Talk:Sea-Monkey
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[edit] Hyphenation
The company seems to use the hyphen consistently (at least now). -- Toby Bartels 17:40, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)
[edit] Disambiguation
Does anyone remember the tv series "The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys"? Well, I made a page about it (hopefully it hasn't already been done but i searched for it...) maybe up the top of this page i could give a link to people searching for the tv show? if this is okay?
I would like to see an article on Stellar's Sea Monkey. Georg Stellar saw (and, I think, sketched) a creature he called the Sea Monkey during his arctic trips. Exactly one mention of it on the web. Curious. I don't know anything about it other than that.
[edit] marketing and plagiarism
this "article" is composed almost entirely of plargiarized marketing material, and is almost entirely devoid of information relevant to sea monkeys. i think this is a problem.
This page is not only problematic, it is completely useless...
[edit] I agree
It's been flagged for reading like an advertisement. Someone really should rework this entire thing.
[edit] Definately needs a thorough cleaning
I aggree, the article is a rip-off from the advertisement. I have already added critical comments. I would rather prefer to shorten the article. Remove the marketing stuff and rather focus on the basic things that SeaMonkey are: an instant life kit. I think it would be best to put all gadget-like-additions on one pile and put something in like: A whole range of accessoires and tanks are offered, like... (summary) So I would like to rework the article to what Sea-Monkeys are and what they are not. Would any of you aggree with such complete rework?
[edit] Reworked the page somewhat (81.11.226.19 in history)
I removed all non-factual info such as "The Sea-Monkeys play in excitement..." and that sort of nonsense. I also rearranged the tanks/packages/... to basic_packages/additional_packages/tanks/... I'm still not sure if all the fancy_stuff_info should be kept as elaborate as it is at the moment, but I leave that to others to decide.
20:22, 8 January 2006 81.11.226.19 Stijn
[edit] Brine shrimp
This probably needs to be merged with the article for brine shrimps.
[edit] I did a little cleaning up
I don't really know or care much about Sea Monkeys, but I've done some cleaning up here. The entire equipment section was useless so I just got rid of it. A number of the external links weren't really appropriate either - the link to the band should be on the band's article, if they are important enough to warrant one. E-CBD 02:36, 23 January 2006 (UTC)E-CBD
I agree with the clean-up and removal of the marketing stuff. --Stijn Ghesquiere 09:12, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I went through and removed the comments about the cruelty of the various "toys". I don't disagre that they are probably cruel, but the comments were not presented in a nonbiased way. Someone needs to present it in a more professional manor. --ScooterSES 16:21, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
It's too bad that deleting the offending parts was favored over tweaking them. When the amazing thing about Sea Monkeys is their fantastical marketing campaign for shrimp in plastic tubes, an equipment section can further illustrate the absurd depths of Sea Monkey propaganda. Wikipedia benefits by clearly delineating the boundary between marketing claims and fact, but also suffers by simply deleting ad-resembling material. -- Anonymous 20:37, 20 March 2006 (EST)
- The article as it stands now, already describes the clever marketing of the product. The "equipment section" is plainly unimportant. If the idea is to illustrate the "mass marketing propanganda", a section on "Marketing campaign" will do it. Having a list of equipments and what they do won't. -- Dodo bird 07:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removed advertisement notice
I removed the "reads like an advertisement" notice because I think it's OK now. I didn't find the article to be promotional as it stands. discospinster 16:52, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Packet content
Is the long list of description for each packet content necessary? It seems to contradict the section under the "Commercial kit availability"
From "Commercial kit availability":
- Basically, one adds a 'purifier package' on day one. However, the user is unaware that this package already contains eggs in addition to the salt. At day two, one adds the 'instant eggs package', containing epsom salts, borax and soda, in addition to eggs, yeast, and a blue dye.
I think the article stands well without the detailed explanation, but I'll leave it as it is for now. -- Dodo bird 05:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
This Sea-monkey article desperately needs to be merged into Brine shrimp. It's _totally_ inappropriate for this much genuine informational material to be located under the increasingly obscure trademarke name used by one manufacturer. The material that is of a biological nature needs to be merged into the existing Brine shrimp material; the material on keeping them as pets should be its own section; and the material on the Sea-Monkey brandname and its history should be another section, under Brine shrimp, with Sea-Monkey becoming a redirect to Brine shrimp. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] - 21:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- The Sea-monkey brand name is distinct enough for its own article. It is more on the clever marketing than on brine shrimps. And if there are any informational material here that applies to the brine shrimp article, it can simply be added there. --Dodo bird 21:46, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- Merge. Most – if not all – of the material regarding different types of brine shrimp and their biology and systematics should be sorted under, well, Brine shrimp, for the same reasons as why for example Automobile is not sorted under Cadillac, but has its own article. The current Sea-monkey article is confusing and close to misleading. As SMcCandlish I vote for keeping both articles, but making the boundaries between them more solid; one article for the scientific and biological data, and one for the brandname. — Tommy Kronkvist 15:40, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
This article does not need tho be merged with Brine shrimp because they are not. They are close relatives though--69.1.20.34 23:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)CCR ROX
Sea-Monkeys are a merchandising phenomenon that deserve a separate article, What I'd like to know is HOW they got away with what amounted to blatant lies. Those drawings are nothing like what you actually get - what laws wrt advertising were in place in the US in the 70s? Yes, it's been 25 years, I should let it rest... Kisch 03:21, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
They were put there as a marketing tool so kids would buy them that technique is not illegal.
Hey, when I was a kid I actually read the ad carefully, and it explicitly says that the caricatures are "not intended to depict Artemia Salina." Which I'd kind of guessed just from observing that the Mommy Sea-Monkey was shown to wear bows and lipstick. 171.66.216.218 21:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article Errors
The following text was added to the main article - since they are valid observations, I have moved it here for discussion and action. Kuru talk 03:39, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
- Dear Editor:
- There are several errors in your article.
- 1) The New World Artemia species (A. franciscana and A. persimilis) do not produce parthenogenetically. The old world species of Artemia are divided into two groups. The bisexual species (A. salina = A. tunisiana?, A. urmiana, A. sinica, etc.) do not reproduce parthenogenetically. The parthenogenetic populations either produce no males, or rare males. These males do not seem to contribute to the population, but this is not certain. The taxonomic assignment of the parthenogenetic populations as "A. parthenogenetica"is disputed by many, since the modifications to their meiotic mechanisms and allele frequencies vary considerably.
- 2) Although there are a few instances where parthenogenetic and bisexual populations of Artemia inhabit the same saltern, they do not interbreed. We know this because their genic make up is different.
- 3) Sexually reproducing Artemia females must mate each time if the new batch of eggs are to become embryos. (There is no sperm storage in Artemia the way there is in insects). If the females fail to mate, no young are produced.
- 4) Sea monkeys are not hybrids. They are simply commercialized regular Artemia.
- Richard D. Squire, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez. rsquire@uprm.edu I have been doing Artemia research since 1964.
[edit] Vandalism
Someone has vandalized this page in a major way. It's now really useless, and sort of offensive.
Sea Monkey Would SOO Beat A Shark!x
[edit] commercial kit availability
"As of 2005, there are even "Sea-Monkeys" themed slot machines. Sea-Monkeys are sometimes nicknamed "salty simians"."
Does this fact really need to be listed under this heading? It doesn't really fit.
