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laurent raty
It's Belgian, actually. The former Musée du Congo Belge, now Musée Royal d'Afrique Centrale / Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, is located at Tervuren, Flemish-Brabant, Belgium -- http://www.africamuseum.be/Probably very hard to access copies of Congolese journals in 1950s / 1960s UK / N America . . . no internet, not even photocopiers.
But anyway, the paper that was puzzlingly "largely ignored" was the later one: Wolters HE. 1970. On the generic classification of the weaver birds of the Malimbus-Ploceus group. Nat. Hist. Bull. (Siam Soc.) 23:369-391. (Pdf link in my earlier post above.)
I also still think this is most likely the paper that Craig 2010 (HBW15) meant to refer to. ("H.E. Wolters is the only recent author who has suggested a major subdivision into different genera." Wolters 1970 only referred to Wolters 1954 as having proposed a merging of Ploceus and Malimbus [something he had actually already suggested two years earlier]; the opposite, thus.)
Re. "Craig & Barker": the exact wording in HBW15 is : "A cladistic analysis of this genus and other members of the weaver family by A.J.F.K. Craig and N. Barker, using 60 morphological and behavioural characters, supports the view that the genus Ploceus as currently constituted is not monophyletic, but the provisional results of this analysis are not robust, and must await data before new generic divisions can be suggested with confidence."
Given that Adrian J.F.K. Craig is the author of this family account, that "supports" is a present rather than past tense, and that the results are said to be provisional, I suspect that this was merely a report about his own unpublished work-in-progress.