Talk:Beddomeia waterhouseae

Some review comments
I've reviewed this for DYK and have a few comments / thoughts that extend beyond DYK requirements:
 * Has anyone checked iNaturalist for a free photo? Or if there are unfree photos, asked the photographer whether they'd be happy to change the licence?
 * There are two references that point to a specific page in the 500s and the parameter used was  (plural). That is often an indication of an editor reporting on the total number of pages in a book (journal) rather than the page where the information can be found. Could somebody check those out? Meanwhile, I've changed the parameter to singular, assuming it does indeed point to the correct page.
 * What's currently reference #2 (MolluscaBase, ed. (2021). "Beddomeia waterhouseae Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1993".) is a dead link ("Oops! This taxon is out of scope!"). Could somebody please check?
 * There's a mixture of author given names spelled out in full, as initials plus a full stop, and as initials without a full stop. I know that scientists prefer to use initials and whilst I haven't checked the Manual of Style, I would have thought that full names are more useful if readers want to follow up.
 * "This species was described by Ponder and Clark in 1993." That's Winston Ponder (I shall wikilink him in the citations) and G.A. Clark going by the sources from the 1990s. We then have publications from the 2010s where Ponder writes further papers with malacologist, who would obviously abbreviate to S.A. Clark. Is G.A. Clark in the 1990s sources correct? If yes, that would be a strange coincidence.

Lots more fun can be had with this.  Schwede 66  20:21, 24 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi @Schwede66, yes I did check but no images are currently there, freely licensed or not. I also doubled checked the institution that holds the holotype specimen (the Australian Museum) and they too appear not to have digitised their specimens. There are some images in the references but none that are openly licensed. Ambrosia10 (talk) 01:56, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I've done a bit of work on Wikidata and can confirm that indeed, Ponder was initially working with G.A. Clark and in about 2005, S.A. Clark starts to appear. Haven't been able to figure out G.A. Clark's given name.  Schwede 66  02:10, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The DYK hook source has an image. The Australian Museum holds the rights, of course.
 * pages param: Only Ponders et al 1994 remains. *mimes old man on lawn shaking fist at clouds* Curse you, paywall! I'll see what I can do, but perhaps either of you have institutional access? (or are more familiar with Wikipedia Library?)
 * MolluscaBase, ed. (2021)...is a dead link Much to my frustration, I have yet to find a way to link so that, to quote the page, we do not have to manually turn off the relevant filter (at the top right of this page) to view the taxon. One would think such a link exists, some fancy URL parameter like  or something. On mobile, one clicks menu icon (three horizontal lines) in the upper right, under which should be two toggles. Flipping the "marine only" from green (the default) to gray (off) does the trick. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 18:03, 31 July 2021 (UTC)