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The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 22 June 2020 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of mephitids (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): PresN 03:35, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Number 6 in my animals-in-a-family series (previously: felids, canids, mustelids, procyonids, and the pending ursids), we keep marching down the "dog-like" half of Carnivora with the mephitids, which are mostly skunks but also includes the stink badgers, which are basically skunks with short hair and tails. It's another small family, at 12 extant species, but one that mostly makes sense, as it was split out from Mustelidae (badgers et. al.) fairly recently based on genetic evidence, which means it doesn't have as much odd historical baggage around the organization of the species. Unlike the last list (Ursids) for this family we have no population estimates at all, which is frustrating; we're also missing one image, as I managed to convince someone on flickr to re-license a photo of a Southern spotted skunk but couldn't do the same for the Pygmy spotted skunk. As always, the list format is based on the prior lists and reflects FLC comments. Thanks for reviewing! --PresN 03:35, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - I tried really hard to find something to pick you up on but failed :-) Great work once again! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:25, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support A solid article, very clean-looking. ~ HAL333 16:23, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Might be interesting to mention smell in lede e.g. do they really all defend themselves by making a bad smell. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:34, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support on Source review and other aspects. I feel like I know more about skunks - present and extinct and prehistoric - than I thought possible. Fully-detailed sourcing. Shearonink (talk) 20:22, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to do a source review and will report back here within the next day or two. Shearonink (talk) 02:01, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Ref 1: behind a paywall/subscription required notice needed
• Ref 5: the figures on length seem to be off?...

Got up to Ref 11, am taking a break will try to finish the rest up tomorrow. Shearonink (talk) 02:26, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Up to Ref 20, About the only thing that I am personally having trouble with are the cites that express measurements as millimeters and then the article converts those lengths into centimeters but that's nothing that's actionable. I'm just wondering why the source chose mm and then the WP editor chose cm... Shearonink (talk) 11:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Various contributors to Animal Diversity Web may choose millimeters, but a lot of sources don't go beyond centimeters, presumably because millimeters is overly precise without a lot of samples, so for this series of articles I'm going with centimeters as a consistent precision. --PresN 13:34, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, didn't address your other points- added the payway icon to ref 1, and the lengths are right for ref 5- it's worded oddly, it's "50 to 60 cm in length counting the tail which is 15 to 18 centimeters in length", aka the tail is included in the length there. --PresN 02:19, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the reply. Shearonink (talk) 20:22, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Passes source review. Shearonink (talk) 20:22, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 18:20, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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