Talk:Gun-powered mousetrap

December of Ouch???
The second line of the Design section states the device was patented on the "December of Ouch"???? What up?? Dr.gregory.retzlaff (talk) 11:29, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

This IS the topic's talk page
The admonition above to NOT post to "this page" makes no sense as it further states that "Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page such as...the article's talk page". But this page IS the article's discussion page.Tmangray (talk) 17:46, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Unsure if your comment is meant to be humorous. If not, the talk page template you refer to is used on over 660,000 talk page articles to give an explanation of what a talk page's purpose is. The talk header indicates that a talk page is to be used only for discussing edits and suggestions with regards to the article, not to discuss the article's subject. For example, an appropriate talk page discussion would be with regards to whether this article should have an infobox. An inappropriate talk page discussion would be questioning the merits and efficacy of a gun-powered mousetrap. Ping me if you have further questions. ~ Pbritti (talk) 18:58, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Tmangray is not being humorous. He's referring to the boilerplate in the DYK nomination template, which is transcluded above and is indeed confusing. By "this page" it means itself, not this talk page. EEng 21:50, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Looking at Tmangray's edits, it's no wonder they never knew what this was despite editing so much for so long: their edits have almost exclusively been main space. Making it this long without encountering a transcluded DYK talk template almost deserves an award for being such a diligent and single-minded (in the best way) editor on the front-facing of the project. Tmangray, if you still have questions, the note you're seeing is copied in full from Template:Did you know nominations/Gun powered mousetrap, including the offending warning. ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:07, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Notability?
I don't see the coverage existing for a stand-alone article. It gets a few paragraphs in a few click-baity articles that I just don't see establishing stand-alone notability. Most of the substantive discussion seems to come from the patent itself, also not indicative of notability. I can't see why this article couldn't/shouldn't just be merged into Mousetrap. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:48, 11 December 2022 (UTC)