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I am unclear on what this means. Is this a British phrase? I think it needs to be clarified for other readers. Also, does anyone have a particular interest in this breed of cat? The article could sure use some work as a whole. Bali88 (talk) 02:36, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
The pictured cat is decidedly not a black cat. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 12 Adar 5775 19:34, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
A carefully constructed Google search for variant spellings ("white ringtail", etc.) finds nothing reliable, just people's YouTube videos, blog sites, etc. From what I can tell, some Germans call this breed the Armenischen Ringelschwanzkatze ('Armenian ring-tail-cat'), but that's irrelevant to en.Wikipedia. We have no reliable source for such a name in English. I removed this alleged alternative name a few weeks ago, and this is why; just forgot to annotate this here. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 02:14, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Someone(s) – I'm not going to dig through history to lay blame – has sorely, terribly confused the Turkish Van breed and the Van cat landrace. These are separate articles for a reason. Even some ostensibly "reliable" sources confuse them (mostly tertiary sources, like low-end "cat encyclopedias" and breeder-written and breeder-promotional fancier magazines). I've fixed the lead to stop making this confusion, and separated the History material into two subsections.
However, I think the History subsection about the Van cat should simply be deleted as off-topic. There is zero evidence whatsoever that any of the foundation stock of the Turkish Van breed were Van cats from the Lake Van area. All of the known stock were in fact known to not be from there. The attempt to conflate Van cat and Turkish Van is pure original research and is doing our readers a serious disservice.
PS: Any tidbits of sourced info in the Van cat subsection here that are not in the Van cat article should be merged in. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 07:36, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
stop deleting Momo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.205.229.24 (talk) 20:36, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Kindly explain what is wrong with the picture of Momo the cat? Would another picture of him be tolerable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.205.229.24 (talk • contribs) 20:41, 9 November 2023 (UTC)