Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cryptozoology/Archive 5

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Okip  01:09, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Updated Project Page
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Article Creation and Improvement Drive
Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive is voting on the next good article. We would appreciate your vote for Cryptozoology as the next candidate.-- Gniniv (talk) 09:20, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Image copyright problem
Hi. Just wanted to give you guys a courtesy heads up. I'm concerned about the copyright status of the image your project is using; after receiving an invitation to join (not entirely sure why, although it's always nice to feel welcome :)), I visited it at Commons and see that it is a zoo display in the U.S. that has been licensed by the photographer. I'm afraid this is likely to be an unusable derivative work, since the museum that set up the artistic display owns copyright in its composition. I've tagged it for a Commons admin to evaluate. Sorry if it is, as I suspect, unretainable. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:14, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh, well, the good news is that you've only been using that image since July 16th, so maybe its loss won't be that catastrophic. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:16, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Appreciate your efforts and thank you for improving the legality of our content!-- Gniniv (talk) 02:43, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Xenobot Mk V to tag articles in project scope and/or auto-assess unassessed articles
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WP Cryptozoology in the Signpost
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Cryptozoology for a Signpost article to be published this month. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 16:35, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Cryptids articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Cryptids articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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Cryptids articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Cryptids articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Sunday, November 14th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

If you have already provided feedback, we deeply appreciate it. For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 16:31, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

The Mysterious Monsters
Does anyone want to help get this article going?--DrWho42 (talk) 04:31, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Citation templates now support more identifiers
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as citation, cite journal, cite web...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place id (or worse http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use 0123.4567, likewise for id and http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 &rarr; 0123456789.

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Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Request for input in discussion forum
Given the closely linked subjects of the various religion, mythology, and philosophy groups, it seems to me that we might benefit from having some sort of regular topical discussion forum to discuss the relevant content. I have put together the beginnings of an outline for such discussion at WikiProject Religion/2011 meeting, and would very much appreciate the input of any interested editors. I am thinking that it might run over two months, the first of which would be to bring forward and discuss the current state of the content, and the second for perhaps some more focused discussion on what, if any, specific efforts might be taken in the near future. Any and all input is more than welcome. John Carter (talk)

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Proposed MOS for Religion
There is now a proposed general Manual of Style for Religion and other articles relating to ethoses or belief systems at WikiProject Religion/Manual of style. Any input would be welcome. I personally believe at least one of the reasons why many articles in this field have been as contentious as they have been is because of lack of such guidelines, and would very much welcome any input from others to help come up with some generally acceptable solutions to some of these problems. John Carter (talk) 22:12, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Pseudoscience?
If this project isn't dead already, there is an important discussion going on over here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cryptozoology#Darren_Naish_articles FunkMonk (talk) 16:14, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello?
Project still active?Kevinjonpalma11 (talk) 14:01, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

New WikiProject Cryptozoology Ad
Hello Everyone, I am new to the project so I want to introduce myself. I saw on the to do list we needed a project advertisement so I made one. I hope you like it. I can make something different if this one is not acceptable. --Lilithmoon1 (talk) 10:12, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Wolpertinger
There seemed to be a bit of trouble in the past relating to the wolpertinger, which was originally believed to be a cryptid and then proved to be fake. Another user made two edits removing what they believed was influenced by cryptozoology. While one was, the other left me a bit puzzled as the whole infobox, including the picture, was removed. While these incidents have since stopped and there were only a couple I was wondering what your opinion on the situation was at the WikiProject. ö  Brambleberry   of   RiverClan  21:56, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Overdone Sasquatch material on Klemtu
Please see Klemtu,_British_Columbia in relation to tidying it up, I find it overdone and wonder about COPYVIO......material like this could be added to dozens, if not hundreds, of places in BC......to me this comes across like a plug for John Green's book, also. I imagine your WikiProject may have guidelines about this kind of material. Also to note saying what native people say, without having cites from native sources is contrary to guidelines from NorthAmNative. Did they really say "apes"??Skookum1 (talk) 03:50, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Dragons
Would someone please help me out at WikiProject Dragons I would like help geting the project page set up so that ye can launch the project. thanks. -- Lee Tru.  10:33, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Why is a seperate project even needed? I doubt it will attract more editors, since even this one seeems to be dead. FunkMonk (talk) 10:34, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a subproject of WikiProject Mythology would be more appropriate, try posting there. Simon Burchell (talk) 12:04, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Merge
as most of the projects are all but dead, and as the few people left are in all three, shouldn't we merge this and WP:PSI with WP:PARA? we could make then the Cryptzoology and Parapsychology task forces respectively. -- Lee Tru.  13:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I suppose it's as good an idea as any - the problem is that cryptozoology covers such a broad range of subjects, from the downright mythological, through phantom black dogs etc to physical animals that would be covered by mainstream zoology if proven. Since most will not have been proven (and will probably never be proven), there's no real problem with throwing them all under the paranormal umbrella. Simon Burchell (talk) 14:38, 1 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Support. FunkMonk (talk) 14:50, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak support. I recognize that there is a bit of a difference between scientific cryptozoology, and some of the less-scientific Bigfoot-type cryptozoology, which might not be necessarily paranormal, but if it brings in more editors, that's fine with me. I guess the question would be would the projects remain separate work groups or task forces within one overall project, like done by WP:MILHIST and others, and, if so, which would be the main project of the merged groups? I could probably adjust the banner of the parent project if I had an idea which banner would be used. John Carter (talk) 22:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks or the support. I guess this project is not so dead after all. -- Lee Tru.  10:28, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I have proposed to merge this wikiproject and 12 others to a new wikiproject. Please see the proposal. IRWolfie- (talk) 19:42, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Archived a few threads
I've archived some inactive threads to subsections which were notifications about discussions that have since been closed. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Requested move
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Draugr, recently moved to Draug, should be moved back. The discussion may be found at Talk:Draug. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:18, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Cadborosaurus willsi listed at Requested moves
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Category:Scottish lochs with reported cryptids has been nominated for discussion
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Dragon King listed at Requested moves
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Right now happens a discussion for renaming Category:Legendary creatures into Category:Mythical beings
[here]. CN1 (talk) 13:24, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Don't tag every other famous prehistoric animal as part of this project
Some editors are tagging prehistoric animals left and right, but this is ridiculous, since somewhere, at some point, someone has probably claimed to see living representatives of pretty much every extinct animal ever. That doesn't make good reason for tagging them as part of this project, rather, there should be major cryptozoological literature dealing with the relevant animals for them t be tagged. FunkMonk (talk) 18:44, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * On a similar note, animals that were discovered before cryptozoology was even a field, such as komodo dragon and okapi, do not belong in this project. FunkMonk (talk) 12:26, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Previously Listed Cryptids to Be Added
Hello. I've noticed that there is a large portion of articles that should be classified into this WikiProject. Specifically, there are articles on animals that were previously listed as cryptids or extinct that were discovered. Article on extinct animals that are purported to be alive should also be included as well. These should fit under this project because of this but have not been. Here is a list of animals that were previously listed as cryptids and extinct animals purported to be alive that need to be listed under this project if they aren't already. This also includes extinct animals theorized to be responsible for sightings of cryptids as well (sources were found in Cryptozoology A to Z)--Paleface Jack (talk) 16:52, 11 September 2017 (UTC):
 * Giant Forest Hog- Previously listed cryptid.
 * Giant Panda- Previously listed cryptid.
 * King Cheetah- Previously listed cryptid (found under Cheetah article).
 * Megalogon- A purported sighting in 1918.
 * Megatherium aka Giant Sloth- Purported sightings.
 * Mountain Nyala- Previously listed cryptid.
 * American Lion- Purported sightings and scientific claims of survival.
 * Smilodon aka Sabre-Toothed Cat- Purported sightings.

We can only get these classified under the Cryptozoology Project if we can add enough information that would classify it as such without compromising the article's status. That is if it isn't in the article already.--Paleface Jack (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sheesh, no, animals that were discovered before cryptozoology was even invented were not "previously listed as cryptids". This is complete nonsense. One or two purported modern sightings does not make an animal that actually existed a "cryptid" either. FunkMonk (talk) 12:27, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Dragonslayers listed at Requested moves
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RfC on changing "Living dinosaur" from a standard article to a disambiguation list page
See: Talk:Living dinosaur if you wish to comment. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:53, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Bala Lake listed at Requested moves
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A cryptid AfD
I'm not sure if the participants in this project have a good rubric for determining if a cryptid stub should be kept or not, like maybe a subject-specific notability guideline I have not tracked down yet, but anyway, this one is on-topic for this project: Articles for deletion/Double-nosed Andean tiger hound. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:20, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

New RfC to merge List of cryptids
Not sure if this group is active or not but I am letting you know of another rfc to merge List of cryptids. Which ever way the wind blows you are welcome to join in. Fyunck(click) (talk) 07:58, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

RSN discussion notice
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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WikiProjects should not promote pseudosciences, but cover
Currently, this project reflects its historical purpose, which was until recently to promote the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology. Now that Wikipedia's coverage of the pseudoscience reflects that of mainstream sources (cryptozoology), it's time to take a look at exactly why this project exists. I'll be going through the project to ensure that it is not promoting pseudoscience, but rather providing coverage of the topic of cryptozoology. &#58;bloodofox: (talk) 22:52, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

New cryptid articles need attention
There's a couple of new articles up for deletion that were in Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_July_30, I've moved them to for the time being. My gut feel is that they will probably end up being deleted but someone from this project might want to take a look? Le Deluge (talk) 10:51, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

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Nominated for Deletion Beast of Bevendean
Hi, you may want to participate in the nominated for deletion discussion for the article Beast of Bevendean. Thank you Duck Dawny (talk) 12:44, 25 August 2022 (UTC)