Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Primates

Branisella

This extinct genus is included in Category:New World monkeys as "†Branisella", which means that it gets indexed in the category under "†". This seems odd to me, and I was going to change it, but it occurred to me that this might be intentional, so I thought this would be a good place to ask. I observe that Noropithecus is not indexed that way in Category:Old World monkeys

Talk:Ham (chimpanzee)#"Ham the Space Monkey", 1961 song, removed from 'In popular culture'

Self-explanatory, needs a reference for a very early example of space exploration music and an honoring of a primate space pioneer (although I wouldn't recommend that the song be played on a loop, or even once). Randy Kryn (talk) 10:20, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Infinite monkey theorem

In this edit, someone marked infinite monkey theorem as an article of interest to the Primates wikiproject. I think this is almost certainly an error, because the topic has almost nothing to do with primates. But my view is that WikiProjects are entitled to decide what is of interest to them, so it should probably be someone from this WikiProject to undo the edit. --Trovatore (talk) 20:13, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Requesting third opinion on discussion of short descriptions for notable individual animals

I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts here on short descriptions for notable individual animals, particularly whether the redundancy of including their species in the short description is acceptable, and secondarily if it is more appropriate to refer to a primate that is not a pet as a "pet".

I've started a discussion at the following talk page: Talk:Bubbles (chimpanzee)#short description due to my edit being disputed; the edit was changing the short description of Bubbles (chimpanzee) from "Pet once owned by Michael Jackson" to "Chimpanzee once owned by Michael Jackson" as this is more accurate as well as consistent with the guidance and other comparable articles. MossOnALog^Talk 20:10, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Relict hominid for deletion

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—Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 16:42, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of François de Loys for redirecting to De Loys's ape

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—Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 20:06, 3 May 2026 (UTC)