Talk:Sarbi

A fact from Sarbi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 November 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when Sabi (pictured), the Australian Special Forces detection dog, was found after 14 months missing in action in Afghanistan, a journalist joked that she may have been on a spying mission?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/November.

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Is this dog really all that notable? Though it isn't a biography of a living "person", it still falls under WP:ONEEVENT. Thoughts? -M.Nelson (talk) 01:55, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(creator) ONEEVENT is indeed irrelevant, it only applies to people for a very good reasons, it cannot be transferred to dogs because they can not be harmed by having a Wikipedia article. The necessary bar for inclusion for this article is general notability and probably not news, that's about it. We have no special policies for biographical articles on dogs, at least I hope we don't. I think general notability is well established here. The global coverage of the main story, plus a comment from the Prime Minister, combined with the examples of follow up interest beyond the initial story by the media, all signify that the article has also gone past the classification of routine news coverage which we would normally disallow. MickMacNee (talk) 02:59, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, BLP doesn't apply to dogs. I have concerns about whether this article passes the WP:NOT#NEWS test, but I think that the level of coverage gets her across the line. The fact that a very good quality article has been written on the topic is, by itself ,an indication that the dog has received sufficient coverage. Nick-D (talk) 07:35, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Accuracy of some of the content

This discussion has been blanked and deleted from the page history to preserve the privacy of its participants, see Ticket:2010020110009949. Sandstein 07:12, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Name

The name of the dog is not quite accurate when it is written as "Sabi". Accd to the Australian Defence department, the name is actually "Sarbi", but was mis-used as Sabi in public reporting. On 12 November 2009, they corrected that error with an article at this location: http://www.defence.gov.au/opEx/global/opslipper/images/gallery/2009/1112/index.htm "Explosive Detection Dog *Sarbi Returns". A simple footnote may suffice, or a brief one sentence description.

Kbmertz (talk) 19:46, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The correct spelling of her name is Sarbi as shown on the Australian Government Department of Defence web page. http://www.defence.gov.au/sarbi/index.htm There is a small note at the bottom of the page explaining the correction.

Dave 11 Aug 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.133.10 (talk) 11:07, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've just corrected the name in the article. Do you want to add a section to the article about the initial mistake with her name? Nick-D (talk) 11:24, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps a note on the Australian accent's difficuly with the "r" sound as the probable cause of the confusion would be good too? :) - BilCat (talk) 12:02, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't expecting someone who speaks Southern American English to ever mock my accent ;) (though judging from my recent trip to the US, you probably wouldn't be able to understand a word I said - but would be very polite about it!). Nick-D (talk) 10:57, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Got alot of "Y'all ain't from aroun he'uh, are yuh?" did you? Actully, I'm multi-dialectal (and rhotic), though I do speak slowly. :) - BilCat (talk) 18:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]