Talk:Tabanidae

message: The entry is abundant in terms of the topics it covers. The images are informative, relevant, and easy to view. The tone is academic and neutral, limiting bias. The entry is does not seem to contain any original research, heavily citing references. One thing I learned that was most interesting to me was that the female must have a blood meal before she can reproduce, so the female bites animals to gain this blood (and the stings are very painful). 
andrewoh29 (talk) 18:53, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commentary for Behavioral Ecology Class 

message: Should the reference to horseflies in literature be included in the article summary? Would a section for literature or popular culture be better? If the reference is left in the summary we should look for non Western myth or reference to include as well. 
Jgmac1106 (talk) 13:13, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to Literature in the Stub? 

message: Whether the subject of the article should be hyphenated appears doubtful; compare the selection of dictionaries offering "horse-fly" with those offering "horsefly". WolfmanSF (talk) 15:12, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphenation 

message: I know this article is in British English, but surely the American spelling (I think) horsefly should also be mentioned, either as a second option in the first sentence, or somewhere in the "Common names" section.
I would prefer the first option, as is often done for words that vary between varieties of English, also because it seems a little awkward to shoehorn it into "Common names", which is about other names, not other spellings.
I'd do it myself, but I'm slightly unsure whether this is really an ENGVAR difference, or just a free stylistic variation, and the wording might be a little different in the two cases. --Trovatore (talk) 02:29, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the singular name isn't there but the plural names "horse-flies" and "horseflies" are, and I think that is sufficient. I don't think it is an ENGVAR matter, just a lack of consistency on hyphenating words across Wikipedia. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:17, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Strange - according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the spelling is horsefly, without a hyphen!!!   Regards Denisarona (talk) 08:07, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this is an ENGVAR thing either. Usually in insect name discussions, one word is used when it isn't actually a fly, etc. like dragonfly. In this case though, we actually are talking about flies, so that's why you'll see scientists separating the words like we do with bat bug. In the US, you'll often see similar iterations like that using the term horse fly  as two words. Not a huge deal, but something like horsefly or horse-fly would technically be less correct, but horsefly or horse fly gets used pretty interchangeably. Horse-fly seems to be not so common though compared to the others. KoA (talk) 17:54, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where to mention one-word spelling? 

message: We called them Dracula Flies when I was young, in Ireland. My family use this name today. Nmclough (talk) 19:02, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dracula flies 

message: Why the old-timey looking hyphen? Shouldn't it be "Horse fly" or "Horsefly?" Americanfreedom (talk) 16:05, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Hyphen?