Talk:List of animals new to science

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I'm uncomfortable with this article's name. At what point, after all, does a species stop being "new" to science? DS 14:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm using the species discovered in the last 15 years.

[edit] A few suggestions for this page

  • State the criteria used
  • Note that it is an incomplete list.
  • Include scientific names
  • Split by year of species description (as well as taxonomic group)
  • Check out this page from Dutch wikipedia: nl:Gebruiker:Ucucha/Nieuw and subpages. Ucucha has already done the work for mammals. It just needs to be copied into English.

--Aranae 11:45, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

How about setting a maximum number of species, accepting only e.g. the fifty newest animals to science? Bendž|Ť 17:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
My recommendation is that this page be deleted, and if people have the urge to create a page like this then specify what "new" is and don't clump "animals" together. I would guess there have been 10,000 - 100,000+ new species found in the last 15 years, it would be useless to try and fit them all on one page. Jack (talk) 17:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Duplication?

Bird species new to science and its child pages cover this subject, in a lot more detail. There is a lot of work to do on those pages - perhaps bird-related effort is best targeted there? SP-KP 11:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] red links

Hi. Mostly because of my efforts, I have created articles for all of the red links. Since it's an incomplete list, feel free to add more species. AstroHurricane001(Talk+Contribs+Ubx) 00:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

You should take a little more time to research, both the Zog-Zog and the Black-Headed Sagui Dwarf are actually referring to Roosmalens' Dwarf Marmoset. Without any peer reviewed work describing the species it is unwise to create the article, journalists don't know anywhere near enough about the subject. Cheers, Jack (talk) 17:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)