Talk:List of mammals of Korea

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Contents 1 Korean names 2 Copyright on images 3 Why? 4 Endemic species

[edit] Korean names

Great list, but I don't see how the Korean names will be useful to the English reader. Why are they displayed? CG 18:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

For the usual reasons: verifiability and providing suitable context information. A person wanting to do further study on the mammals of Korea would be hard pressed to find much of value without having access to the Korean-language names. That would include a Wikipedian seeking to verify the claims here through sources other than the single English-language source cited. Beyond that, it would be a trifle odd, methinks, to provide a list of animals in a non-English-speaking country without any reference to the names by which the animals are actually known there. Note that each name is linked to an English-language Wiktionary entry providing background information on each name. -- Visviva 06:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright on images

I'm skeptical of the copyright status of some of the images on this list. Image:Sable.gif says it was painted by the user, but it looks like a book scan. Same thing with Image:Faroe stamp 402 blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) crop.jpg. It says it was given by [1], but that site looks like a stamp store. Anyways, you might look into it, since it's a featured list. - Peregrine Fisher 08:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up; I've replaced those with images that are clearly PD (though not quite as pretty). I agree that the sable image is suspiciously high-quality, though I can't find any source that it might have been lifted from. And on closer examination, it does seem that the copyright status of Faeroese stamps is unclear; see commons:Template talk:Faroe stamps. Cheers, -- Visviva 09:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why?

Is this article really needed? It seems that a list of every mammal unique to Korea would be outside the scope of a single article. -FoxMajik 22:11, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Endemic species

In all regional lists like this, it would be nice to know which species are endemic to the region and which are not. For example, a mark could be added to each endemic species' entry. Or, if either group (endemic vs. not endemic) has significantly less members than the other, a simple list could be creating in a separate section. It would contain the names of the species in the smaller group while leaving their more detailed entries in the existing table as it is now. Wikipeditor (talk) 23:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)