Talk:Koala/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Making "threats" visible in table of content?

How would people feel about making "threats" visible in the table of content? I think this would be useful for our readers. Currently it's mingled in under "conservation". An easy change could be to change that section heading to "Threats and conservation". Even better might be to make them into two separate sections. One would explain the threats to koala populations and one would explain the conservation activities. Thoughts? I wonder about the same for other articles, such as bird, flowering plant (see talk page there, pinging . For comparison, the article on dolphin has a section on "threats" but not on "conversation". If there is an overarching template and WikiProject where this has been discussed in the past, I could ask there as well. EMsmile (talk) 10:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Spacing between cladograms

@LittleJerry: You reverted my change to the clade gallery that put more space between the cladograms with a "not helpful" edit message. The change isn't needed for the desktop view, but the appearance of the two cladograms is awful in mobile view, where it's hard to see separation between the header text and the top of right cladogram is adjacent to the header of the left one. We have to try and accommodate different skins and the mobile/desktop views. —  Jts1882 | talk  06:45, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Creating large spaces and gaps is not the solution. It looks godawful. Maybe I heard you like clades can help. LittleJerry (talk) 10:10, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

I found the main problem. The first cladogram was in the header, which messed up the rest of the formatting. I've also used headerstyle to restrain the very wide header seen in some views. —  Jts1882 | talk  11:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 April 2024

§ Health and mortality:

“ Prevalence of KoRV in koala populations suggests a trend spreading from north to south, where populations go from being completely infected to being partially uninfected. ”

"Go from [infected] to [uninfected]" is a bad choice of phrasing here. I initially took it as "start out infected and become uninfected", which makes little sense. I'm guessing what was meant is "some are infected and some are not", which makes sense and agrees with the ref, based on a quick look. Minimal rephrasing, off the top of my head, would be "range from".

ETA: Now that I re-read the above, I'm no longer convinced that I properly intuited the original intention. Maybe "where" doesn't refer to "south", or maybe an "un" is in the wrong place, or maybe the order ended up jumbled, or whatever. Here's what I take to be the relevant ref excerpts:

“ They show that KoRV is present, at variable copy number, in the germline of all koalas found in Queensland, but that animals from some areas of southern Australia lack the provirus. Most notably, KoRV appears completely absent from koalas on Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia. ”

“ Studies of koala samples from different geographic locations suggest an on-going process of endogenization spreading from the north of Australia, where all animals contain endogenous KoRV, to the south, where some animals are still virus-free. ”

- 2A02:560:59A1:EF00:C87D:44F3:B15E:AC6E (talk) 10:54, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

References

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. UtherSRG (talk) 11:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Pinged the responsible editor. - 2A02:560:59A1:EF00:C87D:44F3:B15E:AC6E (talk) 13:03, 22 April 2024 (UTC)