Talk:curcurion

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RFV discussion: April–June 2013
Type of weevil. Nothing on Google Web search for the phrase "a curcurion". Perhaps an error for Curculionidae? Equinox ◑ 19:20, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The link was just a mirror for the (former) Wikipedia article, with added spam links. This diff on Wikipedia speaks volumes. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:38, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing in Books or Groups. The expected term would be curculio, from the Latin . The "n" comes into play because zoological family names are based on the genitive, rather than the nominative which is the normal citation form, and the genitive of curculiō is . It looks to me like they tried to get the taxonomic name by removing the family ending -idae, but were unaware of the spelling difference between the genus and the family. They then made the common mistake of using the same consonant twice when there are two similar consonants in the same word. It shows the danger of adding words you don't really know without checking against a reference.
 * Or, to judge from the talk page, the danger of transwikiing stuff from Wikipedia without verifying it first. —Angr 00:10, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * has done a lot of these (hundreds? thousands?) without verifying them. I suppose they all need checking, many have failed rfd or rfv over the years. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)


 * RFV failed, deleted. —Angr 15:47, 23 June 2013 (UTC)