Talk:Chinese giant salamander

message: Please notice that the scientific name of this species, Andrias davidianus, needs a redirect page to the article. 212.10.85.39 (talk) 19:41, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Thanks for the tip. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 22:06, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Scientific name needs redirect

message: Hi Shrumster, Per your undoing of my edit on 17 January 2009.  It is not conventional to have the scientific name in bold after the title of the article unless there is no common name.  (See Opheodrys vernalis, Hellbender, Lissemys punctata, etc.) I'm not up for an editing battle, but with a very common and unique English name for this animal, the Latin shouldn't be in bold. Struhs (talk) 23:29, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: No bold for Latin name

message: indidnt edit it because it includes some modifiers, but the Fort Worth Zoo also has a Chinese Giant Salamander. I took my family there last week and saw it.Kjrjr (talk) 18:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if those facilities are recorded in ISIS, but in 2008 there where also individuals in Cologne, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Berlin (Zoo) and Karlsruhe, the first two still exhibiting them. For other European facilities, present and past, see here: http://zootierliste.de/?klasse=4&ordnung=402&familie=40201&art=3060101&subhaltungen=1 --2003:E3:6BC9:8B00:65C7:1EB2:D81B:E794 (talk) 10:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zoos with specimens  

message: Back on 26-Oct-2012, the entry on iridovirus was made. No citations since, not even which strain. Can anyone find any citation for that entry and perhaps, a bit of a cleanup? The sentence 'This virus is carried in the bodies of vertebrates' doesn't do very much for explanation, compared perhaps to the entry on the viral family Iridoviridae, which is sensitive to thermal conditions.Wzrd1 (talk) 19:10, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iridovirus 

message: Most of this article is well-supported. However, much of what can be found in the subsections under "Decline in population" is messy, partially correct, partially incorrect, partially misplaced repeats, and with big parts lacking citations.
I've now rewritten the "Climate change" subsection entirely. Of the three paragraphs, the first was a simplified repeat taken directly from the "Distribution and habitat" section where it belongs (where it has citations, which the repeat lacked!). The second was another repeat that doesn't have anything to do with climate change. The third and final paragraph was a complete mess. It talks about torpor, but this is entirely irrelevant (good luck finding citations for it too). The ongoing climate change results in a temperature increase, not decrease! Then it speaks about Chytridiomycosis, which has caused serious declines in amphibians in many parts of the world, but no evidence that this is the case for Chinese giant salamanders. Unsurprising since it is found in the region where the fungus may well have originated (unlike the related Japanese giant, which lived in isolation on the Japanese islands). There are other diseases such as Ranavirus that are known to cause serious problems for the Chinese giant salamander, but nothing temperature related. Unsurprisingly, the only citations for this section was an entirely unspecified "29" (nothing more; no author, year, title, anything!). I've now removed the repeats that belong elsewhere in the article (where already found with citations) and removed the incorrect info supported by non-existing citation "29". Now it's a short section, but at least the info is relevant to climate change and has citations.
The articles remaining subsections under "Decline in population" aren't as problematic, but they still have some serious issues. Most was added by user:5C ext2014 in 2014 and these are the only edits ever made by this user. His initial edits were reverted (by Mcmatter and ClueBot NG), which perhaps was a bit too much. I'll leave it for now as there are some useful things in it. Regardless, it needs to be rewritten. 62.107.210.139 (talk) 17:10, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic "Decline in population" subsections 

message: Apart from the obvious contradiction between its endangered status and "thousands" of breeding [pairs/farms], the article is currently missing the vital information of what does it taste like. Calling them "apparently delicious" but not explaining the flavor is just begging for foreigners to join the market. — LlywelynII 09:11, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no contradiction: IUCN status and alike always rely on wild status. You can have many in captivity, but that is irrelevant to its wild status. It's the same with wild horse vs. horse, addax, Arabian oryx, tiger, many sturgeon species, Denison barb, red-tailed black shark, etc, etc. If someone believes a detailed description of taste–a highly subjective matter–belongs in the article he/she can add it. If the editor can find WP:RS. The current wiki article only uses NPOV by simply calling it a delicacy in China (supported by refs, too), but does not attempt to make a detailed description of something that essentially is subjective. The only parts of the article that remain highly problematic are most "Decline in population" subsections (as described in the comment just above on this talk page) and "Conservation efforts", but "In zoos and aquariums" could also use some work. 80.62.116.216 (talk) 18:33, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs work

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*I say hold off on splitting anything until they actually formally name this mysterious third species   User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk  00:49, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split [[Chinese giant salamander species 3]] 

message: Hello, I have attempted to make a distribution map for this species as requested. I used The WikiProject Maps Conventions colours. I based it on the following sources:
* [IUCN Red List]
* [Berkley Mapper]
* [National Institute for Environmental Studies]
Please let me know if anything needs to be changed and I can update the map! Jebbles (talk) 12:20, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distribution map 

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