Talk:Sockington

A fact from Sockington appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Sockington, a cat on the microblogging site Twitter, now has over a million followers since starting there in 2007?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August.

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Notability

Mentioned on MSNBC, the Sun, even Forbes according to Google apparently - I believe this merits enough notability to avoid A7 (whatever that is in English), perhaps a PROD would be a better template, which would give time for others to contribute. Totnesmartin (talk) 21:37, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Million followers - citation needed

I'd like to nominate ths for the Did You Know thing, but its hook - that this cat has a million followers - lacks a citation. I can't cite the twitter page or the main website because of WP:PRIMARY. Can anyone help? Totnesmartin (talk) 21:16, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think WP:PRIMARY wouldn't be applicable in this case, as follower counts are generally pretty reliable on Twitter. But I don't know WP policy all that well.BassBone (talk) 00:55, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the problem would be that if enough people stopped following him, the number would drop back below a million and there'd be no proof it ever happened. Also, the DYK bods are quite strict about refs. My hope is the crossing the million threshhold makes the news, so I can cite that. Totnesmartin (talk) 18:38, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seek and ye shall find! Totnesmartin (talk) 18:40, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pennycat and Tweetie

Had to remove the paragraph for lack of citation. The Did you know people now demand that articles have a citation in every paragraph, and as blogs aren't allowed as refs, I'm moving it to here pending better refs.

Sockington has two feline companions whose Twitter voices are also provided by Jason Scott: the ginger Pennycat (aka Pennsylvania) whose posts tend to reflect ironically on Sockington and his fame, and the kitten, Tweetie, a rescue cat who looks enough like Sockington to be nicknamed his Sockelganger and whose tale of rescue has effectively brought attention to the plight of feral cats and provided an opportunity for fundraising for the shelter which saved him.

Totnesmartin (talk) 10:25, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Citations have been added and this paragraph restored. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.60.77.121 (talk) 05:15, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The refs don't work - www.thebostonchannel.com/video/1953181/index.html takes me to a piece about PETA, and www.theanimalcenter.org/content/tweetie.html is a 404. pity, and thanks for trying anyway.

People magazine

Is this cat in the current or a recent edition of People magazine?[1][2] 71.198.176.22 (talk) 20:08, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Socks (cat) naming ambiguity

An editor has requested that Socks (cat) be moved to another page, which is related to an alternate name of the topic of this article. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. -- 65.92.247.90 (talk) 20:26, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]