Talk:Pheasant

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Please do not Americanise my spelling, particularly in an article about an Old World topic. 19:13, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I have 20,028 edits, you have 3 according to your contributions, so I can see you're the expert on editing! This article was started using British English, and all pheasants are of Old World origin, with one, maybe two, introduced to North America.

I cannot see on what basis you can justify Americanising this article, and I suggest that before you have the arrogance to do so again you learn the conventions about editing Wikipedia. Can you imagine the response I would get if, say, I changed the Gray Catbird article to Grey Catbird (British English) on the basis that it has occurred in the UK? jimfbleak 05:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

I am going to ask, in view of your persistence in vandalising this article, either that the page is protected or that you are blocked from editing. I won’t take either step myself, since I am involved in this dispute. Incidentally, blanking your talk page doesn’t lose the edits, as you should know, jimfbleak 05:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Third Opinion

I have reviewed many of the edits on the original article as well as this talk page, and I find no justification whatsoever for altering the article. It may have started by some well-meaning American who honestly felt that "characterised" was a misspelling of "characterized" (I admit I didn't look that far back). Regardless of how the war began, the article should be left in in the current dialect, Ye Olde Englishe (just teasing), and if the Americanizer (see, it's my native dialect too) continues to 'correct' the spelling of words that are already spelled correctly, it is my opinion he should be dealt with as a vandal by WikiAdmins. Let's hope this ends the problem. I will remove the request for a third opinion. Aumakua 19:16, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Useful Articles

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What the devil is the use of a page on pheasants, talking about their sexual dimorphisms and beautiful plumage, when there's nothing about how to cook the damn things? I mean, what's the point of being a pheasant if not for me to eat it? Here we have a perfectly good resource on Pheasants, with narry a word about roastin', or sauteein', or fricaseein', or stuffin', or orange sauce, or cream, or pheasant au vin, or pheasant en croute... What, I ask, is the point?

<end tongue-in-cheek-rant>

I'll tuck into a pheasant with relish - but the pseudo-rant refers only to one species, not the whole family jimfbleak 05:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, that's a fair cop.