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Some author citations are incorrect

I noticed several mistakes w.r.t author citations. I can't check all of them right now, but remember that parentheses around an author citation mean that it was originally described in a different genus and also that the author does not change (other than the parentheses) when the genus is transferred.

For instance, in the synonyms:

Antilope buselaphus Pallas, 1766
Antilope bubalis Pallas, 1767

Since Pallas described them in the genus Antilope, there should be no parentheses.

B. buselaphus would have the author citation (Pallas, 1766), maybe (Pallas, 1766) Lichtenstein, 1814 but certainly not just (Lichtenstein, 1814)

For the subspecies

A. b. cokii Günther, 1884 — parentheses are incorrect as Günther described it as Alcelaphus cokii, i.e., within the same genus.
A. b. tora Gray, 1873 also should not have parentheses.

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+== Some author citations are incorrect ==
+I noticed several mistakes w.r.t author citations. I can't check all of them right now, but remember that parentheses around an author citation mean that it was originally described in a different genus and also that the author does not change (other than the parentheses) when the genus is transferred.
-{{Talk:Hartebeest/GA1}}
-==Standing to 1m?==
-"Hartebeest stand to a bit over 1 m (3.3 ft)."
-What does this mean? That an adult male stands about 1m at the shoulder, perhaps? And why standing to? [[User:Chiswick Chap|Chiswick Chap]] ([[User talk:Chiswick Chap|talk]]) 07:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
-:While it had already been specified to mean "at the shoulder" in one instance, I specified it for the other as well. The "stand to" is just a stylistic choice. A similar stylistic choice is used in the featured article [[Cougar]]. <font face="webdings"><font color="#007FFF">ö</font></font><font face="segoe script">[[User:Brambleberry of RiverClan|<font color="dodgerblue">Brambleberry</font>]] [[User talk:Brambleberry of RiverClan|<font color="#9C9C9C">of</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Brambleberry of RiverClan|<font color="dodgerblue">RiverClan</font>]]</font> 21:30, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
-:: Thanks for reply. [[User:Chiswick Chap|Chiswick Chap]] ([[User talk:Chiswick Chap|talk]]) 21:37, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
-== Orphaned references in [[:Hartebeest]] ==
-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 [[User:AnomieBOT/docs/OrphanReferenceFixer|orphaned references]] in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of [[:Hartebeest]]'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.
-<b>Reference named "ITIS":</b><ul>
-<li>From [[Mongalla gazelle]]: {{ITIS|ID=898627|taxon=''Eudorcas rufifrons albonotata''}}</li>
-<li>From [[Llama]]: {{cite web|title=Lama|url=http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=624943#|publisher=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|accessdate=5 January 2013}}</li>
-</ul>
-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. [[User:AnomieBOT|AnomieBOT]][[User talk:AnomieBOT|<font color="#888800">⚡</font>]] 11:49, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
+For instance, in the synonyms:
-== Fixed a Mistake ==
+* ''Antilope buselaphus'' {{small|Pallas, 1766}}
+* ''Antilope bubalis'' {{small|Pallas, 1767}}
+Since Pallas described them in the genus ''Antilope'', there should be no parentheses.
+* ''B. buselaphus'' would have the author citation {{small|(Pallas, 1766)}}, maybe {{small|(Pallas, 1766) Lichtenstein, 1814}} but certainly not just {{small|(Lichtenstein, 1814)}}
-I just fixed a mistake of the caption under the first image. It said it was in the Serengeti in Kenya, but the Serengeti is in Tanzania, and the description of the file also says Tanzania. [[User:Jubblubs|Jubblubs]] ([[User talk:Jubblubs|talk]]) 20:14, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
-:Thank you! Will check for any more errors. [[User:Sainsf|<span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size: 12pt; color:blue">'''S'''ains'''f'''</span>]] <font color="violet">&lt;^&gt;</font><sub>[[User talk:Sainsf|<font color="purple">Talk all words</font>]]</sub> 08:15, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
+For the subspecies
-== de: link ==
+* ''A. b. cokii'' {{small|Günther, 1884}} — parentheses are incorrect as Günther described it as ''Alcelaphus cokii'', i.e., within the same genus.
+* ''A. b. tora'' {{small|Gray, 1873}} also should not have parentheses.
+[[User:Umimmak|Umimmak]] ([[User talk:Umimmak|talk]]) 02:07, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
-Currently the link for the German language version goes to the article for the extinct variant of [[de:Nordafrikanische Kuhantilope]]. A better article would certainly be [[de:Eigentliche Kuhantilopen]].<br>
-I tried to fix it, but I've only been editing on Wikipedia regularly for 10 years or so, and I only have a degree in engineering, so I'm obviously much too stupid to figure out how to deal with this new way of managing the language links.<br>
-Maybe someone in the know of the higher arcane workings can fix this?<br>
---[[User:BjKa|BjKa]] ([[User talk:BjKa|talk]]) 09:51, 15 December 2016 (UTC)