User talk:Chris huh/Archive1

Cetacea portal

I have posted my opinion on your new cetacea portal layout on its talk page. I like it! I just wanted to mention it to you here in case you don't check the talk for it very often. --Belugaperson 21:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Just a quick hello to say thanks for cleaning up my poor attempt at html with the article box I created on the Cetaceans portal page. Hope you like it by the way, decided to do it after I noticed a couple of times people mentioning creating a directory of all the species (think I got them all) just gotta hope now that the MfD results in keep. Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 16:06, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		Awarded for contributing distribution maps and a classification diagram for sharks. Ginkgo100 talk · e@ 20:47, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Shark diagrams

If you are licensing them for free distribution, you might consider uploading them to wikimedia commons, so the other language wikipedias can use them as well. Cheers Yomangani^talk 13:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I've never moved anything from EN wikipedia to commons (only from FR), but as far as I know you have to move them manually - i.e. load them up in commons and then delete them here. Yomangani^talk 18:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Project sharks

Welcome! I saw your range maps, very nice, any support is very welcome! Stefan 09:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Collaboration

No, I haven't done anything on yet apart from raise the idea, I'm a bit busy this week, so if you want to start it be my guest. Yomangani^talk 16:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I've added this to the Community Portal - it transcludes the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks/Collaboration/Current item, so it will update automatically when we change that. Yomangani^talk 16:00, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Good thinking --chris_huh 16:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Portal

Thanks for reminding me - I got halfway through redoing the colour scheme and forgot about it. Should be Ok now. Yomangani^talk 15:04, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Categories

I see you are moving pages from sharks into the subcategories - personally I don't think this is a good idea as it means that you can't see them all in one place in the category list and have to drill down into the sub-categories. Yomangani^talk 23:30, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Yep, that's what I'd started (very slowly) doing. Yomangani^talk 23:38, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot?

Yes I have a bot, but it is uncommissioned for now and it is a bit questionable if it is allowed to add project templates, I did the portal using AWB and there are way more pages than I though, it will take 2-3 hours to do them all if you are to make one edit every 30 second. I agree we should put the template up and I will do it, but I think I should ask for aproval for my bot and the bot aproval process is in flux for now. But if you can wait 1-2 weeks I will do it. Stefan 23:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot + Categories

I see your discussion above, this is also something that a bot could do. I will look into it .... at a later date. :-) Stefan 23:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Portal template

I was just looking at it when I got your message. Looks great. Yomangani^talk 10:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Shark not Sharks

Yes I do have creative imput. All of my project was written and created by me. If I did copy ideas I did it my way.

SharksTalk - Userbox1 Collaboration - Shark Select

I know my project is to succeed. You do not own sharks so I don't expect you to defend it. I do not edit sharks so I dont want any Sharks members to edit mine. I always refer to shark as the project after you have recieved this telegram please do something else with your time then arguing about projects, instead update, modify, add to, start new shark articles! Lenny 16:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry stefan

No problem, just keep the good work up!!! Stefan 00:00, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Boxes

Hi Stefan, On Bigeye thresher talk there are 2 boxes - what is the difference? GrahamBould 06:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:BOTREQ

I'll tag the talk pages but can you give me every categoy you want tagged including the subcats on the list. please post them to User:Betacommand/Sharks. I will then create a list from those Categories of pages to tag. When i complete the list you will need to look it over and remove any pages that shouldnt get tagged.

PS. I think you should have a category something along the lines of Category:WikiProject Sharks on the template, that way you can quickly see all of the pages in the Project.

Betacommand 13:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll replace the portal links at about 05:00 UTC 7 September 2006 (about 12 hours from now). if you do it before let me know Betacommand 13:32, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Great White Shark shark project box

Hi Chris, I was just wondering if there was a need for two wikiproject boxes at the top of the Talk:Great white shark page. It seems to be almost a duplicate of one put there before by another user. Thanks --SiobhanHansa 16:49, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I get it. Thanks for responding. --SiobhanHansa 17:00, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Shark

If you need help removing the "project" Shark let me know i can help get it done fairly quickly. ie removing templates and changing categories. Betacommand 19:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Sharks Watchlist

It will not auto-update I'll try to update it regularly but if i take too long drop me a reminder. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

New template

Thanks for fixing my Project Underground talk page template! Just to let you know, you can delete the old project Shark any time you want. Lenny 15:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Only admins can delete it and i'm not one of those; but i think it may have gone anyway. The underground project seems to be going well. chris_huh 15:05, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Maps

Great maps. But noticed that the distribution in the map for pigeye shark is quite different to FishBase's. Might bear double-checking... Cheers GrahamBould 17:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The original is closer to the FAO catalogue (missing the questionable locations indicted by question marks in the catalogue). Fishbase lists it as occuring the the areas shown in the first map (not surprisingly because they use the FAO catalogue as their reference) and the Fishbase point map intro shows the same locations and lists 79 points while actually showing only a fraction of that number - personally I'd switch back to the original. What book are you taking your originals from? Yomangani^talk 07:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Undoubtedly they will be derived from Compagno's FAO catalogue, which is what FishBase mostly bases its distribution information on. I'd certainly take them as reliable unless they are wildly different. The pigeye shark has some quite detailed distribution data in the catalogue, that I will add later, which tends to confirm that the original map was right. I've created a page: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sharks/Items needing attention where we can list possible non-life threatening queries such as this and look at them later. Yomangani^talk 09:28, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I checked the FAO catalogue, after you reminded me about the crocodile shark and it appears that the light blue directly corresponds to the areas that are unconfirmed in the range, so barring further evidence I've added that as a key. Yomangani^talk 10:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Class/subclass

You are right. I had been thinking something was not quite right, but didn't check up properly. Oh dear, there are probably lots of taxoboxes where I've got it wrong. It can be solved by having a subclass entry in the taxobox, which, if you agree, I will introduce to all the ones I've got wrong (& stop doing new articles for a while until done). Thanks for bringing it to my attention. While I've got your attention, what Categories should these shark articles be in? Cheers GrahamBould 17:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Just an update - I've finished fixing the Class/subclass problem on all the sharks/chimaeras I could find. If there are any I've missed just let me know. GrahamBould 17:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Another Barnstar

		The Bio-star
		For your outstanding contributions to articles, projects, and portals relating to marine life, I award you this Bio-star! Gray Porpoise 01:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Transcluding species

I had a look at doing this about a month ago and came up against the same problem - I just haven't had time to get back to it yet. I think the solution is to use a div with an inset (or a table with a blank first column) in the including page and then just use a simple one bullet point list at the lower level. If that isn't clear I can knock up an example. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 13:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Here's an example anyway:

*Family [[Balaenidae]] <div style="padding-left:10px"> *{{Balaena_taxonomy}} *{{Eubalaena_taxonomy}} </div>

• Family Balaenidae

• {{Balaena taxonomy}}
• {{Eubalaena taxonomy}}

Yomangani^talk 13:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Yep, you have to work from the bottom up with this - the layout won't work very well trying to mix and match which subpages are transcluded and which are hardcoded. I think it is easier to maintain in the end, although one drawback is you can't state "Below are the x species of such and such", since somebody may update the list but not all the pages it is transcluded to. Yomangani^talk 14:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Have you had any joy with this? I was thinking of starting work on the list of sharks, but it would be good to adopt the same approach for both projects (then afterwards, we can quickly nip round and do the same for the whole animal kingdom :) ) Yomangani^talk 09:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Looks good. I'll start work on the sharks next week, as I'm fairly busy this week (feel free to jump in if you aren't busy). I'm sure there is a work round if you ever do need to list a higher taxon, but like you say, it's doubtful you'll ever need to do that. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 00:52, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Maps

Hi Chris, Just wanted to say thanks for all the work that's gone into the shark distribution maps, they are great. GrahamBould 14:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Joined 20 seconds ago. BTW I don't have the Collins Field Guide, I have Compagno's 2006 Shark (Collins Gem), no maps. GrahamBould 14:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

kakapo size

Hi, please see talk: kakapo#kakapo size. thanks anyway, 88.155.133.223 15:19, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

emmm...can you draw the kakapo alone (by image:Right whale size.png style)? I will do all the rest. 88.155.133.223 18:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

what do you think?

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Great white shark as COTW

Hi! I updated the COTW to Great white, we should get it and basking to GA, then we can start push other less good articles, like scalloped hammer head which is really a step below GW and basking now. Stefan 02:15, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

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Fin Whale

I think I'm about done adding large amounts of new content to the Fin Whale article. I'd like to eventually submit this as a featured article candidate. And I think the remaining issues from the current peer review have been addressed. One of the things I noticed is that you converted many of the spellings from American english to British english. Looking through the history of the article, I see that it originally used British english, so WP guidelines suggest that we stick to that. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the differences, so can you do a review of the article to ensure that my subsequent additions didn't add any more American spellings to it? That's the kind of issue that would be raised during the featured article candidate review. I've also noticed that you converted numbers like 100,000 to 100 000, but then changed some of them back. As far as I can tell, I've changed the rest of them back and the ones I've added since then definitely would have had commas in them WP:MOSNUM suggests that commas are optional, and they prevent the numbers from being split in the middle if the line breaks kick in, so if they need to be switched back, the nonbreaking space code   needs to be added. Unfortunately, that disrupts the readability of the source code, so I'm crossing my fingers that it won't be necessary. Thanks. -- Neil916 (Talk) 17:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I got impatient and went ahead and listed this article as a featured article candidate. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fin Whale. Neil916 (Talk) 19:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Units

Hi Chris, Thanks for all the tidying up work. Wanted to ask your opinion on units - my view is that the units should be written in full the first time, then abreviated afterwards in the same article (but I've been slack in that for my articles I only use the abreviation!) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) is not absolutely clear. What do you think? GrahamBould 09:37, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to be pedantic, Chris, but I've read the style article a number of times but can't see where it talks about subsequent mentions of units. Even the rule about the primary unit being in full & the conversion in parenthesis being abreviated is odd. Why not both in full, at least the first time? There seems to be a vacuum. I wonder who writes these things. GrahamBould 10:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, i don't really get it that well either. I would have thought the best thing was to have the first mention of any type of unit, whether it is in parenthesis or not to be typed in full, and then after that abbreviated, since it is quite obvious what ft and m and such mean. The fifth point states that you should 'Spell out units in the text'. I gather from this that they mean any units used in the text directly (ie not including ones in parenthesis) should be spelled out and not abbreviated. Also an automated peer review of Fin Whale mentioned that source units should be spelled out. Someone else changed the fin whale article to reflect this. But maybe not all need to be spelled out. I have asked on WP:HD so hopefully a useful answer might come back. chris_huh 10:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Artistic talents

If you get a moment and feel like exercising your artistic talents, could you knock up a pic of shark threat display? I'm working on the article, but it would really benefit from a picture or two. There are a couple of pics here to base it on if you don't have any: Elasmo research pic and the nicer New brunswick one. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 10:55, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Lightning-fast and spot-on. Thanks. Yomangani^talk 11:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Somewhat more slowly, it has made it into the article: Shark threat display. Yomangani^talk 12:55, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Cetaceans Portal

The portal is in excellent condition to be featured. I left a question on Portal talk:Cetaceans/News. If you can answer it, I'll standardize the news. As the featured portal standards say, we should showcase high-quality articles, so how about some of our good and featured articles for future Selected Articles? Thank you for working on the portal and nominating it. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 14:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I have been working on making sure that the selected articles are good, although i don't think they all have been featured or good articles. Definately the best articles should be shown, but i also beleive that good articles (not GA ones, just good ones) should also have a place as it will help to get these more mention and maybe more work could be done on them. I put up Whale watching, IWC , Narwhal and Fin Whale as, although they were not GA or FA, they were either topical or just quite an interesting read. IWC was up there during the St Kitts and Nevis conference, and Fin Whale we are trying to get up to FA (Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fin Whale). But yes maybe we should focus on the FA and GA ones now, and try and get some more as GA. I think there are quite a few cetacean articles worthy of GA, we just need to do a little work on presenting them and nominate them. I have restarted the discussion on Portal talk:Cetaceans about selected article so we can choose some for the next few months. What would be nice is if we could set it up to change automatically every two weeks but i don't think there is a way for that, every week might be too quick and we might run out of articles too soon. We might want to check that out. Chris_huh^talk 15:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I think showcasing some good articles would be effective, as they are high-quality but still have room for improvement. Your performance in coordinating WikiProject Cetaceans is excellent. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 16:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Well thank you very much, sadly it appears to really just be us two working on it. Neil916 has been busy doing some writing but i am think now that we should start to get the assessment sorted out a bit more and work on getting from GA. I am thinking that Sei Whale is going to do quite well, and with a bit of work could get to FA. Chris_huh^talk 16:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it does appear to be quite well. Although it still needs a bit of work to get to FA, I'm nominating it for Good Article Status. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 17:12, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Re:Portal:Cetaceans nomination

Very informative, good job. Also, it may be helpful to people browsing history pages if you leave an edit summary. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 19:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Cetacea as COTM

I created that template at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans/Collaboration/Thanks to put on the talk pages of WikiProject Cetaceans collaboration voters. What do you think? --Gray Porpoise^{What have I done‽} 17:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thats a good idea, can send that round to people when it changes to make sure they know. I made a change to it so that it will change to be the current COTM. Change it back if that is not how you meant it to work. Chris_huh^talk 18:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

That's good, as long as those who post the template substitute it. --Gray Porpoise^{What have I done‽} 18:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Cetacea categories

It seems that anything with CetaTalk is automatically added to Category:Unknown-importance cetacea articles, even those with evaluated importance. Would you please fix this? --Gray Porpoise^{cetaceans have large brains} 00:23, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, i clearly made a bit of a mistake there. I think i have been able to sort it now. Chris_huh^talk 13:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Marine Life Wikiproject

Your name is on the Marine Life Wikiproject and I was curious if you were still interested in working on it, as I'm trying to restart it. Dark jedi requiem 18:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I've changed week to month atMarine life COTM. If you could look it over it would be great. We can probably start voting too. Dark jedi requiem 18:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Re:List of cetacea

Looks excellent! The only two suggestions I have are:

• Rename to List of Cetacea (proper capitalisation) or, more preferably, List of cetaceans (to show that it's a list of members of the order, not the order itself).
• If someone can come up with a good introduction that's not a duplicate of Cetacea's intro, it would be better.
  

Otherwise, it looked like a featured list from the first edit! I added some categories. --Gray Porpoise 19:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Improvements to the Psychology portal

Hi, I'm working on trying to get Portal:Psychology up to Featured portal status. Any tips you can offer on how to improve it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rfrisbie^talk 16:04, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Theater/re

I reverted the "theater" edits back, because it's referencing a "cinema" and not a place for the arts, like an opera house. "Theatre" is the British treatment of the word that was respelled to be "theater" in America. http://webcdi.com/theater/theatre.php Bignole 17:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Range maps

I had peer reviewed List of cetaceans and I noticed you have done a lot of the range maps. It would be really great if artic and antartic species had a polar projection rather than a mercador. I don't know how you make those so I thought to give you the suggestion. Thanks for all the work you do on thes maps.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 21:08, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

have a happy Turkey-Day!!!!

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Re:Portal: Cetaceans

Thank you for informing me; that is excellent news! You did a really good job working on it. --Gray Porpoise 11:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on your achievement! István 13:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

CetaTalk

(Sorry for requests like this, but I am not an experienced template coder.) A needed-class article's talk page shows up in the unassessed category. Would you please make it so that there's a separate category that needed cetaceans articles get added to? --Gray Porpoise 20:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

It's used for articles that need to be created, but it appears that this class does not apply to WikiProject Cetaceans. --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 21:15, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

You would create the talk page with the CetaTalk template. I did so to Talk:List of extinct cetaceans, but removed the needed-class label when in realisation that it's not listed on the assessment scale. --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 22:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it might be a waste of time to change this. List of extinct cetaceans appears to be the only needed article at present. --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 22:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Re:Congratualations on RfA

Thank you! This is off-topic, but it's almost time to change the WikiProject Cetaceans current collaboration. Do you want me to manage that? --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 11:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Bat bathing

Since you seem to keep monitor the Bat article, and since you re-added the material at least once, I wanted to bring your attention to an edit I've just done. Notes are at Talk:Bat#Thin_as_a_drink_of_water. After perusing the history of the article, and noting the mention of the Bat bathing article having been deleted as unsubstantiated, I hope this won't be taken amiss by anyone. Shenme 08:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

The Fish Portal

Hi, User:Melanochromis has done a great job getting the Fish Portal up an running. At this point, more sets of eyes can help make it even better. If you can offer some tips on the portal talk page about how to improve Fish up to "featured" quality, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rfrisbie^talk 13:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

By the way, Sd31415 suggested I contact you about the Marine life Portal. It looks really good to me! Not that you need it, but let me know if you're interested in any help with anything. I'm sure it wouldn't take much to get it to featured status, if you're interested in doing that. Regards, Rfrisbie^talk 01:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Portal tips

I have done a lot of extensive work (and so has Rfrisbie) to Portal:Business and Economics. I would like to bring it to Featured Portal status and I am seeking your opinion! Please leave your suggestions at the the Portal talk:Business and Economics about how to get this portal to featured status. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Nishkid64 04:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Portal review volunteers

Hi, based on your previous good deeds, please consider becoming one of the portal review volunteers and adding your name to the list. :-) Regards, Rfrisbie^talk 18:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Your work on Baiji

		The Original Barnstar
		Great work on Baiji. Keep it up. Xiner 02:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I know what you mean. People have a way of making you feel lonely even when they agree with you. Cheers. Xiner 17:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

The fish portal January 2007

Hi Chris huh. It's almost the end of December now, and the fish portal needs new contents for the January update. Would you like to help selecting (nominating and/or voting) the articles and the picture? I'd appreciate a lot. Here're the links:

• "Selected article of the month" voting
• "Selected fish of the month" voting
• "Selected picture of the month" voting
• "Selected quote" voting

PS. your talk page background is really pretty. Thanks, --Melanochromis 18:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Winterval(s)!!!! (12-22-06)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful!... But I hope wherever you you are, that it's warm and delightful! : ) —Randfan!!

Dear Chris huh/Archive1, I wish you a very, very merry Winterval! And since I don't know which you celebrate, I hope you have/had/will have a very happy Holiday!. Hope you and your family have a magnificent day, or series of days! You might wanna install the "SaucyMillionaire" font to see this correctly. Cheers, mate!:) —Randfan!!

God (or your deity/deities) bless you and your family! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 02:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

-I was planning to hand these out on the 22nd of Dec. but things got in the way.... Happy holidays! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 20:50, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

background

If I might add, that background at the topof the page is "flippin' sweet"! Happy holidays! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 20:50, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Baiji captive dates

Hi. Please see Talk:Baiji#Reference_for_captive_specimens. I believe the date you reverted for the female dolphin captured in 1986 is wrong. It doesn't really make sense if the dolphin lived in captivity for 2.5 years but died the same year it was caught. Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 17:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah, i just realised that. I checked the source and that is what it says in there. I think that it probably come in the same time as Lian Lian but then survived for longer (the source must have just put the wrong second date). I can't seem to find any other information, so i suppose we can either fix it so that she did live for 2.5 years, or take her off. At [1] it mentions that Lian Lian and Zhen Zhen were caught at the same time but she lived for 2.5 years so it must be the date that is wrong. Chris_huh^talk 11:58, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I see what you mean. Well, press articles and the Wuhan foundation have pages that list 09/1988 as the date of death for Zhen Zhen (the link are on the talk page, linked above, and I also posted a translated summary there), so I think we should update it to that. Indeed they arrived together and are supposedly a father-daughter pair, how they know that I'm not sure. You can actually see "1988年9月" on the Wuhan page, and that's when Zhen Zhen died of pneumonia. Cheers. Xiner (talk, email) 16:22, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

POV of Cross River Tram#Peckham

Can you please respond to Talk:Cross River Tram? Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Quentin Smith (talk • contribs) 20:46, 27 December 2006 (UTC).

SVG images

Dear Chris, have you got your images of cetaceans in SVG version too? If not, I will try to draw them in SVG. --Snek01 12:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I was going to make them as SVG but wasn't sure how. Is there an easy program to convert them into SVG, i originally made them in flash which might be easier. Chris_huh^talk 18:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I do not know how to convert them from flash to svg yet but I hope it will be possible. There are few converting programs on internet. Could you send me the one file at least to michal.manas@tiscali.cz ? I will test the programs and I will try find the solution. I will inform you what I will find. --Snek01 23:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I was looking for an usefull program. Download Flash Exploit http://www.3d2toy.com/downloads.php This program is for Windows, are you Windows user? It can export svg images from swf file. It works with nearly all of my testing files. Let me know if it works with your files. --Snek01 12:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

POTY 2006

The arrangements for the Commons:Picture of the Year 2006 competition are now complete, and voting will start tomorrow, Feb 1st. All the featured pictures promoted last year are automatically nominated. As the creator of one or more images nominated for the election we invite you to participate in the event. Alvesgaspar 17:31, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Cetaceans

This month's Portal:Cetaceans material has not been scheduled. I may attempt to put some together, but I'm not very experienced, and your help is needed as soon as possible. --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 21:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, sorry about that i have been busy with real world stuff. I have added some stuff, but i wasn't too sure which ones to use so if you want to change them you can. Chris_huh^talk 00:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. The selected items are good choices, although I may change the "Did you know..." to include facts that have not been mentioned in previous months. --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 01:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

May I have feedback on the new Did you know facts? --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 01:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

They look good, they needed changing, i was just in a rush before. Have you added them to the list of Cetacean DYK (or are they form that). Chris_huh^talk 12:16, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I added them. However, when I added to the news section, I kind of messed up the formatting. --Gray Porpoise_{Your wish is my command!} 00:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

IWC

Hi chris,

Thanks for tidying up my recent changes to the IWC meetings by formatting them into the table ... I was going to try and figure out how to do that today ( it looked crappy as I left it last night ) ... is there a page on Wikipedia anywhere that details how to format tables as well as how to begin new pages etc? I´ll be editing the IWC page(s) massively in the coming weeks and would like to leave my changes looking neat ;) cheers SammytheSeal 07:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey, have a look at the Help pages (in particular Help:Contents/Editing_Wikipedia) and for more specific info on tables have a look at Help:Table, its quite long but got most of the things you will want. As for starting a new page: Help:Starting_a_new_page. If you need any more help don't hesitate to ask. I am a bit bust in real life at the moment, but i always keep a check on whaling and cetacean stuff. Chris_huh^talk 12:44, 21 February 2007 (UTC)