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Thanx for welcoming me

Thanks for the welcome! I'm really glad to know the tilde thing, I was manually typing it out each and every time! Talk about dedication. Guess I should read the FAQ more carefully next time, huh? Master Thief Garrett 00:57, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome. --LeaMaimone 09:23, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Likewise as with all the previous posters -- thanks for the welcome. And I have an immediate question! If we see a section that could possibly have a subsection with numerous images, what do we do? I'm specifically discussing the Rabbit/European Rabbit section, as there are many breeds of domesticated rabbits these days. We are avid lagamorphologists (real word?) and would like to contribute. We also many other individuals that would do the same. Help? Metavurt 19:14, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

I want to say thank you for the warm welcome you have given me on Wikipedia! I have already added a few Wikipedia and Wiktionary entries and edited some others - do tell me if I'm doing anything wrong; any criticism is gratefully accepted. HenryAJ 18:00, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'll defer to your authority on the cuttlefish post. I am aware of the apocryphal nature of urbandictionary.com. The term most definately is in use, I assure you, if only as a regionalism.

You were wrong to revert my 107th Congress edit. Lisa Murkowski was appointed in December, 2002 to occupy the seat vacated by Frank Murkowski due to his 2002 election as Alaska Governor. Hence, in the 107th Congress, convening in 2001, Frank Murkowski should be represented as the Senator from Alaska.

Hi! Thanks for leaving me aa little welcome message!Frogprincess1312 06:20, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Well that's all I had to say :-D Laudaka 14:29, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice welcome - Drago9034 05:04, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks for the welcome! Mark Richards

Thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia my goal is to do the best that I can to help improve wikipedia in all of the areas that I can. Daniel .

Thanks for the welcome note. Helped me understand the User talk thing, and was encouraging. I've been editing modestly for a while now. You set a nice tone for friendly welcoming which invites new users to feel at home. Kd4ttc 03:00, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for welcoming me. However I guess I stay on the German Wikipedia project and just add the inter wiki links here. -- MichaelHaeckel 19:18, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. I really don't know anyone around here yet, and it was nice to know that somebody cared! Jeru 11:07, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Um, I'm not sure how to leave messages on this just yet, but you can always delete this, right? Thanks for the welcome message. Sorry about the inappropriate link. 「Jeshii 12:57, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)」

Thanks for your welcome. (I'm sure you welcome my thanks or do you want to say thanks for the thanks. Then I should say thanks for your thanks....ad infinitum.....) :) I still need to understand the copyright thing. I'd like to upload a rewrite or summary of the 'Waking the Tiger book' under a wikipedia article 'How to Heal Traumas' . Sorry to all wikipedians for the copyright infringements.(they were deleted) Best regards, Jondel 04:38, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This just one more thank you for one more kind welcome written by you. Hgfernan 08:45, 13 May 2004

Oh yes, it's taking me a while to find my way around talk pages and stuff, but I was very pleased with the welcome you gave me, too. Thanks, and keep up the good work. Tonusperegrinus 20:28, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, what they said :o] porge 02:45, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome! Sir Trollsalot 07:00, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Me too! Palnu 03:32, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

And thanks! David Sneek 06:36, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

A belated (over 2 months!) thanks for your kind welcome. Lacrimosus 07:23, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For some strange and atypical reason I would have considered it 'bad luck' to un-redden my name by creating a user page before someone addresses me on my talk page. Thanks for the welcome, now I'm really 'part of it'! Femto 17:26, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Okay, read that "Curse you, now I'll never really get away from it. :)" — Easy enough to find here anyway, though can it be that you actually forgot to sign a message that contains an explanation how to sign a message? Femto 12:25, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome! I'd been around for some months doing minor edits, but never interacted with anyone in the comunity. - Waltervulej 19:06, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome! Stuff ign 16:24, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hey, thank you for welcoming me to wikipedia and backing up what i wrote on the article about chimpanzees. Irresponsible 14:17, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Primates

Primate Classification

Hello UtherSRG. I'm user Bradypus from the German Wikipedia and I just saw you translated the baboon articles. I also somtimes check the English Wikipedia and found out you use a very different kind of primate classification (for instance giving the Aotus-monkeys family status under the name Nyctipithecidae) than we do. We have a rather "traditional" classification. What is your source? Regards,--80.108.59.151 07:23, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) Bradypus (I don't know how to do this Interwiki signatures)

Hello UtherSRG. I really thought you speak a little bit German, because those Babelfish-translations are not very exact. (This is a useful dictionary which I often use, maybe it helps). I looked at the 5 baboon specieses and the Cercopithecinae. Please check my addendums, for I'm not a native speaker and word order, spelling and such things can be wrong. --80.108.59.151 20:04, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)(Bradypus)

Tarsiers

Sorry, my mistake! I misread the hierarchy on the New World Monkeys page, thanks for putting me right (so quickly).--Bwmodular 17:39, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You wrote: "What is your interest in Primates?"

Purely platonic :) Just a fascination with them. I took the Tarsier image (Tarsier.jpg) in Sulawesi years ago, and made some edits to that page, but I'm not an expert on primates. I'm working on a primates image gallery at the moment (to be added to the other animal galleries Wikipedia:List_of_images/Nature/Animals) but I don't think I'm qualified to join the project. If there are any non-technical routine tasks (finding images for taxoboxes, etc) that can be done, I'll gladly help, but I can't contribute in any way that requires technical / scientific knowledge.--Bwmodular 09:38, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tarsius spectrum

I'll try and find out for sure, but I think it is a Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius spectrum). I saw them in Tangkoko National Park, North Sulawsi - if I can find out for sure, I'll let you know.--Bwmodular 10:18, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pretty sure it's a Spectral Tarsier now - I've looked at a few studies which took place in Tangkoko and they all refer to Tarsius spectrum. --Bwmodular 11:28, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:11, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Birds

Hey there! We seem to have a lot of common interests in animals in general. I just put my name on the WikiBird project and saw your name there. I have done some massive work in categorizing the birds, and I was hoping you could review some of my edits and see if I am conforming to everything ya'll have agreed on. I have been categorizing the parrots recently and I am not sure what should be a parrot or not. Mostly I've just been putting general categories on things that have no cat. at all, trying to get them all corralled in so more precise work can be done on them.

Also, something happened with the columbiformes category (Category:Columbiformes). See the Category:Birds and see that somehow about a dozen of them got saved. I've no idea how that happened or how to fix it without going into each one (a pain with how slow wiki has been running lately.) Till later.--DanielCD 22:43, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well, with WP being so slow, I'm having a hard time looking, so I'll give some general advice from what I see. First, I believe categories in general are still a little buggy... moving an article from one category to another will show it in both until something forces the cache to be flushed and reloaded from the database. Second, watch your capitalization. Since broad-tailed parrot is all lowercase, should also be lowercase. Finally, I consider myself a junior member of the bird project. Give a knock on the talk pages of a few of the more bird-active folks and see what kind of category schemas they may have kicking around their heads. - UtherSRG 02:12, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Taxoboxes

Thanks for taking time out to notify me. Go ahead and update the taxoboxes as you see fit and to meet the current standard. Remove the cetacea-specific wrapper template if that is helpful - I believe it is used only on a small number of pages before I dropped the idea - certainly not all species.

Pcb21| Pete 13:57, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Mollusc mantle

Hi there again. I created an article at Mantle (mollusc) and I'd like to invite you to take a peak. It's kind of clumsy, with most of the info coming from my head and other places in wikipedia, but I'm going to do some more research at the library and try to smooth it out, as well as add some refs. --DanielCD 22:14, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Also, do you think we should standardize spelling of Mollusk/Mollusc? I've always spelled it with a "K" but it seems most people like the "C". --DanielCD 22:20, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It's a good article. I think the image should be something that show the mantle. As for "K" vs "C", I think that's as hard to nail as "color" vs "colour". - UtherSRG 23:22, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Copyedit

I wrote a biography of Harold E. Robinson, an eminent (and still living) American botanist. Could you copyedit my text ? Do you think it would be wise to send him an email, asking him to review his own biography ? I certainly need his photo. Anyway, give me your opinion. JoJan 18:59, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

User:Circeus keeps deleting the list of selected works in this article. There are more than 650 publications by this botanist. This list of about 20 publications is almost the minimum. They underscore the text. When I state that Robinson has made a thorough study, overhauling the tribe X, then I also give the publication involved, to substantiate my statement. This list of selected works, instead being too long - as claimed by Circeus -, on the contrary, emphasizes the immense importance of this botanist. I don't like having to fall back on the "three revert rule" and end up in an endless discussion. Can you intervene ? JoJan 09:39, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, Uther! Cheers for your commendably productive wiki year. Here's to hoping we'll both still be around a year from now, so I can wish you the same in 2006. Hurrah! :) -- Hadal 13:00, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

NYC Subways

List of New York Subway stations

Thanks for the additions to the list, and sorry if you got an edit conflict. --SPUI 05:23, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

2 Seventh Avenue Express

Hi, sorry to tell you this after you went to so much extra work, but SPUI, I and a few others have been disambiguating between "Lines" (Sea Beach Line, Seventh Avenue Line) and "Services" (A, B, C, etc.) This way we have only one line name for a particular station. We have taken the line names from current official sources, and they are at User:SPUI/New York City Subway lines. The whole ball of wax is being discussed at . Please join us there! The explanation of lines, services, etc. is at New York City Subway line, route and station nomenclature. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 07:44, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ah! So it would still be "Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line"? And that would mean that there are now a few redundant entries in List of New York City Subway stations because I just added 'em. Ok. I'll get them in the (real) morning. It's time for me to head off to sleep. I'll join the WikiProject in the morning, too. - UtherSRG 07:52, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

And it would also be (for the "2" service) "White Plains Road Line," "Lenox Avenue Line," "Eastern Parkway Line" and "Nostrand Avenue Line." I already made the changes on the 2 line. Have a good night's sleep! :) -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 08:06, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I fixed all the stations in the master list (and added the rest on those lines), so no worries there. I labeled the 4-5 part of Borough Hall as Joralemon Street Tunnel, since we don't know for sure what line that's on. --SPUI 08:25, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ok, so insomnia has hit me. I've done the service, and I believe I did it correctly this time. *grins* Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_York_City_Subway/Line_templates is a big help! I'm moving onto now, and I see there are many real links that will need to be moved. Fun! - UtherSRG 10:42, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

We're actually doing the station lists on the line pages, to avoid duplication across the service pages (and the inevitable duplication of changes when the MTA changes something). R (New York City Subway) is an example of a service page done this way; Queens Boulevard Line is an example of a line page. As for the templates, you want to use the stuff like {{NYCS Sixth}}, so a change of that template will propagate to all the lists. You should probably take a close look at the source for the QBL page. If you're unsure of a line name, check it against Image:NYC subway origins.png (the one thing to note is that we're using Broadway-BMT Line for the BMT Broadway, since it appears the MTA does that now). --SPUI 12:51, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ah dear oh dear. Ok. Well, I finished up 4 anyway for consistency. I'll see what I can attck next. - UtherSRG 01:35, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

New York Subway tables

I really appreciate your work on the New York subway tables, although I have a few concerns. I think it look smuch better if the word "free transer to" is not used, as it is fairly redundant as it is assumed. Further, please use "table align=center" to centre all of the tables, otherwise they look a bit odd being left-justified. Thanks! Páll 23:07, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I believe I'm done with what I had planned ot do. Be bold and make adjustments as you see fit. - UtherSRG 00:37, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

Mirabelle

Hi, Stacey. Can you delete the article Mirabelle. I have moved the content to Cherry Plum, the common name for Prunus cerasifera. Mirabelle is not an English word, but French. The English equivalent is the (less common) myrobalan. JoJan 15:56, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ooh! Bad job. Cut-and-paste should not be used to move articles, as it removes the edit history for the article. You should always use the "Move" tab. If you can't, list the article on WP:RM. I will edit the old article, delete the new, and move the old into the new place. - UtherSRG 16:08, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

• Mirabelles aren't exactly Cherry Plums. CPs are red and P. cerasifera, Mirabelles are yellow and a hybrid cultivar of P. x domestica. I moved this back. —ExplorerCDT 19:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Taxobot

I can assist you building your bot on the pywikipediabot framework. Leave me a message and tell me what you want to do, and I'll lead you through the steps in creating your bot. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:00, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

1. Download the latest version from cvs
2. copy config.py to user-config.py.
3. Edit the first three variables
4. Delete any remaining unchanged variables
5. Save user-config.py file
6. Login by running python login.py
7. You must:

   import wikipedia, config

   The main library is wikipedia, the second library is config

8. Basics to know: read the comments in wikipedia.py
9. page = wikipedia.PageLink(site, pagename) - sets a page link to the variable page
10. page.get() - gets the text from that specified page
11. page.put(text, comment) - puts the new text with the comment
12. wikipedia.getSite() - gets site from config file.

-- AllyUnion (talk) 21:10, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Category:Endangered species

Great idea, but I can only get it to half work - category appears on species page but species doesn't appear on category page. Any ideas? Thanks. Smallweed 15:21, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wired article

Congratulations on your profile in Wired article on Wikipedia, and thanks for all the work you do! Jokestress 16:17, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

They seem to think that you are female though (they evidently didn't notice your middle name) ☺ — PhilHibbs | talk 17:05, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

They need to make Wired a wiki! ;) Jokestress 17:10, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

{sigh} I've been dealing with my gender-neutral first name all my life. I suppose I can suffer it some more for a good article.... even if Daneil didn't include my "hacker manifesto" quote. - UtherSRG 17:15, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Congrats on your Wired mention: you've entered a whole new level of geekiness! :) FYI, they finally corrected that gender "oversight". – ClockworkSoul 01:21, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Animal rights

Peace, SRG! Thanks for the welcome. I'm not a newbie, though, been (lurking) here, and a local WP, for years.

I see you're into monkeys ;o). Would you be interested in/could I bother you to check my complaint in talk:Mauritius about illegal exportation of monkeys for laboratory experiments? Much obliged. J 15:32, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)

Can you help me with some questions from a journalist?

How many species do we have so far in wikispecies? Jimbo Wales

Tanks

Thanks for putting the link to bourgeois tragedy into the George Lillo article. Honestly, I loathe Lillo, but that doesn't excuse there being no article on him. Geogre 03:44, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That wasn't my edit. Taht was Thomas Ruefner's edit. - UtherSRG 04:46, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

Wikispecies format

Hi, Uther. I notice you've been doing a lot of work creating wikispecies pages. I've been arguing that project should be structured in a way that allows for variation in classification systems, and have tried setting up an alternate standard on the protist pages. However, it hasn't received any real support. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the matter, since it's something I think would be important for ancient hominids, and from experience your opinions are generally trustworthy. Thanks, Josh

It's a tough call. I don't think most casual users will want to know all the possible variations of classification, although they may be interested to know some of the more prominent schools of thought. On the other hand, users of a more professional caliber will want to be able to explore the variations. I think for navigation it will be easier for the readers and editors to pick a specific classification and stick to it until it gets superceeded. Variations and schools of thought can be described and discussed the the article text. Thinking of the various avian classification systems, though, it might well be better to use a dual navigation system, one for the standard used by Wikipedia, and one for the more current schools of thought. If this is the case, then I'm not sure the incrementally indented navigation system is a good one to use.

Come to think of it, I'm starting to not like it at all. has started a push to use taxoboxes. That might be a realm of exploration we can use for showing alternate classifications, or it might prove to be more difficult than not. I like tree diagrams that show can show schools of thought on when taxa were thought to have divided as well, or at least show that a listing of taxa is actually a few groupings of taxa and that they are not all as closely related as a simple list would show.

In general, I run hot and cold about Wikispecies. I think the concept is good, but that it became open to the public too quickly. More work needed to be done on these kinds of decisions before users were invited to come and play. *shrugs* - UtherSRG 12:36, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

The programming for Wikidata has started. This will enable to have Wikispecies with all classification systems. GerardM 13:41, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Admin Request

Hey Uther, I can't make you an admin by myself, but I forwarded your request now to the MediaWiki page. Welcome as an admin! (soon) Best, Benedikt

Sorry for the delay - I'll send an e-mail to Angela. Thanks for the patience and the current help, Benedikt

Are you an admins on Wikispecies yet?Geni 08:29, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I see you now areGeni 11:03, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Yeti.jpg

It looks like the current version of the image comes from http://users.skynet.be/donatienne.binard/ADN/album_y/ and the other was drawn by User:Lizard King.

BTW can you confirm that Image:Yeti5.jpg was drawn by User:Lizard King? -- Paddu 11:23, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Lemur

No, I'm afraid I could not recall the name of the animal itself; and had to put up a request on the Reference Desk to know what animal it is. :( Nichalp 17:59, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

Numbers of primate species

I really think 402 is closer to the true than 350. It's from my own lists (Mammal Taxonomy which are probably relatively correct (although the number of species might be affected by the fact that I include many extinct species.. I'll change that). What do you think of "at least 350" or so? Ucucha 14:34, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Groves (2001) lists 350, but there have been a few new species identified since. This list should be of extant species. If you included extinct species (of which we will never have a nearly complete list) in your edit, you should revert all of your changes to what was there before. - UtherSRG 14:44, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

No I should not, as that has not really contributed in the numbers of species. With or without extinct species, they were too low. In any case, my "extinct" species were only Holocene ones, of which the list may be relatively complete. Ucucha 15:42, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Page protection

List of religions and The Matrix need to be protected in order to stop the anonymous vandalism spree related to "Matrixism". Philwelch 03:46, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism is coming from a range of dynamic anon IP's, all of which are either 66.x.x.x or 69.x.x.x. It may or may not be fruitful to block those IP ranges for a few days as well. Philwelch 05:44, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

AIDS

I've just added this message to Talk:AIDS; it would be helpful if at least one of the people deleting the link would respond with a reason for their decision:

Interesting; does no-one involved in editing this page have the simple good manners to discuss their reverts on the Talk page? Now UtherSRG has deleted it. I've put it back until someone follows Wikiquette and explains what's wrong with adding a link to a news item that reports a speech by a Nobel laureate on the topic of the article. Saying 'we don't agree with what she says' isn't good enough — it wouldn't even be good enough if we were talking about the content of the article (does NPoV ring any bells around here?), but especially not in the external links section. I don't agree with her either, but that's not the point. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:03, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Giant Squid

Please stop removing the link I placed on the Giant Squid aritcle. the link has good content, and it deserves to stay as a resource. If needed, contact me at my talk page. --Zeerus 20:53, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Uther_MOO?

Whoa! I had no idea you were on Wikipedia...and so prolific! I thought I had your e-mail address but when I tried to send something it bounced, so I figured I'd google your real name and this came up first. Anyway, Uther and Uther's_Lackey are about to be reaped on LambdaMOO. Drop me an e-mail (etoile at amanita dot net works) so I can ask you some things about the situation - whether you're coming back, and if not what you want done with the objects you own.

-Etoile 05:21, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikispecies

Hi Stacey. You are now an admin at Wikispecies. Talk page redirects no longer work, and as an admin at Wikispecies, it would be best if users could leave you messages there now. Angela. 10:25, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hello, so again: Welcome as admin! Silly question: do you know how to replace the grey logo by the colored version whilst the debate about the final logo is still going on? The file is wikispecies_logo.png. Thanks, Beneditk

Wikipedia Requests/Natural Sciences

Thanks, your the first comment I have got about some of my work. I'm glad too since it took me a good part of 2 hours to sort out. I tidied up the other request pages but that one took the longest. Anyway, thanks. - Erebus555 √ TALK

Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur

Imagine my annoyance to find that by the time I'd finished rejigging this article, I find that not only have you just done exactly the same thing pretty much, but got the taxobox right and not made the capitalisation mistake (I'm always doing that). Keep up the good work! --Mike C | talk 23:28, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Khaaan (et al)

I've replied on my talk page regarding the Khaaan family of redirects. I basically took the most common spelling variations from Google and created the appropriate redirects, because this seems to be a well-recognized (and therefore notable) parody of William Shatner's overacting in that scene. I certainly wasn't creating "junk redirects" as you call them. -- Brhaspati\^talk/_contribs 02:24, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)

Taxoboxes

Sorry about the taxoboxes. Someone pasted one in on the first article I wrote and I've just used it as a template. I've not really got involved in the tree of life project - if there's anything else I should be doing different please let me know! Richard Barlow 12:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll sort the rest out! Richard Barlow 12:57, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:Human

Hello, at first I though you were a vandal judging by your edit but that doesn't seem to be the case. You categorized humans as a type of ape and not a type of primate. That assertion has been reverted several times on Category:Human. What is your reasoning behind this or was it a mistake? JesseHogan

Humans are apes. Plain and simple. Look at the hominid link that is right on category:human. - UtherSRG 21:41, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Your aurgument about removing the primate category makes perfect sense but it seems like humans are a type of Hominidae not a type of ape even if humans and apes are both categorized under Hominidae. But since I am not an expert I won't bug you anymore about the subject. However, you might want to add the human category to your watch list because I have seen the ape categorization be removed several times. JesseHogan 02:59, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

GoldenPalace.com Monkey

The official name of the species is actually GoldenPalace.com Monkey. Kingturtle 05:55, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

VfD on Reading spark plugs for racing

The decision on VfD for Reading spark plugs for racing was to wikisource. The article has now been rewritten so that's no longer necessary. Let me know if you have any concerns. Samw 19:54, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Revert on "Prisoner of Azkaban"

You reverted two of my edits on the page for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, even though there was a clear justification. Can you explain your reasoning?

Taxobox

Hi UtherSRG,

The fact is that I don't like the current taxobox format very much. I tried to "modernize" the layout a bit, but it seems that you don't like it. I will not change it any more.

Regards, RexNL 12:45, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nautilus

Hey, I added some pics at Nautilus, but they don't seem to fit. I thought I'd see what you think. If you think it's too sloppy, I can just revert it. I just thought the camouflage thing was neat. Thanks for your time. --DanielCD 19:41, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hey, did you think I'm wrong about the scar or did you think it just didn't fit well? It doesn't matter to me; I'm just glad you found a way to fit the pics in. I'm still learning the pic syntax. I guess you'd have to see the actual shell up close to really tell about the scar anyway. Thanks again for your help! --DanielCD 12:56, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Species of chimpanzees

Yes, I wondered whether I should put that in. Unfortunately, the source I found only had a mention of Pan troglodytes. I was planning to replace that with something more scholarly when time permitted. Do you know whether Goodman or others have published anything about Pan paniscus being also reclassified? Did he mention P. paniscus in the paper, do you know? Grace Note 01:14, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't know if he did, although I suspect he did. However, most news sources won't report on there being two species of chimpanzees, especially on an issue like this. It's too much reader education that would need to be done. The other possibility is that he's one of the holdouts that don't accept that there are two species only one.... - UtherSRG 02:59, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)