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blueberlin

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Hi,

I really do not want this to sound like nitpicking, so please forgive me in advance if it does.

When I am looking for a species in the "Species, Genus & Family Discussions" subforum, I pretty much have to read through each of the subsection titles to find what I am looking for. Is there already a logical order to the list and I just don't understand it? Or perhaps they could be alphabetized by their common names (as those are what appear first) or their Latin names (which would be more helpful for me, since I often first hear of an animal in German)?

Certainly there are other, more important tasks, but it sure would shorten my search:find time.

-Eva
 
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There is no logic to it but neither are the names standardised/of one type. I'm not sure there is a way to easily resolve this because by making all of the names scientific we risk confusing a large portion of the users on the site. Conversely, some groups/species are known more by their scientific name than their common names.
 
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By the way, I would welcome other opinions on this.
 
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John said:
There is no logic to it but neither are the names standardised/of one type. I'm not sure there is a way to easily resolve this because by making all of the names scientific we risk confusing a large portion of the users on the site. Conversely, some groups/species are known more by their scientific name than their common names.
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I'm sorry, I must have been unclear. I didn't mean to remove descriptions from the forum titles. I just meant to sort them - leave them as they are, with the various common names, but alphabetize them by the Latin name (for example).

Gosh I hope someone else even has an opinion on this; I'm feeling like a nitpicker now. :eek:

-Eva
 
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I personally wouldn't have a problem with it either way. However there are at least 3 subforums that I can remember that include the Latin name for more than one species so I am not sure how you would go about that situation.
 
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