Talk:List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene

message: I removed the hyphens from the gastric brooding frog in order to make it consistent with links on other pages, currently Myobatrachidae, Frog and Eastern banjo frog. If you disagree, please change the hyphenation on these other pages, too! - Samsara 21:51, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gastric brooding without hyphens

message: Is this bird endangered or is it extinct? The wikipedia page for the bird states that it is endangered, so if this claim is truth it should be removed from this page. Any insight?
:Please see the discussion on the species page. --Peta 02:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Zosterops albogularis

message: Noone cares about animals anymore. The few people that do should take a stand and start a petition about animal abuse and cruelty and stuff like that. It is really sad that heaps of animals are now extinct becaus eof us.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gothic chic (talk • contribs) 10:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does noone car anymore? 

message: This paragraph,
"it is worth making special mention of the three great human-introduced killer species: the European rabbit, the European Red Fox, and the domestic cat. Although many other introduced species have played a destructive role, so far these three have been far and away the most significant."
needs to be cited. According to whom are the rabbit, red fox and cat the biggest causes of extinction in Aus? Not saying that these species are not the biggest a citation would be appreciated :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.39.51.116 (talk) 04:33, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged it for a cite. But given that the article is a list of extinct animals, is it even appropriate to include the supposed prime contributors in the lead? Also when the article has "...is worth making special mention... " it seems to be very much a value judgement, which is out of place in an encyclopedia.MurfleMan (talk) 00:49, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've now removed the mention, if it is to be reinstated, it would need a cite, and a reasonable argument for inclusion. MurfleMan (talk) 00:12, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lacks citation 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. (closed by non-admin page mover) - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 11:45, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene →  – I added New Guinea to the scope of the article back on 16 and 19 January 2023. Now I've changed my mind and would like to remove New Guinea from the scope of this article. New Guinea and Aru Islands extinctions should be relocated to List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene. See below for details. Columbianmammoth (talk) 06:39, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

text: I now realize that including New Guinea doesn't improve the article. Only a small number of the species I added represent New Guinea Island (including a beetle, a possum, and several BCE species). The great majority of the New Guinea species I transferred to this article (numerous birds and a few rodents) are from the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea, which is not technically part of Sahul. The map at the beginning of List of Oceanian animals extinct in the Holocene includes New Guinea as part of Melanesia, and on second thought that sounds like an appropriate place to include New Guinea extinctions. If New Guinea Island had astronomical numbers of extinct marsupials and native rodents (similar to Mainland Australia), it would be easier to justify including New Guinea in this list. But it seems like that just isn't the case. Columbianmammoth (talk) 06:43, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

text: Part of me is hoping that someone will come to the defense of Sahul (Australia-New Guinea), but for the reasons I stated above I doubt that's going to happen. Columbianmammoth (talk) 06:45, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose As original poster. I decided to move material related to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (North Solomon Islands) to join the rest of the Solomon Islands archipelago over in List of Oceanian species extinct in the Holocene while leaving New Guinea, the Aru Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago in List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene. This relatively minor change addresses most of my original concerns about too much clutter in the Australia-New Guinea list while still respecting the fact that Australia-New Guinea forms a single continent. (On a related note, it appears that Bougainville/North Solomons may become an independent country before the end of the decade.) Columbianmammoth (talk) 18:26, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 1 November 2023 

message: Hey, thanks for creating this fantastic article. Scientists recently discovered that Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) once inhabited Australia. Roy Robert Hay (talk) 07:50, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Komodo dragon