Talk:List of monotremes and marsupials of Australia

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This subarticle is kept separate from the main article, List of mammals of Australia, due to size or style considerations.

List format

This is now a sublist to the List of Australian mammals. The formats there need unifying. See the discussion at Talk:List of Australian mammals. --Glen Fergus 10:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Change of format

The format adopted for this list at creation (call it simple format) was discussed here.

A major purpose was to establish a unified format for the sub-lists to the List of Australian mammals, of which this is one. That is the "parent list" for this list, not List of monotremes and marsupials (as the see also here indicates).
The "more precise" format (call it precise format) may be valid for a major scientific list like List of monotremes and marsupials, but the list here is a general country list, not a taxonomic discourse.
For example, WP policy and practice adopts common names for mammal species, yet the precise format hides those away among multiple technical terms that are probably dutch to the general encyclopedia user. An objective of the simple format is to list common names in an up-front, easy-to-find, line-by-line way.
The simple format is also used for the List of birds of Australia.

--Gergyl (talk) 22:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for this article

I don't really see that this article is needed.

Marsupials and monotremes do not bear any special close relationship: they are not more closely related, for instance, than placental mammals and monotremes.

It has no more reason to exist than, say, "List of Primates and Rodents of Madagascar".

I propose we dispense with it.

Ordinary Person (talk) 12:19, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]