Talk:Common box turtle

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A fact from Common box turtle appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the male common box turtle (pictured) has to lean back past the vertical to mate with the female?

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Going to start adding Arkive content

Per the GLAM project, will start porting content in. A lot will come over pretty cleanly, but a pass afterwards will be needed for wikification and integration. (and adding their attribution)TCO (reviews needed) 04:03, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you; you've done a great job. I have accordingly nominated the article for DYK. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:35, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Terrapene carolina → Common box turtle – Common name in wide use, and no apparent ambiguity or other reason to keep this at the binomial. —innotata 18:09, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree TCO (reviews needed) 01:59, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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