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Good to see your contributions on my watchlist again these last few days. Hesperian 10:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I moved the portion of the history relevant to the dab page over to Quercus (disambiguation)...if nothing else, it leaves the other obscure meanings in the page history at the dab page, rather than at Quercus proper. Guettarda ( talk) 15:10, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.
I issued a warning to a user who made an edit that consisted only of removing 10 references and nothing else. If he wants to be constructive he should attempt to reword, or try to do something rather than remove content. Removing references is none of the actions that I would consider benign. It doesn't mean I was looking to get anyone blocked or labeled as a vandal, I just wanted for this user to pay attention so he would know that he made a mistake and hopefully in the future he will make constructive rather than destructive edits. If he couldn't contribute to the article, if the only action he came up with at that moment was to hit the delete button ten times, then he should have refrained from making that edit. That's all. Hopefully this clears my position.-- Avala ( talk) 11:44, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
I have just now (finally) discovered that neither Melianthaceae nor Melanthiaceae are misspellings of the other. Whoever lumbered us with that horrid pair of doppelgangers should be sentenced to six month correcting mis-sorted stub tags. Hesperian 23:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
[jumping to conclusions based on your contribs] yes, I looked long and hard at rufistylis too. The leaves fit, the distribution fits, the bracts definitely fit. The flowers are in very early bud; is it possible that the styles are hidden within the perianth-tube, so that one cannot tell whether they are rufi or not?
As you have seen I have finally made good my threat of redoing this list (and renaming it)-fairly complete, a few places yet unlocated and may be some neighbourhoods placed in the wrong locality (on the other side of road or creek etc) so could use some help on this (All the spelling is OK though)- Many of the linked articles where all the info. is supposed to be will need some work but I will be doing this shortly. Could it be 2 or 3 page list?? If so, I dont know how to achieve this. Thanks for your help, Millers Forest is obviously a mistake which dates back to 1912 Post Office lists, placed by error in Victoria so we can forget that one( Epistemos ( talk) 04:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)).
I have been racking my brains trying to comprehend the reason given here.
All I have come up with is that "S.Curry" is Suzanne Curry. Any ideas? Hesperian 12:49, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
For a while there I was working on the theory that "A.S.George 7.12.1993" referred to the specimen (by collector and date), and "S.Curry 17.1.1994" refers to a paper in which Curry referred to this specimen by a manuscript name. I note that in 1994 Curry published an internal report entitled The technical curation of the declared rare and priority flora in the W.A. Herbarium; and B. acanthopoda is indeed a priority flora. All of this seemed plausible... except that the type specimen of B. acanthopoda was collected by George in 1986, so any name based on a specimen collected in 1993 cannot be a nomenclatural synonym; at best it might be a taxonomic synonym.
Hesperian
13:32, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
FoA indicates that this is the 1986 type specimen. Clearly this specimen must have been published as a manuscript name at some point, and "From A.S.George 7.12.1993 S.Curry 17.1.1994" is supposed to tell me where. :-( Sorry for thinking out loud on your talk page.
Hesperian
13:37, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I think I've got it. The species was put on the Declared Rare and Priority Flora List for Western Australia by those persons on those dates. Gosh, what a great help you've been!
Hesperian
13:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Melburnian. Thanks for correctly pointing out that reference #1 does not specifically mention the "unpleasant odour" as resembling that of naphtha. Therefore, I edited the page again to make mention of the naphtha after the citation. I have personally experienced the odour on a specimen of Hibbertia scandens on North Stradbroke. Please do not delete it again. If you have a suggestion on resolving the matter to our mutual satisfaction, I would be glad to pursue it further. Many thanks. Deceglie ( talk) 14:49, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Well done! Nice intermediate solution. I'll keep looking for a proper citation. :-) Deceglie ( talk) 02:33, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
MVG Seems quite pointless to me in its entirety though I've tried to do some cleanup
I've good friends around Melbourne I hope they are freezing their balls off cos it's bloody cold here. SimonTrew ( talk) 06:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC) SimonTrew ( talk) 06:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Umbrella Tree (band), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
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TheLetterM (
talk)
18:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, I'm writing to you because you've edited many of the plant articles. I wanted to let you know about a plants-specific wiki site which you might be interested in contributing to. The site focuses specifically on how to grow any plant. Since Wikipedia is not a how-to, and articles are not allowed to be written as a guide on how to grow plants, two years ago I started http://www.plants.am - a wiki solely to address that topic (much like how wikitravel.org is solely to advise tourists visiting a country or city on their destination).
An example of how the sites differ can be seen immediately by comparing the Wikipedia article on Tamarind, with the Plants.am Tamarind article. Many of the articles currently on the site are placeholder articles taken from Wikipedia which are being rewritten from scratch, or shells of articles using new templates. However, a core of new articles like the Asparagus article (which still has a lot of room to grow) are being created, and the undertaking is huge. Perhaps you have some materials you can add which are not appropriate for Wikipedia. If you have any questions at all about this new resource, feel free to contact me on my user page here or on Plants.am. Thanks! -- RaffiKojian ( talk) 20:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
The items in the "Trial" paragraph are quoted from the trial of Talk:Kerang rail accident. They come from various source as the trial proceeds day by day. Once complete, do you agree that they can be added to the Article itself? Tabletop ( talk) 06:22, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, thanks for the information and update, I haven't been there and most google image searches for "Elephant Rock Victoria" appear to mistakenly turn out an image of the Island Archway (pre-collapse). Thus the mistake on my part! Judging by the results of the search, it must be a common mistake.
The Original Barnstar | ||
For all of your image ID help and work on plant related articles. Noodle snacks ( talk) 02:03, 21 June 2009 (UTC) |
Nice contributions :] I've incorporated the info into articles for national bushfire seasons for each season. Information specific to a particular event or day or season I recon would go best in it's own article, like "Black Sunday" for the 1925-26 season, and info on a regular season should go in the national season article so we can later incorporate info on the bushfire season around the country, not just Victoria. Cheers. Nick carson ( talk) 08:48, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Any interest in this? Hesperian 07:27, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for creating quick small article. I had taken the photo last year, but did not know the name. I searched it on web, and identifying that it is not available on wikipedia, I thought of putting it there. Aniruddha.Raste ( talk) 14:41, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Have you tried using a different browser to see if the issue's there too? Might only affect the browser you usually use. Cheers. lifebaka ++ 02:41, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for buying in there; it was great to get some solid feedback. Hesperian 11:35, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I'm doing a study about Wikipedia (particularly about sysops) for my Masters in Communications and Media Studies at Monash Uni, and was wondering if you would be so kind as to take some time to talk to me. I'm mostly interested in what your day-to-day activities are and your relationship with other sysops and editors. It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes.
Please let me know if you're interested/willing. It would be immensely appreciated :) Cheers, -- In continente ( talk) 08:26, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Here. Timeshift ( talk) 05:04, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Ta. How's your watchlist looking this morning? Hesperian 04:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Melburnian. You may have already seen one or more of these questions, but if not, I wonder if you have any clue. If not you, of all people, who then?
Yours hopefully. -- JackofOz ( talk) 11:03, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
File:Parrot temp for ID.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:Neophema chrysostoma -Anglesea Heath -Victoria-6.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:Neophema chrysostoma -Anglesea Heath -Victoria-6.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. -- Erwin85Bot ( talk) 17:33, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
For your info and actually reading the ref I would be fascinated to see how many and what australian species of plant could or could not survive the air of new delhi - it might be a brilliant test - it is getting to me i can tell you - even after a small bit of rain Satu Suro 09:00, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Good to see your contributions on my watchlist again these last few days. Hesperian 10:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I moved the portion of the history relevant to the dab page over to Quercus (disambiguation)...if nothing else, it leaves the other obscure meanings in the page history at the dab page, rather than at Quercus proper. Guettarda ( talk) 15:10, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.
I issued a warning to a user who made an edit that consisted only of removing 10 references and nothing else. If he wants to be constructive he should attempt to reword, or try to do something rather than remove content. Removing references is none of the actions that I would consider benign. It doesn't mean I was looking to get anyone blocked or labeled as a vandal, I just wanted for this user to pay attention so he would know that he made a mistake and hopefully in the future he will make constructive rather than destructive edits. If he couldn't contribute to the article, if the only action he came up with at that moment was to hit the delete button ten times, then he should have refrained from making that edit. That's all. Hopefully this clears my position.-- Avala ( talk) 11:44, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
I have just now (finally) discovered that neither Melianthaceae nor Melanthiaceae are misspellings of the other. Whoever lumbered us with that horrid pair of doppelgangers should be sentenced to six month correcting mis-sorted stub tags. Hesperian 23:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
[jumping to conclusions based on your contribs] yes, I looked long and hard at rufistylis too. The leaves fit, the distribution fits, the bracts definitely fit. The flowers are in very early bud; is it possible that the styles are hidden within the perianth-tube, so that one cannot tell whether they are rufi or not?
As you have seen I have finally made good my threat of redoing this list (and renaming it)-fairly complete, a few places yet unlocated and may be some neighbourhoods placed in the wrong locality (on the other side of road or creek etc) so could use some help on this (All the spelling is OK though)- Many of the linked articles where all the info. is supposed to be will need some work but I will be doing this shortly. Could it be 2 or 3 page list?? If so, I dont know how to achieve this. Thanks for your help, Millers Forest is obviously a mistake which dates back to 1912 Post Office lists, placed by error in Victoria so we can forget that one( Epistemos ( talk) 04:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)).
I have been racking my brains trying to comprehend the reason given here.
All I have come up with is that "S.Curry" is Suzanne Curry. Any ideas? Hesperian 12:49, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
For a while there I was working on the theory that "A.S.George 7.12.1993" referred to the specimen (by collector and date), and "S.Curry 17.1.1994" refers to a paper in which Curry referred to this specimen by a manuscript name. I note that in 1994 Curry published an internal report entitled The technical curation of the declared rare and priority flora in the W.A. Herbarium; and B. acanthopoda is indeed a priority flora. All of this seemed plausible... except that the type specimen of B. acanthopoda was collected by George in 1986, so any name based on a specimen collected in 1993 cannot be a nomenclatural synonym; at best it might be a taxonomic synonym.
Hesperian
13:32, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
FoA indicates that this is the 1986 type specimen. Clearly this specimen must have been published as a manuscript name at some point, and "From A.S.George 7.12.1993 S.Curry 17.1.1994" is supposed to tell me where. :-( Sorry for thinking out loud on your talk page.
Hesperian
13:37, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I think I've got it. The species was put on the Declared Rare and Priority Flora List for Western Australia by those persons on those dates. Gosh, what a great help you've been!
Hesperian
13:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Melburnian. Thanks for correctly pointing out that reference #1 does not specifically mention the "unpleasant odour" as resembling that of naphtha. Therefore, I edited the page again to make mention of the naphtha after the citation. I have personally experienced the odour on a specimen of Hibbertia scandens on North Stradbroke. Please do not delete it again. If you have a suggestion on resolving the matter to our mutual satisfaction, I would be glad to pursue it further. Many thanks. Deceglie ( talk) 14:49, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Well done! Nice intermediate solution. I'll keep looking for a proper citation. :-) Deceglie ( talk) 02:33, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
MVG Seems quite pointless to me in its entirety though I've tried to do some cleanup
I've good friends around Melbourne I hope they are freezing their balls off cos it's bloody cold here. SimonTrew ( talk) 06:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC) SimonTrew ( talk) 06:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Umbrella Tree (band), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{
hangon}}
to the top of
the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on
the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact
one of these admins to request that they
userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you.
TheLetterM (
talk)
18:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, I'm writing to you because you've edited many of the plant articles. I wanted to let you know about a plants-specific wiki site which you might be interested in contributing to. The site focuses specifically on how to grow any plant. Since Wikipedia is not a how-to, and articles are not allowed to be written as a guide on how to grow plants, two years ago I started http://www.plants.am - a wiki solely to address that topic (much like how wikitravel.org is solely to advise tourists visiting a country or city on their destination).
An example of how the sites differ can be seen immediately by comparing the Wikipedia article on Tamarind, with the Plants.am Tamarind article. Many of the articles currently on the site are placeholder articles taken from Wikipedia which are being rewritten from scratch, or shells of articles using new templates. However, a core of new articles like the Asparagus article (which still has a lot of room to grow) are being created, and the undertaking is huge. Perhaps you have some materials you can add which are not appropriate for Wikipedia. If you have any questions at all about this new resource, feel free to contact me on my user page here or on Plants.am. Thanks! -- RaffiKojian ( talk) 20:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
The items in the "Trial" paragraph are quoted from the trial of Talk:Kerang rail accident. They come from various source as the trial proceeds day by day. Once complete, do you agree that they can be added to the Article itself? Tabletop ( talk) 06:22, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, thanks for the information and update, I haven't been there and most google image searches for "Elephant Rock Victoria" appear to mistakenly turn out an image of the Island Archway (pre-collapse). Thus the mistake on my part! Judging by the results of the search, it must be a common mistake.
The Original Barnstar | ||
For all of your image ID help and work on plant related articles. Noodle snacks ( talk) 02:03, 21 June 2009 (UTC) |
Nice contributions :] I've incorporated the info into articles for national bushfire seasons for each season. Information specific to a particular event or day or season I recon would go best in it's own article, like "Black Sunday" for the 1925-26 season, and info on a regular season should go in the national season article so we can later incorporate info on the bushfire season around the country, not just Victoria. Cheers. Nick carson ( talk) 08:48, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Any interest in this? Hesperian 07:27, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for creating quick small article. I had taken the photo last year, but did not know the name. I searched it on web, and identifying that it is not available on wikipedia, I thought of putting it there. Aniruddha.Raste ( talk) 14:41, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Have you tried using a different browser to see if the issue's there too? Might only affect the browser you usually use. Cheers. lifebaka ++ 02:41, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for buying in there; it was great to get some solid feedback. Hesperian 11:35, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I'm doing a study about Wikipedia (particularly about sysops) for my Masters in Communications and Media Studies at Monash Uni, and was wondering if you would be so kind as to take some time to talk to me. I'm mostly interested in what your day-to-day activities are and your relationship with other sysops and editors. It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes.
Please let me know if you're interested/willing. It would be immensely appreciated :) Cheers, -- In continente ( talk) 08:26, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Here. Timeshift ( talk) 05:04, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Ta. How's your watchlist looking this morning? Hesperian 04:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
This is to inform you that removing exceptions to the use of "most Common Names" as the titles of Wikipedia articles from the the Talk:Naming_Conventions policy page, is the subject of a referral for Comment (RfC). This follows recent changes by some editors.
You are being informed as an editor previously involved in discussion of these issues relevant to that policy page. You are invited to comment at this location. Xan dar 21:38, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Melburnian. You may have already seen one or more of these questions, but if not, I wonder if you have any clue. If not you, of all people, who then?
Yours hopefully. -- JackofOz ( talk) 11:03, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
File:Parrot temp for ID.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:Neophema chrysostoma -Anglesea Heath -Victoria-6.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:Neophema chrysostoma -Anglesea Heath -Victoria-6.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. -- Erwin85Bot ( talk) 17:33, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
For your info and actually reading the ref I would be fascinated to see how many and what australian species of plant could or could not survive the air of new delhi - it might be a brilliant test - it is getting to me i can tell you - even after a small bit of rain Satu Suro 09:00, 13 November 2009 (UTC)