Lime82
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What are you doing? edit
What do you think you are doing? On a large number of articles containing a valid link to the fish perch, you have replaced the link inappropriately with perch (disambiguation). That is not what disambiguation pages are there for. Please read wp:disambig, and then clean up the mess you made by reverting all of those inappropriate edits. --Geronimo20 (talk) 19:24, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
- Good day, Geronimo!
- Thank you very much for this advice but I know about disambiguation pages. Those links before my editing were incorrect, because the article perch is about the genus Perca, but all of them describe fish from another genus. The first sentence from this article is "Perca is the genus of fish referred to as perch or, sometimes, yellow perch, a group of freshwater fish belonging to the family Percidae". For example:
- Argentino Lake - there is no fish from genus Perch in Argentina.
- Blue-backed fish - there is no fish from genus Perch in Japan.
- Golden pygmy perch - this fish belongs to genus Nannoperca, not Perca.
- Fishing in India - Perches (Perca) are not marine fish.
- And so on.
- So all of this articles have big mistakes because when the reader wants to learn about this fish (for example, marine fish from India) he'll see the another fish from Europe and North America and New Zealand. I decided that link to the disambiguation page is more appropriate than to the wrong page.
- And my edits are only temporary. I expected that other users changed them to right pages. If it doesn't occur after few days I find out real name of this fish and change link to the disambiguation on the right wiki-link. Another way is to remove link to Perch but change the original sentences.
- You could see it now:
- Fishing in India - now I changed link to Percoidea because perch in India are different fish from this superfamily.
- Golden pygmy perch - I removed the link to Perch and changed the word from perch to perch-like.
- Black River (Jamaica) - I changed the link to Oreochromis mossambicus
- Alexandrine Parakeet - there is no appropriate article. The right information for this case is on the disambiguation page: "Perch (plural perches), a rod, or branch of a tree etc, used as a roost by a bird"--Lime82 (talk) 20:44, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, you are indeed correct. It was me who was at fault for not looking more closely, Please accept my apologies! The article on Perch is obviously confusing editors, including myself. I think it should be expanded to summarize all fish that are called "perch", and perhaps renamed as "Perch (fish)". That would simplify things, but as things stand, your approach is correct :) --Geronimo20 (talk) 21:23, 24 November 2009 (UTC)