User talk:Melly42

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Pathfinder (1987 film)
Thank you for tagging this article for deletion. However, have you ever considered merging a page? One of the reasons we would merge a page would be if there are two or more articles on exactly the same subject, such as Pathfinder (1987 film) and The Pathfinder. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:37, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, i am writing for Wikipedia since July but i am still not familiar with the functions of Wikipedia. Melly42 17:57, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Frank De Vol
Hi! Without more information than what you have about this individual, it's a speedy deletion candidate. That's why it was deleted in the first place. All we have at present is an opening statement. What shows did he write for? What was his personal history? Any awards?

Remember: A good stub should have at least three good, solid, informative sentences. - Lucky 6.9 01:57, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
 * but not 1 minute after starting --Melly42 01:58, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Respectfully disagree. These are not organic; they depend on those writing them to make them grow.  I have no way of knowing what your intents are for an article's future.  It looks great now, by the way. - Lucky 6.9 08:35, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Adolf Engler
Thank you very much for reverting vandalism in this article. Berton 23:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Flora and Fauna of Mauritius
Hi Melanie,

Thanks for your kind words! At the moment I am finishing my doctoral thesis, so I do not have that much time... In a few months, I will be back online with some more time to spare, then we can work something out!

Have you been to Mauritius?

Best, Dennis
 * Hello Dennis,

i've never been to Mauritius, but i'm interested in the fauna, flora, landscapes, forests, and geology of Mauritius.

By the way I've found four interesting books about the flora of Mauritius so far:

France Staub "Fauna of Mauritius and associated flora" (this book is unfortunately not available in Europe)

BAKER, John Gilbert: "Flora of mauritius and the Seychelles". 1877. (Reprint 1970, Hist.Nat.Class., 75). XXIV,L,588 p. gr8vo. Cloth. (ISBN 3-7682-0677-7)

Gurib - Fakim, Ameenah: An Illustrated Guide to the Flora of mauritius and the Indian Ocean Islands. 2003. 431 col. photographs. XIV, 206 p. Paper bd. (i've tried to order this book from an international bookstore in Germany. I will knowing more in about four weeks).

1997 IUCN Redlist of Threatened Plants

--Melly42 16:45, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Condor
I started a split, but do need more help.--Mfranck 11:32, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject France
I have announced your article Jean Godin des Odonais at WikiProject France/New article announcements. This helps editors to help and contribute in France related articles. Happy editing, STTW (talk)  22:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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hey
this was really fast. You made me an edit conflict ;-) --BLueFiSH ✉  22:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Knut Vanity Fair image
Hello, I saw that you removed the image from the article, and I've since reinstated it with further fair use rationale added to the image page. I was wondering if you could give it a read and see if it's satisfactory? This is the first time I've had to justify such an image. I believe not only is it a special case (how often do you see a celebrity animal on the cover of a magazine?), but similar images are used in the same way (such as Image:Knightley - Johansson - Vanity Fair Full Cover.jpg). I'd appreciate your input. :) María ( habla  con migo ) 12:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * i've removed this picture because the fairuse rationale in the United States refers only to the main subject (in that case the magazine Vanity Fair). Any other use (also in Wikipedia) is a refringement of fairuse. In the case of the Knightley - Johansson arcticle you should asked an administrator but i think it had to be also removed in that article. --Melly42 12:29, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Your edits made on April 13, 2007 (UTC) to Black River (district)
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Vampires Are Alive
I have reverted your move from Vampires Are Alive to Vampires Are Alive (song). There is no other article entitled 'Vampires Are Alive', so there is no need for the parenthesis. J Milburn 20:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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Pelea
Your request to delete Pelea was wrong. The redirect needed to be turned into a disambiguation page. Gdr 19:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * i don't think that it was wrong. According to ipni there are enough species in the genus pelea which are not included in the genus melicope. --Melly42 19:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

You might legitimately disagree about the taxonomy. (I'm merely following Hartley 1989 here; but even IPNI notes the synonymy here.) But the deletion was quite wrong. Gdr 19:39, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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Seychelles Warbler
Hi. I took out the synonym of the Seychelles Warbler that you added to the text (Bebrornis sechellensis). If you add a synonym to the text (as opposed to the taxobox) it is really helpful to have some sort of explanation for that (for example that it is a controversial bird or its taxonomy is uncertain.). Sabine's Sunbird  talk  22:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I found a ref and did it myself. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  22:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Finn's Baya
A very good catch you made there. Needs more research. Have taken off the doubtful information for now. Shyamal 04:39, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Bolyeria
Hi Melanie! I noticed your edits to Bolyeria and see that you question the geographical range data. I can understand why, since all the other information I've seen describes the range for both genera -- Bolyeria and Casarea -- as being restricted to Round Island. However, I assure you that my source, McDiarmid et al. (1999), is highly reputable. As the synonymy shows, the descriptions for B. multocarinata go back to 1827, so I can only imagine that it was once found on all of the islands mentioned. The book doesn't actually say that Round Island was the species' "last stand", although I believe that was the case. I was simply being true to the book, but if you think it's necessary I can try to rephrase the statement to make it look a little less ambiguous. Regarding your note on Day (1981) being the "main reference for the article", if you believe the entire text in the Description section is true to this publication, then we should cite it as an inline reference. I can easily do this, but perhaps you could then be so good as to provide a few more details about the book: the number of printed pages, the name and location of the publisher and the ISBN number. Cheers! --Jwinius 14:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * First, the whole description section, the common name, the date of extinction, the reason for its disappearance can be find in the Reference by D. Day. An secondly all sources (including the IUCN source) known by myself are given only Round Island for the range of Bolyeria. It might be that Bolyeria have a wider range in prehistoric times, but in historic times it seems that it only occurred on Round Island. --Melly42 15:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * There's no need to get defensive; I was just telling you what I know, what I did, and want this to be resolved reasonably. If you got your information from Day (1981), that's fine. Our different sources don't mean to disagree with each other, although it may sometimes seem that way. It may be the case that neither species has been seen anywhere else except on Round Island for the last 100 years, but the first distribution records are hardly paleontological and deserve to be quoted also. However, we can make sure that everyone understands that the last place it was reported was on Round Island (in 1975). Now, if you'll be so kind as to supply me with that book information... --Jwinius 15:47, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr.
He was my grandfather (in law). I expect an obituary will be printed in the next day or 2. You can remove the date of death until that appears. Thanks for watching out for his page!--harraton
 * i've added the commentary tag until the message will be published in the press --Melly42 (talk) 15:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I am Harraton's cousin-in-law; Mel Traylor was also my grandfather. I think it's pretty safe to add his birthdate - December 15, 1915. That has surely been published somewhere in the past 92 years. -- Gate1998 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gate1998 (talk • contribs) 18:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information. The date of birth will be added into article. It would be good to inform me when the message of his death is published. My condulences. --Melly42 (talk) 18:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. And I goofed - its Dec. 16, not the 15th. Sorry! gate1998 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.54.2.34 (talk) 19:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Melanie, Family and friends gathered this weekend to celebrate my grandfather, Mel Traylor's, life. Those who had not known about this page were thrilled to learn about it. Several of us have been discussing it, and we would like to expand the entry. Much of what we would enter would come from my grandfather's own autobiography. It has not been published, per se, but is a lengthy work based on his recollections and the meticulous journals he kept over the years. Would you be amenable to this? --Jennifer Gate1998 (talk) 02:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * yes, of course. thanks for your help to improve the article --Melly42 (talk) 11:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Great! It will probably be a little while, but I will definitely be adding some info. Gate1998 (talk) 16:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * it's my pleasure. thanks. --Melly42 (talk) 17:03, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Alaotra Grebe
G'day,

There is no such IUCN category as "Critically endangered (possibly extinct)". The IUCN category is called "Critically endangered". Accordingly, it is listed as "Critically endangered" in the official listing. Note the title: "Tachybaptus rufolavatus - Critically Endangered"

Even on the BirdLife factsheet, you might note the big red box with "CR", the code for "Critically Endangered", in it, just left of the title. Also, if you inspect carefully the layout of the factsheet, you'll see that you can read the boldface alone as
 * "2007 IUCN Red List Category: Critically Endangered".

The non-boldface stuff in brackets can be understood to be non-normative annotations on that:
 * "2007 IUCN Red List Category (as evaluated by BirdLife International - the official Red List Authority for birds for IUCN): Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)"

You wouldn't consider the "as evaluated by" stuff to be part of the categorisation system's official name, so I don't see why you would consider the "Possible extinct" bit to be part of the official categorisation, especially considering that particular category doesn't exist.

I have had another go at putting this the way I think it should be.

Hesperian 12:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Atitlán Grebe - lead paragraph
Not knowing that a grebe was inherently a water bird, I edited the Atitlán Grebe article in such a manner that a sentence was rendered redundant and a bit nonsensical: The Atitlán Grebe (Podilymbus gigas), also known as Giant Grebe, Giant Pied-billed Grebe, or Poc, is an extinct relative of the Pied-billed Grebe, a water bird. You rightly reverted this. However, I do feel that the lead paragraph should state, for the general lay reader &mdash; who may not know what a grebe is without having to click through to find out from another article &mdash; that the Atitlán Grebe is a water bird. Perhaps this would be better:
 * The Atitlán Grebe (Podilymbus gigas), also known as Giant Grebe, Giant Pied-billed Grebe, or Poc, is an extinct water bird, a relative of the Pied-billed Grebe.

This makes it clear right off the bat, to all readers, that this extinct animal was a water bird. Just a thought.  Mr. IP  《 Defender of Open Editing 》 17:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I see you made the change already. Thanks!  Mr. IP  《 Defender of Open Editing 》 16:40, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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 * I edited Galapagos damsel so that it uses the image on the Commons. --Eastmain (talk) 23:30, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

My comments at User_talk:Jimbo_Wales about Joseph H. Wales
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 * thank's for the explanation --Melly42 (talk) 05:06, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Edits to Acanthizidae
Just to let you know I removed your mention of the Yellowhead as we currently have that species as a whistler, not a thornbill. Cheers. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  07:16, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Netta / Rhodonessa
Your edit stated that it is called Rhodonessa but I now realize that you are questioning the placement in Netta, I think if you think the majority treatment is for Rhodonessa, you should just go and edit the taxobox and merely state the suggestions of Livezey instead of the confusing statements. Shyamal (talk) 12:17, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Vespucci's Rodent
Hey, what was with the fact tag? Do you dispute its name? Ironholds (talk) 06:17, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * yes. do you have a reliable source which confirm this common name as most used common name in the current literature? --Melly42 (talk) 09:19, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * okay, sorry. I've thought its name is Vespucci's Rat or so. But I've just found this name in MSW 3. I've remove the fact tag. --Melly42 (talk) 09:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Imperial Woodpecker (photos)
Good point about photos, per se of the Imperial Woodpecker. I had qualified the statement about "no photos" because the 1953 film is, in fact, a photographic record. I think it counts as a photo, but the wording does not really matter, as the existence of the film is explained immediately thereafter in the article. Best wishes, Cotinis (talk) 12:14, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Primeval
I'm not in the UK, but spoilers aren't the issue for me. There have been very few details released about the third season, and a lot of people have been adding summaries that are impossible to verify. I removed the information because I didn't know that the episode had already aired in Germany and, while we knew Cutter would be leaving, it hadn't been stated when. Since the episode has aired however, I'll reinstate the information. Thanks for letting me know about the German airing. MelicansMatkin (talk) 21:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Sourcing and vandalism.
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Azores Bullfinch
Hi Melly; thanks for helping tidy up the refs on this article. Cheers. Maias (talk) 12:09, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Conolophus marthae
Nice job! Thanks for doing that!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 13:58, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Oʻahu_ʻŌʻō
Please see Talk:Oʻahu_ʻŌʻō on why I put back the bit on Bloxam which you removed. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Jennifer F. M. Horne
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Thanks!
Thanks so much for the beautiful image of the moon you have added to the Blue moon article.Gandydancer (talk) 19:52, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Move notes
I've moved Lake Geneva whitefish to gravenche, as you suggested. I've also replied to your comment at Talk:Small-eyed Duck. The point I made there is important. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 16:12, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Move?
You tagged an article for CSD because of a move ... there is a specific tag for that which will also include the article to be moved: page to be moved. Could you either re-tag, or let me know where the decision to move has been held. Thanks ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 13:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Pfärrit should be moved to Coregonus confusus --Melly42 (talk) 13:41, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Youtube views in "Satellite" article
Hi Melly. As you are one of the contributors to the article I would be interested in your opinion if the youtube views should be kept or left out. There is a discussion going on here. Janfrie1988 (talk) 17:19, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Help please
Hi there Melly. I have remembered you since the time you added the blue moon picture to that article. I would like to import a picture to Wikipedia and I'd like to put it at the Toddler article, but my computer skills are very limited. Could you either walk me though this project or, if it is somewhat difficult, do it for me? It is not that I'm just too lazy to do it myself, it is just that what can be so simple for one with more experience is next to impossible for a person like me. The picture is at my Flicker acct. here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gandydancer/3173573510/  Thanks! Gandydancer (talk) 20:03, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * if this picture is taken by yourself you can upload it at wikimeda commons --Melly42 (talk) 07:11, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Douglas Pratt


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Daumen hoch!
Hi Melanie, du warst einen Tick schneller als ich mit dem Zurücksetzen des Unfugs bei Lena Meyer-Landrut. Vielen Dank für dein flottes Agieren! Jared Preston (talk) 20:45, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Ich würde die Seite halbsperren lassen. Der Vandalismus wird in den nächsten 4 Monaten garantiert verstärkt auftreten --Melly42 (talk) 21:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Und, eineinhalb Jahre später, gut aufgepasst mit HamiUbsant -- ich hab den restlichen Blödsinn rückgängig gemacht. Grüße, Amalthea  21:20, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Herzlichen Dank. Gut, dass es auch bei der spanischen WP gelöscht wurde --Melly42 (talk) 21:40, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello!
I am an editor of biography articles about musicians. I noticed the work you did on the article for the Lilith Fair. If you are interested, please leave a note on my talk page! We can also really use help on the articles for the Dixie Chicks. Happy to meet you! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 01:40, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Scolopax rosenbergii
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Cut and paste moves
Regardless of its "correct" name, an article must never be moved by copying and pasting. The article's history must be kept with the text for licensing purposes. If you find you cannot move an article properly yourself, you can use WP:RM to request it. In the case of Karocolens tuberculatus, the newest reference given at Wikispecies is the new combination in Karocolens made in 2010. You would need to find a reference from since then explaining why that was invalid to be able to claim that the article should be at "Hadramphus tuberculatus", I think. --Stemonitis (talk) 08:13, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry I have no access to the 2010 reference (so someone has to send me the complete article). In all references which i have given in the Hadramphus article is stated that Karocolens is an invalid name, because according to the ICZN, Hadramphus is the genus name which is having priority. Otherwise in the 2010 reference is stated that Karocolens tuberlatus does not belong to the other species in the Hadramphus genus and might be monotypic --Melly42 (talk) 16:37, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * BTW the type species of Hadramphus is Hadramphus spinipennis (Broun, 1911). Would be interesting to know why this species should be now named Karocolens spinnipennis. (Karocolens was created in 1987) --Melly42 (talk) 17:01, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The critical issue is that the priority of Hadramphus over Karocolens is only important *if the two are considered congeneric*. It is perfectly possible to consider them both to be valid genera, and that appears to be the position taken by Macfarlane et al. (2010) (a PDF is here, although it turns out it gives no detail at all). The type species of Karocolens is Karocolens pittospori, so there's no reason why the two type species can't be in separate genera. What is your source for considering Karocolens to be a synonym of Hadramphus? It would seem that the latest thinking is that they are two genera. --Stemonitis (talk) 17:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * thank you for the reference. That means indeed that Karocolens and Hadramphus were split again in the mean time. I only have Craws reference (1999) where Hadramphus und Karocolens were lumped into the sole genus Hadramphus. In that case we should create a new article for the genus Karocolens. It would be interesting to find out the reason for the new split --Melly42 (talk) 18:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

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Dates for Peter J. Grubb
Why did you make this change ? I think the date of 1936 must be right, because that's what this says, and because he retired in 2001 (65 is the usual retiring age in UK). Do you have a different source? Philip Trueman (talk) 12:23, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, there was once another source, but I can't find it anymore. I will change it back to 1936. --Melly42 (talk) 18:03, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I wish I knew for certain! I've met him, but I don't know him well enough to ask when he was born. It is a little worrying that the only Peter J. Grubb on the FreeBMD site has a DoB of 1935 not 1936, but that's not a reliable enough source for Wikipedia. Philip Trueman (talk) 19:00, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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I noticed that you created the page for Bruce Campbell (ornithologist). I have created a page for another ornithologist, Jannion Steele Elliott, that is being proposed for deletion. Bruce Campbell was an admirer of Steele Elliott (as mentioned in the article) and I wondered if there was anything you could add to the page to avoid its impending deletion? Many thanks, MJT21 (talk) 18:47, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

you undid my edit in Late Quaternary prehistoric birds, because you thought that the species was a synonym added an extant species, but the information I got this bird was the book Extinct Madagascar, which was published in 2014, and the bird Monias sp. is in the book as prehistoric, and does not refer to species that you thought it was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbsdl (talk • contribs) 22:19, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
Hello, I'm mbsdl, you undid my edit in Late Quaternary prehistoric birds, because you thought that the species was a synonym added an extant species, but the information I got this bird was the book Extinct Madagascar, which was published in 2014, and the bird Monias sp. is in the book as prehistoric, and does not refer to species that you thought it was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbsdl (talk • contribs) 22:23, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Last year there was an article by Goodman where he state that fossil Monias bones found in the Ankilitelo Cave refer to the extant species Monias benschi http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03750p548.pdf --Melly42 (talk) 04:42, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, Melly42. I was reading Táchira antpitta, which you created way back on July 1, 2007, and noticed that it says "The Táchira antpitta is a cryptical bird species." I wasn't sure what "cryptical" meant so I clicked on the link which took me to "Cryptozoology". I knew what that meant and returned to the article. But then it seemed like this is in fact a real bird that has in fact been found, collected, and documented. I was confused. I seems to me that instead of "cryptical", just "rare, possibly extinct" is meant unless "cryptical" has some specific meaning in birding beyond which I'm accustomed. Are you using this word correctly? Jason Quinn (talk) 01:13, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * cryptic is also used for enigmatic species, e.g. the okapi or the Komodo dragon. In the case of Tachira antpitta it means that is only known by a few specimens collected in the early 1950s but it is unknown whether it is rare or extinct or whether it is still exist in some areas --Melly42 (talk) 05:39, 27 October 2014 (UTC)


 * The page for Cryptozoology says that it includes "looking for living examples of animals that are considered extinct". It gives searches for "non-avian dinosaurs" as an example. It also says, "Cryptozoology is not a recognized branch of zoology or a discipline of science", and strongly associates it with pseudoscience. There seems to me a huge qualitative difference between people looking for non-avian dinosaurs and people looking for the Táchira antpitta. The former has virtually no chance of success and any searches for them have little scientific value. The latter, however, has a chance of success and even if birds aren't found, it's contributing to scientific thought because it's helping to confirm the bird is actually extinct when there's some reasonable uncertainty. There's merit there. So since searching for holdouts of a recently extinct species is not pseudoscience, I don't think qualifies (or should) as cryptozoology. Jason Quinn (talk) 06:41, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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Hi there, just noticed your edits on Laura Dekker - could you go back and add citations/references? This would help keep the article in line with WP policies. Thanks! MurielMary (talk) 11:33, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Is Amazon.com a suitable reference? --Melly42 (talk) 12:19, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * For a book being published, it would be better to have the publisher's website. Search up the book title and see if you can find a press release/announcement from the publisher about the book and use that as a reference. MurielMary (talk) 12:24, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * HarperCollins has only the new edition (2016) of One Girl One Dream on its website. But I have found another source for the book launch in November 2014 --Melly42 (talk) 12:32, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

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You reinserted two links to predatory open access journals. Please don't do that. They have no functional peer review so do not meet our criteria for reliable sources. Guy (Help!) 16:38, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * If I understand you correct, only peer reviewed studies are allowed as sources for Wikipedia articles? And another point the study is much older than the problem you've state. --Melly42 (talk) 17:13, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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