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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 12:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of primates[edit]

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Nominator(s): PresN 04:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the final monkey FLC, everyone, #6 in the order Primates and #35 overall for mammals for our perpetual series: the order capstone list! I had to take a short break from FLC to rewrite list of lemuroids, which was already an (old) FL so it wasn't brought here when I finished. It had to be done, though, not least because I needed all those citations for this list! This one is a capstone list, summarizing the 81 genera (and 502 species!) of the 6 sublists (and 9 families) in the mammal order Primates. In this, it follows the prior FLs for list of carnivorans (capstone to the 9 sublists of Carnivora), list of artiodactyls (capstone to the 4 sublists of Artiodactyla), and list of lagomorphs (capstone to the 2 sublists of Lagomorpha). This list is pushing the limits of the format, not because there's so many table rows but because there's waaay too many references. As in "the page stopped rendering" too many, and I had to do some dicing and condensing to get it all to fit, and the reference list is still the majority of the page length. Regardless, all of the monkeys are in there, so thanks for reviewing! --PresN 04:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comments
  • In two places you use "primates is" - is this correct on the grounds that primates is being used here as a proper noun and not a plural (or something).....?
  • Yeah, the name of the order is annoying, but capital-P Primates is a singular noun like Carnivora, while lowercase-p primates is a plural noun like monkeys or dogs.
  • "these families are divided between two named suborders and are grouped in those suborder" - last word should be plural, I think
  • Done
  • "Diet: Leaves and forbs, as well as roots, corms, tubers and rhizomes" - I would link forbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes, as I am not sure these are widely-known terms
  • Done, as well as a couple others later on.
  • I haven't done a formal source review, but there's a couple of Harv errors showing
  • How are you seeing those? Not seeing anything in the article itself, though it wouldn't surprise me.
  • @ChrisTheDude: Ah, I had two names for the same book citation. Fixed, and added the harv reference error script so I can spot them next time. --PresN 13:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh, is it a script? I lose track of what is a script and what comes "out of the box" :-) Anyway, support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:54, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
AK

Very long list, loading the refs took a full 10 seconds.

  • For Semnopithecus, you have "Size range:...(Black-footed gray langur) to...(Black-footed gray langur)", the two should be merged. Also, I wonder if you need to mention the species at all, since in the circepithecoid list, you use this exact same size range for all Semnopithecus langurs, citing Walker's Primates of the World.
  • Fixed. --PresN 12:44, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Will drop by with more comments later. AryKun (talk) 08:27, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • "from the Margot Marsh's mouse lemur" Margot Marsh is a name, so the "the" before it is unnecessary.
  • "Southeast Asia and in a variety" Maybe replace the "and" with a comma.
  • "saki monkeys and marmosets and tamarins" to "saki monkeys, marmosets, and tamarins"?
  • "Lemuroidea...family Lorisidae" This portion is hard to read. Maybe instead of commas, you should just list the families and have the common names in parentheses next to the scientific name.
  • "as being made extinct" to "as having gone extinct", I remember discussing this in a previous FLC, but can't recall exactly which one.
  • "family are cercopithecids" to "family are called cercopithecids"?
  • Yeah, that's all I got. Didn't really pore over the tables because I'd like to preserve my sanity, but nothing seems too off at a glance. AryKun (talk) 10:46, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • {[re|AryKun}} All done, I think. --PresN 01:43, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Support everything else looks great, nice job! AryKun (talk) 08:17, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
SilverTiger

Oh wow. Big list. And nice work on the lemuroids, too. Anyway, I couldn't find anything wrong (and I did look through the tables) so Support. Happy editing, SilverTiger12 (talk) 21:09, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, this is a little sketchy. But! Giants is out for the next couple of months, this nomination is almost 3 months old and hasn't had a comment for a month, and the references were all taken from previously reviewed lists. So... promoting my own nom, I guess. --PresN 03:21, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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