User talk:C00ch

a fellow seabird biologist!

I agree completely with your comments on the penguin talk page. If you ever need help or feel like taking on a major revision drop me a line. Sabine's Sunbird talk 18:54, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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Chatham Islands Penguin

Well you didn't dig very deep on that one, no? Sources should be really easy to find (if you had asked, I would even have added them myself, but forgive me when I hand this task over to you). In general, we try to run a very tight ship on the WikiProject Birds as regards suspect information, and I think that the ornithology part of WP - not least due to contributions of people like you - is one where it really shines. As a general note, if in doubt slap a {{check}} () or {{cn}} () tag on it, or use <!-- removed text [rationale] --> to out-comment text from the displayed article, or for more serious matters, {{Disputeabout|'''The topic of dispute'''}}. I do these all the time (the former three especially), and namely the "verification needed" serves the purpose well, as it alerts readers that some information is possibly in error.

And/or run a quick search on Google Scholar first and Google if the Scholar one doesn't score hits, and/or drop a line on the Birds project page (should be accessible via all bird-related Talk pages). Deleting things just so will sooner or later result in people accusing you of vandalism, though your intentions are perfectly honorable. Thanks!

PS: There are 4 sources at least, all are scientific publications, at least 2 peer-reviewed (one is a monograph and the other is too old). At least 3 should be findable via Google Scholar, 2 very easy, 1 a bit harder. The old reference must probably be tracked down by hand.

The reason why this bird does not appear in many sources is that it has not been formally described. It is very probably a new species - it is certainly neither pachyrhynchus nor sclateri, and probably not chrysocome either - , but as there is hope of DNA being recoverable, and the late prehistoric biogeography of the genus in the NZ region is not so well understood, a formal description would seem to require a bit higher hurdles to pass than in other such cases. Dysmorodrepanis 10:16, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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