Talk:English Cocker Spaniel

English Cocker Spaniel Userbox
To celebrate the GA status, I've created my first userbox specifically for English Cocker Spaniel owners:

Feel free to use it where ever you like!

Miyagawa (talk) 12:40, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Update to article
Can someone remind me when the Wikicup is done to come back and overhaul this article. It was the first one I worked up to GA, and when you compare it to even the American Cocker Spaniel article (let alone the King Charles Spaniel article), it's rather lacking and I feel theres a lot the add (the history section is especially poor for such a well known breed). Miyagawa  (talk)  16:32, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Pictures removed


The dog shown on the pictures is very cute, no doubt of that. These picures vere removed only because the composition is very unbalanced and it does not show much of the English Cocker Spaniel dog’s characteristic features, so actually I think you should try to take a better picture to put into the article. Why I think is not a very good picture is because the composition is kind of dislocated, the picture shows the nose of the two dogs and nothing of the breeds other features. The same Editor who took the picture was the same, who also initiated the change, and that would be lobbying for own work and own picture, even if I do understand the creators feelings for liking their own pictures, it’s not a good enough reason. These pictures are not as good pictures as the ones removed, so it was the reason why we remove them time to time, but they keep coming back. The author is putting them back all the time. There is a conflict of interest when promoting one’s own pictures. Even if I do understand the creator’s feelings for liking their own pictures, it’s not a good enough reason. Hafspajen (talk) 20:13, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Edit war
This last picture, please just do not add that back, please. It doesn't not show anything of the English Cocker Spaniel dog’s characteristic features, one can't see the legs, head, eyes, ears, - well, nothing that is heelpful to describe a dog breed, it shows only the back, from above. We can put it maybe into an other article, but not this one. Hafspajen (talk) 04:29, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Move it to Bird's-eye view article. Hafspajen (talk) 04:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Please stop adding pictures that are not up to wikipedia standards, please. One can not jump into an article and replace the leading picture in this random way. There is a conflict of interest when promoting one’s own pictures. We chosed that picture and this one is not at all as good as the lead picture, so leave it alone, please. One can't have a sitting dog in the lead.


 * Please notice that your contributions are disruptive. Removing established good quality pictures and replacing them with your own, much lower to lower quality at English Cocker Spaniel, is not helpfull. Stop doing this, you can't remove an established picture from an article to replace it with a much worse, without discussing this, AND you are edit warring. When you see other editors don't agree with your additions, you must discuss that, but no, you just keep adding the same very bad pictures all the time, even when I explain to you why you should stop doing this and why those pictures are not good enough. And unless you have an extraordinarely wonderful picture that is much much  better that the lead picture - the lead picture stays where it is.


 * Now he is back for about 5th time and removing the lead picture, replace it with some bad quality  picture of his own and refuse to discuss it.  Hafspajen (talk) 05:22, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

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