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I check pages listed in
Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for
orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of
Paradoxurus's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
From
Skunk: Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed). John Hopkins University Press.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not.
AnomieBOT⚡17:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)reply
I have reverted an attempt to turn this redirect into some sort of mini-article. Make it a dab page, possibly, or even a set index, but if you want to write an article about palm civets then you're going to need a bit more, and especially you're going to need some references. One last, or first, thing to consider: a fair number of articles include
palm civet as a wikilink, and may not take kindly to you changing the purpose of that page. Or in this case, many of those links may be inappropriate, expecting one sort of palm civet and currently getting another. Either way, you should really look at them before yanking the page away - there is a "What links here" button or link on the left, possibly hidden inside a menu depending on your skin.
Lithopsian (
talk)
17:26, 24 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Set index seems most appropriate, considering there exist quite a few of those for animal common names. I can look through the citations of those linking articles to see what species or genera they are referring to.
I heard you like clades (
talk)
17:46, 24 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Thank you. I find it very difficult to identify what many of these common name links are really referring to without quite a lot of insider knowledge. Probably most of them should be disambiguated to the relevant species. There wouldn't generally be wikilinks to set index articles in the body of articles, more often in see also links or perhaps hatnotes.
Lithopsian (
talk)
17:51, 24 January 2023 (UTC)reply
I've gone through all of the articles that link to
palm civet and either changed the link to point to something more appropriate, or tagged the link with {{specify|reason=which species?}}. (For instance, a few of the species articles said "...species of palm civet..." and I've changed that link to be to
viverrid.) The number of articles that link is not too great. We could put some more effort into determining which of the palm civets those articles are talking about. -
UtherSRG(talk)14:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply
The only exception to this is the
William Ogilby article. This needs some research. this article says he named the "...white-footed
palm civet... Paradoxurus leucopus. I can't find the sci name anywhere but in the few historical documents mentioned on Ogilby's article, nor the common name anywhere. -
UtherSRG(talk)14:22, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Nice. But I'm saying that a living specimen of the species now popularly known as the white-footed palm civet. doesn't work. They might have called that specific specimen or species by that name, but that moniker seems to have quickly fallen off. Perhaps change "now popularly" to "then popularly"?
UtherSRG(talk)15:34, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Thanks anyway. :) I think I'll change species now popularly known as the white-footed palm civet to "species he called the whitefooted Paradoxure". I currently have it linked to
Asian palm civet (was to
palm civet). Do we agree on this linkage, or is there something better to link it to? -
UtherSRG(talk)15:58, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mammals, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of mammal-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MammalsWikipedia:WikiProject MammalsTemplate:WikiProject Mammalsmammal articles
I check pages listed in
Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for
orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of
Paradoxurus's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
From
Skunk: Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed). John Hopkins University Press.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not.
AnomieBOT⚡17:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)reply
I have reverted an attempt to turn this redirect into some sort of mini-article. Make it a dab page, possibly, or even a set index, but if you want to write an article about palm civets then you're going to need a bit more, and especially you're going to need some references. One last, or first, thing to consider: a fair number of articles include
palm civet as a wikilink, and may not take kindly to you changing the purpose of that page. Or in this case, many of those links may be inappropriate, expecting one sort of palm civet and currently getting another. Either way, you should really look at them before yanking the page away - there is a "What links here" button or link on the left, possibly hidden inside a menu depending on your skin.
Lithopsian (
talk)
17:26, 24 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Set index seems most appropriate, considering there exist quite a few of those for animal common names. I can look through the citations of those linking articles to see what species or genera they are referring to.
I heard you like clades (
talk)
17:46, 24 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Thank you. I find it very difficult to identify what many of these common name links are really referring to without quite a lot of insider knowledge. Probably most of them should be disambiguated to the relevant species. There wouldn't generally be wikilinks to set index articles in the body of articles, more often in see also links or perhaps hatnotes.
Lithopsian (
talk)
17:51, 24 January 2023 (UTC)reply
I've gone through all of the articles that link to
palm civet and either changed the link to point to something more appropriate, or tagged the link with {{specify|reason=which species?}}. (For instance, a few of the species articles said "...species of palm civet..." and I've changed that link to be to
viverrid.) The number of articles that link is not too great. We could put some more effort into determining which of the palm civets those articles are talking about. -
UtherSRG(talk)14:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply
The only exception to this is the
William Ogilby article. This needs some research. this article says he named the "...white-footed
palm civet... Paradoxurus leucopus. I can't find the sci name anywhere but in the few historical documents mentioned on Ogilby's article, nor the common name anywhere. -
UtherSRG(talk)14:22, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Nice. But I'm saying that a living specimen of the species now popularly known as the white-footed palm civet. doesn't work. They might have called that specific specimen or species by that name, but that moniker seems to have quickly fallen off. Perhaps change "now popularly" to "then popularly"?
UtherSRG(talk)15:34, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply
Thanks anyway. :) I think I'll change species now popularly known as the white-footed palm civet to "species he called the whitefooted Paradoxure". I currently have it linked to
Asian palm civet (was to
palm civet). Do we agree on this linkage, or is there something better to link it to? -
UtherSRG(talk)15:58, 25 January 2023 (UTC)reply