Talk:Tetrapoda

Why are all these articles at the Latin names when the great majority of the links to them use pipes? There is an explicit wikipedia naming convention about the use of English titles for this very reason. --maveric149

I think because the latin classification names are explicit - they accurately and precisely deliniate a taxonomic group for which there is no single equivalent name in English. In place of tetrapoda what could be put, "frogs, toads, turtles, mammals, dinosaurs, reptiles and birds as a taxonomic group"?--Anon

Oh, I don't know, maybe the word that is actually used by biologists outside of taxonomy and just about everybody else tetrapod. I don't mean to be terse, but as you can see the most widely used English word for tetrapoda is an edit link. Article naming is largely a technical issue that has two competing goals: 1) preservation of spontaneous links (avoiding tediuos things like [[tetrapoda|tetrapod]]) and 2) naming articles with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity. There simply ain't another thing called tetrapods in the English language other than the animal group with the Latin name tetrapoda. Besides, if somebody wanted to link to [[tetrapod]] by using the Latin name, all they would have to do is write [[tetrapod]]a. Same for many other Latin names. --maveric149

Since tetrapoda is more accurate, surely your desire would be satisified by a simple redirect of -pod to -poda?--Anon

It's not more accurate, its in a different language and means exactly the same thing. I will make the move. --maveric149