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Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:58, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Spade-toothed whale edit

I see what you're trying to argue, but I still think that that sentence should be reworded. If I asked the question, "When was the external appearance of the spade-toothed whale first described?" what would your answer be? Even though it was misidentified at the time, the first descriptions were made in 2010, just as the first observations of supernovae were made thousands of years before we properly identified what they are. These are my thoughts about this sentence; it could be rewritten to be more clear. You may disregard my input if you really feel that the sentence is fine as it is. Regardless, thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. 99.100.159.25 (talk) 02:04, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean. I'm not sure what was first published on this stranding, whether it was in the news or not. If we can find a published description from December 2010 then I'd be fine with that, but as far as I know the first published description wasn't given until this paper (November 2012). Beaked whale strandings usually only make the news if they are of a very rare species (well, "very rare" compared to other beaked whales). Perhaps we could put "The first published description appeared" on such and such date? Hmm... Let me see what the article says now. SaberToothedWhale (talk) 02:59, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The lead already says the first description of it's external appearance appeared in 2012. Perhaps I could add "published" in there somewhere to make it clear. Still not sure how to rewrite what you were referring to above:

"Until 2012, nothing was known about this species other than cranial and dental anatomy."

Again, to be clear, we could add "published about its external appearance"? Or is that too wordy? Or maybe reword the sentence altogether. What do you think? SaberToothedWhale (talk) 03:07, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is from the paper itself: "We provide the first morphological description and images of this enigmatic species." Guess that settles when the first description of its external appearance was published. SaberToothedWhale (talk) 03:30, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. [1] -Fjozk (talk) 20:06, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But he's a bitch who made a comment only a bitch would make? :) SaberToothedWhale (talk) 20:15, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]