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Thanks for your feedback about the article on DC++. It is appreciated, especially the specificity of the comments. The project (and the entire DC network) has been largely low-profile, with few news articles about it. I'll see what I can do without engaging in too much original research. As a side note, some of the DC++ offshoots have had their own project pages (ex: StrongDC, BCDC++), but were merged back in due to notability concerns. (I'm not sure if this is supposed to go on the peer review page, but I won't be able to give the article the attention it deserves for at least a couple of days, and acknowledging your review of it is paramount.) -- GargoyleMT 14:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for review the Llama article. Although I have added significantly to the article, I know many, many editors have as well. Consequently, I thought a third opinion with direct feedback to specific issues would be in order. I was right. You have really found some great areas to improve. As I add or subtract to the article, I will make sure to update the peer review page. Thanks again. -- Blind Eagle talk~ contribs 13:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello;
I noticed that you have been working on a timeline template, different from EasyTimeline. I've worked with ET to see if it can be adapted to mate cladograms with location and stratigraphic information, and my best examples are here and here. Would your template make this easier (these took quite a bit of work)? At this point, I'm not sure if I want to pursue template timelines any further, due to arbitrary branching distances and not wanting to stray too close to Original Research with age assignments that are known to not occupy entire stages, but I'd like to know if this would make the clade part any simpler. As you can see in the second example, the vertical and horizontal connecting lines have scalability problems. J. Spencer 18:47, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Your link http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=Cite-o-matic+for+Wikipedia finds nothing :-( Andy Mabbett 20:14, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
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The Ediacaran Barnstar | |
For your superb work on getting Ediacaran biota to FA, I award you this newly-created Ediacaran Barnstar. Bet this award won't get much use, eh? Oh, well. The effort is worth it to properly celebrate your achievement. Adam Cuerden talk 18:40, 28 June 2007 (UTC) |
How did you get on with the Operator extension in Firefox? Andy Mabbett 18:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I think now it's OK. You can renominate it again. Ruslik 05:51, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 17:11, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Well done. Great work. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 07:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
If you want a page you made deleted and no one else edited, you can use the {{ db-author}} tag to do so. Kwsn (Ni!) 17:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
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I'm willing to help with these articles - post a message on my Talk page if you're interested. I'd better warn you that I have a strong tendency to re-phrase existing content, as to many articles on science-related subjects suffer from logorrhoea, which I attribute to "academics envy"© (guess the derivation of this phrase!). I strongly believe that the target audience for Wikipedia is non-specialists and the target level of Fog index should be under 12. You may want to know a bit about my activities as an editor, so: I wrote most of the content in Physiology of dinosaurs (now re-arranged by others, discussions on-going), most of Permian-Triassic extinction, a lot of Cretaceous extinction and of Archosaur, and all of Evolution of mammals; and I've extensively edited Extinction event. Philcha 18:59, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
And so promptly!
Re "Wikipedia's geology articles are frequently in quite a shocking state": I'm more into paleontology than geology; but some of the paleontology articles have needed a lot of improvement - while is why I pitched into the ones I listed.
Re Cambrian explosion: (a) Why is your interest in FA status waning? (b) A quick look made me think the structure may need to be clarified, but I'll have to re-read it first. (b) Some of the writing does need to be clarified. (c) The section which discusses the differing interpretations (unique explosion of diversity vs evolution as usual but at a rather fast pace) needs refs, but that's easily fixed. I think I have enough grasp of the subject for a Wikipedia article (which is not supposed to be a PhD thesis) - I can spell and define coelomate, protostome, deuterostome, ecdysozoa, lophotrochozoa, lobopoda, halkeriid, wiwaxiid and onychophora.
Re "writing in simplistic language": I simplify the language but don't dumb down the logic; I aim re-check my edits for logic and coherence about 2 weeks later, so I see it with fresh eyes (but I'm a bit behind on that, especially on Permian extinction, because Evolution of mammals was a lot of work).
Re Timeline of evolution: (a) I'd appreciate a list of what you regard as inaccurate, out-dated or non-essential. (b) It's such a huge subject (3.8B or 4.6B years, depending on how you scope it) that my first impulse would probably be to rough out the target structure, on which I'd appreciate your input - possibly making it an overview / portal page which links to more detailed articles.
Re "my hypothetical ideal article would leave the complete newcomer understanding the subject by about 2/3rds of the way through, with the remaining article covering more demanding aspects of the subject - though of course in such a fashion that our newly educated newcomer should be able to follow their way through!" - I totally agree! That means that in the intro and in the early stages of each major section I simplify the writing, introducing technical terms as needed, but gradually increase the pace of exposition.
PS: congratulations on the Ediacaran Barnstar! Philcha 21:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 00:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
The point has been addressed, and code has been written for it, but the code has not been put into the template yet. Could someone do that please? Werothegreat 14:04, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
You had forgotten to list your bot request on WP:BRFA, so I've done that for you now. — METS501 ( talk) 20:27, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi, could you please discuss your move of the Titan page on the talk page, as it's caused an inconsistency with other natural satellite pages and was (I think) made on mistaken grounds. Cheers. Cop 663 01:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
It has been decided on the WP:TOL talkpage to make Chromalveolata a kingdom, and to give it its own color. It is not a small, unsettled group. It has been recognized as a clade by several authorities (Adl et al, Cavalier-Smith, etc.), and is a large group, included the heterokonts, the ciliates, the dinoflagellates, and the apicomplexans. These are all large phyla, with great diversity. I am trying to get rid of the term protist as a scientific name on wikipedia, because it is enormously paraphyletic, and in some cases, polyphyletic. The trend toward monophyletic supergroups must be recognized on wikipedia. If the remaining three supergroups were recognized as kingdoms, then only two new taxobox colors would need to be used (leaving the protist khaki for one of them). Please check with WP:TOL if a large change (such as the changing of the taxobox colors of a large group of organsims) occurs, as it has probably been discussed there. Thank you. Werothegreat 14:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I see you are a template guy and also active today, so I chose you to ask for help. We are having a problem with this template for the Philately WikiProject. The issue is that when on is on a page that is contained in the template, if on clicks on the What links here, all the other entries from the template appear in the list. Is there a way to exclude those links showing as it makes the What links here results useless because it is overwhelmed by the template returns instead of the page's usual links. Please reply on the template talk page. Cheers TIA ww2censor 14:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
The reason there is no Taxobox on this page is that it is not a taxon. There is no taxobox on Marine mammal or Ediacaran biota or the List of poisonous plants, because none of these pages describes a taxon. Likewise, the bryophytes are not a taxon, but merely an assemblage of plants with similar life-cycles. The most narrowly inclusive taxon to which they all belong is the Embryophytes, and the Taxobox is on that page accordingly. -- EncycloPetey 00:08, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
This section has been moved to the template talk page.
Thanks for the barnstar! I am about to upload a drawing of Cloudina. I was inspired by your image request as the article was on my watchlist. Graeme Bartlett 12:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for drawing my attention to Butterfield's article. Since I'm not familiar with this area (I've mostly read about macroscopic stuff) I'd be grateful if you could tell me whether you think I've understood it well enough. So here are the main points as I see them:
Please let me know of any errors or omissions you find in this summary. Philcha 09:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for your kind note. I read Gould years ago, and last year I visited the ROM and got to see some of the Burgess Shale in person. Very nice! Cheers, -- Fire Star 火星 13:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hi there,
You recently decategorised this image, possibly among others. Is this a temporary move? Is there a more appropriate way to categorise images? I personally find it very useful to be able to find images via categories, so would prefer that the tag stayed.
Thanks,
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Hi, just to let you know that User:Taxobot1 has been renamed to User:Taxobot by Secretlondon per your WP:USURP request. WjB scribe 01:38, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Verisimilus, figured I'd go right to the source with this issue, since it's a fairly big problem and you're the original designer of the template. I noticed pretty severe discrepencies in the highlighted range across different browsers. I'll use Tyrannosaurus as an example:
What do you mean "hidden until Safari compatible"? I'm using Safari and it looks fine. Maybe I'm just not seeing what others are, but I can't tell while the template is hidden. -- EncycloPetey 21:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Cheers, Daniel 09:19, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks! :D Shrumster 10:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, got any other work for me to do? Also can you help with the rewrite of the Fossil collecting article. Thankyou. Enlil Ninlil 20:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
You seem to have edited the article so that a lot of it is the same as Graham Budd's version. While GB is a genuine scientific authority, his version had several problems including: unintelligible to the general public (it read like a long abstract from a scientific journal, and abstracts are often harder understand than the actual papers); confusing structure, e.g. "Significance of the data" introduces a whole lot of new data; failure to explain the concepts; failure to describe the types of evidence in plain language, including their strengths and weaknesses; criticising "creationists with a poor grasp of science" before presenting any evidence / arguments that they do have poor grasp of the relevant science. I still believe we need an article which is intelligible to the general public. In addition to using simple language wherever possible and defining terms, I think that involves adopting a structure which is easy to follow: intro; history of the subject; review of types of evidence, including their strengths and weaknesses but without details of specific examples; definitions of key terms; survey of the evidence, in order of the times to which they are assigned; discussion of the significance and possible causes of the explosion (including refutation of creationist misinterpretations). Philcha 22:46, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
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Verisimilus, I like most of your changes to the intro to the article on Punctuated Equilibrium but I wanted you to reconsider one in particular. I am not a bilogist but more of a social scientist so I might be interpreting your changes incorrectly but when the original text described evolution as taking place "in rapid bursts, separated by long periods of stasis, in which little change occurs," I thought that it communicated very well the idea that change happens but not in a progressive way. On the other hand, your new text seems to imply, directly, that punctuated equilibrium states that no change happens, period. I am interpreting this correctly? Do we need to go back to the previous text? Jsarmi 15:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Please do not delete formatting information from Taxoboxes as you did to Psilophyton. -- EncycloPetey 13:47, 23 October 2007 (UTC)