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ThoracotremataThere are some papers to read... I knew that would get back to me one way or the other. For I put aside the issue without really referencing any of my changes, it was simply too gross to do it then. It's sourceable and justifiable (I believe), but taxon sampling is simply abysmal, and with the data at hand, splitting Helice is the easiest way to handle this mess (the alternative would be to expand it, but to what point? the data does not allow any conclusion). I have grabbed a bunch of the latest literature and will - eventually - straighten out the whole frickin' Thoracotremata. Ugh. They're worse than trying to place New World vultures... we know where many of the families start and end, but that's about it: the same cannot be said about many genera, and the relationships between genera are anyone's guess. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 17:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Birds August newsletterThe August 2008 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. MeegsC | Talk 01:13, 11 August 2008 (UTC) thanksHi, Thanks for that. I've seen most of them, and at the current state of play (5 supports - thanks again - and no opposes) I'm reluctant to make any further changes until FAC is over. In any case, I don't think there's anything of great significant to add, the heavy metals I suppose is possible, but it's a bit of a non-event. jimfbleak (talk) 09:44, 12 August 2008 (UTC) Bird project welcomeHi Shyamal: The welcome banner is already a subst! Just type {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach/Welcome|~~~~}}. It's listed on the Outreach page... MeegsC | Talk 11:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
ChickI have no artistic ability, but my wife does.... Thanks anyway 12:21, 21 August 2008 (UTC) delete/move trick to protect article historyHi. About the moth article problem, that was a simple oversight on your part, I didn't take it personally ;-) Incidentally, the procedure you used is one I wish was easier to implement - for example, if you have a chance, could you move Eastern Cicada Killer to Eastern cicada killer? Dysmorodrepanis created the article using title case, which is fine for birds, but not for insects, and since the desired title is occupied (as a redirect), a regular move won't work. Thanks, Dyanega (talk) 23:06, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
KingfisherI defer to your expertise on identifying Indian kingfisher subspecies, but I don't understand why you say you can't have more than one ssp in one locality. We get three ssp of Dunlin in the UK, one breeding, two winter/passage visitors, similarly for several other species. I've often seen yarelli and alba White Wagtails together, and I thought I'd seen two ssp of Black Kite in India - resident govinda and wintering lineatus. Why can't wintering bengalensis overlap the resident ssp outside the breeding season? jimfbleak (talk) 18:28, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
"Killer ant"I would agree with deleting it - there are no articles that link to it; someone just conjured up this article out of thin air - it has no scientific or common meaning. Yes, they put a lot of work into compiling it, but it really is meaningless. Dyanega (talk) 23:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC) DOB for some forest officersA A Dunbar Brander 23-4-1877 Osmaston BB 3-1-1868 E O Shebbeare 8-3-1884 A E Osmaston 4-3-1885 E A Smythies 19-3-1885 C F C Beeson 10-2-1889 H G Champion 17-8-1891 BB Osmaston 3-1-1868 P M Lushington 18-11-1863 CLASSIFIED LIST OF FOREST OFFICERS OF THE IMPERIAL AND PROVINCIAL SERVICES IN INDIA AND BURMA ON 1st January 1916 Note to self Shyamal (talk) 10:48, 30 August 2008 (UTC) FeatherWill do! I'm just finishing up a couple of weeks here in France (lots of goodies, including three Wallcreepers and eight Lammergeiers) and will have nearly two months off before my next trip—so I should have plenty of time to help polish this one off... Of course, I've got lots and lots of overdue paperwork to work on too! : ) MeegsC | Talk 20:28, 7 September 2008 (UTC) SVG bird diagrams
Beavan againI have googled this, and it appears that Lieut. Reginald Beavan of the 22nd Punjab Native Infantry was his brother, as mentioned in the article in Ibis Volume 10 Issue 4 pages 370-406 "Notes on Various Indian Birds". "I have lately received a fine pair of this large Bustard from my brother, Lieut. Reginald Beavan, of the 22nd Punjab Native Infantry, who shot the male near Morar, in Gwalior, and bought the female from some native trappers etc". Therefore we are right and the other reference is wrong. Smallweed (talk) 10:31, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Shyamal (See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds) (talk) 06:01, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Need img of Painted StorkHi Shyamal, Could you please do up a Painted Stork image for use by my nature club? Regards, AshLin (talk) 06:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Posters RomeHello Shyamal I am only just back from Rome.More on that soon but right now can you help me with this upload? I would like the poster images (not the top one) from http://eternallycool.net/category/photos/page/2 which seems to have a creative commons licence.If so will you upload them for me? I forgot to take pics of this typical but (fortunately) fast disappearing practice of pasting up to up to a hundred posters in layers.Warm Regards Robert
Note to selfId needed ![]() Shyamal (talk) 15:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Many thanksMany thanks for the Rome poster pic fix.I noticed that problem and wondered about it.This site is definety copyright free site Feathers but I'm sure you know it already.If not enjoy Warm regards RobertNotafly (talk) 19:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Birthday EagleMy firstWhite-tailed Eagle today just after my birthday.It flew down the road in front of me as I left work,say 15 yards, ahead.It's a very big bird!We are close to the sea but not to the nearest populations. A rare bird here.My e-mail at work isn't great ATM but I now have this address too REMOVED MAIL ID FROM SPAM HARVESTERS Warmest regards RobertNotafly (talk) 20:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles: RollcallAt WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, we recently did a purge of the members list, which your name was on. Please re-add your username as well as your area of expertise at our list of participants if you plan to stay active in this Wikiproject. Also, a discussion is going on regarding the standardization of taxonomy in lizard articles, located in this section. We'd like to have some more voices in this matter. Thanks everyone! bibliomaniac15 23:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC) BirdwatchingHi Shyamal, just noticed that you've added a link at the end of the 'Communications' chapter, it shows a padlock...is that due to the https code in the URL? Thought that I'd better bring it to your attention in case you were not aware of it's presence. Aviceda talk 08:20, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Indian RailwaysHi Shyamal, any reason you reverted the changes made by me to the above topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Swapnils2106 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thumb Hi Shyamal, Just looking at this image noticed a small error. The Pied Avocet uses its beak for filter feeding rather than mud probing. Grantus4504 (talk) 13:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
ICZNI'm not sure why differences between editions would be relevant; each edition specifies any "grandfather" clauses and such, meaning that whatever the latest version says is what should be applied to any particular case. If you're dealing with something that is published in 1867, the modern Code should still be applied - and, after all, there was no Code back in 1867. Dyanega (talk) 17:18, 3 October 2008 (UTC) Hi ShyamalThank you for your letter of encouragement. I am clearly a bit of a technophobe, more at home in the field than on the computer. One of my main problems is formatting. How can I format this better? I am reading the instructions and will do my best to follow the guidelines but I wonder if you might be able to assist at all?I have limited time and my email box is filled with letters from people interested in peafowl. It would be much more time efficient if I could improve this site using the references I have provided ( badly as they are not formatting correctly) and some assistance with form and function- also not my strong suit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinudjem (talk • contribs) 23:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC) Thanks!Hi Shyamal: Thanks for keeping an eye on my talk page. I undid some "birds are dinosaurs " changes that he'd made to the Bird article; guess he didn't like it! I'm back from vacation tonight (and seriously jetlagged), so hope to get to some of the Feather stuff soon. First I've got to get a newsletter out... MeegsC | Talk 17:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC) RFA?Hmm. This isn't be best time for this - my involvement in WP is increasingly shrinking due to other obligations, and I'll be out of town a lot in the immediate future (including the next week, starting tomorrow). I'll give it some thought, but for now, let's hold off, okay? Thanks, Dyanega (talk) 20:08, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Birds October newsletterThe October 2008 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. PuzzledHello Shyamal I've been taking some buttterfly pics and writing up some of the more interesting species.Here is one [2] but why no pic? Warm regards Robert Notafly (talk) 08:17, 14 October 2008 (UTC) Conflict brewing againHi Shyamal, Could you please keep an eye on this for me? I'd appreciate it. Thanks, --Jwinius (talk) 15:49, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Sir William Lawrence, 1st BaronetThis has no rating for importance or quality on the Hist Sci or Evol biol flags; could you pl. do this or arrange for it to be done? Thanks, Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Colymbus lummeHi Shyamal: Thanks for the Colymbus lumme reference. I have just one question: when I go the original work, it shows Colymbus stellata just above Colymbus lumme -- so I'm left wondering what that refers to! I can't puzzle out enough of the German; any chance you can read it? MeegsC | Talk 17:18, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Taxoboxes without imagesThe script I used looks at the "image" parameter of the taxobox. It does not check file formats. I haven't seen many svg's in taxoboxes; I expect most of them would be range maps (which is a separate parameter); and I have seen some articles on dolphins that have line drawings, possibly svg, in the "image2" parameter. -- Eugène van der Pijll (talk) 17:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Birds November newsletterThe February 2025 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. This has been an automated delivery by TinucherianBot (talk) 07:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC) Image permission problem with Image:TigerLangur.jpg![]() Thanks for uploading Image:TigerLangur.jpg. I noticed that that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the image (or other media file) agreed to license it under the given license. If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
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DYK for Mermithidae--PFHLai (talk) 18:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC) Lakes in BangaloreHi! Shyamal, I find that you have been editing the above artcile, which was intially created by me and expanded by other from time to time. I have also noted that you have also made very positive edting on some of my other artciles. Now, I have expanded the above article, hopefully more than five times, but I could not exactly assess how much of the text portion only has been expanded. I have fully followed the tutorials you gave me on editing. I am sure a further editing by you may be as least as it can be. In case the expansion is accreptable for a DYK Hook, I would appreciate your nominating it for me. In fact, if all my added text from the time I created the article are added it may be more than five times expansion.I propsoe the following three alterantive hooks if you consider that it may be DYK acceptable. Alt 1 …that Management of Lakes in Bangalore by government agencies witnessed experimentation with limited public–private sector participation that proved controversial resulting in policy reversal Alt 2 … that Lakes in Bangalore have been largely encroached for urban infrastructure resulting in existence of only 17 good lakes as against 51 healthy lakes in 1985. Alt 3 …that the numerous Lakes in Bangalore city, where there are no rivers, were constructed in the Sixteenth Century by damming the natural valley systems Basically the expansion is on management aspect as a policy (Public-private sector participation) which has failed, miserably resulting in policy reversal and should surely be a lesson to others (govt organizations in the country) that "Lake is a Common Property Resource not to be meddled with for private gains".I have written a joint article on Management of Lakes in India for ILEC and hence the interest in Management of lakes in Bangalore --Nvvchar (talk) 14:46, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Primate at FACHello! As a previous reviewer of Primate at FAC it would be great if you could have another look at the article. The FAC has been restarted, and any comments would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Jack (talk) 17:42, 1 December 2008 (UTC) Acid dissociation constant - re-written leadI have now re-written the lead for acid dissociation constant. The essential content of the lead is the same as before. The effect of this change will be that when chemists will read the explanatory material they will say to themselves, yes, I know that, but non-chemists will hopefully get the gist of what the article is about I invite you to read it and then record your “vote”, e.g. “now support” or “still oppose”, at wp:Featured_article_candidates/Acid_dissociation_constant. I have assembled a list of names under Re-written lead, so that the responses will be collected together in one place. Some minor disagreements will inevitably remain. These should not be a reason for opposition. Rather, put constructive ideas on the article’s talk page, so that the article can be further improved by the normal editing process. Petergans (talk) 09:31, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
Birds of PreyHi, according to a recent DNA study (and the Tree of Life website has this as well) saying that all birds of prey (excepte Falcons and kin) are consider as Accipteirformes (spelling?). You may even notice the changes between the storks and pelicans, having serval stork families in the pelican clan.--4444hhhh (talk) 03:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 03:57, 7 December 2008 (UTC) BirdBeaksA.svgNice image, but the avocet should better be described as skimming (or something like that - not to be confused with the surface skimming of the skimmer who shears the surface with the lower bill while flying) as it doesn't probe in mud (its bill is curved the wrong way for that) but skims/sweeps sideways to and fro in shallow water with its bill while walking forward. The upward curvature lets a longer part of the bill be immensed compared to a straight bill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.249.88.197 (talk) 05:11, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
John WestwoodGreat find. Nice to see him as a young man. At that age he was a regular Corresponding Member of the Belfast Natural History Society and we have a Giant Clam once in his house at Arnos Grove sent as a gift for the museum.Warmest regards on a cold day here Robert Notafly (talk) 08:25, 9 December 2008 (UTC) TytlerTytler at last! A missing collector of Parnassius. I failed absolutely to find a thing.This is a great find and I see you got Hope and Brunetti too.Just about to add some digital text links to Hope. Then I must go to the museum RobertNotafly (talk) 08:49, 9 December 2008 (UTC) Frank HanningtonIt seems very likely indeed that this is the Hannington of P. hanningtoni but I can't find any more.Will you start the page and then I'll ask around? Robert I filled in the last red link in Haliday contacts the other day after some years of searching atb RobertNotafly (talk) 13:43, 9 December 2008 (UTC) Great JepperSuspect this is Dublin phonetic of japer or joker.It may be related to jeepers creepers.The Dublin pronunciation is odd Jesus for instance is rendered Jasus (Jay zus). Fits the context.I'll see what I can find about Hannyngton atb RobertNotafly (talk) 20:27, 9 December 2008 (UTC) HannygtonDublin military family with many India connections so I have listed him Irish. I'll see if there are any India butterflies in the Dublin Museum. RobertNotafly (talk) 20:48, 9 December 2008 (UTC) TypoTo add to the confusion. Should have been HANNYNGTON Notafly (talk) 20:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC) Semi-protection for SnakeHi Shyamal, So, what do you say? Do you think semi-protection for Snake is called for? I'd say so, considering the significant amount of vandalism it is regularly subjected to. I calculated that, over the past month or so, the page was vandalized more than twice a day, almost always by unregistered users, and that the vandalism approaches 50% of all edits to this article. Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 12:54, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear User. You contributed to the Mahalanobis distance article. Some of its content lacks citations for verification, has been challenged and may be removed. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references.Calimo (talk) 10:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
Expansion of Grey-breasted Laughingthrush
I'm trying to do several things here:
After years of waffling on formal GOI notification of the proposed Palani Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park, a few key lines on page 20 of the last SACON annual report hint that it may actually happen.
The threat to Grey-breasted Laughingthrush has been well established by the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON). A SACON study on the population and habitat use of the Grey - breasted Laughing thrush recommends restoration of grasslands and shola forests in the Palni hills to protect the species.[1]
Well that's it. Any comments you have on any of the above and especially edits of the draft expansion of Grey-breasted Laughingthrush will be most appreciated. Please feel free to pass this along to anyone else who you think may be interested. Cheers, Marcus (talk) 21:52, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I understand what you're saying about the recent taxonomic changes, probably due to Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. But all I want to know is if there are any errors or omissions in my Laughingthrush article, based on traditional knowledge of the bird. I only have web sources, no bird books. Renaming can come later. FYI, our article History of Pulicat appeared on Mainpage/DYK, yesterday the 13th. Regards, Marcus (talk) 08:35, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of "Petaurista caniceps"![]() A page you created, Petaurista caniceps, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is nonsense or gibberish. You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article. Thank you. Gail (talk) 12:20, 20 December 2008 (UTC) Rufous-crowned SparrowInteresting... I didn't realize that fall couldn't be used after a "the". Thanks for the copyedit. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 15:50, 21 December 2008 (UTC) TalkShyamal, I am in Bangalore. Can I talk to you? My mobile number is NOTED&REMOVED.--Nvvchar (talk) 08:33, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Eld's Deer (Thamin), http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasja_dekker/1855764456/ Thamin or Eld's Deer, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/3015012348/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/66555845@N00/2265641657/ Thanks. --Nvvchar (talk) 02:23, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
unitarian greetings
DYK for Grey-breasted LaughingthrushDravecky 20:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC) North American River OtterHello Shyamal. I was referred to you through Jimfbleak in reference to your expertise with images and copyrights. I came to him with a request for advice concerning an image transfer from a website to the North American River Otter article. The objective was to transfer a Range Map of this species from the IUCN Redlist Website: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/12302. However, the image is copyrighted and Jimfbleak suggesting coming to you for further guidance. Do you have any suggestions on how to obtain a similar image that can be placed on the Wikipedia article? Thank you and best regards, --Wikitrevor (talk) 20:54, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
I give you a thousand thanks. Thank you so much for your time and effort put into making the fantastic range map. Your contribution is splendid! Thank you and best regards, --Wikitrevor (talk) 04:31, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
HelpCite tag error at the Bar-tailed Godwit article. I updated records to match the paper rather than the earlier numbers from the website, and ended up with this cite tag error. Give it a look when free. prashanthns (talk) 10:49, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
If you could weigh in on Petergans recent behavior with the article that would be great. If you look at the history and the talk page, you should be able to get a good idea of what has gone on.--Jorfer (talk) 18:40, 31 December 2008 (UTC) Dendrelaphis imagesHi Shyamal, For the past three or four months, I've been busy reorganizing all of the snake images at Wikimedia Commons. I think I've been able to identify and organize most of them within a reasonable degree of accuracy, but I'm not sure about these two that you're apparently responsible for uploading: File:Bronzeback sal.jpg and File:Bronzeback head sal.jpg. I believe they are both of a Dendrelaphis species, but am not sure which one. Can you help? Thanks, --Jwinius (talk) 11:26, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
How to use this top Indian Wikipedian list for effective collaborationHi, I have added a section 'How to use this list for effective collaboration' on User:Tinucherian/Indians WP page to see if we can put this list to really good use, pl give your thoughts on the same and we can take it further from there. Thanks. Vjdchauhan (talk) 18:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC). Image copyright/public domain?Shyamal, I trust you are having a good new year. Please confirm that I can upload images to Commons from 1941 1st edition of the Book of Indian Birds by Salim Ali, if I use {{PD-India]}. I have an opportinity to get a first edition from which I would like to copy and upload images for use in some wiki articles. I don't want some jerk robot to delete images if I spend $ for the book. If I can't upload, I'll just get a cheaper used 2002 copy for reference. Also, I have I ...that the proposed Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary would be the southernmost protected area on the Central Asian Flyway, a bird migration route covering 30 countries used by 279 migratory waterbird populations?
Melon flyThank you for editing the article. I am new, and flies are not my main gig. Please hit the article with everything you've got. That goes for your friends too. (If you made those edits, then surely you know some bug guys on wiki.)--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:38, 10 January 2009 (UTC) WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue V - January 2009It's here at long last! The January 2009 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter is ready, with exciting news about Darwin Day 2009. Please feel free to make corrections or add news about any project-related content you've been working on. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse --ragesoss (talk) 02:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC) ArchivingOh, many thanks! There's much I still have to learn about the system. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:40, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Djibouti FrancolinGood luck in the jungle. When you get back and have an opportunity, would you be interested in sketching a Djibouti Francolin? I'm trying to bring it up to GA, but free images are lacking. There are links to a Birdlife sketch and some pictures in the External links. Thanks, and happy new year! Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 17:19, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
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