User:Smallweed/archive1

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Angela 13:04, Nov 8, 2003 (UTC)

Hello! Maybe you are interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Battles. Cheers, Muriel 15:12, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks, Muriel. I wasn't aware of that. I see I added a battle not on List of Battles! Smallweed 16:37, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi and welcome. I was wondering if the text on Leopold II of Tuscany was based on the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. It's fine if it is, but we usually make a note of it when using such public domain sources. See Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Either way, thanks for your many contributions! Cheers, -- Infrogmation 18:20, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

You're right, I missed it off. Thanks for drawing it to my attention. Smallweed 21:23, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Is there a reason why you wanna "jump redirect"? I'm curious. --Menchi (Talk)â 11:09, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I thought this was good editing. I'll stop if it annoys you. Smallweed

Actually, skipping redirects doesn't do anything except maybe tire your fingers out. :-) Because that's exactly the point of redirects -- so humans don't need to type long hard-to-read Wikifcation with the pipes and all. No, it doesn't annoy me really, I'm just curious why you chose this laborous (and to be bluntly, kinda pointless) activity. Keep up your energy, Allan Octavian Hume is a good stub! Hope to see more (on him or any other old guy! :-) --Menchi (Talk)â 07:39, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi, I saw your comment re hawaiian honeycreeper. To avoid confusion with the numerous taxonomic schemes around at this rapidly changing time, the convention wikipedia bird articles is to use Handbook of Birds of the World for northern hemisphere, and HANZAB for mainly southern groups. The exceptions are regional lists like List of North American birds (ABA taxonomy) and British birds (BOU list).

I think it's quite important to stick to the convention for all other artices, otherwise confusion will reign. For example, Sibley lumps New World vultures with storks, which is not generally accepted outside NAm. HBW/HANZAB is a reasonable compromise, radical, but not too much so. Tannin andI wrote many of the family/order articles, so if I can help, let me know. jimfbleak 17:34, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. That's a big help :) Smallweed 18:46, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thnx

Thanks for fixing the wikilinky in Wassily Leontief. Optim 18:09, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Good work on Paris Observatory. Do you ever get involved in contributing to things you're not really interested in? Are you in Stourbridge? Cutler 17:59, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I'm afraid there aren't any pages that are safe from my messing. I've been setting up 'year in science' pages and it's taken me all over the place. And no, I'm not in Stourbridge (at the moment). Smallweed 19:07, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your continuing help tidying up after me - one problem with dumping massive regional lists is that with the best will in the world, errors creep in - some mistakes even in the raw data! Jim

With plants, it is division as opposed to phylum. See Division (biology). - Hephaestos|§ 21:16, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks and apologies. Smallweed 21:35, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The first book source for Layard's Parakeet had the more convincing looking P. calthorpae, but HBW, Birds of India and Psittaculaworld web site all have calthropae. Incidentally, the latter website is the reason I've temporarily been putting in author dates. Jim

I agree. I've got one reference which says that Calthorp was Layard's wife's maiden name, but it could just as easily have been Calthrop, as it's proved an unreliable source in the past. Smallweed 08:52, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

cap or no

{sigh} Wanna weigh in on the subject? Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Capitalization of species common names again - UtherSRG 18:51, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Most of that discussion goes over the top of my head, I'm afraid. I'm a caps man though. Smallweed 08:52, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Meinertzhagen

Many thanks for the work on Meinertzhagen ! Shyamal 04:32, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

No problem. Meinertzhagen was an interesting bloke. I really must read Mark Cocker's book on him sometime. Smallweed 08:21, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

I would be interested if you find references that suggest that he was (to put it mildly) 'responsible for the death' of ornithologists C.B.Ticehurst and Hugh Whistler. Shyamal 06:05, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Timeline of Ornithology

Have added a note on the discussion page. Shyamal 13:27, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Owls

Birds of India has Collared Scops Owl as Otus bakkamoena, Handbook of birds of the world has O. lettia, and has bakkamoena for Indian Scops Owl. I have recently been told that Indian Scops Owl is now known (or split?) as Oriental Scops Owl, O. sunia. Birds of India lists, inter alia Oriental and Collared, does not have Indian. Although I know this genus has had some taxonomic changes, I can't make sense of this. Jim

A Google search has Oriental always as sunia, so that is clear. Indian is always bakkamoena, and Collared is either lettia or, more often, bakkamoena. Does that help? jim

I've found a site that clarifies and gives ranges. Collared, lettia is a recent possible split from Indian bakkamoena. Presumably Birds of India doesn't recognise the split, since both forms occur in India and Sri Lanka. I'll amend Collared Scops Owl and write Indian Scops Owl soon. Jim

The statement that Otus lettia migrates into the breeding zone of Otus bakkamoena needs verification. The Indian list made by the Bombay Natural History Society does not recognize the existence of Otus lettia.Shyamal 05:43, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

White-bellied Antbird

I noticed that you have changed Trinidad to Trinidad and Tobago. I don't think this species occurs in the latter island, so the dab is misleading. I'll revert the change for now, but maybe you can find a better solution Jim

Hello

We seem to have similar interests (birds, nature reserves) and geography (Birmingham area)? Am I correct? Andy Mabbett 16:14, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

List of Biologists

Since you and I have made most of the contributions to this list, I want to ask your opninion. Yesterday, an unregistered user has added a certain Dae Hyun Lee to the list, with only this explanation : "named a few insects". There is no article, no biography, no personal data. If we allow entries of that sort to remain in the list, then the quality of this list will quickly fall. In my opinion, we should remove such unqualified entries at once. What do you think ? JoJan 08:24, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Charles Swinhoe (Req)

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with info from Mearns and Mearns on Colonel Charles Swinhoe and confirm if he was related to Robert Swinhoe. Many thanks. Shyamal 04:08, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for confirming and also for the additional information you added on my talk page. Shyamal 08:35, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 21:25, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Seychelles Bulbul

Thanks for helping correct and fix up the article. I know something about my local birds, but otherwise am not much of a bird person. I just did a quick google and scraped text from some of the sites I found to try and add enuf text that it wouldn't get a speedy tag again, mostly to try to avoid discouraging the person that added the pic and article. Niteowlneils 17:21, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sources for binomial names

Hello. Thanks for putting the sources in on my moth articles. I would have started doing this myself but I have noticed a (small) discrepancy and I don't want to get it wrong.

You have listed the source for Common Emerald as Hübner 1799. I'm using Fauna Europaea [1] to get some improved distribution data and it lists the same author for the species but a different year (1789). Is there a definitive source to use for this information? Richard Barlow 13:04, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category:Endangered species

While I think this is a good category, can you incorporate this into Template:StatusEndangered so that the category tag doens't have to be manually added? Then all of the species that have been templatized as endangered will automatically be categorized as well. Likewise, there are other status templates that could be similarly categorized. - UtherSRG 14:53, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Crud. I believe it's a caching issue. I know it will work, because Template:Mammals adds the mammal category tag to all of its articles. I'm not sure how to get the info to flow manually. I'm sure an automated process will eventually fix it all up. - UtherSRG 15:30, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Authors

Hi, I think I'm going to need your help again. Yet again I've failed to find out the identity of an author. This time it's Zincken in Common Footman. You usually seem to be able to get your hands on this kind of information! Thanks, Richard Barlow 12:51, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

At least you found a full name and dates which is more than I did. Thanks for that Richard Barlow 16:06, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:17, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Snakes

Thanks very much - I was not looking forward to spending the next few days tracking down authors and cross-referencing the list to see if I likely had the right ones. Great job. Guettarda 29 June 2005 12:50 (UTC)

List of entomologists

Could yoe work on some of my entomologists -entomology list of entomologists Camillo Rondani and Alexander Henry Haliday in particular Time is not on my side at the moment. Will answer any entomological queries on this page for anyone who wants info Very many thanks

I've tidied Alexander Henry Haliday. Camillo Rondani is far too long, especially as hardly any other articles link to it. I will try and tidy some of the others. Smallweed 11:04, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Very many thanks I will try and get a page of my own for the full text (as I did with Haliday)Time is a major problem here Busy with insects. I research for type specimens amongst other things- Diptera and Hymenoptera. History helps here Could you look at Hermann Loew too. He was the greatest dipterist of the century. I have som pics but no time yet- only odd moments. Thanks again.

Des Murs

Thanks for sorting this - all I could find was that his initial was O and the name of the book jimfbleak 12:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Science pearls

Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 10:42, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Imperial Eagles

Hi - could you let me know the source for your comment about the support for the split of Spanish Imperial Eagle & Eastern Imperial Eagle being supported by DNA studies? Thanks SP-KP 17:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Timeline of Entomology

That was quick. Very many thanks.I really wasn't looking forward to that this am. Very best wishes Notafly in very rainy Ireland.

John Latham

No. The linking issue is likely to be because our coverage of the law, particularly in Australia, is lousy. Even today, Latham remains one of Australia's most notable jurists - he was Chief Justice for nearly twenty years, and was counsel in one of the most significant cases in Australian history. I'm not disputing that the ornithologist is tremendously notable, but rather that the jurist is notable enough that a disambiguation page is appropriate. Ambi 07:37, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Timeline of Entomology

Hi Still raining here in Ireland. Could you sort out something for me please. I have a message telling me the Timeline is too big. Can I split it/ or better would you be very kind and do this for me? Four parts would be best- Prior to 1800;1800-1850; 1850 -1900; 1900 to date.I'm hoping everyone likes the timeline which is meant to function also as an index to the Entomologists pages.I put some pictures in to brighten it up a bit. Can't overdo my thanks so far Notafly

Timeline of Entomology

You fixed it Wonderful Many many thanks Notafly

George Shaw

Hello Smallweed, my name is TomCatX from the German Wikipedia, so first I have to apologize for my worse English. I've seen, that you are the first author of the article George Shaw and recently you added some more informations about his life. I had translated your text first into german some months ago and then I "scanned" the Internet to find out more informations about him. This was relatively hard because I never found a complete biography and so I had to put one little piece of information to another. So I wonder about the information source you use. I've found out that his parents were Timothy and Jane Shaw because Timothy was the vicar of Bierton for many years and the inscripts of his and his family grave still exists and were noted on a page of the Biertown Internet-Site. On this inscript another Jane Shaw with different life data is mentioned, so I think it has to be his sister. George died in London which is mentioned here, If you click on "Enlarge Image". Then I have another question: Was his full name really George Kearsley Shaw? I think this is the name of his publisher George Kearsly and maybe there is some mixing up with this two names but I am not sure. That's all for now, my very best wishes, TomCatX 08:56, 23 October 2005 (UTC).

Thank you for your answer to my question. Maybe I have more informations for you:

On this site] there is some information about his father Timothy, vicar of Bierton.
On this site is the information I mentioned above about his parent and his sister.
And finally these letters also my interesting for you:
- a Letter recommending George Shaw to join Pacific voyage, received by Lord Sandwich, from Sir Francis Dashwood, Lord Le Despencer, 20 December 1771, written by his father Reverend Timothy Shaw.
- a Letter recommending George Shaw to join Pacific voyage, received by Banks from N. Wetherell, 24 December 1771,
- and finally Letter received by Banks from George Shaw, 12 January 1772 (Series 06.183) written by George Shaw himself

My very best wishes, TomCatX, 31 October 2005

I've got plenty of material on River Tern, but I'll be way for a week - if you think of it remind me and I'll write it up. jimfbleak 19:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Dendroica

To wikify a page is to remove all HTML markup tags that have a Wikipedia equivalent and replace them with Wikipedia tags. In the page that I tagged for wikifying, there were several <i> tags that should be replaced by '' either side of the text. See also [Wiki Markup]

Hope this clarifies things. Stifle 14:57, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Scavenging for photographs

I think this yahoo group will interest you India-nature-pixs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

It has a whole load of photographers submitting images of wildlife in India and almost all the ones I have contacted have been willing to submit pictures under cc-by-sa.

Only problem is that you need to be subscribed and there is no archive of older pictures.

Shyamal 12:08, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Timeline of Entomology

Hi Smallweed Many thanks for your continuing help.The timeline as well as providing a history also functions as an index as you point out. Really do appreciate your efforts. Rainy and cold here in Ireland today Notafly 08:49, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a ton

for all the cleanup on my trail.. Shyamal 14:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

i have a couple of queries that I think you will be able to help me with

I have an image Liana.jpg in wikimedia commons that i want to put into Liana but i always get the en:wikipedia image. Is there a way to specify the image source?
I would like to have a thumbnail gallery of images from taxoboxes automatically shown with the images linking to the actual species articles. Is there a way to do this ? Is this a good idea ? It would be help make something like a field guide to some of the species.

thanks Shyamal 11:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC) The thumbnail galleries would be in the List of .... pages.

Thanks again for cleaning up after me and linking author names. Shyamal 12:40, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Using Scientific names for species pages

I understand that you prefer using the Common names as the primary page naming convention for bird names. Somehow I just seem to prefer using scientific names since they are so much most stable unlike the common names. Especially so for the Indian region since there are too many fieldguides for the region now and they all use different names. The common names used by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp are not very popular except perhaps among tourist birdwatchers to the region. Incidentally the species treatments are much better in the new work by Pamela Rasmussen and this for instance would require Southern Hill Myna to not redirect back to Hill Myna. And for other taxa where common names are sometimes hard to come by, I guess scientific names are much easier to have. cheers Shyamal 06:48, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Maria Sybilla Merian

A nice account translated from the more complete German Wikipedia has been added to the stub of this interesting entomologist.However she also appears under the same name as a Swiss Illustrator Artist. She was I think of Swiss parentage but born in one of the "German" states. It is clear that the two accounts should be merged preferably under Entomology and Swiss Illustrators. Should I proceed? Best wishes from an oddly warm Ireland Notafly 15:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Taxobox format

I see two different taxobox formats, I use the same format that you use, but I see others such as User:Eugene_van_der_Pijll using a different one on Malabar Civet for instance. I am unable to find which is the preferred or more uptodate format ? Shyamal 12:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

James Murray

I have a photocopy of some sections of his guide to the edible birds. Will check if there any preface having any information and let you know. Shyamal 12:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

The Edible and Game Birds of British India
with its dependencies and Ceylon
with Woodcuts, Lithographs and Coloured Illustrations
by James A. Murray, F.S.A.L.,

Member of the Natural History and Anthropological Societies of Bombay; 
Manager, Victoria Natural History Institute; 
late Curator, Kurrachee Municipal Library and Museum; 
Author of "A Handbook to the Geology, Botany and Zoology of Sind;" 
"The Plants and Drugs of Sind;" "Kurrachee to Kandahar;" 
"The Vertebrate Zoology of Sind;" "The Reptiles of Sind;" 
and "THE AVIFAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES."

LONDON:-TRÜBNER & Co, 13 Ludgate Hill
BOMBAY:- EDUCATION SOCIETY's PRESS, BYCULLA

Not much I am afraid. Shyamal 14:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)