Talk:Halteres

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It might be useful to indicate the halteres on the figure. At least I could not figure out where they are.

• I have changed the image. Here I think it is clear where the halteres are. --Pinzo 22:11, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Split

I'm not going to be bold about this, but I don't really see why the insect information and the ancient Greek information share a page. In other such cases, the various meanings of a term are disambiguated, with entries for each. I think this especially appropriate when the topics are so different.

Normally, the unqualified term applies to the older meaning (which I'd assume belongs to the weights). Halteres (insects) would then be a separate entry.

If no objection arises here in ten days, I will make the split; editors who are more experienced in these topics are welcome to do so sooner. Xoloz 04:27, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Okay, having realized that the continued content-conflation here is very bad for categories/stub purposes, I'm doing the split much sooner than I had thought I would. The same article doesn't belong in the categories Zoology and Ancient Greece. Xoloz 13:08, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

pronounce

Mention how to pronounce halteres.

 Done AxelBoldt (talk) 22:22, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Gyroscopes

halteres are used more as gyroscopes than as accelerometers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.37.131.165 (talk) 17:10, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

 Done That is correct, and it is fixed now. AxelBoldt (talk) 22:22, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Fixup needed -- perhaps (right?)

As of the current version of the article Halteres, -- (the "08:17, 27 August 2016‎" version) -- the article contains some kind of "remark" that says:

{Cancel my correction: this may be Coriolis, not Centrifugal - Dr. John D. Reichert}

Since it ends with what looks like someone's name, ("Dr. John D. Reichert") the usage seems to be in conflict with -- (or, maybe even "in violation of") -- the guideline (at Wikipedia:Signatures#When_signatures_should_and_should_not_be_used) that says

Edits to articles must not be signed, [...]

I understand that it is possible (and likely) that the editor who inserted that snip of text (the one enclosed in {curly braces} in the first "blockquote" above), was confused in some way, and was not intentionally flouting any rules or guidelines.

So, without assuming any bad faith on the part of any previous editor (such as, the editor of this edit, during which that that snip of text enclosed in {curly braces} was added) I would like to request some advice.

If anyone knows what the intended purpose was, of that snip of text enclosed in {curly braces} that was added ... then please [feel free to] explain ... but please do so on a "Talk:" page, not in "article space".

...and, if there is no good reason to keep any part of that snip of text enclosed in {curly braces} that was added ... then I suggest that we should "consider" deleting it from the article.

Thanks! in advance, for any advice or other comments. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 09:42, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

"Halteres of a fly moving" video

That video is very hard to understand. Jidanni (talk) 15:26, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't see any Halteres in that video too.. Panthera tigris tigris (talk) 08:28, 17 September 2023 (UTC)