Talk:Muzquizopteryx

This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Amphibians and Reptiles Low‑importance

	Muzquizopteryx is part of WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, an effort to make Wikipedia a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use resource for amphibians and reptiles. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.Amphibians and ReptilesWikipedia:WikiProject Amphibians and ReptilesTemplate:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptilesamphibian and reptile articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Palaeontology: Pterosaurs Low‑importance

	Paleontology portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Palaeontology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of palaeontology-related topics and create a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use resource on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PalaeontologyWikipedia:WikiProject PalaeontologyTemplate:WikiProject PalaeontologyPalaeontology articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Pterosaurs task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Research "paid by Volkswagen" from "Heidelberg and Karlsruhe"[edit]

While this was somewhat inaccurate (it's the Volkswagen Foundation [Volkswagen Stiftung], not the Volkswagen motor company, that is a medium-large research grant giving body within Germany), the specific funding agencies are not reported when citing scientific research within Wikipedia — unless relevant to the specific story. The bulk of research would have 2–5 funders to cite in the running text, as each co-author's then-current grants have to be acknowledged!

If you look up the actual research publication [Oryctos, 6: 19–40 by Frey Et al., "Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis n.g., n. sp., a nyctosaurid pterosaur with soft tissue preservation from the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) of northeast Mexico (Coahuila)"; I retrieved a PDF from ResearchGate] you see in the financial acknowledgements that it was VW Stiftung plus the Deutsche Forschersgemeindschaft [German national science foundation] that gave grants (on top of the running overheads of salaries to the University and the nat.hist. museum of Karlsruhe, and two Mexican museum researchers); I've not checked whether ignoring the other was somewhat justified by the VW being much much larger or so.

But now I see the "Heidelberg" reference is wrong as well, no researchers from there; neither at the time of the 2004 public presentation nor of the 2006 publication. The scientific acknowledgements mention people in Berlin, Montana, Darmstadt, Chicago and Portsmouth, as well as a non-coauthor in Karlsruhe, with further acknowledgements to the mining company that donated, and the local palaeontology amateurs assoc.

I'm not sure the 2004 presentation is more relevant/citeable than the 2006 publication, but at face value it's at least open access as long as the organizers keep the programme PDF online. Ahem.86.18.215.73 (talk) 09:51, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Muzquizopteryx[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Muzquizopteryx's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Longrich2018":

From Azhdarchidae: Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663.
From Tethydraco: Longrich, Nicholas R.; Martill, David M.; Andres, Brian; Penny, David (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663. PMC 5849296. PMID 29534059.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
From Alcione elainus: Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663.
From Simurghia: Nicholas R. Longrich; David M. Martill; Brian Andres (2018). "Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary". PLOS Biology. 16 (3): e2001663. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663. PMC 5849296 Freely accessible. PMID 29534059

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:31, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done. JurassicClassic767 (talk | contribs) 13:19, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]