Talk:Lorisidae

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Hmm... this is inconsistent with the articles on Primates and Galagos, which say that Galagos are in a separate family. This whole taxonomy business could become rather a mess with NPOV, couldn't it? Because there are any number of taxonomic conflicts, and to assert any kind of order over the whole mess, one scheme has to be accepted as "authoritative", even if others are acknowledged... john 08:01 May 11, 2003 (UTC)

Just so, John, no two schemes line exactly up. We have been actively dealing with this over in the bird sections for quite some while now, in the only way that seems practical: discussing alternative arrangements both in the text and on the talk pages, and trying to work together as cooperatively as we can. We seem to be muddling through OK so far, no edit wars, goodwill on all sides. But it certainly gets curly sometimes. Tannin

[Just to pop in and say that taxonomy should be getting a bit of a kick up the bum soonish. There is a huge primate (i believe it is solely primates) taxonomy book (well four volumes actually) to be released around July 2007, and, whilst it won't be perfect, it is asking the current experts in the field for their opinions on the taxonomy of the species (and how many species exist, if they are subspecies etc etc). I know this because I've met one of the writers/editors :). -Raggs (non-registered)]

[edit] Merging

Do Loris and Lorisidae regard the same subject? --Rebel2 05:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

If you even looked, you'd see that Loris = Lorisinae, while Lorisidae = Lorisinae + Perodicticinae. In other words, one artcle is about a biological family, whily the other is about one side of that family. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:13, 7 August 2006 (UTC)