Talk:Yvonne (cow)

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Stefanskirchen not in NPR source

The town of Stefanskirchen is not in the NPR article at http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/15/139648411/yvonne-a-cow-wrapped-in-a-mystery-inside-a-forest . If it's in another source please add that source. Cloveapple (talk) 15:43, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding citations needed- I don't know how to add links, but:

This Spiegel article covers her nervousness:

"Yvonne was sold by an Austrian farmer to the farm in Aschau this year because she was nervous and jumpy, he told Bild."

And the revocation of the shoot to kill order:

"Yvonne, the cow who escaped slaughter and gained international fame by outwitting her pursuers for the past three months, has finally won her freedom, and can now roam to her heart's content through the Bavarian forest where she has found refuge.

"The district authority of Mühldorf am Inn in Upper Bavaria said on Friday it had revoked its permit to shoot the six-year-old brown-and-white dairy cow."

If someone knows how to add this link, please do. Now we just need to nail down the concerns for her safety during the winter and then I think we can remove the citations need tag. But I think the editor who added that knew what they were talking about, as these two points have panned out. 76.226.14.134 (talk) 03:35, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Spiegel article covers the winter concerns, as well, but not the part about wanting to build a forest shelter:

"She doesn't belong in the forest forever and things would get difficult for her if she stays there until the winter. But the pressure is off to catch :her, now that the kill permit has been revoked for good." It also mentions a small team remaining with a tranquilizer gun: "We still want her to come :and live with us, but we're only using a very small team now, and the focus is on quietly observing her and making sure she doesn't get agitated," a :member of staff told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The team comprises three people qualified to handle a tranquilizer gun." 76.226.14.134 (talk) 03:43, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm enjoying watching this story develop. WP:REFSTART shows the basics of how to add a reference. You type the reference information in the spot where you want the footnote to appear. Then the Wikipedia software magically adds it to the reference list at the bottom of the article. So, in the first place you want a footnoe for the Spiegel article just type something like <ref name="spiegel"> David Crossland "Happy Ending for Yvonne: Celebrity Runaway Cow Gains Her Freedom," Spiegel Online August 29, 2011 http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,783107,00.html</ref>

Then if you want to use the same article to support more facts, you put <ref name="spiegel" /> where you want each of the next footnotes to be. Cloveapple (talk) 04:51, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thats impressive

A cow run away and got because of that a wikipedia article. Not even only in germany, its really translated to english. But you guys realize that worldwide hundreds of cows run away ever day? --81.200.198.20 (talk) 12:17, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I know that lots of cows run away and nobody pays attention. I'm not sure why this particular cow was such a celebrity. She got an article because of all the newspaper articles, the reward thand was offered, and the way the news was reported all over the world. I'm curious why you say the article is "translated" to English? Cloveapple (talk) 17:30, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]