Talk:Bear
From Academic Kids
| Contents |
Attriution
I removed the following from the end of the first paragraph of the article:
- [This entry has been prepared by a fifth grade class in Reno, Nevada]
Excellent, but that information belongs on the talk page, not in the article. A good first paragraph in my opinion. The first paragraph of any article, if possible, ought to be understandable by advanced elementary school or middle school students. Fred Bauder 19:19 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)
Entertaining bears
i think entertaining bears are not polit. correct. There are organisations which try to give such bears a chance to live as they should. please mention that and don't write in one of the first sentence about the abuse of bears -- a german wikipedian
Caps
Guys, we had a big discussion on the mailing list regarding capitalization of names of animals. Don't remember how it came out (maybe capitalization of all words in name), but please look up whatever is the right way and follow it. Fred Bauder 10:32 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I missed that discussion, but convention holds that animal names should not be capitalized unless they contain a proper name within them (e.g. Thomson's gazelle, Canada goose). Names like "black bear," "polar bear," etc. should not be capitalized. -- Funnyhat 19:09, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Picture
Are we sure that the picture is a brown bear and not a brown colored black bear? Rmhermen 18:56, Sep 8, 2003 (UTC)
- I see that the picture page describes it as black bears so I changed it. Rmhermen 18:59, Sep 8, 2003 (UTC)
More detailed classification
A more detailed classification of the Bear family can be found on the "Nederlands" page. It includes subspecies. GerardM 07:19, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Red Panda
Currently, the Red Panda is listed as being a member both of Ursidae and Procyonidae on the respective family pages. It is listed as Ursidae on its own page. Should it thus be deleted from Procyonidae? john 03:50, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I'm trying to make the red panda pages agree. Don't change here with out changing
at least mammal Procyonidae and Red panda.
Apparent copyvio
The section of types of bear looks like a copyright violation from [1] (http://www.bearbiology.com/abdesc.html) and related pages. I have removed it. In general it would be better to describe types of bears on their species pages, not here. — Zeimusu | Talk 03:26, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Photo title?
Why does it read "Chrisoph Stelzer" above the bear photo?
