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::Technically it can happen. Technically, you can be killed if you hit a deer while riding a motorcycle. But the odds of either happening, at all or as compered to other mortality/morbidity events, is so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant. [[User:HCA|HCA]] ([[User talk:HCA|talk]]) 20:47, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

:::The link to the CDC article above citing an incidence of 93,000 cases of salmonella from contact with reptiles and amphibians is no longer valid (page not found error). However, I was able to find a summary of that article in another article, available [http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192240&resultClick=1 here], mentioning this rate— and explaining that it represents approx. 7% of annual cases of salmonella contamination in the US. If we are to accept that 7% figure, it begins to seem like sufficient reason to include mention of the bacterium somewhere, but the summary I found did not mention the specific species most prevalent as vectors, and I don't see any use in mentioning salmonella in every article about a reptile or an amphibian. Such a fact ''could'', however, be situated in the article on [[reptile]]s and/ or the one on [[amphibian]]s generally, I should think. Whatever one or another person's actual experience may be, a national rate of 7% of all salmonella cases in the US is large enough to warrant mention. [[User:KDS4444|<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> <span style="color:midnightblue">'''KDS'''</span><span style="color:steelblue">'''4444'''</span></span>]][[User talk:KDS4444|<span style="color:limegreen">^''Talk''</span></span>]] 10:15, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

::::The 7% figure, which I'm extremely skeptical of, is only from an abstract, not a peer reviewed article, and as such, is not a valid source. (Seriously, citing an abstract in a JAMA article? Any good reviewer should have put a stop to that.) Given that only 3% of the US has pet reptiles, and that typically only kids are affected by it, I'm very skeptical that these cases represent even 7% of a national annual total of almost 100k cases, especially considering the dangerously unregulated state of much of our food supply due to anti-regulatory zealotry. I'm not ruling it out, but I want to see the methods myself before that number is treated as valid. [[User:HCA|HCA]] ([[User talk:HCA|talk]]) 17:43, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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The article should be retitled “Burmese python” (lowercase ''p''), to agree with standard rules of capitalization, namely that common names of individual species (or subspecies) are not capitalized.--[[User:Solomonfromfinland|Solomonfromfinland]] ([[User talk:Solomonfromfinland|talk]]) 10:41, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

:I concur, and will attempt a page move to reflect this. [[User:KDS4444|<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> <span style="color:midnightblue">'''KDS'''</span><span style="color:steelblue">'''4444'''</span></span>]][[User talk:KDS4444|<span style="color:limegreen">^''Talk''</span></span>]] 07:43, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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[[:Burmese Python]] → {{no redirect|Burmese python}} – Article was moved away from "Burmese python" to "Burmese Python" by an editor who stated he/ she wanted to make it more consistent with other reptile articles. The other python articles appear to exist under various species names rather than common names, but in any case I could find no justification or pattern for naming this particular animal "Burmese Python" rather than "Burmese python" ("python" not being a proper noun in this instance). Another editor (see above) has also noticed this irregularity, and Wikipedia [[WP:FAUNA|naming conventions for fauna]] suggest that no capital letter should be present on any word other than the first in a case like this. cf. [[Gila monster]], [[Australian water dragon]], [[King cobra]], etc. [[User:KDS4444|<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> <span style="color:midnightblue">'''KDS'''</span><span style="color:steelblue">'''4444'''</span></span>]][[User talk:KDS4444|<span style="color:limegreen">^''Talk''</span></span>]] 09:27, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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== Semi-protected edit request on 14 July 2023 ==

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A 19 foot specimen was discovered in the wild in the US State of Florida. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187497592/record-breaking-burmese-python-longest-florida [[Special:Contributions/2600:100E:B090:ACBA:A4FE:B8D9:EDB3:2D3B|2600:100E:B090:ACBA:A4FE:B8D9:EDB3:2D3B]] ([[User talk:2600:100E:B090:ACBA:A4FE:B8D9:EDB3:2D3B|talk]]) 04:51, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

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