User talk:Richard001/Archive 3

Bird navigation template

Hi Richard: I'm finally back on-line after a long time away (work!) and find that an edit you made here removed the Birds Outreach department (plus a number of other things) from the project's navigation template. Was there a specific reason for doing that? It means that those who aren't current members of the project can no longer easily reach our newsletter, and that the "welcome" banner isn't easily available for those who want to welcome new members.MeegsC | Talk 14:31, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Definitely not intentional. A friend pointed out I had screwed up the colour too; I thought that was all. Richard001(talk) 05:15, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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Request

Hi there, in response to a question about ecological niches on the evolution talkpage, I've added a paragraph on ecology toEvolution#Adaptation. However, as a molecular microbiologist I'm very aware that this isn't my subject. I noticed your comment on the ecological niche talkpage and thought this might be more your kind of thing. If it is, could you check what I've added and correct it/expand it if necessary? Many thanks Tim Vickers (talk) 01:42, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm planning to reread this article so I'll take a look when I do. Richard001 (talk) 22:26, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:Invertebrates

I was about to recreate this category when I noted you had deleted it previously. However, there are a number of subcategories for it nonetheless. There are eight invertebrates by location categories (see [1]) and several others, e.g. Category:Extinct invertebrates and Category:Fictional invertebrates. It would also be suitable for e.g. Life in the Undergrowth, which is about invertebrates. Unless these are all to be deleted, shouldn't the parent invertebrate category be recreated? It doesn't have to be used as a taxonomic parent category; in fact a note cautioning not to do so might be appropriate. (Please respond on my talk page, or notify me of your response here if you like) Richard001 (talk) 23:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

As a parent category for the existing "Inverterates by …" or "Invertebrates of …" categories, it could make some sense. It is only as a taxonomic category that it would be absurd, as you have spotted. I'd be concerned as long as there's a risk of all animal phyla except one being shoved into Category:Invertebrates by over-zealous editors. One solution would be to create the category as you suggest, with a note that it's not to be used as a taxonomic category. However, I suspect the better solution (although a lot more work and perhaps more contentious) is to replace the existing invert-based categories. Just as it makes little sense to have the main taxonomic hierarchy include the group "invertebrates" (containing all but one phylum and 99.9% of all taxa), so it doesn't make sense for more specific categories. I have had a look at Category:Extinct invertebrates, and, having created Category:Extinct insects, only two species were left directly in the invertebrates category. Creating a separate Category:Extinct annelids and either Category:Extinct crustaceans or (better, in my opinion) Category:Extinct arthropods would equally solve the problem (as would simply accepting a couple of unclassified species inCategory:Extinct animals). Category:Fictional animals looks to be a similar situation. As a biologist, the division of all animal life into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates seems very chauvinistic; the more appropriate system is to divide by phylum and then by class, etc. Overall then, I think the invertebrate categories should ultimately be removed. I haven't done it yet forCategory:Extinct invertebrates, but I'm happy to do so. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:31, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Quote mining

Since you've contributed to it in the past, I thought you might want to look in once more on the article's present state and current RfC.arimareiji (talk) 14:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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Newsletter tip

Hi Richard: Thanks for the tip! I'll put it in March's newsletter... MeegsC | Talk 22:37, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll try to make a regular contribution in this area, though don't be disappointed if I fail to do that. Richard001(talk) 06:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

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New article stubs or userspace stub?

Good question. Here's the exact wording (from Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Creating a New Article#Reliable Sources):

One of the most common complaints from authors of just-deleted stubs is that they expected their article to be left in place for a while, so that other editors could contribute to it, eventually expanding it into a real article. In fact, there's no such policy of mercy for new stubs: The stubbier a new article is, the more likely it is to be deleted. If you think a topic is important enough to deserve a new article, then you should be willing to spend enough time finding information—from reliable sources—so that the article doesn't begin life as a stub. Otherwise, the article will quite possibly reach the end of its short life being a stub, and you'll have wasted your time and the time of the editors who deleted it.

The standard for an article being "Start" class is pretty low: something on the order of three paragraphs and two (reliable) sources. That doesn't seem to me to be an unreasonable threshold; if an editor can't find that much information, why would he/she think that a subject is actually notable?

It is true that really experienced editors - a famous episode involving Jimbo Wales comes to mind here - have a pretty good idea of what notability is, and when such an editor puts up a stub, it's a good idea to help expand it rather than to delete it (or propose it for deletion). Unfortunately, a large percentage - if not the vast majority - of new articles are added by inexperienced editors, and the survival rate now, for new articles, is something like 50% (that we don't actual measure and track this, over time, is part of the non-quantitative culture of Wikipedia). If inexperienced editors stopped putting up stubs, I think that relatively few important articles would remain in userspace (after all, Wikipedia isn't really about article counts, it's about useful articles), and lots of non-notable subjects would remain in userspace forever. And that would reduce the workload of new page patrollers and admins.

Or, to put it differently, way too many new editors expect other editors to spend lots of time defending and expanding stubs, becausetheir stub, they think, probably is notable (though they haven't spent the time, or have spent the time and failed, to find reliable sources). The problem is that most of the time, the new editors are wrong. Thus it's unreasonable to expect experienced editors to spend time doing anything other than a cursory review a stub that of a stub that is proposed for deletion (CSD, prod, or AfD), because most of the time, an exhaustive search for reliable sources simply isn't going to find any/enough. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:59, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

I also note that Teratornis has posted a long response to your question at my user talk page. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:25, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Bird newsletter template

Hi Richard: Per your request on my talk page, how does this template look?

Have a look at this as well, and let me know if you think it should be placed elsewhere. (Don't pay too much attention to the newsletter content yet; I still haven't updated much since last month's!) Also, do you think I should display it collapsed rather than showing? MeegsC | Talk 01:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Possible proposed Wikiproject of interest

Hi, I've noticed your edits to Animal Locomotion, and was wondering if you'd be interested in the wikiproject I'm proposing,Wikiproject - Organismal biomechanics, which deals with, among other things, animal locomotion. A list of the pages I plan to have within the project scope are on my userpage. Happy editing!Mokele (talk) 13:45, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't really have enough knowledge/interest/time to join such a project. I would suggest dropping the 'organismal' part of the name since the bio- prefix pretty much entails that it concerns the mechanics of living things. Also, you could broaden it to cover all of biophysicsperhaps (it could then be the intersection of the biology and physics projects). Good luck! Richard001 (talk) 09:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds April newsletter

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Missed the last meeting in auckland

Finally logged on with my user name to find a message inviting me to the auckland meet last year. Shame. Would have liked to have meet some fellow interested wikpedians. anothertime maybe. Always forget - how do i sign off again? Give this one a try. Not too sure either if this is the right way to communicate to you. take it easy. Funauckland (talk) 02:16, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, some time ago, you added "Expand on Wikiquote page and then link to it." on the Talk:Insects/to do, can you expand on that? Bugboy52.4 (talk) 01:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I moved that page to Arthropod to allow more quotes (e.g. one on a barnacle), so that's not directly relevant to theinsect article. By the way, it's best not to use 'hello' as a heading but something more specific to your message. Cheers.Richard001 (talk) 02:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

New image project

Hi. This little form letter is just a courtesy notice to let you know that a proposal to merge the projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Free images, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use, Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration into the newly formed Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media has met with general support at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Files. Since you're on the rosters of membership in at least one of those projects, I thought you might be interested. Conversation about redirecting those projects is located here. Please participate in that discussion if you have any interest, and if you still have interest in achieving the goals of the original project, we'd love to have you join in. If you aren't interested in either the conversation or the project, please pardon the interruption. :) Thanks.Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Scolypopa australis

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... that fluffy bums suck on passion vine juice? Best DYK hook I've seen in ages!!! :) --candle•wicke 15:28, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I'll have to write one on autocoprophagy for next year's April Fools Day DYKs... Richard001 (talk) 08:34, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Copyright on recordings

FYI, I've given an answer to your question at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#Copyrights on audio and video files. All the best,– Quadell ^(talk) 14:47, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

File:DavidLange.jpg

Restored; I'm watching the file. I'll give you a few days to add the FUR. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 21:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

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A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies

Hi. I have emailed you to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change. If interested, please email me Encyclopaedia21 (talk) 18:42, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds June newsletter

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GA reassessment of The Botanic Garden

I have conducted a reassessment of this article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have a few concerns about the prose, which you may find at Talk:The Botanic Garden/GA1. Thanks.Jezhotwells (talk) 20:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Papilio dardanus, images and video

I received your message, and followed your instructions. I would like to start making uploads directly to wikimedia commons. I'm a neophyte so I would appreciate some guidance. I have a lot of media pertaining to Papilio dardanus and other lepidoptera all taken at my exhibit here in Richmond VA. I'd like to discuss the possibility of fleshing out, or establishing articles for several species of lepidoptera that are so far missing from Wikipedia. Forehand.jay (talk) 16:56, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Papilio dardanus image updates

Lots of useful P. dardanus images. I just uploaded several, a chrysalis, a couple photos of a newly emerged adult. Forehand.jay (talk) 02:01, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds August newsletter

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Your offer!

Hi Richard,

Megan and I are developing a very important article for the WikiProject - Lepidoptera morphology. I'm adding basically a couple of facts, sentences or images each day. We need good illustrations of the parts, features etc. We need free images of wing-coupling both of the jugum and frenate types. Good images of each type of antennae, so on and so forth etc.

Do consider pitching in. This is really important stuff and top-importance for the WikiProject. We could use all the help we can get!AshLin (talk) 19:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

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Images by Michael

Hi. It was on 30 October 2008 that you let us know on the BirdTalk page that Michael Woodruff had kindly let us use quite a lot of his flickr photographs on the wiki. However, a user has a problem with some of them. Any clarification that you can give will be appreciated. There is some discussion on this talk page; User talk:Tomfriedel. Snowman (talk) 20:34, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Naturalistic fallacy

Please read The Artificialistic Fallacy, Appendix 2, of The Way by Edward Goldsmith. Zanze123 (talk) 21:35, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Animals

Are you still and Active participant of WikiProject Animals WP:ANIMALS ? Please let me know. ZooPro 05:44, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I suppose. Depends how you define active participant. I'm more into reading articles at the moment but I still make corrections, assess articles etc. I'm working on a butterfly article though you may define that as Lepidoptera project activity instead.Richard001 (talk) 06:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

talk:Mimicry

Richard, since you wrote the "to do" on this talk page, please note I have initiated a discussion & proposal on the first para of the intro to Mimicry. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:10, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Auckland meetup

Richard, tell me if there is another meet up in UoA. I missed the one last time.--Dedgeord (talk) 12:05, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't know of any plans for another one, though it's about time there was one I guess. I haven't had much to do with New Zealand articles lately though. Richard001 (talk) 22:20, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Godless killing machines

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WikiBirthday

I saw from here that it's been exactly four years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 01:22, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Dawkins vs. Gould

Hi Richard001. I noted your comment on the Dawkins vs Gould talk page, and left some futher comment for consideration. Good on you for starting the article in the first place. Regards Wotnow (talk) 01:46, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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Robert M. Price

Hi Richard. After reading your comment regarding the photo I reread the email I recieved from the photo-taker. I sent her this:

Hi Sarah,

I was looking for a good picture of Robert Price to put on Wikipedia and from what I've seen you've got one of the best. Can I have your permission to crop this picture down to just Bob and put it up on Wikipedia?

Sincerely,

Eugene

And she responded with this:

Hey,

Bob is awesome! I have a few more here too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowan-ashe/sets/72157618354282639/ if any of these might work better. But no I don’t mind your using my pic. Thank you for asking.

Cheers,

Sarah

After re-reading the exchange I've changed the public domain tag to a more restrictive tag (cc-by-sa-3.0). I don't know if you can still upload it to Commons, but the photo-taker seems pretty open. Just as an aside, when Sarah said I could upload some of her Flickr pictures of Price, I really had to restrain myself from using either this one or this one. Eugene (talk) 16:29, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

If you'd like to contact Sarah and get a more formal permission to use her picture that'd be great. The picture currently under discussion wasn't from Flickr though, it was from her personal site that's listed on the file page:http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sarahbob.jpg Sarah's email address is Sarah@SheNeverSlept.comEugene (talk) 07:45, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Did Sarah ever get back to us with a more formal letter of permission? Eugene (talk) 19:41, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

No, haven't heard anything. Want to try contacting her yourself? Richard001 (talk) 10:16, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

File Restored

I've restored the file File:Adaptation and natural selection.jpg. Nakon 20:32, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

OR ?

Maahesian Mimicry - Any comments on this article ? It seems like original research. Shyamal (talk) 02:28, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Looks pretty dodgy to me. It's the author's only contribution and starts off strangely for an encyclopedia article. You should never create an article saying "references: to be added"! Might be an idea to post a note to this user's talk page and put it up for deletion if they don't respond within a few days. Richard001 (talk) 07:57, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

African Mourning Dove

African Mourning Dove - The picture you added in the middle of the page is really a Ring-necked Dove. If you read the description of the Mourning dove you will see that it's red around it's eye. I have a small Ring-necked dove.

Regards Hardus Hardus Havenga 21:23, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hey

Oh, I am a biologist and I am the smartest person in the world! --Ferocious FlyingFerrets 14:10, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Auckland Meetup 5 on 9 May 2010

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I read your comment in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand and gather you were surprised you didn't know aboutWikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 5. Based on time stamps, the invite above, and announcing the date being set to 9 May in Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board were both posted before your note. Should I have posted an invite to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand as well? Should I also post an invite in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Auckland?

Well it wouldn't hurt I guess but I don't really pay much attention to any of those pages - talk page messages are the only effective way to get my attention. There should be an automated notification to previous attendees and active NZ editors in my opinion.Richard001 (talk) 04:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

The graph project

Hi there - I noticed that you used to be interested in the Wikireason project. I just wanted to introduce you to a similar project, [2], which was presented at a number of Wikipedia-related conferences this year (it was launched by a bunch of Wikipedians late last year). Maybe this will interest you... --Vptes (talk) 18:56, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Image suggestion : Sexual cannibalism

Have you seen this :

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mantidae_sex ?

I would recommend this one :

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mantis_Tenodera_aridifolia01.jpg

AshLin (talk) 10:40, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Template:Too short

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Antipredator adaptation

I've greatly expanded the above article, and hope to reach GA status. I noticed you've also contributed much to antipredator adaptation, and was wondering if you could add/suggest changes that would help? anything at all you can thin of would be great. Particularly in term of references, which it seems to be lacking slightly. Anxietycello (talk) 15:40, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Mimicry talk page

Richard, I see you are the author of the 'Things to do' on Talk:Mimicry, last updated in 2008. When the mood takes you, I wonder if you could revisit that and update it. Quite a lot has been done to Mimicry since then, and 'Things' are (I hope!) at least partly superseded.

Incidentally 1, I enjoyed the developing Chemical mimicry, and wonder where/how we can make a place for some of it in the main article.
Incidentally 2, have you noticed Underwater camouflage and mimicry, a new page which virtually ignores the main mimicry article? It has some nice examples and pics. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:56, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

I haven't been very active lately. I don't see why it can't be updated by someone else - I may not get around to this. Haven't even been paying attention to the page for the most part, besides rereading it at some point this year. Chemical mimicry is something I did a little research on this year, and I hope to work more on that article as well as starting one on alarm pheromones (the two overlap, as alarm pheromones are mimicked). I haven't really worked on integrating chemical mimicry into the main (mimicry) article, which I haven't edited for some time; I just posted a link to it on the mimicry template (as well as a red link for auditory mimicry, which could also do with an article at some point). Will have to check out this new article at some point; will bookmark it and look at it after my last exam. It is a pity when people don't look at integrating their new article into the rest of the project, which is important, though I haven't done much on this myself here and in many other places! Richard001 (talk) 12:12, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Re your edit to sexual intercourse: ethics vs. morality

The terms "ethics" and "morality" are generally held to refer to two things that are closely related, but not the same. See the ethics article for more on this distinction.

In common usage, many people use the two words interchangeably, perhaps in a belief that their personal morality is the only possible morality, and that the only possible ethics thus consists of a restatement of that moral framework, but that usage doesn't eliminate the distinct technical meanings.

Human sexuality is a very good example of an area where different social moralities are in conflict, with different groups of people holding strongly opposing views, so the distinction is particularly appropriate in articles like sexual intercourse. -- Karada (talk) 12:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Update: see this blog entry for more discussion of this topic. -- Karada (talk) 12:20, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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I got permission and now the image is in the article. Joe Chill (talk) 13:22, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

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Paul Henry (broadcaster)

I see that you added {{refimprove}} to Paul Henry (broadcaster). Can you give details about your concerns? Alternatively, could you use the {{tl:fact}} tag at specific areas of concern? Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:09, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Richard, I have added a new article Sigaus homerensis. I am very new to Wikipedia and have been trying to add a new Category to “Insects of New Zealand” call "Acrididae of New Zealand". I was unable to work out how. I noticed that you added the “Hemiptera of New Zealand” Category. I was wondering if you could please point me in the right direction in how to add a "Acrididae of New Zealand" Category? Thanks NZSnowman (talk) 10:09, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Vision in fishes

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Dear Richard, we should write an article on chemical communication. I am procrastinating. Am I allowed to write that last bit here? It's not strictly wikipedia related, but this isn't a wikipedia article (I read the guidelines!). Sincerely, George —Preceding undated comment added 11:40, 9 April 2012 (UTC).

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You have been one of the principal editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica article, so I thought you would be a good person to contact. March 4, 2014 I purchased a copy of the Global Edition from Britannica's website. I then spoke with customer service and they assured me that they are nowhere near out of stock on the 2010 30-volume Global Edition. The Wikipedia article incorrectly states that they are sold out and that it is not available. I was going to edit this, but I realized that there seems to be something of an edit war on that page, and I didn't want to get involved. Perhaps you could make the appropriate edits? The print edition is still for sale through Britannica, and not quite dead yet. This is meaningful, because it means that while we appear to be in the twilight of print encyclopedias, they are actually still for sale. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donaldal (talk • contribs) 15:58, 6 March 2014 (UTC)