Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals/Archive 1

message: Wow! I am amazed at the depth of coverage of the mammals! I strongly hope no-one is offended by the use of the term "mixed quality" whilst constructing this list - I meant that in a very positive sense - many areas the coverage is excellent, in the other areas it is still rather good! Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 18:31, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comments

message: The categorisation system is all very well, but surely more priority should be given to useabilty. Is the set of subcategories on the mammals page more likely to excite or suppress a child's interest in the subject? Surely the latter. And it will be the same for most adults. I think it would be much better to promote the more familiar second tier categories to make it easier for people to use the menu to learn more about mammals. A disclaimer and link to an article about classification systems could be included at the top of the page. Philip 09:03, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Please think about non-specialist readers

message: Hystricognathi was created by the account of a known vandal/hoaxster. Verification by experts is necessary. mikka (t)
:Well, the format does not conform, but the data appears reasonably correct. I'll take a look at massaging it into better shape. - UtherSRG 22:43, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
:It is a legitimate entry as far as the subject is concerned. TeamZissou 09:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article verification request

message: I finally got my copy of MSW3.  I've tried to start a discussion to coordinate rodent edits at Talk:Rodent.  Was there any sort of consensus here about an overall strategy? I suspect group specific approaches are best below the order level.  --Aranae 07:31, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rodents

message: I recently got mine, too. I'm now going through it from start to finish to update our articles. In discussion with User:Ucucha on his talk page, I found that the Ameridelphia/Australidelphia super- (or magn-)orders may be broken, with one of the ameridelph orders (Paucituberculata) may be more closely related to the australimorphs. What should be done? - UtherSRG (talk) 02:40, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created Wikipedia:WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marsupials

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thread_title: Open tasks list

message: Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Cheers, Shanel 20:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

message: I propose we focus on Placental mammels and leave Marsupials and Monotremes to a sister project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials. What does everyone think? Enlil Ninlil 01:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia:WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials

message: I originally sent this to User:Jpbrenna, but thought maybe I oughtta post it here too...
Would you mind looking at this edit and salvaging anything worthwhile from it?  I'm tempted to just remove it to TALK until (a) someone who -> (b) knows something about the subject matter can make heads or tails of it.  If your knowledge of camelids is insufficient, I'm hoping you'll know someone who knows more about them to whom you can forward this information.  Thanks, Tomertalk 23:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent addition at [[Camelids]] 

message: My beautiful copy of MSW3 has arrived. So I am on-hand to look things up if needed. I wonder (this is probably a ToL thing) if we should add what resources we have access to next to our names on the contributor list. Might be useful for others. Pcb21 Pete 10:02, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  About a billion years after everyone else... 

message: Right whale is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 20:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right whale

message: Platypus is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality.  Sandy 13:57, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Platypus]]

message: Pet skunk is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 23:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Pet skunk]]

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.  B2T2 23:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: There is currently a barnstar proposal at :Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals#Wildlife Barnstar for a barnstar which would be available for use for this project. Please feel free to visit the page and make any comments you see fit. Badbilltucker 15:30, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wildlife Barnstar 

message: Beginning cross-post.
:See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 03:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stablepedia 

message: There is now a proposed project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Veterinary Medicine to deal with matters of veterinary medicine, a subject which currently has disproportionately low content in wikipedia. Any wikipedia editors who have an interest in working on content related to the subject are encouraged to indicate as much there. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Veterinary medicine project 

message: Hello at Wikiversity there is a disipline in development on palaeontology that needs help. The courses could help with te development of articles on wikipedia so it is a long term program. Interested people can go to this URL: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Paleontology#Content_summary Thanks for reading Enlil Ninlil 03:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Topic:Paleontology

message: I have a question. Can someone please help me to make the article Red Panda better? I am struggleing with FAs.  Daniel10 14:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: After reading the talk page, I'm not quite sure what the arguments were to reject it but it needs to be expanded quite a bit. Compare it to the content list in the Giant Panda article. I can help get the taxonomy classification straight. It needs a good conservation status section since its an endangered species. We have to look into the history, geographic distribution, behavior, diet, human interaction and reproduction, for starters. Valich 08:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Red Panda]] Attention 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 17:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Most of the families and orders of mammals do not currently have any sort of supervising project. Would the members of this project be interested in having it actively involved in those articles relating to mammals which are not currently covered by other projects? Badbilltucker 18:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have been slowly updating all of the mammal taxa articles in accordance with MSW3.I'm currently working on Carnivora/Feliformia. Perhaps I should list what I've done, but that would be for a later time when I'm at home. For now, you can see my most recent request for input at talk:Carnivora. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible re-activation of project? 

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thread_title: Cat FAR

message: I just created a list (I hope pretty comprehensive) of List of North American mammals. Any input would be  welcome......Pmeleski 02:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of North American Mammals

message: Similarly, input from those interested in the mammals of the Palearctic is most welcome on this new article. Ben MacDui (Talk) 08:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fauna of Scotland 

message: Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_3#Category:Species_of_Wolf - UtherSRG (talk) 14:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category disagreement 

message: Dear mammal project, I recently took this photo of a horse with a covered face. If I may guess it is because:
* the horse is (or is at risk to to becoming) snowblind
* have ear or eye problems
* have problems with some sort of sensory overflow.
I am not really good at horses so I am only guessing. 
If someone knows where this image could belong in wikipedia, could you please put it somewhere. I scanned horse and Veterinary medicine but found no obvious place to put it. Also if you know what it is for please tell me - I am so curious. -- PER9000 16:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a FLY MASK.  I have no clue why they have it on in the winter when there aren't any flies, but that's what it is.  Maybe it is there for some other purpose, but it's actually made of a see-through mesh -- the horse, as you can see from its forward-pricked ears, is obviously looking at something.
Here is an example from a catalogue:  http://www.horse-tack-and-equestrian-clothing.com/fly-masks-fringes-masta-fly-mask-prod1688.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Montanabw (talk • contribs) 19:20, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ok, I changed the text in the commons page. -- PER9000 07:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Also I created a stub: Fly mask. -- PER9000 11:38, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of a horse with covered face 

message: I also took a picture of a dog with a bandaged foot that should belong somewhere perhaps. The dog is my moms and he had an Abscess that ruptured in the paw. After horrible cleaning, antibiotoics and painkillers he is now himself again.
Does this image belong in Dog health?
PER9000 17:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  dog with bandaged foot 

message: Could an expert expand or amend the information for Perognathus flavescens?  It appears to be written by someone who doesn't know the species outside of the southwest. This species is documented in SD, and we have only a couple of the flora mentioned.TeamZissou 09:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information unrepresentative of geographic range 

message: I just wanted to make this wikiproject aware that I have requested a peer review for the guinea pig article; if anyone wants to make suggestions, please do so. Chubbles 21:38, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: this article just passed GA status. If I wanted to have an importance rating appended to this article on the talk page, how would I go about doing so? Chubbles 08:19, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: Now at FAC. Here is its entry. Happy to take any suggestions for improvement. Chubbles 20:49, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Guinea pig

message: It has been suggested in Talk: Mammal that: Mammal's discussion of this is too long in a page which would be very long anyway; a new article on the evolution of mammals should be created; Mammal should contain a brief summary of this.
Topics for an the evolution of mammals would include:
*Paleontological definition of "mammal" (the jaw-ear criterion).
*Permian and early Triassic [[synapsid]s, from the point of view of "progress" (note quotes!) towards mammalian status.
*Mammals or mammaliformes?
*Mammals / mammaliformes from mid-Triassic to late Jurassic.
*Appearance of monotremes, marsupials and placentals.
*Evidence and debate about when current orders (e.g. primates) first appeared.
Do you think such an article would be useful?
What should it be called? E.g. "mammalian evolution" or "evolution of mammals"?
Should it be part of Project Mammals? Philcha 19:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This sounds like a great idea.  I would vote for "evolution of mammals" as an article term.  There should still be a great deal of information on the "mammal" page, with "evolution of mammals" offering a much deeper and informative look.  As to whether or not this should be attached to the project, I feel I've not been with Project:Mammals long enough to opine--though I would support the decision to do so if others feel that it should.  Thanks! TeamZissou 03:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New needed on article on evolution of mammals?

message: I have proposed the creation of Wikiproject Pocket pets, if interested, please visit the proposal page. thanks! VanTucky 21:28, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment - the proposed project above now has five listed members, enough to make it a functional task force. Would the members of this project be interested in setting it up as a task force or work group (different names, same thing) of the Mammals project? John Carter 21:58, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Descendant Wikiproject proposal 

message: Should I register somewhere if I want to participate in this project? I've already been performing quite some work on extinct mammals. Examples are the Evolution section on the mammal main page and articles on several extinct groups (Cimolesta, Meridiungulata, Afroinsectiphilia, Protoceratidae, Palaeotheriidae, and many others). I'm also interested in mammal phylogeny, including the phylogeny of extinct orders (incorporating the recent views) but also that of extant orders (a major part of the article Carnivora has been written by me). So I think it's about time I coordinate my efforts with the participants of the WikiProject Mammals. DaMatriX 00:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Listing yourself here seems like the best approach.  :-)  Cheers, Tomertalk 02:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Participating 

message: Is up for peer review if anyone would like to help myself and others get this article to featured level. See: Wikipedia:Peer review/Elk (Cervus canadensis).--MONGO 05:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Elk]] 

message: I've found that the stubs submitted by Exlibris may contain factual errors--the article names may not even be correct for the species.  Could someone look into this and fix the names and redirects?  The stubs I've seen only concern mammals from Brazil.  Thanks!TeamZissou 04:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible problem pages 

message: Hello again. I was here some weeks ago, asking for help with an article I was working on in my sandbox. After people checked for errors and made modifications, the article was moved to Barbary Striped Grass Mouse. I started another article in my sandbox, and after requesting input, I moved it to Typical Striped Grass Mouse. There's now another article which I think is ready to move, but I'd like someone to check it first, please. It's in User:ElinorD/Sandbox. This time it's about the genus, not about any particular species. Someone explained about capitals to me, but I'm not sure if it applies to the genus as well. So I feel this should be moved to Striped Grass Mouse or Striped grass mouse or Lemniscomys, but I'm not sure which, and don't want to do the wrong thing. Would someone mind taking a look, please. I'm fairly comfortable with the accuracy. Although I know almost nothing about rodents, I checked various sources. Interestingly, this source gives Linnaeus 1767 for Barbary Striped Grass Mouse, but every other source I've seen gives Linnaeus 1766, so I'm confident giving 1766 as the date. Thanks in advance. ElinorD (talk) 20:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated and moved to striped grass mouse, with redirects from striped grass mice and Lemniscomys. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:51, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. ElinorD (talk) 14:55, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Striped Grass Mice revisited 

message: I've created a userbox for this group. It is only a start, feel free to change the image or colour etc. I felt that an Okapi was quite appropriate as there aren't that many left and it's identifiable when the image is small.
 should produce: 
I noticed that there is no category such as Category:WikiProject_Birds_members to keep track of membership. It shouldn't be hard to do. Do you think it's worth creating to automatically list users? A line commented out in Template:User_WikiProject_Mammals should be activated if this is the case.
I hope no one minds me making the box without asking first. If you want me to delete it please discuss. I won't add it to Wikipedia:Userboxes/WikiProjects#Animals until I hear it is okay.
Thanks Mehmet Karatay 14:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it, and those feather-lovers have had a userbox for their project for some time. :)  Anyone have any objections?  If none are offered within three days time I suggest going ahead.  Thanks, Mehmet/Gemma! TeamZissou 17:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox Mammals and Category Creation

message: I believe that the African bush elephant article shows the photo of an Asian elephant. I've left a comment on the article's discussion page. Could I get a few more opinions please? Please post any comments to talk:African bush elephant. Thank you Mehmet Karatay 20:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Problem solved, I was wrong. Mehmet Karatay 22:22, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture referred to by the link is now an African--so it has been changed and the problem solved? TeamZissou 02:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's simpler than that. I got it wrong I'm afraid.... oops. There were a few reasons for this but they don't really matter do they? :-) Mehmet Karatay 07:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: African bush elephant article showing wrong photo?

message: I'm currently rewriting this list along the Korean model. Aim is Featued List status. See User:Circeus/Sandboxfor current progress. Circeus 19:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of mammals of Canada]] 

message: Just a heads up. Feel free to correct where needed. Dracontes 14:54, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool, I was going to start here but raised some stuff on the talk pagecheers,  Cas Liber | talk  |  contribs 21:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Chalicotherium]]

message: Following the example of the List of dinosaurs I'd like to do either a genera list for all mammal genera or separate lists for a number of important mammal mono- or paraphyletic clades using  Mikko's Phylogeny archive to mine the data. It will include in any case both extant and extinct genera, the latter marked with a dagger ( † ) with comentaries on taxonomic history (and others where appropriate). While the extant tally of 1200 genera may not be so daunting I expect with the fossil genera and synonyms and nomina nuda for the final number of genera to be around 2500-3000.
The problem of course is that there are already various parallel lists of mammal species or genera so while I'm aware that my "project" is a necessity I'm just giving a heads up so someone more level-headed can give their oppinion as I for one would simply subsume all lists into this projected one ;-) Dracontes 17:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mammal Genera List(s)?

message: I'm working on a proposal to subsume all the WP:TOL project banners into a single one. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Template union proposal and its talk page. Circeus 19:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WP:TOL template

message: Hi everyone. I have been doing a lot of work on the List of breeds of cattle. I was wondering if members of the Wikiproject would be willing to help me by creating stubs (or articles!) for the missing breeds, located here. Thanks very much, Abbott75 07:36, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cattle breed stubs 

message: We just removed an article from the German-language Wikipedia which was obviously a fake. I just want to inform you that there is a copy of that article in en: Gaza House Mouse. This is just a partial albino house mouse, and not a newly discovered subspecies. The "source" (http://www.geocities.com/jaffacity/Gaza_House_Mouse.html) is far from a scientific publication, it is merely a hobby journal managed by one person only. We removed this Palestinian Bulletin from all articles, perhaps it would be a good decision to do the same here. Best, Baldhur 23:31, 12 June 2007
:Thanks for the heads-up.  It's bunk, and he's used his personal journal on several other pages...  I left a message and link for him on his user page, but I don't think the use of his journal was a mistake made on accident. TeamZissou 06:19, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I've gone and deleted the article and removed references to his "journal" from the other articles he added it to. - UtherSRG (talk) 10:45, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Uther! TeamZissou 20:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaza House Mouse 

message: I invite participation on the discussion page at Cougar.  I have suggested a move to Puma as it is the more generally accepted common name internationally (see links there on the talk page).  If one visits scientific journals and searches the two names, puma is used many times more often.  On the Journal of Zoology for instance, Puma produces 259 hits while Cougar produces only 42, many of which use the common name Puma in the title.  An administrator will be needed to make the move as Puma already redirects to Cougar.--Counsel 00:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puma 

message: Not sure if it's a dinosaur or a mammal, I've posted this in WP Project Dinosaurs as well, just fyi guys it's quite new and if anybody wants to improve the page, you're very welcome. Berserkerz Crit 15:40, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a mammal.  It's in the subclass Eutheria and is related to Cimolestes, but Wible et al. (2007) argue it is not a crown placental and their tree suggests that no crown placentals were present in the Cretaceous (in contrast to prior interpretations of taxa such as Cimolestes and Zalambdalestes.  --Aranae 16:22, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok thanks. Hope someone can add the appropriate infobox and taxonomy classes. Berserkerz Crit 17:05, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Maelestes gobiensis]] 

message: Is there some kind of standard colors for maps of the range of animals? I've noticed there is some consistency with the shark range maps, as all of them are blue (Great white shark, Bull shark, etc.) Most of the maps of spiders are a neon green color (Jumping spider, Pholcus phalangioides, etc.) I haven't made many maps, but of the ones I've created they're based on reddish colors (Bald Eagle, King Cobra, Eurasian Lynx). If a standard color scheme doesn't exist already, there probably should be one if it is possible. 
If this has already been discussed somewhere please point me in the right direction and disregard this post. Thanks. --Mad Max 00:31, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I like the idea of having a standard. There would have to be some exceptions though such as in giraffe. Do you think this should include all of WikiProject Tree of life or just Mammals. I personally feel if we are going to do something like this, then it should apply to all areas. Maybe give each class a colour? It might involve a lot of work converting all the existing images though... could this energy be better used to create articles? Mehmet Karatay 11:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I also think this should apply to all areas. I was going to ask about the map colors on Tree of Life but somehow ended up asking here in Mammals instead. I don't know why. Anyway, making each class have its own color makes sense to me. As far as editing all the current maps, it would definitely take a lot of time to do them all. Fortunately editing maps which are based on a single color shouldn't take more than a minute or two per map; just open up Photoshop or similar editing program and change the color's hue, and nothing needs to be redrawn. As for editing articles, you're right, that probably would be a better way to waste our time though there are people like me who would rather play around with graphics than have to touch any articles and text. =/ Mad Max 22:03, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range maps 

message: I've added an article Evolution of mammals, because there's too much content to squeeze into the Mammal article. Please review and comment.
Once there's a reasonable degree of agreement about Evolution of mammals, I propose to reduce the "Evolution" section of Mammal to a link to and brief summary of Evolution of mammals.Philcha 23:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. Sorry I'm busy with other stuff cheers,  Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:01, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Evolution of mammals]]

message: Hey all, I've reorganized both these WRT headings etc. for an eventual tilt at FAC. Anyone up for a bit of collaboration? cheers,  Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:01, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gunning for FAC....[[Lion]] and [[Leopard]]

message: On the Rats article, it claims:
:Rats have a significant impact on food production. Estimates vary, but it is likely that about one-fifth of the world's total food output is eaten, spoiled or destroyed by rats.
This sounds pretty unlike to me and the link is to an uncited newspaper article. Can someone verify this or remove it. Please follow up on Talk:Rat#Rats and the Food Supply. Thanks. —mako๛ 03:32, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rats and the Food Supply 

message: The article Gould's Wattled Bat is a sad, sorry piece of junk.  Could someone please help it out? Once done, there is an image of the species available on Wikicommons. Thanks! TeamZissou 06:01, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've given it a tidy but it could use a bat expert. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 07:30, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow.  Between you and Enok Walker, that article has come around 180 degrees!  Good job, mammal team.TeamZissou 08:23, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Enok deserves the credit really. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 08:41, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very "Bat" Article