Talk:Muzquizopteryx

Research "paid by Volkswagen" from "Heidelberg and Karlsruhe"
While this was somewhat inaccurate (it's the Volkswagen Foundation [Volkswagen Stiftung], not the Volkswagen motor company, that is a medium-large research grant giving body within Germany), the specific funding agencies are not reported when citing scientific research within Wikipedia — unless relevant to the specific story. The bulk of research would have 2–5 funders to cite in the running text, as each co-author's then-current grants have to be acknowledged!

If you look up the actual research publication [Oryctos, 6: 19–40 by Frey Et al., "Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis n.g., n. sp., a nyctosaurid pterosaur with soft tissue preservation from the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) of northeast Mexico (Coahuila)"; I retrieved a PDF from ResearchGate] you see in the financial acknowledgements that it was VW Stiftung plus the Deutsche Forschersgemeindschaft [German national science foundation] that gave grants (on top of the running overheads of salaries to the University and the nat.hist. museum of Karlsruhe, and two Mexican museum researchers); I've not checked whether ignoring the other was somewhat justified by the VW being much much larger or so.

But now I see the "Heidelberg" reference is wrong as well, no researchers from there; neither at the time of the 2004 public presentation nor of the 2006 publication. The scientific acknowledgements mention people in Berlin, Montana, Darmstadt, Chicago and Portsmouth, as well as a non-coauthor in Karlsruhe, with further acknowledgements to the mining company that donated, and the local palaeontology amateurs assoc.

I'm not sure the 2004 presentation is more relevant/citeable than the 2006 publication, but at face value it's at least open access as long as the organizers keep the programme PDF online. Ahem.86.18.215.73 (talk) 09:51, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Muzquizopteryx
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Muzquizopteryx's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Longrich2018": From Azhdarchidae: Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663. From Tethydraco:  From Alcione elainus: Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663. From Simurghia: Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663. . PMC 5849296 Freely accessible.  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:31, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. Jurassic Classic 767  (talk &#124; contribs) 13:19, 16 August 2020 (UTC)