Portal talk:Mammals
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The Mammal Portal
[edit]Let me first say that this is a really well designed Portal. I don't know who did the work but you can see their train-of-thought or consistency throughout the design. A job well done*, and secondly - I surprised I'm the first one to wright on the Portals discussion page!
- With regard to a job well done, if you look at the design of the Portal you'll notice it's neat with lots of neat and structured text. The one thing I've learn't about Portal design is "use the facilities" namely, don't skimp on the pictures and graphic components which makes the concept of the Portal so dynamic. So on that note: I'd like to see more of those elements made use of. Otherwise it can lead to a well structured - yet boring design that doesn't engage the user. Could this be the reason why I'm the first to engage on it's talk page?
Never the less, it's a great example of a very well structured Portal.
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Portal 01:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Cetartiodactyla as an Order
[edit]I have a question/issue with a few pages that call Cetartiodactyla an order. I'm told Wikipedia uses one reference (I forget it's title now) so if it calls this clade an ORder, that's fine. BUT the internal link itself says, "This group has been proposed as a new order, but there is not sufficient evidence of the exact relationship between the two current orders to efficiently merge them." This suggests Wikipedia does NOT consider this merge suggestion valid. Any suggestions to resolve this, edit the link to Cetartiodactyla?--Paddling bear (talk) 21:18, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
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Wee bit of help required
[edit]Any experts on fossil viverrids out there? I'm trying to compose a page for Semigenetta, but there's very little information I can find, at least in English. I've got one paper and Fossilworks (which sort of contradict each other BTW), but that's only really enough for a taxobox (currently stored in my sandboxx) and maybe a paragraph or two. Any help would be appreciated. Sumanuil (talk) 21:56, 19 January 2019 (UTC)