User talk:CephasE

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Hello, CephasE, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Long-billed Thrasher

A tag has been placed on Long-billed Thrasher, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SkierRMH 00:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zamora et al. on greenfinches or goldfinches?

Hi. Your further-reading contributions are very impressive, but I'm wondering why you added Zamora et al., "Rhodopechys obsoleta (desert finch): a pale ancestor of greenfinches (Carduelis spp.) according to molecular phylogeny" to Lawrence's Goldfinch, since that article seems to be about greenfinches. Does it discuss Lawrence's Goldfinch? Thanks. —JerryFriedman 17:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


Hello,

When the number of papers on a species is low, I put all what I find even if there is a slight reference to the subject. In Zamora et al., there is a slight reference to the Lawrence's Goldfinch in a table p. 449. In any case, I learned that adding this kind of long list of references (as I did for many species, sometimes with very long lists) is not in the scope of Wikipedia, so I stopped doing this. Contributers of a species could delete them if they want to. I'm new to Wikipedia, I'm learning. CephasE 23:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I took it out, since I don't think we need papers with only slight references. I hope you've read the discussion on your Further Reading lists at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds#Further_reading.3F, where I and someone else said the lists were useful. —JerryFriedman 04:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)