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"became extinct during the Holocene epoch"

Hello Columbianmammoth. I saw your edit to List of birds of New Zealand and thought that was an interesting idea. I have most of the "List of birds of ...", "List of mammals of ...", etc. lists on my watchlist, and there is sometimes discussion on those pages of what species should be included. Usually the consensus has been species which became extinct after 1500 (that's what the IUCN uses), but that's not very satisfactory. Being part of the Holocene extinction might be better across the board. Do you have any thoughts? I may bring this up on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biology at some point. I've been playing with ideas for a post there at User:SchreiberBike/sandbox#Inclusion criteria for List of organisms of Place and would welcome your input. Thank you. SchreiberBike | ⌨  16:37, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

I updated the problematic statement to, "a species that became extinct after human arrival in New Zealand." I hope this addresses your concerns.

I agree, saying "Holocene" is too broad. For example, there is nothing on this list that disappeared c. 8000 BCE. The previous statement (before my edit) didn't specify I time window.

Likewise, I agree that 1500 CE is unsatisfactory. This arbitrary date works for most of the world, but it breaks down in island environments that were significantly impacted by human settlers in the past 500 to 2000 years. It would seem arbitrary to exclude moa from the List of birds of New Zealand just because they vanished 50 to 100 years before the 1500 CE cutoff date. (Personally, I wish that the IUCN Red List would rectify this error. Some fascinating species from New Zealand, Hawaii, and Madagascar deserve more attention.) Columbianmammoth (talk) 01:22, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

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 Fixed while I was there. SchreiberBike | ⌨  14:49, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Columbianmammoth (talk) 17:28, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, I've actually been merging multiple pages recently. I've been working on Lists of extinct species by region, and I feel like some regions are not biogeographically distinct enough to warrant separate articles. For example, I recently merged Catalonia, the Isle of Man, and the British Isles into List of European animals extinct in the Holocene.

Please let me know what rules apply in the case of page merges. Columbianmammoth (talk) 17:07, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

The guidelines for page merges are essentially similar. Please attribute any merges to the original pages through an edit summary, and then through {{merged}}. This ensures that the existing page histories are preserved. Best, CMD (talk) 01:31, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Hopefully you are satisfied by my recent comments on Talk:List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene#Page Merges and Talk:List of European species extinct in the Holocene#Page Merges, including using {{merged}}. Going forward after your initial comment, I also tried to any merges to the original pages through an edit summary. Columbianmammoth (talk) 23:34, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for being so thorough! I've just shifted the templates to the headers, so they don't disappear into archives. Best, CMD (talk) 03:28, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing that Columbianmammoth (talk) 23:00, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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