want photographs of those things. Never say never. -- carol 13:15, 11 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolSpears (talk • contribs)

[edit] What happened to so much detail that can be found?

It is very easy to find a lot of detail, but your article is considered a stub when compared to how long other articles are when given so many sources. You are talking about cryptozoology, which is different from cryptids. I think you should differentiate them better. Also, please mention more examples. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hastanaki (talk • contribs) 03:58, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it's basically a stub (Just above if you go by the 1.5K rule of thumb). There's a distinction between cryptids and cryptozoology and I think it's basically shown here (Please edit it if you think you can make the seperation larger, since I agree it's not the best). The trouble was redirected before however due to it being too much like a list of cryptids, so no, I do not think I will add more examples - not without more prose in anycase, but since I don't have any.... See list of cryptids if you want a lot of examples, but again, this is not the place for numerous examples of cryptids. Cheers, Spawn Man (talk) 04:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Remove Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster has been proven to be a hoax, it should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.31.22.46 (talk) 13:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

No it hasn't. 67.164.0.50 (talk) 05:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)