Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals

Hello all. I've put up the article volcano rabbit for peer review; any feedback would be a great help! -- Reconrabbit 17:10, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Nutria#Requested move 31 October 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 02:35, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Could you help to disambiguate links to Australian fur seal please? It is generally better for readers to link to specific articles rather than disambiguation pages. You can identify them by going to your "preferences" via the drop down list - top right of your screen, and choosing "Preferences" and then the tab for "Gadgets", You then scroll down to "Appearance" and putting a tick next to "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange". There are currently 16 links shown at Dablink list for Australian fur seal. Any help appreciated.— Rod ^talk 08:45, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi all!

Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong spot!

I just wanted to quickly introduce myself as the instructor of an upcoming Wiki Education-affiliated course. From January to early April, my students in EEB388: Diversity of Mammals at the University of Toronto will be working on improving and/or creating articles relevant to this project.

I will be working on finalizing the details of the assignment and drafting a list of articles for students to choose from (although they can propose other articles if they wish) over the next few weeks. I would love to hear any thoughts from the Project Mammals community on things I should keep in mind! Ashinonyx (talk) 18:56, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Whale has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 05:05, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

I have nominated Raccoon for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 01:50, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

I noticed recently that https://mammaldiversity.com/ now gives 404 errors when trying to go to a page for a taxon other than a species or if trying to go to a URl with just the species and genus name. I was fixing the latter with AWB but the former issue does not have an obvious fix (see for instance the external link on Leopardus). Recommendations? Should these links be removed? In some cases they are used as a citation for the number of recognized species in a genus, such as on Petaurus, so it would make sense to link the IUCN red list search for the same info but in this case the number of species doesn't match up (ASM recognizes at least three more species). -- Reconrabbit 14:57, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't remember the taxon links such as https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005994 working for anything other than species. The links to families and genera had a different format.

They've completely upgrade the site, which is now much slicker, but much more difficult to link to a taxon other than a species. I've yet to find a way other than navigating the tree in one of several ways.

In cases like https://www.mammaldiversity.org/tree.html#genus=Petaurus, you can still access it using the classic version https://www.classic.mammaldiversity.org/tree.html#genus=Petaurus, but note that is using a different style of link and that the display now only uses a third of the screen.  —  Jts1882 | talk  15:22, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

The Classic version looks like the only obvious solution for now. Thanks. Taxon links used to work where these two links went to the same place: https://www.mammaldiversity.org/tree.html#genus=Lepus&species=oiostolus https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001099/ That is no longer the case, only the latter works. (If I am saying something you already stated, my bad) -- Reconrabbit 15:27, 3 February 2026 (UTC)(now using a third of the screen rather than half).

I don't think those links ever went to the same place. Your example with tree.html#genus=Lepus&species=oiostolus linked to the treeview and displayed the species info in a panel on the right of the pages. You can see that in classic now: https://www.classic.mammaldiversity.org/tree.html#genus=Lepus&species=oiostolus (although the info panel now uses a third of the screen rather than half). The link with taxon/1001099/ didn't display the treeview. An early version using explore.html displayed the species info on top of a table of taxa.  —  Jts1882 | talk  15:42, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

I see. I'm confused why I thought that wasn't the case before - maybe I had just never used {{Cite mdd}} without the ID. -- Reconrabbit 15:51, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

At one point you could use {{Cite mdd}} without the ID, but it linked to the tree.html page with the treeview and still works in the classic version of the site. You could also use the explore.html page with genus+species+id but this only worked if the id was given. The genus and species were actually never used in the MDD code.

I've had another look, and I can't see anyway of linking to a order, family or genus on the new MDD site. There are several ways of navigating, but no permalinks to the new structure.  —  Jts1882 | talk  16:05, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Inclusion criteria for List of organisms of Place about what should be included in such lists. Please contribute there. Thank you. SchreiberBike | ⌨  03:39, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Dimetrodon has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:00, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Quoll has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 04:45, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

A study in June 2024 reclassified the Mexican long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus mexicanus) as a distinct species and not a subspecies of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). I created an article for the Mexican long-nosed armadillo by copying most of the information from the nine-banded armadillo article and changing the range of distribution and other geographic-centric entries in both articles. The two species are very close in everything except where they are found. If anyone would like to proofread and make improvements to the articles, it would be appreciated as I am no subject matter expert in this area. Thanks. Nv8200pa talk 21:16, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Another source: Widespread Armadillo Is Actually Four Different Species - Field Museum Nv8200pa talk 21:16, 6 March 2026 (UTC)