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Pennatomys nivalis scheduled for TFA

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Cryptoprocta spelea

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Oryzomys antillarum scheduled for TFA

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We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:08, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:10, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Pennatomys, about a "snowy winged mouse... This is one of the victims of a "forgotten mass extinction", which killed off the entire diverse (but mostly undescribed) oryzomyine rodent fauna of the Lesser Antilles"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:40, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Cryptoprocta spelea, introduced (in 2010): This was the largest carnivore known from Madagascar, large enough to eat some of the giant extinct lemurs. We don't know much about it, except that it was quite big and that it is probably no longer there. I got some help from Visionholder, who also made the map, in finding information and Sasata gave a great GA review."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:04, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Oryzomys antillarum, introduce (in 2010): "This is a good old rice rat, from Jamaica this time. It's one of the many insular animal species that have gone extinct in the last few centuries. We know relatively much about it, but most of that knowledge is buried in the older literature." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:00, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Duplinks update for change to repeated links

For years I've found your duplinks tool very useful for identifying overlinking in the form of repeated links. In July 2023, a discussion led to a small but significant change to MOS:REPEATLINK. Now it is permissible to link the first occurrence in each section (at level 2, i.e. ==). Would you be willing and able to update duplinks to not flag such links as repeats? --Worldbruce (talk) 16:26, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I would, but a few years ago I already changed my script to import Evad37's version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ucucha/duplinks.js&diff=prev&oldid=879913299. So it would be better to just change that version.

I feel that ideally useful scripts like this should be maintained in the WP: namespace so that they're not limited to one person maintaining them. Not sure if there's a process for that though; as you may have seen I'm not very active any more :) Ucucha (talk) 16:30, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Saadanius

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A cookie for you!

Thanks for writing Nsungwepithecus! 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 14:19, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to drag you back into the world of lemurs...

I hope you've been well. I'm glad to see that you've remained active with Wikipedia, unlike me. Anyway, sorry for the long silence. I'm writing because I started a topic on WP:Animals, and I would appreciate your professional input. It even makes brief mention of you and our work debunking the myth behind the etymology of the word "lemur."

True to my style, the post is long-winded. Sorry about that. Anyway, I'd love to hear from you. —Maky (talk) 21:15, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great to hear from you, hope you are doing well! I responded to the topic. I feel these made-up collective terms are a nuisance and I want to ignore them as much as possible.

These days I mostly work on my own database. The rules around synthesis, no original research, verifiability, etc. are probably part of the reason I don't write as much on Wikipedia any more. Those rules are sensible and for an enterprise at Wikipedia's scale there probably is no good alternative to them, but I like the freedom to follow my own judgment in an area I know well. Ucucha (talk) 15:54, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Camelini, Nordmann, 1850 citation

Hello, I noticed that you added the reference "Nordmann, 1850" to the Camelini page a while back. Do you know what that full citation might be? I am trying to trace it back to a full source. Thanks! Ambuser (talk) 15:53, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to this edit? Looks like I only moved the citation to the right field; I wasn't the one to add it. It appears in the very first version of the page.

I looked in my database and the only Nordmann 1850 is Thalassictis, a fossil hyena. I think what happened is that the original author copied the taxobox from our article on Thalassictis and incorrectly kept that line in (notice the first version also has "T. robusta", the type species of Thalassictis). I dutifully moved the authority to the right taxobox field without checking it, and now 14 years later it's still there. It's even crept back into the scientific literature.

McKenna & Bell (1997) attribute the name of the tribe to Gray (1821), so I'll correct our article. Ucucha (talk) 18:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see now that you only moved that existing comment. My apologies. I don't know if that reference to Gray (1821) is correct. I couldn't find a mention of Camelini in that particular text: https://archive.org/details/s0id11783780/page/306/mode/2up Ambuser (talk) 19:18, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gray named Camelidae, and by the Principle of Coordination in the Code that means he is also deemed to have named all other ranks of family-group names based on Camelus.

The first author to have actually used the name Camelini to my knowledge is Webb (1965). Webb, S.D. 1965. The osteology of _Camelops_. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Bulletin 1:1-54.

Ucucha (talk) 20:30, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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