User talk:Mwng

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Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher

Thanks for the additions and cleanup to this and the Harold Maxwell-Lefroy. Shyamal 12:14, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Great Tit

I've noted your many helpful edits to bird articles, but there is one minor point I wanted to discuss. Great Tit has two alternative generic names, Parus and Periparus. My preference would be to have just one of these in the taxobox, to make it less cluttered, and comment on the alternative in the text.

I don't much mind which goes in the taxobox, although generally we follow Handbook of Birds of the World, which uses the newer Periparus.

Another example where we have adopted a similar approach is Great Egret, which is allocated to no less than three genera. Thanks, Jim

Thanks, Jim

wader

Hi, I'm a bit concerned that you seem to be systematically deleting the important link to wader, the relevant subfamily of birds for eg Turnstone, but sparing the American equivalent shorebird, which is a redirect to wader. Is there any reason for this, or did you just not appreciate that wader is a taxonomic group? jimfbleak 06:48, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)