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April 2012

Science lovers wanted!

Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 19:27, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problems with Gegeneophis primus

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May 2012

Brackets

Brackets in animal authorities indicate that the name was not the original name given by that particular author(s). Square brackets, usually around the date, mean that the date is an estimate because there was no date on the original publication. It took me a long time to find out the latter.

BTW in the case of the leopard I took Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, as having the correct notation. It may not be correct. IUCN has brackets. I am not sure which is correct. Cheers. Dger (talk) 22:16, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK, MSW3 was incorrect on the species, then, if you're right. All felines in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae were described in Felis; Panthera dates to the 19th century. (This should be clear from the article.) I'll restore the brackets on the species and see what I can find on the subspecies. —innotata 22:22, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's OK I am restoring some now. The subspecies are difficult to check. Dger (talk) 22:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MSW3 doesn't say whether the names of subspecies it recognises are the original names, so I'd just restore them all. —innotata 22:31, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I used the IUCN list. It seems to be the correct one. It's all done now, I hope. Dger (talk) 23:17, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Should be good enough without a good source for all subspecies, which wasn't there before, thanks. —innotata 23:31, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great American Wiknic for Twin Cities in June

Howdy! I would like to invite you to again join the Great American Wiknic this June (maybe just update Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota ?) :) Also, please add any preliminary details to Wikipedia:Wiknic#2012 Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 19:51, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your thoughts at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Minnesota would be very useful right now, let's get moving :)--Pharos (talk) 17:15, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please help to jumpstart the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Minnesota#Great_American_Wiknic_for_Minnesota_in_June; there isn't much time left to plan!--Pharos (talk) 00:56, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unlikely to be able to make it, and I can't reserve a spot. I will post suggestions later today if I get time. —innotata 19:05, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It would be great if you could maybe post a couple of suggestions today!--Pharos (talk) 14:34, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't remember what those were —innotata 18:14, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

June 2012

VOA

Why did you tag all those files from the Voice of America as copyvio's? They were all produced by VOA reporters, one was extracted from an interview given to a VOA reporter. Works of the US Government are in the public domain. Can you please ask first before tagging them for deletion or start a discussion? Oaktree b (talk) 01:46, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The photos were all credited to the AP or AFP in their watermarks or caption credits (which the VOA copyright tag warns of). The author of an article is not necessarily the photographer. —innotata 18:40, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

At the time that I uploaded the images from the 2010 Winter Olympics the images couldn't be expanded by clicking on them, thus the presumption at the time was that they were all by the VOA. Go ahead and flag any further ones that I uploaded that are actually fair use, but no need to notify me each time. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 20:41, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to get into fair use (nor will many Commons admins), so should I stop tagging yours? Wasn't really thinking about the notices; it is slightly easier to use the toolbar buttons. —innotata 21:51, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well if they don't belong on Commons because they are by the AP, they shouldn't be there. I figured that the automated means of nominating a file for deletion was probably how I got the notices since it will generate those automatically and to avoid this would involve editing the images themselves and putting in the delete template. However I don't know if this also automatically categorizes the image for deletion. If it does, it would be a favor to ask you to do this for my images. However it is ultimately up to you if you want to do it this way if this alternative method works. I wouldn't get the notifications, but I'm already aware that I did upload some images that were actually by the AP, they just weren't marked as such at the time of upload. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 22:23, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MD-XX photo

I have removed yoru speedy tag because there was no support for it to be deleted in the first place. We don't delete something just because one person wants it gone, per the discussion there were two keeps and only one delete. If you want my file gone, get proper consensus. Fry1989 ^eh? 19:02, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

One of the three users (including you) was neutral; deletion discussion are about the merits of keeping/deleting, not voting. The way to undo a discussed deletion is deletion review or something similar, not reposting content: for that reason the file should still be eligible for speedy deletion. (It also presumably needs to be reduced in size as the deleted file was, and as noted by one of the users commenting in the deletion discussion.) —innotata 19:42, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't say it was about votes, I said it was about consensus. There were no merits for deletion. There's no similar images of this proposal available, it can easily be reduced by a bot, a,d having it here causes absolutely no harm like the other thousands of non-free images we have. And while the one other user started his sentence with "I'm neutral", he continued by saying he supports it being here if it's resolution is reduced. Fry1989 ^eh? 20:04, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thanks, innotata!

I am obviously totally embarrassed that I didn't notice it was all talking about 2011!

How do I sign up for the event?

And how do I sign my comment, which I apparently didn't do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dark roast, please (talk • contribs) 21:38, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to sign up, but I'll list your name in the appropriate "Attending/Declining" section (note that the planned date is July 7). Your editing interface should have a signature button, the standard one looks like

, or you can type four tildes "~~~~". There's naturally a help page, WP:signatures. —innotata 21:44, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

July 2012

Great American Wiknic Barnstar

You are awarded this mighty Great American Wiknic Barnstar for your valorous efforts in helping to organize the 2012 Great American Wiknic in the great city of Minneapolis. -—Pharos (talk) 21:31, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the star, though it wasn't much. —innotata 13:37, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, only three of us showed up out of seven who signed up, though I think I was clear enough on the location and time, and it wouldn't have been to hard to find us. —innotata 21:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Credo Reference Update & Survey (your opinion requested)

Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:

Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).

Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.

If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasi^{t | c} 17:19, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Socotra links

Hello, Innotata.

We are the authors of the largest encyclopedia on the island of Socotra in Russian. The resource is located at socotra.ru. At the moment we are doing all the translation of texts into English and place them on the site socotra.info. We are very grateful if you let me add links to our sites in your article Socotra — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sequent (talk • contribs) 12:55, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't look incredibly useful, but probably should be useful enough as an external link, as there isn't so much on Socotra online. It doesn't look much like an "encyclopedia", there are some poor translations, and the Russian site definitely shouldn't be linked from the English page. —innotata 15:41, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We are actively translating articles from Russian into English. These texts certainly have historical and cultural value. Russian scientist - Vladimir Agafonov lived on Socotra to the 1975-1990 year and made a lot of articles about the life and history of the island. We have collected a large amount of material and photo. These records will soon be added to the english mirror of site (socotra.info). Our project needs information support. —sequent —Preceding undated comment added 20:50, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what you want, but I don't really care whether socotra.info is an external link, you can add it if you like as far as I'm concerned. —innotata 21:44, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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