User talk:BhagyaMani/Archive 6

Help needed

Hi, I am assuming you know French and can help me. I was trying to start and improve an article on the rather infamous Pauline_Rifer_de_Courcelles. According to some sources, Henriëtte_Ronner-Knip was her daughter but the French Wikipedia says (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriëtte_Ronner-Knip ) was born to Cornelia van Leeuwen. Based on the dates, I am not so sure but searching French sources is not easy as is interpreting the bizarre to hilarious output of Google Translate. Shyamal (talk) 10:24, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Shyamal. In the dutch article it says, that Henriëtte was 2nd child of Joseph August Knip who lived with Cornelia van Leeuwen. His wife Pauline lived on her own, they got divorced in 1824. So very likely Henriëtte was not Pauline's daughter. But could not find any French publication confirming this. Referenced is only that she was Knip's daughter : Müller, H. A. 1882. Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. Die bekanntesten Zeitgenossen auf dem Gebiet der bildenden Künste aller Länder mit Angabe ihrer Werke. Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig. See http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=67150#Ronner Müller does not list Pauline.

Thanks, I have removed the statement. Shyamal (talk) 04:09, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

bis hazar tal

hello bhagyamani, bis hazar tal means 20 thousand lakes, as i'm sure you know. i have never come across a spelling of 20 as "bees". pronouncing it like in honey-bees would be pretty off and, simply put, wrong. pronouciation is rather like "kiss". in nepali, bis is written with an "i", not "e", and certainly not "ee". you started this article, so why do you spell 20 with double-e?Sundar1 (talk) 13:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, i know, also the meaning. So I'll move the article to Bishazari Tal. Bhuju et al. (2007) use both spellings. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 13:16, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciation

Thank You BhagyaMani for moving the added info to relevant place in the Indian rhinoceros article. --Anand2202 (talk) 12:37, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Talk:Shey Phoksundo National Park#Grammar

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Shey Phoksundo National Park#Grammar. Thanks. Legolover26 (talk) 19:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Legolover26. You are welcome to keep on correcting grammatical errors. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 11:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You don't own any articles : Nor do you

BhagyaMani, contrary to what you might think, you do not own any articles around here. I am going to call on admins to look at your behaviour, you do hardly any work, besides reverting everything that everybody else does on the pages that you tink you own. Your edits on Barbary lion are nothing else but a childish compulsion that drives you to want to have the last word. If you are really concerned about the quality of the article, you would have seen before reverting my first edit that in at least two places on that page there are indocations that the barbary lion lived on way past 42. That fact has already been pointed out on the discussion page. I suggest you follow discussion when you get too involved with an article. If you were not to obsessed with reverting everyone else you might be more productive and we would all win. As it is, it does not look look good that you repeatedly wipe your user discussion page to conceal negative comments about your behaviour, which also led you to request the removal of your user page. Now grow up. Have a good weekend. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 07:51, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a mirror? Then look at your own behaviour : you were the one who changed the intro without prior discussing and are not ready to compromise now. I integrated your changes and wishes about phrasing. You keep on splitting this paragraph, although info in both refers to the same source. This article has been on my watchlist since two years, and I contributed several references to formerly unsourced, sometimes unchecked copy-pasted content.
How I use my user page doesn't concern you, does it? Content was deleted on my request as somebody didn't know about the meaning of talk pages. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 09:24, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your opinion on this: Barbary lion

Hi BhaygyaMani. Please look at this statement, "was among the biggest lion subspecies". I don't know how many subspecies there ever were, you are the expert on this; were there that many? Because to me, "among" implies that this is not the only one of the "biggest subspecies", there were others, this one was one of them. This means that if there were a number of bigger/ biggest subspecies, there would be a much larger number of smaller subspecies. This would imply that there were many subspecies. So, my question again, were there that many subspecies? Thanks, and have a great week ahead. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 22:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since Meyer's description of barbaricus several naturalists described lions from other parts of Africa under different scientific names, often on the basis of just a skin. But over time, the concept of 'subspecies' changed. It's been only since the late 1980s that through genetic analyses was found that lion populations in Africa are so closely related that they are now grouped as one and the same subspecies. So it would indeed be more appropriate to write that some individuals apparently were bigger than lions in other parts of Africa; size is an indicator for prey base but not for 'subspecies' -- BhagyaMani (talk) 09:48, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, BhagyaMani. That was indeed cery informative. Even worthy of mention in this on main lion article, about "over time, the concept of 'subspecies' changed. It's been only since the late 1980s that through genetic analyses was found that lion populations in Africa are so closely related that they are now grouped as one and the same subspecies". Good stuff. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 20:58, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wild water buffalo

Many thanks for correcting my error. So much for local guides! Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:11, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Paragraphing

I'm not going to revert the edit on Binturong because I'm too short on inclination, but consolidating the "paragraphs" is the better option. I can't technically say that they are "one sentence paragraphs" because each has 2 sentences, but each is 1 line of text. And there are 2 of them. And the only other paragraph has 2 sentences and just over 2 lines of text. Pretty basic writing, in English anyway. bridies (talk) 10:43, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding : Terai is Marshy or not

Well, there are many lakes or ponds in terai, it doesn't however frees us to call the whole of terai as ponded. There may be few Marshy areas, but using this word as a chief feature of Terai is by no means justified. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scyfie (talk • contribs) 09:26, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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