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Ancient chat removed from article:

This isn't perfect, but it's a stub article just the same. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=67748 is only two measly paragraphs. User:Tbc is negotiating to include http://www.scarecrowland.co.uk/history.html.
Then we can add this to m:Making fun of Britannica. :-)

Ortolan88 17:55 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] disambiguation

I duplicated the list of alternate uses of the term at Scarecrow (disambiguation), since it became too unwieldy for an article that should be primarily about bird scaring devices. Please remove (from this article) items of which you know that they have little in common with the stuffed fellows except their name. (Baum and Todd are obvious, MacKaye is also about a scarecrow) Femto 16:05, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Last sentence of introduction

The last sentence of the introduction "Thus, it is in the interest of farmers, gardeners, and homeowners to move them along." is unnecessary and is rendered superflous by the rest of the introduction, thus I have removed it. What's more, it reads as uncyclopedic in tone and style. Black-Velvet 05:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scarecrows in fiction

In the section entitled "Scarecrows in fiction," the first entry states: "The scarecrow was commonly used in 19th century English Literature, as shown by its presence in the L. Frank Baum tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, as one of the main protagonists. The Scarecrow of Oz was searching for brains from the Great Wizard. In the film The Wizard of Oz The Scarecrow of Oz was portraited by Ray Bolger."

Excuse me, but the last time I checked, L. Frank Baum was an American author. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a piece of American fiction published in 1900. It is not, nor has it ever been, an example of 19th century English literature. I'm going to change this. StudierMalMarburg 19:01, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested improvements to Scarecrow entry

The History section might be expanded to include information about the continuing popularity of scarecrows as artistic objects. For example some information on scarecrow festivals could be added, as these seem to be increasingly popular.

There also seems to be quite a lot of information in this article that is not directly relevant to scarecrows but to crows and other bird scarers, which both have their own pages.

I think the Scarecrows in fiction section needs a bit of reworking. The Manual of Style suggests that a chronological order is used for lists of works, and full bibliographical details are included where available, but neither of these conventions seem to have been followed. The list also includes details of scarecrows in film, tv and music. These should be pulled out of this heading. Perhaps the list should also be trimmed to include only notable scarecrow characters, rather than every mention of a scarecrow, as this list has already become longer than the definition and history sections of the entry.

I have already made some minor edits to include a couple of references and remove some of the wikilinks which were not relevant to the context of the entry, as recommended by the Manual of Style. Tattie-bogle 11:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I've rearranged (and renamed) the Trivia section so that it is grouped thematically. I didn't try to do it chronologically, but IMHO there aren't enough examples to make that meaningful, and it would lose the thematic dimention. --Northernhenge (talk) 13:29, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
I've just now done a Google search for "scarecrow festival". There must be enough material there to create a seperate article, if anyone out there is sufficiently interested in the topic. --Northernhenge (talk) 13:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)