Talk:White panther
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I spent a lot of time creating and maintaining the original "White Panther" article only for someone to decide I had violated MY OWN copyright. I have licensed the material from Messybeast.com for use on Wikipedia and the source page is marked as licensed under the GFDL. Please DON'T delete it! When this sort of thing happens without the deleting party checking it out properly it is very, very discouraging to contributors who have licenced their own work. Messybeast 21:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I have now recreated it from scratch. I don't understand why the original was deleted when the source page states the text is licenced. It makes a mockery of licensing my articles in the first place if no-one bothers to check properly. Messybeast 21:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
White panther & Panther disagree on whether "it is a common misconception that panther meant a melanistic individual" or whether a panther is "any big cat with the condition known as melanism (causing black fur)"
"Black panther" seems to be used colloquially for any black-furred big cat, but "panther" (without the colour adjective) means leopard, puma or jaguar depending on where the speaker originates from. This loose definition of panther means some websites state the panther in Kipling's "Jungle Book" is a puma (geographically impossible as the book is set in India).
Page seems to be getting vandalism (albeit juvenile) e.g. "Hi momma" and apparent sexual connotation of white panther in campfire dialect to mean "white panties". While the latter may be a valid definition of white panther, it is out of place on a biology-related page.
It would be worth noting that there is a book by Theodore Waldeck titled The White Panther which not only chronicles the fictitious life of a white panther, but also features a brief foreword in which he discusses legend and "science" surrounding this coloration. (The science is BS, but the book was first published in 1941.) --216.67.15.143 01:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
