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A fact from Nile crocodile appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 December 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the largest African crocodile, the Nile crocodile, is both hated and revered, especially in Ancient Egypt where crocodiles were mummified, and worshipped as gods?

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I think this etymology is incorrect and should be changed. The word "crocodile" and romance language equivalents is very old and certainly predates binomial nomenclature. The most parsimonious explanation for the genus name "Crocodylus" is that it was already the Latin word for crocodile. The Online Etymology Dictionary says the word can be traced back to Greek, but origins within Greek are unknown unless you accept Herodotus as a source. Theflashisgone (talk) 01:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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-==Bite Force==
+== Etymology ==
+I think this etymology is incorrect and should be changed. The word "crocodile" and romance language equivalents is very old and certainly predates binomial nomenclature. The most parsimonious explanation for the genus name "Crocodylus" is that it was already the Latin word for crocodile. The Online Etymology Dictionary says the word can be traced back to Greek, but origins within Greek are unknown unless you accept Herodotus as a source. [[User:Theflashisgone|Theflashisgone]] ([[User talk:Theflashisgone|talk]]) 01:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
-The part about the 3000 psi to 5000 psi bite is blatently false. And you know why? Because bite force is not measured in PSI,
-PSI is a measure of PRESSURE. Pressure increases as an object gets smaller with the same amount of weight behind it, Pressure has to do with area thus. FORCE has nothing to do with area. That episode of Dangerous Encounters you can clearly hear Brady Barr relate the bite results in pounds of force. NOT PSI. So the 3000 psi and 5000 psi figures should be changed to 3000 lbs of force and 5000 lbs of force. Thank you. Regards. [[User:DinoJones|DinoJones]] ([[User talk:DinoJones|talk]]) 22:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
-: As I'm not familiar with the work of Brady Barr, so I can't comment on how he recorded bite forces. Needless to say that it should have been in the SI units [[newton]]s (which would have avoided this issue). User:DinoJones, can you provide a reference for the bite force information (values plus units)? Cheers [[User:Mark t young|Mark t young]] ([[User talk:Mark t young|talk]]) 23:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Do you mean like a screen cap of the bite force values given in that particular episode of Brady Barr's show? I'll do my best if that's what you meant.[[User:DinoJones|DinoJones]] ([[User talk:DinoJones|talk]]) 06:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
-==Range Map==
-<s>There's a nice range map over at Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Crocodylus_niloticus_Distribution.png]. Anyone want to be nice and swipe it? :) [[User:68.81.231.127|68.81.231.127]] 14:28, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) </s>
-:I can link directly. [[User:68.81.231.127|68.81.231.127]] 11:36, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
-== Krokodeilopolis ==
-Given the etymology of crocodile, "pebble man/worm," I conjecture that the Greek city name sould be Krokodeilopolis, rather than Krokodopolis, because the man/worm morpheme of the latter seems overly syncopated.
-:That would be good to correct, but any references? [[User:68.84.34.154|68.84.34.154]] 22:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
-==Article removed from [[Wikipedia:Good articles]]==
-This article was formerly listed as a [[Wikipedia:Good article|good article]], but was removed from the listing because there aren't any references.  Otherwise it's great.  [[User:Worldtraveller|Worldtraveller]] 23:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
-:I used entirely on-line sources when I wrote the article. Since I have a bit of a bias against that, I labeled the section external links. But looking it over again, the sources aren't too bad -- while it could certainly use some print sources and footnoting (now that we have the new tags), and the mythological sources are at best weak, the technical information on the Nile crocodile is from reasonably strong secondary sources. [[User:68.84.34.154|68.84.34.154]] 22:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
-== Pictures of crocodiles ==
-I would like to add my page on crocodiles to your external links please:
-http://www.african-safari-pictures.com/crocodile-pictures.html
-[[User:198.54.202.82|198.54.202.82]] 15:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
-== Editing ==
-Some slight clean-up and rephrasing of Introduction to remove redundancies. [[User:CFLeon|CFLeon]] 22:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
-== "No animal is safe, even big cats==
-For some reason, someone continues to add this sentence when it makes no sense in the context of the article. The preceeding sentence states that elephants and adult hippos are "safe" from crocodiles so it is erroneous and contradictory. Furthermore, lions are listed among the animals in the next sentence so the big cat reference is not necessary. This sentence should remain deleted from the page as it is redundant, contradictory, and overall not useful. [[User:71.248.25.226|71.248.25.226]] 00:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
-Maybe you are right. Wording can be changed. [[User:85.97.11.49|85.97.11.49]] 14:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
-== Crocs and Birds ==
-The [[Egyptian Plover]] and [[Spur-winged Plover]] are both claimed to clean crocodile teeth. A photograph of this behaviour would be useful. [[User:Drutt|Drutt]] 14:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
-== "Eyption Butts ==
-Any reason this section constantly references "butt" or "butts"?  Looks like vandalism, but on the off-chance there's some meaning of "butt" I don't know, I'll merely present it for discussion.  <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/68.144.64.204|68.144.64.204]] ([[User talk:68.144.64.204|talk]]) 18:09, 24 October 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-:It was vandalized a short while ago.  Fixed. [[User:Collectonian|Collectonian]] 18:38, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
-== Maximum size ==
-Due to wikipedia as a source the largest confirmed Nile Crocodile (6.45 m.) is longer than the largest confirmed Saltwater Crocodile wich was hardly longer than 6.3 m. --[[User:Draco ignoramus sophomoricus|Draco ignoramus sophomoricus]] ([[User talk:Draco ignoramus sophomoricus|talk]]) 21:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
-*"Due to Wikipedia as source"? What does that mean? The source listed in the article is this: "Wood, The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Sterling Pub Co Inc (1983), ISBN 978-0851122359 ". [[User:Funkynusayri|Funkynusayri]] ([[User talk:Funkynusayri|talk]]) 21:34, 3 June 2008 (UTC)