Talk:Chicken turtle

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Tastes like turtle

Please inform the reader in a more upfront and prominent way why they are called "Chicken Turtles". Many, if not most, readers come here primarily in order to find this information. Chrisrus (talk) 02:53, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

:Can you explain more. As far as I was aware the article was always called Chicken turtle. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 12:16, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

::I came here to find out why they are called "Chicken Turtles". I was curious why they are so called, as it is a strange name. I found my answer in the article, "Their name "Chicken" turtle is referred by the taste of their meat." However, it was hard to find. It is the last sentence in the "Range" section, for some reason. I think it should be in the lead, as other readers like me may come here for the same reason and be better served. If not the lead, then more easily findable for a table on contents user. "Range" is not the obvious place to look for it.

::Also, the sentence "Their name "Chicken" turtle is referred by the taste of their meat.", though understandable is poorly written. For example, "is referred by" could be changed to "refers to".

::Finally, the sentence is uncited, so a reader may worry that it's just some Wikipedians guess as to the reason, rather than a fact in which we can have more confindence.

::Fixing these problems will improve the article for us readers. Chrisrus (talk) 18:11, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

:::Okay, understand the request now. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 05:17, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Redirect from Western chicken turtle

I have been bold and blanked-and-redirected the page western chicken turtle, keeping its history intact. The previous article was not specifically about the western subspecies despite its title; the photograph was of a Florida chicken turtle, the article mentioned having three subspecies and the descriptions were just of general D. reticularia (e.g. "The western chicken turtle ranges across the southeastern United States from Virginia to western Oklahoma and south to the Gulf of Mexico", which is just wrong). There was no content there which isn't already included in the main article, hence the redirect rather than a merge. Happy to discuss this if anyone opposes. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 06:30, 24 May 2022 (UTC)