Talk:Pond fluke
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit ยท refresh) This page is in desperate need of clarification and new content. At the moment, it seems to suggest that bacteria and unclean water combine and cause pond flukes to spontaneously generate. I do not have the knowledge to upgrade this article appropriately, but surely somebody does! Kathrynt (talk) 23:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC) |
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Well, I'm no biologist, but I've tried to clean up this pile of crud. To quote an off-wiki observer,
- Is it just me, or does the current Wikipedia explanation of how Pond Flukes appear in stagnant ponds rely on the theory of spontaneous generation, which was discredited, oh, well over a hundred years ago?
Not quite, but close. This page said:
- Pond flukes are the result of extremely dirty still water which has no oxygen flow going into it whatsoever, and bacteria begin to multiply and evolve rapidly. Eventually, they become pond flukes, first starting off as an infant stage. Tiny, and grey. In about a week, if the conditions are right. They grow longer, thick and white. If Pond flukes occur, any other creatures in the body of water, are likely to die off with disease.
This is nonsense. Bacteria do not evolve into trematodes! Flukes are parasites, not free-living waterworms.
The creator and main contributor to this page, Francisco Tevez, has been banned as a sock puppet. I have replaced the page's content with what I can verify quickly. --Thnidu (talk) 02:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Deletion (redirection)
When I made the drastic changes described above, I wondered if there would be enough left to make the article worth keeping. As I said, I'm no biologist, and I'm not an experienced Wiki editor or author, so I didn't want to just delete it and the discussion. Now I see (from a message to my user page) that it has been redirected to Trematoda. That's fine with me, so I've added the "db-author" template as was suggested. --Thnidu (talk) 21:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
