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Draft:Oligodon Russelius[edit]
Hi, Draft:Oligodon Russelius has been submitted to AfC claiming Oligodon russelius, is Russell's Kukri Snake - but currently Oligodon taeniolatus comes back as "Russell's Kukri". Doing a google search for "Russell's Kukri" most agree with Oligodon taeniolatus and there are only 13 hits for "Oligodon Russelius" and many not reliable (facebook, wikis etc). The sources don't appear to match the claims for the bits I can read. Is this a synonym, a mistake, a hoax? Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 09:42, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- Reptile database has Oligodon russelius as a species and doesn't list a common name. It seems to have been newly described/recognised (Bandara et al, 2022). If its new then its too soon to have a common name, so I think the article should go at the the scientific name. The draft article is far from ready. The description looks copy and pasted. — Jts1882 | talk 10:57, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- [1][2] Wild Trait (talk) 04:44, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
User script to detect unreliable sources[edit]
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
- John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.
This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Flurry of new editors[edit]
I don't know the origin (in the past there's been copy editing drives focused towards new users) but a number of snake articles showed up in Category:CS1 errors: redundant parameter. I could fix them all, but realized that the new content may or may not be accurate, helpful, or needed. In that previous copy editing thing many issues resulted and this is why I'm bringing this here. Dawnseeker2000 20:15, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
- I too noticed this and posted on my talkpage before I found this project page. Moving my post here:
- Hello @Materialscientist, Mindmatrix, Plantdrew, Pinethicket, and Elmidae: I noticed a pattern of recent edits to reptile and amphibian articles, all by new editors and at least some of which are problematic, that struck me as maybe a bit dodgy. If you have a minute, could you compare these contribution histories and tell me if you think I am seeing things?
- I picked you all from the edit history of Spotted salamander. If anyone has ideas for other users to ping, please suggest. Eric talk 12:12, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, noticed - here's another one: Morganmrp. Because there's a quite a bit of university course work happening around now, I thought these were part of a course project. A badly organized and ill-prepared one, mind, but I don't see what else could explain this spout of GF, basically okay but badly formatted shotgun edits. No trace of an organizer or a course notice anywhere, however. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:04, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Does anyone want to help[edit]
Does anyone want to help me create a page for Afrobatrachia it is an entire clade of frogs and i am surprised that no page exists on it Massimo510 (talk) 07:31, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Proposed merge[edit]
A merge of Rana temporaria temporaria into the species article has been proposed, which may be of interest to this project. Thanks, Zindor (talk) 11:27, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
African rock pythons[edit]
I have submitted a WP:Requested move at Talk:African rock python#Requested move 5 June 2022, suggesting a renaming of that article and the Southern rock python article. You are invited to participate in that discussion and in editing to improve those two articles. — BarrelProof (talk) 00:56, 5 June 2022 (UTC)