Talk:Bombyliidae
Latest comment: 7 months ago by Dyanega in topic "Beewhal" citation needed
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Distribution edit
Someone like to add something on it. Tsinfandel (talk) 22:41, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Found a couple in England edit
2 in the front garden in a small town called Crewe 2.96.57.115 (talk) 18:10, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
"Beewhal" citation needed edit
The sentence, "In parts of East Anglia, locals refer to them as beewhals, thanks to their tusk-like appendages." seemed a little suspicious to me. Although the term does seem to get occasional use, I don't see anything offhand online predating its addition to this article on 2013-01-08, and so I wonder if it was coined or first recorded as a protologism right here. Ardric47 (talk) 00:44, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
- It was evidently coined here, so it gets deleted now, unless someone can find an actual citation that pre-dates 2013. Dyanega (talk) 00:54, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
- Since someone just tried to post "sources" for the name, I'll note again that sources created AFTER January of 2013 appear to be taking the putative name from Wikipedia. I will further note that the person who originally added it here was a repeat vandal, who was blocked from editing Wikipedia shortly after posting it, and who never provided a source for the claim. That the claim sat uncited in Wikipedia for over 10 years is an embarrassment. Dyanega (talk) 16:47, 11 September 2023 (UTC)