User talk:Fluffy05

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Livestock guardian dog
Hi Fluffy. Several times you've tried to add the German Shepherd to the list of livestock guardian dogs (LGDs), saying in your edit summaries that they were originally bred to both herd and guard livestock.

Can I suggest that you study the article, which explains that a livestock guardian dog is not just any dog used to guard livestock, but a specific type of dog used in a particular way, living with the stock and mingling with them. LGDs do not herd at all. On the other hand, herding dogs do herd, and all of them also guard the livestock. For the GSD to be included on the list of LGDs, we would need evidence that they were at some time used as LGDs and did not herd as well. The links you gave do not do this, but are entirely consistent with them being simply herding dogs.

If you still think that German Shepherds were ever used as LGDs, please can you start a discussion at Talk:Livestock guardian dog before restoring your edit. Regards, Richard New Forest (talk) 10:13, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

July 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article German Shepherd Dog, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Darkwind (talk) 15:53, 12 July 2011 (UTC)