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Catalan donkey

Bit of an oversight not to mention the Catalan donkey even in the 'See also' section. It would make most sense to have a 'varieties' or 'breeds' section and then mention the Burro, Catalan donkey and perhaps wild breeds. I'm sure there are other varieties out there too with pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.172.66.58 (talk • contribs) at 1:10 on 20 Sept 2020 (UTC)

Please remove unnecessary protection

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Why is this article protected from editing? There is no history of vandalism as far as I can see. Please remove the protection. Thank you. 86.134.165.23 (talk) 14:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protection was added in August 2010 due to persistent disruption from unconfirmed users. There's not sufficient reason, in my opinion, to remove it: the Talk page does not show much history of constructive edit requests from unconfirmed users, who were unable to make those edits due to the protection. Jtrevor99 (talk) 15:45, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I am a user and I wish to make a number of edits. 14 years of protection is long enough - those troublemakers must have died by now. Please remove the protection. If there is trouble, you can always re-instate the protection for a week or a month. 86.134.165.23 (talk) 18:14, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: requests for decreases to the page protection level should be directed to the protecting admin or to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection if the protecting admin is not active or has declined the request. Hyphenation Expert (talk) 18:22, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. How do I find the protecting admin? Is it the person who placed the protection in 2010? 86.134.165.23 (talk) 18:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. And it seems they are inactive, so WP:RFPP is available. Hyphenation Expert (talk) 19:39, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If I am not mistaken, it was User:Courcelles back in 2010, and she is very much active even today. Correct? 86.134.165.23 (talk) 22:17, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not seeing any edits from them in >3 months. Hyphenation Expert (talk) 23:36, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Procedurally, WP:RFUP does require you attempt to contact the protecting admin (the latest of which was Courcelles) on their Talk page first, before proceeding with a general request. You're more likely to get a positive response on RFUP if you do this first. You may want to specify you're only requesting removal of semi-protection, not move protection, as this page has both. Unfortunately, this page has a long history of vandalism from unconfirmed users. It was first protected in January 2007; heavy IP vandalism immediately started again each time admins attempted to remove protection. (See [[1]]). They may be willing to try it again though. Jtrevor99 (talk) 04:22, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are all asses donkeys?

My understanding was that all donkeys are asses, but not all asses are donkeys: that a donkey is a domesticated strain of ass. Wild asses, meanwhile, are undomesticated asses. Am I incorrect in this? Another editor recently revised the lead to conflate the two terms and I am not sure that’s correct. Jtrevor99 (talk) 15:15, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]