Talk:Herring

message: "predator fish such as sharks, dog fish, billfish, tuna...." Is there a need to specify dogfish, once sharks have been mentioned?  They are sharks, after all. o0drogue0o 07:11, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predators 

message: There doesn't seem to be a translation of this page yet there is [Hareng] page in the french wikipedia (for example). Yet that page links to Atlantic Herring - should it link here instead? It seems this is a problem in all languages. --TheAnarcat (talk) 22:16, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I agree with you, but another editor doesn't. See Herring vs. Clupea interwiki above. --Epipelagic (talk) 00:30, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation?? 

message: The interwiki on this article is confusing. A friend of mine wanted to know what the fish is called in Chinese, I introduced him to the concept of interwiki links, and we went to the most popular name of the fish, which is Herring, only to find no interwiki at all! Afterwards I see the discussion above and Olaff claiming to have examined the articles in details on every linked wiki and found them to be about the specific scientific name not the general fish. I assure you that :ar:رنجة for example, which is my native tongue (which you incorrectly mislabeled as Thai in your discussion, it's not Thai, it's Arabic), points to the general fish description and not a specific scientific name. And I am pretty confident at least some others are the same,  I also dont see the point of having a general article with no interwiki where everyone would search, and a scientific named article which has all the interwiki, the purpose of interwiki is for people to see information in other languages, and for this specific article, I am sure 99% of people searching for the information would be searching for the term 'Herring' not 'Clupea'. I see two things that can be done here:
*  Interwiki need to point to the popular name that everyone in other languages expects it to be, namely Herring.
* If anyone is concerned about the scientific correctness of the general article, both articles should be merged (i don't care under which name, as long as there is a redirect).
I am going to put back the interwiki for the Arabic article and remove if from the other article because that's one I am sure what the article refers to, other than that I will leave it to the active editors of this article to resolve this --Shipmaster (talk) 05:33, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've asked Olaff if he would mind clarifying his position --Epipelagic (talk) 08:06, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing interwiki 

message: An angry  warring editor has been replacing, on articles everywhere as well as the herring article, the term rorqual whales with rorqual. He/she reasons that rorqual is a type of whale, so it is redundant to refer to them as rorqual whales. Of course that is technically correct, but in my view "rorqual whales" is a more transparent term for many readers, probably most readers, who will not be aware that a rorqual is a type of whale. --Epipelagic (talk) 05:54, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that in contexts where it's not clear that Wikipedia is talking about a whale, we should save the reader a click (and not leave print readers in the dark) by mentioning what a rorqual is. In this article the paragraph already mentions whales and the reader can probably fill in the blanks, but I don't see any harm in clarifying that a rorqual is indeed a whale, rather than another larger sea creature that also lunge feeds. If User:SHFW70's objection is merely that "rorqual whale" looks clumsily redundant to experts in the same way as "PIN number", it's a simple matter to rephrase the sentence in such a way that it mentions that rorquals are whales without calling them "rorqual whales" - I'll do that now. --McGeddon (talk) 09:20, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, the phrase is fine.  It appears quite often in scholarly literature.  Please don't feel the need to rewrite anything just for the sake of getting rid of it.  ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 07:29, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Rorquals

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message: I'm surprised there's no mention of the largest Herring fisheries in the world on the coast of Norway and the collapse of it. 
Two of the worlds largest herring migrations went along the coast of Norway - one of which migrated between Iceland and Norway. 
Every year the Orca's on the coast of Norway chase vast amounts of Herring into Norwegian fjords, and reports of large amounts of herring are even jumping onto dry land. The Norwegian herring export has been among the largest if not the largest herring or fish export in and of the world - exported as far as india as early as the 1920's according to some sources and historians. The history of the herring fisheries in Norway has even been iconic for the description of industrialization - as when large steam driven boats and trawlers started competing with the traditional fishermen in their small boats with sail and rowing oars - a famous large battle being fought even between the industrial steam driven trawlers and the traditional fishermen 6. March 1890
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollfjordslaget  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.211.210.202 (talk) 06:53, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norway's herring fisheries. 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Feliciano#/media/File:Jose_Feliciano_,_zanger-gitarist_USA,_Jose_Feliciano_eet_nieuwe_haring,_Bestanddeelnr_923-5530.jpg
Eating herring raw, a Dutch tradition, this pic explains it all. This is how they serve it, traditional outfit. 1970, we can use this picture, it's open for all to use properties.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A452:7D4C:1:BC17:671F:54BB:CE53 (talk) 21:54, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  nieuwe_haring 

message: The history (of herring fishing) is very short.  The second graphic in the entire article is a chart that shows dramatic peaks and valleys.  It would be quite informative if an explanation -- or at least discussion -- of these changes were added to the history section.  Kdammers (talk) 02:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  History