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For the article I for the most part used two sources, that being IUCN Red List and BirdLife International, however for both of these websites I used a different page of the site for each bird since that's how the site works. Do I only cite two sources linking to their main page or unique sources for each individual bird? Qwexcxewq ( talk) 21:54, 2 October 2023 (UTC) reply

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Hi, the only problem with this is that I used the range descriptions for many different birds throughout the books and I used BirdLife International for almost all of the birds. Qwexcxewq ( talk) 22:40, 30 October 2023 (UTC) reply

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west and central africa because the link from the Lists of Endemic Birds page titles it as such. Qwexcxewq ( talk) 22:29, 1 November 2023 (UTC) reply

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Hi Qwexcxewq, thanks for your recent edit at List of birds of Alberta. I appreciate your effort in trying to improve the article. Unfortunately I've had to revert it because the information you added wasn't appropriately sourced. The list, including accidental/breeding codes is from the Official List of the Birds of Alberta [ [1]]. I agree with your observations, however in order to be added to the article they need to be reliably sourced.

If you're able to provide sources for the changes, please re-add them and tag them with the appropriate in-line citation. Thanks! grungaloo ( talk) 01:25, 22 January 2024 (UTC) reply

I will be editing this and repeating my edit. I will add citations for those that I know of scholarly sources for. Other than that you'd be surprised how unremarkable and unworthy of an article or mention a breeding record is. So I will provide with you my reasoning for every single one as that's pretty much all I can provide.

American Black Duck: I added the Accidental tag because there have been exactly nine (9) records since 2000 of this bird in Alberta, for reference very rare birds like Snowy Egret, Northern Cardinal, and Dickcissel all have more. There has been only one breeding record that I am aware of and it is from some time in the mid or early 20th century. Alberta gets more Black scoters every year than we do black ducks.

Greater Scaup: While belief during the 20th century was that they didn't breed in Alberta and bred further north there is abundant evidence that they do. I've seen breeding greater scaups in Alberta on two separate occasions this summer ( 1)( 2). They are regular in prairie pothole region.

Ring-necked Pheasant: they do breed in Alberta, even though there are regular releases. Here is a mother with chicks in Fish Creek PP.

Common poorwill: To call this bird accidental in Alberta in any way is ridiculous, they are regular in the Cypress Hills and have been reported there since 1945. They have also nested in Alberta (see this) luckily this one is citable so I will be doing that ;)

Lewis's woodpecker: I kept this one as accidental because while they are seen pretty much every year I didn't want to change too much. As for evidence that they breed? Here one with it's young in a nest I saw this summer.

Sage Thrasher: Uncommon to common bird in southeastern alberta. I have citations so I will provide them when i edit the page.

Great egrets aren't rare either, not that I can prove that. They've been seen in Alberta every year for over 10 years. They are uncommon but regular at places like Buffalo Lake and Frank Lake. But there is no citation that I can provide that will prove that so I hope you seeing this message will be enough proof for that specific claim. Qwexcxewq ( talk) 02:16, 23 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Just be cautious to steer clear or WP:OR. Many of your statements are worded "I saw", or "I am aware of". Wikipedia is built on WP:RS, and not our own observations. Also, the general consensus is that eBird and iNaturalist aren't reliable except in very limited uses since they're crowdsourced. There's nothing to stop people from saying they saw a groove-billed ani [2] with no corroboration. If you're unsure about your sources, please start a thread at Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds. grungaloo ( talk) 04:34, 23 January 2024 (UTC) reply

I am aware that crowdsourced content is not citable on this crowdsourced wiki. Which is why I replied to you with evidence that I didn't think would be citable. I said "I am aware of" because I didn't feel like digging through Blue Jay articles from the 70s. I understand your caution, but it continues to bother me how a "reputable" news source like Vice or the Atlantic who are much more likely to get things wrong or skew things thanks to bias is allowed to be cited, where as first hand evidence (eg. I've seen breeding Greater Scaups in Alberta, here are two photos of evidence with the time and location as well as multiple people who agree with my identification) isn't. I understand the flaws of crowdsourcing (as i'm sure anyone on wikipedia is aware), but both iNat and eBird have admins, as the list you provided was flagged, information from iNaturalist obviously isn't fool-proof but 9 times out of 10 any incorrect information is corrected.

I'm more just trying to provide you enough with evidence to show that my edits were justified, whether those justifications could be cited or not. This is just a rare occasion where I happen to know a lot about a topic where there isn't a lot of scholarly articles on. In almost any circumstance where there is more references or that I know less on, I always make sure to cite as many sources as I can. Qwexcxewq ( talk) 01:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Please help me with... Hello I've gotten into a bit of an issue. So a month or two ago I accidentally clicked on a link that sent me to Swedish Wikipedia. When I got there I received a notification that when I translated said that I was "indefinitely blocked from Swedish Wikipedia for having a complicated username". I thought that was silly and just went back to English Wikipedia. But for a while now whenever I went to access the Wikipedia Library I had this pop-up that told me that I couldn't use it because I had an active block on my account. But when I would check the English Wikipedia list of blocked users I wouldn't be there. I only today made the connection between the two. I left a reply on my Swedish Wikipedia talk page but I don't think that anything will come of this, and even if something were to it would be difficult communicating since I don't speak the language. I don't want to change my username but besides from that I don't know what else I can do to get access to the Wikipedia Library again? Is there a way I can somehow delete my Swedish account or change my Swedish username? Or somehow have this resolved? I do a lot of editing on articles relating to Zoology so I use JSTOR a lot so this effects my editing a lot. Qwexcxewq ( talk) 03:39, 28 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Changing your username wouldn't help unless you created a completely new account. Accounts are global across all Wikimedia Foundation projects, so you can't remove your account from the Swedish Wikipedia; it is not possible to delete an account. I think that you could email the Wikipedia Library email address and explain your situation(wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org). 331dot ( talk) 08:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC) reply

For what it's worth I posted a translated message there too, maybe it will help. 331dot ( talk) 08:41, 28 January 2024 (UTC) reply

It may have. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 11:36, 28 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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