Talk:K9

Propose restructuring
This is a silly use of the concept of disambiguation pages. In this case there is one overwhelming use of the word and several other minor uses which are totally based on the major usage. I vote to kill this disambiguation page, have an article about K-9's and disambiguate the minor uses of the term - either linking them within the text of the article or and/or listing them at the end of the K-9 article. --maveric149


 * Actually, the first thing I think of when I hear "K-9" is the robot dog from Doctor Who, and I'm Canadian so the American and BBC-centric versions of the term get to vie fairly evenly in my cultural consciousness. I doubt that all the other uses of the term "K-9" are derived from one specific source, either, since the pun is pretty obvious. I think it's less clear which is the "major use" of the term than you make it out to be. Bryan Derksen
 * If that is the case, then an interesting article could be written on the different uses of this term -- other more detailed uses could be disambiguated from here. --maveric149
 * Probably. And if it expanded to more than just a disambiguation article, then it would be quite proper to remove it from the disambiguation page. I just labelled it as such because it currently is a disambiguation page, albeit one without specific links leading out of it, and because I came across it in the Orphans page so it didn't fit anywhere else into Wikipedia's structure. I don't know anything significant about two of the three meanings listed, so there wasn't much else I could do with it at the time. Bryan Derksen
 * Coolness. I'll this on my todo list and maybe get around to it in a month or two -- there is just so dang much to do around here. --maveric149

Requested move
K-9 → K9 – on the model of most other letter-number combination dis-ambiguation pages. Georgia guy 15:45, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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 * Support Gdr 09:40, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 17:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Term origination
I've deleted "The term originated in the military, where designations such as G2 are common." I think this is incorrect, and it's uncited

To the contrary, see, for example
 * Punch, Volumes 46-47, Various authors, 1864 ("THE RIGHT CONSTABLE IN THE RIGHT PLACE. -- Policeman K 9 (Canine) at the Islington Dog Show."), and
 * Hallberger's illustrated magazine, Volume 1, E. Halliberger, 1876 ("Spelling Bees would be amused at the various ways of rendering 'Canine Castle,' such as 'K-nine Castle,' and, better still, 'K. 9. Castle'"),
 * Mr. Fox's Pinch for Pride, Frances Clark, 1887 ("This blunt and honest creature's name was 'Bob;' on his collar was K. 9.") travisl (talk) 18:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)