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Slight problem with article pages. Racing pigeon redirects here. There is also a page called Racing Homer. My dilema is that a Racing Pigeon is a homing pigeon, but a homing pigeon is not necessarily a racing pigeon. I'd like to change the Redirect at "Racing Pigeon" so it redirects to Racing Homer as I'm confident these will eventually become two different articles. The Racing Homer page is definately in need of work. If you are knowledgable on Racing pigeons then go there rather than adding racing related info here. Thoughts anyone? Sting au 11:23, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I changed the Redirect. Two months with no opposition to my suggestion was good enough for me. Racing pigeon now Redirects to Racing Homer. Sting au 01:32, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The bit about Taliban seems shady, and the site seems a little bias. I'm removing it. H6a6t6e (talk) 14:34, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted your edit because you also changed the history section without consensus here. Please discuss before changing sections like that. Sting_au Talk 00:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The site does not explain, how - since the homing pigeons are bred to find their own home and so can only travel one way - do they get in the hands of the sender in the first place who, presumably, is a long way from their original home to which they are travelling?

81.109.213.88 (talk) 20:58, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They are transported to their release point using trucks, cars, trains, boats or whatever form of transport is deemed necessary. I'll take a look at the article and see what I can add.--Sting Buzz Me... 00:28, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does wikipedia really allow novels to be sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.187.52 (talk) 02:29, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Overlap with other pages

This page has substantial overlap with that on carrier pigeons and pigeon post (to name but two). These should be merged.

History Section

The history section has now been improved so it is no longer "gay", as a previous commentator complained. Removed questionable info

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.104.231 (talk) 20:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I always heard that the European white variety of the homing pigeon was pushed to near extinction during the first world war. It was attributed to the fact that almost every soldier (both sides) shot almost every pigeon on sight due to the fact that it might be carrying and enemy message. I don't have a reference on this however.<questionable> It seems it was the American variety that went extinct. I'm not sure that makes sense to me. Passenger Pigeon Shows what I know.--68.62.173.220 (talk) 15:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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-The history section has now been improved so it is no longer "gay", as a previous commentator complained. There is still, however, some questionable and irrelevant content in there.
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 :I always heard that the European white variety of the homing pigeon was pushed to near extinction during the first world war.  It was attributed to the fact that almost every soldier (both sides) shot almost every pigeon on sight due to the fact that it might be carrying and enemy message.  I don't have a reference on this however.<[http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/homing+pigeon questionable]>  It seems it was the American variety that went extinct.  I'm not sure that makes sense to me.  [[Passenger Pigeon]] Shows what I know.--[[Special:Contributions/68.62.173.220|68.62.173.220]] ([[User talk:68.62.173.220|talk]]) 15:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)