Talk:J. Mary Taylor

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This is a good article selection for WGST 3991. You have found some excellent secondary sources about her contributions.

The items that Taylor wrote will go into a section called "Published works." There are a few ways to establish notability using publications. One way that might work in this case is to see how many libraries have the book in their collection using Worldcat. Here is a link to J. Mary Taylor's WorldCat Identity. You can use this to show how many libraries have her books. In class or at the edit-a-thon, I'll show you how to add the Authority control template to connect to that kind of identity record.

Prabook would not be considered a reliable source according to Identifying reliable sources. If you look at the Prabook About page, you'll see that the content is user-generated and there aren't citations to sources in the entry on J. Mary Taylor. However, you can use the information gathered there to search for better sources. As an example, I searched for information on the Hartley T. Jackson award, and found a list of recipients of the award on the American Society of Mammalogists website. . Similarly, I searched for "J. Mary Taylor" and UBC, and found an archival President's Report that mentions Taylor's receipt of a Killam Senior Fellowship.

Bibliography:

Birney, E.C. & Choate, J.R. (1994). Seventy-five years of mammalogy (1919-1994) [Internet Archive version]. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/seventyfiveyears00birn

Horner, E.B., & Taylor, J.M. (1959). Results of the Archbold Expedition. No. 80 Observations on the Biology of the Yellow-footed Marsupial Mouse, Antechinus flavipes flavipes. American Museum Novitates. 1972(1), 1-24.

Horner, E.B., Taylor, M.J., Linzey, A.V., & Michener, G.R. (1996). Women in Mammalogy (1940-1994): Personal Perspectives. Journal of Mammalogy, 77(3), 655-674.

Taylor, J.M. (1984) The Oxford Guide to Mammals of Australia. Michigan: Oxford University Press. Taylor, J.M. (1961). Reproductive Biology of the American bush rat: Rattus assimilis. University of California Publications in Zoology, 60(1).

Smith, F.A. & Kaufman, D.M. (1996). A quantitative analysis of the contributions of female mammalogists from 1919 to 1994. Journal of Mammalogy, 77(3), 613-628.

Whitten, W.K. (n.d.) Jocelyn Mary Taylor. Prabook.