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I see that you're creating a bunch of articles for Springsteen songs. Please note that per WP:SONGS and WP:Notability (music), not all songs warrant articles, and there are many admins and editors out there who will try to delete them. Singles will survive, so "Fade Away" is okay, but run-of-the-mill album tracks like "Ramrod" probably will not. Only album tracks that are especially notable or famous or an example of his work will be viewed as warranting articles, so for example "The River" will be okay. But obscurities like "Be True" are likely to get junked. Just want to keep you from doing work that gets lost ... Wasted Time R (talk) 15:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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Why not Louis, Jr, 2006 for the authority? Look at sportive lemur's ** note. He's the primary author. - UtherSRG (talk) 01:48, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
In regards to "nor are many going to be aware that Marsupial Lion and Marsupial lion are necessarily two different things", but they are not two different things. As of yet everyone has failed to defend the keeping of marsupial lion as a redirect to "Thylacoleonidae". They always defend it by saying "marsupial lions" which I have already pointed out is already redirected to it, or as Uther said "marsupial lion family". There are not other species deserving the common name "Marsupial Lion", T.carnifex is the largest species of the so called "marsupial lions" and is the most deserving of the name. In fact if it were not for this species I doubt the common name "marsupial lions" would have even come about to describe the family. By the way, I am curious to find out exactly how you came about this page? Cazique (talk) 05:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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I've just had a look at some of the nice contributions you've made recently to wiki. A small note on citations. While it obviously is possible, in general people don't write the entire citation if used more than once in an article. If having written the entire citations once, you can avoid doing it again by using the first part of the original citation with an /. For example, this[1] is an example of a complete citation, and this[1] is the short form that can be used afterwards (difference visible in edit mode). Certainly not a major issue, but it makes it a bit easier for later editors to check and read in the edit mode. Rabo3 (talk) 20:00, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Aw gee... they can't all be asses... some of them must be halfway decent. ;) Good job! :) - UtherSRG (talk) 19:03, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
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I'm suprised it took so long to get such an important (to me) article up to a decent size. Thanks for your work at the article and at making Wikipedia better -- CB (ö) 07:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Billboard's Rock Tracks chart started March 21, 1981 so it missed out on the tracks from The River that got the most airplay like "Hungry Heart" and "The River" but reflects the second tier of tracks that were getting airplay in early '81. I'm using Joel Whitburn's Rock Tracks book as my source. For some reason Billboard's online archive is incomplete prior to 1984 (even if you have a subscription). I don't see "Jersey Girl" listed but I'm sure it got airplay in some cities. Piriczki (talk) 01:50, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
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The four different importance levels. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 18:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Rlendog, I left a couple notes at DYK regarding the Jillian Clare & Common Brown Lemur articles you nominated. Any questions, let me know. Mitico (talk) 13:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Rlendog, great work so far on the Primate article! I was just thinking we have to be careful about not doing the same bit of the GA review at the same time, we're almost editing over each other! Anyway I'm stopping now, good luck for the rest of the review :) Cheers, Jack (talk) 01:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi there, I see you're part of Wikiproject:Fishes, and I also see that you're one of the most recently-active participants in the project. In that case, you may be able to help me here. In AFC, there has been two suggestions given for types of Cardinalfish. The problem is, that I'm not sure if the common names for the two species are widely-used common names or just names used by the website. Therefore, I'm not sure if these articles are suitable for creation, or should be part of a genus article, or even the Cardinalfish page itself. I have a copy of the two submissions on one of my sandboxes, here: [1] Would you please look them over, and tell me what you think? Thanks! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don't mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 07:43, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks so much Rlendog, that's very sweet. But really it's you who should be getting the star, you did amazing work on Primate (and were very patient with my slow response!) and you've been doing great DYK work lately too it seems! I realized I had screwed up and forgotten to check the images! Most were fine but I did find one for which I thought the fair use rationale was not valid, so I removed the image and tagged it: Image:Caged monkeys.jpg. I think the article's fine without the image, but another one of monkeys in labs or cages could be found if you want. I'm sorry, what an awful slip up. :( You can take the star back if you want. :P Anyway, keep up the great work, see you around soon I hope! delldot talk 23:05, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional clean-up on the Ring-tailed lemur page today, as well as the bump up on the rating scale. Out of curiosity, what would it take (in your opinion) to get the article rated as "feature article" status? I've read the criteria, but I guess I don't have the critical eye to see what is sought. If you (and others) could give me a target to clearly aim at, I'll make sure we hit it dead center. One thing I can see is that we need better pictures and diagrams. If you know a good illustrator who'd be willing to help, please put them in touch with me. I have ideas, but lack the skills to implement them. Otherwise, I've been promised photos from a well-known photographer at the Duke Lemur Center. They won't be his best photos, because he wants to reserve all rights on those, but we should get some decent ones for many lemur species. The other thing I know we need is a better "Auditory communication" section, which I plan to write soon, in addition to some clean-up on the main article (Calls of the Ring-tailed Lemur). I was also thinking about getting video of a stink fight, spur marking, and scent marking for the page.
Whatever you spell out here will be taken into consideration as I work on my next major edit -- Black and white ruffed lemur. The information is coming together quickly, and I may start this week. The only hold-up, at this point, is the need for new photos, which should be coming from Duke. Just so you know, when the edit is finished, the page will look nothing like what it does now.
Visionholder (talk) 18:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
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Keep up the good work! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:32, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Maybe you can help me out. I created a brief page (a primate stub) similar to the toothcomb stub created by UtherSRG. I stated the basic information about the toilet-claw and even referenced a journal article. It had a references section and listed 3 appropriate categories. I thought it was a sufficient start for a page that I planned to later come back and fill in as I obtained photos and worked on more detailed text. The page content was not redundant or "gibberish", as claimed by the warning that I got on my talk page from Josh3580.
Did I do anything wrong? Can I appeal the deletion? I spent an hour on that page, making sure it was worded, cited, and linked properly. Needless to say, I'm not happy. Feel free to discuss this on my user page. (I'm asking you specifically because we have a working history on the Ring-tailed lemur page.) Thank you for your time. Visionholder (talk) 05:43, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers! --Royalbroil 05:07, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I just stayed up all night making some of the changes you and I recently discussed to the Ring-tailed Lemur page. I've rewritten both the lead and the "Physical description" section, added content to the "Auditory communication" section, fixed a few links & refs, relocated the "Taxonomy" section, and created a range map. I'm looking forward to seeing your edits and comments.
One thing that I feel needs work is the references. Some look redundant (on the surface) -- such as the Groves refs -- so I was wondering if we could consolidate or distinguish them. Also, the only difference between the Cawthorn refs is the access date. Could we just update the previous ref (with the older access date) to match the new one, especially since the web document hasn't been modified since the first set of refs? Visionholder (talk) 15:43, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, I reverted this edit, as you put the assessment on the wrong page. I’ve updated the assessment template on the talk page with your version. — H92 (t · c · no) 16:36, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
To continue the discussion we had started on my talk page... I've been looking over all of my sources, and aside from coat coloration, geographic range, and possibly the number of plant species they feed on, I haven't found many differences between the two species of Varecia. If you know sources that document the differences, I would appreciate the references.
At this point, when I make the major revisions for Varecia variegata and Varecia rubra, the pages may be worded nearly identically (with the differences noted above) and will have different pictures. I can make the Varecia page a more general version of the (sub)species pages, too, plus talk more about hybridization zones, evolution, etc.
Your thoughts/comments? Visionholder (talk) 08:19, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
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-- you were lucky to get this in, but it is a nice article. Good work Victuallers (talk) 07:57, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
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Congratulations and keep up the good work! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:40, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
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Awarded to Rlendog for the 25 hooks that would not have appeared on DYK without him. From baseball bios to Springsteen songs to major missing mammals (& a few fish)—thank you for all you do! I look forward to the next 25. JayHenry (talk) 16:07, 13 September 2008 (UTC) |
Yesterday, Ring-tailed Lemur passed its GA review and was upgraded. I am now ready to make a push for FA status, although I realize there is a lot of work ahead. I'm seeking help from the FA-team, and have posted a proposal on their proposal site. I hope you don't mind, but I listed you as an editor ("general support"), with me as the "primary editor." If you would prefer that I remove your name from the proposal, just say. I am willing to take as much of the responsibility as needed to meet their recommendations, even if it's 100%. I just didn't want to slight you as an editor of the page, and I didn't want the proposal to look like I'm the only one editing the page. Just let me know how you feel about this, please. - Visionholder (talk) 20:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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Hey there. I just wanted to say thank you for your help with List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers. I'm planning to try to promote this article to WP:FL status. Again, thank you for your help, and keep it up! :-) -- RyRy (talk) 18:14, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on this. RyRy and myself have been a bit too busy lately... After I can find some newspaper articles confirming the decisions for some of the more recent games, care to conom with RyRy and myself for FLC. --Admrboltz (talk) 19:15, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
It is now nomed for FLC here, could you put your three ~ next to conoms? --Admrboltz (talk) 23:19, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
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Try giving him a 4im. After striking again within three days, you can go report him. Alexius08 (talk) 23:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
A new IUCN Red List update just came out. There appears to be some big updates on mammals, and particularly lemurs. I'm going through the lemur pages today to add the latest information. I have also created a new IUCN template, {{IUCN2008}}, to replace {{IUCN2006}}. There have been changes in the IUCN Red List website's URL structure, and although it currently redirects for the old links, I'm strongly recommending that people switch to this new template (as well as update the status on every species they can). I'm going to post this in a few key places on Wiki, but if you could help spread the word and reflect it in the pages you've been working on, I'd appreciate it.
Best wishes, - Visionholder (talk) 17:31, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
I've never done disambiguation, page moves, and redirects before. Looks like I'm getting a crash course today. The IUCN now recognizes a new species, the Red-fronted Brown Lemur (Eulemur rufifrons). Unfortunately, Red-fronted Brown Lemur is another name of the Red Brown Lemur (Eulemur rufus), so the page name already exists. In fact, Red-fronted Brown Lemur was the main page. Fun! So I'm in the process of moving the existing page to Red Brown Lemur, creating a disambiguation link, then (somehow) changing the auto-created redirect to a new lemur page, also with a disambiguation link. Unfortunately, I'm sure that I'm missing a step here. Is there something special I should say at the top of the new Red-fronted Brown Lemur (when I'm done) instead of (or in addition to) the disambiguation link, since old links will now be pointing to the wrong page?
Yet one more reason why I am strongly opposed to the decision to name animal pages by their common name, instead of the scientific name. >.<
- Visionholder (talk) 20:57, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for contributions to the project, Great work, especially on List of New York Mets Opening Day starting pitchers - I like the layout/structure, nice job overall. May you wear the crowns well. Cirt (talk) 08:53, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
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Listen Doctah, my changes to Alec Ferguson's page were whooly jistified! I'ma jist tryin' ta help wikypedia by makin' loadsa way gooder changes! Listen to me Doctor! I never vandal anything! Get back ta me on this one... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chogglershouseparty (talk • contribs) 19:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I was going to post this last night, but my Internet connection died as soon as I had it typed up, and it just now came back on:
"I have finally finished the Ruffed lemur re-write tonight and posted it. When you get a moment, I'd appreciate it if you could look it over and perform any necessary clean-up, as well as assign it a new rating. If you think it's ready, I will submit it for a GA review as soon as you give it the green light. I will also submit Ring-tailed Lemur for an FA review within the next few days.
Thanks for your patience and support."
As for the DYK, you beat me to it! I was planning to submit one as as soon as I posted the note above. LOL! I knew that happen! :-P
- Visionholder (talk) 16:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello- I saw your edits to the pilot whale articles and wanted to refer you to the guidance on capitalization of common names: 5th bullet under Capitalization#Nouns, and last paragraph of Common_name#Presentation_.28writing_and_printing.29. -Eric talk 14:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Dear Rlendog, thanks for starting the Ronn Reynolds article. Have a nice day! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 14:25, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
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Royalbroil 03:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Starbuck, A. 1878. History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. Castle.
Stackpole, E. A. 1972. Whales & Destiny: The Rivalry between America, France, and Britain for Control of the Southern Whale Fishery, 1785-1825. The University of Massachusetts Press.
Baldwin, R., M. Gallagher, and K. van Waerebeek. A Review of Cetaceans from Waters off the Arabian Peninsula.
Stackpole, E. A. 1972. Whales & Destiny: The Rivalry between America, France, and Britain for Control of the Southern Whale Fishery, 1785-1825. The University of Massachusetts Press.
Davis, L.E., R.E. Gallman, and K.Gleiter. 1997. In Pursuit of Leviathan: technology, institutions, productivity, and profits in American whaling, 1816-1906. NBER series on long-term factors in economic development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
The above total was made by myself, primarily by compiling information fron the International Whalng Statistics available on luna.pos, in the History of Modern Whaling (Tonnessen and Johnsen 1982) and the reviews of illegal Soviet whaling, and a few other sources I can't think of off the top of my head.
I spoke about why the above length should be lessened on the talk page, while I guess I won't mind removing the latter section about exaggerated yield of oil, although I still woulnd't trust any "estimates" given of the length of certain individuals. I didn't write the parts about the jaws found in the museums. In fact, I'm not sure if anyone provided references for those, although I have read a journal where a jaw of similar lengths was mentioned. Jonas Poole (talk) 22:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
I had actually used A.G. Mawar's Ahab's Trade (1999), not even thinking that Dudley's essay was available online. Thanks for the info. Jonas Poole (talk) 22:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, we may have a little bit of an issue here. We have Mawar's date of 1720, which could very well be a typo, and 1710 from a copy of Dudley's essay. I'll look around and see if there are any microfilms of the original available online to settle the matter. I think 1710 should stay for now, as I would think a copy would be more reliable than what a secondary sources says considering how notorious they can be about getting things off (just read Jackson's The British Whaling Trade (1978) or Ellis' Men & Whales (1991) and their sources and you'll see what I mean). Jonas Poole (talk) 22:38, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
I finally remembered what one of my other sources was (http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2007whsp-cow.pdf) I had complied the figures beginning in February 2007, so I had to look through all these old notes to find references. Since the total "official" figure I came to was over 683,000 (1910-87), and Brownell estimated that 89,000 sperm whales were unreported by Soviet whaling in the North Pacific between 1949 and 1979, perhaps the total should be over 770,000? Also I added that the Japanese also illegally caught sperm whales in the North Pacific. I can't remember my reference for that one though, but I imagine you'll find plenty on Google Scholar. Jonas Poole (talk) 22:43, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
I have responded to the issues you raised at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Washington Nationals Opening Day starting pitchers and I hope that I have made changes to address your concerns. If you have any other issues or suggestions, please let me know. Alansohn (talk) 03:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
I would like your opinion on the use of a gallery in the Ring-tailed Lemur article. I was considering the use of the following gallery at the bottom of the "Anatomy and physiology" section:
I'd really like to use these images in the article, but can't think of any other way. Your thoughts? - Visionholder (talk) 09:37, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for your nomination! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 11:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I posted a capitalization question here. —Wknight94 (talk) 13:45, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
I saw your article at DYK nomination for List of Kansas City Royals Opening Day starting pitchers just as User:Alansohn/List of Kansas City Royals Opening Day starting pitchers was nearing completion. Talk about wasted effort. I ddin't want to start the article in mainspace until it was done. Is there any coordination of these efforts? Alansohn (talk) 01:03, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
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Cheers! Royalbroil 04:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
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Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) (talk) 16:07, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it's my place to post comments on the Primate FAC, given that I'm still going through my first FAC with Ring-tailed Lemur. However, I have some concerns about some generalizations regarding the decreased use of olfaction in primates, as well as the 3 main groupings: prosimians, New World monkeys, and Old World monkeys. Would you prefer that you and I discuss them here first, or should I go ahead and post them to the Primate FAC?
BTW: If people agree that changes need to be made, I will volunteer to change the wording. - Visionholder (talk) 01:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 17:47, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I was just trying to be cosistent with the List of Washington Nationals Opening Day starting pitchers. Also, I would like to co-nominate this article with you for FLC if it is possible. Thanks. -- SRE.K.Annoyomous.L.24[c] 19:58, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I've been trying to add final scores to the Opening Day Starting Pitcher lists I have been working on, most recently List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Opening Day starting pitchers, following your lead from List of Washington Nationals Opening Day starting pitchers. But I am running into a sorting problem. Scores that start with a 10 or above are coming out between 1 and 2 when I sort. I think I used the same syntax as you did for List of Washington Nationals Opening Day starting pitchers, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Do you know what I could be doing wrong? Thanks. Rlendog (talk) 22:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Most of my points have been addressed. Reading through it there are still some modifications that need to be made before a run at FSC is made (mostly tightening up the prose) but I think it is fair enough to shoot for GAN now. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) (talk) 11:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 10:53, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
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