Talk:Flying Mobula of the Sea of Cortez

Please help!

Yishan 21:40, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

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"Flying Mobula of the Sea of Cortez" is not a good title for a Wikipedia article -- it's not a common name, and the end phrase "... of the Sea of Cortez" is extraneous. I noticed there are redirects from Mobula and Flying Mobula to here. I propose changing the article title to "Mobula" (as in the genus); the apocryphal story about these fish "flying" can be mentioned there. Actually, I think all the articles on this family (devil rays) need attention and organization. Ginkgo100 03:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)


 * That sounds like a good idea. I wasn't quite sure how general/specific the name should be when I created the article; it is certainly a bit awkward right now.  It does sound like a good idea for this to just be a footnote somewhere like "the creature has been reported to breach" with a link to the site of pictures/stories.  Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an existing entry on "Mobula," and I don't really know much else about them, so I wouldn't know how to fill out an article about mobulae in general.  Is there something else this report could be attached to? Yishan 23:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh wait, it looks like the Manta ray article has since been updated to make a reference to breaching (and includes a link to the report, which I just inlined as well). While there is supposedly some sort of unresolved taxonomic "mobulae != manta?" thing going on, I find this satisfactory.  So, maybe this article should be deleted or re-directed? Yishan 23:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)