Talk:Fur people

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Do they wear fur, or are they made out of fur?--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 17:07, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Stupid question indeed, if you permit me to quote your edit summary. Especially if you look at the pronunciation given. — mark ✎ 23:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

But still don't we need a top-disambiguation to the furry subculture? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 13:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Fur Diaspora article

I'm putting this here as it doesn't look as though many people read Fur Diaspora... but that article looks very lost out there on its own, and I wondered whether it would be better to merge it either here or with Darfur conflict? The Diaspora article also suffers very badly from POV, to the extent that it may need to be rewritten from scratch even if it stays. Could those with the requisite knowledge of the subject comment, please? Loganberry (Talk) 01:33, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I just performed the merger. I saw no reaction to Loganberry's post and thought it would be noncontroversial. If that is incorrect, we can easily reverse the move, discuss or make other changes. The one-paragraph article was poorly written and overlapped almost entirely with what is here already.Noroton 03:28, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Improvements needed

Article is very Western-centric. Saying things like they "marry at a normal age" is very confusing to those who don't know what "normal" age is to the person writing this. I replaced that with late teens to early twenties, but I wasn't sure if that was a "normal" age. Other places had similar writing and seemed very Western oriented.

The tone of this article seems less like a detached observer and more like an advocate of their culture, and it appears this has led to peacock words and phrases such as Sudan being "famous" for it's coffee, and certain people being "renown" or "great warriors". I've tried to remove some of the excessive descriptors, but more work needs to be done to address the clear pro-Fur stance the writing of this article takes and the views it presents.

Much of this article doesn't follow the Manuel of Style or grammar at certain points. Many places used tabs or spaces to start off the paragraphs. Redundant or irrelevant language is sometimes used, and things are routinely compared to the west. Occasionally the article reads like a story book or a teachers explanation to a child. I have eliminated some of this and most of the really out of place things(recipees for the reader to try o_O, self referencing the article, writing in all caps, etc), but a lot of work still needs to be done, and should probably continue once more info is gathered.

At times it also feels like an opinion of a source is incorrectly being presented as fact.

This article could really use more attention considering the subject matter and the condition it is in. Mostly it needs more sources to provide it a backbone.
Any help is appreciated.AerobicFox (talk) 06:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

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