Talk:List of mammals of Korea

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[edit] Korean names

Great list, but I don't see how the Korean names will be useful to the English reader. Why are they displayed? CG 18:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

For the usual reasons: verifiability and providing suitable context information. A person wanting to do further study on the mammals of Korea would be hard pressed to find much of value without having access to the Korean-language names. That would include a Wikipedian seeking to verify the claims here through sources other than the single English-language source cited. Beyond that, it would be a trifle odd, methinks, to provide a list of animals in a non-English-speaking country without any reference to the names by which the animals are actually known there. Note that each name is linked to an English-language Wiktionary entry providing background information on each name. -- Visviva 06:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright on images

I'm skeptical of the copyright status of some of the images on this list. Image:Sable.gif says it was painted by the user, but it looks like a book scan. Same thing with Image:Faroe stamp 402 blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) crop.jpg. It says it was given by [1], but that site looks like a stamp store. Anyways, you might look into it, since it's a featured list. - Peregrine Fisher 08:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up; I've replaced those with images that are clearly PD (though not quite as pretty). I agree that the sable image is suspiciously high-quality, though I can't find any source that it might have been lifted from. And on closer examination, it does seem that the copyright status of Faeroese stamps is unclear; see commons:Template talk:Faroe stamps. Cheers, -- Visviva 09:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)