Talk:White feather

Notable recipients
I've just added a 'notable receivers' section - which I think would be interesting and informative.Malick78 15:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Removed material
At first I fact-tagged this, but on second thought am removing to here, for anyone to follow up and source it if you can.


 * World War One heroine Katie Archbold took three bullets to save her regiment, and helped fund the White Feather Association in 1987.

BrainyBabe (talk) 08:37, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Carlos Hathcock
suggested edits: silver star wasn't earned for his sniping practices, but for land mine rescue heroism; he was known to north vietnamese forces as Lông Trắng du Kich "whitefeather sniper". and on this page  you can see three newspaper excerpts from 1865, 1917, and 1919 that mention the white feather. 69.121.180.109 (talk) 17:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)Namangwari

The cyrano section
As a french person, I am really confused what this is doing on this page. Historically a "Panache" is a "an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet" (merriam-webster definition). Thus a panache has 0 reason to be white. And then, Cyrano isn't talking about his hat. He is talking about his "dash or flamboyance in style and action" (merriam-webster again). This section is constructed on a misunderstanding of the french original text and should be removed IMO — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:620:600:6000:EC7F:F368:F84:F48D (talk) 14:57, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Sufragettes
I am not an expert, but wouldn't it be good to show how the sufragettes were involved? There is no mention of the white father movement as far as I can see on the sufragette article. And then later it seems to say that the only named sufragettes in the article were not part of the movement. I don't get it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.107.54.171 (talk) 11:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Non-notable(?) example of white feather presentation
Removed the following from article: "During the First World War, Dorothy Clay presented a white feather to a woman in London. This woman's son had been killed in the trenches, and she had just left Buckingham Palace after having been presented with his medal. She turned on Dorothy, and cursed her high and low. This affected Dorothy's mind, and she was in and out of institutions ever thereafter." as it seemed both non-notable and vague: The recipient is not named (in comparison to the other examples listed, where recipients are named, and all have WP articles) and the donor, although named, does not appear to be notable. In addition, the source seems to be a self-published family history blog, with that work being reproduced verbatim in the WP article. If I have misunderstood, another editor can re-introduce the passage, but hopefully with some explanation of why it is of importance to the article, and with a better source. 180.216.180.68 (talk) 11:24, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Incorrect info
This is incorrect. A yellow feather was given for cowardice. The term yellow belly, also meaning coward, was also British. 2001:8004:5100:1910:447:BA52:2CAB:A46E (talk) 07:11, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect classification of "Birds of a Feather"
The novel "Birds of a Feather" is not a children's novel. It is a work of historical fiction/mystery in the Maisie Dobbs series for adult readers. 2600:1700:95B0:38D0:6024:7BA3:B086:68B1 (talk) 05:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect info
Corrected mistake about female conscription. Article previously suggested females were conscripted "Although the draft would conscript both sexes, only males would be on the front lines". The source for this was a non-literal description of female contribution to the war effort through factory labour.

Source on male exclusivity behind the draft of 1916: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1916/104/contents/enacted ("Every male British subject who-...", etc.)

Kylecrafts (talk) 13:25, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

So this is hazing right?
Any source that comes to this conclusion? Should hazing be added under see also?

It literally meets the definition of hazing on Hazing.. "any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of a person's willingness to participate" Ybllaw (talk) 11:38, 13 July 2024 (UTC)