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Thanks for creating List of marine mammal species, ShaneGero!

Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Looks like there are more IUCN Status icons to add. It might also be a good idea to harmonize (or at least explain) the rank of Cetartiodactyla, treated as a superorder or higher clade in other articles, and as an order here.

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Hey I reverted a couple changes you made to the taxobox templates. As far as I can tell, you are trying to get "Cetartiodactyla" to show up as the order and Cetacea as unranked everywhere. Is that right? I'm not going to try to stop you from doing this, but this wasn't quite the right way to do it. e.g., if we're going to do it we should probably get rid of Template:Taxonomy/Cetacea/Mammalia instead of doing what you were doing. Do you want to do this? Do you believe there is consensus to make a mass change to all whale taxoboxes? Can we float the idea at talk:Cetacea or someplace before doing it? If we decide to, let's discuss exactly how (or just let me do it) before doing it, ok? Thanks, ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 01:49, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Cetartiodactyla

.

Based on molecular and morphological research, the cetaceans genetically and morphologically fall firmly within the

IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group^[7] and by Taxonomy Committee^[8] of the Society for Marine Mammalogy

, the largest international association of marine mammal scientists in the world.

If it helps, I am a cetacean biologist and sit on the board of the

Cetartiodactyla

which has gained a majority agreement. I am happy to have this discussed and I have posted for help to edit the template both in talk:WikiProject Cetaceans ‎and talk:WikiProject Mammals but had not reply.

I am happy for you to make the changes and thank you in advance for any help or advice in guiding me through this needed process.‎

ShaneGero (talk) 15:04, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm aware, generally, of the shape of the cladogram, as it were. See Template_talk:Automatic_taxobox/Archive_8#Cetacea for an amusing historical digression. One problem is that I think there might be some resistance to putting Cetartiodactyla in Common dolphin's taxobox, etc. And in Moose's taxobox. Just as Bald eagle doesn't have Saurischia or Dinosauria in its taxobox. Also, I'd like your thoughts on this: currently template:Taxonomy/Artiodactyla's parent is Cetartiodactyla. Should we get rid of template:Taxonomy/Artiodactyla altogether, and use Cetartiodactyla as the "order" on all deer/cow/etc taxoboxes? As you can see this is kind of a big change. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 18:08, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And a huge thanks for working on these articles! It is great to have your input, effort, and expertise here. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 18:13, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I've tried to consolidate discussion at

WT:MAMMALS; usually it's best to have a discussion like this in one place but possibly advertising to it from other places. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 19:17, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply

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