Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cetaceans/Archive 1

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The existing map is very unconvincing, showing them present in numerous shallow inshore waters where (as far as I know) they don't occur other than as exceptional rarities, usually dead or close to death. I've posted an alternative map at

Hi, I came across these fact sheets on sea mammals from the Australian Museum while researching for something unrealted, they're quite comprehensive and have heaps of additional references listed --

If you're knowledgeable on

I replied there. Pcb21| Pete 08:48, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks! Dayv 21:36, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello, cetacean lovers. I realize the issue of capitalization of common names has been discussed before, in different contexts. I find little evidence that common names of cetaceans are capitalized outside Wikipedia, and believe that we should use lowercase names as well. From your project page I gather that you have little interest in this issue, which is fine; I just wanted to let you know of my intentions to revisit this matter. — Knowledge Seeker দ 20:54, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I re-opened the discussion at

Talk:Bottlenose Dolphin#Requested move. If you are interested, please offer your opinion or experience there. You may also wish to share any examples of capitalized names being used in formal literature outside Wikipedia. — Knowledge Seeker দ

22:40, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

If you are interested, please also see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (fauna). Thank you. — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:11, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

There is a young whale in the river Thames in london... the whale seems to be ill and unable to swim out to sea, what does everyone think? -

Talk pages are not chat lines. They are for discussing the article. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I'm a member of the

We saved it. Pcb21 Pete 07:58, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Tom was a killer whale that helped whalers round up and kill baleen whales in return for thier lips and tounge. I made a stub but don't have any time to expand it. Anyone here interested? The bellman 07:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I've put it on my watchlist but not sure I know enough just yet. Pcb21 Pete 10:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I was bold and created {{

I'm ambilvalent about the picture (stub messages are screened out via javascript for me). Stub templates are not very use at the best of times - if you want to see stubs just the general category and turn on a stub threshold in preferences. In particular for cetacean articles there are very few stubs, so the category is not very valuable? Pcb21 Pete 10:54, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Do we not have a page about spy-hopping? or am I just not searching good enough? A interesting question was raised at

Now found breaching which also talks about spy hopping. Stefan 08:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

The answer to the spyhopping question is: Many whales are known to spyhop, Belugas and Bottlenose dolphins are notable. I'm pretty sure bowhead whales do, too, but I'll have to check up on that. --Belugaperson 14:34, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I have made a redesign of the portal main page which is accessible on my user page currently. What do you think about putting that one up instead of the current one?

I have made a few more pages to accomodate this layout, with a featured article and picture box. I was also thinking of adding a short taxonomic list of the major taxa as well.

What do you think? --chris_huh 15:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I have updated the main page now, hope you like it --chris_huh 13:49, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Looks good, much better now so i certainly think that the MfD should result in a keep. Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 06:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know of any free-use (or otherwise acceptable) images of a cetacean's full-body skeleton? Particularly one that shows the tiny vestigial leg-bones buried in the body? -Silence 15:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC) I have updated the main page now, hope you like it.

The cetaceans portal has been put up on the MfD page, i want to try and save it, particularly since i made a whole new layout for the portal about a week before it was put on MfD. You have probably noticed the drastic changes to the layout of the portal and the article list provided by Death Eater Dan. I have also made a template for the link to the portal page which can now be added to any cetacea related page by adding {{Cetaceaportal}} preferably at the top of the See Also heading, or under the taxobox maybe.

It looks like this:

which links a nice image of a sperm whale fluke to the portal and having it as a template allows the image to be changed at just one location rather than to change it on every page.

Nice to see a Cetaceans article as the featured article on the main page, Right whale. Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 11:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Right whale is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 22:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

There ought to be a userbox for this project. --

Perhaps, if a userbox is created, it should look like this:

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Hi, per your request at

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05:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! --

Gray Porpoise

15:58, 21 July 2006 (UTC)