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Quail

Hello. I saw you've added quail to the list in Poultry article. It's good point in my opinnion. But if I could I want to ask if you maybe know any other picture of that bird which can be changed instead of the current one. Maybe we could add a better one. Thanks :) 89.69.78.126 (talk) 01:06, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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Donkey articles

Hi! It's great to see someone else take some interest in donkey articles, thank you! I've undone your moves of three pages. Here's why: unfortunately, article titling of animal breed articles has become a rather contentious area, so it's often best to propose a change on the talk-page rather than just assume it's going to be unopposed. You couldn't have been expected to know that the horse WikiProject has a sort of unwritten rule of thumb: "if the breed name needs the word 'horse' and can't stand alone, then 'horse' is capitalised" . This isn't written anywhere that I know of, has never been discussed that I'm aware of, and I don't agree with it; but I try to stick to it anyway. You obviously can't say "he's riding a Provence" in the way that you can say "he's riding a Zamorano-Leonés", so – under the "rule" – we should capitalise "donkey". If you want to discuss this, I suggest WT:EQUINE as the best place.

I've noticed that you've added a lot of images to the List of donkey breeds. That's great … but can I ask if in every case you're sure that the image really represents that particular breed, rather than some generic animal that happens to be in that area? I haven't looked closely myself, so I'm asking you. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:16, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Remember the references!

Hello. Many of your articles seem to be missing references, so I wanted to remind you to include references when creating articles. Ethanlu121 (talk) 17:49, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Norwegian red deer

I'm disappointed you ignored Ethanlu121's message above and have continued to create unreferenced articles. The WP:BURDEN is on the creator to do so. If you can't be bothered, please don't create articles. Boleyn (talk) 20:27, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

And the same on North African boar and Mediterranean boar. Please don't create further articles until you are willing to add references, it creates a lot fo work for others. Boleyn (talk) 13:04, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Ways to improve Central Asian boar

Hi, I'm Zakhx150. Dennis the mennis, thanks for creating Central Asian boar!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. I've just tagged this page with a 'no references' flag. It look like you've been adding lots of content recently to articles on Mammals, which is great. It's be very helpful to Wikipedia if you are able to add in-line references to ensure that the information is accurate and verifiable. There is a useful beginner's guide HERE if you are unsure about it. Happy editing.

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I couldn't confirm info here; creator has created several dubious unref sub-stubs and hasn't addressed the issues after msgs. Can't WP:VERIFY.

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Articles created

Hi, Dennis, sorry for not sending you this message last night but I'm just finishing reviewing your articles, which I came across while working on New Page Patrol. Another editor (Ethanlu121) sent you a message asking you to stop creating unreferenced articles in February; you did not respond (WP:CIR) and continued creating unreferenced articles. On 6th March, you received another message about creating an unreferenced article from Zakhx150, which you also did not respond to and did not go back and add your source to the article. I then sent you a message in mid-July again asking you to stop; you did not respond, so I don't know if you have stopped this or just happen to have not created any articles in the last month. It is frustrating that when editors take the time to contact you, you ignore them - it looks like you have never responded to anyone on your talk page.

While reviewing your creations, I saw other editors concerned that the breeds you had created articles on were not breeds at all (specifically Miniature Mediterranean donkey). I found it difficult with some of them, because some names, e.g. Chinese buffalo, came up on a search, but seemed to be about buffalo in China, and not about a specific species or subspecies. There was no information (and what there was, wasn't verified) to indicate it was any different from the beasts discussed in the article we already had, Water buffalo. I had spent several hours looking at these, and others have worked hard on them too. It would have been so much easier if you had given your source (I'm sure you had one) when you created the articles, this has caused a lot of work for others. You can see your list of creations at: [1] so you can see what edits have been made to the articles you created, and hopefully you will be able to help clear these up. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 05:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Sources

Can you please add sources to Norwegian red deer? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 17:25, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Unless there are more domestic Accipitriformes birds, could you remove the taxon group?

The reason we have the "other" categories for the taxon groups on the Domesticated Animals list is so that animals that don't fit into a taxon group with several other species don't have one all by their lonesome. You'll note, if you sort by taxon, that the only taxon group (besides the one you added) which only has one member is "other amphibians", and that will change if someone adds any other common amphibian pets that aren't frogs.

I do appreciate your work on the Domestic Animals list, however. Tamtrible (talk) 02:47, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

List of extinct animals of the British Isles

This list is about post glacial and post creation of the English Channel extinctions, not Pleistoscene or earlier extinctions, so probably cuts off at c.10,000 years B.P., it says so in the lede. Your recent additions are, therefore, too ancient. This is going to sound flippant, and it is meant to be just a wee bit, but when are you going to add dinosaurs? Quetzal1964 (talk) 18:22, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

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Lobengula the South African lion

Hi, I would like to say that I shifted your work to the article Southern African lion, because it would be article like these that can have more specific information about lions. Leo1pard (talk) 02:45, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hell; sorry to revert your addition to Parrot, but WP:Daily Mail is not recognised as a reliable source for Wikipedia articles; nor are most WP:blogs. Could you could find a better, reliable source or sources? Haploidavey (talk) 17:00, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

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Adding "The" to species names

Dennis the mennis, could you please stop adding "The" to species named after individuals? First, this is not common usage - see Darwin's fox, Gould's petrel, Wallace's tarsier, Spix's macaw, Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk, and any number of other examples. No definite article is required here. Second, you are making a mess of it, blindly inserting capitalized "The" into the middle of sentences. I am reverting what I am finding of this, and asking you to please cut it out. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 11:44, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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Asian elephant not domesticated

Dear Dennis, Im once again removing Asian elephant from the List of domesticated animals, please do not submit it again backing it up with your personal opinion, if you cant give a scientific peer reviewed source giving a clear indication this species should have been domesticated. I run, since 2006 the global database of elephant individuals at www.elephant.se, and have only been able to record a total of 7 or 8 generations, from either species of elephants. This is too less numbers to discuss any kind of domestication, full, semi, or whatever. Just because a species has been captured and tamed, during long time, it doesn't make them domesticated, if all specimens were in fact wild.born, and captured and brought in captivity from the wild. And IF this should be a definition of a semi-domestication, a term which Im not sure is backed up by science, then that should cover the African species as well, but also hundreds of wild species, including tigers, lions, zebras, cape buffaloes, Eland antelopes, etc, the list will be longer than that page can handle.

In fact there were more African captured and tamed as Asians since last 20 yrs, but neither species has been bred for more than 7 generations, compared with one example, lions at UK circus with apr 35 generations, and if the African lion should be considred domesticated, or semi-domesticated, whatever that means, then hundreds of species are, and why not any species, humans ever captured and tamed?

With this in mind, the list of domesticated species, in questionable cases, should be backed up with reliable scientific sources, not with someone opinion, or personal interpretation.

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EDIT Dear Dennis the mennis, I hereby apologize for accusing you of what I stated above, now after I noticed, it was in fact User @Tamtrible: who once again submitted the Asian elephant. Dan Koehl (talk) 13:40, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

N natrix/ N helvetica

N helvetica

Is that new image known to be N helvetica?

ThanksS C Cheese (talk) 20:43, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

...the Domesticated Animals list...

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but... the list is long enough without ungrouping grouped species just to add extra pictures. Please don't. Leave the conspecific groups grouped unless there's a clear reason to ungroup them (eg one is used for a different purpose, or had a rather different domestication history). Tamtrible (talk) 20:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

... looking again, you changed the genus, so they're no longer conspecific. Sorry to scold you incorrectly (though, given your history with the page... I think I had cause, to at least some extent...) Tamtrible (talk) 20:24, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

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Captive Reptile Information

Good Evening,

I appreciate the zeal to add to various reptile pages, but I don't think adding lines saying "this species is sometimes kept as a pet" to the articles of every reptile species you believe is sometimes kept as a pet is pertinent information, particularly since you are not providing citations for these assertions, even when making specific claims like western banded geckos are "very popular" pets.

Almost all reptiles (and probably nearly all animals in existence) are sometimes kept as pets. But that information isn't particularly relevant unless the species have a significant cultural impact or their breeding has an impact on them (ball pythons and leopard geckos are becoming domesticated which is worth mentioning). For example, the common toad is sometimes kept as a pet. But the featured article on the toad does not mention this fact because it's not really pertinent information. The alpine newt article (also featured) does mention captivity, as a population propagated in captivity is now extinct in the wild, so the fact the newts are kept as pets is relevant. I would recommend/request not merely stating "this species is sometimes kept as a pet" on short reptile articles for species that are not significantly impacted by captivity (ie, minimal impact on their wild populations/conservation, they are not being domesticated, minimal economic impact to the pet trade, etc). Also, please provide citations for any assertions you do make. Citations are critical to enable other editors to check the veracity of your claims.

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Please do not revert an edit with an edit summary without an explanation or take it to the talk page. LittleJerry (talk) 19:24, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) LittleJerry, you are edit-warring over this at that and many other articles; please self-revert before this escalates, and then try to establish editor consensus on whether your edits were correct (I suggest either WT:FARM or WT:MAMMALS for that). Your statement that "domestic animals have no conservation status" is not sustainable: this document lists 7616 breeds, and gives the conservation status of many of them. This database lists about 14000 breeds, and attempts to assign a conservation status to each one. You might(?) have meant to suggest that domestic subspecies have no conservation status; if so, that somewhat questionable assertion would need to be supported by reliable sources and agreed with other editors. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:51, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers specific breeds being labeled CRITICAL or ENDANGERED do not justify giving the entire species a "domesticated" conservation status. The IUCN recognizes no such label for species. The burden of proof is on you to show that there is one. LittleJerry (talk) 21:47, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

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This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at List of countries by date of transition to republican system of government, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Further edits like this one will get you blocked from editing. This is stealth vandalism. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 16:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

I've now looked at some of your past edits; I ought to have done that before issuing that warning, but this edit really jumped out at e when I saw it. Anyhw, it now looks to me as if this was likely unintentional. I understand how that can happen as I've made slips of similar severity in the past. Please remove this warning from your talk page if that was the case here. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 16:39, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

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Species list template

Hi, I'm aware that you were only trying to correct the absence of italics. (I think the problem was originally caused by another editor, SesameHoneyTart.)

{{Species list}} is used with a list of pairs of parameters: a bare species name and an authority. It automatically italicizes the species name and puts the authority in small text. Thus:

{{Species list|Davus fasciatus|O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892}} →

• Davus fasciatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892

If you want to link the species name, then use {{Linked species list}}, again with pairs of bare species name plus authority. Thus:

{{Linked species list|Davus fasciatus|O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892}} →

• Davus fasciatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892

You can pipe the species name by using {{!}}. Thus:

{{Linked species list|Davus fasciatus{{!}}D. fasciatus|O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892}} →

• D. fasciatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892

It should not be used in any other way. In particular, never put the authority part of the pair in small tags, because this will use double small, which violates accessibility guidelines. Also it doesn't work if you have a distribution following the authority, because this gets put in small font, which is wrong. In such cases, use a bulleted list via * as normal. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks for viewing my article that I created. Dennis the mennis (talk) 20:31, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

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