Talk:Water Vole

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[edit] Reference style?

Great fixes! Now it is easier to read about the northern and southwestern populations more easily. One thing puzzles me: why did you add a reference in Harvard style? If Harvard style is the preferred style for zoology articles, then we should change the other refs from footnote to Harvard. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I try to avoid the articles that have switched to the complex reference format, but this was just too straightforward to pass up.

Eventually I think Arvicola should be moved to water vole, and the text here should move to European Water Vole or Eurasian Water Vole. --Aranae 17:07, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I thought that seemed odd, but I am not in any way a zoologist. There may be some double redirects for whoever moves Water Vole to fix. I don't think they should be moved yet, though, as the European is the only interesting article; the genus and the other 2 species are just stubs.

The old reference template system was actually more complex than the new system. However, these articles had no references. I just bunged in a couple of references with the new <ref><nowiki> tags because they seemed easy to me. If you want to switch them to Harvard that is fine by me. Great work on finding good modern references to put the American out of Arvicola and into Microtus, by the way. --~~~~