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March 21[edit]

Though not a guide specifically, am I able to include what conditions an insect should be kept in?[edit]

Hello,

Sorry if the title is confusing, but I have a question. I recently edited Psuedocreobotra wahlbergi, (the environmental conditions when kept as pets) and had it include what conditions are suitable for it if you were to keep it as a pet. I then read what Wikipedia is not, and I am wondering if what I included is a guide.

Thank you for reading and I hope you can help. Also, sorry if none of that made sense, it didn't really to me, either.

thatsneezingkid (talk) 19:42, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think phrasing is really the only issue. WP:NOTGUIDE doesn't mean that we can't have information that's useful to pet owners, it just means we can't give direct instructions. For example, Cat mentions they're obligate carnivores that hunt small prey. Any reasonable reader should be able to conclude that it'd be all kinds of abuse to put a cat on a vegan diet with unrestricted and unsupervised access to pet hamsters, but we don't actually say "you must feed cats food with animal protein and you should be very careful letting them interact with smaller pets."

Looking over your edit, there are a few points where you give specific direction. Try to remove or change any instance of "should" or "make sure" or anything along those lines. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:09, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]