Talk:Fishing lure

Feedback

I am new to the wikipedia community and posted this article. I am just looking to hear some feedback on the article. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danishrolls (talk • contribs) 16:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Never remove text from talk page unless you feel it is a personal attack. If so, contact a third party to mediate. 64.202.146.213 (talk) 03:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Wrong! Anything that isn't considered constructive or productive for WP editing purposes may be removed in whole immediately...especially your trolling.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 04:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Merged Fish decoy into this article

I understand the proposed change and the desire to merge decoys into lures, but there is a distinct difference for those that collect. I know of no class of lures that does not have hooks and lures are traditionally pulled using a fishing reel or the boat when trolling and therefore are forced into active motion to attract fish. A subset of decoys have hooks, but the majority do not. Decoys traditionally are not pulled by reels or boats but are tied to a stationary position and may be moved by the current but attract fish not by motion but by simply being there. Decoys are used predominantly when spearing fish during ice fishing so the method for obtaining the fish is different. I feel that there is enough distinction to warrant a separate page, but would not object to linking the two together. —Preceding comment added by birdfarmer (talk • contribs) 13:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

The main problem Birdfarmer is that you haven't cited the article you wrote on fishing decoys with a single reliable source. Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability, which is a Wikipedia foundation policy, and see if you can cite the article appropriately. (some of the books you listed in the article would be suitable for citations). --Epipelagic (talk) 20:18, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Oppose merge; while I agree that the Fish decoy article hasn't been properly referenced, it does have suitable references listed in the Fish decoy#Reference Books section, and they do seem to be sufficiently distinct and independently notable from lures. Keeping them separate is consistent with WP:MERGEREASON, because "The separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone (but cross-linked) articles". Klbrain (talk) 21:45, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

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