User talk:9c ext2013

Extinction

From looking at the fossil records, it was able to be seen that there was a correlation between the arrival of the first humans on the Channel Islands (where the pygmy mammoths lived before extinction). Because of this correlation and the fact that there were not many mainland predators working against these animals, the sea levels were rising because of the climate heating up causing them to have limited space to live and their population was already small to begin with because of the intense traveling needed to get to the Santa Rose island to begin with, it can be assumed their extinction was a cause of humans hunting them for food and resources. The climate change, however, could have had something to do with this as well which could have changed a lot of their environmental habits causing them to miss out on previously used resources.

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Hello students, and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. You and your classmates have been doing good work to expand articles about endangered and extinct animals. I am leaving this note to offer some advice about editing more carefully and about editing Wikipedia in general.

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I have noticed that some of your fellow students have been having trouble adding citations to articles. It can be challenging to learn the proper syntax, but it is rewarding to see your additions formatted nicely when you get it right. When you add citations, please try to format them to match citations that are already in well-documented articles on Wikipedia. Specifically:

• Do not use month=, just put the whole day, month, and year in the date= parameter.
• Fill in accessdate= only when you have a url to go with it. accessdate= is not necessary for journal citations.
• accessdate= and other dates need to be in one of these formats. Date formats like 10/12/2013 can be confusing to people reading in countries where they put the day of the month first.
• Use pages= for the page numbers of a journal article, like this: pages=253–264. You should not cite the specific page on which the cited information appears.
• Web addresses need to start with "http://", like this: url=http://www.science.org. This is not right: url=www.science.org.
• I have noticed some typos in the citations that your fellow students have added. I strongly recommend using the copy and paste feature of your computer to avoid typos.

Thanks for all of your hard work! – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:16, 25 October 2013 (UTC)