Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dwarf panda

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The result was delete. Sandstein 07:16, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dwarf panda

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I was looking at the wikipedia entry Dwarf panda, which claims to be about the species Ailuropoda minor Pei, 1962. However, the only source in the article as of now is a press release [1] for Jin et al 2007 [2], and neither Jin et al. 2007 nor the press release mention "Ailuropoda minor"; both only mention Ailuropoda microta, which has its own wikipedia article. The taxonbox in Dwarf panda claims the binomial authority for Ailuropoda minor is Pei, 1962, but I can only find a Pei, 1962 that's the binomial authority for Ailuropoda microta. This paper, [3][4] "Quaternary Mammals From the Liucheng Gigantopithecus Cave and Other Caves of Kwangsi" only names A. microta.

In the talk page for the genus Talk:Ailuropoda, Apokryltaros (under the name "Mr. Fink") writes that he could not find any mention of A. minor, and neither can I.

To me, it seems like Dwarf panda / Ailuropoda minor and Ailuropoda microta should not be separate articles, despite the hat note on each of those pages warning the reader to not mistake one for the other. Umimmak (talk) 01:52, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

At first, I wondered if Ailuropoda minor was a synonym of Ailuropoda microta, but, after much google-sifting, I've come to the conclusion that the Dwarf panda article was born of a misidentification of a list of Chinese Pleistocene mammals, i.e., "Ailuropoda microta, Arctonyx minor, et al. So, yeah, please delete away.--Mr Fink (talk) 02:15, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:59, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Animal-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:07, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I can't find any mention of A. minor, neither online nor in the Berkeley palaeo files (which are pretty darn extensive). The above interpretation of mistaken identity seems reasonable. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:57, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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