Portal talk:Amphibians and reptiles

Portal Created
I'm glad to announce that The Amphibians and Reptiles Portal (P:AAR) has been created and is ready for you to use. This portal covers any subjects related to amphibians, reptiles, herpetology, as well as WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles.

Purposes of the portal Thank you for reading. If you have any questions, please leave them on the portal talk page or my user talk page. --Melanochromis 09:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * to act as the "main page" for editors interested in amphibians and reptiles. The portal page should contain all the common and useful links to relevant articles, lists, categories, as well as the project tasklist. As this portal is your tool, please feel free to organize, modify, or expand the Topics, Categories, Lists, and Tasklist sections of the portal as you see fit.
 * to recognize works of AAR editors via the "Selected Article of the Month" and "Selected Picture of the Month." You can participate in this process by nominating and voting for articles and pictures that you think deserve to be presented for each month. Selected articles and pictures receive a recognition messagebox on talk pages.
 * to lead potential AAR editors to WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles as well as to educate general readers. Feel free to add more items for the "Did you know..." section.

Things you can do
Not only is it a good thing to create articles for each genus and ensure all articles between family and genus rank are taxonomically consistent, but it should be encouraged that editors move descriptions of common characteristics to articles for higher taxa. An article on a genus should contain more than just a list of species (with no mention of the taxonomy being used). Typically, general characteristics are repeated over and over again in the species articles, which invites inconsistency. We need to be making much more use of the taxonomic hierarchy. --Jwinius 12:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Portal Page
The article of the month, the picture of the month and the "Did you know" section of this portal aren't functioning properly...I'm not sure what the problem is...if I did I'd fix it myself...could someone check this out and then post the fix procedures so I'll know in the future....Thanks ---Fixed by undoing a format change that may have caused the problem....thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.237.40.62 (talk) 12:51, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

The scientific names should be pronounced as in Latin not as in English. There is lots of pronounciation helps which give entirely wrong pronounciation. It should be understandable for everybody, so the pronounciation should be the same in every language and the way they should be pronounced is Latin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.150.83.243 (talk) 19:05, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Latin as pronounced by Kikero and Kaesar? Or Latin as pronounced by Sisero and Seezar? (... Cicero and Caesar being the names in question) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orinoco-w (talk • contribs) 07:26, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Walking With Dinosaurs
The TV series was educational - I watched it and thought it was great. The Show was entertaining and that too was great. IMO the show should be moved to it's own page; length of page is becoming awesome and the show can grow larger in time too. The episodes could possibly lengthen too.  Piandao  19:42, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Problem in EMBL template
Hello, while checking iw for fr: articles on reptiles, I found that template EMBL genus is out of date. It still point to JCVI site, which do not hosts ReptileDatabase anymore. It is now hosted on Reptarium.cz. You may update your template. If it can helps you, you can check our own template fr:Modèle:ReptileDB genre (and their brothers for species and family, fr:Modèle:ReptileDB espèce and fr:Modèle:ReptileDB famille).

Regards, Hexasoft (talk) 21:12, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Links from Reptile Database (formerly EMBL/JCVI Reptile Database)
Hi,

I am the curator of the reptile database at http://www.reptile-database.org. While I am not a regular contributor to Wikipedia, I would like to improve linking to and from the two sites. However, adding links to our site gives me warnings about spams. How can I avoid those warnings and add links more systematically? Sorry about my ignorance. Thanks!

Peter Uetz [email: info at reptile-database.org] Peteruetz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.179.225.70 (talk) 18:48, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved, consensus is in opposition to proposed move. — James (Talk • Contribs) • 11:31pm • 13:31, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Amphibians and Reptiles → Portal:amphibians and reptiles — De-titlecase. While the WikiProject is titlecase, the portal need not be and should present the subject matter in the same format as if it were an article title; a similar split is found between portal:free software and WikiProject Free Software. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 09:55, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Requesting this run for longer then 7 days as WikiProject AAR was not notified. Zoo  Pro  09:55, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it's normal for pages in the Portal namespace to be cased the same way as titles in other namespaces - i.e. the first character after the colon is capitalized, as that's the first letter of the actual title (as opposed to the namespace indicator). I suppose I wouldn't have any particular objection to changing this practice if it were done across the board for all portals (it would be done using the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, of course, not by actually moving the pages). But another change I'd definitely be in favour of would be to insert a space after the colon - I'm pretty sure you can do that using DISPLAYTITLE as well.--Kotniski (talk) 10:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * (Oh right, sorry, I misunderstood, you want to decapitalize Reptiles - yes, I'd go along with that.)--Kotniski (talk) 10:02, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

About the space thing - I've done it with DISPLAYTITLE, and it works, so now you can see (on the portal page, not the talk page) what it looks like. Revert it if you think it looks worse, but I think we should follow standard English here where we have the technical possibility, particularly since this is largely a reader-facing page.--Kotniski (talk) 10:06, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know the protocol for title casing with portals. I know Portal: Turtles was recently created, if this changes then that one probably needs to as well.  I'm in favor of keeping them the way they are however.  Oppose the move.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 19:30, 6 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose the requested reason given is self contradictory as titles in other namespaces start with a capital(s), such as Main Page and Talk:Main Page. Even the examples given portal:free software is actaully called Portal:Free software with 'F' - the initial letter capitalised. So the request doesn't make sense at the moment. Maybe the request is suppose to be for a move to Portal:Amphibians and reptiles? When Main Page is changed to Main Page and Talk:Main Page is changed to talk:main page then I can take the request seriously, otherwise it is a confusing request. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 22:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is all rather confusing, but if we interpret the proposal as for a move to Portal:Amphibians and reptiles (i.e. to decapitalize "Reptiles"), is everyone OK with that? --Kotniski (talk) 05:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe, I would strike my oppose anyhow. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 21:58, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

My question would be is it necessary? Do other portals have their titles formatted like that? What's the reason for the change?--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 02:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Browsing through other portals, it seems that most of them use sentence case rather than title case (where it would make any difference, which usually it doesn't). Anyway, this is Wikipedia's normal style for page titles of all kinds.--Kotniski (talk) 10:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It just seems strange to me that the project is "Amphibians and Reptiles" and it's portal would be "Amphibians and reptiles." What would become of turtles..."Portal: turtles?"  Does the sentence case start at the colon?  NYMFan69-86 (talk) 17:11, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Support the move to Portal:Amphibians and reptiles. It's pretty trivial, but it is better to use sentence case, as used in articlespace. As to the question about turtles, it would remain Portal:Turtles, as the first word after the colon is capitalized. Jenks24 (talk) 07:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

RFC at Talk:Copulation
You may want to participate in the RFC at Talk:Copulation --Philcha (talk) 11:37, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Spiny-tailed monitor
Hi guys, recently I overhauled the article Spiny-tailed monitor. Because I'm not a native english speaker, I would be very glad if someone checked the article for bad style or missspellings. --79.224.232.4 (talk) 11:59, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Lygosoma veunsaiensis
Hi, you might want to add the Lygosoma veunsaiensis to your "Picture/Article of the Month" and/or some other notary page. It was discovered in 2010, but was only announced to the public this week. Many news organizations are picking up the announcement now. Thanks. JunoBeach (talk) 23:27, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Comments please Order Testudines vs Oder Chelonii
Hi I have continued on a discussion started earlier with some findings I have made over the last couple of weeks. It was put on hold by the death of Lonsome George, but in any case I have made some suggestions, got references and discussed it properly now. Would appreciate feedback. Talk:Turtle Cheers, Faendalimas  talk 14:46, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Portal name
I think that the portal name (page title) should be "Portal talk:Amphibians and reptiles". What do you think? Coreyemotela (talk) 15:34, 7 May 2014 (UTC).

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Portal talk:Molecular and Cellular Biology which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 13:45, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The page was moved after an uncontroversial technical request (see the request). Lousa Yartaker (talk) 05:08, 11 October 2016 (UTC).

Crocodiles or caimans
Hi, Anybody hanging around who is able to describe these correctly? :) Lotje (talk) 14:28, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

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