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Malagasy mountain mouse scheduled for TFA

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  • Jimfbleak, I've been trying for years to get Ucucha to be a bit more poetic in his sciency descriptions of these varmin he works on. I strongly suggest that you all amp up the hype on the front page a bit, and to that end I proposed a rewrite of the first part:

    What is brown above and dark gray below, and found in the highlands of Madagascar? You know it--the Malagasy mountain mouse, that adorable mouse-like rodent (NOT A CREEPY RAT) of the family Nesomyidae. Its densely hairy ears are small and round, but its feet are broad and oh, the pads! VERY well developed. Don't look for a tuft on the tip of the tail, but tip-toe along the spine to a delicate, smooth skull with none of those nasty-ass ridges.

    What do you think? I smell a winner! Drmies (talk) 02:15, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Drmies, that's perfect! Dank writes the blurbs, so let's see if he can resist your golden words (: Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:31, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Jimfbleak, this is going to be a record-breaker. And now you see, I'm sure, why they never let me write anything when I was on ArbCom, haha. Drmies (talk) 20:01, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A goat for you!

good work

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My FAC interactions with IanRose and Laser brain led me to this page, where both users routinely declared their abstention from FAC coordinator duties in advance of them either supporting or opposing certain FAC nominations. Can you kindly inform me of the purpose of that page, with respect to Sarastro1 returning after a 3-month break and opposing to 3 separate articles without recusing themselves at that page beforehand, or even now, 3 days later? Cheers. Homeostasis07 (talk) 02:06, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm no longer active as an FAC coordinator, so it would be better if you took this up with Sarastro1 or the other active coordinators. Ucucha (talk) 04:35, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Primate taxonomy

Hi Ucucha. I see you have been less active recently than you used to be. I left a long note on the primate talk page about our primate taxonomy, on which I would like your feedback. We have long used Groves (2005) as our basic source for primate taxonomy, but I think that developments over the past 10-15 years have left this reference far behind, which even Groves acknowledges. We have slowly and somewhat haphazardly updated our primate taxonomy as new research has been published, but I think it is time to acknowledge that we need a new primary source. Possible options include ITIS, Mittermeier, et al (2013) Handbook of the Mammals of the World, volume 3, or Rowe, et al (2016) All the World's Primates. In any case I would like to get your feedback on this, and the resulting changes that could be necessary (e.g., revising common names). Rlendog (talk) 17:25, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Someone made another suggestion - the Mammal Diversity Database. Do you have any thoughts on that? Rlendog (talk) 00:50, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Not too familiar with it; I remember looking at it when an article about it was published in the Journal of Mammalogy. It's apparently not being updated immediately, so very recent names like Palawanosorex are missing. Ucucha (talk) 04:37, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thomasomys ucucha scheduled for TFA

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Thank you for the little vanity about "a little rodent from Ecuador with a nice name"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:32, 19 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Ucucha. In regards to your script User:Ucucha/duplinks, problems keep coming up on its talk page that have been fixed in my version, User:Evad37/duplinks-alt. I see that your script hasn't been updated since 2011 (except for a couple of fixes from TheDJ in 2017). Would you be mind if your script was redirected to mine (either by yourself, or by an WP:interface admin)? Many users are already using my version [1], but a script redirection would fix problems for users who haven't switched over themselves. Cheers, - Evad37 [talk] 03:10, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking over maintenance! I'm happy to redirect the page. Should I redirect just the content page (User:Ucucha/duplinks), or also the JS page itself? Ucucha (talk) 04:29, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Can you make the JS page into a "script redirect" as well? i.e. replace the script content with importScript('User:Evad37/duplinks-alt.js'); Thanks, - Evad37 [talk] 05:09, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Ucucha (talk) 05:20, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudoryzomys scheduled for TFA

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Thank you for another South American rodent, with a complex history and is interesting morphologically, but its natural history is very poorly known"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Plesiorycteropus scheduled for TFA

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... and thank you for "Madagascar's most special mammal. Exactly what it is, is not quite clear, but it is no longer around and apparently was some kind of digging insect-eater"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Template

Hi, I have sought some views on nav templates for mammals, and have it in mind to propose many for deletion. The value in creating them, in the absence of other navigation, is hopefully better placed in article space now and they may have outlived their usefulness. There is a view they can be ignored, but I feel compelled to update or delete information if it contradicts the article and this is also a less than satisfactory approach (because it will transclude a contradiction or updated phylogeny in articles I haven't looked at). My personal view is that it fouls what links here, as I often work on several articles at once, but I am one of the few to encounter that problem it seems. What are your thoughts on this?

As a reader of Wikipedia I often find nav templates useful. When I read about one species, I'm often interested in reading about other related ones. It's true that they pollute "What links here", but that seems worth the benefit for readers. Ucucha (talk) 04:16, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sand cat

Hi Uchucha: I found you in the Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers list. And since you seem to prefer reviewing pages on small mammals, would you be so kind to have a look at the sand cat page. This one is currently rated C-class, but this was done yeears ago, loong before I worked on this page last autumn and brought into a much better shape. I hope it's worth an A-class now? Looking forward to your reply. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 10:06, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BhagyaMani, thanks for your work on this article! I am no longer very active on Wikipedia, so I don't think I'd be the right person to change these assessments. If you're interested in getting feedback for your article, as I recall the best vehicle is WP:GAN. Ucucha (talk) 04:17, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

bats

I keep seeing neat and useful articles on bats and the history shows you are responsible. They are appreciated by me and I assume others, very helpful as I try to get my head around the order. Cheers, cygnis insignis 06:31, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Ucucha (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ambondro mahabo scheduled for TFA

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Noronhomys scheduled for TFA

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Thank you today for Noronhomys, introduced: "When Amerigo Vespucci visited Fernando de Noronha in 1503, he saw not only lizards with two tails and some snakes, but also "very large rats". It took nearly five centuries before anyone found the large rats back."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:48, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Ambondro mahabo, "about a 170-million-year-old broken piece of jaw. It is a highly interesting piece of jaw, because the teeth are the oldest with the modern grinding-and-shearing mammalian tooth pattern, and its 1999 discovery set the stage for one of the major controversies of mammalian paleontology."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:35, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Removing tribes from missing mammals list, fair or not?

Hi Ucucha, user Kaldari recently removed a list of redlinked tribes from a list of missing mammal species. I thought I get your opinion (as I got list of missing mammal species and tribes/sub tribes etc. from your excellent lists) whether this is fair as they seem to suggest they are not notable enough. See: [2]. Kind regards, Calaka (talk) 05:10, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't feel too strongly about this, but it seems to me that the point of a list of missing mammal taxa is to list missing mammal taxa, so it doesn't make much sense to remove ones that he feels are more likely to be revised away. But really it's up to active WikiProject editors who may want to use the list as a way to find gaps in Wikipedia's coverage that they want to address. Ucucha (talk) 05:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your reply, I appreciate it. I will ask for more opinions in the missing wikiproject talk page. Kind regards.Calaka (talk) 11:18, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Transandinomys talamancae scheduled for TFA

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Thank you today for Transandinomys talamancae, a "rice rat from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador is the closest relative of Transandinomys bolivaris"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:36, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks Sandy, and happy holidays to you and your family too! Ucucha (talk) 00:44, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I just saw you back at FAC ... the best and brightest news of the year !! I am wondering what became of Ucuchabot, and if it is possible to begin flagging DYK noms at FAC again (planning to initiate a discussion about that at WT:FAC as soon as I have a moment). So nice to see your name on my watchlist ... Happy New Year !! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:48, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Happy (almost) New Year! UcuchaBot must have died when the Toolserver was decommissioned; I still have the code somewhere but I'm not sure it would even still work. I might drop in from time to time to do more reviews (it's good to still see some familiar names!) but I'm not likely to become very active again. Ucucha (talk) 23:40, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Even if it is only rarely, it is still just great to see your name pop up, and know you are well :) All the best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:44, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Minor fixes to userscripts

Hey Ucucha, it looks like you've got some user scripts in use by others that have bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are phab:T72470 deprecated, and while I don't think there's a timeline for their removal, it's been that way for a while. It's usually a straightforward fix, all uses need to use mw.config.get, such as converting wgTitle to mw.config.get('wgTitle'). There's some more info at mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)#Global wg variables. I can take care of cleaning them up for you if you like, or give you a full list if you want to handle it, just let me know! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 12:33, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Took care of this for ya. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:53, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! It was on my TODO list :) Ucucha (talk) 17:03, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Northern voalavo

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Reassessment of "? Nycticebus linglom"

Hi there! I just wanted to point your attention to the fact that I've listed the page ? Nycticebus linglom for reassessment (link to discussion here), as I'm a little worried that it relying on a single source might hint at some problems with notability, and I'd appreciate your input. Thanks! –LogStar100 (talk) 23:28, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be mostly about the policy question of whether to award the GA rating to a species with very limited sources. I don't really care what the answer to that question is, but thanks for notifying me. Let me know though if there's any issue with the content of the article that I can help with. For what it's worth, I just checked my library and it doesn't look like anything else of importance has been published about this species. Ucucha (talk) 03:03, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Actually added another source that at least verifies that other people have accepted that the species exists, although it doesn't say anything substantial. Ucucha (talk) 03:18, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Durrell's vontsira

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Precious anniversary

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Thank you today for Dermotherium, introduced: "Perhaps the closest living relatives of primates are the colugos, two species of gliders from the forests of Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, they also have one of the poorest fossil records of all mammalian orders—the subject of this article, Dermotherium, is the only unambiguous fossil colugo that has ever been described. It is known from a handful of teeth and pieces of jaw from 25–35 million year old fossil sites in southern Asia."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:20, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

... today for Oryzomys gorgasi, about "another endangered rice rat, but this time there's actually something halfway decent known about its biology"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

... and today for Voalavo gymnocaudus, about "a small Malagasy rodent that was discovered only a few decades ago"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:28, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

... and today for Salanoia durrelli, introduced as described this year (2011), "a mongoose-like member of a family of carnivoran mammals unique to Madagascar"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:58, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Transandinomys

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Thank you today for Oryzomys dimidiatus, about another rare rice rat, from Nicaragua! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:41, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Transandinomys, introduced: "this is a genus of two rice rat species (both already FAs) from the Central–South American border zone. The article summarizes what is known on the two species, focusing on the aspects that are known for both."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Oryzomys couesi, introduced: "... this is one of the two widespread species of Oryzomys rice rats. We know something about its biology, though a lot less than about the marsh rice rat, and are still learning about its classification—it probably actually consists of four species, if not more."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hammond's rice rat scheduled for TFA

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We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:24, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Mindomys, introduced in 2010: "This is one of the rarest, most isolated, and most endangered of the rice rats. We know virtually nothing about its biology, but there is enough material on the various ways it was classified and on the details of its skull to create an article"! - Happy New Year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:46, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

  1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
  2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)