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Just a heads up to inform that passenger pigeon, a rather high importance article within this project, and Wikipedia in general (vital, CD selection), is now at FAC[1], and any comments are welcome. FunkMonk (talk) 3:26 am, 1 February 2016, Monday (23 days ago) (UTC+1)

Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.

About 70 subcategories, the oldest from 2015, are also being proposed for deletion. There is debate about whether it is possible to list some threats to a threatened species without oversimplification and omissions amounting to misinformation. Comments from anyone with expertise in conservation biology would be particularly welcome. HLHJ (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

There is an ongoing discussion at Talk: Bachman's warbler on whether to follow the IUCN or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bachman's warbler is currently assessed as critically endangered, possibly extinct by the IUCN while the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted it from their list of protected species due to likely extinction in 2023. This situation VERY closely mirrors that of the ivory-billed woodpecker and imperial woodpecker, so I wanted to get more opinions here to prevent potential edit wars. Edelgardvonhresvelg (talk) 01:29, 19 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

There's no policy to follow IUCN that I'm aware of. De facto, Wikipedia follows IUCN because back in 2007 a bot made articles for every IUCN listed species that didn't already have one at that time. If there's consensus that a species is extinct, and IUCN is being too conservative in updating it's assessment status to extinct, mention of the IUCN status can be removed or down-played. What should not happen is having an IUCN status set to extinct when the IUCN does not make that claim (that has happened multiple times in the ivory-billed woodpecker article). If the IUCN status is wrong, remove it, don't change it to something the IUCN doesn't say. Plantdrew (talk) 19:40, 19 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your input. So, the Bachman's warbler should be treated as extinct on its article due to the USFWS' decision to delist it despite the IUCN still listing it as critically endangered? This is similar to the imperial woodpecker, as the Mexican government declared it extinct in 2001, but IUCN still considers it critically endangered.

As for the ivory-billed woodpecker's case, I put an invisible comment at the top of the article stating to NOT change the present tense to past tense until either the USFWS or IUCN declare it extinct in order to prevent edit wars and changing its IUCN status to EX on the page. Edelgardvonhresvelg (talk) 01:56, 21 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

I think that would be reasonable for the Bachman's warbler and imperial woodpecker, but I don't care strongly enough about it to argue on the respective species pages. Plantdrew (talk) 03:13, 21 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

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