This is an archive for my user talk page. It contains all discussion from my sixth year as an editor. For current messages, see User talk:Aranae.
Hello! I've just been trying to sort out the mess that the classification of hamsters has got into, and, as I noted in my typical peeved article-talk-page style at WP:RODENT, I need some help. First, which classification should I use, and whose common names? Names like Dzhungarian are applied to so many species that I fear we shall be obliged to use Latin names, and give disambig. pages for every common name. As for Cricetulus, which you asked about earlier, I was following the practice at WP:BIRD. You do what you want with the pages in question. If you don't like "see text", I don't mind not adding that to articles. innotata ( Talk | Contribs) 16:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
And let me take this opportunity to thank you for all your contributions to mammal articles on Wikipedia--all the cleaning up of vandalism, watching for sanity in many discussions, and so much more. It's much appreciated. :-) Ucucha 14:26, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Concerning your revert of my move; I could not simply move Giant Beaver because there is already content at Castoroides ohioensis. So now I have placed the db-move template on Castoroides ohioensis (as per Requests for moving#Uncontroversial_requests), and it now appears in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Once that's cleared, it should be movable. — Epastore ( talk) 16:59, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
As you may have noticed, there is some new movement in our eternal title capitalization/non-capitalization debate, with a current requested move at Talk:Swamp Rabbit and a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cetaceans (where we're getting at some interesting points regarding details of usage). I also noticed a recent discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (flora), which claimed that publishers are currently moving towards sentence case for common names; I think we've both written at some time that it's going the other way for mammals. What do you think is the best way to move forward? I'm inclined to just let it go, try to prevent people from being over-eager in claiming they are right, and hope that no one starts mass-moving pages around.
Also, I started a page at User:Ucucha/Titles to provide an overview of the other issue with mammal article titles. What do you think of it? Is the "double fives test" a useful heuristic? Ucucha 16:15, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Well, now is the time—thanks even in advance! By the way, did you receive my e-mail? And another totally unrelated note—I noticed that the link to your fifth archive actually leads to nr. 4, so you might want to change it. Ucucha 03:48, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Do you know something about interdigital webbing and syndactyly? Drmies and I are discussing some things on my talk page, and your input might be helpful. Ucucha 21:57, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Happy New Year! Now I'm here anyway, you might want to comment at the discussion I'm having with Innotata here. I've allowed myself to be drawn into giving an opinion on whether titles should be capitalized, and would like another check whether it's reasonable what I'm saying. There's also a question related to Tachyoryctes you might have an opinion on. Thanks, Ucucha 08:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I had difficulty reconciling this edit to the edit summary. I would think that if these monkeys really have established feral populations, they do belong on the list. Ucucha 16:48, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
sorry, I wasn't aware of the map section in the en.WP taxobox - thanks for fixing! Rbrausse ( talk) 20:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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Good to see you editing again. If you have time, there's a protracted discussion at Talk:Sciuridae you may be interested in. Ucucha 21:39, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
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This is an archive for my user talk page. It contains all discussion from my sixth year as an editor. For current messages, see User talk:Aranae.
Hello! I've just been trying to sort out the mess that the classification of hamsters has got into, and, as I noted in my typical peeved article-talk-page style at WP:RODENT, I need some help. First, which classification should I use, and whose common names? Names like Dzhungarian are applied to so many species that I fear we shall be obliged to use Latin names, and give disambig. pages for every common name. As for Cricetulus, which you asked about earlier, I was following the practice at WP:BIRD. You do what you want with the pages in question. If you don't like "see text", I don't mind not adding that to articles. innotata ( Talk | Contribs) 16:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
And let me take this opportunity to thank you for all your contributions to mammal articles on Wikipedia--all the cleaning up of vandalism, watching for sanity in many discussions, and so much more. It's much appreciated. :-) Ucucha 14:26, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Concerning your revert of my move; I could not simply move Giant Beaver because there is already content at Castoroides ohioensis. So now I have placed the db-move template on Castoroides ohioensis (as per Requests for moving#Uncontroversial_requests), and it now appears in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Once that's cleared, it should be movable. — Epastore ( talk) 16:59, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
As you may have noticed, there is some new movement in our eternal title capitalization/non-capitalization debate, with a current requested move at Talk:Swamp Rabbit and a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cetaceans (where we're getting at some interesting points regarding details of usage). I also noticed a recent discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (flora), which claimed that publishers are currently moving towards sentence case for common names; I think we've both written at some time that it's going the other way for mammals. What do you think is the best way to move forward? I'm inclined to just let it go, try to prevent people from being over-eager in claiming they are right, and hope that no one starts mass-moving pages around.
Also, I started a page at User:Ucucha/Titles to provide an overview of the other issue with mammal article titles. What do you think of it? Is the "double fives test" a useful heuristic? Ucucha 16:15, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Well, now is the time—thanks even in advance! By the way, did you receive my e-mail? And another totally unrelated note—I noticed that the link to your fifth archive actually leads to nr. 4, so you might want to change it. Ucucha 03:48, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Do you know something about interdigital webbing and syndactyly? Drmies and I are discussing some things on my talk page, and your input might be helpful. Ucucha 21:57, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Happy New Year! Now I'm here anyway, you might want to comment at the discussion I'm having with Innotata here. I've allowed myself to be drawn into giving an opinion on whether titles should be capitalized, and would like another check whether it's reasonable what I'm saying. There's also a question related to Tachyoryctes you might have an opinion on. Thanks, Ucucha 08:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
I had difficulty reconciling this edit to the edit summary. I would think that if these monkeys really have established feral populations, they do belong on the list. Ucucha 16:48, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
sorry, I wasn't aware of the map section in the en.WP taxobox - thanks for fixing! Rbrausse ( talk) 20:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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Good to see you editing again. If you have time, there's a protracted discussion at Talk:Sciuridae you may be interested in. Ucucha 21:39, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.
When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles ( talk) 04:51, 20 June 2010 (UTC)