Talk:Canadian Lynx

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Contents 1 Name 2 Possible references to enahnce this article 3 Visual aid (graph) for the population variation 4 Endangered in the United States?

[edit] Name

I changed all occurences of "Canadian Lynx" to the correct "Canada Lynx." Can anyone please correct the article title and links, which still read "Canadian."

IUCN, most trained experts, and that paper encyclopedia call this cat the Canada lynx. Note that Canada is capitalized and lynx is not. Yea, "Canada" doesn't sound as elegant, but it is this lynx's name. Please conform this article to this standard. RastaKins 02:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Mammal Species of the World, 3rd ed., is the foremost authority on species names, and they say Canadian Lynx. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:49, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Please check the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Mammals Species of the World. It lists lynx canadensis' common name as Canada Lynx. Isn't this list derived from the book you cite? [1] RastaKins 20:28, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Notice that the website is still using the 2nd edition's information, from 1993. - UtherSRG (talk) 22:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

what Beyazid said is true. there is no "official" standard as there is with WP:BIRD (as there is no WP:Mammal). it is simply by convention that mammal articles follow it. besides, c'mon -- it takes mere seconds to revert such relatively simple "large scale" changes as capitalization. this was a good-faith edit based on sound reasoning that just happens to conflict with the unwritten standard for a Mammal page. new editors should be bold! right? shouldn't this 'rule' be put into print somewhere? it's just an edit-war waiting to happen, imo. - Metanoid (talk, email) 19:55, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I have no argument with Beyazid's inital action, wrong as it was. And I reverted with an appropriate edit summary. Beyazid's continued reverts, however, after learning there is conflict on this matter are a different story. There has been shown to be no consensus to make all cat or any other subsection of the mammal articles to conform either way, and so no changes should be made in this regard until the community has come to a decision. - UtherSRG (talk) 22:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

And why was my initial action "wrong"? You claim that "no changes should be made" without community decision. Two points: Already have community decision, it's called WP:MOS. Secondly, do as you say but not as you do, huh? Super. Beyazid (talk) 23:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

For anyone new to this dispute, it is spread over a large number of articles affected by the same problem. A newer discussion is located at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals#Capitalization re-visited, where I recommend all further discussion is made. Thanks! BigBlueFish (talk) 23:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible references to enahnce this article

• Comparative Ecology of Lynx in North America, U.S. Forest Service
• North America's Mystery Cat, National Wildlife Federation
• Animal Diversity Web, Lynx canadensis
• Canada lynx, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

I'll see what else I can come up with.--MONGO 15:44, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Visual aid (graph) for the population variation

I can't make it myself, but after reading the explanation of the fluctuating population, I think a graph would be useful, since the fluctuation seems to follow an interesting pattern. Anchoress 00:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Endangered in the United States?

I believe they are considered an endangered species in the US. Some states have re-introduced them, I think, Colorado? There was a big stink where people tried to ban foothold traps in some NE states because they feared that lynx migrating down from Canada might be killed in foothold traps (an erroneous belief as footholds don't injure the cat's foot, and a trapper can just simply release a lynx.) Well, the point being, they might be of "least concern" in Canada, but not in the U.S. Tsarevna (talk) 07:27, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

The Least Concern status is "global" for the entire species, set by the IUCN. The US FWS lists them as "Threatened" in the US. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:05, 24 December 2007 (UTC)