Talk:List of families of spiders

This article was nominated for deletion on 14 June 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

Solifugids?

I'm no expert on spiders, but I'm wandering if Solifugids ("Camel Spiders") should be on this list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.224.133 (talk) 15:17, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thought this was a legitimate issue and I expanded the description to include the fact that the list was limited to organisms in the order aranae and that other organisms such as camel spiders weren't included. I certainly won't have any problem if the principal editors of the list disagree and undo my edit. --Davefoc (talk) 15:54, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hunting Spider capable of Forward Thought

I saw a documentary on Animal Planet about spiders and it showed a very interesting breed of spider that could think and change its tactics based on the situation, it was also incredibly small for a spider with a brain the size of a salt crystal, I was wondering if anyone had an idea on which species it is or if it even has an article? Thanks, 205.209.70.61 23:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 2007

Redirected the article Types of Spiders to here. After editting some unencyclopedic content, the article was more of a list. Article spider has information. 99DBSIMLR 15:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Type of Spiders or just Spiders?

Is this a list of types of Spiders or just a list of Spiders? Or should the article be moved to list of species of spider? Taxonomy is not my strong point - Tiswas^(t) 16:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is an excellent merge candidate here Spider taxonomy Shyamal (talk) 16:26, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All spiders are predatory, even if cleptoparasites. I think the originator of this page was trying to provide a breakdown of spiders by hunting strategy. At best the article will provide a few examples of each category. A re-write to do away with the incomplete lists and a merge with Spider would probably be the best option.--Wloveral (talk) 03:42, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, there seems to be little to salvage here. I just went ahead and proposed it for deletion. Shyamal (talk) 04:00, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Renamed to list of families of spiders - so as to potentially aid as an index to Category:Lists of spider species. Shyamal (talk) 01:57, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

a fresh start :)

actually, not a bad idea to make a complete list. wouldn't it be nice to have one representative picture for each family? maybe something like this: List of Testudines families? but be aware there is already a nice list (without pictures though) here: Spider_families#Table_of_Families. i made this some time ago, i guess i'll have to write a script someday to keep it updated... --Sarefo (talk) 10:46, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see much use for this article. As Serefo mentioned there's a nice list of spider families already that is part of the Spider Taxonomy article. Taxonomy is always going to be in flux as different writers advocate for different system changes and new knowledge leads to more changes. Given that trying to maintain multiple lists seems like a bad idea to me. There's already conflicts in the different taxonomic boxes. I don't understand the argument for keeping this article. The idea of adding pictures sounds kind of nice but wouldn't that just duplicate efforts in the articles for each of the taxonomic groups? --Davefoc (talk) 01:24, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No "fresh start"

No-one did anything with this list; there was certainly no "fresh start". The article is completely unreferenced, which is not acceptable. It is seriously out-of-date with current views on spider classification, so any attempt to reference it would require major revisions. It completely duplicates the section at Spider taxonomy#Table of families, which does at least have a reference, albeit not a reliable one for current views. I conclude that the best thing to do for the present is to redirect it and update the target. Afterwards, this page could perhaps be reinstated differently. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:32, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]