It will be more convenient for us as editors to always link the genera. Kingturtle 18:49 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)
On a separate note, a personal interest to me is what the Latin binomial nomenclature translate to and why the term was chosen. But I am having a difficult time deciding where to place such information.
For example, the Red-throated Diver species name is stellata', meaning starred, in reference to the white speckling on its back in winter. But where do I write that in the article? It is too much information to put in the taxobox. So I tried putting it in the first sentence, but then I had to include the binomial nomenclature in the sentence, which interferes with the taxobox. I solved it with a dagger. I'm not attached to it. If you have a better idea, please let me know. Kingturtle 02:54 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)
If I can summarise:
I think you are both right. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I've been thinking about adding a more-or-less standardised section, probably to the bottom of each page, that includes the information that we are pretty much always going to want in every entry. Stuff like derivation of the name for sure, and probably several other things. Perhaps range, measurements, conservation status, call (?), stuff like that.
In summary, not an easy task to get something like this happening, and yet it could be of real value. Tannin 12:49 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)
On an unrelated matter, unlike KT, I never thought to update my user page with new articles as I went along, and its too difficult to retrace now. I've tried to make sure family articles link to list of birds, and I've putin more links on other pages where they seem to help. jimfbleak
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It will be more convenient for us as editors to always link the genera. Kingturtle 18:49 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)
On a separate note, a personal interest to me is what the Latin binomial nomenclature translate to and why the term was chosen. But I am having a difficult time deciding where to place such information.
For example, the Red-throated Diver species name is stellata', meaning starred, in reference to the white speckling on its back in winter. But where do I write that in the article? It is too much information to put in the taxobox. So I tried putting it in the first sentence, but then I had to include the binomial nomenclature in the sentence, which interferes with the taxobox. I solved it with a dagger. I'm not attached to it. If you have a better idea, please let me know. Kingturtle 02:54 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)
If I can summarise:
I think you are both right. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I've been thinking about adding a more-or-less standardised section, probably to the bottom of each page, that includes the information that we are pretty much always going to want in every entry. Stuff like derivation of the name for sure, and probably several other things. Perhaps range, measurements, conservation status, call (?), stuff like that.
In summary, not an easy task to get something like this happening, and yet it could be of real value. Tannin 12:49 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)
On an unrelated matter, unlike KT, I never thought to update my user page with new articles as I went along, and its too difficult to retrace now. I've tried to make sure family articles link to list of birds, and I've putin more links on other pages where they seem to help. jimfbleak