Talk:List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera

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[edit] Thumbnails

The thumbnails seem to affect the list (at least on Firefox 1.5) and it gets narrower after the Colorado beetle. Perhaps the images should be moved to galleries between list sections and kept in top level list entries alone. Shyamal 07:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Common names"

Given the admission that many of the so-called "common names" of families are not actually in general use, I don't think we can include them here. I have therefore culled the list significantly of these names, leaving in only the ones with which I was familiar. Since I am not a coleopterist, there may be many generally widespread names that I have deleted and which could be reinstated. Many of them are, however, clearly inventions and have no place in Wikipedia. I would also recommend that unless a really widespread name is in existence we use the scientific name, which practice is promoted by only having links on the scientific names and not on the common names. Invented vernacular names are a curse on systematics and should be avoided wherever possible. --Stemonitis 13:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)