User talk:Krecto176
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Hello, Krecto176, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:25, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Images[edit]
Hi. Other than Commons and Creative Commons Search, I'm not sure where to search. You can do a similar search on Google images, but I didn't find anything useful there either. (It doesn't usually turn up anything that the other two don't.) Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:01, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
A page you started (Callophrys xami) has been reviewed![edit]
Thanks for creating Callophrys xami, Krecto176!
Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
What can I say? I think this has to be the best article (by absolutely miles) I've seen a brand new editor to Wikipedia create in a long time. Well done! You are a credit to your university and an asset on Wikipedia I hope we shall see a lot more of. OK, one can always nit-pic, but if every new article were as good as this, it would be wonderful, it really would. Tiny things to suggest include: Typo in 'Host plants' (Echevel'ia gibbiflora); try and put references that are used a second time in order so that numbering looks sequential (see Migration and flight behaviour). Should one reference be relevant to the first half of a paragraph and the second relevant to the latter half, it's OK to insert the relevant reference mid-paragraph to support individual statements, though everything at the end of short paragraphs is quite acceptable. I'd probably shift 'Life cycle' higher up, and you might like to think whether the other sections are in a logical order. Maybe put 'Male territory defense' into the 'Mating and courtship' section? I'd not bother with rounding off decimalised centimetres into millimetres, though you could learn to use the Template:Convert function to give both metric and imperial measurements. In Europe we never say 'Genuses' - it's always Genera, though this may be different in your area - worth checking perhaps. It might be worth learning how to put a hatnote on the main page for Green hairstreak and on yours as they both share the same common name, and this would avoid confusion. Maybe you could check that page and see what categories it has used and see if you could add more to your article. Oh, and you might find it best not to use your main Userpage as a Sandbox, but to work on articles in the actual Sandbox that each user has access to - see link right at the very top of the page next to your user and Talk page links. You can even create multiple pages for multiple articles, should you wish. But all-in all: absolutely brilliant!
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Nick Moyes (talk) 00:59, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you[edit]
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The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar A new editor on the right path | |
| For an impressive new article on Callophrys xami that would put quite a few long-established editors to shame. Do think about submitting it for 'Did You Know...?'. Nick Moyes (talk) 01:13, 5 October 2017 (UTC) |
Xami hairstreak/green hairstreak image[edit]
Hi there,
Nice work on the Callophrys xami article!
I just wanted to leave a quick message about the image. It looks like the image is of Callophrys rubi (the green hairstreak -- apparently that's also a [less common] common name of Callophrys xami?). The image doesn't quite fit the description in the article, and a google image search for the xami shows it to have a pretty distinct cyborg-like attachment to its wing. :) Meanwhile, our Wikimedia Commons category for Callophrys rubi shows subjects visually similar to this image. The Flickr description just calls it a "green hairstreak".
I did a search for a freely licensed image of the xami, but couldn't find one, sadly.
As an aside, since it doesn't really matter in this case, nearly all of the images visible on Wikipedia (the exception is the very few fair use images like logos, book covers, movie posters, and other copyrighted things that can only be used in a single article) were actually uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. As soon as you upload a file there (commons.wikimedia.org -- using the same Wikipedia account), it becomes available to use on Wikipedia in exactly the same way as if you uploaded it here.
I'm going to remove the image for now and suggest it be deleted from Wikipedia since it's much lower resolution and thus not likely to be used. If you object to the deletion just let me know. Thanks again for your hard work! — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:16, 11 October 2017 (UTC)