Talk:Leaf window
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Sjschen in topic Inappropriate page name
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editEpidermal window can be a number of things, hardly ever the fenestration of a leaf. It often refers to a piece of epidermis that is lifted during any of several medical procedures; it can also mean the transparent part of a plant gall through with an adult insect emerges, or the epidermis that lies above the photophores in various light-emitting fish. This page needs to be moved (back) to Leaf window. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:26, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- Done. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:29, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
- The purpose of a talk page is to allow for responses and discussion before one makes a change. To get back to your opposition to the term, the lab that studies this plant structure extensively calls it an "epidermal window" (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020129820295 http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/7/1863.full). "Leaf window" is not a good name because it mixes things up with "fenestrated leaf", which has the exact same etymological roots. If your main issue is with the term being also used medically then we set up a disambiguation page that clarifies this along with all the variant uses you stated above. In any case, let's resolve this issue here before either of us has to go reediting again. -- Sjschen (talk) 17:21, 17 August 2016 (UTC)