Talk:Robert Wiedersheim

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Please don't turn this page into a NAZI dominated page - with hords of "protective" individuals ready to snap at any change and push the revert button. you are free to do so but it would be good to put your reasons for changes here.

This page could be an important discussion point for evolution - creation controversy.

other pages that have dealt with the creation - evolution controvery seem to have forgotten the whole philosophy of wikipedia - that every page is free to edit by anyone.

please don't label someone as a vandal just because he makes an edit to this page that you don't like.

if you don't like what he has done - change it - you are free to do so.

but don't get spitefull and try and ban that person - this is not about egos - its about collecting anf documenting the truth - as each person sees it. hopefully with time more people will see and write about the truth that they see, and hopefully when looked at from more viewpoints we will really see what the 'truth' looks like.

this should apply to ALL pages...

Wiedersheim's list[edit]

I have added the entirety of Wiedersheim's original list to the page. I don't know if this raises any issues of plagiarism, I assume not since it is being attributed to Wiedersheim, and it certainly shouldn't be a problem in terms of copyright since the book is over a century old.

Is this just too much to have in a solid list like this? Is it something that needs further explanation? There is more detail of the specific features in Wiedersheim's book, but since the book is freely accessible in its entirety online it seems somewhat redundant to reduplicate its contents here. I have made a start on linking specific structures up to relevant wiki pages and outside references. Wounded king (talk) 17:39, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with list: cervical rib[edit]

Hi. Number 5 at the list: "The seventh cervical rib in the adult.", is this an actual quote? ...because there are no such thing as a cervical rib. This could either be A: Vertebra prominens the seventh cervical (latin: neck) vertebra or B) The seventh rib? Knowning nothing of either Robert Wiedersheim I have no idea which it is.

The German version of this page[edit]

The German version of this page is considerably superior in terms of biographical content than the current English one. The current page is almost wholly concerned with one facet of Wiedersheim's career, his work on vestigial organs, to the exclusion of everything else. While my reading of German is just about sufficient to translate the German page it is not approaching sufficient to parse out all the elements of the original source material, the bits online principally consist of one pdf about Wiedersheim's contributions to biospeleology with some biographical detail. I haven't been able to find any clear guidelines for importing/translating material from a foreign language wiki, can one simply use the German wiki's references as sufficient?--Knight of the sorrowful countenance (talk) 21:55, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]