Talk:West Peruvian dove

Why did user Golbez delete my page before consulting me?
I wrote a stub on the Pacific Dove, Zenaida meloda, this afternoon. And much to my surprise, it was deleted not even two minutes later by user Golbez on the grounds that Pacific Dove is a neologism.

First of all, Pacific Dove is not a neologism. Zenaida asiatica is called a White-winged Dove in North America, whereas the term Pacific Dove is used to refer to its South American cousin, Z. meloda. Treating both as one, as the article on the White Winged Dove does, is wrong (see: Wikispecies: Zenaida meloda).

Secondly, information on cooing in the White-winged Dove article is dead wrong -- I have been residing in Lima, Peru, for the past two years, and can attest that one of the key differences between Z. asiatica and Z. meloda, cited in my now deleted reference as grounds for the taxonomic split, is the radical difference in cooing melody between the two (along with a 4.2% mitochondrial genetic divergence, see: Split Zenaida meloda from Z. asiatica).

Finally, there is a corresponding Spanish article on Z. meloda (see: Zenaida meloda - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre).

I was about to move on to correcting the White-winged Dove article when I realized my work had been deleted. I mean, at most, he/she could have questioned my use of Pacific Dove as opposed to Peruvian Dove or whatever ohter nomenclature he/she prefers; however, deleting it off the bat without consulting me was very disrespectful.

Is there a way to have my article restored? --Rcgy 19:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * No, because it never existed. The last edit to this page dates from May 2005; either you did not submit the edit, through a browser or server error, or you made it to a completely different page. --Golbez 20:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)