Talk:wild animal

RFD discussion: August–December 2018
wild + animal? Per utramque cavernam 11:37, 22 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete, --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:35, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. The translations are also SOP or ellipses. Fay Freak (talk) 18:47, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Sum of parts. Delete. ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 00:29, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep as a translation target. There are a lot of translations there that are monomorphemic. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 03:42, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per WT:THUB. Thanks to Metaknowledge for pointing that out. The cases: Latin fera, Portuguese fera, Spanish fiera. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:14, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

See also Requests_for_deletion/Non-English. Per utramque cavernam 10:28, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Leaning keep. An animal that is docile in behavior, but of an untamed species, is still a "wild animal"; an animal that is crazed and uncontrolled in behavior, but of a domesticated species is not a "wild animal", but can be referred to as having "behaved like a wild animal". I think there is also some inherent narrowing of the sense of "animal". Biologically, worms, insects, fish, and birds are all "animals", but I don't think these are generally referred to as "wild animals". bd2412 T 22:33, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep I added this sense: "an animal, usually a mammalian predator, that is not the product of selective breeding", does that sound ok? Alexis Jazz (talk) 01:22, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I think some key characteristics would be that it is one of the larger terrestrial land animals, and is potentially dangerous to humans. A crocodile or an ostrich (neither one mammalian) would fit the bill, as would a zebra or a hippopotamus or a moose (none of them predators). bd2412 T 05:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Agreed. And I would simply say "that has not been domesticated," rather than "that is not the product of selective breeding." Andrew Sheedy (talk) 15:15, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per bd2412. Full definition, not just a translation target. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 15:15, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * RFD kept: no consensus for deletion. I count 4 pro-deletion posts and 4.5 pro-keeping posts. Multiple months have elapsed. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:19, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

RFD discussion: October 2020–March 2021
Delete sense 3: "an animal, usually one of the larger terrestrial land animals, that has not been domesticated and is potentially dangerous to humans". It's an overly specific version of sense 1, out of another  that looks like it was added to save this entry from RFD. PUC – 13:30, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, and change sense 1 to &lit. —Mahāgaja · talk 11:47, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Imetsia (talk) 12:46, 28 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep per previous RFD (and don't revisit this is another two years!). I think it is a relevant distinction that mostly applies to animals; you could in theory add another sense to wild and convey the distinction through qualifiers and usage notes — perhaps that ought to be done anyway, but I think the result would be an unclear presentation. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:01, 17 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. No specific meaning, is context dependent. "We saw a few wild animals on our bike ride through the city." (Probably rabbits, deer). "Attacks by wild animals in Zaire are now rare." (Probably larger animals with little fear of humans). And the picture dictionary is very biased towards human-sized or larger animals. No mice, rabbits, racoons, etc. Facts707 (talk) 14:42, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 08:43, 7 March 2021 (UTC)