Talk:Down Under rat

Deletion
This article seems to be advertising a commercial breed. After 10 months with the unreferenced tag it still cites no references and doesn't seem to be in any way noteworthy.Ethel Aardvark (talk) 04:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Additional information has been added but I'm still not seeing any third party references to suggest this subject is noteworthy. All we have is a link to someone's personal webpage, that is not a third party source.

Has this breed ever been recognised by an official society or mentioned in a newspaper or other source that wasn't a paid advertisement? All that Google returns are personal webpages, pages from the firms that breed and make money selling this variety and links to various versions of this Wiki page.

Does this breed have any official standing? Is it accepted by anyone aside from the people trying to make money selling it? Is it noteworthy in any way at all or is this page just an advertisement for a commercial product?Ethel Aardvark (talk) 00:18, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * actually yes, this is a recognized marking, the National Fancy Rat Society, for one, includes in their standards at this pdf. However, the info here can likely be merged over at Fancy rat until such time there is more. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 19:44, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * i've rewritten the article, giving better sources. Because there is some documented history i've decided to let it sit on it's own as a stub. -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 04:47, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand why there is a page for a single rat marking out of literally dozens – there should be a page for all rat markings, and this one should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.221.202 (talk) 16:47, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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