Talk:Eumeta crameri

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[edit] Wow

How did this article possibly survive from October 23, 2005? Magical. MGlosenger 02:35, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Wow is right! I am the original author of this article, so imagine my surprise at all the controversy I missed by not logging on for six months.

I'll take this opportunity to address the concern that this article was a hoax, as some thought, or that it was intended in some off-color way due to the common name for Eumeta crameri - large faggot worm. First, I think that the way this was addressed, without even the input of the author, is a great example of Wikipedia editing policies and procedures working correctly. I think that if I had been able to contribute to the discussion, perhaps it would not have been moved, but I think the resolution was a good consensus and that's what this community is all about.

So here is the background...

I have started seven article on various species of bagworm -

The large faggot worm is now this article, Eumeta crameri. Note that for every species of bagworm for which I have started an article, I used the common name instead of the species name unless no common name was known to me. The article for polar bear is not found under Ursus maritimus, but under the common name. I followed that pattern. In this case, the reference that provided the common name is no longer available on the web, but can be seen on the Internet Archive at the following link.[1]

So, by the only available reference, the common name is not faggot worm, but large faggot worm, and I'll make the appropriate change in the article shortly.

I wanted to learn how to write new articles on Wikipedia several years ago and decided that I would find an obscure animal and thoroughly research it. I have an old animal encyclopedia published in the UK in 1969 and simply went through Volume one until I found an under-covered animal, the bagworm moth. I then research in printed books and on the Internet, starting seven new articles and improving nearly every other article on the bagworm. The fact that the common name for one species was large faggot worm was unrelated to the American pejorative definition for an alternative spelling of the word "faggot.".

So, I hope, once and for all, this addresses the origin of the article and the common name. This is not a hoax and its origin here was completely unrelated to the American pejorative definition of the word. Condorman (talk) 06:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)