Talk:Laika

Further Reading Section

Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog by Kurt Caswell ISBN: 9781595348623

laika (song) by will wagner

in legacy, the song "Laika" by Will Wagner should be added under pop culture. Alex.does.not.exist (talk) 22:09, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Pop culture addition: Space Dandy

Referenced and depicted in the anime Space Dandy, season one episode eight "the lonely pooch planet, baby" 184.15.19.202 (talk) 14:19, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2022

To the Legacy section of the page could you consider adding the references to Laika on The Divine Comedy record Absent Friends? A verse is dedicated in the song 'Absent Friends' and by an instrumental track on the same album 'Laika's Theme. Paganface (talk) 08:47, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. You would need to provide secondary sources discussing this to show that it is noteworthy. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:27, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Here is the song in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc6y0BnPbDA

the lyrics about Laika are:

Laika flew through inky blue

' Til Laika neared the atmosphere and Laika knew

Laika's life was through

Which were sourced by listening to the song, and from this page:

https://genius.com/The-divine-comedy-absent-friends-lyrics 8aranalta (talk) 07:26, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Citation perhaps? (End of paragraph 3)

This line specifically:

[...]as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanized before oxygen depletion.

Does this need a citation? It seems like it would be helpful to offer a source for this government claim because any Russian archive for that sort of thing might be in Russian, so some sort of link to a place where people can learn about the claims/intentions made by the USSR's government would be helpful for English users.
--PlatypusPlatypi (talk) 03:25, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Duplicate sentence in “In Popular Culture”

Laika, a 2007 graphic novel by Nick Abadzis giving a fictionalized account of Laika's life, won the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens.[33] The book is "Laika" by Nick Abadzis.

The second sentence repeats information from the first and should be deleted. 2400:56A0:100:B2BC:5422:4B47:1F7:840 (talk) 23:53, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Addition to the Pop Culture section

the 2009 film "Space Buddies" has the characters meet an astronaut dog living alone on a spaceship. Playing by Jason Earles, the character is named Spudnick and has a Russian accent. he lives with a cosmonaut who is happy to continue living in space but wants to return home. It's been a while since I watched the film, but the character is most certainly in some reference or inspiration to the Russian space dogs. at the end of the movie, Spudnick can return to earth and reunite with his original owner. Three.cats.in.a.trenchcoat (talk) 21:00, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

You know, I'm a stickler about adding to those type (IPC/COVERSONG) of sections, because I've found most are non-notable trivia, however, I would have any objection to adding this to IPC providing a reliable source is included. - FlightTime (open channel) 21:11, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2022

I would like too add some more information about Laika 173.13.162.241 (talk) 18:22, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: requests for decreases to the page protection level should be directed to the protecting admin or to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection if the protecting admin is not active or has declined the request. - FlightTime (open channel) 18:38, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2022 (2)

Addition to "In Popular Culture": The American stop-motion animation studio Laika (stylized as LAIKA) rebranded from Will Vinton Studios to be named after the dog in July 2005.

Source: https://www.animationmagazine.net/2015/12/laika-reflects-on-10-innovative-years/ This is used on Laika (company)'s own Wikipedia page. Orangehalves (talk) 19:13, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: The section tends to focus on references to Laika in media (e.g film, animation, novels, etc). —Sirdog (talk) 03:18, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Space dog

Bdbd BBC xvddcdf 2603:6011:400:7C7C:8562:C939:AC63:49DB (talk) 12:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Conflicting information in "Training" section

The first sentence of the first paragraph in the "Training" section states that, Laika was found as a stray wandering the streets of Moscow a week before the launch.

However, the first sentence of the third paragraph in the same section states that, To adapt the dogs to the confines of the tiny cabin of Sputnik 2, they were kept in progressively smaller cages for periods of up to twenty days.

If Laika was found a week before the launch, how could she have been trained for periods for up to twenty days? Which is it? HoneyGlazedHams (talk) 19:07, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

The claim that Laika was found a week before the flight is not made in the article that is linked.

On 4 Nov 22 user Piledhigheranddeeper added a "when" tag to the line about Laika being found on the streets of Moscow.

Then on 12 Nov 22 user DrKay added the claim that Laika was found one week prior and provided the citation. I've read it three times now and I'm sure it doesn't say Laika was found just one week prior. I can't even find something that I can see being misunderstood to mean that.

How and why it happened, point is, the claim isn't supported by the given citation. I think it should be removed.

I'm also not sure that the linked document is an acceptable source. Apparently it was the second article on a series written "commemorating the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the space age" and the first article was in the October 1997 edition of "SpaceViews". Contextually that would seem to be a magazine but I can't find the original online with a cursory search. Is a magazine article reproduced on someone's personal website with (that I can find at least) no provenance (and a plethora of broken links) an accepted source? I genuinely haven't the slightest clue. Either way, it doesn't make the claim it's cited for. 118.211.98.87 (talk) 11:16, 13 January 2023 (UTC)