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Hello. I think we should consider merging Culicoides annettae, Culicoides chaverrii, Culicoides cummingi and all the other Culicoides stubs into the main article, Culicoides. Since the individual stubs consists of barely a line of text each, it would be more practical for readers to find all the information centralised in just one article. What do you think?--Leptictidium (mt) 19:49, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Questions have been raised about the accuracy of science articles written by the prolific author Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs). The background can be read in a regrettably long and bad-tempered thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive835#Harassment. If you do not want to read the whole thing, start here. To her credit, Cwmhiraeth has initiated Wikipedia:Editor review/Cwmhiraeth. It would help to generate light, rather than more heat, and to decide whether there is a serious problem, if scientifically-qualified editors uninvolved in the row could review some of Cwmhiraeth's articles and comment at the editor review. JohnCD (talk) 21:13, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Links to archived thread updated. JohnCD (talk) 13:24, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear insect experts: This page was never submitted at Afc to be part of the encyclopedia. Is this a notable topic, and should the page be kept and improved instead of being deleted as a stale draft? —Anne Delong (talk) 22:41, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing in that article is specific to Lepidoptera and it would probably be better to title it as "insect aggregation" and write about it in a more general way. I think the word "social" is a far more complicated term that would not apply here. Lepidoptera are not even considered presocial. See eusociality, sociality. Shyamal (talk) 05:23, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, changing the title is easy, but the original editor hasn't worked on it for at least six months, and the references are all about lepidoptera, so someone would have to take serious interest in it to find examples and sources for other insects in order to turn it into a general article. I thinks it's an interesting topic, but I don't have expertise in this field. If anyone wants to do this, he/she should edit the draft at least once soon so that it won't disappear. —Anne Delong (talk) 17:17, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect it would be easier to write afresh because the structure would be quite different. No major loss if this is put into the attic. Shyamal (talk) 04:48, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for checking this out. —Anne Delong (talk) 22:45, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello all, can someone do a check on Dioctria atricapilla? It's still listed as stub-class, but I'm pretty certain that it's much better than that now. I don't know much about bugs (not sure how I stumbled into this one....maybe a random page patrol?) and I've edited it way too much to give it a fair rating, so could someone check it out? Thanks, Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 19:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For your information, following discussions on Talk:Crowned crane#Requested move, on Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2014 March#Black crowned crane and especially on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Bird common name decapitalisation, it is now clear that the consensus is not to capitalise the common (vernacular) name of all species.

The guidelines are detailed on Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms.

Coreyemotela (talk) 20:05, 4 May 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Wikipedia can have information about NewBees.

• NewBees - YouTube (2:21)

—Wavelength (talk) 02:19, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not. Unless something happens to make it notable it's just a one-off joke/hoax posted on YouTube. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:11, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]