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editSignature ——🦝Procyon rolandae Luo, 2022 「我々は堅く同志小林の血路に沿って前進し握手するのだ」Disscussion・Contribution 08:06, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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editDYK nomination of Baer's pochard
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- Thanks for the review. I've updated the article, you can check it out at your convenience. ——🦝 Raccoozzy (talk・contribs) 05:52, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
DYK for Baer's pochard
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Copying licensed material requires attribution
editHi. I see in a recent addition to Androsace delphinensis you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 12:16, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hello, I gave the attribution in the summary. I didn't know it's possible to append other contents inside a ref tag, following the {{cite}} template. Thanks so much for your advice. ——🦝 The Interaccoonale Will be the raccoon race (talk・contribs) 12:59, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
DYK for China Folk House Retreat
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DYK for Golfballia ambusta
editOn 18 August 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Golfballia ambusta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that three burnt golf balls are preserved at Kew Gardens as a "rare fungal species"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Golfballia ambusta. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Golfballia ambusta), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Your hook reached 20,296 views (845.6 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of August 2023 – nice work! |
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editYou recently made several edits to species articles, such as helmeted manakin. However, you didn't copyedit the articles to make them internally consistent, nor did you edit the appropriate genus-level articles or higher level articles, to have external consistency. Please complete this work. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:55, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, I will finish the previously modified articles.
- I stopped further editing because I failed to get a bow subscription. ——🦝 The Interaccoonale Will be the raccoon race (talk・contribs) 01:47, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
IOC Bid list v 14.1
editHi, and Merry Christmas!!
I notice that you are working through the updates, which I thank you for. Please could you consider doing the same to Charadrius? As you can see from the Talk page, I planned to do it but you're welcome to do it for me ! I am currently working on fish. Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 12:44, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
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- OK, thanks. I'll update the pages. ——🦝 The Interaccoonale Will be the raccoon race (talk・contribs) 14:28, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
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Copyedit notes on Phenotypic disparity:
edit- I'm wondering if the lead sentence should be dumbed-down a bit, or at least made a bit more obvious that the topic is biology. Perhaps: "refers to the variation of observable characteristics within biological groups."?
- have very little species → have very few species -or- have a very small number of species
- On the other hand, later-disparity groups may have develop new morphological forms → developed
- Taxonomic metrics was an early approach of measuring disparity among groups in the 1980s. → In the 1980s, taxonomic metrics was an early approach of measuring disparity among groups.
- The last paragraph reads a bit like a how-to guide which is not ideal encyclopedic tone, but it's common enough in explaining concepts or procedures and is good enough for now.
I mentioned close paraphrasing of the hook fact. I'm going to quote the source then the passage in the article, underlining the similarities.
In terms of species number, birds are more diverse than mammals (some 10,000 vs. ca. 5600 extant species worldwide), but are instead quite more uniform in terms of morphology, reproductive biology and developmental schedules. Even including less conventional kinds such as the flightless penguins and ratites (ostrich and relatives), the range of bird structural types is much narrower than the range of structural types of mammals, which include humans and whales, bats and giraffes, moles and armadillos.
and from the present version of the article:
For example, birds, with more than 10,000 species, have greater species richness than mammals, which have approximately 5,600 species. However, birds are relatively more uniform in morphology, reproductive biology, and developmental biology. Even including some rare groups, such as penguins and ratites (ostriches and their relatives), the range of body plans in birds is much narrower than in mammals, which include apes, whales, bats, giraffes, moles, the platypus, marsupials and armadillos.
So it seems like maybe half of that is straight from the source and structurally it's very similar to the source. I know it can be difficult, especially when you've been working at the text for a while. Let me take a crack at it.
For example, there are nearly twice as many species of birds as there are of mammals, indicating greater species richness, but birds are more consistent in morphology, reproductive biology, and developmental biology. The range of their body plans is relatively narrow, with outliers like penguins and ratites (ostriches, etc.), while mammals include such diverse forms as apes, armadillos, bats, giraffes, marsupials, moles, the platypus and whales.
Maybe that's a bit better? – Reidgreg (talk) 00:45, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the suggestions. ——🦝 The Interaccoonale Will be the raccoon race (talk・contribs) 02:26, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Phenotypic disparity
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Accipiter becomes a paraphyletic in IOC ver 14.2 and Accipiter efficax and Accipiter quartus
editAccording to the to-be published IOC version 14.2 Accipiter becomes a paraphyletic taxon. Yet there are two Holocene fossil species of Accipiter precisely A.efficax and A.quartus (both valid) from New Caledonia, but the Accipiter species of New Caledonia has been moved to the revised genus Tachyspiza. As previously we had genus transfer on the pages of the fossil species of Pampusana (even though scientific studies did not formally transfer) and movement of the subfossil species Mareca marecula (Amsterdam wigeon, moved to Mareca by IOC but not in any scientific studies) by IOC, so I think it is also reasonable to update the two pages’ genus name as Tachyspiza efficax and Tachyspiza quartus Huinculsaurus (talk) 01:18, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry? I can't find IOC ver 14.2. Is it officially published? ——🦝 The Interaccoonale Will be the raccoon race (talk・contribs) 01:25, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Not yet Huinculsaurus (talk) 04:09, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Not yet