Talk:Kiwi (bird)/Archive 1

Deletion discussion

This article has been listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion in the past. See /deletion for the discussion archive.

---

This article needs a lot of work to get it accurate. I hesitate, despite lashing out on List of New Zealand birds and putting 5 species (incl 2 subspecies), as I'm not sure how well accepted are recent suggestions for classification. Nurg 07:33, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

kiwi size accuracy

The article states that the largest kiwi is 450 mm tall. This is 4.5 cm (about 2 inches). I'm not an expert, but I think they are probaby bigger than that if they weigh somewhere in the range of kilograms (unless the article is mistaken in the weight also???).

You're out by one decimal place (450 mm = 45 cm, not 4.5 cm). All the height and weight information in the article is correct, afaics. Ppe42 13:15, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Mascot

Should a mascot for wikis ever be needed, like Tux for linux, I vote for a kiwi.--SQB 08:24, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I second that, but it might be hard to convince an international organisation to choose an animal that can only be found in one country, as it's mascot (A penguin can be found in many countries). -- Faded_Mantis 04:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Linking

I'm at a loss as to whether I should add a wikipedia link to monogamous in the opening article 3rd paragraph down or a wiktionary link. The wikipedia link is monogamous and the wiktionary link is monogamous. My intention was to give a deffinition of the word for people who didn't understand it's meaning. However after searching wikipedia and finding that the monogamy topic has both the deffinition and background reading it had made me have my doubts. Which link do you think would be better? The easy to understand Wiktionary link or the Wikipedia link that also has background reading?

Title

The title should probably be changed to Kiwi (bird), with Kiwi pointing to the disambiguity page, though I'm new, so I don't know how to do that.