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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rgamble (talk | contribs) at 20:57, 12 March 2002 (Reply to szopen about Hurtgen.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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Killer, another biologist. We seen to be endandergered around here. Welcome aboard! I like what you have done with the fishes articles. Good work! (Although, we may need to have species' articles listed by binomial name in the future - since common names are anything but - but we can talk about that later) You need anything, don't hesitate to ask for help. Most of us don't bite (at least not hard). :)Cheers. --maveric149

  • Actually, I wasn't the original author of the fish article. I agree with the advice on the usage of binomial names, and that is why I'll include them (like I did in the Cod article). I'll probably modify the fish one a bit, putting in the binomial names for the species the original author mentioned, and use those as the links. Sound good?

--rgamble

Not sure what you mean exactly... My idea actually was to make the primary articles with the binomial name (Gadus morhua) for example. Then we could have an entry and link in the cod article about that specific fish species with a one-line description. We would also have any other species of fish on that page that has a common name that includes "cod" (if memory serves, there are several different species of fish that in some parts of the world, that only have a common name of "cod"). We, of course, would have to be careful that we don't go overboard on this though -- there are some common names that are known world-wide and are truely "common" (although I can't think of any right now). maveric149

Take a look at what I've done with the whitefish, cod and Gadus morhua articles. Not sure if it would be better to leave the whitefish article without the binomials. Comments welcome. --rgamble

Yep, you are on the right track. I just reformatted the Gadus morhua article and expaned the cod article to show specifically what I had in mind. What do you think? --maveric149

Looks good. I would prefer to have a common name in most articles (with the binomial afterwards) simply because I'm a big believer in scientists needing to explain things to non-scientists in as non-threatening a manner as possible. :) However, having the binomial as its own entry was a very good idea.

--rgamble

Yeah, I've changed my mind - the order should be reversed. I myself rarely refer to fishes or any other living animal by their scientific name before mentioning the common name. Of course a redirect from the scientific name to the article should always be done as well as having the scientific name after the most common, common name for English speakers. And we should take the "common name" issue on a case by case basis. I will go ahead and change the test articles to illustrate this. (it is still good to have the "cod" article, since there are many fishes with cod in their common names)--maveric149

Thanks for the Ching Shih article - looks extremely interesting! :) -- April

I left a general note on nomenclature on Talk:Magnoliophyta that you might find interesting. Cheers! --maveric149

  • Maveric149, thanks for the pointer... Looks interesting but I'm somewhat on the tired side tonight so I'll look at it tomorrow or the weekend when I have more time. Thanks again. :)

Hi rgamble. Beatiful contribution of World War II/Battle of Hurtgen Forest. I put there standard headers for battles: History - Military history -- List of battles -- World War II. I also rearrnaged it a bit: put quotes at end. Maybe you will consider to put somthing similar in all next pages you will edit. If you are World War II fan, maybe you will try to fiil blank World War II/The Battle of Crete, World War II/Okinawa etc. szopen

  • Thanks for the compliment. I'll attempt to format any future such articles as you suggest. Unfortunately I know little about the two battles you mentioned (Okinawa and Crete). I discovered the Hurtgen battle in a roundabout way through a wargaming magazine's review of a book on the battle, and it sounded interesting so I picked up a couple of different books (the ones cited). If however, I ever read up on Okinawa and Crete, I'll check to see if they're still open here. ;) Rgamble
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