Talk:Pangolin trade

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 January 2019 and 14 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: TraitorousClod.

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Recent additions
Thanks for working to expand this article. This makes it easier to expand country-specific information. If you come across information about poaching, populations, or economics of the pangolin trade in those countries, that would be great to add. No obligation, though. :)

I want to raise a concern, though: please be very careful when making any kind of biomedical claim. It's important to be very clear when you're talking about history and culture vs. when you're making scientific claims. Wikipedia has strict rules for biomedical content, such that we need to be sure we don't give the impression that something with no scientific basis "cures" or "heals". Traditional medicine can be tricky for that reason. One thing you may want to do is combine the medicinal and non-medicinal sections. Just from a stylistic perspective, it seems like better organization, but it also puts less emphasis on the "medicinal". There's often some blurry lines between traditional medicine and other beliefs, too. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 14:53, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Updates
Last year student editors added a lot of material specific to the pangolin trade in Africa. I had hoped to find time to work it in, but frankly forgot about it. Now this article is getting some additional attention amid COVID-19, so I'm going in and editing.

There's a lot of detail relating to Africa. Too much detail, honestly. A lot of it is reasonably sourced and useful, but just too much for this article. Other material is too matter-of-fact about purported medicinal functions of pangolins/pangolin parts (see section above). Some of it is redundant and/or repetitive and organized in a way that makes it difficult to mix in with the rest of the article. I'm in the process now of try to do just that. Rather than follow the new "in Africa" sections with "in Asia", etc. (by location), I'm going to try to work the newly added information into more topical sections. In the process, more than a little bit will be cut, but it's still there in the history. It may be more appropriate for something like wildlife trade in Africa, bushmeat in Africa, or possibly even a spin-out pangolin trade in Africa. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 17:01, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Update: The research on African use of pangolin and the Asian black market seems rather distinct perhaps. Wound up reorganizing according to Asia and Africa. I've condensed the various headings for specific countries into bushmeat, medicinal uses, and non-medicinal uses. It still feels like quite a lot of detail... &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 18:14, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * A great big question now is whether the lists of what pangolins are used for (i.e. most of the Africa section) is sufficiently related to the pangolin trade. Are they purchased for these purposes or are we talking about people catching/killing for their own use... &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 18:16, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Colors on map and its key don't match
Colors on the map for the ranges of different types of pangolins do not match the key naming the different types. Jonnyrecluse (talk) 08:46, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

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