Talk:Bagarius yarrelli

Goonch name in Hindi/Devanagari?

This fish Bagarius yarrelli is commonly called Goonch in India, but has anyone figured out how this common name is written in the Devanagari script in Hindi-language publications? SilSinn9821 (talk) 03:10, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

@SilSinn9821: It would be गूंछ or गूंच depending on pronunciation but I can find nothing online although it is not surprising - very little in natural history or biology (and advanced-level non-fiction in general) is published in Devanagari in India. Shyamal (talk) 06:22, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

@Shyamal: That may be true for scientific/academic works, but what about ordinary, non-scientific/non-academic media like newspapers (I believe there are many printed in Hindi and other non-English languages), poetry, and even non-English-speaking Bollywood productions (or at least those spoken in English but with non-English subtitles, if any, to aid those who do not dominate the language)? I have never been in India, so I wonder if at least one non-English newspaper there ever did an article on the fish, or if someone wrote a Hindi poem praising the fish (from what I saw on Animal Planet's River Monsters TV show, the goonch is revered by many Hindus as sacred, as well as the sareng), or whether maybe some Bollywood movie or TV drama once mentioned the fish. It might be hard to find out when internet searches yield nothing, as you point out and as I myself tried out on Google. SilSinn9821 (talk) 21:57, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I also heard this name on the same River Monsters episode covering the goonch: “soos”, as another nickname for the same Bagarius fish. Google-searching it never game me a meaningful result, much less its spelling in Devanagari or any other Indic script. SilSinn9821 (talk) 22:07, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

@SilSinn9821: Ok, based on your suggestion I added "fish" (मछली) in Hindi to Google Search and I get a few Devanagari newspaper hits like this - https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/kanpur/cat-fish-found-in-river-rind-hindi-news which confirms गूंच - I will add it to Wikidata as a label. The news article says the other name is बघार (Baga:r - from which the genus is derived - evidently that name is used for several species in the genus) Shyamal (talk) 05:02, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Reposting what I described in my edit about adding an additional photo and its placement

I added another image that was posted on another page (Kali River goonch attacks). The other two images here illustrations, and this photo I linked is not.

I am somewhat new to wiki editing though, and this page in general is lacking quite a bit of detail about this species, so I wasn't quite sure where to put the image within the article.

I wanted to just add it to the images of the page which are not directly within the article. Such as when you click an image from the page, click to the next one, and then find more that were not directly used. I however, couldn't figure out how to do that.

If anyone wants to move its placement within the article, or change it to be in the place I would have liked to add it, please feel free to do so. Bearded Frog (talk) 00:05, 8 August 2023 (UTC)