Talk:Sclerite

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If a biologist/zooligist would like to help out here, I wouldn't mind at all. I started out thinking in terms of Cambrian animals with sclerites -- which are important because their presence seems possibly an important clue to relationships between some early metazoans. But I find that the term seems to be used in a number of contexts to describe somewhat different things. If there is some unifying principle or concept, it is getting past me.

Help would be appreciated -- djk feb 6, 2003.

External link opinions[edit]

Opinions would be appreciated on whether this link: Cosmetic sclerotisation would be an appropriate addition to the article. Thanks. -- SiobhanHansa 21:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

definitely not. This article is about an anatomical structure in animals, not cosmetic procedures. --Animalparty-- (talk) 02:22, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with Scleritome[edit]

Scleritome, as defined by its coiner, is "the total set of sclerites present in an organism." --Animalparty-- (talk) 01:45, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment My first reaction on seeing this stub was "why not?" However, I suggest we don't rush this. There is room for some thought on the matter. Either Sclerite could be merged with scleritome, or the scleritome article could be expanded and linked to sclerite. It seems to me that there is room for quite an extended treatment of scleritome beyond that a scleritome contains a lot of sclerites. I am still looking, and I wouldn't go to war over it if someone boldly intervened, but I suspect that it might be difficult to write an adequate, non-skewed article.

One of my difficulties is that I am having (possibly just initial) difficulty in finding non-trivial examples of the usage outside the field of palaeontology. JonRichfield (talk) 14:23, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]