Talk:Turnspit dog

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Turnspit Tyke

He was also known as the Turnspit Tyke.

Link Fix

I don't know or care about dogs, but I took it upon myself to update the link to "Whiskey" the turnspit dog. A few months ago it pointed to a picture, but the website that it pointed to was re-arranged and the link was broken. I searched for the picture that had been there and updated the link to its new location.

Programmer in Chief (talk) 01:46, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

_That link's dead again 186.109.246.181 (talk) 23:11, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

T'was I who tweaked the link to display a larger image. Now, the whole site is down. Pity. I will dig for another url. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:20, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Every Dog Has His Day"

The article asserts:

Due to the strenuous nature of the work, a pair of dogs would often be worked in shifts. This may have led to the proverb "every dog has his day"

This is entirely speculative and seems preposterous to me. The expression, "Every dog has his day," refers to a moment of prominence or success that eventually comes even to the least deserving. It does not refer to regularly alternating shifts of work, which, in the case of turnspit dogs, appear to have lasted considerably less than a day.

At first I just added a "dubious" tag, but upon reflection I am deleting the assertion. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 19:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 January 2017

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The result of the move request was: Move. No objections after over a week. Cúchullain ^t/c 15:19, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Turnspit Dog → Turnspit dog – None of the modern English sources used as references in this article that I've checked, nor a sampling of other reliable sources, shows any that treat "Turnspit Dog" as a two-word proper noun - "dog" is invariably not capitalised in running text. Wikipedia:Article titles#Article title format states that "Titles are written in sentence case. The initial letter of a title is almost always capitalized by default; otherwise, words are not capitalized unless they would be so in running text." so I propose that this be renamed accordingly. Whether "Turnspit" on its own is a proper or common noun differs between sources, but as the first letter of Wikipedia article titles are capitalised in almost all cases this is not relevant to this discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 13:51, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Authentic photograph?

Are there any authentic photos of a turnspit dog? By the 1840s, Daguerreotype photography was in widespread use throughout the world, so I have to imagine that there's at least one photo of one out there. 2601:8C:4182:9B40:8DD9:7B35:F8D1:341E (talk) 09:49, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Vernepator Cur" is not real Latin

This Wikipedia page is the first hit when you search for "Vernepator Cur". I read Latin and I don't care what the sources say, that's not real Latin.

The source cited appears to have been made after the phrase first appeared in Wikipedia, meaning that the journalist probably copied the phrase from Wikipedia itself. This spelling did not exist in any written sources, or in any sources of this article before the article was created.

This appears to be a case of citogenesis. The diligent journalist also saw fit to lift the same image used on Wikipedia as the banner for their article.

DenverCoder9 (talk) 02:37, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch! Did some researching and I think you're right. I've added "citation needed" with indication to this talk section next to the first mention, just to be safe. I also ran into a similar issue with "canis vertigus" but that may just be error on my part.

Semisoftware (talk) 17:35, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]