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I have not been able to figure out the use or reason for these numbers. How about some education please

How about you search the site please. Try clicking on the site search, type in "what are l numbers" and there you go...

Jools

These terms would be useful in the glossary.

And maybe a Shane's World article?

You mean like this:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... cle_id=175

;)

[Of course, it doesn't cover CW numbers]

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Mats

And maybe a Shane's World article?

Dave,
This is partly related to a larger issue Jools and I have been discussing. The current layout for Shane's World was great when it had under 40 or so articles. It has now reached the point (160 plus articles) where, honestly, even I sometimes have trouble locating specific articles.
We need to find a more user friendly design.
-Shane

Thank you for the imformation .I had looked all over this site and in Shanes world and had not found the ans. to my question.
I am new to the world of catfish.
Sorry I bothered you.

I don't think anyone is "bothered" about your question, but as Jools suggests, this has been discussed a few times before, so you should be able to find it using the site search (that's the "Search" between Cool and Help! under the big "rainbow" PlanetCatfish logo). In fact I just tried, and it's the second link that comes up.

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Mats

The site has 240,000 pages or thereabouts, so searching is best as looking at all the pages will take a while! We'll put this in the glossary I think and, as another strand, look at uncluttering Shane's World.

Jools

I suppose we should add the "uncluttering Shanes World" part to the Bugs section...

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Mats

This information is in the site FAQ, albeit slightly tucked away at question number 43.

Can be found by expanding the popular questions and then using a Ctrl-F search for "number". Searching "L number" doesn't show the result.

Not exactly the easiest way, but I managed to find it within a couple of minutes.

It's the number question I am asked and also the one usually understood wrongly, the L-numbers, when people are discussing plecos with me. I definitely think we should make it easy to find so that this information is propagated more frequently.

Agreed, and I also need to retire the FAQ and put it all into the forum. Another wee project.....

FAQ revision complete. L-number Q is here:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/general/ge ... id=441#383

Jools

Being very pedantic:
The FAQ for "what are "L" numbers?", could it be made linking to the "What are L-numbers?" heading in the "You say Pleco..." article in Shane's world? And it doesn't explain about CW and C numbers in the Shane's World article. Do you want me to write a bit up about that, and we can either insert it into the FAQ (and maintain the link to Shane's world), or make a new article in Shane's World that covers the four [or five for sp(n) here on Planet Catfish?].

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Mats

It's a good point. I would have one FAQ entry for L and LDA numbers that includes the SW link and a second FAQ entry for C and CW numbers.

Jools

I couldn't add the C/CW numbers - see the post in the Admin Improvement thread.

I have added LDA-numbers to the L-numbers question.

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Mats

MatsP wrote:I couldn't add the C/CW numbers - see the post in the Admin Improvement thread.

Resolved...

Jools