Talk:List of miscellaneous fictional animals

message: What sort of fish is Nemo in Finding Nemo? -- Timwi 01:29 19 Jun 2003 (UTC)
P.S. please avoid spoilers, I've yet to see it... thanks -- Timwi 01:31 19 Jun 2003 (UTC)
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Wow, learnt something new today.  A sponge is an animal.
Thx Wiwaxia
~ender 2003-09-20 00:57:MST
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Anyone got any information on TaoTao? (Panda) Mat-C 05:35, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: We have now decided to include only notable animals. I agree that this list is still potentially infinite, but at least it's more manageable. If you think the list should be deleted entirely then please visit WP:AfD. Frankly I think categories are a much better way to deal with a topic like this than a list. -Thibbs (talk) 13:41, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments from 2003-2004

message: I think that the organization of these fictional animals according to form of media is not the best. It is true that this is how the lists on other fictitious animals is organized, but structurally the form of subdivision used here is of a lesser order than a subdivision based on species (or genus, etc) of animal. If it were otherwise, I would expect articles on "list of fictional animals in video games" rather than "list of fictional dogs." Unless there are any reasons to keep things as they are currently, I will make the change to divide these animals by kind rather than by medium. This would also allow us the benefit of using main-tags. Any objections? -Thibbs (talk) 20:00, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This combines a list of types of animal with a list of specific animals. (I think both are ridiculous, but I'm not going to win that argument.) 86.131.89.40 (talk) 00:17, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Overall organization

message: Why the heck are there Zoo Tycoon animals here? They aren't fictitous! 78.148.111.226 (talk) 18:16, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zoo Tycoon 

message: This is a separate article & it has now been deleted due to lack of notability. Is this siome kind of sniping campaign against this larger article? Because itr makes nom sense to have weasels unrepresented when there are categories for sponges, molluscs, wombats - even a bloody pangolin for god s sake. What has anyone got against weasels fer Chrissakes? Now we see the naked mustelidophobia. Its the "Wind in the Willows" fiasco allover again!--Streona (talk) 14:57, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Fictional Weasels

message: I have just reorganized this list to repair the strangely inconsistent approach whereby subsections listing animal phyla (e.g. arthropoda) were given equivalent subcategorization as subsections listing animal species (e.g. Aarvarks). I have now recategorized it such that the first level of subcategorization covers phyla, the second level covers classes, the third level covers orders, and the fourth level covers all lower groupings (families, genera, and species). I have altered the subsection titles where I felt that the average reader might not be familiar with the meaning of the term. The hope is that this will protect against the unnecessary addition of duplicative categories by editors who have not actually reviewed the article but have only used the TOC. I have also altered the TOC depth to show orders as the deepest level. I hope this tidies things up a bit and gives it an objective categorization which will allow much greater consistency. -Thibbs (talk) 17:31, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I just merged all subsections that differentiated down to the species level. I think it makes good sense for this article to descend no deeper than genus considering that the more specific "List of fictional... Animal-X" articles (e.g. List of fictional cats, List of fictional dogs, etc.) would be the place where species-level differentiation occurs. If a family or genus becomes too populous here I think that we should consider splitting it out and creating its own article. This is the only way to ensure that this article doesn't become fragmented into hundreds of subsections each holding only 2-3 members. -Thibbs (talk) 15:35, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reworking organization

message: Where the shrew? --Ljrfnfvfhe (talk) 12:27, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrews 

message: I feel like the cetaceans should be merged with the ungulates. Cetaceans are also classified as ungulates, despite the fact that they, similarly to pachyderms, lack hooves. I would also consider doing a similar thing to the sirenians, since sirenians are also classified as ungulates (and by a greater extent, they are also classified as pachyderms). Since the sirenians do not have as many notable fictional characters of their numerous species as the cetaceans, they can be merged with another list one of three ways; A. either merge both the cetaceans and the sirenians into the ungulates list, B. merge the cetaceans into the general ungulates list, then merge the sirenians into the pachyderms list, or C. give the cetaceans their own article with a list of fictional cetaceans, then incorporate the sirenians into it to make it a list of fictional cetaceans and sireneans. --Uptherial (talk) 02:52, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Cetaceans and sirenians