Talk:Indian Runner duck/Archive 1

Re edit

This article has been largely re-written and extensively referenced (April 2010) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Runnerdux (talk • contribs) 16:06, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

This article needs a serious cleanup. It's obvious it was simply cut&pasted from a website (minus the pictures). I mean, there's a phone number for goodness sake. Yeesh. --Jquarry 22:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re-Edited

The Indian Runner Duck article has now been completely Re-edited and has a more factual basis ,No Adverts, No Telephone Numbers, It could do with a good photo though if anyone can assist. Stavros1 20:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

REALLY?

Is duck neck-stretching a joke? I have had an indian runner duck since hatching and have never stretched its naturally-long neck; neither can I find references to neck-stretching on any association websites. Please add references if people really do stretch duck necks or delete that part. Lisastarr (talk) 17:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have to believe this is some reference to the Padaung people of Thailand, that live to the north of adjoining Indonesia, where the runner breed originates. In any case, someone has removed this reference.

It does have a bit of a British bias to the article. The reference to magpies is a little restrictive and should probably be change to a generic predator or, perhaps corvids. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.160.82.51 (talk) 21:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have a photo here of a group of 1 month old runner ducks that my friend's dad took for me. I am fairly new to Wikipedia and am unfamiliar with the process of posting an image, but I will give it a shot. DeadlyLintRoller 14:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jemima Puddle-Duck - what sort of duck?

The article on Aylesbury duck claims Jemima as one of these; and certainly from the embedded diagram this would appear to be a better match than a Runner. Is this how turf wars start? Old_Wombat (talk) 09:02, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Scientific name of the species

The scientific name of the species is missing. Can anyone add it in? Simonnem (talk) 07:08, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Title

I propose this article be moved to Indian runner duck as the common name for the animal. This was reverted back to the current Indian Runner duck by User:JTdale on the basis that these are referred to as Indian Runners, as a proper name. However, on this reasoning I still think the current title in wrong as it mixes both proper naming and common name capitalisation. I propose this article be moved to either Indian Runner or Indian runner duck on this basis. SFB 14:31, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for starting a discussion: I agree with your rationale, the mixed capitalisation is an offence to grammar and common sense. I'd support a move to Indian Runner, per sources such as the Poultry Club of Great Britain; and strongly oppose any attempt to move to the lower-cased title, as breed names are invariably capitalised here. The "duck" qualifier is unnecessary, as no other topic is a candidate for the title "Indian Runner"; however, if others think it should be retained, then the former title, Indian Runner Duck or an ordinary Wikipedia-style title, Indian Runner (duck), would both be preferable to the current one. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:10, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it'd be better as Indian Runner, but I assure you we will have a swarm of people running in to move it to add duck on the end if we do that, as has been seen on every poultry article on en.wiki. Apparently, breed names are too confusing to the reader and have to be differentiated by adding species, even when nothing else has that name, and (duck) is apparently referring to an individual. JT_dale^Talk~ 17:47, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, whatever happened to WP:RS? This just sounds like editorial laziness!
--Jerzy•t 03:04, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"should"?

Several sentences in the description of the duck use the word "should" (e.g., "The bill should blend into the head smoothly being as straight as possible from bean to the back of the skull.").

That doesn't seem to be the appropriate word. I think I'm going to reword all of those sentences.--Probably done by the time anyone reads this. Rhkramer (talk) 16:17, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]