Michaelwild

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Michaelwild! I am WereSpielChequers and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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DYK nomination of Trema orientalis

Hello! Your submission of Trema orientalis at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Materialscientist (talk) 00:23, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Michaelwild. I'm aware of the similar results. Thanks for the reminder, anyway. In Wikipedia, if you feel strongly that something should be mentioned in a particular article, you revise the article to include whatever you think should be mentioned. Please feel free to edit the Trema orientalis article the way you want. (Someone else may follow and edit it the way they want.) It's the wikipedian way! If I have to make a suggestion, I'd would encourage starting the Trema micrantha article, and when you're done, please feel free to nominate it for DYK. Go right ahead. Happy editing. Cheers! :-) --PFHLai (talk) 22:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Trema orientalis

On March 11, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Trema orientalis, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Calmer Waters 06:04, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Echinacea

Hi Michaelwild, Thanks for contributing to WP but I have removed your material from the talk section of Echinacea as the material you supplied was WP:OR. Talk pages are for discussing the article in question and not the subject itself. As the material you provided was original research it could never be incorporated into the article. You may also want to read up on double-blind studies and sampling size before you decided that echinacea is effective. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. Happy to answer any questions. Cheers, Gillyweed (talk) 22:52, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK: Margaritaria discoidea

Hi. I've nominated Margaritaria discoidea, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. PFHLai (talk) 08:43, 30 May 2010 (UTC) BTW, please add more refs to the "Bibliography" section, as we don't know what "Kerharo & Adam 1974", "Weenen et al, 1990", etc. in the article are referring to. Some footnotes in the "Distribution" & "Description" sections would be helpful, too. Thanks in advance. Happy editing. --PFHLai (talk) 08:47, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Oh, well, Michaelwild, please do you can and what you think is best. I've tagged the article with {{refimprove}} for now. Contact Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check as you see fit. I'll be off-line the next little while, so good luck with the DYK nom. If it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be. Don't worry about it. (Maybe some expert can fix things for you.) Happy editing. --PFHLai (talk) 18:13, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Margaritaria discoidea

Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Blouaapspoor adapted English.PNG

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Sevenia boisduvali

Just wanted to say thanks for the great Sevenia boisduvali article! It so happens that user Dger and me are working on adding articles for all South African butterflies using the "Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa" as a primary source. If you are interested in helping out more, that would be very welcome. Cheers and thanks again. Ruigeroeland (talk) 08:56, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

That list is in the works! See: User:Ruigeroeland/SandboxSA. I will only add the names though and concentrate on making species pages first. If you want you could add info when I have put it live (it is now located in my user space). Best list I have seen so far is List of Australian butterflies. Would be great if we could get it up to that level, but we still need a lot of pictures. Maybe you can convince other people working on that project you were talking about to contribute some images and information? Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 20:46, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

The list is done! See: List of butterflies of South Africa. It is still a basic list with only the species, but it's a start. Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:11, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Great work on the new article.. And thanks for the info on the name changes, I had no idea.. I am experiencing that our western EU education doesn't really learn us that much about African geography at all. Most of the names of provinces and small countries are more or less new to me..! Especially surprising since I'm from the Netherlands and we have some history in South Africa (not one to be proud of though). Anyway, I changed all entries for Natal to KwaZulu-Natal and Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. I also found that Transkei is now part of the Cape Province? Ruigeroeland (talk) 10:26, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the geogrpahy lesson! And thanks for all your work and great pictures. I moves all the Hyalites/Acraea species to Telchinia (there is no need to copy the acticle to a new page, just click on "move" and enter the new name). Could you give me the URL for that full list of butterflies of South Africa? I have been looking on http://sabca.adu.org.za/ but cannot find it.. Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:39, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Ah, no worries then.. I have taken the names from the Field Guide I use as a source.. most should be okay wouldn't they? If not, we can easily move them to a newer name later. I did notice the field guide says there are 666 species (nice number haha) and I read there are just over 700 somewhere else. Are you aware of newly described species or species that were first recorded from South Africa recently? If so, they are probably not yet on our list.Ruigeroeland (talk) 15:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Next week should have been possible, but I will on a festival from wednesday to sunday, so you will have to work pretty hard on your own from then on..! :) Ruigeroeland (talk) 18:24, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Perves 2010

Hi, could you provide more details, like the title of the paper, for the "Purves, M. (2010)" reference that you've used in Sclerocroton integerrimus and Sevenia boisduvali? I've had a look for it myself but can't find it. Nice work on the articles by the way. Smartse (talk) 13:24, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

I've replied on my talk page. Smartse (talk) 19:12, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Sclerocroton integerrimus

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DYK nomination of Dixeia pigea

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GFDL

Hi! I noticed that you uploaded a lot of files recently with the license GFDL. Wikipedia has changed license to also include {{cc-by-sa-3.0}}. Would you perhaps be willing to release your images under that license also? --MGA73 (talk) 19:58, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

In response to your answer on my talk page: If you choose Public Domain then everyone can use the image anyway they want - I doubt that this is what you are looking for. The CC-license and GFDL both allows others to use the image but they have to credit the author (you). So if someone want to use one of your images in a school book they have to tell that it was taken by Michaelwild from the English Wikipedia. The biggest difference is that if the license is GFDL then they have to print the whole text from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html in the book but if you choose the CC then they only need to "make a link" to the license. I sould therefore suggest {{self|author=[[User:Michaelwild]]|GFDL|cc-by-sa-3.0}}. If you decide to change the license it should be possible to do so with a bot so you do not have to change all the images by hand. --MGA73 (talk) 12:44, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

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Renaming pages

Hi Michael. You recently tried to rename Durban Botanic Garden to Durban Botanic Gardens, which is quite proper. However, you did it by copy-pasting the article contents to the new location and replacing the old article with a redirect. This ruins the edit history, which is a bad thing, since we want to be able to attribute contributions properly. I have now renamed the article using the "move page" feature in the "page" tab, and all should be well. Favonian (talk) 12:38, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Gallery on Gloriosa page

Hi Michael, yes I did remove the gallery from the genus page. Certainly the photos can still be used, and they are more appropriate for the species page, but the Wikipedia policy is to discourage large galleries, in favour of a link to commons.wikimedia. See the policy discussion at [5]. Nadiatalent (talk) 12:51, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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SA Moths

Hello there, it has been a long time, but I just wanted to let you know I made the page List of moths of South Africa. Seeing you are interested in South African Butterflies, I thought you might have some images of moths too. Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 12:28, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

No worries, just wanted to inform you about it. Keep up the good work! Ruigeroeland (talk) 08:57, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

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You've Got Mail

Just thought I'd let you know here, too. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 15:33, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I just replied to you again at the PUF discussion. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 16:59, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

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