Huicocos

September 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Collared Titi, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The vandalism was the repeating characters. Thank you. Wayne Olajuwon chat 21:56, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Edits to Collared Titi and White-fronted Capuchin

Hi Thomas, I've been cleaning up White-fronted Capuchin recently and just found out that you were the one who wrote the most part of the article in the first place. Some really great work you've done, and now I've seen the excellent work you've done on the Collared Titi! I was studying the White-eared Titi earlier this year and it's great to see another primatologist on Wikipedia! (I'm not one myself, but there are others) I was wondering if you'd like to look through the White-fronted Capuchin article to check for errors, I know you work in Columbia but I'm trying to incorporate information from the subspecies for other countries too. Any images you could donate to the Wikipedia Commons would be great too, I can show you how to give it the right license if you want. A recent paper (Ruiz-García, M.; Castillo, M. I.; Vásquez, C.; Rodriguez, K.; Pinedo-Castro, M.; Shostell, J.; Leguizamon, N. (2010). "Molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of the white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons; Cebidae, Primates) by means of mtCOII gene sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (3): 1049.) didn't help me try to get my head round the complex systematics of the species so any help with that would be greatly appreciated too! Cheers, Jack (talk) 15:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Cebus albifrons and other neotropical primates

Dear Jack, thanks for the comments and in the next days I´ll put some effort into these projects. Actually I´ve been working on projects in wikipedia en español, as I gave as a class project in my primatology course the job of creating a wikipedia article and uploading it. But there is a lot of cleanup and I am still, after all, a beginner and only recently have begun devoting time to these primate projects. And I have many other primate projects outside of wikipedia. But your comments as a person with more experience are very helpful and they give me the "push" to dedicate the time necessary to make these articles into something of value for readers. Saludos, Huicocos (thomasdefler)

adjustments to article

Today I am mostly fixing references to agree with Wikipedia use and I add a new researcher Matthews who has just published in 2009.

Copyright problem: Sparassodonta

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Given your comments in the edit log it seems you did this with permission but currently we have no way of verifying this or verifying that the author is happy to release under our licenses. If the material is to be restored you will need to follow the above instructions. Dpmuk (talk) 18:40, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid that blog post is not enough for us to use the material as it fails to mentions any license and just allowing use on wikipedia is not enough - we have to have material released under CC-BY-SA and the GFDL. This is because we allow reuse of our material so just allowing use on wikipedia is not sufficient. That comment is also ambiguous as to whether he is allowing a copy and paste or whether he's suggesting someone use the information and write an entry in their own words. As stated at WP:DCM#Granting us permission to copy material already online the easiest way would be for him to post to that page stating that he allows release under those licensing (see the link for a suggested form of words). We would have to be certain it was him posting so I would imagine it would have to be either a change to the original text or a comment using the same user name. Alternatively he could send an e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org preferably from the e-mail address mentioned on the blog page - again more information, included recommended text, is on the link above.

I'm sorry to have had to blank the article but that is how we deal with situations where permission is uncertain as we don't want to risk hosting material for which we don't have permission. Dpmuk (talk) 04:35, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Update regarding copyright concern

Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice, the content has been removed for now for copyright concerns. This removal is not necessarily permanent. If you (or Nash) have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA), the content should be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

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Thank you. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:33, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Updates to primate taxonomy

I am not sure if you still post on Wikipedia. I posted a comment on updated sourcing for primate taxonomy on the primate project talk page - in short, I think we need from using Groves 2005 Mammal Species of the World as our basic source to a more recent reference (e.g., Handbook of the Mammals of the World or All the World's Primates). As a prominent practitioner, your input would be very valuable. I also have a more practical related question. I see you contributed significantly to the white-fronted capuchin article. I think that article needs to be substantially revised in light of recent taxonomy changes (I suspect that we could no longer use that as a species article but rather as an article on all the various species that used to be included in C. albifrons, and create a new article for the Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin) but it would be good to have your input there too. I posted specific questions on that talk page. Also, it seems that some of your research is cited in that article, but it is not clear to which newly defined white-fronted capuchin species in Colombia that research referred to (and since several of your articles are cited, it is possible that each refers to a different species as currently defined). If you could clear that up that would be very helpful as well. Thanks. Rlendog (talk) 19:19, 6 January 2019 (UTC)