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What on earth is this bizzare little stub doing in Wikipedia? Is there really such a sport as pigeon racing? Is it popular? What is it? Tintenammae 09:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes, and it is quite popular, although not as popular as it once was.Abbott75 04:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
The article is not bizarre and not a stub either. It's possible that there is other information that might be added, but an article doesn't have to come out at 32k to be other than a stub. Since it seems that the government had problems getting information out of New Orleans and might be expected to have more trouble if nuclear explosions or other pulse weapons destroy radio transmitters and receivers, maybe the federal government ought to support the rearing and "stockpiling" of homing pigeons. P0M 22:13, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed lots of commercial links have been added to this article. They should be removed. I don't have time to do it tonight, but if you have come here to advertise your own company or your own wage-earning website be advised that commercialization is not in line with Wikipedia policy. Expect commercial links to be removed. P0M 05:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I have just rewritten this article. I would appreciate any assistance in improving it in the hope of getting it somewhere near feature article status! --Abbott75 11:34, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
It was a while ago now that I rewrote this article, in the hope of guiding it toward a GA. I would like to thank all the contribtors who improved this article after me. However, There is still more work to be done to get this article the recognition it needs. Reading through it I have noticed that it needs to be wikified, and the tone of the article needs to be made more formal. So please, lets bring on constructive edits and get this article some status! Abbott75 ღ 07:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I've begun a lead section, but it is in great need of help. So, what are you waiting for! :P Abbott75 ღ 11:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I misstated the reason for undoing the last change which was made to this page. I said I thought the links were "cogent" when in fact I meant to say that they were correct in terms of the subject.--Onorio (talk) 02:00, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
We are having a bout with this and need to now if they are fowl? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.39.131.87 (talk) 20:08, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Having added sections from press release, this section received an Undue maintenance tag. Now tidied up and balanced discussion, adding more details and citations from outside recent coverage. Please confirm this is now better. 100percentrecord (talk) 13:10, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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I am posting here on behalf of a new editor user:VanceJohn, who has a WP:COI as part of a volunteer-run organization that supports pigeon racing. The suggestion is to remove the following sentence from the Controversy section: "Unwanted pigeons are often killed or abused during training and racing.[17]," which does not appear to be supported by the citation.
While my relationship with Vance is distant and our discussion brief, I felt this one was best left to someone else. User:Corporate Minion 19:14, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
First, I can't find instructions on how to post to Talk so I'm copying what I see others doing above.
On the "Pigeon racing" page, search for "unique ses" (it's in the first sentence of the "Traditional timing method" section). The word "ses" is linked to the Se page which is a disambiguation page (I think that's what you call it). There is no relevant entry on that page for ses or se (in other words, no link for the timing). I looked for a good link in places like clock mechanisms but couldn't find one. Can somebody correct this link? Thanks.
- Peter, Los Angeles California, 71.116.252.219, 2013feb05-tu 1141am PST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.116.252.219 (talk) 19:41, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be two reference sections - one in the middle of the article?
Also, I think it would be beneficial to try to find some more "professional" pictures for the article, a lot of the current pics look very amateur and give the sport a bad look in my opinion. The small release at the start of the article could be replaced with a picture of a race birds being released from a truck. The scabby pigeons walking on the ground could be replaced with pictures of well trained, healthy birds in race form in a loft. 220.245.57.250 (talk) 01:23, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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