Talk:Notonectidae

Merge

I think it's obvious the two articles should be merged, but I think Back swimmer should be the target. Are people really going to search for the scientific name? Is there a precedent for using scientific names as the title? NickelShoe 05:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Disagree

No, they shouldn't be merged. 13:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Question

NickelShoe, I don't know what your talking about, i searched for backswimmer and notonectidae came up DrakeKobra (talk) 14:47, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

First paragraph

And here is why we teachers never let anyone cite Wikipedia as a credible source. How long has this article on a major type of insect contained the juvenile sentence that they can "fly wherever they want"? I move to strike it and the preceding sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandermoir (talk • contribs) 23:11, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia always welcomes editors but the correct reason for excluding Wikipedia as a citation is that it is, in theory and practice, a secondary source of information. Dger (talk) 23:15, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

To answer your second question, it's been there since December 24, 2014. When most people were busy with the holidays. The full edit added two sentences which are true enough: "Backswimmers can swim but they can also fly as well. Backswimmers can fly wherever they want." This seems to indicate that it was a well-meaning, if naive, edit (i.e. it is not vandalism), hence why the bots didn't catch it as well.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 00:31, 19 January 2015 (UTC)