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DYK for Aphaenogaster donisthorpei

The DYK project (nominate) 17:38, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Ocepeia

Template:Did you know nominations/Ocepeia was reviewed by you. I am afraid that you have deserted the review because of your lack of response. Forgive me if this is an incorrect observation, but I would like to know if the article is good enough for the DYK to be passed. Thank you. IJReid (talk) 00:52, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

My apologizes for the lapse in activity. College finals re taking up a large chunk of my time. I will look at the rewritten area of the article tonight.--Kevmin § 01:11, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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Long time no see

Hi Kevmin! How are you? I haven't edited at all for like 6 month, but I'm back now, at least for a while :) I haven't yet had time to check out all the new ant articles, but I see that you've been keeping up the good work as usual and that you managed to expand the 75th article on December 31, well done :) jonkerz ♠talk 15:16, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Yantaromyrmex nov. gen.

Hi Mr. Kevmin, in case you did not see the article by Dlussky & Dubovikoff (2013), they erected a new genus, Yantaromyrmex (AntWiki), to house five fossil species, including Anonychomyrma constricta, Anonychomyrma geinitzi and Anonychomyrma samlandica (link to pdf). And now for something completely different, I updated the list of Aphaenogaster species, but without the pipes (Aphaenogaster avita, not A. avita, the default style generated by a script I use to create the lists); if you prefer to use pipes, let me known and I'll add them. Cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 15:25, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Awww, and right after I had written separate articles for the three! lol O well I'll have to whip up an article for Yantaromyrmex soon. And I do like the pipes as they save a chunk of space on the genus pages when there are a lot of species. I admit they are pain to put in though.--Kevmin § 23:44, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Pipes done! Feel free to play around with the {{div col}} / {{columns-list}} templates; I usually use "div cols|2" when to pipes are used to be nice to people on laptop screens (myself included). jonkerz ♠talk 00:08, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Aphaenogaster longaeva

--The DYK project (nominate) 10:57, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Aphaenogaster oligocenica

--Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:38, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Aphaenogaster mersa

--Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:21, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Pname

Sorry you didn't like the |pname= addition. You see, when the name of the page does not match the species name, you are supposed to use pname. Your page is causing an entry in Wikipedia:Database reports/Transclusions of deleted templates/1, just search for "Taxonomy/Kevmin/sandbox2" on that page. It would be great if you could just add the pname, which fixes it. Is there a problem with that? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:51, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Now I understand the reasoning, however I had never heard of the need to use pname. Other then appearing on the behind the scenes report, does the presence of an automatic taxobox create problems? I dont really see a problem with it to be honest. *shrug*--Kevmin § 23:57, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
It's only necessary when the name of the article does not match the name of the species/genus/etc. Since you are using pname, the box on your page will use Template:Taxonomy/Apterostigma electropilosum instead of "Template:Taxonomy/Kevmin/sandbox2". So, you will now get the same result in your sandbox as you get in the Apterostigma electropilosum article. Thanks for fixing it! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:20, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Im still a little confused as to where the necessity of it is to be honest. I understand that it generates an error message in the report you mention, but I have no problems with it in my sandbox when creating articles, and it doesnt show in public areas of the categories. It seems like an extra piece of coding which has to be removed from the articles when I move them to live.--Kevmin § 00:32, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti

-- The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Share it with extinct ants. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:05, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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Your DYK about an ant

I have started a review of your DYK Template:Did you know nominations/Apterostigma eowilsoni. I have selfishly done this in the hope you will reciprocate by reviewing my DYK, Template:Did you know nominations/Pierre Thouvenot but if you are too busy, no worries I will still complete yours. Best regards--Ykraps (talk) 20:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Aphaenogaster mayri

-- HJ Mitchell 00:04, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Kirtlandian

I am currently reviewing the GA nomination Kirtlandian. I should not have taken it on really because the content of the article is outside my area of competence but did so because the nomination had been waiting so long at GAN for review. I have no difficulty about assessing whether the article reaches the GA criteria, but I wondered if you would read the article through to see that the content is sensible and the technical terms correctly used. (I ask this remembering how a certain editor condemned a GA reviewer in her blog for failing to spot that some geological information in an article he had approved at GAN was wrong.) Thank you. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:31, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for having a look at the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
No problems, I'm sorry I wasn't able to do more.--Kevmin § 00:38, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Archimyrmex

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DYK for Apterostigma eowilsoni

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DYK for Armaniidae

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DYK for Asymphylomyrmex

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DYK for Apterostigma electropilosum

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DYK for Attopsis

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DYK for Archiponera

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DYK for Electrostephanus

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DYK nomination of Langeria

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DYK for Langeria

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DYK for Azteca alpha

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DYK for Formicodiplogaster

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DYK for Tilia johnsoni

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DYK for Priabona

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DYK for Metanephrocerus

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DYK for Klondike Mountain Formation

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DYK for Acer kenaicum

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DYK for Ainigmapsychops

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Acer chaneyi nomination

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Formiciinae reversion

Hi Kevmin, I reverted your reversion and wanted to explain why. The practice in Wikipedia has changed and now bird common names like others are to be generally lower case. The current guidelines are at MOS:LIFE and the very long discussion and decision is at WP:BIRDCON which was finalized about eight months ago. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike talk 04:08, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Ahh, I missed that who debacle with work and concentrating on fossil ant species articles, good to know! Thanks for the heads up :-) --Kevmin § 04:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Dinoflagellates

I see that you did not think much of my describing dinoflagellates as algae in Lobophyllia hemprichii‎ and changed it to protists. Wikipedia has many instances where these symbionts are described as algae, some added by me but many preceding my involvement. Outside sources such as this also use the term. The article Pfiesteria piscicida identifies this organism as a protist but says it can cause an algal bloom. The Wikipedia article on protists says that "protist" is a deprecated term. I would be interested in your comments. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:04, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Algae is used in Campbell biology 9ed uses protist as an informal grouping of uncellular/multicellular organisms, including dinoflagellates and the algaes. However, Campbell specifies that Dinofl. and algaes (red green and descendant land plants) are two separate entities. Dinoflagellates belong to the group Chromalveolata where as algaes are in the group Archaeplastida. Until the ?50's? iirc dinoflagellates were classed as algaes, but molecular and DNA work has shown they are not related at all. The term "algae bloom" is one those inaccurate vernacular things that is not a good baseline for taxonomy, its used for population booms of any unicellular organism. That is why i changed the wording to protist.--Kevmin § 22:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. I will avoid describing them as algae in future. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:51, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elektrithone

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DYK for Acer taurocursum

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DYK for Allorapisma

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Template:Did you know nominations/Principiala

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With one small correction by you, the above nomination is GTG.

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JODA

Hi Kevmin. Would you be interested in joining me in pursuit of FA status for John Day Fossil Beds National Monument? I took it to FAC about 3.5 years ago, but it was not promoted. You later said on the article's talk page that there were still problems with the way the article dealt with the geology and paleontology. I lack the technical expertise to correct the problems, but I think the article was (and presumably is) ready except for some minor updating. It occurred to me quite recently that perhaps all I needed to do to get past the stuck point was to ask for help. If this is of any interest to you, I'd be more than happy for you to co-nominate the article when you think it ready and to share the credit, if any is forthcoming, for success. Finetooth (talk) 20:34, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK: Zigrasolabis

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Myrmecinini/Crematogastrini

Re this: I obviously made an oops by editing the wrong template, but Myrmecinini was synonymized under Crematogastrini by Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz (2014). The placement has been accepted by AntCat/AntWeb/AntWiki, though I've yet to see it either accepted or rejected in any academic articles. I've already updated the other former Myrmecinini articles. What do you think? jonkerz ♠talk 14:57, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Looks good to me, I missed the syn article so I didnt realize. Just be careful about AntCat/AntWeb/AntWiki as sources, since they are all edited by the same small group of myrmecologists, and opposing opinions have not had a good change to be published. Admittedly Ward and Brady are the powerhouse phylogenists at the moment so there's not likely to be much push back. --Kevmin § 16:37, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Good to go

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@Gerda Arendt: Oops, forgot to do that, fixed now.--Kevmin § 20:20, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Principiala

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Range Maps

Hi Kevmin. Sorry to have troubled you with my edits.

You mention "Range maps should be avoided as probable OR". Question: What is "OR"? Strebe might have the same question (see here) and other users are as well unaware of the problem "OR" (e.g. Noles1984, see here). Range maps on Eskimo curlew, Saint Croix macaw and Pika are OK? Please explain. Best regards, --Himbear (talk) 09:25, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Kevmin, it's me again. I found the issue "OR" explained (generally I write in the German WP). Got it.--Himbear (talk) 09:53, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Himbear, i see you found the German page on Original Research. The problem with all but the Eskimo curlew, Saint Croix macaw, and Pika is they are essentially made up ranges based on scatterings of fossil site points that were found in the former PaleoBiology Database. Noles1984 did not base the "ranges" on any reliable resources, but on his own extrapolation. Eskimo curlew, Saint Croix macaw, and Pika are all datapoint maps rather then range maps and thus verifiable. --Kevmin § 12:49, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Distribution of whoolly rhino. Above: findings in Eurasia, center: distribution in Europe, below: findings in North East Asia.
Thanks, Kevmin, for explaining here and on Dire wolf again. However, I feel pitty not to see any range maps for extinct species in general, based on your judgement. A compromise in my eyes should be the twofold map for Whoolly rhinoceros with a presumable range and the finding spots. Please bear in mind: to the reader a map gives most valuable information - of course only if the information is not misleading.
Best regards, --Himbear (talk) 13:26, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
I think that there should be no problems with the second and third images on the right. The problem is the first one is still OR, we do not know that the Woolly rhinoceros (which species?) actually inhabited that area, or if it was a larger or smaller area. Also it makes the range seem like it was all at once, when it is based on fossil finds of multiple ages. Plus there is no way to provide a citation for the suggested range, as I pointed out, thus it breaks OR restrictions.--Kevmin § 16:29, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Zigrasolabis

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DYK for Acer chaneyi

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DYK for Toxolabis

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DYK for Yantaromyrmex

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Wikispecies

Dear Kevmin, things have changed on Wikispecies, and I would warmly like to invite you back and see if you would consider contributing again. Best regards, Dan Koehl (talk) 01:37, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Note on entry "Diplogastridae"

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DYK for Wesmaelius mathewesi

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DYK for Gesomyrmex pulcher

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DYK for Gesomyrmex germanicus

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DYK for Eoprephasma

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Incertae sedis and automatic taxoboxes

Hi Kevmin,

In answer to the question in your recent edit summary, {{Taxonomy/Incertae sedis/Susumanioidea}} appears in Category:Automatic taxobox cleanup if {{Taxonomy/Susumanioidea}} is parented to "Incertae sedis/Susumanioidea" because of a template loop, presumably because of the two calls to "incertae sedis" at different ranks. I have tried a number of ways of remedying the situation, but the only thing that has so far worked is reparenting {{Taxonomy/Susumanioidea}} to {{Taxonomy/Phasmatodea}}. Given that {{Taxonomy/Susumanioidea}} is only used in one article, where the incertae sedis suborder doesn't even appear, and that it is not inaccurate to say that Susumanioidea is a child of Phasmatodea (less precise, perhaps, but not less accurate), that seemed like a pretty good pragmatic solution to me. Since you undid my edit, {{Taxonomy/Incertae sedis/Susumanioidea}} again appeared (eventually) in the cleanup category, and with no improvement to the encyclopaedic content. --Stemonitis (talk) 16:21, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Fixed it.--Kevmin § 20:12, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Cretomerobius

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years in paleo

The restructuring was discussed and well received. I think at WP:Dino or WP:Paleo. Abyssal (talk) 18:20, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Shivalik Fossil Park

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DYK for Dicromantispa moronei

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DYK for Feroseta

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DYK for Dicromantispa electromexicana

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DYK for Eorpa (genus)

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Explanation

I restored Promerycochoerus to page/stub status because the genus is apparently not synonymous with Merycochoerus, after all according to this site. [1]--Mr Fink (talk) 04:58, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Holcorpa

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DYK for Rhizomnium dentatum

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Please revert yourself on Sturgeon

That template is under discussion as possible outing - it needs to be removed. I don't think you want to be involved in that mix up. Atsme📞📧 07:04, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

I have read the thread in question, and it does not change the issues of COI that is present in the articles I have on my watch-list. It is against WP policy to remove templates that have not been addressed.--Kevmin § 07:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
I have contacted the OS admins - the initial disclosure was made in error back in 2011 and was supposed to have been removed. When it came to my attention in 2014, I immediately contacted the OS admins again. They thought they got it all. The information that recently came to light was a surprise because it should have been removed. You need to revert those templates ASAP because you have now been made aware that the RW information was an error. Atsme📞📧 07:22, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Has your COI with the edited articles been rectified and the articles been reviewed for neutrality? If not, the templates remain.--Kevmin § 07:24, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
I'll let the OS admins handle it. I included a link to your TP in the emails. Atsme📞📧 08:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Xylolaemus sakhnovi

-- Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:32, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Notoscyphus balticus DYK

Hi, I see that there is no OTRS ticket yet re: permission granted for the image. I would like to use that image in a DYK prep set, but obviously since we have to be especially careful about images going on the main page, I've placed the nomination on hold. If you ping me when the permission is confirmed, I'd be happy to promote the hook. Thanks --Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 20:03, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

@Gilderien: I have an email request sent to Alexander Schmidt now and will let you know as soon as i have an answer from him.--Kevmin § 05:38, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Elephantomyia baltica

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Ant tagging

So I've been away for a while, but I'm back and I'll celebrate my return to WP by assessing unassessed articles :) I'm kinda lost when it comes to fossil taxa; if you could tag a bunch of top/high/mid articles in Category:Fossil ant taxa that would be greatly appreciated. If you are up for this challenge, then I'll swing by later and tag the remaining as low-importance. jonkerz ♠talk 19:31, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Links: Unknown importance fossil ants All fossil ants. jonkerz ♠talk 19:53, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
  • @Jonkerz: I started to do some tagging, but I got a little sidetracked redirecting extinct species stubs to the genus pages per WP:Paleo guidelines! looking through it seems that genreally Genus gets tagged as Mid importance for ants, subfamily as high.--Kevmin § 21:18, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Great :) The recipe is very simple :)

  • most species --> not very interesting
  • most genera --> also not very interesting but more than most species

In addition to that I've used this and this list. On WP:ANTS I encourage editors to be generous with the ant-priority assessment, but I cannot say I've been very generous myself -- let's face it, most individual species are so very not interesting :) jonkerz ♠talk 21:31, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

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  • Nice! I'll have a look through it and see what I can work on. Sadly all the Genera/species with names starting with "A" that i havent created are from type descriptions in non-english.  :-( --Kevmin § 07:41, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Leptopharsa tacanae

--Materialscientist (talk) 11:56, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

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Kevmin, we're trying to figure out what's up with OTRS, and Moonriddengirl has posted to the nomination page. Can you please stop by and give her the information she's requested? She can't find it in the system, but may not be searching using the right term or date. I'd hate to have this have to be promoted without the image, which is so good. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:28, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Marmyan

--Gatoclass (talk) 18:17, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Albicoccus

--Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:53, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Myrmeciites

Hey Kevmin, since you are specialised with palaeontology, can you tell me what the question mark is supposed to mean in the taxons M.(?) goliath and M.(?) tabanifluviensis? While the source does the same thing, I'm not exactly clear on what it means, and I believe that someone such as yourself may know. Thanks, Burklemore1 (talk) 11:31, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

It's something that usually appears in paleontology based nomenclatural acts, and means that the species is placed into a genus with some uncertainty. Myrmeciites is a from genus, which is also something fairly restricted to paleo, its in a lot of ways a holding bin for species which do not fit other related genera, but themselves are not of certain placement due to current preserved details.Kevmin § 11:46, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Ah, so I see. That makes a lot more sense, thank you. Given how poorly preserved the specimens are, I guess the true identities of these ants will never be known. Unless a strikingly similar specimen is found in a much better preserved state, but I do not know the odds with that one. Burklemore1 (talk) 13:03, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
I wouldn't be so sure that they will never be identified. Fossil collection is still very active in the Okanagan Highland fossil sites, and new fossils could be found at any point. Take a look at the specimen history of Holcorpa for a good example of all it takes for identification to happen.--Kevmin § 13:22, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Also as a note, I did not give much weight to Baroni Urbani when writing the articles due to the fact that as far as I can tell, his taxonomies based on fossils have been fairly consistently regarded as fringe by major ant taxonomists and paleontologists.--Kevmin § 13:28, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Well hopefully the fossils can truly be identified one day. It would be rather interesting to read if a paleontologist manages to find a Myrmeciinae fossil that happens to be a Myrmeciites species, and therefore its classification can be properly determined. As for Baroni Urbani, I have noticed you have had a history between the classification of Nothomyrmecia and Prionomyrmex, which has been controversial in both the scientific community and Wikipedia. It was not until I started to work on Prionomyrmex that I realised how similar the two ants look, but it wasn't enough for the justification of Baroni Urbani's drastic taxonomic change. I think the articles should include the views of Baroni Urbani, on the basis that later reports (e.g. Dlussky 2012) do not accept his views and accept the classification of other authors (e.g. Archibald et al. 2006). Burklemore1 (talk) 14:20, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
@Burklemore1: Reclassification of form taxon species happens often enough, its all a matter of there being collecting and descriptive work done. "Controversial in both the scientific community and Wikipedia"? Huh? I generally went with a conservative approach and based the lack of mention on WP:fringe.--Kevmin § 17:09, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
I'll take your word in regards to the active fossil collecting going on, so I'll be keeping my eyes open for any sources that will creep up.....and the editor who was openly against your edits escalated the situation by a mile. Perhaps it was my poor choice of words, but it sure was interesting. In other news, I doubt it will emerge as a problem again unless Baroni Urbani decides to revive the discussion of Nothomyrmecia and Prionomyrmex, though his last paper about Myrmeciinae taxons was published in 2008. Burklemore1 (talk) 17:18, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elephantomyia brevipalpa

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DYK for Burmacoccus

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Kevmin, the issues you raised in your review have been responded to by Cwmhiraeth. Are you planning to return to the nomination, or should I put out the call for a new reviewer? If the latter, please let me know here; otherwise, I'll see your post there. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:57, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Apologies on that, I was without power for the last three days do to a large storm that moved through the Pacific Northwest. --Kevmin § 02:16, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Notoscyphus balticus

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DYK for Casaleia

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DYK for Pseudectatomma

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DYK for Pachycondyla eocenica

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DYK for Pachycondyla lutzi

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DYK for Pachycondyla? messeliana

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DYK for Elephantomyia bozenae

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