User talk:PaentWithFire

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Laura Chinchilla, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 06:35, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

IUCN status changes
Hi there. I noticed you've made some changes to the conservation statuses of certain species (e.g., ). The consensus on Wikipedia is to include the official IUCN status in the taxbox. In some cases, new information may come to light that suggests a species might be better placed in a different IUCN category. However, unless the official IUCN assessment changes (can be checked through http://www.iucnredlist.org/), the taxobox status should remain as it is. This edit, for example, is misleading, since it implies that Barbourula kalimantanensis is listed as CR on version 3.1 of the IUCN Red List, when it is in fact treated as EN.

There are some exceptions to the above: if the official assessment completely contradicts more recent findings, such as when a species is found to be extant when it was previously listed as extinct, the misleading status should probably be removed altogether (see Hula painted frog, for example). A detailed discussion of a species's conservation status can always be included in the main body of the article, as long as everything can be referenced to reliable sources. mgiganteus1 (talk) 02:05, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Help Survey
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