Talk:Werecat
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It should be noted that a number of the Shannara works of Terry Brooks list werecats as characters. They are not magical creatures however, but natural, with large size and excellent camoflage skills.
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- Please sign your comments, and please don't erase other people's material from the talk page without asking. I'm putting my previous comments back in below.Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 17:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Picture?
This article could do with a picture. I know there are some in Dungeons and Dragons monster manuals, or a novel cover or comic book character might be used. Does anyone have particular preferences? Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 22:13, 2 December 2006 (UTC)Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 17:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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- If possible, I'd like to see a picture that shows an actual transformation happening, such as 2 or 3 sequential panels from a comic book. Can anyone locate this? Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 18:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Errors?
From time to time this article has been accumulating entries in the fiction section that are not about werecats, but about cat-like humanoids. Please help me watch the article for these. Werecats are shapeshifters. If the creature in question does NOT shapeshift but remains in the same form all the time, then it is not a werecat. It belongs in some other article such as funny animal, furry or catgirl. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 18:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
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- For instance, today I see the Khajiit listed under "Games" in the fiction section. In reading about them, I don't see any indication that they are shapeshifters and I'm thinking of deleting that. This isn't an isolated incident, it keeps happening. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 18:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Verifiability?
There seem to be verifiability concerns. However, quoting policy doesn't belong on the article page, it belongs here. I'm therefore moving the following quote here:
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The verifiability of all or part of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. This article or section has been tagged since September 2007. |
If you have verifiability concerns, please be specific on the talk page about which points are in question. References have already been included, if specific facts need footnotes, please add citation needed templates to those sentences using {{fact}}. Thanks. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 19:36, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Catpeople.jpg
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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:FB kyo-g2.jpg
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[edit] Triva
Remove the eighty gajillion pages of worthless triva. Incorporate it into the article, make a writeup on the impact of werecats in modern culture, whatever.. a simple Item 1 - blah, Item 2 - blah list is worthless, especially when it dwarfs the article in size. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.103.171.186 (talk) 19:19, August 29, 2007 (UTC)
Seriously. On my resolution, there's a page of information with two pages of idiotic trivia points, most of which are related to beings that do not specifically act like a Werecat creature (The Druids of WoW, for example). Can we not remove the entire damned section unless someone can make it an actual addition, not a damned list? 69.64.3.68 11:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- Trim the info, convert it to prose format that deals with the use of werecats in fiction rather than a list of examples, but don't just remove it. Fictional use is different than mythological and it's prevelance shows the importance of including info on it. Pairadox 11:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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