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Hi Snowman: Do you have time to upload a Flickr picture for me? I've been working on the Chimney Swift article and have found a picture of roosting swifts here which would be useful. Thanks for any help you can provide... MeegsC ( talk) 03:57, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have a couple of GAs I want to nominate for FAC in the future, and I have a feeling that you'll end up reviewing them, so to spare the trouble, which of the following do you like the most? King Island Emu or Red Rail? The one you choose will be the next FAC. FunkMonk ( talk) 14:26, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks much for your excellent edits. I appreciate your help. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:59, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Would you care to share your opinion about the composite/single infobox image issue here? I would really appreciate it. Thanks! -- Life is like a box of chocolates ( talk) 07:05, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I noticed this edit, however; according to WP:LEADCITE: "Some material, including direct quotations and contentious material about living persons must be provided with an inline citation every time it is mentioned, regardless of the level of generality or the location of the statement", which is why I always include an in-line cite to direct quotes in the lead. Thanks again for all your helpful edits and comments. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:14, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Snowman. Can you take a look at [File:Anas platyrhynchos male female quadrat.jpg]? Someone has replaced the original featured picture with a new one, which (while nice) is certainly not the featured picture. I don't know how to restore the original version. And presumably the uploader (whom I can't identify, as I can't see anything about the upload in the history) should be notified that this is not acceptable. Thanks! MeegsC ( talk) 13:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
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For all your work helping out at the Death of Jimi Hendrix article. Without your edits, the article would not be featured today! Thanks much! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:29, 21 March 2013 (UTC) |
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I've stumbled across File:Sgt peppers pict.jpg, which you uploaded in 2006. Since this is a photograph of a 2-D copyrighted artwork, I don't think this can be tagged as a "free" image (see commons:Commons:2D copying). Do you agree? -- John of Reading ( talk) 13:27, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Snowman, was just curious what your rationale was for one of your recent edits on Galapagos Mockingbird. Why do you prefer to as a main image? I actually thought the latter was pretty good so I was surprised to see it not only replaced but removed from the page. Benjamint 05:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Snowman! Hope all is well at your end. I'm wondering if you can help me with a picture issue. The file Gavia Stellata Ölfusá 20090606.jpg seems to have vanished from Commons. (See Red-throated Loon, and the error message in the taxobox.) When I go to Commons and look for it, I can't see why it was deleted. Can you? I'm wondering if someone has just moved it. MeegsC ( talk) 12:55, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
They look like Garden Warbler eggs, so I think the description is correct. I don't speak German, but I used Google translate which rendered
Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen
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"Noncommercial-Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or use as a template for a new plant the licensed work, you may use the resulting work only under the same or a compatible license and distribute this."
This suggests that there may be a potential problem, since there is no reason why German Wikipedia should have the same licensing requirements as en-wiki. I wouldn't take a machine translation as gospel though. Do you know anyone who speaks German?
I have a pdf of Coloured figures of the eggs of British birds by Henry Seebohm which has a Garden Warbler egg on plate 52. The book is 1896, so obviously no problem with copyright. Trouble is that they are life-size, which for this species means very small. If we can't use the German image, do you think it's worth using that? I'll post a link to the book shortly, it will take a little while to upload Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
link to book Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
File:Seebohm Garden Warbler egg.jpg | Painting of an egg of the Garden Warbler. The resolution is poor but is it useful? Aa77zz ( talk) 07:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Snowman, thanks for your help with the warbler FAC. Next up will be Pacific Swift. It's quite short because there isn't much out there. It will be a few days before I nominate, so if you get the chance to have a look and see if there are any obvious flaws I'd be grateful. No problem if you can't Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:07, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
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I am currently working on this article (as you can tell from the under construction tags at the top) so I would appreciate if you could not remove content or add CN templates until I am finished. I welcome you're contribution to the article, but some of your edits are counter productive at this point as I'm either going to have to add the content in again later or remove the templates once what I've sorted the sources. I should be finished in a couple of hours, I'm just reading through a couple of new sources I was sent. -- teb00007 Talk • Contributions 20:10, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I've not been able to do much on Wikipedia recently because I had an assignment due for summer school. I'm going to try to finish this article off tonight, though, and would like your input if you have a chance. I'll re-add a bit about Burns, highlighting the conflicting sources. -- teb00007 Talk • Contributions 22:17, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your detailed work on the Atlantic Puffin FAC and your support after the various improvements had been made.
As I am currently competing in the final round of the WikiCup, the articles I work on tend to be ones that will score a good number of points. Atlantic Puffin was chosen for this reason and more recently, Birth. You have made quite a number of amendments to the latter article. I have put it forward for DYK, for which it should qualify. Would you like me to add your name to the nomination as a joint contributor? Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 20:16, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
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Please remove your "Split-apart|Humans and the sea" tag from the top of the article Sea. As you well know, the article is currently a Featured Article Candidate and it is a distraction to that process to introduce the split discussion now. You have mentioned the idea of dividing the article in two on several occasions during the FA review and I do not believe anybody else has supported you or agreed with your view that the article is too long. On the contrary, several people have expressed their support for the article as it is, and Hamiltonstone was displeased that the Culture section had been separated off, a thing we specifically did at your request. If the tag remains in place, I will ask a delegate to intervene. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 13:12, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion here regarding copyright issue and have flagged it at WT:FAC. Regards, hamiltonstone ( talk) 00:26, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for all the work you have put into reviewing Sea at FAC. It is now nearly seven weeks since the article became a candidate and three weeks since you first commented on it. It is the longest standing FAC bar two, out of about fifty. Neither this article, nor any other FA, is ever going to be perfect and it is in any event subject to future alterations. I think you have already picked up most of the serious omissions and some of the things you have recently mentioned are minor alterations that you could make yourself if you chose. I think it is about time that you wound up your review and left it to the delegates to make a decision as to whether the article should become a FA or not. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 17:32, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
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That looks good, shows her, her "chickens" and a sinking ship. If you are pushed for space, the Gorky image could go. Thanks for that, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:48, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for creating the footnote, I had thought about doing that, but let it slide. In the penultimate paragraph of the section, I wondered if "bird of storm" would be more natural as "storm bird" — what do you think? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 18:03, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
Following your comments on the Desert talk page I have created a new article. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:57, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I have asked Hamiltonstone to look and have a think about the article as he has been good at objecting if he finds the prose too dry or not engaging, and is an outsider to biology articles. He is Australian though, so he will have some familiarity with them. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 20:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your edits on the Electron scattering article, and for the revised classification. I happen to be a 4th year university student, and upgrading the electron scattering article is part of my project. The goal is simply to improve the article as much as possible, and the quality scale is a good way to measure this. I am not sure if you have any background in the topic, but what advice could you give me to continue to improve the article towards a B or even GA?
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Hi Snowman: Do you have time to upload a Flickr picture for me? I've been working on the Chimney Swift article and have found a picture of roosting swifts here which would be useful. Thanks for any help you can provide... MeegsC ( talk) 03:57, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have a couple of GAs I want to nominate for FAC in the future, and I have a feeling that you'll end up reviewing them, so to spare the trouble, which of the following do you like the most? King Island Emu or Red Rail? The one you choose will be the next FAC. FunkMonk ( talk) 14:26, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks much for your excellent edits. I appreciate your help. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:59, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Would you care to share your opinion about the composite/single infobox image issue here? I would really appreciate it. Thanks! -- Life is like a box of chocolates ( talk) 07:05, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I noticed this edit, however; according to WP:LEADCITE: "Some material, including direct quotations and contentious material about living persons must be provided with an inline citation every time it is mentioned, regardless of the level of generality or the location of the statement", which is why I always include an in-line cite to direct quotes in the lead. Thanks again for all your helpful edits and comments. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:14, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Snowman. Can you take a look at [File:Anas platyrhynchos male female quadrat.jpg]? Someone has replaced the original featured picture with a new one, which (while nice) is certainly not the featured picture. I don't know how to restore the original version. And presumably the uploader (whom I can't identify, as I can't see anything about the upload in the history) should be notified that this is not acceptable. Thanks! MeegsC ( talk) 13:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
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For all your work helping out at the Death of Jimi Hendrix article. Without your edits, the article would not be featured today! Thanks much! GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 21:29, 21 March 2013 (UTC) |
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Though we've had quite some disagreements about subfossil bird articles in the past, I'd like to express that I appreciate the great work you do on the bird project, and I don't mind further, healthy criticism. Keep it up! FunkMonk ( talk) 12:06, 17 April 2013 (UTC) |
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I've stumbled across File:Sgt peppers pict.jpg, which you uploaded in 2006. Since this is a photograph of a 2-D copyrighted artwork, I don't think this can be tagged as a "free" image (see commons:Commons:2D copying). Do you agree? -- John of Reading ( talk) 13:27, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Snowman, was just curious what your rationale was for one of your recent edits on Galapagos Mockingbird. Why do you prefer to as a main image? I actually thought the latter was pretty good so I was surprised to see it not only replaced but removed from the page. Benjamint 05:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Snowman! Hope all is well at your end. I'm wondering if you can help me with a picture issue. The file Gavia Stellata Ölfusá 20090606.jpg seems to have vanished from Commons. (See Red-throated Loon, and the error message in the taxobox.) When I go to Commons and look for it, I can't see why it was deleted. Can you? I'm wondering if someone has just moved it. MeegsC ( talk) 12:55, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
They look like Garden Warbler eggs, so I think the description is correct. I don't speak German, but I used Google translate which rendered
Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen
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as
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"Noncommercial-Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or use as a template for a new plant the licensed work, you may use the resulting work only under the same or a compatible license and distribute this."
This suggests that there may be a potential problem, since there is no reason why German Wikipedia should have the same licensing requirements as en-wiki. I wouldn't take a machine translation as gospel though. Do you know anyone who speaks German?
I have a pdf of Coloured figures of the eggs of British birds by Henry Seebohm which has a Garden Warbler egg on plate 52. The book is 1896, so obviously no problem with copyright. Trouble is that they are life-size, which for this species means very small. If we can't use the German image, do you think it's worth using that? I'll post a link to the book shortly, it will take a little while to upload Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
link to book Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
File:Seebohm Garden Warbler egg.jpg | Painting of an egg of the Garden Warbler. The resolution is poor but is it useful? Aa77zz ( talk) 07:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi Snowman, thanks for your help with the warbler FAC. Next up will be Pacific Swift. It's quite short because there isn't much out there. It will be a few days before I nominate, so if you get the chance to have a look and see if there are any obvious flaws I'd be grateful. No problem if you can't Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:07, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
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I am currently working on this article (as you can tell from the under construction tags at the top) so I would appreciate if you could not remove content or add CN templates until I am finished. I welcome you're contribution to the article, but some of your edits are counter productive at this point as I'm either going to have to add the content in again later or remove the templates once what I've sorted the sources. I should be finished in a couple of hours, I'm just reading through a couple of new sources I was sent. -- teb00007 Talk • Contributions 20:10, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I've not been able to do much on Wikipedia recently because I had an assignment due for summer school. I'm going to try to finish this article off tonight, though, and would like your input if you have a chance. I'll re-add a bit about Burns, highlighting the conflicting sources. -- teb00007 Talk • Contributions 22:17, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your detailed work on the Atlantic Puffin FAC and your support after the various improvements had been made.
As I am currently competing in the final round of the WikiCup, the articles I work on tend to be ones that will score a good number of points. Atlantic Puffin was chosen for this reason and more recently, Birth. You have made quite a number of amendments to the latter article. I have put it forward for DYK, for which it should qualify. Would you like me to add your name to the nomination as a joint contributor? Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 20:16, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
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Please remove your "Split-apart|Humans and the sea" tag from the top of the article Sea. As you well know, the article is currently a Featured Article Candidate and it is a distraction to that process to introduce the split discussion now. You have mentioned the idea of dividing the article in two on several occasions during the FA review and I do not believe anybody else has supported you or agreed with your view that the article is too long. On the contrary, several people have expressed their support for the article as it is, and Hamiltonstone was displeased that the Culture section had been separated off, a thing we specifically did at your request. If the tag remains in place, I will ask a delegate to intervene. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 13:12, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion here regarding copyright issue and have flagged it at WT:FAC. Regards, hamiltonstone ( talk) 00:26, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for all the work you have put into reviewing Sea at FAC. It is now nearly seven weeks since the article became a candidate and three weeks since you first commented on it. It is the longest standing FAC bar two, out of about fifty. Neither this article, nor any other FA, is ever going to be perfect and it is in any event subject to future alterations. I think you have already picked up most of the serious omissions and some of the things you have recently mentioned are minor alterations that you could make yourself if you chose. I think it is about time that you wound up your review and left it to the delegates to make a decision as to whether the article should become a FA or not. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 17:32, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
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The sea is the connected body of salty water that covers over 70 percent of the Earth's surface. It moderates the Earth's climate and has important roles in the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. It has been travelled since ancient times, while scientific oceanography dates broadly from Captain James Cook's 18th-century voyages. Winds produce waves and surface currents, and deep-sea currents carry cold water to every ocean. Large events such as submarine earthquakes can cause destructive tsunamis. Tides are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational effects of the Moon and the Sun. A variety of organisms live in the sea's many habitats, from the sunlit surface to the cold, dark abyssal zone, and from the Arctic to colourful tropical coral reefs. Life itself may have started in the sea. The sea provides humans with food including fish and shellfish, and enables trade, travel, mineral extraction, power generation, naval warfare, and leisure, though often at the cost of marine pollution. The sea has been important in human culture since Homer's Odyssey, appearing in literature, mythology, marine art, cinema, theatre, classical music and dream interpretation. ( Full article...)
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Thanks for all your input and edits at the salt GAN. The article is much better for it. I hope you'll continue to keep an eye on it. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 21:49, 18 October 2013 (UTC) |
That looks good, shows her, her "chickens" and a sinking ship. If you are pushed for space, the Gorky image could go. Thanks for that, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:48, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013
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I've responded on my talk page. -- Vmenkov ( talk) 04:55, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for creating the footnote, I had thought about doing that, but let it slide. In the penultimate paragraph of the section, I wondered if "bird of storm" would be more natural as "storm bird" — what do you think? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 18:03, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
Following your comments on the Desert talk page I have created a new article. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:57, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I have asked Hamiltonstone to look and have a think about the article as he has been good at objecting if he finds the prose too dry or not engaging, and is an outsider to biology articles. He is Australian though, so he will have some familiarity with them. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 20:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
We may nominate Crocodilia for GA soon would you be able to review and prepare it for FA. LittleJerry ( talk) 04:47, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
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I noticed that you have Nemegt Formation listed 3 times under re-rating. Chris857 ( talk) 16:50, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Snowmanradio,
Thank you very much for your edits on the Electron scattering article, and for the revised classification. I happen to be a 4th year university student, and upgrading the electron scattering article is part of my project. The goal is simply to improve the article as much as possible, and the quality scale is a good way to measure this. I am not sure if you have any background in the topic, but what advice could you give me to continue to improve the article towards a B or even GA?
The article is still under construction, so I would like to know what you would like to see completed to have it graded to a B-class. Currently I am summarizing the different types of scattering, and have further plans to put into place towards GA later.
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