Talk:Fala (dog)

A fact from Fala (dog) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 May 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets, has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/May.

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There are too many photos in this article. Could we delete a couple of redundant ones? --Sivaraj 16:19, 29 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure of wikipedia guidelines on number of photos, but personally I enjoy them... --Dvyost 1:20, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

If I can make a suggestion, there is a class film of Fala on a beach (Normandy?) with ships landing troops and supplies in the background. There is also a photograph of Fala jumping into the car carrying President Roosevelt for his 1941 inauguration and him being utterly surprised. Either picture would contribute to the article by showing the importance of the dog to the president, without being redundant to the other pictures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.33.125.132 (talk) 05:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mrs Kellog[edit]

The sources say that Fala's donor was Mrs Kellog. If her first name can be found, I have no objection to putting it in - although she would probably not have used it. Simply to remove Mrs. is to distort the record; and has the curious effect, for a burst of feminist enthusiasm, of asserting that Fala, her property, belonged to her husband. Septentrionalis 17:53, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My apology--I kept reading it as "Augusta". Duh. Elf | Talk 21:31, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Language vs dog[edit]

Is a language, even if its spoken by only a few thousand people, really less relevant than FDRs dog? Wouldn't a neutral disambiguation be in order?

Peter ^Isotalo 22:46, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Each has its own article, with an idiomatic name. What's the problem? Why this tiff with "language"? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This has nothing to do with the title of Fala language. I was asking whether this should be a dabpage or not.

Peter ^Isotalo 23:36, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad to see that this is a not a general objection to "language", despite Talk:Chinese written language. But, really, with only two articles, who would be served by a dabpage? That would mean that everyone would have to click to get where they want to be; this way only some readers do. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can say that I was startled to see this here rather than the language. (Also have a passionate hatred of the familiar cannine species, but that's another story.)

Linguistics is one of the few things that Wikipedia does relatively well, which indicates I'm not the only one into linguistics who uses it. And Romance languages especially, have a lot of enthusiasts. (I'm more into Amerindian languages, which are, alas, much less well covered here than IE languages.)

I'd say that if there's going to be a default page it should be the language, which is older than the dog, unlike the mutt, still and around. Even going by what rouses more interest, I'd suspect the language is still more likely to generate hits. Unless there's a way to count hits, in which case there could be a disambig for a or two, to see which gets more. (I can see serveral reasons why the default page would get more, not the least of which is one needs to go there to access the talk page, so it would have to be a disambig to work.) I swear there used to be a little hit counter on the bottom of the page, but I don't see it now. --71.192.117.127 00:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plagerism[edit]

I've removed some text lifted from a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published in 1994. "No Ordinary Time, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II" . 99.151.172.42 (talk) 13:31, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quote using Fala[edit]

Surely one of the most quoted lines from Roosevelt was (given in the Roosevelt accent of course), "I hate war. Eleanor hates war. My dog Fala hates war...." Said in support of "he kept us out of war in his third campaign in 1940. Have less than reliable source but it may still be true! Student7 (talk) 00:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

COI concerns[edit]

I've reverted a deletion by what appears to be a COI account primarily devoted to promoting research by a doctor of the same name; see that user's talk page for details. If uninvolved editors find this deletion to be a useful change to the article, however, please feel free to revert. -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:55, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fala film appearance[edit]

I don't know if the editors want to mention this, but the character of Fala the dog appeared in the film Princess O'Rourke (1943). He was played by a dog named Whiskers.Chandler75 (talk) 19:05, 24 April 2018 (UTC)Chandler75.[reply]

Place of birth?[edit]

I think the place of birth of the dog should be mentioned, if known. According to fdrlibrary, Fala belonged to a lady from Westport, Connecticut. This does not necessarily means that the dog was born there, but still I think it is meant in this way. Does someone know for sure? --KnightMove (talk) 08:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]