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Our first double issue in
almost four years, although we will try to return to a monthly schedule henceforth (incidentally, the last double issue saw
Markham's storm petrel at GAN, and this one sees it finally pass FAC).
The
March 2024 GAN Backlog Drive starts today; everyone is welcome to participate and help reduce the backlog of GANs.
The January edition of our
monthly rolling contest was won by Quetzal1964 with 100 points from 40 articles, mainly related to various species of marine fish. simongraham was second with 80 points from 14 articles on jumping spiders.
The February edition saw Quetzal1964 win for the second time in a row, with 114 points from 43 articles. In second place was Snoteleks, with 21 points from 7 seven articles on various unicellular
eukaryotes, including the GA
Telonemia.
January DYKs
... that Dacrytherium, literally meaning 'tear beast', was named after its "
tear-pit"? (3 January)
... that the wood-pasture hypothesis posits that semi-open wood pastures and not primeval forests are the natural vegetation of temperate Europe? (5 January)
... that until April 2023, when the
genusTriassosculda was discovered, the
mantis shrimp fossil record contained a gap of more than a hundred million years? (5 January)
... that although Olga Hartman believed that her
basic research on marine worms had no practical value, it was applied to experimental studies of oysters? (6 January)
... that Oxford ivy grows towards the light to bloom and then towards the darkness when going to seed? (17 January)
... that S. F. Light(pictured) disliked using his full name? (20 January)
... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"? (26 January)
... that having lived in Central Park for more than a year after becoming homeless, Flaco(pictured) has been accused of being a peeping tom? (19 February)
Where did you see that? It isn't
here. I had checkuser while I was on ArbCom, but I never learned how to use it, and it was removed when I resigned. If something is showing me with CU, I need to get it changed.
Donald Albury16:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
That shows that I had check user in November 2022 when I removed autopatrolled from my rights. I cannot add or remove checkuser from my own rights, and check user, as well as oversight, were removed 1 January 2023, as recorded
here.
Donald Albury16:50, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Regarding the article about flatworms. The taxobox for Acoelomorpha clearly says it is a subphylum in the phylum Xenacoelomorpha. And in the article for Xenacoelomorpha, the article says "The clade (groupings of organisms based on their most recent shared/common ancestors) Xenacoelomorpha groups the Acoelomorpha and the genus Xenoturbella, due to molecular studies". So it is really mentioned in the Xenacoelomorpha article.
178.232.173.10 (
talk)
03:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for this detailed declaration, but in the final entry you note "I was stationed there 1978–1969" - I think you might have either a transposition or typo.
Thryduulf (
talk)
22:19, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi there. In regards to the revert of my edits to
Cape Romano, what makes a local news source unreliable? I have seen many instances of Wikipedia routinely drawing from them for information. The source in question had direct photographs of the info. Also, was a full revert entirely necessary, as opposed to a corrective edit? The picture of the pyramid house, for instance, met the requirements.
SavagePanda845 (
talk)
09:16, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for correctly ordering and simplifying my homestead edit. I read your page and noticed your also a native Miamian, you have inspired me to also start contributing to the WikiProject Florida as well. Thank you for all your contributions and sharing your knowledge and history of south florida!
Origenous (
talk)
01:33, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
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The newsletter will not be returning to a monthly format (mainly because the author is busy failing every exam imaginable) and is on a bimonthly schedule for the foreseeable future.
The second round of the WikiCup was very competitive, requiring the highest points total to advance since 2014. Two TOL editors, AryKun and Fritzmann2002, advanced to the third round.
The March edition of our
monthly rolling contest was won by simongraham, who amassed 118 points from 21 articles on various species of jumping spider; in second place was Quetzal1964 with 109 points from 53 articles on marine ray-finned fish.
Quetzal1964 and simongraham were also the top two in the April edition, although Quetzal was ahead this time, with 68 points to simongraham's 48. In the annual leaderboard, Quetzal and simongraham are in first and second place respectively, with 291 and 246 points; in third place is Snotoleks, with 76 points.
... that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II
propaganda, with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"? (8 March)
... that the Kīlauea lava cricket disappears from a lava field as soon as any plants start to grow there? (13 March)
... that
Julian Assange's lawyer argued that the rules set by the
Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"? (13 March)
... that
mule deer sometimes prefer the flavor of one Rocky Mountain juniper tree, like "ice cream", over another? (21 March)
... that the skeleton panda sea squirt was known on the Internet for its skeleton-like appearance years before its formal description? (26 March)
... that only one fruit but several thousand seeds were known when Allenbya collinsonae was named? (26 March)
... that while named for
alliums, the fossil Paleoallium(pictured) was not necessarily directly related to any allium species? (27 March)
... that the extinct genus Mixtotherium, meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and
hyraxes? (28 March)
... that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of
chert? (28 March)
... that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher(pictured) was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets? (30 March)
... that the spirit liverwort is called such because of its proximity to the Māori afterlife? (31 March)
... that cultures of the fungus Lentinus brumalis have been flown on three different satellites? (31 March)
... that the English herbalist
Nicholas Culpeper claimed that eating alkanet leaves would make a person's spit deadly to serpents? (31 March)
Eufriesea purpurata
Korowai gecko
Paleoallium billgenseli fossil
Male Meratus blue flycatcher
April DYKs
... that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat? (1 April)
... that color-changing cats(artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future? (2 April)
... that the white-tailed jay(example pictured) found in Ecuador and Peru was once thought to have been brought to Mexico by
pre-Columbian trade? (5 April)
Donald, would you take a look at
this draft and see if it's ready to publish. Just need a fair assessment and I've seen you an the River Wikiproject. --
ARoseWolf13:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
@
ARoseWolf: Well, I certainly have published articles about rivers that were shorter and less well sourced (several were sourced to a single book). I will recommend putting the second source in {{Cite web}}, but that's a gnomish thing. I appreciate how hard it can be to find reliable sources about lesser-known rivers, and have often relied on government reports. So, yeah, I'll say it is ready.
Donald Albury16:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the assessment. It was very hard for this one in particular. I know so much personally about the river, I'll leave it at that, but I had to suppress what I know about it and only summarize what could be found in the sources. I truly am mesmerized by the editors that create GA's and FA's. Such hard work and dedication should be admired. --
ARoseWolf16:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Keeping personal knowledge out of articles can be hard. I have slipped up a few times, although, I hope, not recently. I have occasionally though about trying to take an article to FA, but my attention span on a particular article falters after a week or two, and there are always so many other topics that need attention.
Donald Albury17:14, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
I believe I modified the source right. If you are busy you don't have to look. I appreciate your perspective on it. I have made countless mistakes in editing. My attention span is very short. It's funny because when I do a task around the house I get super focused and can complete it but there is so much eye candy on Wikipedia. I swear I look a child on its first birthday sinking teeth into icing covered cake. We all have seen those videos. lol Thanks again, and anytime you need help or some encouragement to get that FA off the ground I think I give great pep talks. :) --
ARoseWolf17:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
@
Donald Albury: Given the general structural and citation issues in the article for the
Coosa chiefdom, I have been working on a
rewrite. At this point, I don't think its complete, but I wanted to ask you to take a look. Thank you for your time. --
KiwiNova (
talk)
19:41, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
I think that looks pretty good. An article with a topic adjacent to yours that I worked on is
Apalachicola Province. I think there is a lot of room in WP for improvements to coverage of the proto-historical/early historic period in the southeastern U.S. I previously kept myself busy sticking mainly to topics related to Florida, but that area spills over into the wider souteast. I have been disappointed in how limited much coverage of Native Americans in the southeastern U.S. is in WP. Something I don't see much coverage is how Mississippian chiefdoms evolved into local confederacies, and then merged into the Muscogee Confederacy. Oh, yeah, take a look at
Tribal town if you haven't seen it.
Donald Albury23:00, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
@
FloridaArmy: Sorry, I don't see anything. There may be something in a local source that hasn't been uploaded to the net, but, aside from an historical society in Jackson County, I don't know where to look.
Donald Albury20:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
No need to introduce myself as you have recently blocked my profile from editing
Robert (doll). Robert's page is still outdated with information that is not totally accurate.
I'd like to update his page still but cannot risk being blocked again.
As an Admin, can you please inform me as to what was the issue with my most recent update to his page?
I'd like to come to a solution so Robert's page can be updated accordingly.
Hello Donald! I saw your comment on my talk page about reverting the changes I made to the
Belle Glade page. Wikipedia's general guideline on reliable sources suggests that publications from reputable organizations, which would include government agencies are considered reliable resources. I cited the Belle Glades Gov website which should be considered a reliable source. I want to hear you out, but I think we can revert the changes I made with some exceptions. Let's talk before I undo your changes.
MoisesM12 (
talk)
00:04, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
@
Moises M12: Reliability of sources is contingent on what the source is being used for. A local government source is generally considered reliable for content about that government. Not so much so for the history of the area before that government existed. Archaeological and historical sources published by academic presses and journals trump histories published on the web by local governments, chambers of commerce, and similar sources. Note that our article on
Calusa states, At the time of
European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries, the historic Calusa were the people of the
Caloosahatchee culture. They developed a complex culture based on estuarine fisheries rather than agriculture. Calusa territory reached from
Charlotte Harbor to
Cape Sable, all of present-day
Charlotte,
Lee, and
Collier counties, and may have included the
Florida Keys at times. There is no indication in currently accepted scholarly treatment of the Calusa that they were ever resident in Palm Beach County. The people living around Lake Okeechobee when the Spanish arrived in Florida were likely the
Mayaimi. A century ago many sources stated that the Calusa extended over musch of southern Florida, but more recent scholarship has restricted their culture to southwest Florida, although their political influence may have extended further.
Donald Albury00:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)