Talk:Pleistocene rewilding

message: I'm not sure, but maybe this article should be merged with Rewilding Institute‎?
 / Mats Halldin (talk) 05:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: there's been no more discussion on this, so i'm guessing no movement has been made to merge. i would be against it - the rewilding institute, while in favor of returning large native fauna, are not advocating a specifically pleistocene rewild, at least not as far as i know. the ideas are part of the same general zeitgeist, but not otherwise connected.  - Metanoid (talk, email) 06:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: i hope any and all editors can agree that this article is in bad shape. i have done little to help (one of these days i'll get right on that). Sergiodlarosa, though i appreciate your vision as far as your photoshop creations are concerned, i don't think it's appropriate to "push" those here; and i mean no insult, but your english does not lend itself to the encyclopedic tone that is necessary. maybe ask a spanish speaking admin to help out? or maybe, check out the spanish wikipedia project. you may be more comfortable! just a suggestion.... - Metanoid (talk, email) 05:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No title 

message: Under European Rewilding there is a mention of the straight-tusked elephant but no internal link. Suggest linking with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-tusked_elephant  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.66.220.86 (talk) 17:25, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest link

message: richard (if i may call you that): i looked it up to be sure (see Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language/FAQs#Practice_vs._practise), then changed the spelling back. i'm pretty sensitive to the differences between the various "englishes", but it's good to know someone else is watching for it too! (fyi, if you happen to edit with firefox, there are spellcheck dictionaries available for u.s., u.k., south african, and australian english.) :) - Metanoid (talk, email) 10:43, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  American and Commonwealth English 

message: Apologies, but I have reverted recent edits made by User:Jimmcb.  I've done this reluctantly, as much of the material is good and the article did need a lot of work.  However, the new version can't stand, because it removed wholesale a great deal (I think all) of the existing material, including much wikification (links, refs etc).  If existing material is poor, it should be criticised first, not just junked.
There are other problems, such as the absence of a lead para summarising the article, the absence of a definition of the concept, the absence of WP links – all irritating, but soluble.  More serious (and also a fault of the previous version), much of it reads more like an advocational website than an encyclopaedia (for example, "the revolutionary concept of...").
I'd like to see a lot of this material included, but really it must be done incrementally, with discussion.  Richard New Forest (talk) 12:16, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Good faith edits

message: Why rewilding in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus  is absent? Pleistocene park in Siberia,  Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, park "Orlovskaia steppe" and other?  Its real pleistocene rewilding projekt.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.122.172.164 (talk) 11:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pleistocene rewilding in Russia

message: I think the hybrid Liger would be the best proxy for the American Lion. American lions had shorter manes than modern African lions. They also may have had stripes or spots. American lions are also bigger than all living cats, including the Siberian Tiger. Some scientists  believe that the American Lion might also have been closely related to the tiger.  Ligers are larger than both of their parents. They are about the same size as the American Lion was. They have shorter manes than the lion, and they have faint stripes or spots. Shouldn't the liger be the proxy for the American Lion? Troodon58 09:25 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Not really, mainly because male ligers tend to be sterile.--68.255.111.43 (talk) 03:26, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ligers 

message: Tim Flannery-who at least seems to be a pretty large advocate for rewilding-said that the Komodo dragon would be a good replacement for Megalania. Shouldn't we put that in the list? Especially since the goanna already lives in Australia, so it wouldn't be real introduction, I would think so.--68.255.111.43 (talk) 03:15, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Komodo Dragon

message: As I copyedit this article, I can't help wondering if this whole movement was inspired by Jurassic Park. Does it have any traction, or is it one person's vision?--Miniapolis (talk) 22:15, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Concept feasability?

message: Rewilding is a common part of nature conservation. Animals are getting introduced in parts, which they occupied in the last several hundred years. The list on the end of the article includes many of those animals, which have nothing to do with pleistocene rewilding. So I will remove a couple of them now....  --Altaileopard (talk) 17:25, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  rewilding vs. pleistocene rewilding 

message: Reading the "criticism" section of the main article made diet Mountain Dew come out of my nose, and I wasn't even drinking any at the time.  The criticism of this concept goes far, far, far beyond "but what if ecological balances have changed in the past ten thousand years," to "they will eat my cattle" and "wolves were exterminated for a reason, and we're going to have to learn why all over again, aren't we?"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.156.96 (talk) 15:48, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism? 

message: A lot of proxies have been added without references, which is likely original research. I'll give it a while so that authors can add references when they exist, and then I plan to delete all the unreferenced proxies.--Curtis Clark (talk) 00:31, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Lots more of such strange additions later, from anon editors! -- Vmenkov (talk) 14:34, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, here they go....--Curtis Clark (talk) 14:35, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreference proxies 

message: This article doesn't seem to be only about "Pleistocene" rewilding, but also about replacing very recently extinct animals. The title should therefore be changed, or some text be moved elsewhere. FunkMonk (talk) 19:30, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title doesn't match scope 

message: Pleistocene Park has recently acquired a herd of ten Yaks which are now roaming in the park.  I think the part talking about reintroductions in Northern Siberia needs to updated a little.
108.248.162.150 (talk) 17:50, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. RivertorchFIREWATER 04:19, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yaks have been introduced into Pleistocene Park 

message: There has been an update.  There has been demand to bring large herbivores such as elephants to Australia to act as a proxy for extinct megafauna and to control wildfires.  http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/02/02/3420810.htm 108.249.89.121 (talk) 03:34, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. The article is interesting and perhaps relevant, but you haven't said where you want the link (e.g., in External links section) or what, if any, accompanying text you'd like to see. RivertorchFIREWATER 05:07, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential New Rewilding: Elephants in Australia 

message: This just happened this year, Pleistocene Park has just acquired a small herd of Yak which is now freely grazing in the park.https://www.facebook.com/PleistocenePark/photos/rpp.271986773221024/347196175700083/?type=3&theater 108.246.12.15 (talk) 23:02, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. More specifically, though the park's Facebook page is a primary source, it still needs to be backed up with a reliable source from news outlets. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 00:06, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yak have been introduced into Pleistocene Park 

message: Can any find a source to this? If not, we should edit that out. Monsieur X (talk) 18:13, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monkeys in North America? 

message: I think it'd be good to mention under the European section of animals that are already introduced, that a nature reserve in Ukraine called Askaniya-Nova introduced a species of African/Common Ostrich to its steppe, which as a result should mean that the introduced Ostrich should act as a proxy for the country's extinct European subspecies from the pleistocene. If possible, I think it would be worth listing it there. http://askania-nova-zapovidnik.gov.ua/ekskursiyi/ekskursiya-u-sviti-tvarin/https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Plant-and-animal-lifehttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extinct-11-foot-super-ostrich-was-as-massive-as-a-polar-bear/2601:204:C603:DFA0:0:0:0:E5FB (talk) 05:21, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:26, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ostrich in Ukraine