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Thank you jonkerz, I appreciate it! Expect to see more ant related GA's in the future. Burklemore1 ( talk) 16:49, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
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Re [1]: I emailed Stan Blum of AntCat regarding a very similar issue last year. Copy-paste from the email: "The author citation for Protanilla is listed as 'Bolton, 1990' but it should be 'Taylor, 1990' or possibly 'Taylor, in Bolton, 1990' (see the link below)."
Bolton, B. (1990). "The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 15: 267–282. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00063.x.
They changed the author citation of Protanilla the same day, but Protanilla rafflesi was left incorrectly listing "Bolton, 1990" as the author. I've emailed Blum once again regarding this issue. jonkerz ♠ talk 00:27, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
These are the ones I know of:
Any one of these? They are all from the same publication (Bolton 2003), which contains some taxa described by Bolton and some by Taylor, hence the confusion. jonkerz ♠ talk 00:36, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
The page nom has been archived now but yes, I went through all those websites and have added every single thing. SwisterTwister talk 23:02, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
I see you have removed the specimen numbers from some of fossil ant article, noting that they "prove no significance to an encylopedia". I am of a different opinion. I will note that many if not most of the paleontology articles, such as the FA Dinosaur articles, do include the specimen numbers of type and notable specimens. May I ask why you feel that the numbers of the only identified specimens are not worth inclusion?-- Kev min § 22:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
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Burke! I wrote a comment for the Iridomyrmex GAN; I am however afraid that creating the nomination page would effectively hide it from the list of open nominations. I'll just post it here as is:
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I've come here in response to your last comment on the talk page of the termite article.
Oh, I'm so sorry. I had forgotten that I had written that in my comments on the other editor's talk page. When I wrote that, I never thought the writer of the article would see that. Now that I've gotten at least half-way through this long article, I can't remember whether the writing was about the same all the way through or was better in some places than other places. If you really want me to go back and figure that out, I will. I thought I had seen (when I first read your comments on the termite talk page) a link, something like "here", to the way the article was before you started working on it, but now I can't find it. Then I could see what the writing was like before you started working on it, and I would be able to see your edits. If I could do that, I might see that your writing was good, which might make you feel better. I guess I could look at the edit history for that, and look at the diffs. I see that we also worked on Iridomyrmex, and I don't recall seeing any problems with your writing then. Can you give me a link to the way the article was before you started working on it? Maybe the parts that you worked on are fine. I'd be glad to take a look. I realize now that I ought to think before I write something like that. Please accept my apologies. Corinne ( talk) 02:32, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
I have a few questions. Here's the first one.
1) The first sentence in the section Termite#Taxonomy and phylogeny is the following:
I have two questions about this sentence:
(a) I wonder, in the phrase "originally based on morphology", whether it would be good to add an adverb before "based" such as:
(b) In the final clause of the sentence, I wonder whether the word "singular" isn't slightly ambiguous. It could mean "strange, quite unusual", or it could mean "sole, single, one". I believe the first meaning was probably meant, but I wonder whether that is too sophisticated (or old-fashioned) a word to use. If you agree, perhaps one of these would work: "slightly strange", "unusual", "somewhat unusual", "distinctive". If you think "singular" is all right as it is, then leave it. Corinne ( talk) 22:28, 25 September 2015 (UTC) Rothorpe, what do you think? Corinne ( talk) 22:28, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
2) The third sentence in the first paragraph in Termite#Caste system is the following:
Right after this sentence, I see one way digestion is achieved, but I can't figure out what the second way is. I think it should be clear to the reader what the second way is. Corinne ( talk) 00:10, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
I've made two small edits. I changed "character" to "characteristic". (I had never heard "character" used in this type of context.) The sentence is now grammatically and stylistically correct, but I am still puzzled by something (and wonder whether the sentence is not too long and/or complicated). When you say the hypothesis was "originally based on the presence of similar symbiotic gut flagellates in certain cockroaches and early termites", you:
(a) don't say when "originally" was, and
(b) don't explain what "early termites" were. When I read "early", I think earlier in the geological record of insects, ie., fossils. How in the world could a scientist discover gut microbes in a fossilized termite? So, you can see that if I, as an educated reader who is not an expert in entomology, am confused by this, other average readers will be, too.
Perhaps you need first to explain what the hypothesis was, making clear what "early termites" were, and who suggested the hypothesis and when, and then go into the next statement about the later discovery of similar morphological characteristics. Corinne ( talk) 18:27, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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Congratulations on achieving another Good Article! Corinne ( talk) 17:00, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I have passed Archimyrmex as a good article. I do not believe it is eligible for DYK as a newly promoted GA because it has already been on DYK when first created by Kevmin. Termite probably does qualify however, well done with that.
Would you consider reviewing one of my three outstanding nominations at GAN, being Parsnip, Greylag goose and Ruddy shelduck? I wouldn't ask, but the final round of the WikiCup is finishing at the end of the month and the position is finely balanced. The present leader has got all his points from Featured Pictures, and he also has a total of 1380 FP bonus points that are not readily apparent on the scoreboard. When FPs are nominated, people support or oppose them, and with sufficient support the image is promoted ten days later. With GAs, it is a much more chancy business as you know, and the nominations may hang around for months before they are reviewed. Anyway, keep up the good work on the ant articles. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 06:18, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
I'll come check them out when I get home, as I am on my phone at the moment. I'm not very experienced with reviewing, so I may ask another editor for their input if you are okay with that. As always thank you for the kind words, I have many more ant articles lined up for GA. Burklemore1 ( talk) 07:49, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
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I have made a start on Cockroach, mostly "Description", and a bit on "Behavior". Shall I leave you to deal with the "Taxonomy and evolution" section, and shall I ask Chiswick Chap if he is interested in working on the "Relationship with humans" section? Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 13:38, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
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Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:02, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
So I made the
sandbox list sortable, that's how the colors of the headers disappeared. It's actually quite easy to restore the old style while still keeping the table sortable by replacing bgcolor=#d3d3a4
with style="background-color: #d3d3a4; font-weight: normal"
, but I want see what you think about merging all tables in a single list first. Something like
this.
A big table is clunkier (and the subfamilies won't show up in the ToC and multiple tables also look better), but not being able to sort the whole list by name/year/no. species is probably worse. The scope="row"
is strictly not needed, but it makes it obvious which cell the other cells are referring to.
Also, the captions I added makes the list look cluttered with all the repetitions but I think it's a necessary evil required by WP:ASTONISH (e.g. the image next to the cell saying "Casaleia inversa" is actually that of Casaleia eocenica -- not really what you'd expect). jonkerz ♠ talk 00:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Burklemore, a summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. You can use the page history to get a diff comparing it to the lead section of the article; how does it look? I went with "The eggs of this species were consumed" rather than "The brood" because that's what I found in the given source; did another source have different information? - Dank ( push to talk) 05:23, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
According to [3] there are three other "jack jumper ant"s:
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Do you know of any other jack jumper ant? jonkerz ♠ talk 16:42, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Reading Taylor (2015) I just realized that species group and species complex are not synonyms (oops). The list so far:
From the Myrmecia article: 'These ants are commonly known as "bulldog ants" or "jack jumper" ants.' Idea #2: List of ants by common name. jonkerz ♠ talk 21:57, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hahaha cheers jonkerz, the kitten is good enough! ;) Burklemore1 ( talk) 05:18, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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1.) Done! I haven't checked for duplicated refs or if I messed up anything, but the list is ready to go live! At least it has my seal of approval, and we can continue with minor tweaks in mainspace. It looks like we made it despite me procrastinating the last subfamily forever. 2.) Happy new year (soon)!! jonkerz ♠ talk 07:01, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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honestly i am hopeless with image manipulation over there, sorry I am unable to help. The history is I try something and someone else has to fix it up for me :( JarrahTree 00:42, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
I logged in mainly to post an update to Talk:Myrmecia_maxima/GA1. Re our masterpiece list: I did a stupid thing and ran a command that corrupted parts (luckily not all) of the code used to cross-check the list. What about the backup?? that was the backup!! hahah. jonkerz ♠ talk 07:19, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you jonkerz, I appreciate it! Expect to see more ant related GA's in the future. Burklemore1 ( talk) 16:49, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
jonkerz ♠ talk 16:33, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Re [1]: I emailed Stan Blum of AntCat regarding a very similar issue last year. Copy-paste from the email: "The author citation for Protanilla is listed as 'Bolton, 1990' but it should be 'Taylor, 1990' or possibly 'Taylor, in Bolton, 1990' (see the link below)."
Bolton, B. (1990). "The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 15: 267–282. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00063.x.
They changed the author citation of Protanilla the same day, but Protanilla rafflesi was left incorrectly listing "Bolton, 1990" as the author. I've emailed Blum once again regarding this issue. jonkerz ♠ talk 00:27, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
These are the ones I know of:
Any one of these? They are all from the same publication (Bolton 2003), which contains some taxa described by Bolton and some by Taylor, hence the confusion. jonkerz ♠ talk 00:36, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
The page nom has been archived now but yes, I went through all those websites and have added every single thing. SwisterTwister talk 23:02, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
I see you have removed the specimen numbers from some of fossil ant article, noting that they "prove no significance to an encylopedia". I am of a different opinion. I will note that many if not most of the paleontology articles, such as the FA Dinosaur articles, do include the specimen numbers of type and notable specimens. May I ask why you feel that the numbers of the only identified specimens are not worth inclusion?-- Kev min § 22:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
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Burke! I wrote a comment for the Iridomyrmex GAN; I am however afraid that creating the nomination page would effectively hide it from the list of open nominations. I'll just post it here as is:
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I've come here in response to your last comment on the talk page of the termite article.
Oh, I'm so sorry. I had forgotten that I had written that in my comments on the other editor's talk page. When I wrote that, I never thought the writer of the article would see that. Now that I've gotten at least half-way through this long article, I can't remember whether the writing was about the same all the way through or was better in some places than other places. If you really want me to go back and figure that out, I will. I thought I had seen (when I first read your comments on the termite talk page) a link, something like "here", to the way the article was before you started working on it, but now I can't find it. Then I could see what the writing was like before you started working on it, and I would be able to see your edits. If I could do that, I might see that your writing was good, which might make you feel better. I guess I could look at the edit history for that, and look at the diffs. I see that we also worked on Iridomyrmex, and I don't recall seeing any problems with your writing then. Can you give me a link to the way the article was before you started working on it? Maybe the parts that you worked on are fine. I'd be glad to take a look. I realize now that I ought to think before I write something like that. Please accept my apologies. Corinne ( talk) 02:32, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
I have a few questions. Here's the first one.
1) The first sentence in the section Termite#Taxonomy and phylogeny is the following:
I have two questions about this sentence:
(a) I wonder, in the phrase "originally based on morphology", whether it would be good to add an adverb before "based" such as:
(b) In the final clause of the sentence, I wonder whether the word "singular" isn't slightly ambiguous. It could mean "strange, quite unusual", or it could mean "sole, single, one". I believe the first meaning was probably meant, but I wonder whether that is too sophisticated (or old-fashioned) a word to use. If you agree, perhaps one of these would work: "slightly strange", "unusual", "somewhat unusual", "distinctive". If you think "singular" is all right as it is, then leave it. Corinne ( talk) 22:28, 25 September 2015 (UTC) Rothorpe, what do you think? Corinne ( talk) 22:28, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
2) The third sentence in the first paragraph in Termite#Caste system is the following:
Right after this sentence, I see one way digestion is achieved, but I can't figure out what the second way is. I think it should be clear to the reader what the second way is. Corinne ( talk) 00:10, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
I've made two small edits. I changed "character" to "characteristic". (I had never heard "character" used in this type of context.) The sentence is now grammatically and stylistically correct, but I am still puzzled by something (and wonder whether the sentence is not too long and/or complicated). When you say the hypothesis was "originally based on the presence of similar symbiotic gut flagellates in certain cockroaches and early termites", you:
(a) don't say when "originally" was, and
(b) don't explain what "early termites" were. When I read "early", I think earlier in the geological record of insects, ie., fossils. How in the world could a scientist discover gut microbes in a fossilized termite? So, you can see that if I, as an educated reader who is not an expert in entomology, am confused by this, other average readers will be, too.
Perhaps you need first to explain what the hypothesis was, making clear what "early termites" were, and who suggested the hypothesis and when, and then go into the next statement about the later discovery of similar morphological characteristics. Corinne ( talk) 18:27, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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Congratulations on achieving another Good Article! Corinne ( talk) 17:00, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I have passed Archimyrmex as a good article. I do not believe it is eligible for DYK as a newly promoted GA because it has already been on DYK when first created by Kevmin. Termite probably does qualify however, well done with that.
Would you consider reviewing one of my three outstanding nominations at GAN, being Parsnip, Greylag goose and Ruddy shelduck? I wouldn't ask, but the final round of the WikiCup is finishing at the end of the month and the position is finely balanced. The present leader has got all his points from Featured Pictures, and he also has a total of 1380 FP bonus points that are not readily apparent on the scoreboard. When FPs are nominated, people support or oppose them, and with sufficient support the image is promoted ten days later. With GAs, it is a much more chancy business as you know, and the nominations may hang around for months before they are reviewed. Anyway, keep up the good work on the ant articles. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 06:18, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
I'll come check them out when I get home, as I am on my phone at the moment. I'm not very experienced with reviewing, so I may ask another editor for their input if you are okay with that. As always thank you for the kind words, I have many more ant articles lined up for GA. Burklemore1 ( talk) 07:49, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
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For your contributions to bring Termite (estimated annual readership: 304,750) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Khazar2 ( talk) 13:27, 1 November 2015 (UTC) |
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Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:01, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
I have made a start on Cockroach, mostly "Description", and a bit on "Behavior". Shall I leave you to deal with the "Taxonomy and evolution" section, and shall I ask Chiswick Chap if he is interested in working on the "Relationship with humans" section? Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 13:38, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
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Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:02, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
So I made the
sandbox list sortable, that's how the colors of the headers disappeared. It's actually quite easy to restore the old style while still keeping the table sortable by replacing bgcolor=#d3d3a4
with style="background-color: #d3d3a4; font-weight: normal"
, but I want see what you think about merging all tables in a single list first. Something like
this.
A big table is clunkier (and the subfamilies won't show up in the ToC and multiple tables also look better), but not being able to sort the whole list by name/year/no. species is probably worse. The scope="row"
is strictly not needed, but it makes it obvious which cell the other cells are referring to.
Also, the captions I added makes the list look cluttered with all the repetitions but I think it's a necessary evil required by WP:ASTONISH (e.g. the image next to the cell saying "Casaleia inversa" is actually that of Casaleia eocenica -- not really what you'd expect). jonkerz ♠ talk 00:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Burklemore, a summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. You can use the page history to get a diff comparing it to the lead section of the article; how does it look? I went with "The eggs of this species were consumed" rather than "The brood" because that's what I found in the given source; did another source have different information? - Dank ( push to talk) 05:23, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
According to [3] there are three other "jack jumper ant"s:
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Do you know of any other jack jumper ant? jonkerz ♠ talk 16:42, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Reading Taylor (2015) I just realized that species group and species complex are not synonyms (oops). The list so far:
From the Myrmecia article: 'These ants are commonly known as "bulldog ants" or "jack jumper" ants.' Idea #2: List of ants by common name. jonkerz ♠ talk 21:57, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hahaha cheers jonkerz, the kitten is good enough! ;) Burklemore1 ( talk) 05:18, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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I wrote to the Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory article discussion page, please look it up. Thank you.-- Porbóllett ( talk) 12:51, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
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1.) Done! I haven't checked for duplicated refs or if I messed up anything, but the list is ready to go live! At least it has my seal of approval, and we can continue with minor tweaks in mainspace. It looks like we made it despite me procrastinating the last subfamily forever. 2.) Happy new year (soon)!! jonkerz ♠ talk 07:01, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:01, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
honestly i am hopeless with image manipulation over there, sorry I am unable to help. The history is I try something and someone else has to fix it up for me :( JarrahTree 00:42, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
I logged in mainly to post an update to Talk:Myrmecia_maxima/GA1. Re our masterpiece list: I did a stupid thing and ran a command that corrupted parts (luckily not all) of the code used to cross-check the list. What about the backup?? that was the backup!! hahah. jonkerz ♠ talk 07:19, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
I read your reply and agree with what you say. I'm re-using this thread to avoid creating another "Heeey" section, but pretend that it's a new section because I've already written the message and it starts with a greeting.
Top o' the mornin' to ya! Nowadays I log in that infrequent that I have to start all messages with "hey long time no see", but that gets tiresome so I decided to do that "top o' the mornin' to ya" thing this time instead... :)
Back to business: what's the current status of our list? How I see it: we should move it to live, because even if there are potential issues that we need to sort out, the sandbox list is 100 times (not percent!) better than the current incomplete and out-of-date list. You deserve the honor of moving it to mainspace for the world to see, considering that you have worked most on it (which is why I haven't pulled the trigger myself). jonkerz ♠ talk 19:31, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
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