Talk:2011 Ohio exotic animal release

Proposed name change
I propose that we change the article name to 2011 Ohio Mass Exotic Animal Escape and Killing. Heavenlyblue (talk) 02:22, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I think its kind of a mouthful. How about we condense it to 2011 Ohio Exotic Animal Escape? yonnie (talk) 02:38, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Misleading title of article
I think that the use of the word "escape" is misleading. It implies (actually, it explicitly states) that the animals escaped from the compound. In fact, they were set free and, thus, simply walked away. "Escape" implies that the animals forcefully extracted themselves from the confines. Can we think of a better title? Thanks! (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 15:02, 20 October 2011 (UTC))


 * Mass release?  (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 15:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC))


 * I went ahead and changed "escape" to "release". I also removed the word "mass", which seems redundant.  The title wouldn't include the general term "exotic animal" if there weren't many individuals.  --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 19:17, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks! That's much better, I think.  Thank you.   (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 17:59, 21 October 2011 (UTC))


 * Agreed.   Heavenlyblue (talk) 23:03, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Numbers
As more information comes in, these numbers will need to be reviewed and corrected. Heavenlyblue (talk) 02:32, 20 October 2011 (UTC) Since verifiability is so important to this site there are many things that need fixed. No proof that it was suicide and no proof that Terry Thompson was the person that released the animals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.230.203.254 (talk) 14:55, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Title
Is it really proper to call this the Ohio 'exotic animal release' when there is no such thing as an exotic animal release? The phrase is acceptable, I guess, but its place it the title implies that a 'mass animal release' is an actual kind of event, like a war or uprising or disaster.theBOBbobato (talk) 16:20, 22 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree. It's not the greatest title (something about it just doesn't seem "quite right".)  But, I am at a loss as to how to improve it.  Any suggestions?   (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 19:06, 22 October 2011 (UTC))


 * how about the Ohio Exotic Animal Escape, or the Ohio Scary Safari.Millertime246 (talk) 00:50, 23 October 2011 (UTC)


 * There was a brief discussion (above, under a separate heading) about the term "escape" not really being appropriate and that "release" seemed to be a better fit for this situation.  Thanks.   (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 14:43, 23 October 2011 (UTC))


 * Yes release is a better term for what happened, since the guy did "release" them before shooting himself.P0PP4B34R732 (talk) 02:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Questioned presence of Bengal tigers
For what it's worth, according to this Esquire article there were no bengal tigers present on the farm:


 * Contrary to later media reports, the tigers on the Thompson farm were not rare Bengal tigers. They were mixed breeds, the tiger equivalent of mutts.

I can find multiple reports of the on-scene officers reporting Bengal tigers, but this is all obviously from eyeballing of the scene by people who are not vetrinarians. For example, it could be very easy to mistake a Pitt Bull mutt for a pure bred Pitt Bull. Tvon (talk) 00:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Merging
Could we just merge this with Muskingum County Animal Farm? It seems that many thought there was potential for this article, but no one has expand this article since the event or the deletion discussion. Both articles are stubs, so it is better to merge them.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:40, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Considering the votes for Keep, this should have been at least B-class by now, but nothing substantive has been added since October (refinements in animal numbers and 2 new citations were added in February, but this did not substantively expand the article). I voted originally to Merge, and predicted that this this would never be more than a stub, and almost 9 months later nobody has proven me wrong. I think we could create one start-class article out of two stubs, and that the resulting article will never grow much beyond that. I would be happy to be proven wrong. Don Lammers (talk) 23:17, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You are right. The danger has passed for pro-keep users and they have no drive to expand it.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:13, 17 August 2013 (UTC)