Talk:Polecat

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The European Polecat, or Mustela Putorious is believed to be the wild ancestor of the domesticated ferret, or Mustela Putorious Forro.

I recently removed the Civet because I couldn't find the disambiguated term on the page being linked to. Was I wrong? I don't know and neither does Wikipedia how they how they're called around the world. If you know anywhere that they call civets "polecats", please let us know. Oh, and also, if you can properly cite that fact, please add that information to that article civet and after doing so this navigation page. Thanks for your support of this great project. Chrisrus (talk) 03:22, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 September 2020 and 18 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Igillies12.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 06:49, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Lineman?
"Lineman (occupation), sometimes colloquially referred to as a "polecat" due to common activity of climbing utility poles" This may or may not be true, but the term doesn't appear on that page at all. If it's not of sufficient significance, and indeed verifiability, to merit that, its inclusion here seems extremely dubious. 84.203.36.42 (talk) 03:40, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation?
I was surprised to receive a message after linking to this page indicating I was linking to a disambiguation article. But I see at the bottom there is some disambiguation regarding other uses of the word polecat, though the main body of the article refers to the animal. So it seems this should be split into two articles, a disambiguation article and one regarding the animals. Gr8white (talk) 14:27, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have encountered the same problem but I do not know how to fix it.__DrChrissy (talk) 17:07, 9 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Done. I split the hybrid into two pages, one normal article about the animal and Polecat (disambiguation), about the other stuff. No such user (talk) 14:35, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Who is Tony?
The article mentions that "The largest polecat in the UK is Tony." without any context. This seems to be a bit of vague non sequitur... 131.104.16.145 (talk) 03:01, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

scientific classification
I cannot see the scientific classification of the polecat on the side clearly in the way other wikipedia pages do. 90.243.218.244 (talk) 07:04, 9 March 2024 (UTC)