User talk:AureliaSylv

Lice
First, welcome to Wiki.

Secondly lice are insects, not arachnids. Mites are arachnids. Wikipedia articles of this kind are thoroughly checked for such basic errors by thousands of experts and enthusiastic amateurs. While possible, it is very unlikely that you will discover a mistake of this nature. As such you should thoroughly check your information before making these changes. In this case all that you needed to do was count the legs on animals in the pictures. Arachnids have four pairs of legs, insects have three.

Where such simple checks are not possible then visit a reputable webpage for confirmation. Putting "Site:.edu" after a basic search term in Google will readily confirm such common facts. In this case simply putting "lice Site:.edu" into Google the first page is from Harvard and states "Head lice (Pediculus capitis) are small parasitic insects ". Since Harvard is a highly reputable source there is no need to alter the article.

Ethel Aardvark 08:23, 23 August 2007 (UTC)