Talk:Feather
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[edit] Feather category
The Feathers category is a bit of a joke. Every article within it is a stub, and there aren't particually that many of them. I think they should all be merged into feather, or at least a new "types of feathers" article, and should form a key part of the proposed series for bird anatomy. Or at least thats what I think. Anyone else agree? mastodon 01:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I would like to see reference made to the different classifications of feathers such as primary flights, secondary flights, under tail coverts, etc.
[edit] Plumage
I have changed plumage from being a redirect to feather and created a new article instead. The two are related but different. Considering that there are 150 links to plumage from bird articles it's perhaps overdue. Feel free to help with the article I'm working on. Sabine's Sunbird talk 22:31, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External Links
User keeps adding link to "theafricangrayparrot.com" from this and many other bird pages. Removing link and recommend checking to see that it stays removed; user in this case is adding a link to a commercial page/forum as a reference, when all information on the linked page is paraphrased from a publication. This is not only spam advertising and a bad link, it is plagiarism. DrNixon 05:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How are Feathers made?
Nothing in this article tells me how feathers grow on the bird, and that they are, in fact, vascularized and clipping a bird's feathers too close will sever blood vessels.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.208.160.122 (talk • contribs)
- Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). WLU 11:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Too expand on this, the entire article seems like stubs strung together to make the article look normal. It barely describes much of anything and just reads as the first setnences from various paragraphs.
I'd take your advice and edit but previous experience in months gone by has shown that's risky in of itself due to the "touchyness" of wikipedians. (A valid fish article I started up from scratch and taged it stub so it can grow instead got instantly marked for speedy deletion and the talk page was filled with scolding is one example.)
Though if things changed where there's more wikipeople like you around I might get around to it later. --199.227.86.10 15:28, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I would like to request a link to our Downmark web site.
Our web address is: www.downmark.com
We are an Industry association: The Down Association of Canada
Please consider adding a link to our web site.
Thank you, Carolyn LaPorte Research & Information Officer Down Association of Canada
Downmark 18:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
