User talk:Peter Wallack

Hello, Peter Wallack! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Shyamal (talk) 15:16, 19 August 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Hi Peter, thanks for your excellent images. Just a few points about captions

• The caption should not normally include the name of the species the article is about. It's assumed the image is of that species
• alt text is to help people with visual impairments who are using screen readers; it should therefore describe what is being shown. You might have something like this for American White Ibis alt = large white bird with long curved bill standing on a beach|On a beach in Florida Although only the second part is visible as a caption, a screen reader will speak the alt text too
• The caption should describe the image. so Feeding on a beach is a caption, but this species has two flyways is not, unless your image is a map of the flyways.
• Captions only end in a full stop if they are complete sentences

Hope this helps Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:14, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

PS: Good to see another bird-watcher as an editor. Getting an article to Good Article or Featured Article is a great way to preserve one's toil at wikipedia. The main barrier is finding sourcing for material. See here. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:21, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Hey Peter, please always complete the edit summary when making edits so that other editors can see the reason for your edits. They should comprise of a brief description of what you changed and why so that the article history can be followed. Mfield (Oi!) 18:26, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Edits to Bird

I have removed the section you added to bird's ecology section and moved it to the talk page for discussion. The section had no supporting citations and was (and you will have to forgive me for being honest here) below the standard required for a Featured Article, the reasons for which I have briefly explained in the talk page. I understand the gist of what you are trying to convey (birds provide important ecosystem services) and am happy to work with you on the talk page to try and get the point across in the article. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:50, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia principles

Hi there, I just noticed you had not been welcomed ! Some of the key principles can be found in the canned welcome message above and one of these - "Reliable sources" is of special importance. A reliable published source needs to be cited for any additions made. Shyamal (talk) 15:21, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks messages

Please don't create file pages with "thanks" messages; these won't be seen by anyone and administrators have to spend time deleting them. If you want to thank someone, please use that user's talk page. Stifle (talk) 12:55, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Mourning Dove Perched.jpg

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Canvasback picture

It seems your picture is not of a pure male Canvasback, but a Canvasback-Mallard hybrid. Frankyboy5 (talk) 23:19, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Template:CC-BY-SA license listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:CC-BY-SA license. Since you had some involvement with the Template:CC-BY-SA license redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 06:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)