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User talk:Philcha/Archive 3Manual archive Philcha (talk) 21:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC) Cambrian explosionFair points. My approach was to lay down the evidence first, then interpret it in the later section, but it doesn't seem ideal. Perhaps as you say each section could conclude with a "why are you telling me this, then", then the article could conclude with a semi-repetitive "conclusion" drawing things together. Pretty much any good piece of writing ends with a conclusion, but they seem to be frowned upon at WP. In terms of "types of organism preserved", what are the salient points that would define a "type"? Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 12:41, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Refs / URLsDOIs act as URLs, and usually lead to at least an abstract. PMC and PMIDs are usually useful too. The citation tool has no way of finding a URL that doesn't fall into the previous categories unless it is explicitly supplied (for example, if you access it via the "scholar" interface). Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 13:47, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Agronomic revolutionHey, I've just started work on the article for the Agronomic revolution. If we get it up to a decent standard in the next four days, it could be featured on the main page as a new article (in the "Did you know" section). Just thought I'd flag it up if you wanted to help expand it a bit! Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 14:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
End-Ediacaran extinctionThis collaboration lark's quite good fun, isn't it! If you fancy taking a quick look at End-Ediacaran extinction, I've just created a stub there... Maybe you'll be able to expand that one a little, too? Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 11:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC) DYK
--Gatoclass (talk) 06:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC) Cambrian explosionGo ahead - I thought I was done but realised that my attempts to keep your edit intact had failed... Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 22:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC) Howard Staunton to GA nominationHello Philcha, you will probably be interested to know that I have nominated Howard Staunton for the GA-class, as you can see both on Talk:Howard Staunton and on Wikipedia:Good article nominations#Sports and recreation. I think the article is good enough to pass the test, and I prefer to nominate it already because it can take a month before the review actually begins. Let's keep the quality increasing! SyG (talk) 18:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC) WikiProject PalaeontologyHi Philcha, I've noticed your interest/excellent edits at Lystrosaurus and, I was wondering if you'd be interested in joining the Palaeo project? Best, Mark t young (talk) 19:49, 7 July 2008 (UTC) DYK - Microbial mat
Rudget (logs) 16:40, 13 July 2008 (UTC)  Thank you for uploading images/media to Wikipedia! There is, however, another Wikimedia Foundation project called Wikimedia Commons, a central media repository for all free media. In future, please upload media there instead (see m:Help:Unified login). That way, all of the other language Wikipedias can use them too, as well as our many sister projects. This will also allow our visitors to search for, view and use our media in one central location. If you wish to move previous uploads to Commons, see Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons (you may view images you have previously uploaded by going to your user contributions on the left and choosing the 'image' namespace from the drop down box). Please note that non-free content, such as images claimed as fair use, cannot be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons. Help us spread the word about Commons by informing other users, and please continue uploading!--OsamaK 08:24, 14 July 2008 (UTC) Microbial mat timelineHi, in this revision you restored the complicated version of the code at the timeline. I just wanted to check whether this was solely to use your own selection of colours, or whether there is a problem with the "period" syntax which I hadn't noticed. Cheers, Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 16:31, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Archiving talk page threads at Talk:RacismHi, Talk:Racism is waaaay too huge with over 115 talk threads. Would you be willing to help tag talk sections with {{resolved}} and {{stale}} as appropriate so we can start archiving old talk threads? Even a few at time will help! Thank you! Banjeboi 22:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC) Small shelliesTwo possible solutions are in the edit history. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 20:03, 18 July 2008 (UTC) Thanks for your opinion! I am going to improve the chapter Accusations of anti-Semitism (list of the best Jewish and non-Jewish chess masters according to Alekhine, and an information on Lionel Kieseritzky and Carl Schlechter). --Mibelz 09:53, 19 July 2008 (UTC) Dear Pkilcha,Hi! thankyou for your opinion on my latest article, the "Big Five." I've taken your opinion to hand, and I have been having thoughts of merging my article to "Extinction Events." Thankyou once again!--Dr. Dale S. Satre (talk) 15:44, 19 July 2008 (UTC) Tassilo's nameHello Philcha, I see you are interested in Tassilo's short name. I did some research on the issue a while ago. The best information I found was in the ADB (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie) [1]. It said: Der Beiname 'und der Lasa', obwohl nicht urkundlich, hat zu der unhistorischen Contraction: 'von der Lasa' geführt; eine Kürzung, deren sich auch Tassilo oft als Autor bedient hat. My translation: The cognomen und der Lasa, though not documented (vouched), has led to the unhistorical contraction von der Lasa, in fact a short name often used by Tassilo himself as an author. Much confusion was the result, and, as the source claims, led to a joke by Prussian King (later Emperor) William I saying 'Good morning, dear Heydebrand. How is von der Lasa doing?' The background from all this seems to have been that Heydebrand ('Heydebrandt' is only a misspelling in this case, it seems) was a common name, with different branches of the noble family existing. Finally, 'von der Lasa' is to be seen as self-styled. Just to know: His son, Heinrich von Heydebrand und der Lasa became a conservative politican and (1914-18) member of the Prussian Upper House (Herrenhaus) ---DaQuirin (talk) 02:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the information about abbreviations. I hadn't noticed that City of London Chess Magazine′s notes on Von der Lasa vs G. Nielsen at Copenhagen mis-spelled the name "Heydebrandt", but will update the article to point that out. Can you provide an exampe of the same abbreviation spelt correctly?
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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:12, 29 July 2008 (UTC) Looks pretty good! My one suggestion would be that the lead is a bit long, especially the final paragraph which is almost longer than the section it summarises! Perhaps details could be removed. Also, are those images really all your own work? Their source should be noted somewhere, and as derivative works are covered by the same copyright as the original, you should probably add a fair use rationale too. (User:AWeenieMan/furme makes this easier) As for a GA review, it may be a useful source of comments and suggestions for improvement from an uninvolved reader. I guess it couldn't hurt to nominate it; it doesn't bear an obligation of putting in any more work but could improve the article. I'll leave it up to you though! Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 13:49, 31 July 2008 (UTC) I remember looking for further sources when I expanded the article a while back, and not finding any. As far as I'm aware there haven't been any more discussions on it - I guess there's a stalemate until someone finds and analyzes some more specimens! Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 13:52, 31 July 2008 (UTC) This looks pretty comprehensive now, although I'm certainly no expert. The one criticism I'd make is that it's a little piecemeal. I'm not sure if there's much that can be done about this – the list of different shells is by its nature very bitty. But I do think the structure needs a bit of a look at – I'd put the list later and introduce the concept of skeletonisation, and perhaps their significance, sooner. It doesn't really flow or "tell a story" at the moment. And one other thing – the iron pyrite gastropod is an very interesting aside, but does it really have a place in this article? Keep up the good work, Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 14:01, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
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