User talk:Faendalimas/Archive 6

The Signpost: 07 January 2015

In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints

Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors

Featured content: Kock up

Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

The Signpost: 14 January 2015

Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you

WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story

News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community

In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors

Featured content: Citations are needed

Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
785	Purdue University (talk)	Add sources
13	Aldabrachelys abrupta (talk)	Add sources
13	Razor-backed musk turtle (talk)	Add sources
40	Emydidae (talk)	Add sources
6	Sparks High School (talk)	Add sources
7	Psephophorus (talk)	Add sources
141	Russian tortoise (talk)	Cleanup
263	Synanceia (talk)	Cleanup
19	Dogtown, St. Louis (talk)	Cleanup
3	Checkerboard worm lizard (talk)	Expand
361	Pogona (talk)	Expand
15	Wildlife of Réunion (talk)	Expand
427	Quaternary extinction event (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
5	Government Medical College, Azamgarh (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
12	A Special Sesame Street Christmas (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6	Andreas Petofi (talk)	Merge
8	Montenegro Vilayet (talk)	Merge
12	Senna tora (talk)	Merge
24	Formica rufa (talk)	Wikify
157	Sand tiger shark (talk)	Wikify
13	Curtis Staples (talk)	Wikify
1	Malleodectes (talk)	Orphan
1	Podocarpus grayae (talk)	Orphan
2	ANF (real estate) (talk)	Orphan
4	Big-headed Amazon River turtle (talk)	Stub
4	West African black turtle (talk)	Stub
4	Malayan snail-eating turtle (talk)	Stub
4	Turkana mud turtle (talk)	Stub
3	Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle (talk)	Stub
4	Upemba mud turtle (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015

From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief

Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost

Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing

News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better

In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers

Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess

Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens

The Signpost: 28 January 2015

From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

Traffic report: A sea of faces

Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola

Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia

Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?

In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue

Traffic report: The American Heartland

Featured content: It's raining men!

Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate

WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?

Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes

Gallery: Langston Hughes

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

From the editors: We want to know what you think!

News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales awarded $1 million

In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?

Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...

Traffic report: Bowled over

WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled

Gallery: Feel the love

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
1,099	Whale (talk)	Add sources
10	Kinixys (talk)	Add sources
6	Stylemys (talk)	Add sources
158	R. L. Burnside (talk)	Add sources
3	Philippen's striped turtle (talk)	Add sources
6	Araripemys (talk)	Add sources
28	Angonoka tortoise (talk)	Cleanup
1,345	Pangolin (talk)	Cleanup
43	History of Saturday Night Live (1990–95) (talk)	Cleanup
3	Vietnamese three-striped box turtle (talk)	Expand
13	Rafetus (talk)	Expand
25	Fauna of South Africa (talk)	Expand
13	Askam and Ireleth (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4	Brielle LaCosta (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24	Catholic High School, Singapore (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11	Bookbinder Soup (talk)	Merge
2	Huaibei Normal University (talk)	Merge
2,521	Purified water (talk)	Merge
5	Karlsruhe Zoo (talk)	Wikify
217	Australian megafauna (talk)	Wikify
2	Dinajpur Government Girls' High School (talk)	Wikify
13	Best Brains Learning Centers (talk)	Orphan
1	Tour de Turtles (talk)	Orphan
2	Andiapalayam (talk)	Orphan
9	Cape Melville leaf-tailed gecko (talk)	Stub
7	Serrated hinged terrapin (talk)	Stub
10	African dwarf mud turtle (talk)	Stub
3	Adanson's mud turtle (talk)	Stub
3	Savanna side-necked turtle (talk)	Stub
2	Variable mud turtle (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 18 February 2015

Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition

In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia

Special report: Revision scoring as a service

Gallery: Darwin Day

Traffic report: February is for lovers

Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish

Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm

Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

Gallery: Far from home

Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight

Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm

Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

Gallery: Far from home

Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight

Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes

Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report

Traffic report: Attack of the movies

Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

Interview: Meet a paid editor

In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire

Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps

The Signpost: 11 March 2015

Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
21	Chicken turtle (talk)	Add sources
9,067	Nikola Tesla (talk)	Add sources
14	Cumberland slider (talk)	Add sources
1,002	Harriet (tortoise) (talk)	Add sources
59	Least-concern species (talk)	Add sources
83	Acanthodii (talk)	Add sources
336	Evolution of fish (talk)	Cleanup
28	IUCN Species Survival Commission (talk)	Cleanup
23	Chayanne discography (talk)	Cleanup
22	Louisville Zoo (talk)	Expand
26	Mimid (talk)	Expand
487	Evidence of common descent (talk)	Expand
4	Analekta (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
317	Hot or Not (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
46	Article video marketing (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18	Mercer's condition (talk)	Merge
5	Stalking the Angel (talk)	Merge
191	Postal codes in Costa Rica (talk)	Merge
3	Etheostoma olmstedi (talk)	Wikify
35	David Reece (talk)	Wikify
27	Barnegat Bay (talk)	Wikify
2	Artistic program of the Olympic opening ceremonies (talk)	Orphan
1	Ananthanallur (talk)	Orphan
1	3J3D (talk)	Orphan
4	Elseya branderhorsti (talk)	Stub
6	African forest turtle (talk)	Stub
8	Giant Asian pond turtle (talk)	Stub
2	Ivory Coast mud turtle (talk)	Stub
3	Central African mud turtle (talk)	Stub
4	Enigmatic leaf turtle (talk)	Stub

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Wikispecies user box

You are really busy busy with the animals here at EnWp as well, nice to see!

I just wanted to remind you that you can promote Wikispecies by using the WS admin user box. Dan Koehl (talk) 15:08, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done that, thanks for reminding me. Cheers Faendalimas ^talk 00:13, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

From the editor: A salute to Pine

News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

Featured content: A woman who loved kings

Traffic report: It's not cricket

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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

Traffic report: Oddly familiar

Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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The Signpost, 1 April 2015

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

Traffic report: All over the place

News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

The Signpost: 01 April 2015

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

Traffic report: All over the place

News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

Traffic report: Resurrection week

Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

Traffic report: Resurrection week

Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
72	Near-threatened species (talk)	Add sources
8	Sinemys (talk)	Add sources
5	Dinochelys (talk)	Add sources
8	Euechinoidea (talk)	Add sources
97	Eastern box turtle (talk)	Add sources
15	Meiolaniidae (talk)	Add sources
40	Byerley Turk (talk)	Cleanup
16	General matrix notation of a VAR(p) (talk)	Cleanup
5	Frank B. Upham (talk)	Cleanup
193	Rhodes University (talk)	Expand
124	Patagonian mara (talk)	Expand
27	Red-masked parakeet (talk)	Expand
12	Fitzroy River turtle (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
188	Gerald Durrell (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
77	Mock Turtle (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
25	Charles Darwin Research Station (talk)	Merge
9	Charles Darwin Foundation (talk)	Merge
35	Ciudad Guayana (talk)	Merge
42	Bali myna (talk)	Wikify
6	Arkady Leokum (talk)	Wikify
3	Colorado Library Consortium (talk)	Wikify
2	Tortoise Protection Group (talk)	Orphan
5	Noosa Biosphere Reserve (talk)	Orphan
1	2014 National Pro Fastpitch season (talk)	Orphan
3	Emydura tanybaraga (talk)	Stub
17	Podocnemididae (talk)	Stub
4	Yellow-bellied mud turtle (talk)	Stub
5	East African black mud turtle (talk)	Stub
2	Red-faced turtle (talk)	Stub
4	African keeled mud turtle (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015

News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review

In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax

Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

Traffic report: Furious domination

Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality

News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

Featured content: Vanguard on guard

Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes

Gallery: The bitter end

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

Featured content: Another day, another dollar

Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes

In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award

Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues

Traffic report: The grim ship reality

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9	Indotestudo (talk)	Add sources
10	Desmatochelys (talk)	Add sources
16	International Christian School (Hong Kong) (talk)	Add sources
724	Chartres Cathedral (talk)	Add sources
12	Santanachelys (talk)	Add sources
429	Largest prehistoric animals (talk)	Add sources
146	Greater sage-grouse (talk)	Cleanup
10	Iberian frog (talk)	Cleanup
7	1949 Speedway National League Division Three (talk)	Cleanup
7	Indochinese box turtle (talk)	Expand
7	Plymouth red-bellied turtle (talk)	Expand
18	Pantherophis gloydi (talk)	Expand
24	Herpetoculture (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
754	Hybrid (biology) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
28	Hajji Firuz (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,987	Homo sapiens (talk)	Merge
8	Miomachairodus (talk)	Merge
8	Defensive democracy (talk)	Merge
630	Economy of South Africa (talk)	Wikify
1	Dwelling in Beulah Land (talk)	Wikify
4	Adrian Gray (sculptor) (talk)	Wikify
2	Lystromycter (talk)	Orphan
2	Archie Craig (talk)	Orphan
1	Arthur Povey (talk)	Orphan
19	Madagascan big-headed turtle (talk)	Stub
3	Pelusios marani (talk)	Stub
6	Narrow-bridged musk turtle (talk)	Stub
2	Williams' mud turtle (talk)	Stub
3	Myanmar brown leaf turtle (talk)	Stub
17	Domed Mauritius giant tortoise (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

Traffic report: Round Two

In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

Traffic report: Inner Core

News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history

Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated

Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust

Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin

Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime

Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia

Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings

Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

Traffic report: A rather ordinary week

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57	Emydidae (talk)	Add sources
14	Psephophorus (talk)	Add sources
13	Adelita (turtle) (talk)	Add sources
12	Aldabrachelys abrupta (talk)	Add sources
79	Holometabolism (talk)	Add sources
139	Aestivation (talk)	Add sources
139	Russian tortoise (talk)	Cleanup
258	Synanceia (talk)	Cleanup
96	Audacious-class aircraft carrier (talk)	Cleanup
34	Eastern river cooter (talk)	Expand
478	Zynga (talk)	Expand
11	Mare aux Songes (talk)	Expand
412	Quaternary extinction event (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
366	Clarissa Explains It All (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
3	Centaur of the North (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
201	Sand tiger shark (talk)	Merge
8	Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (talk)	Merge
20	Scandinavian migration to the British Isles (talk)	Merge
66	Formica rufa (talk)	Wikify
558	Cover version (talk)	Wikify
4	Cheap As Chips (retail chain) (talk)	Wikify
2	Malleodectes (talk)	Orphan
3	Alex Bilmes (talk)	Orphan
2	Abdul Ahmad Zahedi Niqala (talk)	Orphan
21	Antorbital fenestra (talk)	Stub
5	Big-headed Amazon River turtle (talk)	Stub
5	Upemba mud turtle (talk)	Stub
4	Turkana mud turtle (talk)	Stub
7	West African black turtle (talk)	Stub
6	Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle (talk)	Stub

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I need help with an identification issue!

Hey Faendalimas, I have a serious question and I didn't know who else to ask about this. On the French Wikipedia, the page titled "Cylindraspis indica" has this picture:

On the english cite, there is a picture titled to be Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa:

Aren't these pictures the same thing, just changed a little? If they are one or the other, what can I do about it?

Can you identify which species they are? It is hard for me to tell if it is an Aldabran or not.

Nicksamphibians (talk) 23:09, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Nicksamphibians: the specimen is Cylindraspis indica and this photo was originally published by Sir Walter Rothschild here in 1894. It was the last known specimen of the species and wasd in captivity in Mauritius. So the French WP hasd it right and this needs to be corrected for EN WP. By the way I noticed you made sub species pages for the different Aldabran forms, be careful with that if each one does not have significant unique content they will be deleted. We cannot waste space on here and it is very rare for sub species to be permitted unique pages. It can all go under the species, subspecies are subjective and generally not that relevant. Cheers, Faendalimas ^talk 23:30, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

addit, to deal with it we must get the photo corrected then remove it from the Aldabrtan page if it is being used. The EN WP photo has no reference whereas the French one does, I go with the referenced one. Faendalimas ^talk 23:32, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Faendalimas: Thanks for that correction. The information available on the pages for those subspecies is unique and details needed information. It details history, morphotype information, description, and significant conservation as well as where the species exists right now (i.e. location). Thanks for the response.

@Nicksamphibians: a couple of papers that may be of use to you: TTWG Checklist 2014 and TEWG Checklist 2015 these are very up to date reviews the second one is the Extinct Turtles from the Plio - Pleistocene to Recent. Also the person who uploaded the photo on EN Wikipedia was @FunkMonk: so I am pinging him so he can see this conversation too. He can then fix his own upload. Cheers, Faendalimas ^talk 00:14, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That cannot be Cylindraspis indica, it went extinct (1840s) before photography was even invented, and before that picture was taken. Furthermore, that species had a "saddleback" shaped carapace, unlike that in the photo, which is rounded. The source the photo was taken from states the specimen was brought to Mauritius from the Seychelles.[1] And I've read several papers and books about extinct Mascarene animals, none mention this species was photographed alive. Also, Rothschild was a highly unreliable writer, and probably just made an unfounded assumption. FunkMonk (talk) 00:15, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The animal was in captivity, in all likelihood for over 100 years, on Mauritius, it was also examined by Gunther. I know Rothchild had reliability issues, I will check and see if the animal was kept after its death, they sometimes were. I will ask Justin Gerlach, I do work on turtles and tortoises, including giant tortoises for over 25 years. Reunion and Rodrigues had both saddle back and domed forms a total of some 5-6 species. The saddle backed form was Cylindraspis vosmeari. Rothchild's works on the giant tortoises when cross referenced with Gunther were not too bad once you dealt with the nomenclatural issues. Cheers Faendalimas ^talk 00:32, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FunkMonk: @Nicksamphibians: The original publication of the photo claims its from the Mascarines not the Seychelles and diagnoses it accordingly by its lack of nuchal scute and extremely long neck, comparative to Seychelle specimens. From what I can see that is not an Aldabran, it does not look right, it was also a larger animal than the maximum size for Aldabrans. Yes this is relying on Rothchild, but we can only go on what he has said and what we can see in a photo. I will look into wether it is now in a museum, maybe if we are lucky we can get better info. Cheers Faendalimas ^talk 00:39, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note that Rothschild only states he heard it currently lived on Mauritius. The later 1905 book states it was brought there from the Seychelles.[2] If this specimen was C. indica, it would be very well known in the literature, but it isn't. So I'm pretty sure we can rule out C. indica, but the question is then what it is. FunkMonk (talk) 00:46, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A picture on the C. indica page appears to be saddle-backed. The reference you gave me for the french photo just kind of has the photo thrown in that book. When I read it it seems like they could have been talking about an Aldabra tortoise and that was what the photo was for, but I am totally unsure. The photo @FunkMonk: uploaded says it was an A. hololissa, is that accurate anyway? Also what is the size of C. indica, I think it was supposed to be like 1-4 feet long but that doesn't narrow it down much. Nicksamphibians (talk) 00:49, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps related (I wonder if Rothschild's imagination went a bit wild, as no other sources confirm his claim): "The giant tortoises now seen on Mauritius are mostly derived from animals imported to Mauritius from the Seychelles in the 1880's, following the recommendation of Charles Darwin, who was concerned that the Aldabra species would become extinct. He wanted to have captive breeding of endangered species as a conservation measure. Following Darwin's intervention, the governor of Mauritius and the Seychelles agreed to the introduction of the tortoise to Pamplemousses Botanic Gardens.".[3] FunkMonk (talk) 00:55, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FunkMonk: @Nicksamphibians: Many of these species are messed up because there is very little material left to go by. I have asked Roger Bour if he knows of this specimen he is formally of the MNHN in Paris and has published on giant tortoises from the Indian Ocean. I will also try get a hold of Justin Gerlach. My hope is it was put in a museum and then I can get fresh photo's of it, from better angles, so that we can be more positive. It is not A. hollissa I am sure of that. It is a Cylindraspis I am guessing the French WP went by the original documentation on the specimen, limited as it was. Cheers Faendalimas ^talk 00:59, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This 2010 paper states that the name T. indica was used for several species of tortoise: "Nominal species included in Gray’s synonymies of T. indica are understood to refer to several distinct genera and species of giant tortoises from Aldabra Atoll, the Galápagos, and the Mascarenes."[4] Again, I am 100% sure the photo does not show a live Cylindraspis, as all recent publications states this genus went extinct before the photo was even taken (around 1800 according to the IUCN[5]). Also remember that Rothschild only mentioned Testudo indica (which can mean many different things), so linking this with Cylindraspis specifically is just conjecture. FunkMonk (talk) 01:08, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FunkMonk: @Nicksamphibians: That paper was part of Jack Fraser's discussions on the typer issues with A. gigantea, but in any case this paper actually deals with Cylindraspis. I think it is Cylindraspis because from the photo it looks like one, I am not taking Rothchild's word for it, at species level I accept your points, but genus I can identify it. My difficulty is there a 3 domed taxa, C. indica (actually it is both domed and saddlebacked - yes thats a problem) from Reunion, and C. inepta from Mauritius, this is doubtful it was extinct too long ago and C. peltastes, from Rodrigues, problem was this was a small species. So based on what I can see, I would run with C. indica however I accept that trying to get more data would help. Austin and Arnold (2001) did not mention this specimen which leads me to believe it was not preserved, unfortunately. Or maybe its still on Mauritius. Who knows, need more data to take this further. Cheers Faendalimas ^talk 01:23, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We do have the 1905 statement that the specimen was imported to Mauritius from the Seychelles. I'm more inclined to trust that source than Rothschild. So unless the newer statement is false, a Cylindraspis was imported to the Seychelles, then brought back to the Mascarenes, which seems a bit unlikely. It is certainly premature (and potentially misleading) to add the photo to the article[6] before we have any kind of confirmation. Rothschild alone certainly isn't strong enough as a source. He also gave us stuff like violet macaw and Réunion red and green parakeet. Furthermore, classifying it in article space based on our own examination is original research. FunkMonk (talk) 01:28, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FunkMonk: @Nicksamphibians: The 1905 statement of locality is unsourced and for all we can know wrong, no evidence of where that is from, Rothchild stated he was told it came from the Seychelles by the Military in Port Louis, Mauritius, but even then locality data is often dubious, and Rothchild went on to use characters to identify it, characters that still hold up today, but are not visible in the photo. I suspect the 1905 paper have made the mistake of considering third hand information about a specimen, over an analysis and that is not a good thing to go by, in other words the 1905 paper is quoting Rothchild also and ignoring the analysis. What you are saying based on the evidence is that a paper in 1905 that quotes Rothchild is a better source than Rothchild, he has to be the source of the information since he was told this in letters when he tried to buy the animal. The holotype of Myuchelys bellii is from South America according to the original description, the species is from Australia. I never, as a taxonomist, rely on metadata for specimens alone, particularly third hand and old. Saying the statement is false is overstating it though, they are probably wrong not false, there is a subtle difference. I shall see what I can find out, tracking down this stuff is what I do. Until more info is available I want it not used at all, not added to the Reunion article, its misleading also to have it on the Aldabrachelys pages, since it is not a specimen of that genus. Like I said, leave in Commons, unused, until we have more info. Cheers, Faendalimas ^talk 01:50, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the specimen Rothschild describes is not the one in the photo, but another specimen that was sent to him. Looking further, Rothschild's location data for other giant tortoises has also been questioned in this recent account:[7] Anyhow, perhaps the following paper may hold the answer: Rothschild, W. (1915):. On the gigantic land Tortoises of the Seychelles and Aldabra-Madagascar group with some notes on certain forms of the Mascarene group. Novitates Zoologicae 22; 418-442[8] And here's a paper that suggests that Seychelles–Aldabra tortoises are morphologically variable: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2744/CCB-0828.1 FunkMonk (talk) 01:53, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If any of you have access, this paper seems to be rather important: Bour, R. 1980. Systematique des tortues terrestres des iles Mascareignes: genre Cylindraspis Fitzinger, 1835 (Reptilia, Chelonii). BULLETIN DU MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE SECTION A ZOOLOGIE BIOLOGIE ET ECOLOGIE ANIMALES 2 (3): 895-904 FunkMonk (talk) 02:07, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FunkMonk: @Nicksamphibians: Yes I have access or can get any of these papers, including the old ones. Check my user page, I am a museum based taxonomist/ paleontologist for turtles and tortoises. I am second author on the TEWG Checklist 2015 pdf I linked earlier. So I do know these recent authors personally, including Roger Bour. Do you have the Rothchild 1915 paper? If not I can link a pdf for you. It is nearly midnight here in Brazil though and early morning in France, so I will have to get to this over the next few days. Until then probably best to just put the photo on hold and see what I can dig up. Let me know if you need any papers, or if you have pro version of drop box I can share my library with you. You will need pro though over 500 pdf's in it on turtles etc~, I will need your email to share the folder, or I can link individual papers on here. Cheers, Faendalimas ^talk 02:20, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, yeah, Rothschild 1915 is free online in full[9], Bour 1980 could be interesting, but I would only be able to read French through my Spanish skills, which are pretty lacklustre... From my reading of Rothschild 1915 so far, he does not mention the photographed specimen. FunkMonk (talk) 02:23, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@FunkMonk: @Nicksamphibians: Ok got better information. The specimen is in a museum, NHM or British Museum, (BMNH 1947.3.4.1) Now this is important, apparently Rothchild did get the specimen eventually, at Tring (he published further on this in 1915), but its not 100% certain its the right animal because he got a group of them. As best as we can determin it is now the holotype of Testudo sumeirei (Gadow 1895), please note most sites list Sauzier 1892:396 as the original description of this species but that seems to be wrong. Testudo sumeiri is a junior synonym of Aldabrachelys gigantea gigantea so currently it is neither Cylindraspis or A. g. hollissa maybe that will change but officially in synonymies it is an Aldabran and same subspecies as the living form. The paper by Sauzier 1892 (here) has more photos including again the photo we have been discussing, so clearly they were all talking about the same specimen. I will be honest I am not convinced that is an Aldabran, but my opinion does not count since it is a holotype we must follow published synonymy (see Reptile Database). Next time I am in the British Museum I will make a point of examining the specimen, until then we can only go by published lit. I got this information from Roger Bour who went through his notes on the specimen for me, he has actually examined the specimen and published on it. Sorry he did not have a pdf of his 1980 paper I shall look into getting it elsewhere. So my recommendation is to change the photo to Aldabrachelys gigantea gigantea with a sub note it is the holotype of Testudo sumeiri a junior synonym. We can then use it accordingly, ie on the Aldabran page or not at all, up to all I guess. Hope this helps, cheers Faendalimas ^talk 15:30, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Faendalimas:@FunkMonk: Wow! Thanks for the help determining this, its much appreciated. I guess all that is left to do is to change the photo. Nicksamphibians (talk) 23:29, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! Now we only need to change the file description of both images and remove it from incorrect pages. FunkMonk (talk) 05:58, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?

Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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322	Largest prehistoric animals (talk)	Add sources
74	Near-threatened species (talk)	Add sources
117	Wardrobe (talk)	Add sources
123	Eastern box turtle (talk)	Add sources
216	Cipher suite (talk)	Add sources
63	Drawer (furniture) (talk)	Add sources
5	Iberian frog (talk)	Cleanup
24	Diffraction formalism (talk)	Cleanup
41	Islam in Scotland (talk)	Cleanup
6	Indochinese box turtle (talk)	Expand
277	Bob Irwin (talk)	Expand
14	Pantherophis gloydi (talk)	Expand
600	Pet (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
17	Eastside Catholic School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
20	Hag (Dungeons & Dragons) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
198	Aurelia aurita (talk)	Merge
95	Active Release Technique (talk)	Merge
10	Commanding what is just (talk)	Merge
299	Greater sage-grouse (talk)	Wikify
6	Clyde Allen Hendrix (talk)	Wikify
3	Default trap (talk)	Wikify
1	Chubutemys (talk)	Orphan
4	Fundación Cultural Patagonia String Quartet (talk)	Orphan
3	Al Sheikh Abdullah bin Zaher bin Saif Al Hussani (talk)	Orphan
3	Myanmar brown leaf turtle (talk)	Stub
9	Madagascan big-headed turtle (talk)	Stub
77	NoMa (talk)	Stub
8	Cycloderma (talk)	Stub
5	Red-necked pond turtle (talk)	Stub
1	Williams' mud turtle (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania

In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism

Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators

Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?

Tech news: Tech news in brief

The Signpost: 07 October 2015

Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption

Traffic report: Reality is for losers

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs

Technology report: Tech news in brief

In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?

The Signpost: 14 October 2015

Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith

WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States

Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence

News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate

Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death

Featured content: A fistful of dollars

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid

The Signpost: 21 October 2015

Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched

In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"

Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus

Featured content: A more balanced week

Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications

Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing

Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet

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476	Depolarization (talk)	Add sources
43	Emydidae (talk)	Add sources
230	Peritonsillar abscess (talk)	Add sources
53	Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (talk)	Add sources
299	Lazarus taxon (talk)	Add sources
14	Cumberland slider (talk)	Add sources
97	Russian tortoise (talk)	Cleanup
33	Prague Zoo (talk)	Cleanup
5	2006 Monte Carlo Masters – Singles (talk)	Cleanup
15	Eastern river cooter (talk)	Expand
357	Boeing 737 Classic (talk)	Expand
2,814	Moses (talk)	Expand
365	Quaternary extinction event (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
41	Magpie goose (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
100	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade game) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,469	Leviathan (talk)	Merge
449	Apple Music (talk)	Merge
29	2012 NRL season (talk)	Merge
75	Conquest of the Desert (talk)	Wikify
5	Brian Harrison (theologian) (talk)	Wikify
2	Anweshi Womens Counselling Centre (talk)	Wikify
2	Tortoise Protection Group (talk)	Orphan
1	Dendrograptus (talk)	Orphan
3	Noosa Biosphere Reserve (talk)	Orphan
3	Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle (talk)	Stub
5	Crescent Corridor (talk)	Stub
7	Cyclanorbis (talk)	Stub
13	Yellow-bellied mud turtle (talk)	Stub
3	Wallander – Tjuven (talk)	Stub
6	Peninsula cooter (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help

News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles

In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA

Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying

Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement

Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth

Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages

Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community letter: Five million articles

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone

In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?

Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad

Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket

Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony

Technology report: Tech news in brief

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed

Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee

Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review

Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling

In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys

Traffic report: Doodles of popularity

Gallery: Paris

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing

Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world

Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running

Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales

Traffic report: Darkness and light

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
1,382	Triglyceride (talk)	Add sources
59	Physiology of dinosaurs (talk)	Add sources
2	Stanley E. Trauth (talk)	Add sources
9	Kinixys (talk)	Add sources
336	Living fossil (talk)	Add sources
10	Aldabrachelys abrupta (talk)	Add sources
25	Angonoka tortoise (talk)	Cleanup
572	Clavicle (talk)	Cleanup
30	Formica rufa (talk)	Cleanup
2	Vietnamese three-striped box turtle (talk)	Expand
15	Rafetus (talk)	Expand
23	Fish in Australia (talk)	Expand
56	Tu'i Malila (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
113	National Zoological Park (United States) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
155	Stegodon (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
74	Citrus taxonomy (talk)	Merge
1	Turtle Canyon (talk)	Merge
4	Skeletal changes of organisms transitioning from water to land (talk)	Merge
203	Australian megafauna (talk)	Wikify
3	Symposium on Turtle Evolution (talk)	Wikify
47	Along for the Ride (novel) (talk)	Wikify
0	Ernest Rouquaud (talk)	Orphan
0	Hypochrysops dinawa (talk)	Orphan
0	Taxonomic contributions of Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton (talk)	Orphan
3	Assam leaf turtle (talk)	Stub
4	Big-headed Amazon River turtle (talk)	Stub
17	Testudinoidea (talk)	Stub
9	Heosemys (talk)	Stub
2	Adanson's mud turtle (talk)	Stub
6	Narrow-bridged musk turtle (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 25 November 2015

Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone

News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations

In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia

Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films

Featured content: Caves and stuff

Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol

Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art

The Signpost: 02 December 2015

Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?

News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches

Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Technology report: Tech news in brief

The Signpost: 09 December 2015

News and notes: ArbCom election results announced

Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view

In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?

Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things

Technology report: Tech news in brief

The Signpost: 16 December 2015

In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015

Arbitration report: GMO case decided

Featured content: An unusually slow week

WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations

Traffic report: A feast of Spam

Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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1,019	Capoeira (talk)	Add sources
109	Harriet (tortoise) (talk)	Add sources
563	Tetrapod (talk)	Add sources
17	Wildlife of Seychelles (talk)	Add sources
6	Stylemys (talk)	Add sources
9	Sinemys (talk)	Add sources
275	Evolution of fish (talk)	Cleanup
40	United Provinces of the River Plate (talk)	Cleanup
228	Synanceia (talk)	Cleanup
20	Mimid (talk)	Expand
22	George Albert Boulenger (talk)	Expand
1,741	Taxonomy (biology) (talk)	Expand
1,171	Pleistocene (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
326	History of Vietnam (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
117	Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
467	Vertebral column (talk)	Merge
532	Convergent evolution (talk)	Merge
13	Australian Shield (talk)	Merge
393	Boris Berezovsky (businessman) (talk)	Wikify
72	Enclave (video game) (talk)	Wikify
2	Blue Bird (Korean folk song) (talk)	Wikify
1	Paroo Overflow Section of Paroo-Darling National Park (talk)	Orphan
2	Alexander Kaletski (talk)	Orphan
1	Alexey Polosin (talk)	Orphan
12	Rhinoclemmys (talk)	Stub
10	Pelochelys (talk)	Stub
9	Malayemys (talk)	Stub
2	Savanna side-necked turtle (talk)	Stub
10	Lissemys (talk)	Stub
1	Pelusios marani (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 30 December 2015

News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee

Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended

Featured content: The post-Christmas edition

Traffic report: The Force we expected

Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015

In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"

Gallery: It's that time of year again