Talk:Crocodile

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Rehabilitation of the Much-Vandalized Etymology Section

The Etymology section which I painstakingly researched and wrote in 2008 has suffered some erroneous mutations due to being repeatedly vandalized and repaired.

(Why is an article on crocodiles subjected to so much vandalism?? Get a life.)

For example, the Greek letter kappa should always be transliterated as 'k' not 'c' according to present-day academic conventions. (Though note 'c' is correct once a Greek word has been Latinized). Accents on the Greek transliterations have also suffered, and some other points.

I do recognize that our contributions to Wikipedia get altered by later editors -- but in this case you will see that none of the changes has been for the better.

The 4th sentence that has the word ‘priority’ in the socialization section makes no sense.

You'll find my pristine original version in the article history at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crocodile&oldid=213450868

The source code of the entire Etymology section there should simply be cut and pasted into the current article.

Thank you. ~CrocodileCorrector

Edit request: Change

Please, change the table, for a god lay out for the book... i can't download as pdf... thank you. 08:04, 21 October 2012‎ User:84.123.39.175

So which actually is the smallest

At the moment the article describes both the Osborn’s dwarf crocodile and the Dwarf crocodile as "It is the smallest of all living crocodiles".©Geni (talk) 12:14, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

removed content

"It is not clear whether this is a medieval corruption or derives from alternative Greco-Latin forms (late Greek corcodrillos and corcodrillion are attested). A (further) corrupted form cocodrille is found in Old French and was borrowed into Middle English as cocodril(le). The Modern English form crocodile was adapted directly from the Classical Latin crocodīlus in the 16th century, replacing the earlier form. The use of -y- in the scientific name Crocodylus (and forms derived from it) is a corruption introduced by Laurenti (1768)." (𒌋*𓆏)𓆭 13:32, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you removed quite a lot, and I have reverted that. Please don't recast entire sections in your image in this way, particularly when you go off at complete right angles to the previous content. I hardly believe that everything in those two paragraphs needed to be thrown out to make room for your three cryptic sentences. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:44, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]