Talk:Beetle
From Academic Kids
Hello all! What about placing a new entry or section on this page about the VW Beetle? Is it a good ideia? What do you users and/or administrators feel about this? Regards, LNPerdigão
Something's got to be done about that table... it might be a browser specific thing, but I see the table going down, down, and down, with the usual links and stuff that belong at the bottom of the page cutting right across near the top of the "Families" section, and the picture is even further down than the table. I'll try to fix it, but I can't test with other browsers at the moment, so if you're coming here with your IE or whatever, wondering why I mangled the page that way, this would be why. For the record, I'm using Galeon-1.2.10/Mozilla-1.3. -- John Owens 22:18 May 6, 2003 (UTC)
- FWIW, in IE the table still looks the same (i.e., it looks correct, no text crossing it) but the picture now occurs after the table rather than on the left of it, which is now blank space. Not as nice, but since I know nothing about how to fix it, I leave it to others<G>. -- Someone else 22:30 May 6, 2003 (UTC)
- Arrggh! I was hoping to fix that while I was at it too, because on mine, I saw the picture after the table before, but on the left of the table right under the text the way I had it, and now after Infrogmation's and Tarquin's edits, it's back on the bottom again. There's got to be a right way that works for both, doesn't there? Please? -- John Owens 22:51 May 6, 2003 (UTC)
- Infrogmation: when those <br>s aren't in there, Mozilla sends the picture to the bottom so it can wrap further before reaching an edge, apparently. With the <br>s, it wraps at a shorter point (of course) and so the picture can fit in next to the table (I'd like to hear from someone at 800x600 about this, or I suppose I could *gasp* shrink my window). Would you mind terribly leaving those in? They don't break the text flow terribly, since they come after commas anyway. -- John Owens 22:56 May 6, 2003 (UTC)
"Speciose" is a real word used by taxonomists, entomologists, and such, but it's jargony. No objection to the copyedit, just noting this for reference. Vicki Rosenzweig 02:08, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I'm contemplating doing some beetle families, and the first thing that strikes me about this is that this would be a good candidate for moving the long family list from taxobox to article inline. Anybody have any objections? Stan 07:01, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I did as you suggested on the layout, Stan, now go to it! Too many red links here at present. The text of the entry could use some expansion too (speaking from a layout point of view, that is, I am not qualified to speak about the actual content). Also, we should find an image with more contrast for the taxobox. In fact I just tried to swap the two images, using a cropped version of the in-text icture for the box, but I find that upload is disabled! Something to do with the server problems, I presume. Tannin 08:33, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Thanks! Library had a copy of latest American Beetles, which has good current writeups of the 131 families. Stan 15:02, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
