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I know it's being used in its original sense and isn't being used in a derogatory manner, but I still think there's no need to use the word bitches when male and female would work just fine. Wikipedia should be as safe and welcoming a space as possible without compromising it's integrity. Here, using the word bitches provides no benefit to Wikipedia but serves to potentially distance and offend some viewers. Science Is My Life ( talk) 08:37, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
@ 7&6=thirteen I'm not sure why you're linking WP:RS to justify restoring self-published information. The only data on that site that isn't a kennel club survey is more than three decades outdated. Furthermore the paragraph itself synthesises and uses data from the Pullman site and compares it to a completely different study with different methodology. Traumnovelle ( talk) 01:09, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
This one would qualify:
As previously reported, body size was negatively correlated with lifespan. Gonadectomy was associated with a longer lifespan, with the effect being stronger in females than in males. This lifespan advantage was conserved in gonadectomized female dogs that lived to at least ages 5 and 8 years. We did not find significant differences in lifespan between purebred and mixed breed dogs; however, breeds with larger effective population sizes and/or lower inbreeding coefficients had median survival times 3–6 months longer than breeds with smaller effective population sizes or higher inbreeding coefficients, indicating that these measures of genetic diversity may be affecting breed lifespans. We also found that dog breeds belonging to the “Mountain” ancestral group had median survival times that were 3.5–4.6 years shorter than other purebred dog groups, which remained significant even when correcting for body size. [4]
7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 00:53, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
A suspected cause is lack of genetic diversity {there is a lot of inbreeding, which has increased over the years).
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These are peer-reviewed journals. So what is your issue?
7&6=thirteen (
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21:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Which version of the health section should be used? Revision 1227025660 or revision 1227256639. Comparison: [2]. Previous discussion can be seen above. 20:24, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
cited source on Wikipedia is often a specific portion of text (such as a short article or a page in a book). But when editors discuss sources (for example, to debate their appropriateness or reliability) the word source has four related meanings:
I got rid of the NBC citation. I did read it at the time, but you win. It's cumulative in any event.
There is no "synthesis. I deleted the template.
The studies are all there, and accurately reported. I reorganized them so they are chronological.
This isn't about 'winning.' You don't get it. Where is it written that
Traumnovelle is final? There is no "consensus" and I rewrote it to accommodate your criticisms, so that we can do something more productive. Give it a rest.
WP:Dead horse.
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12:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 15:06, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
While the American Kennel Club says that the lifespan of the Bernese Mountain Dog is 7-10 years, most sources put their lifespan at more like 6-8 years. A Swiss study put the median life expectancy of Bernese Mountain Dogs in Switzerland at 8.4 years. A Danish study found the average life expectancy of Bernese Mountain Dogs to be only 7.1 years.
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