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for starters, ensure refs are complete - eg books need isbn, publisher and locations (if possible). Also, make all names in consistent format - eg Smith, J.; Jones, F.; etc.
I'll try and find some - I also looked on Web of Science and there are a whopping 834 articles with this species as a key word (!!!) - much of it is DNA sequencing and hence too esoteric for general consumption I feel, but there will be some useful bits to add. Do you have university access? If not I can check some fulltexts of articles to see what can be added. Casliber (talk·contribs) 00:34, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Damn, I began looking at stuff the other night. A Web of Science search shows alot of material with fulltexts only available by university access. I'd meant to add it myself but have been remiss. I'll itemise some comprehensivenss issues: Casliber (talk·contribs) 21:09, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Annoyingly, the last three or four times I've tried to log onto university access it's timed out or unavailalble. Hopefully I can sort it out in next day or two. Casliber (talk·contribs) 20:53, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
One last thing - chase - Williams, D. L. G . (1980). Catalogue of Pleistocene vertebrate fossils and sites in South Australia.
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After seeing some trouble with another article worked on by the primary editor of this article (LittleJerry (talk·contribs)), I did a random spot-check of one of the sources used in this article and found it plagiarized. From ref 13:
Source: "It has a small head and large ears; the tail is long and thick at the base."
Article text: "It has a small head and large ears; the tail is long and thick at the base."
Source: "Dark, grizzled grey-brown above, becoming rufous on the sides of the body and the limbs, especially in males. Pale grey-buff below."
Article text: "In colour, it is a dark, grizzled grey-brown above, becomes rufous on the sides of the body and the limbs, particularly in males, and becomes pale grey-buff below.
Yikes! I recall checking and adding a few myself so it shouldn't be all. I have some free time tonight (in about 12 hours, so let's start at ref 1 and tick off all refs checked, and take the opportunity to discuss as we go. Might be able to do one or two now but weekend days suck... Casliber (talk·contribs) 21:18, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks in advance for any assistance. Hopefully it will be minor and LittleJerry will have an opportunity to review the material I linked for him. --Laser brain(talk)21:29, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Am mainly pissed off at myself for missing copyvios (again), my homer simpson type meandering sometimes exacerbated by sleep deprivation. Just archiving my talk page currently but need to nick out to shops...Casliber (talk·contribs) 21:33, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
LittleJerry, I cannot access 34 and 37. For 36... I'm stumped. I can't really think of a different way to say this that wouldn't sound funny. Maybe Casliber could suggest something? --Laser brain(talk)03:08, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Update: I've checked most of the other sources (that I can access) and haven't found any significant problems. Some of the paraphrasing is closer than I word prefer, but I wouldn't label it problematic. I suggest this GAR can be closed, with consideration toward any outstanding items above. --Laser brain(talk)01:47, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Page title capitalisation
Just a quick note about the title, it should probably be Tammar wallaby, as sentence case seems to be preferred at WikiProject Mammals. If fact looking at the wallaby page there are quite a few species articles that still need to be moved. Cheers, Jack (talk) 23:24, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This picture in the "Genome" section seems to show a wallaby eating something on the side of a tree. It does not illustrate the point made in the caption "Tammars are easy to keep in captivity." Axl¤[Talk]09:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
From "Taxonomy and classification", subsection "Subspecies": "All the island tammars were once thought to be of one species." Aren't they still thought to be one species? Axl¤[Talk]23:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The island tammars are not considered one species. With regards to the map, I can't find one with New Zealand, I think the natural range is more imporant but one is free to create a map with both the natural and introduced ranges. LittleJerry (talk) 01:08, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood the meaning of the sentence about the island tammars. How about changing it to "The island tammars were once thought to be a separate species from the mainland population." Axl¤[Talk]08:16, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
In the middle of the diagram, it is a little confusing as to which line corresponds to each species. Perhaps if you can bring the text slightly lower down and closer to the lines, that would be helpful. Axl¤[Talk]22:03, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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The first paper shows that spermatogenesis in wallabies is similar to that of eutherian (placental) mammals. However I don't think that this is particularly helpful in the article about "Tammar wallaby". Perhaps it might be worth mentioning in the article "Spermatogenesis". Axl¤[Talk]16:25, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The "Uterine morphology" paper doesn't really add anything new to the article. The article already mentions that Tammar wallabies use diapause, and I think that this is adequate. However the paper could be used to update this ancient 1973 reference. Incidentally, I see that the 2019 paper states the genus name Notamacropus. Is this a recent change to the genus classification? Axl¤[Talk]16:44, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Notamacropus is the subgenus, which is mentioned in the article. I have found other recent papers that use Macropus so I'm assuming its still the genus name and the other authors are using the subgenus to be more specific. LittleJerry (talk) 16:54, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. "Notamacropus eugenii" is not "more specific" than "Macropus eugenii". Both names refer to the species. This paper states "The tammar wallaby (Notamacropus eugenii) (see [3,4] regarding the change of genus from Macropus) is one of the most intensively studied marsupials." The references are Jackson SM, Groves CP (2015) Taxonomy of Australian mammals, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, and Eldridge MDB (2010) Population and conservation genetics of marsupials. In: Deakin JE, Waters PD, Graves JAM, editors. Marsupial genetics and genomics. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 461–497. Axl¤[Talk]17:07, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"It is one of many organisms to have had its genome sequenced. "
If complete genome sequencing is very common (as implied here) then it might be better to leave the fact (and the sentence) out as not notable enough. If, on the other hand, complete genome sequencing is not very common, it might be better to remove the implication that it is common with something like:
I believe the abbreviated genus in the taxonomy section should "N.", given the wallaby's newly assigned genus. The citation in question was when it was still considered to be under "Macropus"; since it is not a direct quote, there is no need to be a stickler for what the article says. Heh0002 (talk) 23:40, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
But it is. They're talking about the same species. The only thing that changed is the genus, which itself is abbreviated, so the only noticeable change would be a single letter. This is not as big of a deal as you think it is; for example, at Brown hyena#Description, most of the sources are old and still refer to the species as "Hyaena brunnea", which is outdated and incorrect, yet they are still used to cite information in the article. Heh0002 (talk) 00:20, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]