Talk:List of fish common names
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[edit] Comment
FishBase lists over 150,000 common names, clearly excessive for Wikipedia. This list should limit itself to common names of fish taxa (order/family/genus/species) that have articles or are important enough to have their own articles in the future, and to names that FishBase characterizes as English-language names (do interwiki links for non-English names). Stan 23:27, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
To make a start, each 'common' name should be followed by the scientific name (or names), so that wikipediasts know where to begin in writing entries. User:Wetman
Mass-capping the names here is wrong, since not only is its nonstandard for fish species to begin with, but a bunch of genus and family names were capped, and nobody ever thinks that's right. I'm going to revert this unless I hear a very good argument. Stan 00:11, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Navigational aide
Just a suggestion: This list would better serve as a navigational by providing disambiguations here rather than linking to a bunch of red links and disambig pages.--ZayZayEM 11:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
