Pedanticisms on new COTM article...

[MatsP]

First of all, I'm allergic to the use of & in text instead of the word "and".

Second, there seem to be a bit of italic in the text that should be "normal" in the bit that talks of the distribution.

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Mats

[Jools]

I was editing it as you posted this. I have removed Richard love affair with the ampersand and also tidied up a couple of grammtial errors. I am sure it is not perfect, but it is now out there!

It's a nice article too. Short and sweet.

Jools

[MatsP]

Still some ampersands in there, around the area where it talks about barbel length.

And isn't Claroteid meant to be capitalized?

Richard: Nice article.

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Mats

[Jools]

Still some ampersands in there, around the area where it talks about barbel length.

Yup, good point, was working in HTML view and they are a little hard to see. Sorted.

And isn't Claroteid meant to be capitalized?

No, Claroteidae (the family) should be capitalized, a claroteid species should not.

Really appreciate the criticism, I move too quickly sometimes on to the next thing.

Jools

[MatsP]

I know, I do that all the time myself - reading some older posts [where I actually have to read the text to remember what I wrote], and I spot loads of errors all over the place... It's usually "the wrong word" or missing/additional letters...

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Mats

[RickE]

Actually, it's pedantries

[Jools]

Actually, it's pedantries

I actually also looked at this and I couldn't see a defn in the OED. Pedantism appears to be the term that should be used in plural?

Jools

[sidguppy]

although the pictures of that particular Clarotes are very good and the specimen looks very healthy; please be aware that this individual is showing severe stunted growth;

it can be compared by other clarotes in the Clog; i've also encountered this species in the trade and it's definitely more elongated when in normal shape

this fish isn't a "Balloonfish", but getting close, it looks like a head with a tail.

despite it being quite healthy and very well-photographed; not a good example of how Clarotes is supposed to look.

[Jools]

OK, well the CotM article just takes whatever the first picture of a species is for the first picture on the article page. So, once I get it working, I will need to change the order of the photos for that species to show another one.

Jools

[RickE]

Actually, it's pedantries

I actually also looked at this and I couldn't see a defn in the OED. Pedantism appears to be the term that should be used in plural?

Jools

Actually, I don't really know Jools. It was an (apparently unfunny) attempt at a pedantry joke . I was being pedantic you see...

I can find several references on the web (but none of them what I would describe as authoratative) that suggest they may be interchangeable.

[Jools]

Yes, the irony about being pedantic about being pedantic was not lost on me...

Jools