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Feedback
G'day Cwmhiraeth,
As requested I have taken a look at some of your animal related edits, First off well done its good to see some improvement to those articles some are now able to be re-assessed per assessment guidelines. The article Gunning's Golden Mole has clearly been improved ten fold, ideally more references would be great but I know how hard it is to find them on obscure subjects I have re-assessed the article as a "Start" class and with some more work would achieve a "C" level. In regards to Marley's Golden Mole once again a very nice improvement, it could do with some more references to make it a "C" class I have upgraded it to "Start" class none the less. Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat is now also up to "Start" class however I will leave that one for WikiProject Rodents to assess. All in all well done, keep up the fantastic work and if you have any questions or need some help please let me know I would be happy to lend a hand. Once again Welcome to Wikipedia and WikiProject Animals. Kind regards ZooPro 09:40, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Per your request on "Feedback request" for Bonamia ostreae, I would be confident and happy for that to be moved into main space if you added some more references and maybe clean up the external links also. Good Luck ZooPro 09:50, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Tips
Here's another general tip. If you go to the link marked "my preferences"[1] at the top right of your screen, and select "gadgets"[2] you can select from a wide variety of editing tools. "Navigation popups" are particularly helpful imho. If you have them enabled when you move your cursor over a link a set of options/actions comes up and then if you move your cursor over a link in one of those, another set of options comes up etc. AaronY (talk) 14:45, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I've followed your advice above. It is helpful to easily see whether the page to which one has created a link is quite what one thought it was. I have also expanded Diamondback moth, a rather more in depth insect article. I have asked User:Bugboy52.40 who started the WikiProject Insects for some additional feedback on the insect articles. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Nice work. Two minor notes, there are no mistakes, this is just a general review with tips for improvement; there's a little redundancy in the economic significance section in that its mentioned that the insects have a resistance to pesticides in the first paragraph then brought up again like its new info in the second paragraph. I take it that was leftover stuff from another editor, maybe you can incorporate that in one passage. Also, there are some more pictures if you want to add one. You might have to left align the pic because of the infobox. Lastly, if you look at bugboy's contributions it looks like he's not that active right now, you might want to ask someone else. AaronY (talk) 14:26, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I have uploaded the image for Bonamia ostreae according to your instructions but I am not sure that I got it all right. The image is a derivative of the original. I have also created a new article, Aphis fabae, from scratch without using the new article wizard. Also Aphis gossypii expanded. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
You made a mistake; you should have uploaded that image here. To Wikipedia I mean, not Commons. If you look to the upper left of your screen, you should see an "upload file" link in the list marked "toolbox". To re-iterate a little bit: look at this image for an example or this one which uses a template. Click on edit in one of those picture's pages to look at what was done and see if you can figure out how to replace the the specific info for those pictures with specific info about your own pic. You need to add a specific fair use rationale and pick the right category template if one exists. If not go with a generic one.
Make sure to attach the correspondence. You can copy and paste it and place it at the bottom of the page. Also make sure to mention it in your fair use rationale. AaronY (talk) 15:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Everything else looks fine at a glance. Someone went around and de-capitalized a lot of things on Helicoverpa armigera after your edits, not sure if that was right or not. I asked for some comments on your work at WP:Insects. AaronY (talk) 17:16, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
I find this uploading images business very confusing. I proceeded to put forward a fair use rationale only to find that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonamia.jpg already exists. I also see that it is policy that such an image to be "marked for speedy deletion" because of the restrictions put on its use. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Thats the one you uploaded on Commons. Images on commons have the same file name on Wikipedia. See this pic I uploaded on Commons, then see its Wikipedia page. I've nominated the commons version for deletion. Just upload the new pic under a different name maybe use the full name. Or even call it Bonamia slide. The precise name isn't super important. I've even used semi-comedic inside joke names for files I've uploaded. That guy is from my favorite comedy series btw. AaronY (talk) 12:40, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
For the moment, I propose to take no further action about the Bonamia image as the one already uploaded is available on the Bonamia ostreae page. I will do what you suggest if it disappears. Meanwhile, I have created 2 new articles, Encephalartos altensteinii and Encephalartos lehmannii. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Break again
Looks good, one thing: "The species name lehmannii commemorates Prof J.G.C. Lehmann, a German botanist who studied the cycads and published a book in 1834." I assume you mean "published a book on the plant in 1934" I would have just fixed it myself, but didn't know exactly what you were referring to. AaronY (talk) 05:07, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Yes, that's fine. Next time use the quote box template. It will look like this in the edit box: {{quote|Way out west there was this fella... fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude".}} And this is how it will appear:
Way out west there was this fella... fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude".
Your work looks fine at a glance. You could consider looking into submitting one of your articles to WP:DYK? All you have to do is check if they meet the criteria there, and if you find any interesting facts in one of your articles you can write a hook, and submit the article there. Here are some hooks I wrote which were accepted. AaronY (talk) 07:16, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
I nominated Aphis fabae for WP:DYK? but on further thoughts I see that I have put it in the wrong place (December 5th) and that I actually created it 7 days ago so it does not qualify anyway. Never mind!
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This was not a source I used and I see no similarity between my article and this. I doubt the usefulness of the CorenSearchBot. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:05, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Cwmhiraeth, do you think the aphids in File:Aphids.ogg are Aphis fabae? They don't look very black, but the big one has similar leg markings to the one's in the photograph. Nice work with the article by the way. SmartSE (talk) 17:09, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
DYK for Aphis fabae
On 7 December 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aphis fabae, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the black bean aphid is able to reproduce asexually, giving birth to live offspring through a process known as parthogenesis? You are welcome to check how many hits the 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.
I created an article in my user space that I was unable to add to Wikipedia because there was an existing redirect that sent someone trying to access this topic, Entomophthora muscae to Entomophthorales. I removed the redirect from the page which sorted the problem out from my point of view. I hope that was OK. I asked Stemonitis for feedback on my insect articles and project banners have been given to several. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm kind of busy right now, I'll get back to you over the weekend and check your stuff then. Hope this is ok. AaronY (talk) 01:35, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I swear I was thinking about giving you one for how quickly you've caught on to everything here, but now it will just seem like I was being nice in return. AaronY (talk) 11:12, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Cwm, I'm not really sure as to the rules for insects or biology articles, but I'm not sure if this meets WP:RS. You could keep it in there and roll the dice to see if anyone complains, or ask here or at one of the WikiProjects. I think academic sources have to be peer reviewed or you have to be able establish the credentials of the author. I could be wrong. Just a couple of comments: you might consider renaming "Damage done" section in Lyctus planicollis that seems kind of informal, and also a lot of editors like you to repeat referencess and put them directly on sentences that have statistics or quotes. Thats all I'm seeing for now in your biology articles (I saw you asking for help). Trevor GH5 (talk) 21:48, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you Trevor, I have responded on your talk page. About references, The University of Florida had 2 web pages about Lyctus planicollis. I have now changed all my references to the Featured Creatures page which has the primary sources at the bottom of the page whereas this does not. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:16, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Google scholar might prove helpful. Have you tried that? Here's a link to a search of articles excluding patents since 2000 on that topic:[3] Journals are good because they're peer reviewed I believe, as are some by institutes. So are studies that summarize research as well. You just have to try and look around and maybe google the author and see if you can see if he has any noteworthy credentials if you're not sure its peer reviewed. I'm in a little over my head, but I think thats kind of the right thing, correct? You can use google highlight to search through for the exact word your looking for. A search for those anytime yields more results:[4] but you might want to check to see if their newer research first. Unfortunately some of those are pay only. You can also do an advanced scholar search. You can always ask someone from the same field here for research tips too. AaronY (talk) 02:46, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Actually looking at our page for google scholar it says all that stuff is peer reviewed, so it should all be good, I think. AaronY (talk) 02:48, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I'll try using Google Scholar then. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 21:01, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
DYK for Entomophthora muscae
On 15 December 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Entomophthora muscae, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the fungus Entomophthora muscae makes flies climb upwards before killing them, so they are better able to release a shower of spores for the next cycle of infection? You are welcome to check how many hits the 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.
Hi, I've undone this edit of yours - I'm sure it was a slip on your part! DuncanHill (talk) 21:09, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I had not appreciated that because I had used the new article wizard for starting that article, my User/Cefn_Golau was no longer available for my own personal use for developing a new article, in this case on Encarsia perplexa. So I eradicated the Cefn Golau article instead of the copy I thought I still had in my user space. Apologies! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:42, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from Darth Newdar
Hello, I thought I'd leave you a message here. That's an impressive amount of new articles which you've created! I've only created one brand new article, although I have got three "Good articles" to my name. You can use my signature to find my userpage, by clicking on "Darth Newdar". Darth Newdartalk 11:36, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
The same thing happened when I used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cwmhiraeth/Cefn_Golau as a work-space for preparing a new article, see above. Both Cefn_Golau and Bonamia_ostreae were prepared with the new article wizard. I no longer use this but write articles direct in user space set up specifically for the purpose. I would mark these two proforma articles for deletion if I knew how to do it! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:30, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
DYK for Encarsia perplexa
On 20 December 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Encarsia perplexa, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that adult males of the parasiticwasp, Encarsia perplexa, can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species? You are welcome to check how many hits the 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.
To tag one of your own userpages for deletion, add {{db-u1}}. DS (talk) 20:01, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I have tried doing what you suggested to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cwmhiraeth/Bonamia_ostreae but it marked the real article for speedy deletion so I removed the tag again. Then I realised I could remove the redirect tag, " #REDIRECT Bonamia ostreae " so I did this and then marked the user page for deletion. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:46, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and thanks for your contribution Victuallers (talk) 00:02, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Number of hits on 25th December (midnight to 6am) was 1.1k.
Responsibility?
We are all volunteers, so don't worry if articles are not up to standard when you have added to them, just make them better - others may tweak or add later. My comment at DYK was to encourage you. If the edit takes a short time then just do it. If you think it is complex then you can suggest, (but not require) a change. Hope that helps Victuallers (talk) 15:45, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense
Hi Cwmhiraeth, I've reviewed your DYK nomination and left some comments. SmartSE (talk) 00:22, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I have replied to your comments and made the alterations you suggested. It is very awkward editing on the DYK page because the edit button is not aligned with the item one is trying to edit! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:28, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Ah, now I understand the problem you are having editing at DYK. The problem arises when another editor adds or removes a section between when you load the page and click on the edit tab of the section you want to edit. It happens to me all the time, but if you refresh and try again it usually works. Sometimes you can try changing the number in "&action=edit§ion=28" in the url either up or down one too to find the right section. I'll take another look at it again later. SmartSE (talk) 11:10, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I've replied there again and suggested another hook, can you take a look? I noticed from your edits that there are a few tools that'll you find make writing easier by decreasing the amount of time writing out references which you might like to use. Firstly, {{cite doi}}, {{cite pmid}} and {{cite jstor}} allow you to add the relevant doi/pmid/jstor number to the template, and then a bot will come along and write a full reference for you. In case that doesn't make sense, you can for example write <ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Ploetz | first1 = R. C. | title = Fusarium Wilt of Banana is Caused by Several Pathogens Referred to as Fusarium oxysporum f. Sp. Cubense | doi = 10.1094/PHYTO-96-0653 | journal = Phytopathology | volume = 96 | issue = 6 | pages = 653–656 | year = 2006 | pmid =
18943184| pmc = }}</ref> and end up with Ploetz, R. C. (2006). "Fusarium Wilt of Banana is Caused by Several Pathogens Referred to as Fusarium oxysporum f. Sp. Cubense". Phytopathology. 96 (6): 653–656. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-96-0653. PMID18943184. a few minutes later (I left out the ref tags here). If you are using web references, WP:REFLINKS is very useful as it grabs a lot of details from the webpages and adds these to a template for you and then you only need to make corrections. I don't think you've used google books, but if you ever do this tool allows you to paste a url and it'll make the entire reference for you. I couldn't see anything on your talk page about WP:WIKIED either, which can be switched on at Special:Preferences /gadgets and makes editing a whole lot easier. I hope these are of some use, keep up the good work, there are plenty more species out there waiting to turn blue! SmartSE (talk) 23:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for these helpful suggestions. I will look into them. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:42, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been on Wikipedia the last few days. I don't really know a foolproof way to avoid that. You can enter the term in the search box and hit "search" instead of "go" then see what articles mention it, but thats all I would know of. Check your email. AaronY (talk) 21:03, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
I had a look at your note to AaronY and just wanted to say that it is always worth checking google books for sources. For example, some of the information in: Samuel Stehman Haldeman; Joseph Leidy (1848). History and transformations of Corydalus cornutus: With 1 pl. pp. 1–. may be useful for this article. If the books are really old, then the images may be public domain and can be copied from them, by using print screen and then cropping the image after pasting it into a graphics program. Regarding the panama disease and your article, it's fine to have two articles, as we tend to have one article on the organism itself and another on the disease. SmartSE (talk) 23:21, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you both. The trouble with the online sources that I have found with Internet searches is that they are often too specialised and it is difficult finding the background information needed for an article on a specific organism. The Google book you referred to would hae been ideal for the purpose.
Incidentally, I tried using "cite doi", as suggested above, in an article I am preparing [5] and nothing has happened 10 hours later though I got the message "This citation will be automatically completed in the next few minutes". Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:31, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hmm, the bot can be a bit temperamental at times. I nudged it into action by clicking on the "jump the queue" link after the "This citation will be automatically completed in the next few minutes" message and it seems to have worked now. I find it works > 90% of the time, so I think you were just unlucky there. SmartSE (talk) 09:57, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
I looked at the article and it is odd. I ran this search in google. Basically I grabbed a suspicious section of text and Google searched after putting quotes around it. As you see there are 4 places where the text is used.
Now this still be a genuine error. The text is dated back to 2007 and appears to be be (possibly) notable but it is poorly introduced. Where is this place? Who says so? etc. It could be that the author thinks they can copy their own text into Wikipedia - something we need evidence of that being the case.
I think you need to put the phrase copyvio| into the article and put curly braces around it. You will then be told what to do next. You will see more when you preview your change.
Or you can put PROD|I think this article is copied from ??? and needs to be deleted as I don't know what its meant to be about
Again you need to put double curly braces around it.
I could do this, but its your cleverness in seeing it and you need to know how to do more stuff.
Thank you. I did what you suggested. Did you have any views on TERRATEL?
Sorry, I'm stalking again! TERRATEL should probably be tagged as WP:CSD#A7 (An article about a ... organization ... that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant) by adding {{db-a7}} at the top. SmartSE (talk) 19:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
I have done what you suggested about TERRATEL as well. I also studied the notability criteria for companies and organizations so will know better next time. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:59, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Plexippus paykulli
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Just spotted this wonderful article while going through Special:NewPages; brilliant work! I assume you're sending it off to DYK? Ironholds (talk) 19:09, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
And on that note, I've given you the "autopatrolled" userright - it's a mark of recognition for your work as an article creator. Keep it up! :). Ironholds (talk) 19:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Essentially "this user is recognised as the creator of good articles, and as such, can be trusted not to need his future articles manually patrolled; we assume they're going to be of the same excellent quality". It removes your articles from the unpatrolled Special:NewPages log. Ironholds (talk) 07:06, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 06:03, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Chrysoperla carnea
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Hi there! Just to clarify, in this edit, you changed Rosids to Rosidae in the taxobox. Rosidae is either an obsolete taxon used by outdated classification systems or it's a part of the not-yet-accepted PhyloCode. In flowering plant taxoboxes, Wikipedia follows the APG III system, where "Rosids" is correct. This came from consensus at WT:PLANTS and is a work-in-progress; not all taxoboxes have been converted yet. I hope that clarifies my revert of your edit. Cheers, Rkitko(talk) 20:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I thought "Rosids" was an error which had been copied from taxobox to taxobox. When writing articles, it is not easy to know what taxonomy to use and I had not understood that Wikipedia had a "chosen" system. I have just created an article on Fendlera rupicola and some authorities stated it was in the Hydrangeaceae family and others the Saxifragaceae family! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 21:13, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
No worries; I thought I would just explain the reverts here and for future editing in flowering plant articles. And at least for flowering plants, we've "chosen" the APG III system by discussion and consensus based on its molecular data revealing the true (or as close to true as we can get) nature of evolutionary relationships among plant families. It's not officially affiliated with the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, but the APG Website [6] is a great starting point to locate genera and families in the correct (according to APG) family or order. Great work on all your recent plant articles, by the way! You're right that Fendlera is in the Hydrangeaceae, according to APG III. Anyway, keep up the good work. Rkitko(talk) 00:10, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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I just noticed I never replied to this as I didn't notice it at the time. It's been taken care of, but for future reference, if you crop another image like that, use the upload a new version link at commons. Doing it like that means you don't have to go around and change the file names yourself as the software updates everything for you. I checked the merger template from yesterday and it's fine. I moved it to the top of the page though as this is where they should go, it's not a problem on pages like that, but on a busy talk page, it would quickly get lost in the archives. SmartSE (talk) 10:53, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, I've noted these details. And congratulations on your new adminship. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:02, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Cheers. Let me know if you ever need any buttons pressed. SmartSE (talk) 11:23, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
The Wikification Leaderboard has 3+1 (or 1+3 to be precise ~ lol) columns (excluding the first column from left, which indicates the place numbers [1–5], the first column is for the number of wikified articles, the second col is for the number of words, and the last col is for the number of days editors have edited/wikified 5 or more articles in just one day. I think that it is not intended to be a per row table with an editor for each row, but 3 separate classes (# of articles [position 1–5]; # of words [pos 1–5]; # of days [pos 1–5]). So, I have re-edited your latest edits there. I hope I did it right. Cheers ... and HaPpY EdItInG/WiKiFyInG!!!! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 16:16, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Ah, I get it now! The instructions are unclear and I thought the leaderboard looked a mess and tried to correct it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 16:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Claude Herbulot
I deeply thank you for the improvement of my page.Jacqueshb (talk) 20:11, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
My pleasure! He was an interesting man. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Chrysoperla carnea
On 6 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chrysoperla carnea, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the larvae of the common green lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea(pictured) usually consume aphids, but when food is scarce they will eat each other? You are welcome to check how many hits the 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.
On 7 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dociostaurus maroccanus, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the population density of Moroccan locustnymphs can reach several thousand individuals per square metre (11 sq ft)? You are welcome to check how many hits the 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.
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Overlinking
Hello, I see you're doing some good work wikifying articles. Please could you be careful not to overlink common words as you did in The Princess and the Tin Box? You don't need to link any word that has an article, only those that will add value to the reader by having them linked. You can read more about which words to link at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (linking). Thanks, --BelovedFreak 20:31, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps I did go rather over the top on the Princess and the Tin Box. There was not a lot needed to be done to wikify the page so I gave myself some extra work to justify counting it as wikified! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:07, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
+1 barnstar
The Fauna Barnstar
For all your work on animal related articles, I award you this barnstar. Keep up the great work! AaronY (talk) 10:06, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive Needs Your Help!
Please help!
The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive is almost complete. Please help, as the backlog is still very large. Still exceeding 20,000 articles! The goal is 18,000 or less. Lets see if we can do it! We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please remind your friends to help as well.Thank you for all your help thus far!
You have been invited to join and help WikiProject Insects in its most recent collaboration, Lepidoptera, which has finally been nominated for Good article, soon a reviewer will review and you are welcomed to help before and during the reviewing process as a member of the project. Your also welcomed to nominate yourself as an unbiased, reviewer for the article.
When you wish to help (which is greatly welcomed) you can get briefed and ask questions on my talk page or the WikiProject insects' talk page when you're ready!! Thank you for your cooperation.Bugboy52.4 | =-= 21:12, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for getting invovled, as of the moment, the largest problem is typos and referencing. I make a lot of typos and those need to be fixed. Also, there seem to be a lot of bare references, and others lacking cite templates. You can either take it upon yourself to do this, its very tedious so you can list those that need working on and I'll help with those. Thank you again, I thought I would never get help :D Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 14:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for noticing that, I thought the ref was already cited, but wasn't so I added. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 18:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
{{rp}} is used when you repeat a source, but with different pages. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 19:25, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Public Policy Initiative Recruiting Assessors for Spring
Hi Cwmhiraeth, I saw that you are in the Wikification Leaderboard of February 2011 and I would like to ask you if you want to participate in an initiative [Public Policy Initiative (PPI)] carried out by Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. If you are interested in research and want to experiment with article assessment or just want to help out, please, join our group of assessors because we really need your help. If you have questions or need more information, please check out the discussion on the assessment tab and the WPUSPP Assessment department, or contact ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk·contribs), who is the Research Analyst for the project. Also, if you know valuable and trusted editors who are expert in USPP and/or articles assessment, please invite them to participate to this project. The work to be done is not so much, and will start next spring. Your help would be much needed and greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance and all the best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:22, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the invite, Pjoef.
I am from the United Kingdom and think that United States Public Policy is both outside my area of expertise and my area of interest. Nor am I a very experienced wikipedian and am not a very suitable person to give guidance when I still sometimes need guidance myself. There will be plenty of other projects that I may join in due course but I will leave this one for now. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive Awards
The Special Barnstar
This Special Barnstar is given to Cwmhiraeth for wikifying 171 articles, a total of 108,600 words. Thanks for participating, and please be sure to help out at our next drive! Sumsum2010·T·C·Review me! 06:03, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
This Superior Barnstar is given to Cwmhiraeth for appearing on the leaderboard. Again, thanks for participating! Sumsum2010·T·C·Review me! 06:03, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I think your sourcing detracts from this barnstar - adding a Worldlingo "reference" to Jaza'iranaa was a mistake as that is a Wikipedia mirror. Also you didn't format the lyrics, so they all ran on one line. Fences&Windows 00:04, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Well I don't know about the "reference" but I did format the lyrics and it was difficult for me because of the script reading from right to left in Farsi for which my computer was ill adapted. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:54, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Request for comment
As a member of Wikiproject insects you maybe want to voice your opinion this discussion on the use of vernacular or scientific names in higher ranking taxa. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 13:10, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
I enjoyed reading a couple of your articles. They are informative, interesting and relatively comprehensive compared to many insect articles that I read.
Two comments? Just based on looking at two articles, I notice a tendency for you to use three words when one would suffice. It doesn't quite qualify as WP:WEASEL, but if you read that Wiki page, it might alert you to being briefer. I'm mentioning this in part because your personal pages shows you are interested in copy editing. I'm a professional editor, and using fewer words is the direction I'd expect you'd take if you were heading that way.
The other comment is just an isolated observation, but when I checked the reference for the somewhat atypical statement: "There are a large number of breadpalms in some locations but on the whole, populations are declining", here [7] it didn't support what you wrote. The reference does not say exactly this, and it leads me to wonder whether you are adding your own knowledge, or unintentionally "putting a spin" on the reference.
Overall, though, I must say, your contributions are a vast improvement on the many Wiki insect articles that just seem to cut-and-paste a dry few facts from some standard source. Enjoy and please continue! 98.210.208.107 (talk) 05:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments. I will try to think about not using more words than are necessary. Which particular article did you think too wordy?
With regard to your second comment, what the source actually says is: "The population has declined by about 20% in the past three generations. Would qualify as Vulnerable under criterion B1a if there were fewer localities and as VU under criterion C1 if the lower estimate of population numbers is correct. The species is therefore listed as Near Threatened." I thought my statement bore this out but I suppose it would have been better to state "There are a large number of locations where breadpalms grow but on the whole, populations are declining" Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:12, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I thought you would be interested in the March Mini, a coordinated effort by WikiProject Wikify members to eliminate the 2008 backlog of articles tagged with {{wikify}} and/or {{dead end}}. Come join in the fun! There are only three prizes to be won, including a special barnstar created just for this drive!
Hello! Your submission of Ksar es-Seghir 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! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:15, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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