Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Malaysia

A note
I appreciate the efforts to create a list of non-marine snails for countries. However, this effort is in vain and hoping for any meaningful achievements is simply unrealistic. The best known freshwater molluscan fauna is that of Thailand: Published by Brandt (1974) it comprises probably 500 species or more - at least 70% of which are in dire need of revision! The terrestrial snail fauna is by magnitudes more diverse and no one would will be able to provide a nearly complete up-to-date list for Thailand.... SO, you want to do this for every land in SE Asia? This is like counting stars in the sky... it is simply impossible! Large projects with larger budgets than Wikipedia, such as GBIF .. you name it..., founder at the sheer scale of biodiversity and our patchy knowledge. Your time would be more wisely spent, if you worked on anything else but this. My personal opinion. Best wishes Frank — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snaildoc (talk • contribs) 11:21, 10 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your message. Per Wikipedia: "Wikipedia seeks to create a summary of all human knowledge ...". I do not consider creating Wikipedia according to its purpose to be "vain". Yes, I want to do this for every country in Asia and in the World - User:Snek01/Lists. "Counting stars in the sky" is also realistic project - it is called WikiProject Astronomical objects. I do not care about other projects, that you consider to be "larger". And there is certainly not need to take care about budget, because volunteers do this work. By the way, I consider Wikipedia to be better than any other biological project. Maybe there are some tasks, that could be done more effectively, but it does not mean, that we should write nothing about molluscs in Malaysia. For some people there are "impossible" things more inspiring than other ones (for example Leonardo da Vinci wanted to make flying machine, and so on). Good examples of incomplete lists, but with certainly valuable informations are, for example:

(both of them have appeared on the Main page in the "Did you know..." section). Best wishes, --Snek01 (talk) 14:13, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * List of non-marine molluscs of Afghanistan
 * List of non-marine molluscs of Turkey

Hey Snek, in this case I can only wish you a long life and good health! ;-) Best wishes! F. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snaildoc (talk • contribs) 11:06, 15 September 2011 (UTC)