User talk:Justin/10-11-07

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Importance rating for animal articles

Hello there. I hadn't looked at the importance guidelines, though determinate cleavage is a topic that is taught in first year undergraduate courses, and probably high school biology as well (I don't know, I didn't take biology in high school). That would suggest it should be mid, if not high importance. It's somewhat difficult for someone who isn't familiar with school and university curricula to judge importance though, and those sorts of assessment schemes can result in very 'top heavy' situations (I dislike seeing many MCB articles rated 'top' just because they are in some high school curriculum; lots of things are in high school curricula. Ideally we want few top importance articles and many low importance ones. Richard001 07:09, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I choose the MCB rating scale because I assumed it would be a little easier to assess things, but I'm already finding it's a pain. I can't remember for the life of me what I worked on in high school biology, which suggests it was probably more than we want in the top-importance category. I'm thinking perhaps the best solution is taking on the WP:BIRDS/WP:PLANTS importance ratings. J. Hall • (Talk) 07:19, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Richard001 00:14, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Animals

I see the Wikiproject has already been created, and I'd love to help out. Yes, I'm busy, but I'll find some time to help out on a few things. I'm going to go ahead and start working on the Animals article. Cheers, Corvus coronoides talk 17:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Bryozoans

Where would I find the Wikipedia policy that requires changing Bryozoa to Bryozoans, Echiura to Echiurans, etc. ? --Bejnar 22:31, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

There isn't one, however all of the rest of the animals by scientific classification in Category:Animals uses the plural form. So it only makes sense that they all do. J. Hall • (Talk) 01:29, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Bryozoa is a mass noun, so to that extent it is plural already. --Bejnar 01:02, 15 October 2007 (UTC)