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	Milk was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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I'm just curious what lead to this. ERBuermann ( talk) 14:02, 10 November 2022 (UTC) reply

maybe lewd jokes were inserted?🤷‍♀️ 2600:8801:FB13:6B00:581F:9C4C:FBDF:E4DC ( talk) 02:18, 7 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Probably correct. The protection log simply says “vandalism” and people comparing it to… you know… is the only real reason I can imagine the page getting protected. CharlieEdited ( talk) 15:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Lots of health wankery around milk too. Bon courage ( talk) 15:02, 8 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Interestingly enough,"breast milk" isn't a protected page 72.199.14.210 ( talk) 05:13, 20 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I believe the type of feral cat is misidentified. It states "African" feral cats have been reported to directly pilfer milk, but the source cited only references feral cats at Isla de Guadalupe. Crypticgimmick ( talk) 20:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC) reply

It's really weird that this article is a combination of the article on the concept of mammary gland secretion as a general mammalian biology subject, which is what it should be, but even more (content-wise) the article about human consumption of dairy products (primarily bovine but also caprid). Maybe we need a Milk (food) split off, or just merge the human consumption material into Dairy product. It's weird further that Milk (food) is a redlink.  —  SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:58, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Could we list items like mashed potatoes that use milk as an ingredient? MightyArms ( talk) 18:02, 26 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Current 'Milk' Wikipedia page is biased towards milk extracted from mammals. Etymology of 'milk' known to be the process of milking (or 'to milk') and not necessarily a term to specify the produce of milking mammals. There are many examples of milked produce. For example, milking vemon of a snake and spider ^[1]. From insets are examples of cockroaches and ant pupae ^[2]. Avian examples from pigeons, penguins and flamingos ^[3]. Sea mammals, such as seals and sea lions. From vegetation are examples of seaweed and African milk tree.

From a botanical perspective, references of 'milk' from plant sources are at least a thousand years old ^[4]. The origin of the use of 'milk' in all other contexts is 'unknown' ^[5].

Change would be consistent with providing audience with encyclopaedic overview of a subject, which then branches out to subtopics like 'Milk (Mammals)'. The current 'Milk' page is not a 'sum of all human knowledge', which is the purpose of wikipedia ^[6]. Kisekiya ( talk) 10:09, 3 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Unrealistic proposals. We don't need another article. If you want to add information about insects just create a section near the bottom of this article. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 14:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC) reply

I actually agree with the suggested name change, it would clarify. The other uses cannot be added to this one as it stands, as it explicitly mentions this is for mamallian milk at the very start.

"This article is about the fluid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. For the milk-like beverages derived from plants, see Plant milk. For other uses of the word, see Milk (disambiguation)." Sklabb ( talk) 19:25, 14 April 2024 (UTC) reply