User talk:Dendropithecus

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regarding your change of user name

The user name Dryopithecus first edited on English Wikipedia in August 2008 but there is no creation date for it. You can see all of the Wikimedia Foundation projects where the name is in use here. The easiest way to find out if it is your account have a look at the edits of Dryopithecus - the last one was in early December, just over a month ago. Emailing the user via Wikipedia is not enabled for that account. There is also a note from a bureaucrat (the users who approve the renaming) on your request. delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 16:22, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks indeed! The current user of that name is clearly someone else, as was clear from the fact that his/her last edit was only last month! (I first found I was unable to use it several years ago.) I have noticed a trend to use the names of organisms, living and dead, which Dryopithecus is, as handles, so I shouldn't be surprised really: it's my fault for not having nabbed it before this trend became so fashionable. Thanks again! --Dendropithecus (talk) 17:52, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Crocodilia or crocodylia?

I have no view either way (it seems that both forms are in the literature), but the article should be consistent, which means that if the text is changed, so should the diagram, which uses the "y" form. So I reverted your edit – just for consistency. I think this spelling issue was discussed before; I suggest you raise it on the talk page. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:01, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

OK: I just thought it (and the diagram) should be consistent with the link, which uses an "i". You may be glad to hear that I must go out soon. Dendropithecus (talk) 11:24, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

No, I think that the idea behind your change is right: WP should be self-consistent and if the title of the topic article uses "i", so should other articles. It's just that I wouldn't change the text without the diagram. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I don't think that two common spellings in WP is undesirable so long as some effort is made not to confuse the reader. Crocodylia redirects to the Crocodilia article which, before it moves on to anything else, notes that Crocodylia is an alternate spelling. The Brevirostres article uses Crocodylia in the article as well as in the taxobox. The taxoboxes for Crocodile, Saltwater crocodile, Gavialidae, Crocodyloidea, Caimaninae, and Alligator also use Crocodylia. Crocodylia is consistently used in the paper cited as the source for the paragraph under consideration. The existence of two spellings is genuinely informative, which is what Wikipedia is about. Peter M. Brown (talk) 15:50, 5 October 2011 (UTC)