Talk:Locomotory organ

Question
"is an organ (anatomy) for animal locomotion. examples:, fin (anatomy), tail (anatomy), Acetabulum (morphology), Mantle (mollusc), Sucker (zoology).    Sometimes confused with / See also wing (anatomy),   flagellum, leg, Siphon (mollusc) "

Is there a way to get these links from this term.. stub article? it's really like a glossary def or search index, but I know wikipedia officially 'discourages' that.

It doesn't fit as a section in animal locomotion (I tried that, and someone deleted it), there's also organ (anatomy) but again, its hard to make it flow in that article.

MfortyoneA (talk) 11:40, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi MfortyoneA, thank you for your interest in improving Wikipedia! Two thoughts come to mind:


 * 1) Upon reviewing organ (anatomy), it doesn't appear that legs, wings, etc. are organs.
 * 2) There already is an article, animal locomotion, one can link to.
 * I would propose to make this article a redirect there (although I feel that it really should be deleted, because of the apparent misnomer).
 * Cheers, User:HopsonRoad 11:54, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ok thanks. Maybe it is indeed strictly a misnomer as you say. The phrase locomotory organ is in my head in that context, and I have found it all over the place.. so it's not just me. Does a redirect not have value in providing correction;  if such a mistake is common.. information in wikipedia should be able to help people correct that. MfortyoneA (talk) 11:57, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * hmm: I'm not so sure it's clear cut. there's internal organs and external organs. Acetabulum (morphology) is an explicit example of something that seems to be described as a locomotory organ ("Acetabulum /æsᵻˈtæbjᵿləm/ (plural acetabula) in invertebrate zoology is a saucer-shaped organ of attachment "). If that is an organ, I think a leg might be aswell? MfortyoneA (talk) 12:00, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok you are right. [] a leg is a limb or an apendage, not an organ.
 * The fact that confusion exists suggests to me it would be helpful to have either Wikipedia or Wiktionary stating exactly what a locomotory organ IS, (and ISn't).. MfortyoneA (talk) 12:03, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, here's vindication of the term of art, "locomotory organ": . I believe that you can draw on this and other references from a Google book search of "locomotory organs of animals" to make an entry in Wiktionary. Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 13:09, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Redirect
I've redirected this to Animal locomotion, where I made a cited statement in the lead that defines "locomotory organ". User:HopsonRoad 15:16, 5 April 2017 (UTC)