User talk:Igor Balashov

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A special welcome for a gastropod expert!!

Hello Igor Balashov. Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you so much for your already numerous contributions about land snails, including two new land snail articles! You are doing extremely well for your first few days on Wikipedia! Congratulations! I wanted to explain that here on Wikipedia there is a group of editors who like to work on improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of snails and slugs of every kind, from the land, from freshwater and from saltwater. This informal group of editors is known as "WikiProject Gastropods". You seem to be both both very interested and very knowledgeable, and we are hoping you might like to join us, so I am giving you this invitation:

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Actually I am thinking that you are probably Igor A. Balashov, PhD, at the Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine? It is wonderful to have you on board, we definitely need more people who work on land snails. My name is Susan J. Hewitt and I helped map the distribution of the non-marine fauna of the British Isles back in the 1970s. Currently I am working more on marine shelled species. There is a list of my publications here. Please, if you have any questions or comments on any aspect of Wikipedia, or about any aspect of WikiProject Gastropods, feel free to leave a message on my talk page or on the project talk page. Very best wishes to you and welcome, Invertzoo (talk) 17:57, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Susan. Thanks. Yes, that’s me. And thanks for correction of my articles. Sorry, but I do not want to join. I will not be very active here. Only sometimes.--Igor Balashov (talk) 21:39, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's OK, no problem at all. We are very grateful to have your contributions here whenever you have the time and the willingness to give us some of your valuable effort. All good wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New list article on the non-marine mollusks of Ukraine

Very nice article!! Thank you so much! Invertzoo (talk) 22:29, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Well done! And thanks again! Invertzoo (talk) 22:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again

Thanks for the new article on Ramusculus subulatus, as well as the very nice image of the shells of that species, which also makes the genus article look better. Good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 16:39, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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why the hell my ip was banned?! explain this

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Fixed the IP block, you should be ok now. Apologies, NawlinWiki (talk) 20:57, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Euthema

Howdy - just a note that I have merged the references from the three Euthema spp. stubs to Euthema, and redirected the species articles there. For fossil taxa (in contrast to recent taxa), we don't usually have separate articles at the species level unless there is an unusual amount to say about them (hence the high-profile dinosaurs all have them, of course...). "Normal" fossil species are treated in the genus article. Feel free to expand the list of species at Euthema into separate paragraphs with additional info though, if such is available. Cheers! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:37, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Elmidae: I strongly oppose your actions as species are basic units in studying of biodiversity and such approach is very harmful in my opinion. Where is it written that there should be no stubs for fossil species? Every species is clearly significant and what you doing is basically removing articles bypassing the procedure. Especially when there was additional info in article about Euthema annae that you removed completely. I found it very revolting when expert on the topic should spent more time to protect his contribution in appropriate form than to make this contribution. I'm insisting that you should reverse your actions or I will appeal. --Igor Balashov (talk) 17:58, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My redirections are based on consensus as established among the editors who are active in curating paleontological content on Wikipedia. You don't need to be offended by this; it is merely an approach to good housekeeping. For the reader, there is no benefit in having to hop between separate articles if each only contains a sentence or two of material - that material might just as well be presented in the genus article. (I don't think I removed relevant content from that article, but if so, there's no problem with providing it at Euthema instead.) It's fine to have a redirect from the species name to the genus article so that the species can be searched for; after all we want this stuff to be easily findable. But there's no need to split for splitting's sake. This is accepted practice for extinct taxa, albeit not for extant ones.

If you wish to discuss this, I would suggest bringing it up at the talk page of the paleontology wikiproject, where people with a lot more experience than me in handling these structures will weigh in. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:11, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is very offensive and inappropriate, especially when you're saying that you don't think that it was relevant content.--Igor Balashov (talk) 18:18, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a collaborative project; everyone can and will edit any article. Being easily offended by good-faith and collegially explained edits that are based on established consensus is not conducive to this environment. Please do drop a note on the indicated talk page if you want some further input here - it's all subject to discussion. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:24, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You may be aware of the discussion going on at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Palaeontology#Species_articles,_again. There's currently arguments for and against having these species as separate articles; please feel free to chip in. (And don't read too much into the WP:COI mentions - this is rarely if ever applicable to taxon articles.) --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:11, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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