Talk:Short-tail stingray

message: Is this really called a bull ray? The article about family of eagle rays says that the genus Pteromylaeus are called bull rays. Are bull rays now a genus of eagle rays or a species of the genus dasyatis? I'm really confused now... --84.226.146.231 22:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, with actuall article about the Bull Ray species, and a disambuguation page fopr the many species called bull ray. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 18:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bull Ray???

message: Does anyone know if this is venmous, or did Steve die from the act of the tail stabbing him like a dagger? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crash331 (talk • contribs) 
:I don't know personally, but the article is listed in the category of :Category:Venomous animals. That might indicate something. -- Longhair 20:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Most sources have cited that the venom would not have likely been a factor. TheHYPO 20:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sohair, The drawing is not useless. Supply something better yourself rather than complain. "No one knows stingrays can be dangerous..."!!?  What a silly statement, just revealing your ignorance. Please do a little research in future before bursting into print.  GrahamBould 21:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

text: I think that the rarity of deaths by stingrays and the fact of Steve Irwins persona would warrant a couple of sentences about his death in this article. LindaWarheads 21:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

text: The article on Steve used to mention that, but it was an error. 17 as of 1996 is what's been cited. --Kjoonlee 02:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

text: From reading up on stingrays after this story broke, it would seem that the barb has the tendency to break either completely off or the end off. I have read a few reports stating that people who are struck (I think that word is better then sting/stung as has been used recently given the nature of the stingrays defence mechanism) often require the wound to be enlarged to ensure all of the barb is removed.Pissedpat 04:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

text: you may add steve irwin to the its feeding habits, though :))
Come on... It's not a subject of mockery... 84.247.49.215 16:19, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

text: All those do not mention specific cases, but general pattern, as is done in this article. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 19:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Freak accidents are notable for themselve, as freak accidents. Not every little piece of information needs to be included in every possible article that in any possible way is connected with anything possible. Even if this was the actuall species that was involved (it is NOT), this freak accident is in full detail covered under Steve Irwin where it makes sense, while here, it just does not make sense. In that case, we should mention all under horse also Kenneth Pinyan as a freak accident. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 01:17, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Steve Irwin

message: The CSIRO reference states: "Most common off southern Australia but occurs north to Maroochydore (southern Queensland) and to Shark Bay (Western Australia) in depths to at least 100 m... Records from northwestern Australia, however, appear to be misidentifications of the pink whipray."  Port Douglas is more than 1600 km further  north than Maroochydore. People who have guessed that the references to "bull ray" in relation to Steve Irwin were references to this species were just guessing. SimonJones 09:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Range

message: The article says that this animal belongs to the Class Elasmobranchii but Elasmobranchii is a Subclass i believe.  I am in an ecological program in college and there I learned that rays, skates, and sharks belong to the Class Chondricthyes instead.
: Check http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=6381&genusname=Dasyatis&speciesname=brevicaudata from FishBase which Wikipedia follows. Also, it would be nice if you signed your comment (put four ~ at the end of your comment)GrahamBould 12:26, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Class Elasmobranchii?

message: Why is this article written in the past tense, as if the animal in question was extinct... to my knowledge it is extant, and the listing as "least concern" would seem to suggest so as well. Writing this article in the past tense is confusing, in my opinion it should be rewritten into the present tense.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeklinCaban (talk • contribs) 00:51, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past tense?? 

message: Hi lovely people!
I read through the description section today and came across a couple of sentences that were super hard to understand (about the teeth). It seems that they were directly copied from the reference that followed (which I figured out googling "quincunx stingray" and it turned out to be a very esoteric description by the author).
It turns out that a significant portion of the description is lifted from sources, which is likely the cause of the constant tense switching, it's a real mish mash.
I reworked the worst two sentences in my opinion (way harder than expected, because I had to painstakingly research WTH it all meant. 2 sentences, embarrassingly took over an hour! haha) but this article really needs a bit of love. A comb through to reword confusing sentences, mixed tenses, and direct quotes in hiding would make it a really good article. 122.62.137.227 (talk) 23:00, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tense issues and direct copying from sources