Talk:Alligatoridae

message: Caimen or Caymen? We should be consistent. Opinions please. Tannin
:just to muddy the waters (LOL), my preference would be Caiman, Crocodile Jim
:Newspaper reports on the one half a mile from my house have "caiman." I was actually looking for the animal under that name in Wikipedia. --Calieber 13:09, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: While Caiman seems to be the currently preferred spelling, I've seen Cayman, Kayman, and rarely Kaiman. Also, since the word has nothing to do with 'Man' as in Homo sapiens, the proper plural is Caimans (Note the 's'). CFLeon 00:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Caiman or Cayman?

message: I just edited out a puzzling statement claiming that the Bill Haley recording See You Later Alligator allegedly "saluted the departure of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm from Los Angeles to Buena Park, California." I've been researching Bill Haley's music for 25 years and I can say with certainty that this is most definitely incorrect. Can anyone provide a source for this original statement? If so, please leave a note in my Talk area - I'm curious to find out where this came from. Thanks! 23skidoo 22:04, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Puzzling...

message: Shouldn't Caimans have a separate article from alligators?  Alligators already have their own article, it seems stupid to have an Alligator article and a Alligator and Caiman article.  TastyCakes 17:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate Article

message: I'm confused. Alligators represented by the Caiman but they are not true alligators? --Gbleem 03:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The family Alligatoridae is composed of two groups: caiman (=subfamily Caimaninae) and true alligators (=subfamily Diplocynodontinae).  I'll give you that much of this page is written in a confusing manner, with the word "alligator" sometimes meaning "alligatoridae" and sometimes meaning "diplocynodontinae."  But, hey, this is Wikipedia, so you can fix it!  Enuja 04:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wait, wait. Where does diplocynodontinae come from? Is Diplocynodon a senior synonym of Alligator? By ICZN rules, if Alligator is the type of Alligatoridae, and it's the senior-most family name available, the rule of coordination comes into play--that is, it must go Alligatoroidea, Alligatoridae, Alligatorinae, Alligator. In fact, now that I look this up, Diplocynodon appears to be a member of Diplocynodontidae, a seperate family from Alligatoridae all together. I'll change this back pending an explaination... Dinoguy2 07:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just going from the Wikipedia article; your skepticism is appropriate, and I have no explaination.  Enuja 18:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alligator, true alligator, alligatoridae 

message: This article is confusing and the language employed is poor. It looks like someone ran the text through babelfish. can someone with knowledge please correct the language? What's this nonsense about?
"Alligators proper occur in the fluvial deposits of the age of the Upper Chalk in Europe, where they did not die out until the Pliocene age."
I'm a geologist and it's got me lost.
:You're also illiterate, Springyard.  "ledgible" and "it's got" are worse.  Why don't you look up "proper" in the dictionary? -lysdexia 00:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this ledgible? 

message: The article makes this claim: "The Black Caiman and American Alligator are the only members of the alligator family posing the same danger to humans as the larger species of the crocodile family."
Huh? Everything I've read says American Alligators aren't nearly as dangerous as crocodiles. (I know nothing about the black caiman.) Where did this come from? Does anyone have a source? (Sources would be good everywhere in this article.) --MiguelMunoz (talk) 17:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danger 

message: The pictures in the article are said to be of Alligators not Caimans? well, I took this picture at the caiman exhibit at the Mayaguez zoo in Puerto Rico. Maybe it can be used. They look alot smaller than alligators. There also seems to be some good caiman online articles to get info from, such as hereCaiman crocodilus well, we will see. Arsdelicata (talk) 14:43, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caiman Picture 

message: *Don't merge this family article to to the subfamilyAlligatorinae, becauce this family even have the subfamily Caimaninae plus two extinct genuses.
*Strong oppose, don't merge Alligatoridae &  Alligatorinae! What, do you know better than the taxonomists??? Valerius Tygart (talk) 11:14, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Alligatorinae

message: I have removed the footnote asserting that the list of taxa in the Taxonomy section of the article appears to have been copied from MobileReference's The Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Reptiles and Amphibians, since the copying has almost certainly been in the opposite direction.  MobileReference's encyclopedia is a fork of Wikipedia (see the licensing information on its "back cover"), as are many other of its publications.
David Wilson (talk · cont) 15:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  MobileReference 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alligatoridae&diff=next&oldid=52736712
I think Radetzky22 was a troll and there is no Caiman sorontans that exist.
This edit was similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columbidae&diff=prev&oldid=53182286
Black-headed Pigeon, Columba nigercapitis? --Toxoplasma II. (talk) 23:08, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caiman sorontans 

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message: Something I looked for that in the article, not there, wished it was, didn't fix that, wrote this message to the future: if you have that information handy, please send an email, thanks cygnis insignis 21:27, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
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