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Urban foxes

The article should say something about urban foxes - an interesting phenomenon. Ben Finn (talk) 09:22, 17 August 2012 (U

I wholeheartedly agree, as I live in a city and have seen foxes roaming about the streets, backyards, playgrounds and parking lots. Thus far there's been little mention of this in the news, and though people in my neighborhood are aware of them, their natural elusiveness makes them difficult to identify, as from a distance it's easy to mistake a fox for a dog.

John B.

Protected status

That's fairly anti-Wikipedia. Have people been posting slander or been sabotaging in regards to these foxes?

I would assume it's semi-protected because there's a viral video out there about a Fox, and rather than edit every single time someone says "what does the fox say?" they're just keeping it safe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.162.0.42 (talk) 14:42, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't seem so... Check the latest edits, the last two vandalisms were unrelated to the viral video. 179.209.206.32 (talk) 04:18, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it would help if the legitimate question about fox sounds would be answered. Animal_sounds 135.19.217.11 (talk) 02:49, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Completely bad wikipedia

The wiki should highly note that not all agree that a fox is of the canine family, many many argue that it is in the feline family due to its heavy feline-like characteristics, and completely different than what is portrayed in the canine family. These range from its eyes and looks to its behavioral characteristics. The fox page needs highly edited over this. According to many scientists the fox does not belong in the canine family, and is a major misconception.

Which "scientists" exactly? Taxonomists classify animals based on certain diagnostic criteria which traces their ancestry (that includes genes). Foxes display all the criteria to be a canid, and none to be felid.

The shape of the eyes and how nimbly they can climb trees does not a cat make.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 18:15, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sound

But what does the fox say? Jcwf (talk) 20:08, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested copy-edit

Semi protection preventing my doing this myself –

In the Domestication section, I suggest the wording

". . . the Russian silver fox, a domesticated silver fox by the Siberian Institute of . . ."

be changed to

". . . the Russian silver fox, domesticated by the Siberian Institute of . . ."

This removes the clumsy repeat of "silver fox" and the tautology of "domesticated", already in play from the preceding sentence. (Was actually only looking in to check the etymology of "Fox", having just encountered a place called "Foxen Farm" in Kent, England, and wondered if it could derive from ME with the Germanic -en plural.) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 212.95.237.92 (talk) 09:38, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Foxes now disambiguation

Just for the record, Foxes no longer redirects to this article as there are at least 3 notable uses of the name Foxes beyond the plural for fox: a Grammy Award-winning singer, a well-regarded movie, and the soundtrack album for the aforementioned movie. Of course I included a link to this article too. If someone disagrees with this, feel free to put it back but keep in mind we'd need to include links to the singer, movie and soundtrack in the DAB statement at the head of this article; better to keep it separate. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 17:39, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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A group of 4 students wishes to make changes to this article for a course whose banner may be found at the top of this Talk page. We wish to create/improve sections for behavior, distribution and habitat, and taxonomy and evolution. Sources for these edits will be posted here in the near future, as we are gathering them now. Narange1 (talk) 18:32, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey folks. This is a good start, here are some suggestions:

The proposal needs more substantial information: not only the sections you will work on but also what information you are planning to add to them; an initial list of sources and references and where you will get them from; whether and how you will get images/multimedia and to which sections you will add them.
Look at other similar articles, e.g., Gray wolf is evaluated as a Good Article and Coyote is a B-class (see criteria here), so you can see what those pages have that Fox page does not have and see what improvements are needed.

Happy editing! LeshedInstructor (talk) 19:10, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]