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This article needs to be rewritten to reflect the subject's status as folklore. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 23:02, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
What makes this tale notable enough to have an article about it. At the moment, it is sourced to one single book... and we have no way to know whether the tale is an actual piece of Washington folklore or something made up by an imaginative author. To establish notability, I think we need the tale to be discussed in more than one source.
Note... I am not saying that we need some sort of evidence that the "Demon Cat" actually exists. I am saying that we need additional verification that the legend actually exists. We need to establish that this legend is notable enough for us to have an article on it.
I will give it a few weeks... but if additional sources are not given to establish notability, I will prod it for deletion. Blueboar ( talk) 17:24, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
As of today, 2015-11-09, the article sez: "According to legend, the cat is seen before presidential elections and tragedies in Washington, D.C., allegedly being spotted by White House security guards the nights before the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln." However, that is not possible today nor in the past. The White House and the Capitol complex are not interconnected. Guards from the White House would not be patrolling the Capitol buildings. 24.240.67.157 ( talk) 03:23, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
This is probably the best piece of folklore I've read all week. I've heard it before, but I hadn't heard about the backstory! Drunk guy getting licked by a cat... Classic! Sea Captain Cormac 00:38, 6 November 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cormac Nocton ( talk • contribs)
This was one of the better pages I have stumbled across on Wikipedia. Thank you for writing this page! TessBroll ( talk) 17:52, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
I totally adore the fact this is a real enough myth to have a Wikipedia page. Rock on DemonCat o7 185.81.193.43 ( talk) 13:09, 4 March 2024 (UTC)