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:::I will soon, and would also like to recommend that the heading be changed to "Zoological Similarities" or something along those lines rather than "Similar Species", if only for sounding more formal. That said, it seems that there are physical similarities as well, so the more appropriate phrase may be "closest in genetic makeup and physical qualities", but I'd like Igor nz's opinion to avoid any edit clashes. [[User:TheGySom|TheGySom]] 08:03, 28 March 2008 (EDT)
:::I will soon, and would also like to recommend that the heading be changed to "Zoological Similarities" or something along those lines rather than "Similar Species", if only for sounding more formal. That said, it seems that there are physical similarities as well, so the more appropriate phrase may be "closest in genetic makeup and physical qualities", but I'd like Igor nz's opinion to avoid any edit clashes. [[User:TheGySom|TheGySom]] 08:03, 28 March 2008 (EDT)
:::: The thought did cross my mind that the heading could be changed to "genetically similar species", but your suggestion sounds good too. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 08:12, 28 March 2008 (EDT)
:::: The thought did cross my mind that the heading could be changed to "genetically similar species", but your suggestion sounds good too. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 08:12, 28 March 2008 (EDT)
==Citation Needed==
''The largest elephant ever recorded (the Fenykovi elephant, now in the Smithsonian Institution) was shot in Angola in 1954. It was male and weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb), with a shoulder height of 4.2m, a meter taller than the average male African elephant.'' This sentence seems to have been plagiarized. In most of the cases of plagiarism I've found (and I'm beginning to suspect there are a horrifying number of plagiarized articles here), I've re-written the article to include the source, to provide proper attribution, and to minimize the amount of material lifted from any one source. In this particular case however, I Googled the sentence from the article and found an abundance of sites which included the sentence word-for-word. The first several sites I reviewed were not credible sources and thus were not appropriate to cite. I did not have time to review all of the potential sources and determine whether there was a credible one or not. I hope that whoever put this sentence in the article in the first place did indeed get it from a credible site - hopefully they have this article on their watchlist and will provide the source. If not, someone else will have to either find a source or remove the sentence. --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 10:53, 7 October 2008 (EDT)