User talk:Andrew Davidson/animals

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Gilmore the lion and oil company[edit]

Hello! Your submission of Gilmore Oil Company at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Drmies (talk) 14:43, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Gilmore Oil Company at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:39, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I've reviewed your DYK nomination, and there are still some issues that need to be addressed. Specifically: one of the statements in Gilmore the Lion (in that his remains are in cold storage) is not reflected in the source (which lists his remains as either in storage or on loan, as opposed to specifically saying that his remains are in storage). Please resolve this issue promptly so that the nomination can proceed. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On 14 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gilmore the lion, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Gilmore, the flying lion, was named after the Gilmore Oil Company? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gilmore the lion), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On 14 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gilmore Oil Company, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Gilmore, the flying lion, was named after the Gilmore Oil Company? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gilmore Oil Company. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gilmore Oil Company), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

5,459 and 2,134 views, respectively. Andrew D. (talk) 07:16, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of deadliest animals to humans[edit]

Andrew, given that I and several others have questioned your AFD !votes for speedy keep as being a misinterpretation of the policy (here, for example), I really think you should not be unilaterally shutting down AFD discussions based on said misinterpretation, as you did here. The nom was not actually the only person !voting for something other than "keep", as ansh666 (talk · contribs) pointed out that WP:TNT applied, and said that their !vote would only change to "keep" if the article was improved significantly, which it wasn't, and even had the nom been alone in thinking the article shouldn't be kept, your close actually came across like you didn't read their comment: you didn't address The source gives no information about how this list was determined, so "due to any type of cause of death" has simply been made up by the person who wrote this article., The source lists a total mish-mash of species, genera and higher-level taxons, for example all snakes are lumped together., and so on -- the list having an apparently arbitrary set of inclusion criteria, and relying on a combination of WP:OR and an external source with equally arbitrary criteria is a pretty good deletion rationale, IMO.

I'm not saying that if you self-reverted and changed your super-!vote to a regular !vote that I would necessarily show up to disagree with you (I actually noticed it on ARS earlier, and had decided it wasn't worth the effort of forming an opinion), but your recent action is so completely out of line I can't imagine anyone sincerely thinking it appropriate.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:05, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Both discussions seemed ripe for closure and the speedy keep process is there to be used in such circumstances. This is avoid wasting time on further unnecessary discussion. It doesn't appear that you actually want to discuss these topics yourself and so we seem to agree that further discussion is not needed. But if other editors want to persist then they should take the matter to WP:DRV. Andrew D. (talk) 13:53, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Goats[edit]

What got you interested enough to start the biography of William Patrick Kenney? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The story about using a goat to deliver newspapers is good. Goats make good copy -- see Rose the goat, for example... Andrew D. (talk) 22:21, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Did a goat hook yesterday - The Goat, Kensington. Edwardx (talk) 23:05, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nice one. I'll chip in to that when I get a moment but right now I've spotted another one. Andrew D. (talk) 22:17, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And that reminds me of Timur... Andrew D. (talk) 23:29, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And it's not new but, for completeness, let's not forget Goats do Roam... Andrew D. (talk) 23:32, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Thwaites is in the news, e.g. Living as a goat? It makes a change from being human. Andrew D. (talk) 06:37, 21 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There's a goatification trend at Wikimania 2017. It's on

Andrew D. (talk) 16:39, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Swamp monsters[edit]

There is currently a discussion at AN regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zxcvbnm (talk • contribs) 19:39, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have replied there. Andrew D. (talk) 20:12, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And the consequence was: "Not necessary to keep this open. ... There is no consensus to take any action. ..." Andrew D. (talk) 22:23, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]