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F-numberIt is entirely inappropriate to call the f-number by the variable f, since f is universally recognized as the symbol denoting focal length. F-number doesn't get its name because it is f. It is called f-number because it is a ratio of f, and because it is commonly written preceded by f/ to form an expression of the aperture diameter. Balazer (talk) 04:45, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
Reptile classificationJust a quick note on some of your recent edits - after much discussion on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Amphibians_and_Reptiles, we settled on several standard sources (mostly ITIS) in order to allow stability. Until there's some level of 'official' change, we try to maintain taxa in accordance with that database. Cheers! Mokele (talk) 21:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC) Hi, sorry to bug you again, but I just noticed you're in biomechanics, as I am (though you're much farther along in your career than I am). I started WikiProject_Organismal_Biomechanics, which includes some topics applicable to humans (such as biarticular muscles, gait, force plates, muscle contraction, etc.) So far it's slow going, because so many of the articles are in poor shape. We've got a to-do list on the main page, and I figured you might be interested. Cheers, Mokele (talk) 02:00, 30 April 2009 (UTC) SquirrelsJust happened to spot your query and thought it might help to chip in. Having seen them both in their heartlands where the two do not overlap, it seems easy but there are recent observations that suggest that they overlap in some area and here they are said to be a bit tough to separate by the number of stripes (as their older names would suggest) but the calls appear to be quite distinctive, the northern (aka five-striped) has a chipping call while the three-striped (southern) is distinctly squeaky. The geographic distribution is a clue within the ranges although some recent surprise sightings from outside the range have been noted. Location would help a lot. Shyamal (talk) 04:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC) Thanks Shyamal. DGER is asking about this img particularly, which I have requested for renaming as Northern Palm Squirrel. It was previously on the Indian Palm Squirrel article. In this case, your squirrels shot in Agra, Delhi is almost undoubtedly the Northern one. The Three-striped Palm Squirrel (Indian Palm Squirrel) is endemic to South India and Sri Lanka. The IUCN entry for the Northern Palm Squirrel mentions the fact that the southern limits of this squirrel are a bit hazy, and there seems to be more and more overlapping areas found. But, the northern limits of the Indian Palm Squirrel are quite clearly the central indian hills and your squirrels are photographed far norther than that. Hope this helps. prashanthns (talk) 05:57, 1 May 2009 (UTC) Ok. They certainly seem like northerners! A rather large congregation too! Shyamal (talk) 11:05, 1 May 2009 (UTC) WikiProject Birds August newsletterThe August 2009 issue of the Bird WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
Taxonomy changesHello Dger. If you want to revise taxonomies on Wikipedia, as you did for the Polygonia genus, there are two things you need to do before you change the text. First of all, you should seek consensus for the changes at the appropriate WikiProject, in this case, Wikipedia:WikiProject Lepidoptera. Once you have gotten consensus for the changes, you need to get the articles moved to the proper names before updating the article text. Otherwise the text of the articles doesn't match the article titles, and it just becomes a confusing mess. Kaldari (talk) 16:28, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Dashes, the SI and unit conversionHi Dger, I know you are a relatively new user, but can I just point out a few types of edits that you have made which I think aren't inline with the Manual of Style. You have made some edits to number ranges (eg Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard) where you have used two consecutive dashes—30--60 cm. The wp:dash plainly says no to this construct (Wikipedia:MOSDASH#Other_dashes). It suggests an en dash instead or the word 'to'. Also try to exercise care when converting unit of measurement, such as at American Black Bear. The use of references and the {{convert}} template can help to minimise such errors. The sad thing is that nobody noticed or cared that such a large error had been introduced to what is, one would assume, a relatively popular article. I am sure the mother bear would have noticed giving birth to cub ten times normal weight! Do you have a reference for BIPM stipulating the symbols used for mass (and others) in formulae such as at Moment of inertia? Thanks for all your input to many articles so far. Bleakcomb (talk) 02:32, 6 November 2009 (UTC) For a casual exchange on user talk pages, just creating a top level heading and then placing your responses below is sufficient. No need to copy the other users responses. Between two users they can usually follow the thread split between two user pages. If it becomes more complicated, the exchange probably shouldn't be on user talk pages. Some users use {{talkback}} templates, though I haven't ventured there yet. My comment about the symbols used was the edit summary that you left for the edits. The summary mentions SI. I thought that BIPM only spoke on units of measurement, their names and symbols; not about the values and their symbols if you understand what I mean. 'm' maybe the correct abbreviation for mass, but I wasn't aware that the BIPM told us that. When you say the {{convert}} template gives incorrect spelling of units are you referring to American spellings or something else? Errors we can usually fix. Bleakcomb (talk) 05:00, 7 November 2009 (UTC) WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles needs you!Ahoy there! We're conducting our annual purge of the participants list for WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, in an effort to make sure our members stay current with events at the WikiProject. If you would like to renew your participation with the WikiProject, simply drop by the participants list and re-add your name to the list in alphabetical order using the following format: {{user|YOUR USERNAME HERE}}. Also feel free to add your specialties or points of interest. If you don't have the time or don't feel like rejoining, then ignore this request; you can rejoin at any time you'd like. Cheers, bibliomaniac15 00:11, 28 November 2009 (UTC) Very nice photo, I recently lost a large male C. similis I've had as a pet for a long time...he was 30 years old, interesting lizards!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 03:26, 19 December 2009 (UTC) Green Darner / Anax juniusI think your two images "Anax junius.." are misidentified. Please do not replace taxobox images of documented specimens unless a higher quality image is available. Nickrz (talk) 05:01, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
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Talkback Hello, Dger. You have new messages at Miesianiacal's talk page.You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{MTalkback}} or {{MTb}} template. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 01:57, 25 January 2010 (UTC) sand martinThanks for you helpful edits to bird articles which I've been picking up from my watchlist. However I've removed Bank Swallow from the Sand Martin taxobox. It's bird project policy to have only one name in the taxobox, with alternatives given in the lead sentence, and redirects from the other versions. Even if that were not the case, it's a bit selective to add the US name but not the Indian name, and having three names (more for some other species) in the taxobox would be getting a bit congested. If you are not happy with the above, can you raise it at the bird project page since I'll be away for a while and won't be responding to my talk page, many thanks, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:06, 5 February 2010 (UTC) refsCheck out the changes I made to your edits on Chacma Baboon and Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax. Cheers! - UtherSRG (talk) 02:14, 6 March 2010 (UTC) Ottawa populationHi Dger, just letting you know that this edit you made to Ottawa has been reverted. There was a pretty major discussion on the talk page (Talk:Ottawa#Population 2) and on the Canadian Wikipedians' notice board (Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 12#Calgary/Ottawa population updates) on how to present city populations, stemming from a dispute over whether Calgary is bigger than Ottawa. The result was that the intro should always list census data, as it is considered to be most accurate, as well as statscan estimates if available. If you disagree with this, feel free to bring it up on the talk page, but the discussions made it pretty clear that including both is most effective. Cheers, -M.Nelson (talk) 05:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC) South African ButterfliesHello there Dger! Since you are just about the only person actively working on butterfly articles, I like to ask you if you would be interested in making some species articles. I recently found a digital version of "Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa" and I am systematically working through the species and am also including the info from funet as well as making missing genera pages. I'm now at Pseudonympha gaika, but since there are about 660 species in South Africa according to the Field Guide, this is going to take a long time. If you are intersted in helping out, I can upload the Guide and send you the link. Cheers and greetings from the Netherlands! Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Sure it would be valuable to do up all the Canadian butterflies. There is an on-line site with relatively recent authoritative information. I have the paper version of the book too. I may be going on holidays again in northern Ontario. I hope to get a few butterfly pictures while there. It is amazing to find butterflies whose underwings match the bark of trees. They virtually disappear when their wings fold together. DGERobertson (talk) 01:01, 31 July 2010 (UTC) Lycaena hyllusHello there, welcome back! Hope you enjoyed your holiday. I noticed you created the page Lycaena hyllus, but the description seems to be about Lycaena phlaeas, a species that already has a page.. Maybe they are synonyms, but would you mind having a look? Ruigeroeland (talk) 17:13, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Colotis stubsHello, and thanks a lot for creating the Colotis stubs. I've found though that Commons doesn't have any entries for some of the species you posted, nor does Wikispecies, so you may want to be careful with adding those templates. What does sometimes work though for scientific names on Commons is to use {{commonscat}} rather for categories, but you may want to check that separately for each article. Keep up the good work, De728631 (talk) 18:20, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Dger:sandboxJust a heads up, I placed a {{db-g6}} tag on Dger:sandbox since it seems you have corrected your own error. Cheers! —KuyaBriBriTalk 20:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC) Butterflies of South AfricaGreat work! I have been somewhat busy the past week and will be this week and the next, but will pick up the pace after that. I see you already started the Canadian species. I will start with the Skippers. Cheers and you deserve this as much as I do, so:
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Painted turtleHello friend, I was wondering if you would be interested in collaborating on the Painted turtle article with me over the course of the next couple of weeks/months?--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 02:42, 7 September 2010 (UTC) Talkback You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Ditto. Regards.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 03:41, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Possible ResourceHello Dger, do you know how to access the painted turtle related content from this source. If we can view all of what it says about painted turtles the article will write itself (I've used the same source for two other turtle articles, its very precise and has a lot to offer).--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 00:33, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Talk pageMany questions raised on the talk page...--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 17:41, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Copy-editingDue to the Ernst source, expansion of the Reproduction section is going smoothly. It may need another pair of eyes for things like flow, grammar, etc. :-) NYMFan69-86 (talk) 01:32, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Image of Western painted turtleThe image of this subspecies has been removed from wikicommons...do you know of another that can be uploaded?--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 18:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
LinkIs there an accessible link for the "Orenstein" ref (end of first paragraph under Ecology and behavior)?--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 19:44, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
First sourceThe first source is inaccessible, however, it is currently citing only two things that I personally have found in other sources. Do you mind if I remove it (it's also only in the lead)?--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 00:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
ImagesYou can throw in an image of the plastron now. I just wanted some expansion to take place before the page became more pictures than anything else...NYMFan69-86 (talk) 23:54, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Peer reviewI submitted the article for peer review.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 18:12, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
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Another Dger image!Hello Dger, stumbled across this image File:Belted Whiteface.jpg. Just put it into Painted turtle, it works fantastically. Do you know if it occurs within the range of our little turtle?--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 04:03, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Recently created project, we could really use your expertise. :-)--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 05:43, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles assessment driveAt WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, in which you are listed as a member, we're working on a pretty massive backlog (1000+ articles!) of unassessed articles. We would appreciate it greatly if you would help assess the articles in the link. It's simple to do!
It's not a difficult task, but there's a lot to get done. Our hope is that we can chip through the backlog and assess every article within the auspices of the project. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 00:31, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dger, the English WP has two articles about the same species. I am not working on the English WP, but on the German WP. Therefore, may be you should organize to remove this redundancy. Greetings from Berlin, Germany. -- Engeser (talk) 18:47, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Message for project membersHello WP:TURTLE member, the project needs your help. We have recently created a portal (Portal:Turtles), and would like you to choose two or three captivating turtle images for its "Selected picture" section. These images must to be chosen from commons and have a small (three sentences or so) paragraph describing the species in the picture. When you have several that you like, please place the images and a possible caption on the portal's talk page (Portal talk:Turtles). Thank you so much project member!--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 16:07, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
HoweverI won't be reverting your moving of however as it really doesn't matter but I don't agree with it. Sentences can start with "However" or "But" and in many cases it is the correct thing to do. As you've already posted that Strunk and White's analysis is suspect you are at least partly aware of the situation. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 20:14, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
GA blitzkreig!We are doing a push to get 10 turtle GAs (or FAs, FLs) in two months. how about grabbling an article and making it your baby and participating? If you want help, others can join in, or if you like to really run it as your creation, that is fine too. Or whatever blend you prefer. there are some real "plum" turtle articles that could be turned into GAs (notable, sources available, etc.). In any case, you'd be part of an effort and could share victories and commisserate setbacks together! TCO (talk) 05:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC) Autopatrolled Hello, this is just to let you know that I have granted you the "autopatrolled" permission. This won't affect your editing, it just automatically marks any page you create as patrolled, benefiting new page patrollers. Please remember:
Please use edit summariesPlease use edit summaries; you forgot to do so in your recent edit to International System of Units. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:28, 16 February 2011 (UTC) The bot was not "correct".If you read the guidelines carefully, there is no blanket prohibition of adding youtube video links. It really looks like you are just undoing my edits just for the heck of it. --Agamemnus (talk) 08:13, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
"I agree with Matt. Great Blue Herons are beautiful birds and need to feed to stay alive. Even if they were the ugliest aninmals in earth they still need to feed and progagate their species. Small turtles are well known as a food source for various birds. It may not look pleasant to a human eye but to a bird's eye it is normal and natural to capture various creatures for consumption and life. I congratulate the photographer for capturing such a difficult image." So this is what I say: "Common snapping turtles are beautiful turtles and need to feed to stay alive. Even if they were the ugliest animals in earth they still need to feed and progagate their species. Birds and other small animals are well known as a food source for common snapping turtles. It may not look pleasant to a human eye but to a turtle's eye it is normal and natural to capture various creatures for consumption and life. I congratulate the photographer for capturing such a difficult video." Yes? --Agamemnus (talk) 19:17, 27 March 2011 (UTC) You never said before that you referenced the blue heron article for your stance on herons eating turtles. Now you are saying that common snapping turtles don't eat birds, and that they don't eat outside of the water. That's just not true. First of all, they will eat outside of the water if they are hungry enough. Second, snapping turtles' tails vary. Female tails are much shorter, and the ratio of tail size to body size decreases as they grow. A snapping turtle big enough to eat a pidgeon would be an adult with a smaller ratio of tail to body size than a juvenile or baby. Regardless, this is clearly a common snapping turtle in the video. Its long protruding neck and head attest to that. The tail is obscured by the mud. Third, the URL of the website doesn't mean squat in evaluating the content -- nice red herring. Fourth, you have no evidence that turtles are a common food item of blue herons -- only that they feed on them, so you can't say that being an "uncommon" food item is a reason for not including the video. If you don't remember, you rejected that rationale yourself when I offered it! Fifth, here it is, straight from the article: "Snapping turtles are omnivores, consuming both plant and animal matter, and are important aquatic scavengers; but they are also active hunters that prey on anything they can swallow, including many invertebrates, fish, frogs, reptiles (including snakes and smaller turtles), unwary birds, and small mammals."--Agamemnus (talk) 23:13, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
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MacMedtalkstalk 00:13, 30 March 2011 (UTC) Re: disruptive editing>Please stop your disruptive editing of Common Snapping Turtle. Your addition of someone else's video violates many common rules for inclusion in a Wikipedia article. In fact, you are the one who are making disruptive editing as you are the person who removed the video in the first place. I think you need to look at what you are editing. I modified the video after I found the source. After more research, including using google translate, I found that it is probably not a common snapping turtle, but a Phrynops Hilarii. However, all that research should have been done by you, and then you would have had the right to remove it. PS: You seem to just love to pile up accusations, forcing people to do your legwork for you. PPS: A link does not constitute original research. --Agamemnus (talk) 07:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Vandalism warning templateJust to let you know you forgot to substitute the vandalism warning template you posted at User talk:129.25.27.219#April 2011. As I'm sure you know, this sort of template should be done as {{Subst:uw-v3|Cancer (constellation)}}, not just {{uw-v3|Cancer (constellation)}}. Regards, Richard New Forest (talk) 19:51, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
shake your manly handThe Red Herring made me smile. (I just used my Chef's Knife...have lost 70 pounds by emphasizing veggies!) TCO (talk) 02:03, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Biology ProjectHello, my name is Marissa.User:NYMFan69-86 has suggested that I get in touch with you when tackling the Wikipedia project. Our teacher, Mr. Butler, has told us that several Wikipedia members have caught on to the project and will often help other students. I'm not sure if you have noticed in years before,or if User:NYMFan69-86just knows you are very good at Wikipedia. My teacher also said that we will need all the help we can get. I am a bit intimidated at this point, with all the formatting and what not. But any help I can acquire now or down the road I will be more than happy to accept. If you are willing to help, I will get back in touch once we start the articles if I seem to be stuck. Thank you for your time reading this! Marissa927 (talk) 03:33, 7 October 2011 (UTC) PD-textHello Dger, since you have made a lot of NA butterfly articles, you will probably know this, but to be sure I will post it anyway... Did you know all text on the Butterflies and Moths of North America website is Public Domain and thus can be copied to wikipedia without too much rewriting? I didnt know it until just now... This might speed up article creation for NA butterflies considerably... See the FAQ page of the website: [3], "Can I have permission to use photographs or text from this web site?" "Photographs - All images on this web site are copyrighted, and they cannot be copied, reproduced, or used in any way without the author's permission. Usage fees may be charged. Contact information for photographers is available by contacting us." "Text - Written information contained in the species accounts (such as identification, life history, habitat, range, etc.) are public domain. We ask that you cite this resource when using information from this web site." Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 06:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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Disambiguation link notificationHi. When you recently edited Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Quechua (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:20, 27 December 2011 (UTC) How many MorphosYou were right to question this and I'll change the text.Lamas reduced the number of Morpho species without saying why.In fact synonymies (in any taxon) are seldom explained Funet being no exception.The problem is Le Moult and Real (with it's many faults) remains the standard work hence "many authorities". De Vries has faults too.Web names are variously derived and EOL and NHM opt out altogether (for many Valid name = Valid species so this term does not help in the least) I'll put something alng these lines on the articles talk page. Modified it can then replace the unrefed text.All the best and a Happy New Year Notafly (talk) 09:27, 4 January 2012 (UTC) PS. What do the Japanese make of all this I wonder. Dubious editsThanks, unfortunately I'm going to be away for a few days, but usually someone on the bird project picks these up Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:07, 31 January 2012 (UTC) Gray Jay[4] Please be careful with macro substitutions, respect WP:Engvar, do not copyedit image names, do not change reference titles against the sources (no matter the spelling) and check your browser for international font support before saving such edits - it takes time to fix them later. Materialscientist (talk) 00:13, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
EresiaForms "in vivo" are rarely the best images we have. Especially that you want to impose, which is medicocre quality. One that is implemented is the type species for the genus. Thank you for your understanding. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 16:36, 9 March 2012 (UTC) BiblisObserve the quality criteria of scientific description. An image "in vivo" is not intrinsically superior to a naturalized specimen. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 08:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC) Hi there! European and UK taxonomic status changed in 2011. I will send you the sources some time this week —GRM (talk) 08:38, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
The species name "vaualbum" is a nomen nudum, i.e., published without description or an indication and as such it is unavailable for scientific nomenclature. Reference: Kudrna, O. & J. Belicek. 2005. On the ‘Wiener Verzeichnis’, its authorship and the butterflies named therein. Oedippus, 23: 1-32 p. joe.belicek@shaw.ca 68.151.58.221 (talk) 02:52, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Blue WildebeestHello, Thanks for telling me. I will verify this. --Cephas (talk) 12:50, 20 March 2012 (UTC) I believe you found an incorrect image of Fort Beauséjour or the image of a different fort. Check the brochure at the Parks Canada site here: Fort Beauséjour–Fort Cumberland: Une Histoire / A History It shows several layouts of the Forts (Beauséjour and Cumberland) that are all five pointed. The image you have submitted does not match. Please do not revert again unless you have proof the model is accurate. Dger (talk) 01:18, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
WikiThanks Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.2.116 (talk) 13:57, 5 April 2012 (UTC) ChrysiridiaHi Dger, I noticed that you cut off the redirect from Chrysiridia riphearia to Chrysiridia rhipheus, and you included C. riphearia in the Chrysiridia article. I wonder if you could clarify, is there a recent change to separate these species? I only ask because Chrysiridia rhipheus is going on the front page in about 15 hours, and it says "The genus Chrysiridia is entirely African and the only other species in the genus is the East African C. croesus." So if there's a discrepancy we can clear up, let's do it soon! :-) Thanks, Melchoir (talk) 08:55, 6 April 2012 (UTC) Your HighBeam account is ready!Good news! You now have access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research. Here's what you need to know:
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More African butterfliesHello Dger, its been some time, but I would like to point you to an amazing source for African butterflies located at: http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/. These are .doc files that seem to have descriptions on all African butterflies. I started working on some Pieridae species already, but seeing there are about 4000 species (we made 700 South African already though) I was wondering if you would be up for a second round of "African Lep"-article creation..? Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 16:10, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you
I've undone your reversion of my edit. You may wish to look at why on the talk page, Talk:Center_of_mass#Expected_Value. 70.113.68.242 (talk) 15:03, 5 May 2012 (UTC) Parantheses in authority citationsWhat exactly is wrong with the parantheses in authority citations used for example in the taxobox binomial authority field at leopard? This is a very common practice, and I know it's recommended in some form by the ICZN (I'd like to hear from you anyway, so I won't go to the trouble of checking just now). —innotata 22:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC) You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Common WhitetailHi, I think your photo of a female Common Whitetail (Libellula lydia) is actually a female Twelve-spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella). Note the straight yellow abdominal stripes, they should be white (usually) and zigzagged in a Common Whitetail (the Common Whitetail wiki page says this too). Both are in range for Ottawa. Compare with these Bugguide links: http://bugguide.net/node/view/603 http://bugguide.net/node/view/3407 you can also compare with your own photo of a female Twelve-spotted Skimmer. Thanks CYRIC (talk) 00:09, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
UraniinaeJust a small note on this. All the ones in square brackets were suspect (user:Dclees added this initially). Mostly junior synonyms and alike. I haven't made a thorough check, but many of them are invalid names that should be removed. RN1970 (talk) 01:45, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments Canada 2012If someone hasn't already directed you here, then someone should. Cheers. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC) Photo usageHi, I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I wanted to let you know I've used some of your pictures. I found your pictures here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banded_Mongoose.jpg I attributed this picture as described on that website: D. Gordon E. Robertson with this link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dger and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pristimantis_achatinus,_Tambopata_Lodge.jpg I attributed this picture as described on that website: D. Gordon E. Robertson with this link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dger and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muskrat_swimming_Ottawa.jpg I attributed this picture as described on that website: D. Gordon E. Robertson with this link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dger and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case. You can find the game here: http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbum Or through here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672 Kind regards, Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 09:12, 2 July 2012 (UTC) P.S. Thanks for taking the pictures and making them available.
Ciao. Hectonichus sara!There is a fundamental problem in your operations on images. We are part of an encyclopedia. The topics should be seriously. This is the only way to get us scientific institutions. In the case of entomology we get a butterfly and describe it so that it can be recognized. This is not the case with in vivo images you want to keep.
In this case you show a butterfly panama. Now there are two distinct subspecies and the image you show does not differentiate (Heliconius sara theudela and Heliconius sara fulgidus. The butterfly image is mounted that of the species reference, it is she who must be shown first.
That said without animosity or polemical spirit as we share a lot in common.
But in fact it is just a detail. We are both scientists and we will see rependre knowledge is freely around the world. If we want to continue: we must raise the level. I totally agree with you this is not a place for our publication, but we need to attract other scientists. We must convince the museum to let us work with them. They open the doors of their collections. This is the meaning of my statement. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 17:14, 28 October 2012 (UTC) Spider identificationHi, I'm wondering how you went about getting your spider photos IDed. In particular, are you sure that this is A. trifolium and not a variant of A. marmoreus, and that this is D. tenebrosus and not D. scriptus? — Preceding unsigned comment added by LMByer (talk • contribs) 23:13, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
TalkbackMessage added 02:13, 14 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. RockMagnetist (talk) 02:13, 14 November 2012 (UTC) ISO and SI standards for physical quantities.What ISO and BIPM think the standards should be is irrelevant. Bold italics for vectors are emphatically not standard practice in published physics material, and it is inappropriate to execute rapid-fire conversions of the formatting in physics articles. The matter is currently being discussed here and I have (again) reverted your changes at angular momentum. Zueignung (talk) 21:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Bank of Canada's Central Bank GAAP balance sheet reform requiredThe Bank of Canada audit review board should seriously consider investing the Bank of Canada reserves of Nation's government bonds into a different investment portfolio. The new GAAP quantitative easying Central Bank definition defines quantitative easying as the amount goverment debt owned by its Central Bank; inotherwords the Bank of Canada balance sheet needs to be reformed as its central bank zero bookvalue balance sheet standard interferes with the right of Canada to particiapate in quantitative easying. Bank of Canada Balance Sheet is audited by KPMG by the way and it states 8.3 million. --Prettyladieslover (talk) 17:36, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Total ImmersionHello, Professor. I was wondering if you have any thoughts on the notability of the Total Immersion article. While there are plenty of web references for the technique, I am having difficulty finding "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" per WP:GNG. There are a few references in the article, but only #10 touches on the actual technique and it's not a good one in that it is a blog post and primary source material. Many of the others mention swimmers supposedly connected with the technique without direct mention of TI. My thoughts are to stubify the article after finding one or two reliable secondary sources that at least have a good definition. Location (talk) 18:27, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Interesting...... this. Thanks :-) - DVdm (talk) 17:40, 7 February 2013 (UTC) Morpho taxonomyThanks for that long overdue page revision and best regards Notafly (talk) 12:44, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Composite imageHi! 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) 01:18, 25 February 2013 (UTC) O meridionalisGood evening Thanks for that move.Robert aka Notafly (talk) 21:01, 10 March 2013 (UTC) The Wikiproject Lepidoptera BarnstarMany thanks for that appreciation. And warm regards from Ireland.Robert aka Notafly (talk) 21:37, 15 March 2013 (UTC) Horizontal versus verticalThanks for improving the English of an article- Horizontal versus vertical - even if it will probably be deleted! Shanker Pur (talk) 17:14, 18 March 2013 (UTC) Edits to "International System of Units"Would you please explain why you have created a "Further reading" section at "International System of Units" and put references in it; works used in the creation of the article do not belong in "Further reading". Jc3s5h (talk) 19:02, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Colias chippewaHi Dger Hmmm Colias - a lot of names not a lot of sense. I put a note on the talk page of the Colias chippewa article after adding some brief notes. There seem to be two entomological Korshunov's by the way and I'm chasing this. What I do know is that Y.P. Korshunov knew how to charge for paratypes (often in very long series).Notafly (talk) 16:17, 12 May 2013 (UTC) PS> See here also [7] I am sure the picture amendment is correct but those are Korshunov's labels not mine. DYK Review : Plastingia nagaYou can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. AshLin (talk) 09:59, 15 June 2013 (UTC) Olingos and OlinguitoPlease see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mammals#Olingos_and_Olinguito for upcoming changes to these articles. - UtherSRG (talk) 05:13, 16 August 2013 (UTC) I didn't mean to revert your changes: I meant to revert this one vandal IP's edits, who has been inserting spurious information into numerous articles, primarily by adding or changing erroneous fossil ranges. --Mr Fink (talk) 00:23, 4 September 2013 (UTC)  This is an automated message from MadmanBot. I have performed a search with the contents of Bombus affinis, and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: Bombus auricomus. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history. It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. MadmanBot (talk) 23:50, 18 September 2013 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for October 23Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Velocity, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Displacement (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:16, 23 October 2013 (UTC) Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library NewsletterGreetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 21:50, 27 October 2013 (UTC) Are humans not mammals because the mammals they descend from are extinct?You do realize that dinosaur (dinosauria) is a taxonomic ranking right? Evolution cannot make something evolved out of a taxonomic rank. If it did, humans would not be apes. Birds are dinosaurs and are classified as dinosaurs by science, as they belong to the taxonomic rank dinosauria and are specifically maniraptors, along with their cousins such as the dromaeosaurs (such as Deinonychus, Velociraptors and Utahraptors) The Mummy (talk) 04:31, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
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First part is rightHi Dger, the first part of the translation is right, but the rest isn't. You find the complete translation here [8]. I left the translation because it might cause permanent trouble in this article. If anyone is interested in the translation he might look it up (see ref), but those people probably won't do that anyway. See you. -- CaTi0604 (talk) 21:04, 4 February 2014 (UTC) Despite everything, you seem to be optimistic. Okay, no risk no fun :). See you. -- CaTi0604 (talk) 08:31, 5 February 2014 (UTC) Vandal Revert Canada lynxI don’t understand why some Wikipedians get their rocks off throwing around baseless accusations without regard for the feelings of their fellow contributors. You reverted my Feb.5th edit to Canada lynx without messaging me beforehand, without attempting to solicit any context for the post, and assuming bad faith — which is counter to the spirit of this enterprise and to the five pillars of Wikipedia. You accused me of vandalism which frankly I find deeply offensive. I don’t know what your story is — maybe you’re some kid who doesn’t know any better, but on this site it is vitally important to work towards consensus, and act in a spirit of mutual trust. I was attempting to add a folk name to the introductory paragraph on the animal in question, a mundane event one would think. My sources are attached below: • Sea of Slaughter. Mowat, Farley. Douglas & McIntyre, 2012. (p182–183) • Discoveries of America: Personal Accounts of British Emigrants to North America. DeWolfe, Barbara. Cambridge University Press, 1997. (p70) • Giant Cats — Legend of the Clementsvale Lucifee. Coleman, Ed. Annapolis Spectator. March 14, 2012. • Rural Rides. Cobbett, William. London, 1830. (p279) — Muckapedia (talk) 5e fév. 2014 23h19 (−4h) WolverineHi Dger, thanks for messaging about reverting changes I made on Wolverine! The changes I made were in attempt to repair vandalism (eliminating some infantile gibberish in the text and deliberately broken links in the right-hand box), so the reference to being "not constructive" is a little bit lost on me in this case... Unless I somehow managed muck it up. However and in any case, I am grateful for vigilance, so cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.157.125.113 (talk) 20:55, 24 April 2014 (UTC) Per the discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums/Archive_46#Piero_Scaruffi_-_Final_Verdict_on_using_him_as_a_source_in_reviews there's a very clear consensus here that Scaruffi is not to be used as a source in music/album articles in any capacity. Do not add his reviews to review charts or his opinions in reception sections. It is a wp:self published source. Since this is a long running dispute, any contributor warned by the situation and who doesn't respect it, would encounter sanctions and could be blocked from editing. Thanks. You've been informed because you used this source here. Woovee (talk) 18:21, 14 May 2014 (UTC) Photo usage 2Hi, I'm working on an educational videogame with which I'm trying to build a bridge between animal awareness and Pokemon fans among others. It started out as something small and I contacted you before but it's getting bigger and more professional so I wanted to make sure you were ok with it. It's regarding these pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banded_Mongoose.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pristimantis_achatinus,_Tambopata_Lodge.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muskrat_swimming_Ottawa.jpg I would like your permission to use them under those licenses with the following attribution: D. Gordon E. Robertson, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dger Also, because I want to make sure there's no misunderstanding, you are the original photographer correct? It sometimes happens that another person simply takes a picture from somebody else and uploads it to wikipedia with a license to distribute. That is why I'm asking. There is more information on the game here, including a short video that tells a little bit about the background: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/238178285/animalalbum I also have a demo version of the game available so you can see for yourself in what way the pictures are presented: http://dromedarydreams.com/index/demo/0-8 Please let me know if I have your permission, if the pictures are yours and if you want a different attribution. With kind regards, Sjors Jansen (all.animalalbum@gmail.com) Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 16:04, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Unidentified dragonflyI noticed that you had uploaded an image to the Aeshna eremita article. I was wondering if you knew if File:Unidentifed dragonfly.jpg was also a Lake Darner? Thanks. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Dger, I have reversed your changes to this article. The image you inserted is not a paper wasp. Regards, Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:00, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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Ready NowHi Gord Sure took me a long time to do a repeat reference for Canadian Physio Assoc. I think it is OK to go now. Thanks for your help. Not sure what happens from here.Sandraolney (talk) 04:35, 9 February 2015 (UTC) Looks really niceGot a nice note from Malcolm who is really appreciative. I told him you had helped me a lot. Also, he set it along to the dean, with whom he had just had lunch, and the Dean replied back to him "Fabulous, what a treat to read. As we said at lunch, it is hard to estimate just how impactful your career has been...to so many." So thanks again. (I am about to add the PMID numbers to the medical journal references.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandraolney (talk • contribs) 18:23, 10 February 2015 (UTC) DYK for Microlophus albemarlensis
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Giant Ameiva revertHi. I changed the main image as usually, the main image should be, if possible, of a complete animal, rather than a part of one. My image shows the legs and tail. Quality is of course subjective, but my image also appears sharper. I do not believe there is any difference between males and females (from a photo anyway). Happy to have a third party adjudicate... Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:50, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
ColorationHi, just to let you know I've undone your edit for two reasons: 1) this is (surprisingly) the usual British/Australian spelling of the word, goes with words like 'decoration'; and 2) it is used consistently in the article, so your edit introduced an inconsistency. The best-known textbook on the matter, "Adaptive Coloration in Animals" by Hugh Cott (Cambridge University, England) uses this spelling, so we can be comfortable with it. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:42, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, SISorry, I was too hasty - and perhaps a little unlucky in that the preface to the SI brochure - which I thought should be authoritative - had "Système International d’Unités". I should have looked at the French version of the page instead! NebY (talk) 22:12, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
Move/BlankingHey - I was wondering what happened here? SQLQuery me! 23:20, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Podocnemis pictureHello. I am not sure if you're aware of the fact that a single picture that you made is used to illustrate what apparently are two separate species: podocnemis lewyana and podocnemis vogli. Maybe you could clarify? Thanks.
PhoenicopterusHi Dger, why did you remove Category:Bird genera from this? Phoenicopterus is a genus of birds. If it's because it's a redirect, see WP:INCOMPATIBLE: it's not appropriate to have a title like Flamingo in the category, which has many other redirects when the genus name isn't the article title. --BDD (talk) 18:27, 8 August 2016 (UTC) VespidaeHi Dger, I see you changed the caption from median wasp to hornet. Only thing is, the wasp there is a median wasp, complete with yellow "7"s on its shoulders, and without the rich reddish-brown thorax of the hornet, among other things. Hmm? Chiswick Chap (talk)
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List of birds of Canada - new issueI understand your desire for Canadian spelling in a Canadian list. However, the species' common names are stated to be those of the American Ornithological Society, which uses American spelling. If you want to use grey, I suggest that you alter the introduction to something like "Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list but with Canadian English spelling. Regarding the shrike, yes, great grey is a species, but I know of no record of it in Canada now that northern shrike, Lanius borealis, has been split from it. If you have a source for any records, please add the reference. Craigthebirder (talk) 15:38, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
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