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Merge[edit]

I think that this article represents an oft repeated case where it seems like we have a bunch of minor articles which are never going to be more than stubs for a very long time and while there are considerable maintenance benefits to merging the related articles, there is little/no benefit to the reader by keeping them seperate. --ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 23:24, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That seems a good idea. We'd do better to have a genus article with a table listing the species (perhaps like the one at Oryzomys#Species) than a bunch of one-paragraph stubs that, realistically, are not going to be expanded anytime soon.

Incidentally, I am going to rename this article to Lariscus. Not only is it useless to have striped ground squirrel be about this genus and Striped Ground Squirrel about an African species (Xerus erythropus), Google Scholar suggests the name "striped ground squirrel" is actually used most often for Ictidomys tridecemlineatus, an American species. Ucucha 23:39, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

i had noted that little problem, but figured it would be better to just stick with the merging thing, as i was preoccupied with assessing at the time --ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 00:58, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]