Talk:White panther

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I spent a lot of time creating and maintaining the original "White Panther" article only for someone to decide I had violated MY OWN copyright. I have licensed the material from Messybeast.com for use on Wikipedia and the source page is marked as licensed under the GFDL. Please DON'T delete it! When this sort of thing happens without the deleting party checking it out properly it is very, very discouraging to contributors who have licenced their own work. Messybeast 21:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I have now recreated it from scratch. I don't understand why the original was deleted when the source page states the text is licenced. It makes a mockery of licensing my articles in the first place if no-one bothers to check properly. Messybeast 21:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

White panther & Panther disagree on whether "it is a common misconception that panther meant a melanistic individual" or whether a panther is "any big cat with the condition known as melanism (causing black fur)"

"Black panther" seems to be used colloquially for any black-furred big cat, but "panther" (without the colour adjective) means leopard, puma or jaguar depending on where the speaker originates from. This loose definition of panther means some websites state the panther in Kipling's "Jungle Book" is a puma (geographically impossible as the book is set in India).

In my experience, outside the US, "panther" implies "black panther", meaning a melanistic leopard or jaguar. Only in the US do people refer to Felis (Puma) Concoloras "panther". WorldAsWill (talk) 07:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Page seems to be getting vandalism (albeit juvenile) e.g. "Hi momma" and apparent sexual connotation of white panther in campfire dialect to mean "white panties". While the latter may be a valid definition of white panther, it is out of place on a biology-related page.

It would be worth noting that there is a book by Theodore Waldeck titled The White Panther which not only chronicles the fictitious life of a white panther, but also features a brief foreword in which he discusses legend and "science" surrounding this coloration. (The science is BS, but the book was first published in 1941.) --216.67.15.143 01:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Page was featured on a Chicago sports radio show with reference to the Chicago Bulls player, agree with sprotect at this time until it dies down. --Wgfinley (talk) 20:53, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Noted someone threw the template in but didn't actually protect it, semi-protection on for 24hrs. Guys, I love Dan & Terry too but grow up now. --Wgfinley (talk) 21:05, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. I warned Dan and Terry via text NOT to do that but they immaturely ignored my warning. I tagged the page with sprotect but then reverted more vandalism.... it did not stick, so now protected. Wjmummert (KA-BOOOOM!!!!) 21:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Aaron Grey is not even known by the nickname "White Panther".... if he was, it may have SOME relavence. Wjmummert (KA-BOOOOM!!!!) 21:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, it's still there. His own Wikipedia page contains the same claim...

Introduction

I find the introduction problematic. First, there's this bizarre claim:

"Zoologically speaking, the term panther is synonymous with leopard."

I don't understand what that's supposed to mean. If there's a language for species in the science of zoology, it would surely be binomial nomenclature, agreed? And Panthera is not just Panthera pardus

And then there's this less bizarre but still confusing statement:

"The genus name Panthera is a taxonomic category that contains all the species of a particular group of felids"

A genus is always a taxonomic category that contains all the species that it contains. In fact, the particular group of felid species is the genus, in this case. Please rewrite. WorldAsWill (talk) 07:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)