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Not done: requests for decreases to the page protection level should be directed to the protecting admin or to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection if the protecting admin is not active or has declined the request. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:07, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Target
The article currently contains the sentence "Male lions usually aim for the backs or hindquarters of rivals, rather than their necks" in the "Mane" section of the article. I think this statement is a little confusing, and that context should be given here, and that the article should explicitly say something along the lines of "due to the protection provided by the mane" or "unlike other big cats". I don't want to be gun-ho about it because this is a featured article, so I said I'd ask for consensus. Xx78900 (talk) 19:03, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
CITES status
BhagyaMani thanks for your edits to the CITES sentence, however I don't entirely agree that reference to the CITES split listing of Lions should be removed from the taxobox section completely. I do agree that a ref tag is not the most appropriate way of doing this - thanks for pointing that out. I have substituted for a note instead. In my view, is it important to note the CITES status in the taxobox and given it is split listed it could be misleading to the reader to not refer here to the split listing. Hopefully your changes in the text body and this amendment will now make that clear for readers. Goldfinger00 (talk) 03:40, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Correct etymology
etymologically, lion comes from Old French lion which derives from Latin accusative LEONEM (nominative LEO) – it's important to explain this, as LEO does not sound like LION, while LEONEM (pronounced LEONE(nasalized E)) looks more like LION — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:F1:2F3F:B81:5DF4:D930:6A7A:CCC3 (talk) 13:07, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for spotting this! I've edited that sentence, and it now looks like this. Let me know if you'd like to see changes made to that. – Uanfala (talk) 00:12, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Not fully understood"
It says in the opening paragraph that the cause of the decline in lion populations is "not fully understood". Why does it say that, even though it is obvious that poaching by humans is causing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flossingjonah (talk • contribs) 00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Cool
I used this for an essay really helpful 102.220.65.138 (talk) 06:14, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]