Talk:Peccary

Format et al.

If anyone more skilled than I can wrap the text around the side of my javelina picture, while still leaving the caption below it, I would be grateful.Hayford Peirce 18:58, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Done.
One important point: you should say, on the page you get when you click on the pic or the mag glass, whether the pic is copyright or public domain. All the pics I add are PD and the proper way to show that is to add {{PD}} below your text. I don't know the copyright messages so perhaps someone could tell us where they are on WP. Click on my Collared Peccary pic at the top of the article and you'll see what message {{PD}} produces.
Best Wishes, Adrian - Adrian Pingstone 21:28, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC) Removed the "PIGS ROCK", which I'm assuming was an act of vandalism. If not, I'd like to see sources... Davepetr 03:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC) The collard peccary is the most comon to get killed or hunted Is the "Greggary Peccary" line here an act of vandalism?

Culture reference:

"The Fool's Progress" by Edward Abbey... The main character has job as a ranger, and one main duty is protecting public land from illegal javelina hunters.

Refering to the zoo I used to work in where we had Collared Peccaries [1], and this bit of reference here: [2], I modified the scientific name of the Collared Peccary to Pecari tajacu. JECuny 06:21, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Recent Conversation: Javelina Personality: (common spellings; havalina, havelina, ..., ); Arizona native, E.D. offered an apt description, "Annoying little bastards!" Carmicheal99 (talk) 20:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Page name

The writing in this article would be less awkward if the page name were the family name Tayassuidae rather than the awkward plural "peccaries". 69.3.72.249 (talk) 19:49, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The general rule is to use to the most common name of something as the article title, where possible. In this case, "peccary" is the common name, so that's the one used. I'm not sure what you mean about the plural being awkward, since the page name isn't the plural, anyway. Anaxial (talk) 20:04, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, this article is about the family Tayassuidae. The common name of the family, if not Tayassuidae, is peccary family. Reading this article, for the first paragraph or so I thought it was about one species, not the family. 69.3.72.249 (talk) 22:44, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

If there were a species called simply "peccary", I think you'd be right. But, since there isn't, we follow the same rule as at bear, deer, gibbon, dormouse and so on. Anaxial (talk) 19:45, 16 September 2010 (UTC)