Talk:Cherry shrimp

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[edit] Working on the Cleanup

I did a preliminary clean-and-polish job on the article. It still needs a lot of work, including a taxonomy box, illustrations (I'll upload some pictures of my shrimp once I've had more sleep!), sources, and a lot of linkage. A lot of details need to be nailed down, too, including the time for eggs to hatch, a few technical terms, the natural and trade history of the species, mention of and linkage to related species, etc. More to come.

Worldwalker (talk) 09:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial Links

Note to shrimp vendors who are trying to advertise here: I can't speak for other hobbyists, but I make a policy of not doing business with companies that try to stick their advertising into Wikipedia pages. That's two of you so far. Any more want to try for my personal no-buy list?

Worldwalker (talk) 17:27, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial Links & Page Rename

Yea I no longer post my commercial links, only links to a webpage on my site that contains information, or my forum. My shrimp store is about .5% the size of the rest of my site. Go to www.planetinverts.com www.planetinverts.com/forum and then check www.planetinverts.com/store

Also, can you rename the page "Red Cherry Shrimp" instead of "Cherry Shrimp" please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Planetinverts (talk • contribs) 21:45, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Let me try to explain this simply: There should be no heading on any Wikipedia page entitled "Commercial Links". There should be no links wherein you, or anyone else, offer for sale whatever is described in the article. This is an encyclopedia. You have been asked to stop inserting such links; please follow the Wikipedia policies and cease doing so. And yes, we'll spot it when you put the URL in a picture instead of in text.
If you have information on your website that you feel would be a good addition to this article, then by all means feel more than free to contribute it. I'm certain you have considerably more knowledge about freshwater shrimp than I do; I've been breeding them less than a year, and only RCS so far. Anything you could add to the article would be appreciated. However, putting a link to your website is not the same thing as contributing the information to this article.
You sell shrimp. Your website sells shrimp. You put a link to your store under a self-created "Commercial Links" heading so that you could sell shrimp. It has been removed several times and you persist in inserting it again. Understandably, you want to sell shrimp. However, just as you will not find a "Commercial Links" section in the Unicycle article providing links to unicycle stores, nor one in the Violin article listing musical instrument dealers, your link to your shrimp store (whether directly or to a page that lists it right under "home" and "forum") has no place in this, or any other, Wikipedia article. This is meant to be a complete and self-contained encyclopedia article, not a teaser to direct people to commercial websites.
So, please, contribute your knowledge and experience. Contribute your pictures, so long as they do not include your advertising. Comment on this Talk page and tell us what we need to work on. Share what you know; that's the spirit of Wikipedia. Just don't try to use this article (or any article) for commercial purposes. Worldwalker (talk) 09:14, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page Name

Agreed, "Cherry Shrimp" is possibly the worst name for it out of all the likely alternatives. Do we want to go with "Red Cherry Shrimp" or "Neocaridina heteropoda"? Normally I'd say go with the scientific name, but the way the taxonomists have been going on a rampage through the shrimp names lately, I think the common name actually has a greater chance of remaining stable.

Y'know, while we're at it, we need a genus page for Neocaridina too. At least until they split it into about three new genera, none of which are Neocaridina. (Me? Cynical? What makes you think that?) Worldwalker (talk) 10:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I've been thinking about the taxonomy and page naming issue.

We have a basic problem here in that many of our domestic shrimp are color morphs of the wild types. I think the most logical solution would be to have each species page under the scientific name (if the bloody taxonomists will leave them alone long enough for us to edit a page!), with sections for each of the color variants (if any) and redirects from the trade names of that species.

We also really need some better separation between scientific information and aquarium information in all of the shrimp articles. It's kind of mixed, which blurs the purpose of both sections.

Thoughts?

Worldwalker (talk) 09:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)