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Hi again! I just wanted to let you know that I've moved a little upwards on the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points. I've created and looked over the first two Ordovician stages. I don't know if you still have time but the Tremadocian stage would need an article about the conodont Iapetognathus fluctivagus and the Floian stage an article about the graptolite Tetragraptus approximatus. Thank you again for pulling the weight on the Cambrian index fossils. -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 23:11, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for adding the index fossil category to the Olenellus-lemma. Index fossils are characterised by a temporally strictly limited occurence and a wide spatial distribution (preferable global). Furthermore, the usefullness of fossils to define the age of strata improves with their abundance. This implies that not all fossils can be used as index fossils though. I fear an unmanageable surge of edits will occur adding this caterory to any fossil-lemma. In this light I would like to note that indeed some Olenellus species are useful as local index fossils. I also note that the page on Index fossils has a very limited list that only includes the species relevant for the US. What is your view on this issue.
Reading through the Index fossil lemma, I also conclude it is not consistent in its definition of this concept. Particularly the sentence "The best index fossils are not common, hard-to-identify at species level, and have a small distribution—otherwise the likelihood of finding and recognizing one in the two sediments is minor." is at best unclear, but I'm inclined to say it is incorrect. Kind regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 11:54, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Obsidian Soul, I've had a look at the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points. I'll keep it under surveillance as I will try to work my way through the Agnostida, but there was no species there that I know has good sources available right now. The article did however made me think of a four page table in the Treatise, part O, revised, that correlates trilobite zones across paleocontinents. I could try to create an image that reflects the Treatise table's content, but since it is real big, I would need some guidance concerning its placement in an existing or new lemma, and concerning avoiding copyright infringement. Does User:Tobias1984 watch your TP? Regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:42, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Oh yes, and another thing, I had another look at the Index fossil article and concluded this sentence and a few others had been targeted by a new vandal. I reverted his changes and left a level 1 warning on User talk:Dragonofst. Never did this before, so I hope I did the right thing. Regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:52, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I think it is a great asset for an article to include illustrations of the fossil in question. I had a look which of the index fossils mentioned on the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points would be available to buy and make photos of. I found a mere three: Ancyrodella rotundiloba, Leioceras opalinum and Spirograptus turriculatus (which I suspect is synonymous to Monograptus turricatus). The conondont of cause is so small, my camera could not make a useful picture, so I will try to find out if the University would be willing to help me out. For the agnostids, it seems that I will have to make linedrawings. My first priority would be to make a identification key, and the line drawings will come in handy there as well. I'll keep you posted on my progress, but all of this will be quite a job, probably taking several months, so please don't be hasty... Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 23:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Ah, thanks. There will be no copyright issue as I will not buy the pictures but the fossils themselves, and make my own pictures. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
User:Tobias1984, in the table row on the Ediacaran it says: Isotopic: Beginning of a distinctive pattern of secular changes in carbon isotopes. I find that statement quite hard to understand. I'm not a native speaker, but many people reading the article won't be either. Looking around for a minute, I found the following statement: at the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary the onset of a dramatic fall in Δ13C values [occurs] (e.g., Amthor et al., 2003; Geology 31:431–434). Perhaps with this, you could clarify the text here. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 13:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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I've posted here rather than at Talk:Banana, because it concerns only your edits. Actually, I tend think that you were right in the first place to put the table of differences in the two species articles, and that when you removed it (e.g. here) it was perhaps not the right thing to do. Differentiating between the species rather than the cultivars surely belongs at the species articles? I do understand though that this is a very difficult set of articles to manage. The totality of information available is very impressive. I'm sure that most of the banana-related articles can be got to GA status. Peter coxhead ( talk) 18:18, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Very much a nightmare. Which is why I got exasperated with the edit warring spilling over from the Tree article confusing it even further. It's a difficult enough topic as it is taxonomically, without deliberately confusing it further with pedantry on what its common name actually means. Not helped by Mark Marathon's sarcastic parroting of my edit summaries. Anyway that's all been dealt with.
I think with the modern classification the Cavendish Group is properly an AAA subgroup. 'Basrai' and 'Srimanti' seem to be either actual laboratory-derived cultivars from 'Dwarf Cavendish' or synonyms adopted purely for legal or commercial reasons. They're all clones of clones, if you ask me, :P but treating them as proper cultivars would be what I'd do, I guess.
And yes, a lot of the naming follows outdated conventions, some dating back to Linnaean taxonomy which is why I stressed that Musa sapientum and M. paradisiaca, both of which are still widely used especially in the more isolated third-world scientific literature, are no longer correct.
I'm not sure on how widely the name Musa ×paradisiaca is used. I suspect it dates back to when Cheesman, Simmonds, et al. started discovering that the banana "species" were actually hybrids and is now incorrect. The Promusa article (under section "Previous nomenclature system") I gave earlier mentions this. Almost all literature I found using it use it to describe "French plantains" exclusively (whatever that cultivar actually is), and it seems to be rarely used in actual banana-specialized literature. IMO, it's best to stick to actually describing the hybrid parentage as most sources do. Also, Is the requirement for congeneric hybrid names to have a genus on the second parent a new ICN rule or something, or was I just daft? Haha. I've encountered three most common ways to write it: Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana, and Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, and Musa acuminata × balbisiana, so no problems on that I guess.
Anyway I'll try. I'm obviously not exactly an expert as well, so take my opinions with a grain of salt, heh. I think my involvement in the topic started out because I wanted to make articles on some cultivars uncommon in other countries but economically and culturally important here.-- OBSIDIAN† SOUL 00:41, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear Obsidian Soul, When preparing to make an article on Cephalopyge, I more frequently ended up with a nudibranche than a trilobite. Therefore I created a page Cephalopyge (trilobite). I have send an email to the author of the trilobite genus. This is his answer:
"Dear colleague,
You are absolutely correct in your assumption that Cephalopyge Geyer, 1988 is a junior synonym of Cephalopyge Hanel. I discovered this in 1999 and wanted to do a small paper on additional material and with suggesting a new name. For different reasons, this article has been delayed. Unfortunately, a colleague dashed into the situation and, if I may say this, in a sort of nomenclatural piracy suggested the new name Marocconus to replaces the Cephalopyge as a name for the trilobite genus. In case you are interested, I am attaching a PDF of the relevant article."
However, it is as if the name Marocconus is boycotted, I cannot find it anywhere else than in the PDF I received. Could you please advise me? Thanks again, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 22:44, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Given I constantly checked the page you wrote for Trogloraptor (great job, BTW) while writing Predatoroonops, can you take a look at it and check the prose? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 16:46, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, the image you uploaded to Commons, File:Karat bananas.jpg, appears in several places on the web as being of a cultivar of the Fe'i group, including here. However, I've been reading up about Fe'i bananas (see the article I've started at Fe'i banana) and I'm now wondering if this is correct. Fe'i bananas are said in several sources to have deep ridges on their skins, making them squarish in cross-section. You can see that shape if you look closely at File:Hillsman_carrying_feis_to_Papeete,_by_Coulon.jpg – almost like a star fruit in cross section. But the image of the "Karat banana" is quite different: it's smooth-skinned and rounded. Ploetz et al. ( here, p. 14) say "In Pohnpei (FSM) bananas .. exist also such as 'Peleu' and 'Karat en Iap' (unrelated to the more common 'Karat' bananas, which are Fe'i)". They are AAA group, Maoli-Pōpō'ulu subgroup, and should be "sausage-shaped fruit with blunt ends". So the shape in the image, given the location in Pohnpei, suggests to me that 'Karat en Iap' has been mistaken for 'Karat', or else 'Karat' is the local name, given that it just means "carrot". So this is not an image of a Fe'i banana but an AAA banana. Furthermore, the infant in the picture here appears to be eating the banana raw, which is fine for an AAA cultivar, but Fe'i types are supposed to be plantain-like and need cooking.
However, I don't know how this can be sorted out one way or the other. Any thoughts? Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:28, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Ah, excellent research! You seem to have "sorted this out". It's a pity that we can't use any of these photos, as far as I can tell, because they don't have the right copyright. The one you uploaded seems to be the only permissible one showing Fe'i group bananas. It may be that the angles don't show on it because the resolution is so low. Peter coxhead ( talk) 16:54, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear Obsidian Soul, I'm trying to work my way across the Agnostida. In several Peronopsid articles, I added a graph depicting relationships, such as in Peronopsidae. I did not use "thumb", because the information would be unreadable. However, the explanation of what is in the graph does not show itself somehow. Could you please have a look and advise me in this? Thank you in advance, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:52, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. Don't have inkshape (I use GIMP), but I will reload my graphs as png, now that I know it is better. Cheers, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 14:02, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Waptia needs to go to the Gallery. I want you to create a more Burgess Shale book fossils of the Burgess Shale art. User:98.177.220.111 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.177.220.111 ( talk) 23:32, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Obsidian Soul, I tried to clean up the taxonomy on top of the Wiki Commons Category:Trilobita. Liné1 however, prefers to stick to the taxonomy as provided by PBDB, and to add my correction as an alternative. I note the PBDB taxonomy is inconsistent with that of the trilobite template used in the english Wikipedia. I find having both taxonomies actually quite messy. I do not want to make a fuss if other users think it is fine like it is right now. Could you please have a look? Thanks in advance -- Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:33, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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You mentioned this in the "Malay or Austronesians?" discussion. I nearly followed that up there, but decided to let it go by this time without largely uninformed criticism of the RP DOE from me. However, less publicly here, I'll mention this edit to another article and the textbook cited there. I did look at what the online previewable copy of that textbook has to say about models of migration to the Philippines, and I couldn't figure out what it was trying to say. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, can you check on this ref-desk question [1]? I have tried to answer, and in the process, found that a photo that appears to be yours is also used in a review article by Weber & Keeler. They do give an attribution, but I'm not sure if one or both attributions might be in error. I also thought you might know something about extrafloral nectaries in ferns, and so might be able to help with the question. Thanks for any input, and hope to see you around the ref desk more often! SemanticMantis ( talk) 20:18, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there, I was wondering what's the source for the distribution area in this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trachurus_murphyi_range_map.jpg I mean, the information to set the boundaries, not the image itself. Thank you in advance for your answer. -- Ricardo Oliveros Ramos ( talk) 16:59, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey, any news on this guy? Was looking good! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Palaeontology/Paleoart_review/Archive_~4#Tiktaalik FunkMonk ( talk) 14:16, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I'm using your excellent 3d models of wiki bots on my new wiki about wikibots. Thanks for your effort and for releasing them to the Public Domain. AugurNZ ✐ ⌕ 11:10, 28 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AugurNZ ( talk • contribs)
Hi Obsidian,
I'm looking for a Cebuano speaker, and your name is in the very short list. The devs are looking at setting up WP:VisualEditor for all users at the Cebuano Wikipedia towards the end of September. Would you be interested in helping with support and translation efforts? (Go here to see what the translation system looks like for documentation; you can login with your Wikipedia username/password.) Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:32, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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Ok, I've finished them all by my lonesome, since no other Cebuanos stepped up to help :[ and it's already the 24th (here in our futureworld anyway, LOL).
I've reworked some of the phrasing where they're impossible to translate word-for-word, and retained the English in most of them (either because they don't have Cebuano equivalents, or if they do, they're so obscure and/or ambiguous that even native speakers wouldn't understand them). I referenced the full English User Guide to gain a better idea of the context though, so I'm pretty confident they still mean what they were supposed to mean.
The file name translations can be safely ignored I guess, as there's no translated UI yet (AFAIK).-- OBSIDIAN† SOUL 16:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
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Before I reinstate my edit, I noticed you reverted an edit I did and wanted your input. On the bigfin reef squid someone uploaded a resampled small video of the original HD video. Mediawiki automatically resamples the video these days, so there is no reason to have a low sample on the page, right? Cheers, Nesnad ( talk) 01:18, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! I do appreciate your work on Ancyronyx. I was not aware of your draft, and I absolutely concur to your version. Chhandama ( talk)
Hello Obsidian Soul! Thank you for your review of Template:Did you know nominations/Tatuidris. I changed the section heading to 'Taxonomy' and wikilinked more terms per your suggestions. It's good enough for DYK as it is, even with all the technical terms. I'd love to bring the article to GA status, but I'll need help. Any advice or assistance would be appreciated.
Here are my initial thoughts:
Thought? jonkerz ♠talk 08:22, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
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Loved this article, I was in cape otway in March. Wish I had read this before, I'd have kept an eye out for one. 78.143.209.170 ( talk) 18:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
About that Hari in horse back file , sorry if i make un-relevant images its only artistic depiction ok i will make a images /collages in only the limits of informative form and not will over than it was .. ,
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Obsidian Soul, I am the user who added roughly a paragraph to the Behavior section of this article which you deleted. This is for a university project where I need to make corrections and additions to a Wikipedia article, in this case the article concerning the Panamanian Golden Frog. Why did you delete my text and what could I do to improve whatever you deemed unfit for the page? Were there too many spelling errors or were the errors fact based? The project is due on Friday 10/25 so please get back to me at your earliest convenience. Even a short response would be helpful to me so I can get a better version of my content up!
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The project is just to add information of take away incorrect information to any article having to do with the topic of extinction or endangered animals because the course focuses on the causes and effects of extinction. Thank you for the advice. I'll edit more carefully next time. I didn't realize that what I was saving was published instantaneously! Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20A Extinction2013 ( talk • contribs) 00:22, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Obsidian Soul! Nice work on the Zospeum tholussum article and DYK. I need to say, It has what it takes to be listed as GA. Are you willing to submit it to the review process? If you're not, I might as well do it myself. Best wishes! -- Daniel Cavallari ( talk) 19:20, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Whats wrong for being a patriotic? and about the "stock Puppets" May pinsan akong gumagamit ng pc at sya ay isa ring wikipedian ok?"
So dont tell im a problematic . . .. Kasalana ko ba kung wala siyang Pc para dun mag edit ng mga article?" . .at about sa Star , ikaw na po ang nag sabi, its not important its just a sign of appreciation, i have been apricieate by my cousins so whats the matter?
About banning i will appeal to this men. ..
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Hey man. Although I understand your frustration, edits like this are sometimes a bit not constructive. I am completely supportive of your position, but it's best not to make it personal sometimes. Wikipedia is a a better place when you ignore all of that BS. Happy evening! — ΛΧΣ 21 00:52, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Consider what can actually be done here. The admin's behavior has been documented and discussed. Further blocks of the IPs at this point won't achieve anything and your edit summary and comments are ringing alarm bells. John Reaves 03:05, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the advice. The tables are from, "The Elements of the Nature and Properties of Soils (3rd edition)" [by Nyle C. Brady, Ray R. Weil]. I've never cited a book before, but i think I can quickly figure it out. Is it a requirement that i cite the specific page as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwratner1 ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:No personal attacks, which is completely unacceptable.-- Balthazarduju ( talk) 12:46, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
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My greetings. I added my opinion in the Village pump because I already have expressed in two other places and I did not want to canvass.
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I came here to say exactly what Daniel Cavallari has already said: a fine article in which the only thing that is missing is the GA star. As a member of WP Croatia this is something I'd like to see fixed. :) I've made some minor tweaks and I'm willing to assist in the GAN process if necessary. GregorB ( talk) 16:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Obsidian Soul,
I'm currently working in the framework of a European project which aim to study Trachurus murphyi (Chilean Jack Mackerel) distribution in South Pacific. So I'm interested in the way you built the estimated range map ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trachurus_murphyi_range_map.jpg
What are your data ? Which method / model do you apply to these data ?
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I am not a contributor to Wikipedia but I am an avid user. I don't feel confident enough to contribute as of yet, but perhaps in the future. The reason that I wanted to thank you is because I am a gay male that was, in the past, unaware of homosexual phenomenon in ancient history such as the Sacred Band of Thebes. The lack of male role models for young gay boys, teens, and even men, made the discovery even more exciting and welcome as the very notion of an honored fighting force of male lovers helps to disprove the very illogical yet pervading stereotype that homosexuality and masculinity are antithetical to one another. I saw you vehemently call out an "editor" that seemed to take it as the mission of his online life to downplay or stigmatize all mentions of homosexuality in the articles regarding ancient Greece. I believe one of his handles was Sir Gawain. I believe that he is continuing the unfortunate tradition of the many scholars and historians of yesteryear of censoring, omitting, downplaying, or vilifying historical mentions of homosexuality based on his own prejudices. I would never have learned of so many of these instances had it not been for Wikipedia, so it truly bothers me that people like Sir Gawain are so tireless in their efforts. I recently noticed that the article for Harmodius and Aristogeiton is suffering from the same "whitewashing" that Sir Gawain employed. At first, someone in the Talk section complained that their same-sex relationship was a central theme when it shouldn't be. To my dismay, the final note in the Talk section was that someone else had come along and removed almost all evidence of their relationship. I found this to be unfortunately accurate as I combed over the article and found only one reference alluding to the relationship and this was because I knew what to look for. If not for people like you who oppose the "whitewashing" of history on the basis of personal prejudice, people like myself would never know much of the history of our own sexuality. I don't believe in placing anyone on illogical pedestals to worship, but it's nice to have a few heroes and role models to look up to when we already have so few. And it saddens me that people are so adamant in tearing down the few that we do have. It's also unfortunate to note that these articles almost have to be "policed" because it seems that as soon as the collective "back" is turned, these same people are converging on these articles like it's a pile of stool and they're the King of Flies, just so that they may censor out all homosexuality. (Let me specify that I only participate in or support consenting adult relationships. I feel when I talk about this that I have to make sure no one thinks that I support pederasty.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luxitos ( talk • contribs) 04:43, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Do you draw well? If so, we could really use your skills. Please see this. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:58, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Obsidian! I just proposed that Lumpers and splitters be moved to Lumping and splitting. If you have a minute, I'd love to get your opinion on my proposal. Thanks! – voidxor ( talk | contrib) 01:03, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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Dear Obsidian Soul, I wanted to thank you for the nice new article on the land snail genus Pollicaria. It was a pleasant surprise to find it in the list of new gastropod articles. Invertzoo ( talk) 22:06, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi OS. I should have said g'day ages ago, because I come across your Aussie work quite frequently, so thanks! What brought me here today was this. According to the source page linked from that image, the images in Padil are cc-by-3.0-au. Can you fix any related uploads (or let me know what I missed)? Thanks. [BTW great to have those images on wiki!] -- 99of9 ( talk) 04:50, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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Re this edit -- my error; thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:43, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, first and foremost I wanted to congratulate you on your fantastic contributions to the wiki. I hope you find the inspiration to continue being active on the wiki for many years.
That said, I was wondering if you have by any chance any reference images you could provide of your Tiktaalik sculpt. I've been looking for an orthographic views (non-posed top, bottom, side, front, etc... views) of this species to no avail and yours is the best model out there. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.39.245.237 ( talk) 16:36, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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I am writing from Dorling Kindersley's office in Delhi. We are a part of Penguin Random House group.
One of the projects that we are currently working on is a book entitled "Rocks and Gem".
We wish to use images of "Palaeochiropteryx" on one of our spreads and we were wondering if we could use pictures of it from your collection.
We have really liked an image on the following link: /info/en/?search=Palaeochiropteryx#/media/File:Palaeochiropteryx_Paleoart.jpg and we are really keen on using the image in our book.
By supplying the image you grant us the right to use the image in all editions in all forms of the work (including digital products based on the work) in all languages throughout the world.
We would want print quality high resolution image at 300dpi.
Many thanks for your time and attention.
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This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.
Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.
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Hi again! I just wanted to let you know that I've moved a little upwards on the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points. I've created and looked over the first two Ordovician stages. I don't know if you still have time but the Tremadocian stage would need an article about the conodont Iapetognathus fluctivagus and the Floian stage an article about the graptolite Tetragraptus approximatus. Thank you again for pulling the weight on the Cambrian index fossils. -- Tobias1984 ( talk) 23:11, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for adding the index fossil category to the Olenellus-lemma. Index fossils are characterised by a temporally strictly limited occurence and a wide spatial distribution (preferable global). Furthermore, the usefullness of fossils to define the age of strata improves with their abundance. This implies that not all fossils can be used as index fossils though. I fear an unmanageable surge of edits will occur adding this caterory to any fossil-lemma. In this light I would like to note that indeed some Olenellus species are useful as local index fossils. I also note that the page on Index fossils has a very limited list that only includes the species relevant for the US. What is your view on this issue.
Reading through the Index fossil lemma, I also conclude it is not consistent in its definition of this concept. Particularly the sentence "The best index fossils are not common, hard-to-identify at species level, and have a small distribution—otherwise the likelihood of finding and recognizing one in the two sediments is minor." is at best unclear, but I'm inclined to say it is incorrect. Kind regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 11:54, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Obsidian Soul, I've had a look at the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points. I'll keep it under surveillance as I will try to work my way through the Agnostida, but there was no species there that I know has good sources available right now. The article did however made me think of a four page table in the Treatise, part O, revised, that correlates trilobite zones across paleocontinents. I could try to create an image that reflects the Treatise table's content, but since it is real big, I would need some guidance concerning its placement in an existing or new lemma, and concerning avoiding copyright infringement. Does User:Tobias1984 watch your TP? Regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:42, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Oh yes, and another thing, I had another look at the Index fossil article and concluded this sentence and a few others had been targeted by a new vandal. I reverted his changes and left a level 1 warning on User talk:Dragonofst. Never did this before, so I hope I did the right thing. Regards, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:52, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I think it is a great asset for an article to include illustrations of the fossil in question. I had a look which of the index fossils mentioned on the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points would be available to buy and make photos of. I found a mere three: Ancyrodella rotundiloba, Leioceras opalinum and Spirograptus turriculatus (which I suspect is synonymous to Monograptus turricatus). The conondont of cause is so small, my camera could not make a useful picture, so I will try to find out if the University would be willing to help me out. For the agnostids, it seems that I will have to make linedrawings. My first priority would be to make a identification key, and the line drawings will come in handy there as well. I'll keep you posted on my progress, but all of this will be quite a job, probably taking several months, so please don't be hasty... Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 23:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Ah, thanks. There will be no copyright issue as I will not buy the pictures but the fossils themselves, and make my own pictures. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
User:Tobias1984, in the table row on the Ediacaran it says: Isotopic: Beginning of a distinctive pattern of secular changes in carbon isotopes. I find that statement quite hard to understand. I'm not a native speaker, but many people reading the article won't be either. Looking around for a minute, I found the following statement: at the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary the onset of a dramatic fall in Δ13C values [occurs] (e.g., Amthor et al., 2003; Geology 31:431–434). Perhaps with this, you could clarify the text here. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 13:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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I've posted here rather than at Talk:Banana, because it concerns only your edits. Actually, I tend think that you were right in the first place to put the table of differences in the two species articles, and that when you removed it (e.g. here) it was perhaps not the right thing to do. Differentiating between the species rather than the cultivars surely belongs at the species articles? I do understand though that this is a very difficult set of articles to manage. The totality of information available is very impressive. I'm sure that most of the banana-related articles can be got to GA status. Peter coxhead ( talk) 18:18, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Very much a nightmare. Which is why I got exasperated with the edit warring spilling over from the Tree article confusing it even further. It's a difficult enough topic as it is taxonomically, without deliberately confusing it further with pedantry on what its common name actually means. Not helped by Mark Marathon's sarcastic parroting of my edit summaries. Anyway that's all been dealt with.
I think with the modern classification the Cavendish Group is properly an AAA subgroup. 'Basrai' and 'Srimanti' seem to be either actual laboratory-derived cultivars from 'Dwarf Cavendish' or synonyms adopted purely for legal or commercial reasons. They're all clones of clones, if you ask me, :P but treating them as proper cultivars would be what I'd do, I guess.
And yes, a lot of the naming follows outdated conventions, some dating back to Linnaean taxonomy which is why I stressed that Musa sapientum and M. paradisiaca, both of which are still widely used especially in the more isolated third-world scientific literature, are no longer correct.
I'm not sure on how widely the name Musa ×paradisiaca is used. I suspect it dates back to when Cheesman, Simmonds, et al. started discovering that the banana "species" were actually hybrids and is now incorrect. The Promusa article (under section "Previous nomenclature system") I gave earlier mentions this. Almost all literature I found using it use it to describe "French plantains" exclusively (whatever that cultivar actually is), and it seems to be rarely used in actual banana-specialized literature. IMO, it's best to stick to actually describing the hybrid parentage as most sources do. Also, Is the requirement for congeneric hybrid names to have a genus on the second parent a new ICN rule or something, or was I just daft? Haha. I've encountered three most common ways to write it: Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana, and Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, and Musa acuminata × balbisiana, so no problems on that I guess.
Anyway I'll try. I'm obviously not exactly an expert as well, so take my opinions with a grain of salt, heh. I think my involvement in the topic started out because I wanted to make articles on some cultivars uncommon in other countries but economically and culturally important here.-- OBSIDIAN† SOUL 00:41, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear Obsidian Soul, When preparing to make an article on Cephalopyge, I more frequently ended up with a nudibranche than a trilobite. Therefore I created a page Cephalopyge (trilobite). I have send an email to the author of the trilobite genus. This is his answer:
"Dear colleague,
You are absolutely correct in your assumption that Cephalopyge Geyer, 1988 is a junior synonym of Cephalopyge Hanel. I discovered this in 1999 and wanted to do a small paper on additional material and with suggesting a new name. For different reasons, this article has been delayed. Unfortunately, a colleague dashed into the situation and, if I may say this, in a sort of nomenclatural piracy suggested the new name Marocconus to replaces the Cephalopyge as a name for the trilobite genus. In case you are interested, I am attaching a PDF of the relevant article."
However, it is as if the name Marocconus is boycotted, I cannot find it anywhere else than in the PDF I received. Could you please advise me? Thanks again, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 22:44, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Given I constantly checked the page you wrote for Trogloraptor (great job, BTW) while writing Predatoroonops, can you take a look at it and check the prose? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 16:46, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, the image you uploaded to Commons, File:Karat bananas.jpg, appears in several places on the web as being of a cultivar of the Fe'i group, including here. However, I've been reading up about Fe'i bananas (see the article I've started at Fe'i banana) and I'm now wondering if this is correct. Fe'i bananas are said in several sources to have deep ridges on their skins, making them squarish in cross-section. You can see that shape if you look closely at File:Hillsman_carrying_feis_to_Papeete,_by_Coulon.jpg – almost like a star fruit in cross section. But the image of the "Karat banana" is quite different: it's smooth-skinned and rounded. Ploetz et al. ( here, p. 14) say "In Pohnpei (FSM) bananas .. exist also such as 'Peleu' and 'Karat en Iap' (unrelated to the more common 'Karat' bananas, which are Fe'i)". They are AAA group, Maoli-Pōpō'ulu subgroup, and should be "sausage-shaped fruit with blunt ends". So the shape in the image, given the location in Pohnpei, suggests to me that 'Karat en Iap' has been mistaken for 'Karat', or else 'Karat' is the local name, given that it just means "carrot". So this is not an image of a Fe'i banana but an AAA banana. Furthermore, the infant in the picture here appears to be eating the banana raw, which is fine for an AAA cultivar, but Fe'i types are supposed to be plantain-like and need cooking.
However, I don't know how this can be sorted out one way or the other. Any thoughts? Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:28, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Ah, excellent research! You seem to have "sorted this out". It's a pity that we can't use any of these photos, as far as I can tell, because they don't have the right copyright. The one you uploaded seems to be the only permissible one showing Fe'i group bananas. It may be that the angles don't show on it because the resolution is so low. Peter coxhead ( talk) 16:54, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear Obsidian Soul, I'm trying to work my way across the Agnostida. In several Peronopsid articles, I added a graph depicting relationships, such as in Peronopsidae. I did not use "thumb", because the information would be unreadable. However, the explanation of what is in the graph does not show itself somehow. Could you please have a look and advise me in this? Thank you in advance, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:52, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. Don't have inkshape (I use GIMP), but I will reload my graphs as png, now that I know it is better. Cheers, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 14:02, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Waptia needs to go to the Gallery. I want you to create a more Burgess Shale book fossils of the Burgess Shale art. User:98.177.220.111 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.177.220.111 ( talk) 23:32, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Obsidian Soul, I tried to clean up the taxonomy on top of the Wiki Commons Category:Trilobita. Liné1 however, prefers to stick to the taxonomy as provided by PBDB, and to add my correction as an alternative. I note the PBDB taxonomy is inconsistent with that of the trilobite template used in the english Wikipedia. I find having both taxonomies actually quite messy. I do not want to make a fuss if other users think it is fine like it is right now. Could you please have a look? Thanks in advance -- Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 12:33, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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You mentioned this in the "Malay or Austronesians?" discussion. I nearly followed that up there, but decided to let it go by this time without largely uninformed criticism of the RP DOE from me. However, less publicly here, I'll mention this edit to another article and the textbook cited there. I did look at what the online previewable copy of that textbook has to say about models of migration to the Philippines, and I couldn't figure out what it was trying to say. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, can you check on this ref-desk question [1]? I have tried to answer, and in the process, found that a photo that appears to be yours is also used in a review article by Weber & Keeler. They do give an attribution, but I'm not sure if one or both attributions might be in error. I also thought you might know something about extrafloral nectaries in ferns, and so might be able to help with the question. Thanks for any input, and hope to see you around the ref desk more often! SemanticMantis ( talk) 20:18, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
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Your trilobite template is really effin cool! Abyssal ( talk) 14:20, 28 June 2013 (UTC) |
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Hi there, I was wondering what's the source for the distribution area in this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trachurus_murphyi_range_map.jpg I mean, the information to set the boundaries, not the image itself. Thank you in advance for your answer. -- Ricardo Oliveros Ramos ( talk) 16:59, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey, any news on this guy? Was looking good! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Palaeontology/Paleoart_review/Archive_~4#Tiktaalik FunkMonk ( talk) 14:16, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I'm using your excellent 3d models of wiki bots on my new wiki about wikibots. Thanks for your effort and for releasing them to the Public Domain. AugurNZ ✐ ⌕ 11:10, 28 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AugurNZ ( talk • contribs)
Hi Obsidian,
I'm looking for a Cebuano speaker, and your name is in the very short list. The devs are looking at setting up WP:VisualEditor for all users at the Cebuano Wikipedia towards the end of September. Would you be interested in helping with support and translation efforts? (Go here to see what the translation system looks like for documentation; you can login with your Wikipedia username/password.) Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:32, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Greetings from the Wikimedia Foundation, Cebuano Wikipedia editors. I am posting to let you know about the VisualEditor (VE) editing interface. It is a new, visual way to edit Wikipedia. We would like to deploy VisualEditor on this Wikipedia soon, and we would like to get editors' opinions on the new platform.
To test VisualEditor, you can enable it by going to (I'll figure this part out, PE). After doing this, you will see two options for editing an article. We welcome your feedback, and would like to know about any problems or "bugs" experienced on ceb.wiki. It is also important that VisualEditor's buttons and labels are translated into Cebuano, along with several important help documents. If you have English skills, you can help out at Translatewiki.net and VisualEditor's TranslationCentral on mediawiki.org. You must have an account on Translatewiki.net to translate.
We expect to enable VisualEditor here on Tuesday, 24 September unless there any critical bugs with your particular Wikipedia that you find during testing. Enabling VisualEditor here for everyone will help the software to be developed and improved to meet the needs of all users. After the rollout the new editor will be displayed side-by-side with the button to edit using wikitext. Once VisualEditor is enabled you will have the option to disable it in your preferences so that you will no longer see it while it is in beta testing. We hope that you do not chose to do that because it would limit the opportunities to find out how we can make VisualEditor better for the Cebuano Wikipedia. The option to edit using wikitext will not be going away. Thank you for your comments, and happy editing,
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Ok, I've finished them all by my lonesome, since no other Cebuanos stepped up to help :[ and it's already the 24th (here in our futureworld anyway, LOL).
I've reworked some of the phrasing where they're impossible to translate word-for-word, and retained the English in most of them (either because they don't have Cebuano equivalents, or if they do, they're so obscure and/or ambiguous that even native speakers wouldn't understand them). I referenced the full English User Guide to gain a better idea of the context though, so I'm pretty confident they still mean what they were supposed to mean.
The file name translations can be safely ignored I guess, as there's no translated UI yet (AFAIK).-- OBSIDIAN† SOUL 16:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
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For yeoman work translating help documents for the Cebuano Wikipedia, Obsidian Soul deserves ten of these barnstars. (but he's only getting one) PEarley (WMF) ( talk) 22:35, 23 September 2013 (UTC) |
Before I reinstate my edit, I noticed you reverted an edit I did and wanted your input. On the bigfin reef squid someone uploaded a resampled small video of the original HD video. Mediawiki automatically resamples the video these days, so there is no reason to have a low sample on the page, right? Cheers, Nesnad ( talk) 01:18, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! I do appreciate your work on Ancyronyx. I was not aware of your draft, and I absolutely concur to your version. Chhandama ( talk)
Hello Obsidian Soul! Thank you for your review of Template:Did you know nominations/Tatuidris. I changed the section heading to 'Taxonomy' and wikilinked more terms per your suggestions. It's good enough for DYK as it is, even with all the technical terms. I'd love to bring the article to GA status, but I'll need help. Any advice or assistance would be appreciated.
Here are my initial thoughts:
Thought? jonkerz ♠talk 08:22, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
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Loved this article, I was in cape otway in March. Wish I had read this before, I'd have kept an eye out for one. 78.143.209.170 ( talk) 18:56, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
About that Hari in horse back file , sorry if i make un-relevant images its only artistic depiction ok i will make a images /collages in only the limits of informative form and not will over than it was .. ,
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Obsidian Soul, I am the user who added roughly a paragraph to the Behavior section of this article which you deleted. This is for a university project where I need to make corrections and additions to a Wikipedia article, in this case the article concerning the Panamanian Golden Frog. Why did you delete my text and what could I do to improve whatever you deemed unfit for the page? Were there too many spelling errors or were the errors fact based? The project is due on Friday 10/25 so please get back to me at your earliest convenience. Even a short response would be helpful to me so I can get a better version of my content up!
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The project is just to add information of take away incorrect information to any article having to do with the topic of extinction or endangered animals because the course focuses on the causes and effects of extinction. Thank you for the advice. I'll edit more carefully next time. I didn't realize that what I was saving was published instantaneously! Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20A Extinction2013 ( talk • contribs) 00:22, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Obsidian Soul! Nice work on the Zospeum tholussum article and DYK. I need to say, It has what it takes to be listed as GA. Are you willing to submit it to the review process? If you're not, I might as well do it myself. Best wishes! -- Daniel Cavallari ( talk) 19:20, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Whats wrong for being a patriotic? and about the "stock Puppets" May pinsan akong gumagamit ng pc at sya ay isa ring wikipedian ok?"
So dont tell im a problematic . . .. Kasalana ko ba kung wala siyang Pc para dun mag edit ng mga article?" . .at about sa Star , ikaw na po ang nag sabi, its not important its just a sign of appreciation, i have been apricieate by my cousins so whats the matter?
About banning i will appeal to this men. ..
so dont tell about a hammer ban .. ok ..*sigh* — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philipandrew ( talk • contribs) 11:41, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
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Ok thanks, The text originally said "homin", so I spell checked it and "hominine" came up as a possible recommendation so I clicked it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyrannical95 ( talk • contribs) 21:44, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
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Consider what can actually be done here. The admin's behavior has been documented and discussed. Further blocks of the IPs at this point won't achieve anything and your edit summary and comments are ringing alarm bells. John Reaves 03:05, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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My greetings. I added my opinion in the Village pump because I already have expressed in two other places and I did not want to canvass.
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Hello,
I came here to say exactly what Daniel Cavallari has already said: a fine article in which the only thing that is missing is the GA star. As a member of WP Croatia this is something I'd like to see fixed. :) I've made some minor tweaks and I'm willing to assist in the GAN process if necessary. GregorB ( talk) 16:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Obsidian Soul,
I'm currently working in the framework of a European project which aim to study Trachurus murphyi (Chilean Jack Mackerel) distribution in South Pacific. So I'm interested in the way you built the estimated range map ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trachurus_murphyi_range_map.jpg
What are your data ? Which method / model do you apply to these data ?
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I am not a contributor to Wikipedia but I am an avid user. I don't feel confident enough to contribute as of yet, but perhaps in the future. The reason that I wanted to thank you is because I am a gay male that was, in the past, unaware of homosexual phenomenon in ancient history such as the Sacred Band of Thebes. The lack of male role models for young gay boys, teens, and even men, made the discovery even more exciting and welcome as the very notion of an honored fighting force of male lovers helps to disprove the very illogical yet pervading stereotype that homosexuality and masculinity are antithetical to one another. I saw you vehemently call out an "editor" that seemed to take it as the mission of his online life to downplay or stigmatize all mentions of homosexuality in the articles regarding ancient Greece. I believe one of his handles was Sir Gawain. I believe that he is continuing the unfortunate tradition of the many scholars and historians of yesteryear of censoring, omitting, downplaying, or vilifying historical mentions of homosexuality based on his own prejudices. I would never have learned of so many of these instances had it not been for Wikipedia, so it truly bothers me that people like Sir Gawain are so tireless in their efforts. I recently noticed that the article for Harmodius and Aristogeiton is suffering from the same "whitewashing" that Sir Gawain employed. At first, someone in the Talk section complained that their same-sex relationship was a central theme when it shouldn't be. To my dismay, the final note in the Talk section was that someone else had come along and removed almost all evidence of their relationship. I found this to be unfortunately accurate as I combed over the article and found only one reference alluding to the relationship and this was because I knew what to look for. If not for people like you who oppose the "whitewashing" of history on the basis of personal prejudice, people like myself would never know much of the history of our own sexuality. I don't believe in placing anyone on illogical pedestals to worship, but it's nice to have a few heroes and role models to look up to when we already have so few. And it saddens me that people are so adamant in tearing down the few that we do have. It's also unfortunate to note that these articles almost have to be "policed" because it seems that as soon as the collective "back" is turned, these same people are converging on these articles like it's a pile of stool and they're the King of Flies, just so that they may censor out all homosexuality. (Let me specify that I only participate in or support consenting adult relationships. I feel when I talk about this that I have to make sure no one thinks that I support pederasty.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luxitos ( talk • contribs) 04:43, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Do you draw well? If so, we could really use your skills. Please see this. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:58, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Obsidian! I just proposed that Lumpers and splitters be moved to Lumping and splitting. If you have a minute, I'd love to get your opinion on my proposal. Thanks! – voidxor ( talk | contrib) 01:03, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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Dear Obsidian Soul, I wanted to thank you for the nice new article on the land snail genus Pollicaria. It was a pleasant surprise to find it in the list of new gastropod articles. Invertzoo ( talk) 22:06, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
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Mike V • Talk 06:28, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi OS. I should have said g'day ages ago, because I come across your Aussie work quite frequently, so thanks! What brought me here today was this. According to the source page linked from that image, the images in Padil are cc-by-3.0-au. Can you fix any related uploads (or let me know what I missed)? Thanks. [BTW great to have those images on wiki!] -- 99of9 ( talk) 04:50, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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Re this edit -- my error; thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:43, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, first and foremost I wanted to congratulate you on your fantastic contributions to the wiki. I hope you find the inspiration to continue being active on the wiki for many years.
That said, I was wondering if you have by any chance any reference images you could provide of your Tiktaalik sculpt. I've been looking for an orthographic views (non-posed top, bottom, side, front, etc... views) of this species to no avail and yours is the best model out there. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.39.245.237 ( talk) 16:36, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
Hope you are doing well.
I am writing from Dorling Kindersley's office in Delhi. We are a part of Penguin Random House group.
One of the projects that we are currently working on is a book entitled "Rocks and Gem".
We wish to use images of "Palaeochiropteryx" on one of our spreads and we were wondering if we could use pictures of it from your collection.
We have really liked an image on the following link: /info/en/?search=Palaeochiropteryx#/media/File:Palaeochiropteryx_Paleoart.jpg and we are really keen on using the image in our book.
By supplying the image you grant us the right to use the image in all editions in all forms of the work (including digital products based on the work) in all languages throughout the world.
We would want print quality high resolution image at 300dpi.
Many thanks for your time and attention.
Thanks and Regards, Sumedha Chopra Senior picture reseracher — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumedha.chopra ( talk • contribs) 07:11, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
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Whether they are doing it intentionally or not doesn't matter. Even generally, it doesn't really matter. It can be considered a form of refactoring, which is against guidelines per WP:TPO. I recommend a self-revert and, again, just indenting for them. Thanks. Amaury ( talk) 00:05, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi. How are you? No hard feelings, I hope. Just reviewing the Climaco AFD, and noticed an interesting anomaly -- your keep vote crediting @RioHondo's rationale. Funny thing is @RioHondo did not participate in that AFD (see [2], [3]); it's a puzzlement. Quis separabit? 11:14, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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Seasons Greetings,
This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.
Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.
While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.
Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.
This particular request is being made to you since your user name is listed in Wikipedia:Translators available list.
Thanking you with warm regards Mahitgar ( talk) 05:19, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
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