Fluid Dynamics looks like it is missing some info, but I checked the history and could not find much (I don't think I know how to search the history too well). The Kaleb ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:58, 15 October 2009 (UTC).
Hey mate. I noticed that you've started removing entries from the list of biographical articles with incompatible dates of birth. Good work! It's always nice to another person helping. Here's a tip though: when you find a website that verifies a particular date of birth, instead of putting the URL in your edit summary, try putting it in the 'references' section instead. That way, people will know where to verify the information themselves without having to dig through the article's history.
If you're not sure about how to work with references, feel free to leave a note either here or on my talk page. :) -- Cryptic C62 · Talk 04:03, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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It's good to have more interest in the Cowry article! The overriding concern (IMO) is the species list. I have worked on it for some time now. There were (and still are) many errors; so many that I deleted the list earlier this year (after fair warning in discussion), only to have a 'senior' editor restore it—despite my concerns that it presumes to be authoritative—because it was his 'preference' to have it. Several sub-species had been 'elevated' to species, a seemingly disproportionate number of new 'species' installed, plus a species with disallowed punctuation, another with a wrong date (based on an internet source considered an authority, but was wrong in this particular case),... blah, blah, blah. After recently investigating the -i or -ii endings on specific names, I have chosen to leave all further responsibility for errors in this list with the above-mentioned 'senior' editor.
The case of Cypraea gaskoini is typical: I queried those on the CONCH-L listserve group about this and had one person (from Hawaii) say, 'It IS spelled Gaskoinii in the citing reference,... only to have someone with deeper knowledge reply that while the 'temporary index' in Reeve's work spelled it with -ii, the actual description by Reeve spelled it with -i. I, for one, do not have such resources at my disposal and, from the species list in Cowry, no one thus far has.
May I presume that, since you added a wikilink to Cypraea granulata that you are going to create a stub for it, also? Oh!, BTW, did I say "Welcome" to the
Cowry article? ;)
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I tried to sort that last point out as best as I could. Invertzoo ( talk) 01:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your note and glad to hear that you enjoyed the rapid growth of the corneous article. Actually believe it or not I have no degrees: I am more or less entirely self-trained in malacology, although over the years I have very much benefited from close association with various museums, and from knowing several experts quite well. I am a serious amateur, or semi-professional since I have had employment in the subject from time to time. My research has been all self-funded and independent. There are a few other people in this field who are advanced amateurs like myself. There is a long-standing tradition of that in this subject. As I say on my user page, I am an old-fashioned naturalist in the 19th century mold. It's a pattern that goes back to Charles Darwin and a hundred years before him too. Invertzoo ( talk) 22:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Craig. I've noticed awhile ago in the conchology article, that there was a brief mention of a rare shell called "the Sarah shell." I just checked back and it's gone. And I know I saw it there, at least twice, this summer. What happened to it? I'm writing an eco-thriller when that shell somewhat has a center focus on it. Wikipedia had the only mention of it, when I couldn't find it anywhere else on teh Internet. Please let me know, even if you got the source for it. Thank you. ~~Kristen Howe~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.43.183.16 ( talk) 20:53, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Craig, only generic names and specific names and lower ones are in italics in zoology. The upper ones are in not in italics in zoology. -- Snek01 ( talk) 16:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
You can't use a prod to delete a template - that's for articles only. You need Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. Fences& Windows 19:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I see this template is listed for deletion. Honestly I don't really mind one way or the other if it gets deleted or not, but I could not find where it was listed so as to see what your objections are to it. Drop me a line and let me know OK? Thanks Invertzoo ( talk) 01:28, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Invertzoo! I'm not sure where this argument goes so I'll put it here and if that's incorrect I trust you'll tell me. The template can be seen on the page for nacre. The template does not give a coherent overview of the subject and thus lends noise and confusion to the article. If someone wants to take a random tangent through seashell related topics that is easy enough to do using the links within the article itself. The structure of the template is:
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This seems to imply, among other things:
I find this very confusing and I don't see how it elucidates the subject at all. Craig Pemberton ( talk) 03:47, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Trying to find out all I can about SolreSol, and I came across an old university page that said you had written a translator program. If this is true then I'd love to find out more. I'm a school teacher in Australia and am trying to see if I can use solresol in a number of ways (one of which being a universal language that future scientists use to communicate with semi-sentient nano tech ((it's a SF novel))
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.84.128 ( talk) 03:35, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
sorry, forgot to leave any address if I have found the right person... If you have any info about translating solresol, can you drop me an email. teacher.travis[at]gmail.com
Thanks again..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.84.128 ( talk) 03:38, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Try the \boldsymbol command: . You need to be using the packages amssymb and amsmath; which, it would seem, Wikipedia does. ~~ Dr Dec ( Talk) ~~ 13:35, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Can I just point you to the guideline on page layout at WP:ALSO. Pages already linked in the body of an article are not normally put into the "See also" section as well. SpinningSpark 21:21, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I don't see how they could have copied the pron. because it is different. In the case of 'gyro' (short for gyroscope), they give [jahy-roh] IPA /ˈdʒaɪroʊ/; in the case of 'gyros' (food), they give [jeer-oh, zheer-oh; Gk. yee-raw] IPA /ˈdʒɪəroʊ, ˈʒɪəroʊ; Gk. ˈyirɔ/. I do know that /'jiro/ would be more 'authentic', but that doesn't appear to be the standard English pronunciation. -- macrakis ( talk) 20:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Craig Pemberton, I just dropped in to check if you consider yourself to be still active in WikiProject Gastropods? I assume you would say yes because I see you recently reverted some vandalism on the Guilfordia yoka article, but I just wanted to check, as I am attempting to update our member's list. Thanks so much and best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 22:54, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Please explain. Phantom Hoover ( talk) 17:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
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You added this npov tag without any entry on the talkpage. Care to elaborate there? User:LeadSongDog come howl 18:01, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Craig.. Don't know if you're around or if you remember me ;) doesn't seem like you've been editing much recently.. If you get a change, can you please have a quick look at my RfC Talk:Robbie_Mannheim#Proposal_to_move_this_page and if possible leave a comment with your opinion? There isn't much interest in the article at the moment, it's still a bit of a messy battleground and I think this would be a positive step to move it forward. Cheers mate. Vespine ( talk) 06:01, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I snuffled my way here just to thank you for myself. You helped with an issue on which we were a bit stuck. Your work looks of interest; one day I hope to peruse some of it. I am a lifelong fan of Einstein's, and enjoy studying the ramifications of Unified Field Theory. 76.195.86.155 ( talk) 06:39, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Glad I could help out. =) I'm sorry if I voted differently than you were expecting Vespine. Best regards, -Craig Pemberton 01:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to return, I wish to ask if you can help or refer us to someone for Robbie_Mannheim. vespine and I are working hard and with total consensus to imrpove the work...but user Anupam continues to revert agreed-upon edits and foisting his POV without a peep on the talk page. His crazy issues have forced us to keep creating new topic headings just to address what he keeps doing. Please help! Would you respond at the very bottom of the talk page please? 75.21.106.189 ( talk) 18:19, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the assistance. Whatever is posted, the article is coming along well enough and I regret my lack of a fuse. I'm pleased that Vespine chimed in to clarify the issue. I did not mean to give the impression that I speak for Vespine, since one cannot speak for anyone else except oneself. 75.21.111.206 ( talk) 12:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I think in general saying "references in respective articles" does not work well. If the subject article is vandalized, or innocently sources are removed, the article remains sourceless. Also, In this specific case, when I last maintained the list, many of the references were missing from the respective article. May I suggest that you add a column to the table for references, and restore the ones missing? I am not going to press this, that article has already taken too much of my time, so it's up to you. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Muhandes ( talk) 18:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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Craig,
The lead should give a fair short summary of the article. If too short it misses its purpose. In your Wiki links (in the tag) 3-4 paragraphs for a >30,000 article is acceptable, so I do not quite see the problem that justifies the tag. Please remove the tag.
This article has been evolved for almost five years. It is within a specialized mathematical area though an effort has been made to use English only rather than Math symbols. I find every word and sentence important, unlike other, non-mathematical texts, where you may have more latitude. It may be improved, but please do not cut text in a way that changes meaning. You ended with changing, e.g., to "serializability of a transaction" which does not have any meaning within existing concurrency control, and thus really harms the article. If you are not an expert (and clearly you are not), please do not change meaning (which clearly was not your intention, but you failed). --Comps (talk) 13:49, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
From Talk:Serializability
Thanks -- Comps ( talk) 14:02, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Copied from Talk:Two-phase locking
I don't have time to fix but capitalization and citation style is inconsistent with the rest of Wikipedia. Maybe this was what Neilc was getting after. -Craig Pemberton 00:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
-- Comps ( talk) 14:38, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Wait, I mean... This is really me! BUT YOU'LL NEVER FIGURE OUT WHO!!!
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OK, first of all, thanks for all the work you've been doing with the badger maps.
Secondly, could you tell me what the colors on this map mean? As far as I can tell, orange = Bornean ferret-badger, green = Javan ferret-badger, and azure = Chinese ferret-badger. But is red supposed to be historic range of all ferret-badgers? (and if so, do you have a source?) Otherwise, I'm going to assume it's supposed to be the Burmese ferret-badger range, and alter it accordingly.
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It's great that you're making the derivative range maps you've uploaded, but they're all missing credit for the authors and the other information required to establish their copyright status—except the images, such as File:Leopardus range.png, that I've added this to. They need to give the actual images from which they are derived; the licenses of the originals, which have to be compatible (see commons:Commons:Collages); and the authors. Would you mind adding this? For more information, you can see commons:Commons:Licensing, commons:Commons:Derivative works, and other pages here and on Wikimedia Commons; you probably can use tool derivativeFX to automatically generate full descriptions in the future. Thanks, — innotata 03:27, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
I agree. Further, the map on the 'Otter' article has no key to explain what the colours refer to; it could be a diagram of the global distribution of otter breeds, or the population etc. Please could you include a key so the map isn't rendered meaningless. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.54.253 ( talk) 00:43, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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I note that the range map of the Pantanal cat, which I believe is your work, contradicts the text of the article and the two range maps linked in the references section (one of which is behind a pay wall; the other is here). I gather that the map was interpretation based on an earlier version of the article, and on a range map for the colocolo, so the contradiction is understandable. However, I thought you should know, in case you wish to modify it accordingly. Anaxial ( talk) 21:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there. Thank you for your contributions. I think the Mustela range map you've introduced is not correct. At least it is in conflict with the text in the Mustela page and with map in the Mustela nivalis page. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.96.145.226 ( talk) 08:27, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey Craig,
I just posted a question about references on a rarely-seen talk page and wondered if you could weigh in on it when you get the chance. It's at the Prose Life of Alexander talk page.
- Ben ( talk) 14:33, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
I noticed someone just axed your range map in that article, stating that there was no source or color key. I guess they have a point, at least re the latter (sources for range maps appear to be somewhat optional anyway, as far as I know). Could you please provide the color key? The map would certainly be nice to have in the info box... Cheers -- Elmidae ( talk) 12:46, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
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Fluid Dynamics looks like it is missing some info, but I checked the history and could not find much (I don't think I know how to search the history too well). The Kaleb ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:58, 15 October 2009 (UTC).
Hey mate. I noticed that you've started removing entries from the list of biographical articles with incompatible dates of birth. Good work! It's always nice to another person helping. Here's a tip though: when you find a website that verifies a particular date of birth, instead of putting the URL in your edit summary, try putting it in the 'references' section instead. That way, people will know where to verify the information themselves without having to dig through the article's history.
If you're not sure about how to work with references, feel free to leave a note either here or on my talk page. :) -- Cryptic C62 · Talk 04:03, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. However, I had to undo your recent edit to Autarchoglossa because it is not appropriate to blank the contents of a page. If you think a page should be deleted, please follow the appropriate process as described at Wikipedia:Deletion policy. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 09:51, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
It's good to have more interest in the Cowry article! The overriding concern (IMO) is the species list. I have worked on it for some time now. There were (and still are) many errors; so many that I deleted the list earlier this year (after fair warning in discussion), only to have a 'senior' editor restore it—despite my concerns that it presumes to be authoritative—because it was his 'preference' to have it. Several sub-species had been 'elevated' to species, a seemingly disproportionate number of new 'species' installed, plus a species with disallowed punctuation, another with a wrong date (based on an internet source considered an authority, but was wrong in this particular case),... blah, blah, blah. After recently investigating the -i or -ii endings on specific names, I have chosen to leave all further responsibility for errors in this list with the above-mentioned 'senior' editor.
The case of Cypraea gaskoini is typical: I queried those on the CONCH-L listserve group about this and had one person (from Hawaii) say, 'It IS spelled Gaskoinii in the citing reference,... only to have someone with deeper knowledge reply that while the 'temporary index' in Reeve's work spelled it with -ii, the actual description by Reeve spelled it with -i. I, for one, do not have such resources at my disposal and, from the species list in Cowry, no one thus far has.
May I presume that, since you added a wikilink to Cypraea granulata that you are going to create a stub for it, also? Oh!, BTW, did I say "Welcome" to the
Cowry article? ;)
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I tried to sort that last point out as best as I could. Invertzoo ( talk) 01:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your note and glad to hear that you enjoyed the rapid growth of the corneous article. Actually believe it or not I have no degrees: I am more or less entirely self-trained in malacology, although over the years I have very much benefited from close association with various museums, and from knowing several experts quite well. I am a serious amateur, or semi-professional since I have had employment in the subject from time to time. My research has been all self-funded and independent. There are a few other people in this field who are advanced amateurs like myself. There is a long-standing tradition of that in this subject. As I say on my user page, I am an old-fashioned naturalist in the 19th century mold. It's a pattern that goes back to Charles Darwin and a hundred years before him too. Invertzoo ( talk) 22:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Craig. I've noticed awhile ago in the conchology article, that there was a brief mention of a rare shell called "the Sarah shell." I just checked back and it's gone. And I know I saw it there, at least twice, this summer. What happened to it? I'm writing an eco-thriller when that shell somewhat has a center focus on it. Wikipedia had the only mention of it, when I couldn't find it anywhere else on teh Internet. Please let me know, even if you got the source for it. Thank you. ~~Kristen Howe~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.43.183.16 ( talk) 20:53, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
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For the effort that Craig has already put into helping make WikiProject Gastropods as great as it is, I award you a piece of the barnstar that Jimbo gave us on Saturday July 25 2009 at arnstar that Jimbo gave us on Saturday July 25 2009 at Wiki-Conference New York. This piece of star has a diamond in it! Invertzoo ( talk) 12:40, 26 July 2009 (UTC) |
Hello Craig, only generic names and specific names and lower ones are in italics in zoology. The upper ones are in not in italics in zoology. -- Snek01 ( talk) 16:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
You can't use a prod to delete a template - that's for articles only. You need Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. Fences& Windows 19:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I see this template is listed for deletion. Honestly I don't really mind one way or the other if it gets deleted or not, but I could not find where it was listed so as to see what your objections are to it. Drop me a line and let me know OK? Thanks Invertzoo ( talk) 01:28, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Invertzoo! I'm not sure where this argument goes so I'll put it here and if that's incorrect I trust you'll tell me. The template can be seen on the page for nacre. The template does not give a coherent overview of the subject and thus lends noise and confusion to the article. If someone wants to take a random tangent through seashell related topics that is easy enough to do using the links within the article itself. The structure of the template is:
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This seems to imply, among other things:
I find this very confusing and I don't see how it elucidates the subject at all. Craig Pemberton ( talk) 03:47, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Trying to find out all I can about SolreSol, and I came across an old university page that said you had written a translator program. If this is true then I'd love to find out more. I'm a school teacher in Australia and am trying to see if I can use solresol in a number of ways (one of which being a universal language that future scientists use to communicate with semi-sentient nano tech ((it's a SF novel))
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.84.128 ( talk) 03:35, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
sorry, forgot to leave any address if I have found the right person... If you have any info about translating solresol, can you drop me an email. teacher.travis[at]gmail.com
Thanks again..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.84.128 ( talk) 03:38, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Try the \boldsymbol command: . You need to be using the packages amssymb and amsmath; which, it would seem, Wikipedia does. ~~ Dr Dec ( Talk) ~~ 13:35, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Can I just point you to the guideline on page layout at WP:ALSO. Pages already linked in the body of an article are not normally put into the "See also" section as well. SpinningSpark 21:21, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I don't see how they could have copied the pron. because it is different. In the case of 'gyro' (short for gyroscope), they give [jahy-roh] IPA /ˈdʒaɪroʊ/; in the case of 'gyros' (food), they give [jeer-oh, zheer-oh; Gk. yee-raw] IPA /ˈdʒɪəroʊ, ˈʒɪəroʊ; Gk. ˈyirɔ/. I do know that /'jiro/ would be more 'authentic', but that doesn't appear to be the standard English pronunciation. -- macrakis ( talk) 20:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Craig Pemberton, I just dropped in to check if you consider yourself to be still active in WikiProject Gastropods? I assume you would say yes because I see you recently reverted some vandalism on the Guilfordia yoka article, but I just wanted to check, as I am attempting to update our member's list. Thanks so much and best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 22:54, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Please explain. Phantom Hoover ( talk) 17:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
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You added this npov tag without any entry on the talkpage. Care to elaborate there? User:LeadSongDog come howl 18:01, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Craig.. Don't know if you're around or if you remember me ;) doesn't seem like you've been editing much recently.. If you get a change, can you please have a quick look at my RfC Talk:Robbie_Mannheim#Proposal_to_move_this_page and if possible leave a comment with your opinion? There isn't much interest in the article at the moment, it's still a bit of a messy battleground and I think this would be a positive step to move it forward. Cheers mate. Vespine ( talk) 06:01, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I snuffled my way here just to thank you for myself. You helped with an issue on which we were a bit stuck. Your work looks of interest; one day I hope to peruse some of it. I am a lifelong fan of Einstein's, and enjoy studying the ramifications of Unified Field Theory. 76.195.86.155 ( talk) 06:39, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Glad I could help out. =) I'm sorry if I voted differently than you were expecting Vespine. Best regards, -Craig Pemberton 01:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to return, I wish to ask if you can help or refer us to someone for Robbie_Mannheim. vespine and I are working hard and with total consensus to imrpove the work...but user Anupam continues to revert agreed-upon edits and foisting his POV without a peep on the talk page. His crazy issues have forced us to keep creating new topic headings just to address what he keeps doing. Please help! Would you respond at the very bottom of the talk page please? 75.21.106.189 ( talk) 18:19, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the assistance. Whatever is posted, the article is coming along well enough and I regret my lack of a fuse. I'm pleased that Vespine chimed in to clarify the issue. I did not mean to give the impression that I speak for Vespine, since one cannot speak for anyone else except oneself. 75.21.111.206 ( talk) 12:10, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I think in general saying "references in respective articles" does not work well. If the subject article is vandalized, or innocently sources are removed, the article remains sourceless. Also, In this specific case, when I last maintained the list, many of the references were missing from the respective article. May I suggest that you add a column to the table for references, and restore the ones missing? I am not going to press this, that article has already taken too much of my time, so it's up to you. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Muhandes ( talk) 18:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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05:47, 21 February 2011 Craig Pemberton (talk | contribs) (55,512 bytes) (lead should be clearer and shorter see WP:LEAD) (undo)
Craig,
The lead should give a fair short summary of the article. If too short it misses its purpose. In your Wiki links (in the tag) 3-4 paragraphs for a >30,000 article is acceptable, so I do not quite see the problem that justifies the tag. Please remove the tag.
This article has been evolved for almost five years. It is within a specialized mathematical area though an effort has been made to use English only rather than Math symbols. I find every word and sentence important, unlike other, non-mathematical texts, where you may have more latitude. It may be improved, but please do not cut text in a way that changes meaning. You ended with changing, e.g., to "serializability of a transaction" which does not have any meaning within existing concurrency control, and thus really harms the article. If you are not an expert (and clearly you are not), please do not change meaning (which clearly was not your intention, but you failed). --Comps (talk) 13:49, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
From Talk:Serializability
Thanks -- Comps ( talk) 14:02, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Copied from Talk:Two-phase locking
I don't have time to fix but capitalization and citation style is inconsistent with the rest of Wikipedia. Maybe this was what Neilc was getting after. -Craig Pemberton 00:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
-- Comps ( talk) 14:38, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Wait, I mean... This is really me! BUT YOU'LL NEVER FIGURE OUT WHO!!!
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OK, first of all, thanks for all the work you've been doing with the badger maps.
Secondly, could you tell me what the colors on this map mean? As far as I can tell, orange = Bornean ferret-badger, green = Javan ferret-badger, and azure = Chinese ferret-badger. But is red supposed to be historic range of all ferret-badgers? (and if so, do you have a source?) Otherwise, I'm going to assume it's supposed to be the Burmese ferret-badger range, and alter it accordingly.
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It's great that you're making the derivative range maps you've uploaded, but they're all missing credit for the authors and the other information required to establish their copyright status—except the images, such as File:Leopardus range.png, that I've added this to. They need to give the actual images from which they are derived; the licenses of the originals, which have to be compatible (see commons:Commons:Collages); and the authors. Would you mind adding this? For more information, you can see commons:Commons:Licensing, commons:Commons:Derivative works, and other pages here and on Wikimedia Commons; you probably can use tool derivativeFX to automatically generate full descriptions in the future. Thanks, — innotata 03:27, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
I agree. Further, the map on the 'Otter' article has no key to explain what the colours refer to; it could be a diagram of the global distribution of otter breeds, or the population etc. Please could you include a key so the map isn't rendered meaningless. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.54.253 ( talk) 00:43, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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I note that the range map of the Pantanal cat, which I believe is your work, contradicts the text of the article and the two range maps linked in the references section (one of which is behind a pay wall; the other is here). I gather that the map was interpretation based on an earlier version of the article, and on a range map for the colocolo, so the contradiction is understandable. However, I thought you should know, in case you wish to modify it accordingly. Anaxial ( talk) 21:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there. Thank you for your contributions. I think the Mustela range map you've introduced is not correct. At least it is in conflict with the text in the Mustela page and with map in the Mustela nivalis page. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.96.145.226 ( talk) 08:27, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey Craig,
I just posted a question about references on a rarely-seen talk page and wondered if you could weigh in on it when you get the chance. It's at the Prose Life of Alexander talk page.
- Ben ( talk) 14:33, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
I noticed someone just axed your range map in that article, stating that there was no source or color key. I guess they have a point, at least re the latter (sources for range maps appear to be somewhat optional anyway, as far as I know). Could you please provide the color key? The map would certainly be nice to have in the info box... Cheers -- Elmidae ( talk) 12:46, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
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