Talk:List of giant squid specimens and sightings/Archive 1

Work in progress
Please be aware that this list is not comprehensive just yet. It is only "complete" up to 1996; after that, only the most important reports are included. I'll try to finish it off with some additional sources soon. Mgiganteus1 09:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Image gallery problem
Very bad accessibility to many users. To get a truncated line of information in a small font, you must hover the cursor over each image. Why not make a Gallery so people can read more than the first 84 characters of each description in a human-readable size, with all descriptions visible at once without extra effort? Wikipeditor 01:15, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

TONMO.com references this list
Hi -- just a note to say that TONMO.com defers to this list as the definitive resource on Giant Squid strandings. Related link here: http://www.tonmo.com/science/public/squidlist.php Tonmo 13:24, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Attention page authors: info
Can the authors of this page incorporate the following info from Dr. Steve O'Shea, as found on TONMO.com? (see first reply) - http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10974 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonmo (talk • contribs) 17:58, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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2009 Saltspring Island record
Just a note. I was able to examine more photographs of this squid after the PQB News article was published. One photo showed a tentacle club that had hooks rather than suckers and another was at the appropriate angle to show that the mantle was textured with raised longitudinal ridges. The squid was actually a robust clubhook squid, Moroteuthis robustus, NOT an Architeuthis. Apologies for the misunderstanding.

Graham Gillespie

--198.103.39.129 (talk) 17:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there. Has this reidentification been published/posted somewhere else? To comply with Wikipedia's policies on no original research and verifiability we'd need a reference for this information. mgiganteus1 (talk) 19:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Two more sightings to add to list
I will leave it up to the creators/maintainers of this article to work in the details given the formatting here which I do not want to screw up. Here are 2 more sightings of giant squid. The first, see, occured in September 2009 in the Gulf of Mexico, and I am 99% certain this is Architeuthis. The sizes and general characteristics seem reasonably close from the article and pics. The second, see is a much shorter article about a very recent large, live, actual school of what the article is calling "giant squid" though it is unclear if this is meant actual Architeuthis or if it just means "fairly large squid of another genus". The article reports them being caught "by the hundreds" and the one picture shows a fairly large (1-1.5 meter) mantle and is reporting weights of 20-40 pounds, with occasional specimens up to 60 pounds. This article was quite short, but it may be a good lead. -- Jayron  32  16:11, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the links! I'm glad there's someone else out there who likes lists of giant squid. :) The second source concerns Humboldt squid, which are sometimes called "giant squid" as well. The first ref, however, is indeed about Architeuthis; this specimen is listed here under "30 July 2009", the date of its capture. I have added this link as a second ref since it provides some additional information and images. Cheers, mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:48, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Spelling of placenames in Norway
There have been significant changes over the years to how placenames in Norway are spelled. E.g. Kirkeseterøren -> Kyksæterøra, Senjen -> Senja. This list seems to mostly use the spellings in the original papers, even when they are now archaic. This obviously makes it easier to find the sightings in the papers, but harder to find the locations on a map. What's Wikipedia policy about this? Jon kare (talk) 07:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In general, spelling of any word in Wikipedia should be influenced by the audience that will read it. The scientific community in the English Wikipedia will typically use American or British English, so either of those variations would be preferred. If there are multiple English spellings of a place name, use the most common one. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 15:36, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not a question of English vs Norwegian spellings. It's whether or not to modernize Norwegian spellings. Jon kare (talk) 17:11, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the best option, then, is to use the same spelling that is used in other parts of Wikipedia. If it's not there, take the liberty to choose one and be consistent when using that name. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 02:12, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * When I created this list I tried to retain the original spellings and names of both locations and anatomical features (e.g. jaws vs. beak) so that the list would agree with the source literature (and to avoid potential OR and mistakes of interpretation). Using piped links we can direct readers to the correct article and, in cases where this is desirable (particularly where there is a significant difference between the modern and archaic spellings), we could include the modern name in square brackets following the original one. mgiganteus1 (talk) 11:09, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I did ask before editing :-) Jon kare (talk) 13:48, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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