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{{automatic taxobox | image = Psychedelic frogfish 08Am6A1b.jpg | image_width = 240 px | taxon = Histiophryne psychedelica | binomial = ''Histiophryne psychedelica'' | binomial_authority = [[Theodore W. Pietsch|Pietsch]], Arnold, & Hall, 2009 }}Alright, thanks for the notice when you reverted. I assume the problem was just the visual one. Before I commit the edit, how does this look? Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Good catch. Do we have a solution for that yet? Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:47, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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Baiji article

Hi there, Mgiganteus1.

I'm doing some research on the environmental impact of the Three Gorges Dam in China; I read in that article that the Baiji is "functionally extinct." When I read over the article for the Baiji, though, I found this change http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baiji&oldid=389333568, where you removed the extinct species box from the baiji article.

Do you have some sources that definitively indicate whether this species is extinct? I'd greatly appreciate anything you might have.

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You sir, are good. Much appreciation with the formatting fixes you did to Painted turtle. Much smoother, much prettier. Thanks again.  :-) NYMFan69-86 (talk) 01:51, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Responded on my talk page.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 02:04, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that capitalization fix on The Power of Movement in Plants-- I never remember to do that right! And for my typo you caught earlier... --Araucana (talk) 17:54, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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I won't be reverting you there, but for the record "make love" is not a euphemism! It's a poetic expression, and that's not at all the same thing. Polisher of Cobwebs (talk) 05:48, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

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Capitalisation of animal names

I was intending to move Myanmar Snub-nosed Monkey to Myanmar snub-nosed monkey, when I spotted your earlier edit note: "mammal names often are [capitalised], especially those of more obscure species". I have never heard this before, except where the animal's name contains a person or place name. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? Regards, Bazonka (talk) 19:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

rv Moomin

"rv; author was Swedish-Finn". Well, I am completely aware of this. Tove Jansson being a Swedish-Finn means, to be precise, that Swedish was her mother tongue and that she was a citizen of the Republic of Finland (from 1917). The books were written in Swedish and were later translated (by other people) into Finnish, and into English, German, French... The Finnish names and book titles are products of translation just like the English or German ones. With this beginning of this article an impression is given, that the Finnish names would in some way be "original", even more so than the Swedish one, which is certainly not the case. // 90.190.125.134 (talk) 20:46, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Apologies for the hasty revert and thank you for the explanation. I agree with your reasoning and have reverted myself. mgiganteus1 (talk) 21:37, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I have restored Moomin to the way it was before User:90.190.125.134 edited it. This article and all Tove Jansson related articles are heavy targets for nationalistic edit-wars between pro-Swedish and pro-Finnish editors (90+% of the time from single-purpose IP accounts from Northwestern Europe). The concern displayed by User:90.190.125.134 for which language version is more "original" or more "official" is stereotypical of this petty issue. Although the argument for listing the Swedish translation before the Finnish one certainly has some weight to it, I believe that the order of these translations was determined alphabetically so as to avoid bias (F-for-Finnish comes before S-for-Swedish). Either way, the complete removal of any mention of the Finnish title is certainly not warranted. The books were written in Finland and they were written in Swedish (by a Swedish-Finn woman) and this is the English Wikipedia. All three languages (English, Finnish, and Swedish) are appropriate for translations and an alphabetical order avoids bias. If an editor wishes to alter the consensus version of the article (as it stood before 90.190.125.134's edit) with respect the nationalistic aspects of it, then they are welcome to do so at the talk page of the article. -Thibbs (talk) 03:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Apart from any other argumentation, which I won't get into, the common, stereotypical biased view of the Finnish versions as being the "original" ones is maintained by this part of the article. Finnish as a language (not relevant) and Finland as a country (highly relevant) are confused with each other in this bias and in the discussion on the relevance of Finnish in this context. But more importantly, if you look up the revision history, after the discussion you had on the talk page in the Spring of 2009 the order between the languages was clearly (1) Swedish, (2) Finnish. Although this is still a quite strange solution, I could agree on that one. However, this solution was later changed in various directions by various edits, among others by "single purpose IP accounts", and these edits were never reverted or changed. My point is that there has never been any consensus on the version you call "consensus version", but on an - in this respect - quite different one. // 90.190.125.134 (talk) 06:56, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

As I noted before, your argument that the Swedish name should precede the Finnish one certainly has some force to it. I disagree with you that the order of the translations in the first line implies that the books were written in Finnish first, and frankly I believe the order of these names is only primarily a concern for nationalism-minded editors, however you may be correct and in the interest of assuming good faith I'd be willing to entertain the suggestion that the order of the translations be reversed if you would be willing to make a suggestion at the appropriate talk page. Cluttering up Mgiganteus1's talk page does neither of us any good. Please suggest the change on the Moomin talk page and then we can discuss it in an open and transparent manner before all editors. -Thibbs (talk) 11:35, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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I was going to merge the others where appropriate, as I think that these names have been made up by Wikipedia editors - unless of course I can find them in reliable sources, eg the few reliable books written on the subject. Dougweller (talk) 09:12, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Hi, I just see that you reverted my edits to several carnivorous plant magazines (actually, some while I was editing, which I didn't notice up till now). There has been a long-standing consensus to call academic journals "journals" and other periodicals #newspapers" or "magazines". There are some archived discussions at the WPJournals talk page, for example. Likewise, the "journals" categories are for academic journals, not magazines. Hope this explains and that my edits can now be restored (which I'll leave up to you). Thanks. --Crusio (talk) 21:36, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey there. Saw this conversation and was wondering when a magazine becomes an academic journal. Of all the CP publications, I would argue that the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter is an academic journal. It regularly publishes peer-reviewed research. An informal perusal of the most recent issues I've received show at least one of the articles among the handful in each issue is peer-reviewed original research. That seems to make it an academic journal, not a magazine. What do you think? Rkitko ^(talk) 02:07, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Paper

Sorry about the change at Carnivorous Plant Newsletter‎, earlier. The size of the paper is a nice piece of descriptive information in the context of going from a stenciled product. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 17:27, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

No need to apologise. This is all very much subjective. :-) mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:22, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

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1.) The term is "Branchial" heart, 2.) I doubt you could ever write an article about something that only gets 432 unique Google hits, 3.) this is the only page on the whole project that even mentions such a thing. I forgot to put the rationale in when I used unlink. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 20:39, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

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With regard to your reversion of my edits to Drosera regia, what "inconsitency" in formatting are you concerned about? My edits added a number of additional PMIDs/DOIs/JSTOR links, which I don't want to lose. Rjwilmsi 00:51, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

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Can you quote the specific part from WP:Fauna name that is relevant to naming this Santanachelys. Thanks. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:19, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 00:38, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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Reverted. In fact, given there are grounds for retaining this form as it uses two initials - will discuss with colleagues. It's just a shame that it does not agree with the authority form originally used to publish the author for the first time. Attenboroughii (talk) 18:28, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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Even more important than your explanation here, Wikipedia's formal style-guide picked that as the standard spelling to use...you can just point at WP:CAES. DMacks (talk) 16:10, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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Belemnotheutis taxonomy

Heya, since you probably know a lot more about it than me (and taxonomy in general) heh, I'd like to ask you opinion on where to place Belemnotheutis. Whatever gets decided will also affect other articles (Acanthoteuthis and possibly Phragmoteuthis and Permoteuthis as well). I'm going crazy trying to figure out which authority is more widely used.

There are three classifications AFAIK:

• A separate order Belemnotheutida, by Engeser and Reitner 1981 (used by authorities like Donovan and Doguzhaeva)
• A suborder (currently used), by Doyle et al. 1994
• Under Phragmoteuthida by Sepkoski, Jr. 2002 (though Acanthoteuthis remains in Belemnitida for some reason)

Further compounded by two different spellings of the family: Belemnotheutidae and Belemnotheutididae

Whatever decision made will affect the classification of probably the rest of belemnoids given automatic taxoboxes so it might be best to take this into a wikiproject discussion but I can't decide whether to ask in Wikiproject Cephalopoda or in Paleontology. Can you please advise? Thanks.--Obsidi♠n^Soul 15:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Hmk, thanks. Paleontology is not specialized either, so I may not get a reply, they're more focused on vertebrates. :( But I'll try, hopefully an editor somewhere specializes in belemnites and is watching that talk page. At the moment I have to revise the restoration again tho. >.< Heh. --Obsidi♠n^Soul 16:19, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Avatar References

Hi there! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Halemane (talk • contribs) 14:23, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

I had hid the references in Avatar's article. Allow me to explain why.

You see, Wikipedia's all about getting information. Let's see this from the point-of-view of a person (who doesn't know much about Wikipedia and isn't a Wikipedian) who wants information about Avatar.

He's read the article and he's scrolling down to the External Links section of the article. He has to then scroll down a quarter of the page, literally! It's highly improbable that he gives a damn about the references. I mean, References are mostly for us Wikipedians to confirm the validity of the statements.

Now if it's hid, the section becomes smaller and it can still be viewed like a normal References section without any problems at all!

What say? Halemane (talk) 07:44, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Well, It wasn't a collapsible list. It was a scrolling list. Even the links between inline cites and the reference list work if it's a scrolling list. That's why I don't happen to see what the problem with a scrolling reference list is.

And, I'm just a few months old on Wikipedia. And, you have been here quite a while and have done thousands of edits. Please do make me understand what's wrong with a scrolling list. I'm just a budding Wikipedian and an eager learner : ) Halemane (talk) 16:56, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

cheers to your edit. can you believe there is such a thing as a 'vegetable lamb'? lol. Decora (talk) 00:36, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

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Grimpoteuthis

Hello Mgiganteus1. To answer the question you've asked in your edit summary, I have absolutely no idea why the NOAA website would be blacklisted. It did however report as a blacklisted site while I was formatting the refs with the Reflinks tool. I usually remove anything that reports as such, in an effort to keep my edit as clean and as "on-track" as possible, but have no problem with the fact that you've restored it... simply because I can't provide a reason beyond my trust for the tool. If I'm able to come up with any answers on the Reflinks talk page, I'll make sure to let you know. Have yourself a great day Mgiganteus1, and happy editing! :)  -- WikHead (talk) 08:30, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

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I noticed your request in the edit summary to have all instances of Archaeopteryx placed in italics in the Maxberg specimen article and have done so. I've also removed the CE template, as the missing italics, according to your summary, were the reason for it. I'm just wondering what prevented yourself from placing all five occurances of Archaeopteryx in the text in italics rather then place a template. Either would have taken about the same amount of time! If you want a job done, why don't you do it yourself rather then complain about it and wait for somebody else to do it? A bit of non-constructive attitude, don't you think? Calistemon (talk) 23:56, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

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I wouldn't class the Sunday Express as a "reliable source". This tabloid "newspaper" seems to be the only source claiming the Tank Man as Wang Weilin. -94.193.172.19 (talk) 15:12, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

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Tell me please, where you found a "little connection" to the Alien in this film? Where is no any Helen Repley (watch "cast" in imdb), no any space ships from the first movie (watch this movie), so where you found it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.33.26.116 (talk) 05:49, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Am I supposed to alert you to replies to your note?

Am I supposed to alert you to replies to your note?

And if so, is this the right way?

(It is not a big reply, mostly thanks) JonRichfield (talk) 17:51, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

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You maid Epitaphium italic, ok. What's the rule then for the composer's other work Bright Angel (Waterhouse), where only part of the article name is a title. This is just an example for many operas, symphonies, plays, you name it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:30, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

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How about being a little politer in the future, as edit sumamries such as this [1] are unconstructive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.180.108.136 (talk) 22:50, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the message [2]. Best wishes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.180.108.136 (talk) 22:58, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

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Hi! I left a question at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vegetable lamb that you might be able to clarify. Take a look at it when you get the chance. Thanks! Jujutacular ^talk 20:51, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

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Eurypterus

Thanks for that, heh. Reading more about its morphology in text and seeing more illustrations, I might have to change some details on my restorations. The paddles seem to be the wrong shape and they're apparently diagnostic for the genus. Plus minor fixes, shape of coxa ear, division on sternites, scales, etc. Should be easy enough, but I'll finish the text first, heh. And yep, that seems to be the correct illustrations.-- Obsidi♠n^Soul 02:11, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Palaeochiropteryx

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DYK for Eurypterus

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Which one?

You have write in user talk:Gsarwa under section June 2011, but I don't understand which one you mean? Please give more information. Thank you so much.Gsarwa (talk) 14:45, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your information. I have made contributions for more than 1,000 articles and also some of new articles such as Pecatu, 3G (countries), ASEAN Exchanges, etc, but certainly all of them should be improved anymore. To copy one or two lines, if I don't mistaken is allowed, but certainly to make a new wording is more appropriate. Thank you again for your attention.Gsarwa (talk) 15:17, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you again for your information. I'll try to reword as I can.Gsarwa (talk) 03:17, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

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Epicyon Talk. 01 July 2011

I just took out your "undo" in the Largest organims page as you didn't see the sources was already there: Epicyon. I took information out of the wikipedia page.

As the previous number that were there, they weren't justified by sources. They do not correspond to any of those on the official page, and more importantly, they can't correspond to any true data as the Epicyon isn't a species but a genus. If you take a look at Epicyon, you will read ( like i did before ) that there are 3 species categorized in the genus Epicyons: Epicyon aelurodontoides, saevus and haydeni. I didn't put random data, i just made the data correspond to the one that wikipedia already had in a specialized page wich i believe is part of the wikipedia prehistoric gate. It doesn't feel right to see that this "largest organisms" page doesn't give data corresponding to other pages, and not even give sources for those number. 101kg and 89kg? Where did that come from? It isn't even worth mentioning if you look at the weight of some moloss dogs. But well, there was no sources, it wasn't even corresponding to the epicyon page and well... Epicyon is a genus. It's like saying like the Genus "Panthera" as a 180kg weigh and then refuse to admit the existence of "panthera leo" ( lion ) and "panthera tigris" ( tiger ) saying a "panthera" is a jaguar or a leopard suffuring melanism. What we are talking about here isn't a species, or un subspecies (like panthera can be both Genus and subspecies), Epicyon is a Genus and nothing more.

--Nicolasticot (talk) 02:35, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

LoL i just saw your other "undoing" , you like that don't you? Too bad all the link i made to other wikipedia page are all about Data that actually have sources ; The Haydeni weight like the wandering condor 
wingspan are both given with sources - i must admit i didn't bother Copy/paste them, but i will from now on as apparently "you can't take a wikipedia page as a source even if the source is actually in the page
linked. But well, the funny fact still is that when you did your "undo", you just got the unsourced numbers back and got rid of the sourced one.
--Nicolasticot (talk) 03:11, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Plants

Obviously I didn't overrun the information, difficult is, to some people, to tell that important differences, so I collect all-most-important of them on one place. How do you mean it is “unencyclopedically” worded? That is troop of true and scientific-confirmed information. Would you tell me how to pre-word that text? Alex ^discussion 22:44, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Red Links

I know it's been years since you posted on my talk but I felt the need to reply as I am getting back into Wikipedia. I don't know if the parenthetical referencing is "much preferred" as you said but I'll leave them. I could tun them into inline citations of clickable footnotes because they are way more common and look better, make for easy reading but if you prefer the parentheses I won't fight you on them. I made some further edits to page Nautilida because that page is sloppy as hell with choppy sentences and the like, also added some links. If you agree with me that this page could you some work feel free to help clean it up, like I said I think clickable footnotes would look way better. Crazyskipp64 (talk) 07:48, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Micronecta scholtzi

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I finally remembered where we got the information from: [3] and [4] Fossilmall. Unfortunately, the pages do not have references, themselves. I do know that the webmaster is approachable.--Mr Fink (talk) 00:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

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Nepenthes

A great set of articles you have created on Nepenthes. They've always fascinated me, but even more so since I saw N. macfarlanei in the wild in Malaysia last year. I hope to get the Genting Highlands on my next visit to Malaysia (for work, alas, so little free time), using the Bourk (2003) reference you included in the N. macfarlanei article as a guide. Thanks! Peter coxhead (talk) 07:08, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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Collaboration for an expansion on bigfin reef squids

Hullo. I'm currently expanding the article on bigfin reef squids. I'm wondering if you would be willing to collaborate? I'm planning this to go through DYK then hopefully GA. While I'm fairly good at sniffing out sources, I kinda suck at putting them all together. LOL. Since you're more familiar with cephalopods, you might be able to spot glaring errors or whatnot more easily than I could. Thanks.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 18:58, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh sorry, forgot the link. Sandboxed article is here: User:Obsidian Soul/sandbox/Bigfin reef squid -- Obsidi♠n Soul 19:01, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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Kraken

Please note the discussion here (1#Lots_of_content_removed...twice.3F) and note that the issues were resolved. What was removed weak and colloquial language, unsourced opinion, repetition of information now found elsewhere (Kraken in popular culture) and excessive use of what is essentially the same image. If these changes have resulted in a reduction in the size of the article, then it was necessary in the interests of keeping the article at encyclopedia standard. In the spirit of collaboration I implemented some of the technical changes you made, and would be happy to assist with others. I'll also advise Bob the WikipediaN that another pair of eyes may be needed. That said, please, no more blind reverts to material that was already removed and does not meet encyclopedia standard (e.g."Later developments of the Kraken image may be traced at Kraken in popular culture".) Thank you. PurpleHeartEditor (talk) 04:53, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Mgiganteus1. You have new messages at Talk:Kraken/Archive 1#Lots of content removed...twice?.
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Once again I must direct your attention to the comments raised here (1#Lots_of_content_removed...twice.3F) as you haven't handled this well. You reverted another user's change, but then apparently decided to perform a mass revert to the weaker material that has already been cleaned up. Instead of going to the Talk Page, you then kept reverting and did not address the points raised. If you had read the comments, you would have noted that I had already incorporated several of your suggestions into the improved version. Now, I am going to suggest that the page be protected, and we continue to discuss, as the article in its current form is far from satisfactory and changes will be necessary. There must be an argument for why weak material must remain, not why revised, encyclopedic material is unnecessary. Regards PurpleHeartEditor (talk) 04:15, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

You now need to stop attempting to edit the article in question ([5]), as an accord must be reached at the Talk Page. It is not appropriate to be doing this during the resolution process, and there are several issues that need to be addressed. Thank you PurpleHeartEditor (talk) 11:09, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Two things

Greetings. Firstly, I would like you to read the comments at (1#Lots_of_content_removed...twice.3F). I've tweaked the article and refined it again, but now consider it to be done pending any new material. The important thing to note is that information is not blatently repeated, and as such the mention of the giant squid is now in the Fact section where it belongs, as separating fact from fiction is a logical extension the article. There is now an expanded lead, and it reads well (also being a style used in other mediums to help pad out the lead).

Secondly, your recent reversion of Kraken (roller coaster) was, speaking frankly, poor form and also dumb (as uncivil as that may sound). Once again, you need to pay attention to the edits and stop making blind reverts that show no ability to read the situation. By reverting, you wiped legimate links I sourced (including one that featured footage of the ride from a more reputable source), restored poor language and grammar and undid the corrected text (that again, had sources. You questioned it, then I fixed it, then you undo it!), restored unsourced statements and also a large chunk of text that violates WP:NOR. There is also WP:NOTMANUAL and WP:TRIVIA. I also checked no less than three other rollercoaster articles and none of them go into this kind of detail about the ride - hence WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Finally, there is the image issue: it should be obvious that the article - in corrected form - cannot sustain three pictures.

Then there is your claim in the Edit Summary - (rv yet another undiscussed article culling; you've already been reverted by two different editors so please gain consensus on talk page before attempting further removals). This is a somewhat silly comment given what I've just outlined above. You haven't been the voice of reason here. There is often no need for consensus (certainly not on everything), particularly when one editor is working to improve the article and make it encyclopedia standard. All the edits were quite legitimate. All of them. I sourced the claims and reworked the language as I am a writer - something many editors are not (hence the need for changes). Yes, there can be Talk about types of changes - by all means - but the article cannot stay in its current form. Please understand that.

This needs to stop. To judge by the Edit Summary, you only chose to involve yourself with this article because I was editing it. Please note this WP:BATTLEGROUND.

Now, I am going to continue to rework the article, but do not expect any further blind reverts as these are counter productive. By all means add to the article and ask questions, but study what is happening first. Thank you. PurpleHeartEditor (talk) 04:17, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

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Edits to Conidae articles

Thanks so much Mgiganteus for giving us a "heads up" on this, without your note these changes might have gone on for weeks before we noticed them. These are all well-meaning changes, and the taxonomy has been revised in that direction, but it needs to be changed from the top down not from the bottom up. Many thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 15:44, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Bigfin reef squid

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re: October 2011

Hi, and thanks for the notice. I tried to move the page but it did not work... What should I do now? As I noted in the pliosauroidea page (to which redirected "pliosaur", and moved the talk), pliosaur or Pliosauria are not valid names. What should I do to move the page? Rnnsh (talk) 05:55, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Mgiganteus1,

I noticed your recent undo of my contribution to phylogentics. Although we might argue about your grounds for stating that the topics are too different, even though the root of the term is the same and the origin is the same and they mean generally the same thing and are only aplied to different fields of science, I would like to thank you for your input instead. I was actually looking for some feedback on the matter in the first place. So, I only logged in for some information (I am travelling at the moment), but when I get back (in about 2 weeks or so) I would love to create a new page on phylogeny and from there link to phylogenetics. However, this would mean editing the redirect and re-examining the phylogenetics article, as it is now (because the introduction is mostly about phylogeny and not phylogenetics). Although I am having a few ideas, I would love to work this out with your help. I am really new at this (I have only been editing a few articles in the last month) and I would definately appreciate the help and feedback. So, if I promise to create the page and do the work and then show it to you so you can give constructive feedback and edit where needed, would you help me out on this matter?

--Fan Singh Long (talk) 23:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Mgiganteus1,

I have returned from my holiday and I remembered your undoing of my contribution. I also noticed you undid my ontogeny contribution. While I can understand you editing out my phylogeny contribution, I cannot understand you removing my ontogeny contribution. The difference is that phylogenetics is definately about eugenetics, while phylogeny is a broader term. So, the two would need to be separated. In the matter of ontogeny, this is not the case, there not beng a page on ontogenetics...if this term exists at all (I am interested in psychoanalytics, not biology). I would appreciate it if you would replace my contribution to ontogeny,and help me out with creating a page on phylogeny.

--Fan Singh Long (talk) 08:40, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Moved to the bottom to make it more visible to you.

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Hello again, since you have not replied on my talk page, I will place this contemplation here:

I will say that stuff like this is really only applied in deeper investigations. Psychology usually ends at the pain over a divorce, or the attempt to mediate between two lovers or some such innocent stuff, while medical investigations usually end at finding some ailment or applying cirgery, both building logs as life progresses. The research into family origins and genetic development is done for different reasons. Biology itself can investigate, for evolutionary understandings and in psychiatry people investigate. Both involve the physical and the mental properties. In fact, this is the difference between psychiatry and psychology (psychiatrists hold both a physical and a psychological doctors degree). So, it should go together imho.

I am not sure who to discuss it with (for some peer feedback), since psychology would, out of it's normal function, seperate it from the physical attribute. IMHO we should make one page explaining both, from there linking to the separate disciplines. I can reach no other conclusion to tell you the truth. Are you inclined to change your initial opinion, that both disciplines should be separated?

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Utricularia root

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Hi
I'm writing in French the page Dionée and I would like to use the cover picture you put on wiki commond but I don't no how to do because is under licence.
I'm part of the society.
French wiki http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion%C3%A9e

Can you explain how I need to proceed ?
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I see that you have written an article about the Carnivorous Plants of Australia book. Any chance of doing a Carnivorous plants of Australia article about the actual species? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 23:46, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

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Aslo Utricularia

I have resolved most translation problem of Utricularia specific epithets with your help, but few specifics and sectios meaning are still unclear becouse it is new or uncommon. They are:

specifics

• Utricularia chiakiana
• Utricularia inthanonensis
• Utricularia juncea
• Utricularia phusoidaoensis
• Utricularia spinomarginata
• Utricularia uxoris

I think inthanonensis and phusoidaoensis must be the name of place.

sectio

• Utricularia sect. Avesicaria
• Utricularia sect. Candollea
• Utricularia sect. Chelidon
• Utricularia sect. Lecticula
• Utricularia sect. Meionula
• Utricularia sect. Nelipus
• Utricularia sect. Setiscapella
• Utricularia sect. Stylotheca
• Utricularia sect. Aranella
• Utricularia sect. Avesicarioides
• Utricularia sect. Calpidisca — Preceding unsigned comment added by 乌拉跨氪 (talk • contribs) 07:15, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
• Utricularia sect. Enskide
• Utricularia sect. Nigrescentes
• Utricularia sect. Oligocista
• Utricularia sect. Phyllaria
• Utricularia sect. Stomoisia
• Utricularia sect. Pleiochasia

Could you ask your CP friends for this meaning? THANKS A LOT.乌拉跨氪 (talk) 07:07, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I have sent him an e-mail.乌拉跨氪 (talk) 08:13, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

• chiakiana
  • named after Chiaki Shibata.

• juncea
  • like a rush (_Juncus_)

• spinomarginata
  • with a spiny margin

• uxoris
  • the spouse's

• Avesicaria
  • without bladders

• Candollea
  • after DeCandolle

• Chelidon
  • swallow

• Lecticula
  • small bed

• Meionula

small "Meion" (possibly _Meum_? ancient plant name of **unclear identity)

• Nelipus
  • foot of "Nilios" (vernacular for _Typhlops_, an animal lacking feet!)

• Setiscapella
  • bristly (setaceous) small scape

• Stylotheca
  • stalked anther theca

• Aranella
  • small spider

• Avesicarioides
  • similar to _Avesicaria_ (v.s.)

• Calpidisca
  • disk of Kalpis

• Enskide
  • in Skidi

• Nigrescentes
  • becoming black (upon drying)

• Oligocista
  • with few cysts (bladders)

• Phyllaria
  • leafy

• Stomoisia
  • similar to mouth

• Pleiochasia
  • with pleiochasial inflorescence

Jan Schlauer has reply. He said like above-mentioned.乌拉跨氪 (talk) 06:14, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes. All entries have translated to Chinese.乌拉跨氪 (talk) 12:49, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

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Nepenthes gracilis

Greetings,

Thanks a lot for saving me trouble of importing the photos from PLoS ONE to Commons. Could you please convert this video to a free format and upload it as well. I'm not allowed to install a decent video converter on my current computer. Many thanks, ליאור • Lior (talk) 09:23, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! ליאור • Lior (talk) 18:23, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

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