Talk:Gammarus roeselii

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Hello Stemonitis, I think that your edit of Gammarus roeselii was very bad. It removed more information that it benefit. There CAN be listed countries of distribution as it is for example in featured article Jaguar. Your edit was against Wikipedia:Editing_policy "... try to preserve information". (And I do not agree with your note User talk:Stemonitis/Archive11#Animal distribution. There can be mentioned even Liechtenstein if it is at the margin of distribution area.) I have even improved simple list with capitulations of areas (western, central and southern Europe), but you still do not like it. And you have destroyed useful information about alien species. --Snek01 18:09, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, yes, I did overstep the mark, slightly. I removed one small piece of information, but that's all. The vast majority remained, and that which was taken away was only due to my oversight. The fact remains that a raw listing of presence and absence data is not the purpose of an encyclopaedia, which is to provide a summary, ideally from secondary sources. The raw data is still available through the (now single) link to Fauna Europea. If the species is known to be invasive, then that should be added, but not as a footnote in a table. Unfortunately, your source doesn't provide that information. I have found a better source, and added the relevant information. --Stemonitis 18:25, 5 May 2007 (UTC)