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Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Jan 29, 2012 09:07 AM UTC:
To put this into context:
	This page was posted in 2005, when no-one was coming forward with the Templar-Hospitaller pairing. All I knew was that Timothy Newton had given Outback Chess the piece Kangaroo=Knight+Elephant and I wanted to match it with Knight+Dabbaba. Kangaroo seemed to follow the pattern of Gnu, Gazelle, and Bison but unlike Elephant, Camel, Zebra Dabbaba is not a beast itself so I did not see the need to use a beast name. What I did want was to pick a name equally easy to extrapolate. By the time I posted the two pages I had found the old Doughnut reference but no-one was presenting me with any evidence of other names for either piece. What criticisms were made at the time of posting I addressed - by adding more weight to the older Doughnut usage and switching from 'co-inventors' to 'inventor unspecified'.  I also named Camel+Dabbaba Casbah and Camel+Elephant Caribou but did not consider them ready for ther own pages.
	Mention on the site of Templar as a name for this piece, and Hospitaller for the Outback Chess Kangaroo, has been made only since my editorship lapsed, so any further changes that I made to the pages would have to be submitted to, and posted by, a current editor. Since the introduction of post-your-own (PYO) my personal experience has been that editors are inactive in posting corrected submissions of pre-PYO pages. If I thought that it would do any good I would add in the problematist usages with an emphasis that that is what they are and submit it, but my own priorities are updates that I have already submitted for my own pre-PYO variants in light of changes to piece names. Until these are addressed I am reluctant to inundate the editors with more updates.

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