Talk:Marbled Polecat/archive1

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Probably need a picture of the marbled polecat, I've created and redirected Vormela to here, as similar to the other genus pages. I'll work on it more. Ransak 21:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I wrote the Mammalian Species Account for Vormela and would be interested in fleshing this page out. Will see if I can get permission to use the picture I have. 7 April 2006
Since there is only one reference now, and I suspect you will add many more soon, I suggest this article adopts Wikipedia citation templates. I'll change over the cite that exists and you can revert it out if you don't like it. MaxEnt 05:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Done. Note that the inline reference is not cited; and the formal citation is not referenced inline. MaxEnt 05:25, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Added section on conservation status and IUCN

Good grief, Wikipedia has an IUCN citation template which I don't understand and didn't use after duplicating the IUCN citation style by hand. MaxEnt 05:58, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linked fitch to dictionary

Only one online dictionary even defines fitch in this sense, and not all that well. Could be defined in the Wiktionary and linked there.

[edit] Future Refs

Polecat in Russia. Mentions two regions in Russia where critter still lives and describes defensive habits.

Weird instructions about parenting teenage daughters.

A shallow account for benefit of pet owners that might have been adapted for the original template here.

Information concerning VP in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

Cute little fellow from Romania.

MaxEnt 06:42, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Awesome Picture

Hmmmm, your liver is not up to my standards.

[edit] New Diet

Wgors added diet and refs today and I went in and fixed some red links to the edible fluffer nuggets. Libyan jirds are mentioned nowhere within the wiki, so I linked that external. Armenian hamsters are at least mentioned on the page I found, which itself red links to the missing entry. MaxEnt 00:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polecat

There is another polecat article not as good as this one is quickly becoming.

Disagrees about meaning of fitch.

Polecat is most commonly used to refer to the European polecat (putorius), is a bad page. Perhaps next project
Never came across fitch in my research before. Will dig when have time. wagors 16:00, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Also, added vormela to the polecat disambig page, but not very well. MaxEnt 08:44, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Disambig page fixed up wagors 16:00, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Square

Why does Kryštufek, B. [2000] get square ears, when everyone else has a round ears e.g. (2005)? MaxEnt 04:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

seems to go along with the extended book citation template wagors 04:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Funny Talk

In 1998 marbled polecat was recorded

Some professions come to speak that way so I didn't change it. Come to think of it, the CDC always talks that way. MaxEnt 05:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] En-dashes

I switched a few hyphens to en-dashes. Very hard to see the diff. between en-dash and hyphen in edit window, but they are diff. chars.

It's correct typographically. If you don't like the way it renders, feel free to switch it back. You might wish to check more than one browser. MaxEnt 12:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hyperlinked to French and German

The French putois seems like a group. The German Tigeriltis is the same v.p. Check how the German Literatur now links back to this article's extensive reference section.

Though I can't read much German, I did note that it includes a mass range for the critter which this article omits.

The Polish name is not in the Polish Wikipedia, nor has Google ever heard of it. Might wish to double check spelling. MaxEnt 12:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

pereguznya to peregusna was stated to be a Ukrainian to Latin translation in my reference (Qumsiyeh, 1996). Spelling is correct. wagors 20:18, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I can read German after all

ask the fish

It's quite a good article with many details not provided here.

Females become already after three months sex ripe, with males last this up to one year.

MaxEnt 13:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikiproject

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.

This new wikiproject includes Marbled Polecats

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 19:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Feedback on the WikiProject page was to consider making this a project within Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals and it seems to have been dropped as a project request subsequently. MaxEnt (talk) 14:58, 17 November 2007 (UTC)