Talk:Mikan (cat)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 talk 19:05, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

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• Mikan (cat)
• Longjiaosun
• Ciaotou Sugar Refinery metro station
• Jiji railway station
• Jiji line
• Nantou County

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Station master Mikan

• ... that Mikan (pictured), the cat station master of Ciaotou Sugar Refinery metro station, visited the Jiji line in Nantou County for the appointment of Longjiaosun as cat station master of Jiji railway station? Source: , relevant quote appears right in the top caption, "集集貓站長「龍蕉Sun」（右）就任，並與高捷貓站長「蜜柑」（左)".
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Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 6. Nominator has 66 past nominations.

CMD (talk) 19:46, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

• Alright, let's do this!
• Hook: verified in source, present in both Mikan and Longjiasun articles, cited to a reliable source (The Liberty Times), and is, above all, interesting. Cats!
• QPQs done
• Mikan (cat)
  • Moved to mainspace 20 September, within a week of the nom
  • Long enough
  • NPOV, source-text integrity, and copyright spotcheck came back clean (though I do think the easter-egg link to 黃阿瑪的後宮生活 should be tweaked)
  • Well sourced to a variety of newspapers, nothing contentious or poorly sourced jumps out. NDTV, the English language source, was acquired by a company with close ties to the BJP fairly recently but RSN hasn't come to a consensus and the statement it's cited for (history of station cat trend) should be fine.
  • Hook is in article
• Ciaotou Sugar Refinery metro station
  • Expanded 5x on September 20
  • Long enough
  • overall, well sourced, mostly to newspapers and Kaohsiung Metro website (ABOUTSELF, boarding numbers and general station plans) should be fine).
    • PeoPo is a citizen journalism site; anything about Wu Fengwen that makes them a SME? *
  • Copyright, source-text integrity, and NPOV spotcheck came back clean
  • Mikan is in the article!
• Jiji line
  • Expanded 5x on September 23
  • Long enough
  • Sourced to newspapers, Taiwan Panorama and other government sources (no facts sourced to those seem overly contentious, I might trim out the bit about how the line "spur[red] the development of the forestry sector" or provide in-text attribution, given that the magazine is a government source meant to promote tourism, but all other facts are either attributed or "X thing happened on Y date". Similarly, I'd personally cut or more obviously attribute stuff like "Much of the line's appeal comes from the attractiveness of its surrounding area", but this is a DYK review, not a GA review, and I think this is at presentable levels of sourcing.)
    • Would like to see the CN tag cleaned up - the train model specifically was added by a school IP in 2018, the the current source seems to support the older, more broader version of diesel passenger trains.
  • Copyright, NPOV, and source-text integrity compliance spotchecks all came back OK otherwise
• Nantou County
  • Long enough, 5x expanded on September 26 according to DYK check
  • Spotcheck came back clear for copyright and source-text integrity. OKAY, actually, I've got one question on the NPOV front- the lead mentions the industrialization that happened during Japanese occupation, but how do you feel about adding a mention of the supersession of local culture and customs/human rights abuses/forced relocations? The body and sources mention it, and, well, that's had a documented impact on the area that goes hand in hand with the modernization.
  • Sources seem fine, mostly journals and books
• Longjiaosun (other cat)
  • Aww, he retired
  • Created September 20
  • Long enough
  • Sourced entirely to newspapers, presentable
  • NPOV, source-text integrity, and copyright checks came back clean
  • Hook present in this article as well
• Jiji railway station
  • 5x expanded on September 22
  • Long enough
  • Sources seem okay, only section missing an in-text citation is "Contactless smart card fare gates were installed at this station on 30 June 2015.", which should get sourced
  • NPOV, source-text integrity, and copyvio spotchecks came back clean

Image is compatibly licensed, uploaded by an official Tawainese account on Flickr, clear at mainpage size and cute. (The most important criteria, I reckon)

Only thing that I think might bother people is that sources like put station master in scare quotes; then again, the hook says "cat station master" which I think sufficiently conveys that this is more of an honorary purr-sistion than a serious job.

So yeah, nice going CMD! LMK when you've responded to the couple points I've made above. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋 22:35, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi GreenLipstickLesbian, Cats! Longjiaosun did not retire, he was fired with two weeks notice. Responding to other points:

• On station master, my general impression from poking around is that sources generally don't use scare quotes, see eg. this BBC coverage of the much more well-known Tama. That article uses cat as a clarifying adjective in its title (but not body) the same way (it says station master cat instead of cat station master, but I suspect the meaning is the same). Be glad, if this is a concern, that I did not include the sourced information than Mikan went through new employee training.
• Fumeancat sentence made more explicit and a new source added which has more photos of the cartoon cats.
• PeoPo replaced.
• New source and some additional information added regarding forestry, including an ill link (was a redlink on the Nantou County article but I've discovered a zh.wiki article on him). I'm not really seeing how this affects government interest much, but hopefully the new source and its inclusion of information of the previous push car system assuages further.
• With "Much of the line's appeal comes from the attractiveness of its surrounding area", I'm trying to convey the reasons it is a successful tourist destination. Open to ways of writing it more academically.
• I have removed the specific train model mention, as I have not even found the explicit connection to the renovations in blogs. However, blogs do seem to implicitly support it, and our own Commons:Category:DR1000 on the Jiji Line seems to say it is true as well, so one day (possibly whenever the line reopens if they decide to introduce new trains at that time) the source may be out there.
• Expanded the Nantou County lead slightly to note the suppression, adding as well a note of the impact it had on local people in terms of identity.
• I've removed the contactless gate mention. It's on zh.wiki as well so it's probably true, but it seems it was part of a national rollout, and so not a particularly notable moment for Jiji station specifically.

Thanks for looking through all of these, please let me know if I've missed any pertinent comments. CMD (talk) 16:40, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Fired with two weeks notice.... honestly, the way people treat their employees nowadays. World's going to the dogs! And now I'm really happy I got to read the fact that he recieved new employee training; that's just amazing. And yeah, I think you've gone above and beyond answering my points, I'm happy to give this a . GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋 19:40, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Station master

Does this office have any actual duties associated with it in Taiwan? Obviously a cat can't fulfil any, so its 'appointment' would seem to imply that there is no real need for a station master anyway. Or is it that someone else performs the duties instead of the cat, while not having their work officially recognised? Also, can you even legally 'appoint' a non-human to any such office? Or is it the case that the cat actually wasn't appointed de jure? 62.73.72.101 (talk) 04:37, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

This does need to be clarified in the article. As for your other question, various animals have been appointed legally to positions as high as mayor in some places. Electricmemory (talk) 06:34, 30 October 2025 (UTC)