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Why are stink badgers included

They are literally badgers only in name. They are skunks in every other regard. I don't think anyone considers them to actually be a badger. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.127.128.19 (talk) 12:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. the stink badger article notes that DNA work in the 1990s found them more closely related to skunks and moved both out of Mustelidae and into a new family, Mephitidae.

Janet McConnaughey 2600:1700:4761:1D0:2C65:C149:E093:86C6 (talk) 20:41, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding "only in name": That's... pretty much what a paraphyletic group is, I think? "Badger" is simply not a particularly scientific word, at least not in the modern cladistic sense. The article for the word shouldn't ignore that fact in order to try to shoehorn it into some tidy little cladistic package. To this end, I have just replaced the {{taxobox}} template that had been used on the page with a {{paraphyletic group}} template, which is intended for situations just like this one. -Rwv37 (talk) 05:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

German translation

German Article would be the one about "Dachse". Going from that article to its English equivalent "Melinae" redirects to here too. 195.176.112.76 (talk) 08:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]