Talk:Slow loris

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Article milestones Date Process Result March 30, 2011 Good article nominee Listed May 27, 2011 Featured article candidate Promoted
	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 30, 2011. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as exotic pets have their front teeth cut out (pictured) due to fear of their toxic bite?
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For the proposed good topic, we have two more things to do. One is getting Pygmy slow loris to GA, which we're now working on in Sasata's sandbox. The other is fulfilling criterion 1c, which (almost) mandates that the articles be placed together in a navigation template. I think we should either extend Template:Lorisidae nav to cover fossil species and Conservation of slow lorises or make a dedicated slow loris navbox.

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Slow loris

8 articles

Conservation of slow lorises

Sunda slow loris

Bengal slow loris

Pygmy slow loris

Javan slow loris

Bornean slow loris

? Nycticebus linglom

Above is the featured topic box, which I fetched from the archive with the page names corrected. Currently, we're almost there for a good topic, but to make this into a featured topic, we'll need to get at least two more articles to FA. All the living species should be fairly close to FA standards, so we might want to pick two (or more) to get to FA. Ucucha 09:51, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• I'll take pygmy through FAC when we're done working on it. As for the others, I agree they all look pretty good. Hopefully the shorter length of the species articles will make the FAC somewhat shorter than for the genus article :) How about Bengal for the other candidate (type species)? Sasata (talk) 15:11, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• All this sounds good. I was planning to run each of the species through FAC after my current nomination passes. Feel free to make tweaks to them in the meantime. Personally, I've got a lot on my plate at the moment. – VisionHolder « talk » 19:24, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• By the way, how do the collaborators feel about the Javan slow loris article? I'm thinking about submitting that as my next FAC. I'll double-check before I submit it, but I'm pretty sure I exhaustively covered my available sources when I worked on writing it. – VisionHolder « talk » 18:07, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Fine by me; I'll read through it again tonight and recheck the lit databases as well. Someone's probably gonna mention the small distribution section. Should we dump the cladogram per the Slow loris fac, or perhaps combine the coucang(s) + bengalensis branches? Sasata (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• As I've said before—dump it, and wait until we get a more definitive phylogeny.
• In the Javan article, the claim that Lesson called that species "Bradylemur tardigradus" should probably go. He seems to be calling all slow lorises (and perhaps some slender lorises, since he said the species is on Ceylon) Bradylemur tardigradus, and the Javan form is included as one of four varieties (var. D). Ucucha 20:41, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• I believe the explanation of the synonyms was added per a GAN request. If we remove the mention of Lesson, then I can see FAC reviewers asking why we only discuss 2 of the 3 synonyms. Should we just explain it better (with an additional ref, I suppose), or delete all three? – VisionHolder « talk » 00:29, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Why is it in the synonym list in the first place? MSW 3 doesn't list tardigradus as a synonym of javanicus, and I don't see why it should be one. Ucucha 00:33, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sasata, where is your sandbox for the article Pygmy slow loris? I lost the link. From what I remember seeing of it, the biggest issue was the references. Do you think we could clean those up and publish it, even if it still needs some work for GAN? Something is better than nothing for this poor species. – VisionHolder « talk » 15:40, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here, Conservation/Trade/captivity sections need lots of work (still too close to the source in some places), any help appreciated! Sasata (talk) 15:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a way to know which parts are too similar to the sources? Otherwise, I'll start a talk page for the sandbox and ask my questions there. – VisionHolder « talk » 16:14, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article about venom links here and the article is in the venomous mammal category yet the article itself makes no mention of the slow loris being venomous or any detail related to that. Dr. Lobotomy (talk) 00:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that the literature doesn't explicitly say that they have venom... just a toxin that they keep in their mouth. Between following the sources and having a good definition of the word "venomous", it made it quite difficult to write. I'm open to discussion of the topic, though. – VisionHolder « talk » 08:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]