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This says "it leads to the extinction of bird, mammal, and reptile species". Shouldn't it be THE bird mammal and reptile species?
This term stands for several species of birds, reptiles and mammals. To use "the", one would need to clarify which bird, mammal and reptile species went extinct - obviously, it's not referring to all such species. beforeAdapter (talk · contribs) 2022-03-20T17:22Z
I think it's reversed. Isn't the term “cat” refers to the family “Felidae”? The first paragraph should be “domesticated cat or house cat, commonly known as just 'cat'”. -GogoLion (talk) 05:18, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How often do people say 'I have a house cat' instead of 'I have a cat' or 'I pet a domestic cat on my walk today' instead of 'I pet a cat on my walk today'. The term cat when referring to felids is derived from the term cat as in a house cat. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:37, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems like you didin't read the text completely. Can't you see the word "commonly"? Also, the term "cat" is not exclusively referring the domesticated cat, but the whole felids. You know "floppa"? They are not domesticated cats but still being called "cat". -GogoLion (talk) 04:32, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The term cat typically refers to domestic cats. I have no idea what a 'floppa' is but cat overwhelmingly refers to a moggy and not other felids. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"cat overwhelmingly refers to a moggy and not other felids"
By who? Scientists? Of course they refer it as the whole Felidae. By general public? Of course it refers to small felids, including wild cats if they being petted like house caracal or house serval. -GogoLion (talk) 13:39, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia naming policy is to use the common name and cat is used far more frequently that domestic cat. The term isn't ambiguous as, while we use might "cat" when discussing the whole cat family, this meaning would be clear from the context; we wouldn't use cat to refer to all cats without such qualifying context. I don't think house cat should be in that opening sentence as house cat refers to something more specific and excludes many of the species. — Jts1882 | talk06:21, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Of course this is ambiguous! People also petting several wild cats like caracal, lynx, and servals, and still being called "cats". They even have different subfamily btw. The first paragraph should be "Domestic cat, commonly known as just "cat", also "house cats"..." -GogoLion (talk) 04:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That question sounds weird. First of all, how can i answer that? Counting the Instagram comments one by one? Or giving you screenchot of keyword statistics?
Second, you seem like never watching lynx pet videos on Instagram or TikTok.
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Under Characteristics > Whiskers, the citation number isn't correctly formatted.
CURRENT: "...to protect the eyes from damage.[53]: 47"
This should be changed to;
EDIT: "...to protect the eyes from damage.[53][47]" Rogu Roguu (talk) 09:17, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why is it not mentioned that cats make an important contribution to the removal of negative energy? See, for example, [1] (reviewed and fact-checked by a veterinarian). Furthermore, they were venerated in ancient Egypt, one of the most important civilizations in the entire human history; see Bastet. Before writing me the usual standard response "do you have a recent academic source that we consider reliable that talks about this?", I would like to underline that it's like proving the divine strength of love; it's not possible to do academic research on this, because love is a non-ordinary and non-calculable force. JacktheBrown (talk) 20:15, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Catster is not a reliable source. They copy information from Wikipedia and their vet 'fact checking' process is a farce, they pay someone to use their identity/name to give a vestige of authority to what they write.
> I would like to underline that it's like proving the divine strength of love; it's not possible to do academic research on this, because love is a non-ordinary and non-calculable force.
Academics often write about things they don't have proper evidence for but instead anecdotal experience, there are also other branches of academia that would deal with such a subject outside of veterinary medicine. Traumnovelle (talk) 20:52, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Traumnovelle: thank you very much for your reply; you're right, the source is unreliable. However, what I wrote remains true, and there are certainly high-quality academic sources on this subject. JacktheBrown (talk) 21:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If there are you can add it yourself with a reference to one per WP:BRD. But yes, avoid catster and pretty much any pet website that sells products they all have the same business model of search engine optimisation. Traumnovelle (talk) 21:02, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You were talking about academic sources, books and journal articles published by a reliable academic publishing are very reliable and some of the best sources we have. If you don't recognise the publisher/journal it may help to do a brief search on it to see if it is a predatory company (one that does little fact checking and instead receives payment from authors for income). Traumnovelle (talk) 21:15, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We don't require sources to be notable and qualify for their own article if that is what you were referring to with: 'a source that's little known in this encyclopedia?' Traumnovelle (talk) 21:26, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-3 vital article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Not done Unclear. -OXYLYPSE (talk) 14:47, 23 October 2024 (UTC)