Talk:Missing-children milk carton

Requested move 25 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) --  Dane talk  01:19, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Photo on a milk carton → Milk carton kids – A photo on a milk carton is, well, just a photo on a milk carton. The missing-children campaign using milk cartons was something else entirely. "Milk carton kids" seems to be the only thing approaching a WP:COMMONNAME for the phenomenon; see for example Media and Crime in the U.S.: "While the 'milk carton kids' campaign proved only marginally successful in helping to locate missing children..." as well as the 99% Invisible podcast "Milk Carton Kids", which was re-published by WNYC and WBEZ. Sangdeboeuf (talk) —22:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Other options include Milk carton campaign and Milk carton program. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Or Milk carton kid, per WP:SINGULAR. I don't know that this needs to be treated as a collective noun. Dekimasu よ! 18:08, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support. The topic definitely concerns children and definitely not the now more common picture of a cow. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:09, 25 May 2018 (UTC).
 * Support per the above. In my own words: the present name isn't something anyone likely to search for, and it fails WP:PRECISE.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:29, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support Per above.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 13:46, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, in principle but... I'm kind of WP:ASTONISHED that the official name for this program Missing Children Milk Carton Program isn't used nor any mention of the National Child Safety Council that organized it. This program is what most people would associate this topic with, and the prior small-scale efforts might be best presented as History/Background to the national program. -- Netoholic @ 04:12, 28 May 2018 (UTC)  Added: I can support a move, but would greatly prefer it to to be well-known name for the program rather than the less formal/common alternatives presented. -- Netoholic @  03:46, 29 May 2018 (UTC)


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Early statements makes 1997 data irrelevant
The article (History) references stories from the mid 1980's and concludes that an already decline in the 1990's met the introduction of AMBER alert in 1996. This renders the arguments of representation (Criticism) pointless as they explicitly use data from 1997. Remove, replace - or reformulate.

Arcsoda (talk) 18:55, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Image possibility
I suppose a clipart-like image of a milk carton with Missing Child fictional example would be a good way to illustrate the idea of a missing-children milk carton. This proposed image shouldn't need to use copyrighted property but still represent the subject accurately. Qwertyxp2000 (talk &#124; contribs) 02:10, 4 July 2023 (UTC)