User talk:CephasE

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Hello, CephasE, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Long-billed Thrasher

A tag has been placed on Long-billed Thrasher, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Zamora et al. on greenfinches or goldfinches?

Hi. Your further-reading contributions are very impressive, but I'm wondering why you added Zamora et al., "Rhodopechys obsoleta (desert finch): a pale ancestor of greenfinches (Carduelis spp.) according to molecular phylogeny" to Lawrence's Goldfinch, since that article seems to be about greenfinches. Does it discuss Lawrence's Goldfinch? Thanks. —JerryFriedman 17:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

When the number of papers on a species is low, I put all what I find even if there is a slight reference to the subject. In Zamora et al., there is a slight reference to the Lawrence's Goldfinch in a table p. 449. In any case, I learned that adding this kind of long list of references (as I did for many species, sometimes with very long lists) is not in the scope of Wikipedia, so I stopped doing this. Contributers of a species could delete them if they want to. I'm new to Wikipedia, I'm learning. CephasE 23:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I took it out, since I don't think we need papers with only slight references. I hope you've read the discussion on your Further Reading lists at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds#Further_reading.3F, where I and someone else said the lists were useful. —JerryFriedman 04:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FPC Nom

Congratulations! A picture you uploaded, Image:Tamias striatus CT.jpg, has been nominated for Featured Picture status over at Wikipedia:Featured Picture Candidates. You can come to participate in the discussion and vote here. --NauticaShad es 22:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bufo americanus

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Your image, File:Bufo americanus PJC1.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Jujutacular ^T · C 09:16, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pine siskin

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eastern Chipmunk

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Your image, File:Tamias striatus CT.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Jujutacular ^T · C 09:16, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Aspen Parkland Map

Hello there I'm not quite sure if this will be appropriate for a user talk page, so please forgive me if it is not. I just want to thank you for creating the aspen parkland distribution map and adding it to the article. The map is excellent and I believe it will really help readers better understand just where the biome is located. Again, thanks, the map is excellent. 1brettsnyder (talk) 23:11, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

many thanks for the map

The maps you put in the Arctic coastal tundra and Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra look great. thank you Istanbuljohnm (talk) 02:55, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

Hi Simon,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Bufo americanus PJC1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 18, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-12-18. howcheng {chat} 19:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

POTD notification

Hi Cephas,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Carduelis pinus CT7.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 26, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-02-26. —howcheng {chat} 22:15, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Blue Wildebeest

I noticed someone removed your range map for Blue Wildebeests. I checked and indeed it does not accurately reflect the true range. For exmaple, the largest concentration in the Serengeti and Masai Mara aren't included. Was the map the range of a subspecies only? If so, can you add the ranges of the other subspecies? Regards. Dger (talk) 01:20, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Giant forest hog map

Great work on the animal maps! I have added a note on your map for the giant forest hog [1] (I have not added a comment in French because my French is very limited). As mentioned in Handbook of the Mammals of the World, northern DR Congo and entire range in Central African Republic are H. m. rimator. H. m. meinertzhageni is not found in Central African Republic and in DR Congo it is only found in the far east. Consequently, the border between the two subspecies is in DR Congo: Very roughly, if you use File:DCongoNumbered.png as a basis, #9, #11, east #8, and east #10 are H. m. meinertzhageni. West and central #10, and #3 are H. m. rimator. Cheers, RN1970 (talk) 18:05, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for telling me. I correct this as soon as I can. Once done, I suppose we can delete the note? --Cephas (talk) 17:42, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, if corrected, my note should be deleted. RN1970 (talk) 16:43, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Myrtle Warbler 2

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Spam

Could we get you to not spam the Library resources box all over. Thank you ||

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