Talk:Meatball (bear)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Kingsif talk 22:22, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that in 2013, a Twitter user and an animal sanctuary became involved in a copyright dispute over a meatball?
• ALT1 ... that in 2013, a Twitter user and an animal sanctuary became involved in a copyright dispute over a bear named Meatball?

• Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sanctuary-fights-with-meatball-naming-rights-20131111-story.html

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  • Comment: submitting as an April Fool's Day DYK

Created by Gb321 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Gb321 (talk) 15:58, 2 June 2025 (UTC).

• I shall review this. Storye book (talk) 16:25, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Thank you for this interesting article about a bear's behaviour, and about copyright. That tells us a lot about our civilisation, doesn't it. I don't know whether admin can keep the article until April Fool's Day 2026, but that is not up to me. The hook would be fine on any other day, anyway, if admin decides not to use it that way. Meanwhile, I like the article, and as far as I am concerned, it is good to go, whenever.

• Just in case there is hassle about the hook being too April-Fool-ish for regular use, how about adding an ALT1, saying something like "... that in 2013, a Twitter user and an animal sanctuary became involved in a copyright dispute over a bear named Meatball?" Storye book (talk)
  • ALT1 added Gb321 (talk) 16:47, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

• Confirming green tick. Thank you, Gb321. Hopefully, there should be no problem now, whatever is decided about the DYK date. Storye book (talk) 16:57, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

You can't copyright an animal

What is the actual intellectual property claim being asserted by the zoo, given that it cannot be copyright no matter what the reporter for the U-T may have written? 207.180.169.36 (talk) 03:47, 6 July 2025 (UTC)