Talk:Pep (dog)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 13:01, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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Mugshot of Pep

• ... that Pep (pictured) was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary? Source: "He was incarcerated in 1924 for having allegedly murdered Governor Gifford Pinchot’s wife’s cat, although Ms. Pinchot told a reporter later that the murder had never occurred and the governor had simply donated Pep to the penitentiary to increase inmate morale."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pantheon ad Lucem, Template:Did you know nominations/Linda Giudice

Created by Gobonobo (talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Pep (dog); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Oh my. New enough, long enough, I see no copyvio. Shockingly well-sourced – people love dogs – neutral and BLP-compliant. This is good to go! ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 20:12, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Breed

Why is he listed as a Labrador Retriever if none of the sources claim he was a Labrador but instead different breeds? Traumnovelle (talk) 08:25, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@Traumnovelle Almost all of the contemporary sources use Labrador Retriever. I have little faith that the journalists of the era got the breed correct when they were inventing stories about the dog's history. Pinchot would've known I would think, but I'm not sure what breed a "Scotch retriever" is meant to be. Labrador Retrievers were first recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1917, but they may have been referred to then by a different name. gobonobo ^{+ c} 19:34, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

You should add the sources that state Pep was a Labrador Retriever to the first section of early life. Currently with just the note pointing out all the different breeds that have been recorded except for Labrador makes it seems unsourced/original research. Traumnovelle (talk) 19:56, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

This is hilarious!

I saw it through the "Did you know" section on the main page. Well done! Félix An (talk) 07:26, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Same! These kooky sorts of articles make me love Wikipedia. Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Strange!

Strange how someone decided it would be a good use of their time to spend hours writing this article. Second, this article is very strangely worded trying to sensationalize a dog being in prison. Completely absurd. Carry on. Alexysun (talk) 07:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Be bold. LegalSmeagolian (talk) 21:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Please remember to tag redirects that you create per WP:REDCAT. An easy to use redirect user script is User:Eejit43/scripts/redirect-helper.

voorts (talk/contributions) 00:41, 29 September 2024 (UTC)