Corrections for Toy Animal Wiki

bmathison1972 wrote:

The carabao is currently listed under breeds of cattle under Bos, but it is a domestic form of water buffalo (Bubalus)

https://toyanimal.info/wiki/File:Safari100046.JPG

Well observed and interesting challenge in terms of editing. Maybe the best option is to make a more abrangent page for all breeds and make all kind of cattle breed converge to it. I really needs some thought.

Roger wrote:

bmathison1972 wrote:

The carabao is currently listed under breeds of cattle under Bos, but it is a domestic form of water buffalo (Bubalus)

https://toyanimal.info/wiki/File:Safari100046.JPG

Well observed and interesting challenge in terms of editing. Maybe the best option is to make a more abrangent page for all breeds and make all kind of cattle breed converge to it. I really needs some thought.

Ohh, I am glad to hear it, no, no, not that it is difficult for YOU, but that it is not me, who is a total geek

Roger wrote:

bmathison1972 wrote:

The carabao is currently listed under breeds of cattle under Bos, but it is a domestic form of water buffalo (Bubalus)

https://toyanimal.info/wiki/File:Safari100046.JPG

Well observed and interesting challenge in terms of editing. Maybe the best option is to make a more abrangent page for all breeds and make all kind of cattle breed converge to it. I really needs some thought.

Or you could just move the carabao over to water buffalo, as sub-set. The site has done that for other species. Oh well. Whatever works best for the editors.

Similarly, I pointed out earlier, the Ongole (https://toyanimal.info/wiki/Ongole_cattle) is under nominate Bos primigenius taurus, but should be with the zebus (B. primigenius indicus) which are on a separate page.

I thought I'd posted on this onehttps://toyanimal.info/wiki/File:MDRay.JPG
The species is indeterminate, but it's clearly a butterfly ray, family Gymuridae.

In which case I think it's the first figure from the family. As an aside, now I want one!

bmathison1972 wrote:

...... Oh well. Whatever works best for the editors......

Perhaps we should rather say : What is best for the people who try to find something ?

sbell wrote:

I thought I'd posted on this onehttps://toyanimal.info/wiki/File:MDRay.JPG
The species is indeterminate, but it's clearly a butterfly ray, family Gymuridae.

In which case I think it's the first figure from the family. As an aside, now I want one!

Ahhh! My nodescript flat McDonalds fish is a butterfly ray

SUSANNE wrote:

sbell wrote:

I thought I'd posted on this onehttps://toyanimal.info/wiki/File:MDRay.JPG
The species is indeterminate, but it's clearly a butterfly ray, family Gymuridae.

In which case I think it's the first figure from the family. As an aside, now I want one!

Ahhh! My nodescript flat McDonalds fish is a butterfly ray

And if you happen to have 2 let me know!

Sean, I will open a family page to that ray. My only objection is about these pelvic fins, are they supposed to be like that in butterfly rays? Isn't it a McRay instead?
About the carabao things are more complex that it seems. Wiki should be built in order to be intuitive for a visitor.
Is it supposed to find a carabao in a list of cattle breeds? I think so, Wikipedia tells it is not, they have a category for water buffalo cattle breeds. It is important to recall that domestic yaks also exist as well as other groups of domesticated cattle, there are even breeds that result from hybrids between different species. Which category to put these if they ever are released?
Merging them all on cattle breed is not that difficult, I just need to edit the text, though, it won't make any sense when browsing by taxonomy.

Roger wrote:

Sean, I will open a family page to that ray. My only objection is about these pelvic fins, are they supposed to be like that in butterfly rays? Isn't it a McRay instead?
About the carabao things are more complex that it seems. Wiki should be built in order to be intuitive for a visitor.
Is it supposed to find a carabao in a list of cattle breeds? I think so, Wikipedia tells it is not, they have a category for water buffalo cattle breeds. It is important to recall that domestic yaks also exist as well as other groups of domesticated cattle, there are even breeds that result from hybrids between different species. Which category to put these if they ever are released?
Merging them all on cattle breed is not that difficult, I just need to edit the text, though, it won't make any sense when browsing by taxonomy.

I would say they're exaggerated, but not egregiously so. Given the rest of the figure, it still represents the family better than any other myliobatiforme Ray

The owl in the small woodland set by ELC is incorrect, it should be this one: https://toyanimal.info/wiki/AAA_Eagle_owl_flying

Also the snowy owl in the polar animals set by ELC is incorrect, we don't have a photo of it anywhere, furthermore the set also included a baby polar bear that I've provided a photo for:

https://toyanimal.info/wiki/AAA_Polar_Bear_cub_walking

Thanks Adam, I fixed it according with your posts. 
About the snowy owl, you mean it is not this model but other model or you mean there's no snowy owl at all in the Polar set?
I know you may have told me it before but, if I take note of everything, I won't have time to edit.

The snowy owl is the incorrect figure as the one in the set is much, much smaller

Here: http://toyanimal.mywikis.net/wiki/Wing_Mau_Products_Development_Ltd.

I am curious about the XX vs inverted WM. Can someone elaborate? Is this confirmed?

bmathison1972 wrote:

Here: http://toyanimal.mywikis.net/wiki/Wing_Mau_Products_Development_Ltd.

I am curious about the XX vs inverted WM. Can someone elaborate? Is this confirmed?

Blaine, I will quote my own post in another topic. It was Kelly who pointed it but it is clear for me. Let me know your thoughts about it.

Roger wrote:

pipsxlch wrote:

(I *think* XX is Wing Mau, the W directly on top of the M in the logo)

I am so glad of this comment, I don't know if it was you, Beatrice or Fallon that mentioned it a long time ago and stupidly we all forgot it and we listed these figures on TAW as XX. They are fortunately only around 40 so I think I can fix it in a batch.

Wing Mau logo at their official website


XX marking in my desert horned lizard

I never considered this, but it looks confirmed ro me! Nice detective work guys!

Now I see it! Crazy!

Thanks Roger, I am sure there was a discussion about it, I just didn't know where to look! I will change my database accordingly.

When I look at figures, I could perceive it, I was just curious if there was discussion on it.

I see it too

I am glad we all agree about this subject! I think the logo is very interesting. It is good to remember that this is a company from a country that does not use Latin characters and they turned it almost into Roman numbers representing the century they were founded.

On TAI, you have the NP dove pair as European turtle doves: https://toyanimal.info/wiki/Turtle_dove

however, the card that comes with the figure clearly states these are rock doves (domestic pigeons).

I've also noticed that

Fixed, moved them to Rock Dove and changed the link on the figure page to the new location. Thanks, Tim

Thank you :)