Talk:Mascarene grey parakeet

Orphaned references in Thirioux's Grey Parrot

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 Thirioux's Grey Parrot'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.

Reference named "Lost Land":

• From Mauritius Blue Pigeon: Cheke, A. S.; Hume, J. P. (2008). Lost Land of the Dodo: an Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues. T. & A. D. Poyser. ISBN 978-0-7136-6544-4.
• From Dodo: Cheke, A. S.; Hume, J. P. (2008). Lost Land of the Dodo: an Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues. New Haven and London: T. & A. D. Poyser. pp. 22–115. ISBN 978-0-7136-6544-4.

Reference named "Extinct Birds":

• From Red Rail: Hume, J. P.; Walters, M. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: A & C Black. pp. 134–136. ISBN 1-4081-5725-X.
• From Mauritius Parakeet: Hume, J. P.; Walters, M. (2012). Extinct Birds. A & C Black. ISBN 140815725X.

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⚡ 11:49, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Mascarene Grey Parakeet/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Jimfbleak (talk · contribs) 14:21, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

You obviously know the ropes, so just nitpicking on the assumption you'll go to FAC eventually. I made these edits, please check, but note that another editor made several edits before mine.

Yep, I requested a copy edit just in case, so now it's all converging... FunkMonk (talk) 14:46, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

• ...along with other Mascarene parrots — perhaps ...other parrots from the islands to avoid a third occurrence of Mascarene

Fixed. FunkMonk (talk) 15:47, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

• Subfossil bones, thought to be of the Mascarene Grey Parakeet, found on Mauritius, — perhaps Subfossil bones, found on Mauritius and thought to be of the Mascarene Grey Parakeet, ,

Fixed. FunkMonk (talk) 15:47, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

• central one being longest. — are there one or two central feathers. Usually tail feathers are paired

Pluralised. FunkMonk (talk) 15:48, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

• congeners in other osteological — couple of links maybe?

Fixed. FunkMonk (talk) 14:53, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

• belonging to the genus Coracopsis by a few authors. — e.g.?

I was thinking of citing those authors, also to give their rationale (parrots of that genus are grey and black, so I guess that's why), but the claims were made in obscure, 19th century French papers, so might be hard to track down... FunkMonk (talk) 14:48, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

• the "squeeze and whack" tale is told so often in the text and the quotes that I felt I was being beaten round the head too.

Removed one redundant quote, is it enough? FunkMonk (talk) 14:45, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll have another read through tomorrow Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:21, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll fix these issues soon. As for FA, I think it might be a bit on the scrawny side, or what do you think? FunkMonk (talk) 14:37, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! FunkMonk (talk) 16:09, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Well, there's no minimum size for FAC, and in fact my current co-nominated bird FAC starts by saying how little we know about the obscure Polynesian Nauru Reed Warbler. In the end it's your call. Anyway, let's do the deed Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:24, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

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