Hi, Shyamal first of all I would thank to you for helping my Draft:Porto Novo Iron Works. I hope your editing will help me to my article will be approved.
Now I need help on other one.
Draft:Parangipettai Railway Station it got declined two times. The reason they says wants more reliable sources. After the first decline I have added more than 11 related more important reference. But still it got decline again. So, could you help me on this. thank you. Ahamedpno (talk) 06:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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@Randy Kryn:, thank you, I hadn't looked and just did, from the dates, it does not look like the USDA decision was up by then, just the ESA. I would not argue for a change in the New Zealand article, but I am surprised that no notice of the discussion was posted on Talk:Lymantria_dispar. PS: just saw the discussion at Talk:Lymantria_dispar. Shyamal (talk) 14:53, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Shyamal. In 2019 you uploaded the file listed above to the Commons. It's a photo of Arthur Vernay and J. C. Faunthorpe, who collected south Asian mammals for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The photo is currently used in the WP article on Faunthorpe, but the source listed on the Commons page is incorrect: this photo does not appear in the article by Vernay in Natural History 31 (1931), pp. 75–80. Do you have any idea what the correct source might be? I know it's been five years since you uploaded it and worked on the article, but perhaps you can remember what other sources of images you used at the time? Otherwise, since it's not correctly sourced, I'm thinking about removing the photo from the article and substituting a different one. Thanks, Crawdad Blues (talk) 15:09, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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