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==More unIDed fungi== | |||
G'day Cas, | |||
I've been frogging over the past few days, and the fungi season has definitely started! I have a coral fungi that I thought you would like for wiki, plus I also have a puff ball which I will upload later, will leave a message here when it is uploaded. Saw lots of fungi over the last few days, but only photographed the really interesting ones as I was using my small memory card, and wanted to leave some space for frogs. | |||
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52507572@N00/465979784/?rotated=1&cb=1177065560324 | |||
Thanks. --] 10:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
:There was another nearby (about half a metre) which was 8cm tall, so I would go with ''Ramaria lorithamnus''. It was taken in rainforest, was very little Eucalypt around. Do you want me to upload it to wiki? Thanks. --] 11:38, 20 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Nomenclature of fungi == | == Nomenclature of fungi == | ||
Hey there. I recently stumbled across an issue of ''Nova Hedwigia Beheift'' titled "the genera of fungi" (or was it agaricaceae?). It's filled to the brink with mind-numbing nomenclatural discussions of all the |
Hey there. I recently stumbled across an issue of ''Nova Hedwigia Beheift'' titled "the genera of fungi" (or was it agaricaceae?). It's filled to the brink with mind-numbing nomenclatural discussions of all the genera ever described (I think, anyway). Would it be any use if I looked up the specific ref or any specific genera? ] 00:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
:That would be friggin' ''trés bién''. The first one that would be absolutely great to get a clarification on is '']'' which was called ''Psalliota'' in many texts fro many years and I've been mystified as to why. Other articles I intend cleaning up are '']'', which is the one I intended taking to FA first but it just didn't come together well, '']'' as a future FA, '']'' as a future FA, and cleaning up the destroying angels |
:That would be friggin' ''trés bién''. The first one that would be absolutely great to get a clarification on is '']'' which was called ''Psalliota'' in many texts fro many years and I've been mystified as to why. Other articles I intend cleaning up are '']'', which is the one I intended taking to FA first but it just didn't come together well, '']'' as a future FA, '']'' as a future FA, and cleaning up the destroying angels – '']'', '']'' and '']''. '']'' would be a good one to check too. let me know if anything interesting pops up. I'll see ifd I can think of any other taxonomic quagmires later today. Work just got real busy :( cheers, ] | ] | ] 02:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
::Generally, that's pretty arcane and only relevant to genus articles, or species that were tightly involving in defining them (for example, there seems to be an odd debate over the multiple type species for ''Amanita''). I'll look up ''Agaricus'', ''Amanita'' (since ''A. muscaria'''s the current type) and ''Psalliota''. I'll also dig up the ref so you can look it up yourself, with any chance. ] 04:52, 14 June 2007 (UTC) | ::Generally, that's pretty arcane and only relevant to genus articles, or species that were tightly involving in defining them (for example, there seems to be an odd debate over the multiple type species for ''Amanita''). I'll look up ''Agaricus'', ''Amanita'' (since ''A. muscaria'''s the current type) and ''Psalliota''. I'll also dig up the ref so you can look it up yourself, with any chance. ] 04:52, 14 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
:::Cool, keen to see what pops up. |
:::Cool, keen to see what pops up. Cheers, ] | ] | ] 05:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
::::I only quickly thumbed through it and noted the full ref (<small>{{cite journal| last=Donk| first=M.A.| title=The generic names proposed for Agaricaceae| journal=Beiheifte zur Nova Hedwigia| pages= |
::::I only quickly thumbed through it and noted the full ref (<small>{{cite journal| last=Donk| first=M.A.| title=The generic names proposed for Agaricaceae| journal=Beiheifte zur Nova Hedwigia| pages=1–320| volume=5| year=1962| issn= 0078-2238}}</small>) because I forgot about it until the last minute. ''Psalliota'' looks like a classic synonym case. It shares the same type with ''Agaricus'', and might be older. ] 01:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
::Weird! I thought Linnaeus was calling all sorts of things ''Agaricus'' so I wonder how it could predate that really....anyway I am curious.cheers, |
::Weird! I thought Linnaeus was calling all sorts of things ''Agaricus'' so I wonder how it could predate that really....anyway I am curious.cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 02:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
Okay, First thing I have to say is... Damn, |
Okay, First thing I have to say is... Damn, 18th–19th century taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi is ''a right mess''. Whose bright idea was it to give fungi 3 starting dates in the ICBN??? | ||
LOTS of "''per''" in citation here. See | LOTS of "''per''" in citation here. See | ||
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:All proposals to conserve ''Agaricus'' against ''Psalliota'' or vice versa have so far been considered superfluous. | :All proposals to conserve ''Agaricus'' against ''Psalliota'' or vice versa have so far been considered superfluous. | ||
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;On ''Lepiota'' | ;On ''Lepiota'' | ||
:Etym. Probably greek λεπις, "scale" | :Etym. Probably greek λεπις, "scale" | ||
:Basionym is ''Agaricus'' sect. ''Lepiota'' Pers. 1797, devalidated by later starting date, so the citation is (Pers.) ''per'' S.F.Gray. It was only described, without species, and covered an earlier mentioned, but unnamed group of ringed, non-volvate species, regardless of spore color. Fries restricted the genus to white-spored species, and made into a tribe, which was, like ''Amanita'' repeatedly raised to genus rank. |
:Basionym is ''Agaricus'' sect. ''Lepiota'' Pers. 1797, devalidated by later starting date, so the citation is (Pers.) ''per'' S.F.Gray. It was only described, without species, and covered an earlier mentioned, but unnamed group of ringed, non-volvate species, regardless of spore color. Fries restricted the genus to white-spored species, and made into a tribe, which was, like ''Amanita'' repeatedly raised to genus rank. | ||
:The type is unclear. ''L. procera'' is considered the type (by Earle, 1909). ''Agaricus columbrinus'' (''L. clypeolarus'') |
:The type is unclear. ''L. procera'' is considered the type (by Earle, 1909). ''Agaricus columbrinus'' (''L. clypeolarus'') was also suggested (by Singer, 1946) to avoid the many combination involved otherwise in splitting ''Macrolepiota'', which include ''L. procera''. Since both species had been placed into different genera prior to their selection (in ''Leucocoprinus'' and ''Mastocephalus'' respectively), Donk observes that a conservation will probably be needed, expressing support for Singer's emendation. | ||
;On ''Psalliota'' | ;On ''Psalliota'' | ||
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Donk concludes the earliest valid type is ''A. muscaria'', the species in Hooker, adding that he'd personally favor ''A. citrina''. | Donk concludes the earliest valid type is ''A. muscaria'', the species in Hooker, adding that he'd personally favor ''A. citrina''. | ||
:The name has been republished three times in 1821: in Hooker, Roques and Gray (in that order). Roques maintained Persoon's circumscription, including ''Amanitopsis'' and ''Volvaria''. Gray excluded ''Amanitopsis'' and ''Volvariella'' into ''Vaginata''. Right after, Fries reset the name by reducing the genus to a tribe of ''Agaricus'', minus pink-spored |
:The name has been republished three times in 1821: in Hooker, Roques and Gray (in that order). Roques maintained Persoon's circumscription, including ''Amanitopsis'' and ''Volvaria''. Gray excluded ''Amanitopsis'' and ''Volvariella'' into ''Vaginata''. Right after, Fries reset the name by reducing the genus to a tribe of ''Agaricus'', minus pink-spored ''Volvariella''. This tribe became a subgenus, than genus via various authors, Quélet, altough not the first, often being attributed the change. Sometimes it was used in a Persoonian sense (whether that is a correct use according to ICBN is not clear to me). | ||
:Homonyms of ''Amanita'' Pers. are ''Amanita'' adans. (1763, devalidated) and ''Amanita'' (Dill) Rafin. (1830) | :Homonyms of ''Amanita'' Pers. are ''Amanita'' adans. (1763, devalidated) and ''Amanita'' (Dill) Rafin. (1830) | ||
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Phew! ] 18:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC) | Phew! ] 18:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
:I hope you intend to clean that prose ASAP? It's definitely not article-worthy as is. ] 01:05, 20 June 2007 (UTC) | :I hope you intend to clean that prose ASAP? It's definitely not article-worthy as is. ] 01:05, 20 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
::I'm working on it. Got distracted this morning...cheers, |
::I'm working on it. Got distracted this morning...cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 01:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
== ] == | |||
==''B. victoriae''== | |||
Cas, I don't suppose you can dig up a photo of '']''? The article has two images, but both are intrinsic to the taxonomic history narrative, and I am loathe to remove either into the taxobox. By the way, you might like to have a read of the taxonomy section there; there's an interesting story there that you won't have read in anything of George's. ] 13:43, 13 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
:I thought the same (re: ''baxteri''). But Bentham gives them both as ''victoriae'' in ''Flora Australiensis'', and if I trust anyone, I trust him. ] 23:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Curiouser and curiouser! I misread those sources - it is only the later seed that is attributed to Drummond. To be flowering in 1835 that seed must have reached England by 1832 at the latest. But Drummond didn't start sending plants and seed back to England until conscripted by Mangles to do so in 1835, and ''B. speciosa'' is not in Meissner's 1852 list of species collected by Drummond. As far as I know, ] only visited the south coast. I don't think ] went further north than the Swan River. ] never strayed far from Augusta. ] didn't reach Australia until the end of 1833; too late. Where oh where did those seeds come from? Perhaps they ''were'' ''B. baxteri''; maybe that's why George has ignored the whole episode. Gosh this is exciting. ] 00:38, 14 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
LOL, I love your sense of humour. Maimonedes is a good reference. The reality is that Islam takes food restrictions from Judaism; and Christianity doesn't have any restriction (courtesy of three references in the New Testament). The reason why pork should be restricted (along with many other things) is not given explicitly in the Hebrew Bible, hence Bible commentators have been offering guesses since ancient times. My own favourite, however, is ], wife of ], daughter of a ] pastor. Her theory is excellent, based on her cultural anthropological observations, with a decent feel for how Biblical text works. It's rather an abstract theory though. | |||
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Anyway, I'll see if I can manage a literature review of dietry restrictions in the ANE, especially if there's anything explicit about pork. Don't think I'll find a reference for "why" the pork taboo is in place, though, if it's documented, I'd have read about that in commentaries. | |||
HTML ndashes suck. If you're on a Windows box, you can get a ''real'' ndash (i.e. unicode) by holding down the ALT key and typing 0150 on the numeric keypad. ] 11:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
Perhaps a clay tablet with the answer has been destroyed in only the last few years during the "troubles" in Iraq. :( ] (]) 21:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::This is the great thing about uncertainty. Lacking an answer, the reports of Maimonides, Mary Douglas and the other guy mentioned are fascinating.Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 22:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | ||
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:::] is a remarkable article! Thanks for that, lol. ] (]) 21:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | ||
Spotted this. I'll look for a ref to the ] comment. The normal teaching is that pork is no more or less offensive to Jews than any other forbidden meat (dog, horse etc) or forbidden part of kosher animal (blood, ] etc). The pig (NB pig, not pork – an important distinction which is relevant for the Maimonides comment too, I note) is "singled out" because it alone of the animals that have one of the two "signs" (it has split hooves but doesn't chew the cud) lies down with its legs sticking out. Most quarapeds have their legs folded under them. There's a ]ic lesson to be learned there, apparently, that the pig is immodestly and falsely proclaiming its religious cleanliness, when it is not. Anyway, that said, I'll look into the M comment – he was quite ahead of his time in terms of medical knowledge (check his biog). And NB my OR/POV antennae buzzed when I read that little section. --] (]) 22:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::If, like me, you're stuck with a laptop without a numeric pad with ALT functionality, n- and m-dashes are the two firsts characters after "insert" in the list placed under the edit window. ] 22:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
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:Someone has tagged the ] for OR, though the talk page seems to indicate it is for a different reason....Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 23:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | ||
:::::I add shortkeys all the time on various programs. If i used a reallot of weird characters, I'd totally do that to have across windows. ] 16:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Hmm... makes me more dubious, but I'll check. btw... I'm not Alastair! --] (]) 23:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
==Penguins in the cold== | |||
Hi, I just noticed a bit of a chronology problem around this bit "If the chick hatches before the mother's return..." Is it normal for the mother to arrive before the hatching? There is a event chronology problem around it. Take a look at it at leisure. ] (]) 13:48, 6 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Have found good stuff, including online version of Maimonides text. I'll dump it here for you to use as you wish. | |||
::Tricky to word this bit. The 'if' applies here solely to that sentence. i.e the father feeds the curd if the mother doesn't come early without any hint of how likely or unlikely this is. The next sentence gives the chick age range (but not likelihood) upon her return. The text didn't have this. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 19:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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==Adminship== | |||
I maintain that the food which is forbidden by the Law is unwholesome. There is nothing among the forbidden kinds of food whose injurious character is doubted, except pork (Lev. xi. 7), and fat (''ibid''. vii. 23). But also in these cases the doubt is not justified. For pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter. The principal reason why the Law forbids swine's flesh is to be found in the circumstance that its habits and its food are very dirty and loathsome. It has already been pointed out how emphatically the Law enjoins the removal of the sight of loathsome objects, even in the field and in the camp; how much more objectionable is such a sight in towns. But if it were allowed to eat swine's flesh, the streets and houses would be more dirty than any cesspool, as may be seen at present in the country of the Franks.<ref>Maimonides, ], Book III ch.48. Can be viewed online at http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp184.htm</ref> | |||
Hey Cas, thanks for asking... No I haven't been in any big dispute so no pb on that level. Adminship would be hard to justify presently as I haven't been editing much during the last few months (check my ) apart from responding to various requests on my talk page and uploading images. And then, if I get all these new tools how am I gonna be able to bother you again in your talk page ;) ?] (]) 15:22, 6 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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So, Maimonides argues "pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter", whatever that means! More importantly, the "principal reason" is that if you keep pigs, you end up with a dirty and unhealthy environment. Important note: Maimonides was writing from Islamic Egypt at the time, which is why he mentions "as may be seen at present in the country of the Franks." (ie France) | |||
== Hey Dr. Fungi == | |||
The comments about the pig's habit of lying with its legs outstretched come from ] Vayikra Rabba (ch 13) where it is mentioned as part of an elaborate metaphor, but not in connection with any reason for particularly abhorring the creature. | |||
OK, I do appreciate what you wrote to me and Firs, but he attacked me on WR, he blocked me despite our past dispute, and he's got a vendetta against me lately. And with respect to Petey, no one is kicking the ass of that little brat, Pilcha who's ruined the article. I'm not going there. I'll stick with the medical articles. Thanks for the calming drugs, but sorry, it didn't work.] <small><sup>] ]</sup></small> 02:43, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Hope that helps. --] (]) 09:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
== HSP == | |||
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==Bract pattern== | |||
Mate, thanks for your constructive comments on ]. As you will see, I have actioned almost all your recommendations. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do. We have never been through formal peer review, but I don't have the feeling that anything will come of this. If we were ever to proceed to FA, I would need to get an external peer review as I have done on ]. ] | ] 12:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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You know what I don't get? On page 245 of George (1981), and again on page 40 of Collins (2007), George gives a diagram showing the arrangement of unit inflorescences on a ''Banksia'' flower spike. Both diagrams clearly show a hexagonal layout; i.e. every common bract is surrounded by six equidistant common bracts, thus forming little hexagons. In support of this, George (1981) states "The unit inflorescences are so arranged on the axis that there are three pattern lines—vertical, and both dextral and sinistral spiral." | |||
I haven't dissected an inflorescence, but in some species the pattern persists right through flowering and can be seen on the infructescence. You won't get a better example than this ''B. menziesii'' cone. Look at that pattern. There's no way you could call it hexagonal. It is a rectangular (or rather diamond, since the lines are diagonal) grid. Depending on how you define a neighbourhood, you could argue that each common bract has 4 or 8 neighbours, but there's no way you could argue for 6. Similarly, you could argue for two pattern lines (dextral and sinistral spiral) or four (dextral, sinistral, vertical and horizontal), but there is no way you could argue for 3, because there is no reason to include vertical whilst excluding horizontal). On top of that there is a beautiful symmetry in the way each common bract is surrounded by its own floral bracts and those of its neighbours. But George's diagrams destroy that symmetry. | |||
== Fungus == | |||
I thought maybe ''B. menziesii'' was an exception to a general rule, but you can see the same diamond grid, though not as clearly, in ], and I reckon (but am not certain) I can see it in my ''B. attenuata'' cone. And in ] too. What the heck is going on? | |||
err... where was I? <scratches head> --] (]) 21:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
(I'm not just being a pretentious wanker here. I thought the diagram was interesting and informative enough for me to whip up an SVG version for Misplaced Pages. But since copying George's diagram isn't really on, and it is much better to go straight from nature if possible, I was basing my version on this ''B. menziesii'' cone. But it isn't going to work if the diagram shows a rectangular grid and the text has to say it is hexagonal.) | |||
::'']''...a headache compounded by a lack of information on etymology...I've reffed a few bits but please give more input. I'm off to cook pancakes for brekky - 7am here. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 21:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:::Really struggling. It's difficult to be interested in the topic when it's so dreadfully jargon laden and (duh!) there's no story to be told. Is there an FA quality article on a similar topic, that I can compare this to? --] (]) 22:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:Thanks for reminding me on this one – I think it was Alex (or Kevin??) who told me that every bract pattern was unique to a species and hence diagnostic, but as far as I know not much if anything has been published on this area. The similarity between ''archaeocarpa'' and ''attenuata'' was noted (the bract pattern remaining in the fossils). I seem to recall feeling bamboozled as well by the description when I read it some time ago. I will have to refresh myself with some bedtime reading....] (] '''·''' ]) 13:50, 29 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
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:'''Update''': I had a look at the pages in question in the banksia book(s), there is a little bit more in the 1981 monograph but not much. I meant to ring Alex George about this and should do so in the next few days...I guess the photos look sort of like hexagons stretched vertically :P ] (] '''·''' ]) 06:46, 2 September 2009 (UTC) | ||
:: ''Dipsacus fullonum'' Just passing through. I am not an expert with flora but I do take photos now and again. Does from my personal collection help or hinder your discussion? I see diamonds --] (]) 12:58, 22 July 2010 (UTC) | |||
::: Haha yeah. Not a bad comparison at all. a diamond pattern it is there as well. You sorta let your eyes go a little out of focus and see two diagonal lines....] (] '''·''' ]) 14:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC) | |||
==Question== | |||
I think any fungus should be capable of reaching FA and my personal lack of interest shouldn't be an issue. Actually, it's a challenge. If I can make it interesting and understandable to me, it should be on the way. I'll check out phalloides and see what it's got that this one may not have. One idea I have is to dissect the article structure and reassemble the same info in a less scientific but more interest-grabbing order. For example, a section prominently located that pulls together all the poison stuff, another on cooking etc changes the article from a feel of "science entry in specialist publication" to "encyclopedia entry" for me. Or do you think this would be dumbing down? --] (]) 09:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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I note that the last six images to be posted on your talk page were posted by me. I'm not sure whether to apologise.... | |||
::Heck, theres nothing to lose so have a play. Even if it needs rearranging later, some dejargonising and increased readability would be a boon methinks. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 09:26, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
What is going on in the lower image? Clearly this is an inflorescence in very early bud, but those furry white things are apparently not developing flower pairs. Are they some kind of protective bract or something? | |||
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LOL, I love your sense of humour. Maimonedes is a good reference. The reality is that Islam takes food restrictions from Judaism; and Christianity doesn't have any restriction (courtesy of three references in the New Testament). The reason why pork should be restricted (along with many other things) is not given explicitly in the Hebrew Bible, hence Bible commentators have been offering guesses since ancient times. My own favourite, however, is ], wife of ], daughter of a ] pastor. Her theory is excellent, based on her cultural anthropological observations, with a decent feel for how Biblical text works. It's rather an abstract theory though. | |||
Anyway, I'll see if I can manage a literature review of dietry restrictions in the ANE, especially if there's anything explicit about pork. Don't think I'll find a reference for "why" the pork taboo is in place, though, if it's documented, I'd have read about that in commentaries. | |||
Perhaps a clay tablet with the answer has been destroyed in only the last few years during the "troubles" in Iraq. :( ] (]) 21:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
] 01:24, 1 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
::This is the great thing about uncertainty. Lacking an answer, the reports of Maimonides, Mary Douglas and the other guy mentioned are fascinating.Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 22:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:You certainly see those thingies on the developing buds of alot of banksias. I'd be intrigued what the Nikulinsky book, which is essentially a series of plates of a developing ''menziesii'' inflorescence, says (not sure, I don't recall whether it had commentary...). Another thing to look up. Was about to look up the patterns just now. ] (] '''·''' ]) 02:35, 1 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
:::] is a remarkable article! Thanks for that, lol. ] (]) 21:59, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:Now I have looked at the books and bract architecture, question is are they common bracts or are they something which falls off (don't think so but..). Something else to ask Alex. ] (] '''·''' ]) 06:49, 2 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
Spotted this. I'll look for a ref to the ] comment. The normal teaching is that pork is no more or less offensive to Jews than any other forbidden meat (dog, horse etc) or forbidden part of kosher animal (blood, ] etc). The pig (NB pig, not pork - an important distinction which is relevant for the Maimonides comment too, I note) is "singled out" because it alone of the animals that have one of the two "signs" (it has split hooves but doesn't chew the cud) lies down with its legs sticking out. Most quarapeds have their legs folded under them. There's a ]ic lesson to be learned there, apparently, that the pig is immodestly and falsely proclaiming its religious cleanliness, when it is not. Anyway, that said, I'll look into the M comment - he was quite ahead of his time in terms of medical knowledge (check his biog). And NB my OR/POV antennae buzzed when I read that little section. --] (]) 22:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::Having found nothing in George, I've been reading Douglas's stuff on ontogeny of Proteaceae flowers, and found nothing there either.<p>If you snap a spike axis in half, they are just that brown colour, and essentially made of closely packed fuzz. I wonder if there is initially no gap in the axis for the flower to grow, so the developing flower literally has to shove some of the axis out in front of it as it extends. This would explain everything except for the white tip. ] 10:23, 2 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
:Someone has tagged the ] for OR, though the talk page seems to indicate it is for a different reason....Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 23:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::Hmm... makes me more dubious, but I'll check. btw... I'm not Alastair! --] (]) 23:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
I have today taken a long lunch and gone bushwalking with Gnangarra. While he took happy-snaps, I did some OR on this question. My diagnosis is: these are peduncles that have developed common bracts, but have not yet developed floral bracts or flowers. | |||
Have found good stuff, including online version of Maimonides text. I'll dump it here for you to use as you wish. | |||
In very young spikes like the one pictured here, they are not yet very densely packed together, so they can be perceived as individual peduncles. Given time, they will continue to grow, and as they do so they will become more and more densely packed together, until eventually they are jammed together so tightly that their dense coverings of hairs form the fibrous brown material that comprises a typical flower spike, and the common bracts at their apex will form the bract pattern on the surface of the spike. At that point, they will no longer be distinguishable as individual peduncles, but will simply be part of the spike. | |||
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I maintain that the food which is forbidden by the Law is unwholesome. There is nothing among the forbidden kinds of food whose injurious character is doubted, except pork (Lev. xi. 7), and fat (''ibid''. vii. 23). But also in these cases the doubt is not justified. For pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter. The principal reason why the Law forbids swine's flesh is to be found in the circumstance that its habits and its food are very dirty and loathsome. It has already been pointed out how emphatically the Law enjoins the removal of the sight of loathsome objects, even in the field and in the camp; how much more objectionable is such a sight in towns. But if it were allowed to eat swine's flesh, the streets and houses would be more dirty than any cesspool, as may be seen at present in the country of the Franks.<ref>Maimonides, ], Book III ch.48. Can be viewed online at http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/gfp/gfp184.htm</ref> | |||
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When the flowers start to develop, they get squeezed together even more. At this point, sometimes, a peduncle may break off the axis and be squeezed right out of the spike as the flowers around it develop. Thus you may see one or two of these furry things sitting at random positions on the surface of a developed flower spike. | |||
So, Maimonides argues "pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter", whatever that means! More importantly, the "principal reason" is that if you keep pigs, you end up with a dirty and unhealthy environment. Important note: Maimonides was writing from Islamic Egypt at the time, which is why he mentions "as may be seen at present in the country of the Franks." (ie France) | |||
As evidence for this hypothesis I offer the following observations: | |||
The comments about the pig's habit of lying with its legs outstretched come from ] Vayikra Rabba (ch 13) where it is mentioned as part of an elaborate metaphor, but not in connection with any reason for particularly abhorring the creature. | |||
#Wherever one of those "furry things" is found loose on the surface of a spike, you will also find a gap in the bract pattern beneath it, where the common bract is absent; | |||
#"Furry things" may occasionally be found partly out of the spike, but partly in, in which cases the white tip is quite obviously the common bract. In such cases removal of the "furry thing" leaves behind a visible hole in the spike where a common bract ought to be. | |||
] 05:58, 15 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
::Interesting – Gah! Forgot to ring Alex – evening is a crazy time with little availability for me, but will see what I can do. ] (] '''·''' ]) 20:57, 15 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
==MEDMOS== | |||
Please weigh in if you have a chance. ] (]) 00:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Not OR any more. Look at the picture of "Banksia flower bud seen in profile" : clear evidence of the common and floral bracts forming one of those little furry upside-down pyramids, with the flower arising from it. ] 03:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
== rollback == | |||
:On a tangential point, the first image would most likely pass FPC if it ever finds a home that is appropriate. ] (]) 06:55, 17 October 2010 (UTC) | |||
I have around 1200 pages on my watchlist and they garner quite a bit of vandalism, and since you're an admin I was wondering if you could grant be access to rollback to make this aspect of being here quicker? cheers ] ] 02:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::Hmmm, okay, hopefully Hesperian will see this thread. :) ] (] '''·''' ]) 11:31, 17 October 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::Gosh, would it really?! I was quite proud of it but a bit unsure whether it had enough depth of field. But if I'll take anyone's word that it would probably pass, I'll take Noodle snacks. :-) ] 23:27, 17 October 2010 (UTC) | |||
== ''Banksia menziesii'' with persistent florets == | |||
::I'll have a look how to do it but more than happy to. I'd also be happy to nom you for adminship if you want. You should pass easily as longas you haven't been blocked or in any revert wars or other acrimony. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 03:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::I've been offered a run at adminship before and declined. The process seems gruelling, and my forte and interest is in content, not the minute details of policy, and I personally doubt I'd pass with my occasionally erratic approach to editing (busy some months, off in the field in others). Page moving would be useful but I all in all I can't be bothered. But thanks for the offer. And thanks for rollback. ] ] 04:01, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::::Okay, Shyamal's points were valid. Feel free to toss me to the wolves. ] ] 04:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:::::Hang on, I'll set up a template. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 04:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::::::Accepted. *gulp* ] ] 05:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
While I was out a-walking in the bush one day last week, I spied a banksia with an unfamiliar jizz. Even on closer inspection I was bamboozled for half a minute until the pieces fell together and I realised I was looking at a ''B. menziesii'' with persistent florets. Not just a bit late to fall: there were old cones from previous seasons with the florets still bolted on. In fact, there wasn't a single bald cone on the whole tree. I've never seen anything like it. Have you? ] 04:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:Hmm..interesting. I have not ever noticed a menziesii like this, but not to say it can't happen. Might it be a ''menziesii/prionotes'' hybrid – how far is the tree from you? I'd compare the newgrowth/leaf dimensions/trunk all for comparison. Did it have any new flowers? Some of these old cones have an aura of prionotes about them...] (] '''·''' ]) 05:11, 2 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
==You have mail== | |||
:) Sincerely, --<font face="Times New Roman">]</font><sup>'']''</sup> 05:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::''prionotes'' crossed my mind at first, but the bark is that of ''menziesii'', and nothing like the distinctive ''prionotes'' bark. And the flower spikes lack the woolliness of old ''prionotes'' florets.<p>It's quite near my place; about ten minutes drive. Even closer to where Alex lives (assuming he still lives at the address he has been publishing under lately): only five minutes drive from there I would guess. If it's ''prionotes'' (which it isn't), then we've extended the known range of that species 10km south. Likewise, a hybrid means there's a ''prionotes'' population nearby, so it amounts to the same thing. ] 05:30, 2 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
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Dear Casliber, you may want to reply to . Best, --<font face="Times New Roman">]</font><sup>'']''</sup> 18:56, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
== '']'' again == | |||
:About that request -- I must concur with Henrik -- all he seems to have done is edit while logged out. If you look in the RFCU, the only IP that was confirmed hasn't really collaborated inappropriately with Henrik. There was one article the IP added PROD to that Henrik AfD'ed, but they didn't both take part in the debate. And there was another article where the IP and Henrik both reverted, but not in violation of 3RR, and moreover, ''over two years ago.'' It is not against policy for a user to edit while not logged in. I haven't seen any AfDs where both users participated, or any edit wars they were both involved in, or any block evasion, nothing like that. So why was there a block? I've looked thoroughly through Henrik's recent contributions and I haven't found anything that was even suspicious. ]]<sup>]</sup> 19:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
I finally made it to the library and got a hold of you had asked about a couple of weeks ago. There's enough info there to make DYK-worthy stubs on the genus, and three of the species (''macrocarpus'', ''katerinae'', ''toomanis''), or, alternatively, maybe enough for a GA on the genus. What are the chances of images? Apparently these fungi make small but visible apothecia on the seed capsules. Berkeley and Broome first wrote about the fungus in 1887, so maybe there's a sketch from the protologue that's useable. Anyway, I'll start adding text in a day or two and maybe we can have the first Banksia/Fungi wikiproject collaboration? ] (]) 14:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::Dear Mangojuice, as I filed that RFCU a while back, I would like to elaborate on my reasons for filing it: in addition to the confirmed IP that he admittedly somestimes edits on when logged out and which has a , was also confirmed to be editing on that IP along with Henrik. Some of my other concerns though deal with somewhat unproductive edits: , , , , , , , , , copy and paste and/or rapid delete posts (, , , , , , etc.), , , etc. Best, --<font face="Times New Roman">]</font><sup>'']''</sup> 20:28, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::Berkeley & Broome (1887) is online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13683 — see page 217. There is a picture at Plate 29 figure 18. ] 02:09, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::That's a nice image on plate 29 there. They call it ''Tympanis toomanis'' on page 224 decription of plate. How do we capture that image and replicate it on commons? ] (] '''·''' ]) 03:06, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::::]. ] 03:37, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::On page 222, they talk about finding it on a banksia cone near the ] in southern NSW, which leaves me thinking it is a cone of ''Banksia marginata'' although they do not state this (OR alert ++++). Funny looking marginata cone but marginata is a hugely variable species....] (] '''·''' ]) 03:11, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::All of which, even put together, seems like no problem. Much less problematic to me than your RFCU report. Henrik has a clean block record, and his user talk page history shows that he has never been complained to about his conduct. From what I can tell, he's a bit confrontational but jeez - that doesn't make him likely to be a vandal. ]]<sup>]</sup> 20:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::::Check your email; I've sent you a copy of Beaton (1982), where they ''do'' state that the cone is ''B. marginata''. (You guys should have asked me first; I could have saved Sasata a walk to the library.) ] 03:26, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::@Sasata – I'll leave it up to you whether a solid GA and one DYK for the whole shebang, or 4 species articles – you've got the material and I am happy either way. cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 03:11, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::Dear Mangojuice, I noticed a few instances of similar edits with the IP and saw that the IP had also been used by an ideffed vandal account (Mean person). A few other IPs seemed similar and given the month long gaps in contribution history, the account looked suspicious, which is why I filed the RFCU, which may (if I'm mistaken, I apologize) be the first one of those I ever filed. At the time, we were uncovering all sorts of sock accounts with similar anti-list/in popular culture edits (such as Eyrian, Burntsauce, Dannycali, et al), which further raised my suspicions of this account's edits. While the RFCU is old, you'll notice that Henrik stopped editing again back in January or so only to return again the past few days. Regards, --<font face="Times New Roman">]</font><sup>'']''</sup> 21:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::::Am working on the article behind-the-scenes now... that picture you uploaded is excellent, and thanks Hesp for finding the protologue. Too bad the scan resolution is so crappy; I can upload a screen capture/crop to Commons, but will first investigate to see if there's a copy of the original around here so I might rescan at higher resolution. Four DYKs and 1 GA doesn't sound unreasonable for the lot, but I'll see what I can come up with. ] (]) 03:32, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
::::::The resolution is good. I guess you were looking at it at 25%. Try zooming in. ] 03:40, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::::::Yeah, it'll do the trick. I gave the article a good push towards GA. Hesp, do you have easy access to Beaton 1984, or maybe Fuhrer, B,; May, T. (1993). "Host specificity of disc-fungi in the genus ''Banksiamyces'' on ''Banksia''." ''Victorian Naturalist (South Yarra)'' '''110''' (2):73–75? I think once those two are located and added, that'll be it from journals (but you may find stuff to add from your Banksia books?). I could start stubs for the species, but it would be a shame to have to leave out ''B. maccannii''. ] (]) 07:09, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::::::I can probably get Vic Naturalist at UNSW Library next tuesday or friday (slim chance on weekend). ] (] '''·''' ]) 07:25, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::When you get to ''Victorian Naturalist'', you'll also want to grab {{cite journal | author = Sommerville, K.; May, T. | year = 2006 | title = Some taxonomic and ecological observations on ''Banksiamyces'' | journal = The Victorian Naturalist | volume = 123 | pages = 366–375}} ] 08:43, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::Thanks for finding that, wonder why it didn't show up in my database search. Cas, if it's too mush hassle for you to get these, let me know and I can order them, would take 1–2 weeks to get here. | |||
::::::::I'll have easy access to Beaton (1984) on Monday. No access to ''Victorian Naturalist''. ] 08:38, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::Sorry, forgot again. I've just scanned it now. Cas: I'll forward shortly; if you have Sasata's email address, can you forward it on please? Otherwise, Sasata: send me an email so I know where to send this scan. ] 04:16, 25 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::I don't see any email link on your user page... I can wait until Cas forward a copy. Thanks kindly ] (]) 15:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::::::I guess you've never noticed the "Email this user" link in the sidebar toolbox.... ] 23:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::::::::::::! Wouldya look at that... That's embarrassing! Now excuse me while I go give eyewitness testimony in a murder trial. ] (]) 23:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::::::::::Hang on a sec, will send. Also, will be near the library again for Vic Naturalist. ] (] '''·''' ]) 20:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
:Hahaha. Fantastic. I just realised I never uplaoded a funny photo I took in WA a few years ago. I need to double check. ]'' had these dark objects on it which might be a fungus as they certainly weren't on any other cones I saw about the place.]] ] (] '''·''' ]) 20:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
== Bearcat == | |||
As OZtrylia has a notoriously under described rang of and field of mycology study – any signs of further fungi or algae work is to be encouraged at all points ]] 01:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
Are you a bureaucrat? ] <sub>]</sub> 00:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::Nope - the list is thisaway --> ]. What you need one for? I may be able to help. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 00:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Taking pity on poor Cas, whose ''Banksia'' books are still packed up in boxes: | |||
::::No (I don't need one), I was just wondering. I think you would make a good one. ] <sub>]</sub> 01:43, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
From Collins, Collins and George (2008), page 47, first paragraph of a section entitled "Fungi and lichens": | |||
:::::Haha, thanks. I'm a little bit busy at present but will think about it :) Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 02:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
"Many kinds of fungi are associated with Banksias. There is even a genus of fungi named for their association with these plants—''Banksiamyces''. The first species of these was recognised in the 1880s and placed in the genus ''Tympanis'', then in the 1950s transferred to the genus ''Encoelia''. Further collections and research led to the description of the genus ''Banksiamyces'' by Beaton and Weste in 1982, with two further species. Six taxa are now recognised, so far known from 13 species of ''Banksia'' (Sommerville & May, 2006). Commonly known as banksia discs, they have all been found on eastern Australian Banksias and one is also known in Western Australia. They are discomycete fungi, growing on the fruit and appearing as small, shallow dark cups on the follicles (Fuhrer, 2005). When dry they fold inwards and look like narrow slits. Their effect is unkown but it seems unlikely that they are responsible for degradation of the seeds." | |||
== ] == | |||
At the bottom of the page there is a photo of ''Banksiamyces'' on ''B. lemanniana''. They look like little light grey maggots on the follicles. Based on the photo and textual description, I would suggest that the ''B. violacea'' photo doesn't show this genus. ] 11:17, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
In response to your ] comment I added a brief bit of background on the subject matter of ''est'' and the chronology of the various organizations involved. Also commented about your point re: "Legacy" - it is an interesting through but I have been through lots of sources and I am not sure there is much more to say on the legacy issue. ] (]) 11:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:Hmmm, that's what I initially thought when I read the description and sketches in Beaton 1982, but after seeing B&B's 1872 sketches, I was pretty sure Cas's pic was a ''Banksiamyces''. I guess I should reserve judgment until I get more info. ] (]) 17:09, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | ||
::From the abstract of Somerville and May 2006: "Apothecia of these crops are of different macroscopic appearance, with lighter apothecia being mostly immature, and darker apothecia producing spores." ... so who knows? ] (]) 17:11, 19 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
Anything else to add to this article? Shall we put it up for GAN? ] (]) 17:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
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:Yeah put it up, there might be some bits and pieces. I'll take a look. ] (] '''·''' ]) 20:32, 18 May 2010 (UTC) | ||
::Any ''Banksia'' experts you're chums with that might be able to give a confirmation on your putative ''Banksiamyces'' photo? ] (]) 05:45, 21 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
If/when your FAC comments have been addressed to your satisfaction it might be helpful to enclose our thread with {{tl|hat}} and {{tl|hab}} - our discussion is getting sorta long. As for benefit the author received from writing the work, to the best of my knowledge this is not specifically mentioned in the book itself, nor in the secondary sources that I have been able to find. ] (]) 13:28, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::damn, I meant to contact Tom May about it (who has been helpful before). Will dig up his email and see what he says. ] (] '''·''' ]) 07:09, 21 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
Don' worry, the nom's only been up 4 hours - got plenty a' time, and yes I'll do one of those funny template thingies. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 13:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:Okay, just that I have been trying to address a lot of your points as they crop up. ] (]) 13:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
You may want to have a look there as well. Appears to have been improved by a Szasz fan. I've read diagonally , but even that doesn't seem to support the light in which the Halpern-Szasz issue is presented in Misplaced Pages. ] (]) 13:19, 3 November 2010 (UTC) | |||
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The last para starts to discuss some form of legacy. It would be nice (if there are sources) to expand upon this - what is this book's legacy and has it influenced current self-help thinking? If Landmark forum cited it, how did Forum evolve from est and were the changes attributable to this book at all? What about other areas? Or is it largely forgotten and of temporal significance to the 70s only? | |||
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I believe I have addressed all of these points with the addition of the new material into the article. As I said, there really isn't much more in the sources that goes into this, and there aren't sources which could back up whether any changes from est to Forum to Landmark were attributable specifically to the book itself, but there were many other factors at play and that much detail is starting to stray off this particular topic, and would be better addressed at the articles ], ], and ]. ] (]) 13:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:Just go back from a weekend break with no innernet..now where was I.....] (] '''·''' ]) 10:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC) | ||
:::Well I can guarantee you that there is a ton more stuff that could potentially go into those three articles ], ], and ] - just not sure if there are that many more sources that directly discuss this book. However I would always welcome more material from additional secondary ]/] sources that analyze/discuss the book, so keep me posted. ] (]) 13:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Any word from your friend? Also, some other points have cropped up at the FAC discussion, and I am doing my best to try to address them. Any chance you could help me out? ] (]) 05:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
== Aboriginal Astronomy == | |||
::She told me that the est thing was mainly an american phenomenon which didn't make much of an impact in Australia or the UK. She hadn't read the book nor heard of it. So it wasn't a huge help. Maybe highlighting that it was an American phenomenon would be good. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 07:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Hi Casliber – thanks for your note. Yes there's quite a bit more out there which Duane Hamacher and I are slowly trying to get written up. You can find some more stuff on www.emudreaming.com and you may find some papers you havent come across on http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnorris/papers/papers.htm | |||
:::Does she have a source we could cite to say it was an American phenomenon? That's probably pretty much accurate, but I don't think I've come across a source that says that. So have I addressed your comments at the FAC page enough that you feel the article is FA-worthy? ] (]) 07:50, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::::No, this was a verbal impression she had. Sorry. I do agree it is worth putting in to help with the context. I haven't looked at the article and there are a few SOS's out there currently. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 07:52, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::::Okay, I'll keep looking on a source for that info. Thanks for your input, ] (]) 08:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:Great! I'll have a look and if I find anything specific to nag you on...I will :) cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 03:49, 8 October 2012 (UTC) | |||
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== got any advice for writing a constellation FA? == | |||
Thinking of diversifying and trying Corona B. ] (]) 16:17, 7 September 2014 (UTC) | |||
:It's easier than stars as there is less hardcore physics involved, but trickier as you have to make the material not "listy", which it sort of is by very nature. Smaller constellations are easier as there is less material to list generally. Star guide books, alot of which are on google, are good for general overview, how to find things, what's next to what etc. but alot of their factual info (distance/luminosity) is outdated. I have even suspected this in newer reprints/editions where new material is coming out. SIMBAD is a godsend and makes finding other material easy. I was using it as a ref itself but probably better to use the refs it cites. Overall I find astronomy articles more challenging than biology ones – trickeir to make engaging. We can collaborate on CrB if you like as I did plan on taking it All the Way at some point and then having it as a double mainpage with CrA. Collaborating is good as it makes for less work in some ways – each of us can copyeidt the other etc. 20:43, 7 September 2014 (UTC) | |||
::Just popping in during some of the rare free time I have at the moment to say that the hardest part of the constellation articles is figuring out exactly what objects to write about, since there is generally quite a bit of discretion in whether or not something should be in the article. I generally try to write about all stars brighter than magnitude 5.0, and the most-studied astronomical objects within the constellation, as well as a few other things such as extremes (e.g. R136a1) and unusual objects. One tip to find notable stars, I've found, is , which lists all Bayer, Flamsteed, and variable stars in each constellation by number of refs. Of course further research is necessary for other stars without said designations, but it's a good start. I would help, but I don't anticipate having much free time at all until at least December. ] (] • ]) 21:18, 7 September 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::{{u|StringTheory11}} Wow! Great idea/find! That really helps. Agree with what you've said. I think it is good to get these in order as it also highlights what other articles are underdone or incorrect etc. ] (] '''·''' ]) 01:51, 8 September 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::Yup the small size was part of the reason I chose CrB (it's not the only reason though :-P). I'm cool with a collaboration. ST11's suggestions, as always, make a lot of sense. Going to read through some constellation FAs to get an idea of what to write – not least CrA... ] (]) 02:38, 8 September 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::::{{u|Double sharp}}, I have started buffing with this one. Just arting with the brighter stars – SIMBAD is best place to start and then chasing refs. Not sure how much you know about them (figuring distance from parallax etc...) so just ask away..or start on deep sky objects and I'll continue with stars (??) ] (] '''·''' ]) 01:05, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
== Carcinoma in situ == | |||
The ] page has been updated and it explains the different views that sometimes carcinoma in situ is seen as a cancer and sometimes it is not. You will probably remember earlier this year that you supported changing my use of the term "invasive cancer" to "cancer". The expression "invasive cancer" is used frequently in books particularly when talking about cancer of the cervix and in my opinion using the term "invasive cancer" can improve clarity. What do you think of the explanations in the carcinoma in situ article? ] (]) 13:13, 4 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:As it reads , which ones are you thinking should have invasive added to them? ] (] '''·''' ]) 19:35, 4 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::Whoops, I have phrased it badly above, but you seem to have understood me. I should have said that you did not support my use of "invasive cancer" and you preferred the use of "cancer" instead. Actually, to me, it is not as simple as just inserting the word "invasive". Back then, I saw a better phrase in a reference and I thought about using it, because I thought that it would be accurate, readable, and I hoped keep everyone happy; however, the situation become unnecessarily tense and I felt like I was walking on eggs (and you know what that means). I did not get around to developing the article any further nor mentioning the "magical" phrase. I will see if I can find the phrase again. I recall that the solution was to use a short phrase in the place of cancer or invasive cancer in the introduction. I am talking in riddles at the present time, because I want to make sure that I can find that phrase again, and that will mean thinking about the introduction again. ] (]) 20:32, 4 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::Okay, let me know what you are thinking of once you get it clear. It is an intriguing question. ] (] '''·''' ]) 11:56, 5 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::I would recommend the amendment belew, because the demarcation between non-cancer and cancer varies according to the literature, as we have seen, and this is made more difficult by a simplified language and vocabulary used to communicate the complex situation to patients. A definition of cancer that includes in-situ cancer is well established, but perhaps the world of the cytologist or histopathologist is a small world, where to say "invasive cancer" is not unusual. This is the current line in the introduction; ''"Cervical cytology tests can often detect precursors of cervical cancer and enable early successful treatment."''. I think that it would be more accurate if it said something like; ''"The main aim of cervical cytology screening is to detect precursors of cancer and early cervical cancer to enable early successful treatment."''. In this new line a full spectrum from viral changes to dysplasia to carcinoma-in-situ to early invasive cancer is included, so the controversy over where to put the non-cancer/cancer line disappears, and the meaning is clear no matter where the reader puts the line in his or her own mind-map. ] (]) 13:05, 6 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::::::I reworded it like to make it flow better yet be inclusive and cover all interpretations. ] (] '''·''' ]) 13:24, 6 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::::::After some deep thought, I think that your edit is good enough. ] (]) 14:09, 6 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*What do you think about making a joint nomination with me to take the cervix article to FA review sometime? I would not be planning to edit much of the "History" and "Other animals" sections, because I do not know much about those topics. I am not usually on the nominator's side of the fence, but I would be willing to step into that role here, partly to test the water. ] (]) 13:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:I think it is a good idea – the prerequisites for being a nominator are being reasonably familar with the article and having the ability to address issues raised at FAC. Do you see anything else that needs fixing before listing it at FAC? 02:15, 7 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::Oh good. I would like to have a long look at the article before FA nomination, and I expect that I will not feel happy with the article as a potential FA nomination for several weeks. There is some content and page organization in the article (as it is now) that I would like to reflect on. The peer review is also worth re-visiting to see what was not achieved there. I will probably attempt to start a few discussions on the article talk page where relevant. Do you have any time frame in mind or any particular schedule of your own to work around? Of course, I would ask you to constructively criticize my work whenever you think that anything can be improved, and I will try to focus on the issue and answer honestly and objectively trying not to be fractious nor stubborn, with a view to learning from my errors. It think that it will work better like that, than keeping quite or not speaking up when you do not agree with your co-nominator. I am saying that because I guessed that you have not felt easy about not supporting your co-nominator in FA reviews previously. Also, as before, please be alert to my writing style, which can sometimes need re-phrasing owing to clumsy grammar, although the content is often unambiguous (to me at least). Apart from that, it could be challenging writing for general readers and even more challenging writing for specialist readers that are unfamiliar with the small world of histopathology. ] (]) 12:08, 7 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::{{u|Snowmanradio}} I have no time scale on this so it sorta takes as long as it takes. The refs need fixing for page numbers. The material is pretty good – only thing from PR left is double checking lymphatic drainage really I thought. Anyway. Posting things step by step on talk page is good. ] (] '''·''' ]) 20:39, 7 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*I would have though that the "Function" heading would be about normal function. Surly, putting a barrier in front of the cx is not a normal function of the cervix. Also, oc pills are more about pharmacology and modified functioning of the cervix. Should the "Contraception" heading have its own level-2 heading? This has been discussed before, but it is worth starting another discussion on the talk page about this? ] (]) 21:42, 7 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::I think that the human altering of function is fine there. I think it is fine as a level 3 heading underneath ''function'' ] (] '''·''' ]) 23:10, 7 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::: When medicines affect function, it is called pharmacology. ] (]) 22:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*In the introduction; "... the cervix is usually between 2 and 3 cm long and roughly round in shape". Change to: ? | |||
::1. "... the cervix is cylindrically shaped usually between 2 and 3 cm long and roughly round in cross section". | |||
::2. "... the cervix is usually between 2 and 3 cm long and roughly round in in cross section" ] (]) 17:30, 8 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
I think the first one or something like it – will take a look now. I wonder if the fact it is roughly cylindrical makes saying it's round in cross-section redundant. ] (] '''·''' ]) 22:22, 8 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::Your amendment looks find to me. ] (]) 11:32, 10 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*Should there be more consistency in using <nowiki>{{main|</nowiki> under more of the headings where there is an obvious main article else where? ] (]) 11:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::{{u|Snowmanradio}} Yes that sounds like a good idea. ] (] '''·''' ]) 18:54, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::OK, I expect that I will add some when I do some editing there. ] (]) 20:47, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*Re ]. Have you got any ideas on what to do with this article on the portio (or ectocervix)? I do not know why WP Anatomy has so many articles on sub-parts. If relevant, I expect that a formal discussion would be needed to consider a merge. ] (]) 20:47, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::I think it should be merged. Will post something. ] (] '''·''' ]) 21:42, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::I plan to watch for a while and express an opinion, if needed. ] (]) 22:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::It is off to a good start over there. I think that there is nothing on the unreferenced portio page that can be copied over to the cervix page. We could start planing how to present the portio (and its various names) on the cervix page. ] (]) 12:04, 13 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
* In have found what to me looks like a 2003 copyrighted version of ], so I have started a deletion discussion on Commons. Commons administrators will now have a look at it. Initially, I left an message with the uploader on Commons to ask a technical question about the image, and I noticed that he is currently blocked for three months, so I did a search for other copies of the cervix dilation image. The image should show the babies head moving down the birth canal as the cervix dilates, but the head looks stuck. The image is on about a dozen or more Wikis, so they might all be removed by a bot in due course. I am not sure if the image needs removing from the Cervix page at this juncture or not, so I wonder what you think about removal from the en Wiki. ] (]) 09:01, 13 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::Oh dear – I suspect it will have to be removed, though maybe hold for a moment and see if an explanation is forthcoming. ] (] '''·''' ]) 09:23, 13 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::I recently found a photograph of a rare parrot with the wrong copyright and it was deleted from Commons one week after I started the deletion discussion. ] (]) 14:23, 13 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::That sounds in keeping with deletion discussions elsehwere – around 1 week. ] (] '''·''' ]) 19:17, 13 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::::Update: Image was deleted this yesterday. ] (]) 13:10, 21 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*The ] article has had a lot of work on it since about June, and it is well worth looking at. I expect that we could shorten (or otherwise amend) the section on cervical cancer in the "cervix" article, because the "cervical cancer" article offers a good readable account. ] (]) 12:40, 14 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::{{ping|Snowmanradio}} I will take a look. ] (] '''·''' ]) 10:05, 15 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*Re ]. Sometimes, I like to tidy up the linked pages. This article was moved from the singular to the pleural in March 2014. I am aware that there is more than one HPV vaccine, but I would expect this to be on the singular name, unless there something controversial about it that I have missed. ] (]) 12:59, 14 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::{{ping|Snowmanradio}} yes that is unusual and I think I prefer it at singular. I think it is worth discussing on the talk page. ] (] '''·''' ]) 10:05, 15 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
*The "Anatomical abnormalities" section looks like a mixture of acquired and congenital diseases. Could this be organized differently? I nearly did a reorganization, but a little re-organization does not change much, and I suspect that it would be easier to do a bit of a re-write. Also, it may be possible to expand the section with a little about the developmental abnormalities of the female genital tract seen in Cryptophthalmos syndrome, Johanson-Blizzard syndrome, Rokitansky Anomalod, and as less commonly seen in Roberts syndrome and Trisomy 18 syndrome. These diseases are not at the front of my mind, however these are in the index of my rather old second-hand book on human malformation. This is not a small change, so I welcome your opinion. ] (]) 13:34, 14 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
::{{ping|Snowmanradio}} let me take a look. I don't recall it right now and I thought I was happy with it before but will look. ] (] '''·''' ]) 10:05, 15 November 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::I have become unexpectedly busy in real life, so I have not had much time for editing the Wiki. I hope that I will be able to contribute with more editing and work on the cervix article again after about two or three months . ] (]) 10:03, 15 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::{{ping|Snowmanradio}} no worries. I found that I have lost interest in it. My free time (of which I have little) has to be enjoyable and thus something I have real enthusiasm for. I found I did get a bit enthusiastic about this one but comes and goes. More interested in ] and ] now. ] (] '''·''' ]) 10:11, 15 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::Also ] – very interesting story. I find writing about extinct species makes me sad (I leave them to {{u|FunkMonk}}) but rare ones are ok. ] (] '''·''' ]) 10:12, 15 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::::Apart from manual editing, I was hoping to write a few scripts for fun to do scanning and mass editing tasks on the Wiki this Autumn and Winter, but can not participate in a meaningful way at the present time. I plan to return when I can and I will look to see what you and User FunkMonk are doing then. Incidentally, have you any thoughts on why discussions about anatomy topics tend to be rather brittle? I might ask that question on the WP Anatomy talk page. ] (]) 10:49, 15 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
::::::What do you mean by 'brittle'? ] (] '''·''' ]) 12:30, 15 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
:::::::I will ask open-ended questions instead. Do you have any observations about discussions on anatomy topics? ] (]) 12:48, 15 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
== Running a contest (talk page watchers welcome) == | |||
Right folks...I can't decide which (long overdue) contest to run again. Putting this out there to see what folks reckon the 'pedia most needs or would be most fun (as without enthusiasm, it won't work). For folks unfamiliar, I try to get a wikigrant so several folks have a chance of winning a $25 (''or more'') Amazon voucher. ] (] '''·''' ]) 00:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC) | |||
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EC! I overwrote your changes as that old version was a 99% chance of being a copyvio. And I added refs, so no banners up the top now. :) Cheers, '']'' <small>(])</small> 23:27, 12 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== This week's ] (week 52, 2023) == | |||
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Thank you for your comments on ]. Even though it failed with 28 supports, 42 opposes, and 15 neutrals, I am grateful for the suggestions and advice I have received and I do hope to improve as a Wikipedian. If you ever need my help in any endeavor, feel free to ]. --''']]]''' 19:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Hi Cas, just in case you weren't aware, Dweller's away from Wiki for a while, I'll attempt to deal with your comments at the above FAC, so I'd be grateful if you could work with me to get me up to speed on anything I don't quite get! All the best, ] (]) 17:56, 13 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:Hog damn. The quote is simply reported in the only online source I can find as "a newspaper quote", so I can't do 'owt about that. The professional/amateur issue would be ] if I added anything, I don't have the paper book which Dweller is using as a reference. So I'm stumped. Still, as Dweller told me, it can wait, even fail, until he's able to come back. Not sure what's best now, just wait I guess. ] (]) 15:51, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
RL issues still pressing, but will be around for a bit today/tomorrow. What do you need help with? Cas, thanks for all your help with this article. Sorry, but fungus issues will have to wait a bit longer as this enforced wikibreak will go on for a while yet. Thanks for all your efforts with the NCFC history - see my note to Tony this morning. Cheers --] (]) 12:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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I can dig it up out of the book. What's the other? --] (]) 13:06, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. ] (]) 14:25, 31 December 2023 (UTC) | |||
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:Heh thanks - and ditto! To everyone who has posted here in this festive season! ] (] '''·''' ]) 21:50, 31 December 2023 (UTC) | ||
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== This week's ] (week 1, 2024) == | |||
Would, you, mind, ? Thanks. , --] (]) 14:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Did you see this? . Thought you might get an especially big kick out of the fifth bullet... --] (]) 01:57, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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: Doh! See it listed a few threads up. Pretty cool, regardless. --] (]) 01:59, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup! == | |||
Hey Cas, sorry I left just before we started on pork - I thought I'd apologise in case this was annoying to you. In any case, I really don't see any real reason to come back as of yet. I've ummed and arred over whether I should just force myself back into Misplaced Pages, but I'm just not feeling it. With advances in my profession and other activities and family members to attend to (As well as that wedding to plan) I just thought I'd let you know, you being my closest 'friend' on here, that despite the note on my user page, I probably won't be returning to edit in this lifetime. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I think my job on here is done. I might nominate Andre Kertesz for main page on his birthday, but other than that I thank you for being nice to me on here and helping me get through some difficult moments. I wish the best for you and your family. Cheers and sincerly (I'd say love at the risk of sounding camp), ] (]) 06:01, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found ''']'''. If you have not yet signed up, you can ''']''' and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the ]. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: {{User4|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{User4|Epicgenius}}, and {{User4|Frostly}}. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from ].</small> ] (]) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Good luck with your wedding. This place can be a curse and markedly distracting. No I am not annoyed, you need to look after yourself first. if you nominate the article I will second it. Good luck. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 06:03, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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==RfC on User:RobJ1981== | |||
You recommended that an RfC be filed on RobJ1981 as per the . Since you were the administrator that recommended that an RfC be filed, I thought I would bring it to your attention. | |||
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G'day esteemed person who has expressed interest in Sydney based meetups at ] (I hope that's the correct wording for the formal greeting!!). You may have heard that Australia is to have its very own 'chapter' of the Wikimedia Foundation - and further, there's a meeting coming up to discuss / enact the chapter's incorporation (details ). I'm afraid that I don't know too much about the details of what this entails, other than having a private hope that we might get a secret handshake, and maybe cheap coffee at wikimania (this is a poor attempt at humour - I'm sure that the Chapter's do great work, and it's a good thing that Australia is to have one). | |||
Thank you today for ], "about a cute little parrot that has not been much-studied...meaning it is a shorter article than many bird articles"! | |||
If you're interested in meeting up this weekend (the set date is the 20th) - or later, then please do ] and sign up, or make a comment at the talk page... the drive to create the chapter has largely come from another town in Australia that I'm afraid I haven't actually heard much about.. and anything they can do.... right? - cheers, ] (]) 11:11, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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...for your participation in ], which closed with 85 supports, 2 neutrals and 1 oppose. I'm extremely grateful for all the the kind comments from so many brilliant Wikipedians I've come to respect and admire, as well as many others I've not yet had the pleasure of working with, and I'll do my best to put my shiny new mop and bucket to good use! Once again, thank you ;)<br>]<sup>]</sup> 16:57, 14 April 2008 (UTC)</div></div> | |||
I have a DYK, but ] would be different, about ], - . --] (]) 11:05, 12 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
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On the Main page: ] who ] --] (]) 19:49, 16 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
Hello! I have added the ] article to ]. Please feel free to make any suggestions on how the article can be improved. Thanks in advance for your time :) '''<span style="background:black;"> <font face="Palatino Linotype">]]</font> </span>''' 20:19, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Hi! I've requested a ], and I plan on improving it to stand as an FAC. Any suggestions you have are most welcome! ] (]) 22:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Hi. The ] page has gone crazy with vandalism recently. Is it to the point of being worth semi-protecting? ] 03:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::vandals...aaah, bless 'em. The standard has been to not have the mainpage article protected. Don't worry about it -once the day is over, run it by the ] page and see what everyone thinks. It is to be expected. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 03:42, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Hi, Cas. This article has been languishing in ] for two weeks with only one actual reviewer. May I ask you to read it? ] (]) 07:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:No problem.Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 08:03, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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I have been a bit busy with college stuff but have read about 150 of the book's pages, there is some nice stuff about the possible evolution line of the parrot and quite a bit on conservation efforts, I will try to summarize those in a subpage by sunday. It was surprising to know that the dinosaurs project is semi-active, a few months ago they were consitently present on the FAC page. - ] 15:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:I will begin posting the material on a subpage (probably titled ]) before adding anything to the article since we will merge a few thousand bytes to the current version and the prose will need to be tweaked in order to have a comprehensive final product. - ] 23:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::Sounds like a plan then :) Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 23:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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I genuinely never expected to become an admin here. How strange. So, anyway, is it expected that I create a message and dump it on everyone's page? I'm not that desperate to boost my editcount! ] ] 21:37, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::Alot of folks aren't happy with the spamnotes. You can just stick a banner on the top of your page explaining and thanking all I guess. It is no big deal. I was nominated by surprise as well. Makes things alot easier though - protecting pages, making tricky moves which will be an ongoing issue with bird pages for a while. If you really want to avoid unpleasantness, you could just drop into ] every so often - my yardstick is if an article is copping a vandal from a different IP daily then I will semiprotect. You could post a not saying you will fetch deleted data too. It didn't really make a difference to me as the main thing I do is article creation still. All good. I never worried about new admin school :) Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 22:38, 15 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:::I didn't bother. No-one seemed to take umbrage. --] (]) 14:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== Mentor request == | |||
Hey Cas; long time no speak. Because of work concerns my editing has dropped off considerably. I'm basically just doing FAR (I can't seem to close anything at the moment) and taking care of one troublesome article. A week from today, I should have a bit more time to collaborate. Probably Leopard; I did up a couple of sections on it last year. ] (]) 09:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== Pork == | |||
seeing that you're the only one of the mentors listed at ] naming astronomy among his interests, I would like to request mentoring from you before an FA nomination of ]. For some background: I achieved GA for that article back in 2018, and have recently restored it to that level. I have attempted to bring an article to FA once (in a completely different field: railways), but aborted it for some reason - after lots of work based on helpful reviews, which taught me about some finer points of the English language and citation templates -, and it was 13 years ago, so I barely remember it & standards probably changed a lot since.] (]) 17:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
I suspect I'm barking up the wrong tree, but no time to look into it. Please feel free to bring the proposed move to a swift end. --] (]) 21:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:Heh, I'll take a look. Cool article BTW. ] (] '''·''' ]) 19:02, 31 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
::If you have the time, could you please take another look at the article, and tell it it's now ready for FA nomination? Over the past two weeks, I have re-ordered the history, impacts & close approaches sections in a sequence that seems logical, trimmed some sections covered in greater detail in linked articles, and changed access/archive date format after all. ] (]) 09:48, 2 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
== This week's ] (week 6, 2024) == | |||
:It's no biggie - unless there's a pile-on oppose I am happy to let it ''stew'' a bit longer ''(snigger..I crack myself up sometimes)'' Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 23:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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I can't think of anything off the top of my head but I don't really have time to edit a bunch right now anyway... why don't you send it thru and I can always add stuff later on if necessary. Thanks! ] (]) 05:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::OK, I'll give it a copyedit and send it through. If you check in every couple of days that would be grand :) Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 05:06, 18 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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==PR request== | |||
Hi, I noticed you had volunteered to do peer reviews with a special interest in biology, especially plants. I posted ] for review as a precursor to and FA bid and was hoping you might have some time to take a look. I have been doing a bit of work on it of late, after letting it sit for a few months. Thanks for anything you can contribute. ] (]) 14:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
....interesting. I'll take a look. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 19:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:Thanks for your comments and work thus far. I noticed you live in Australia, any photos you could take of Christmas tree farms in your country would be most helpful. From what I understand christmas trees are a relatively new crop in Australia, I haven't found a whole lot but what I have found in compiled in the ] article. (You can see what needs filled in there at a glance). If we find enough information we could write a country article, all of this will help me globalize the main article - which is very much a goal I have been striving toward. Right now I am working on several individual country production articles but the only one I have "finished" is about Canada - see ]. ] (]) 12:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::Sorry to bother you so much, but I wanted to make sure you were aware of this category: ]. Everything we have on Christmas tree farming, live, right now, is in that cat. The only one I didn't write is ], which I am not even sure is a notable topic. Now, I will silence myself. :) ] (]) 13:01, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:::Holy crap, well you learn something new every day. There are some patent pages for the tree tyer, and I'd link to it from other pages. Seems like an important tool. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 22:59, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== WikiCup 2024 February newsletter == | ||
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017. | |||
Please give this thread a quick glance ]. If you could phone the authorities it would be appreciated.] <font color="purple">]</font> 01:01, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
:Nevermind, Viridae came to the rescue!] <font color="purple">]</font> 01:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Our current leader is newcomer {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}}, who has one FA on ] and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers: | |||
== Message == | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}}, with one FA on ], two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs; | |||
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* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Vami IV}}, with one FA on ], one GA on ], and 11 reviews; | |||
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* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|MaranoFan}}, with one FA on ], a nine-article FT on ], and two DYKs; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Skyshifter}}, with one FA on ] and one DYK; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}}, with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|voorts}} and {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Elli}}, both with one FA and one DYK each. | |||
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on ]. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on ] and the judges ({{User|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{User|Epicgenius}}, and {{User|Frostly}}) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from ].</small> ] (]) 17:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC) | |||
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== This week's ] (week 7, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 8, 2024) == | |||
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== Beer == | |||
I obviously owe you one. Thanks! ] (]) 21:11, 21 February 2024 (UTC) | |||
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Heh one day... ] (] '''·''' ]) 23:01, 21 February 2024 (UTC) | |||
|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid #999999;"| I would just like to say thank you for your efforts regarding the potential suicide thread on ANI last night. This may have been a poor taste message or hoax, but if it wasn't ''hopefully......'' we may have made a real difference. So thank you and if ever there is anything I can do to help you in the future, please don't hesitate to ask. <sup>]]</sup> 08:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== This week's ] (week 9, 2024) == | |||
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Casliber, I addressed your comments to ] and did some additional clean-up. Do you think the article is ready for FAC? Appreciate any comments ] (]) 23:36, 19 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Hi Casliber. I notice you are down as a peer review volunteer under the everydaylife section, covering sports. I was wondering whether you could possibly ] the ] article for me. The peer review is located ]. I also noticed your comment at ], so thanks for the boost in confidence! Regards, ] (]) 09:20, 20 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== WikiCup 2024 March newsletter == | |||
:That'd teach me for opening my mouth..I am more into football really but will have a look. Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 10:02, 20 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2. | |||
::Thanks for your comments... and for ] ] for me! I've responded to your comments if you wish to take a look. ] (]) 17:45, 21 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points: | |||
== ] == | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}}, who has 916 points mostly from one FA on ], 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews | |||
You do realize I'm reverting vandalism on this article. I now need to take a shower to remove those awful spores. So, why are you, the avowed mushroom expert around here, not watching the article? Instead you point me to Empty nose syndrome. Thanks. ] <small><sup>] ]</sup></small> 05:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Vami IV}}, who has 790 points from two FAs on ] and ], two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}}, who has 580 points from one FA on ], two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}}, who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|MaranoFan}}, who has 351 points from one FA on ], a nine-article FT on ], and three DYKs | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Skyshifter}}, who has 345 points from one FA on ], one DYK and two reviews | |||
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Vami IV}}, who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five ] articles, eight other good articles, and two ]s. Vami also wrote an essay on ], a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his ]. | |||
:Fascinating, didn't come up on my watchlist at all (!) I hate how that happens sometimes, but happens more often with FACs I have transcluded for some reason or other...Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 05:46, 21 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
::It's not relevant in this case, but I've noticed that my watchlist never shows edits to protected articles. ] 05:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on ]. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on ], and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from ].</small> ] (]) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Hmmm, I did protect fungus in the past, but others such as ] come up on my list - may be it's a glitch when they become ''un''-protected...Cheers, ] (] '''·''' ]) 05:52, 21 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== This week's ] (week 10, 2024) == | |||
::::OK, I deserve a big Wiki-hug for watching over YOUR damn article!!! Shrooms. Blech. ] <small><sup>] ]</sup></small> 05:55, 21 April 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I == | |||
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the ] is now '''no longer accepting new proposals'''. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving ]'s structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion: | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, provides for the addition of a text box at ] reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum. | |||
* ''']''' and ''']''', initiated by {{noping|Barkeep49}} and {{noping|Usedtobecool}}, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|SilkTork}}, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections. | |||
* ''']''' and ''']''', initiated by {{noping|BilledMammal}}, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|Lee Vilenski}}, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|Reaper Eternal}}, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured. | |||
* ''']''', ''']''', and ''']''', initiated by {{noping|City of Silver}}, {{u|Ritchie333}}, and {{u|HouseBlaster}}, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|Novem Lingaue}}, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|Kusma}}, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote. | |||
* ''']''' and ''']''', initiated by {{noping|Thebiguglyalien}} and {{noping|Soni}}, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the ]; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|BilledMammal}}, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|SchroCat}}, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum. | |||
* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|theleekycauldron}}, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%. | |||
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* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|Femke}}, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators. | |||
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* ''']''', initiated by {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions. | |||
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== TCC 2024 == | |||
Hi Cas, any interest in judging again for TCC this year? Myself and Femke are already interested. If you're too busy, I'm happy to find someone else. Best – '''<span style="font-family:Lucida;">]]</span>''' 05:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Happy to do so. Will head over to look at discussion. ] (] '''·''' ]) 07:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
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I just made a few small edits; feel free to revert or discuss. - Dank (]) 16:04, 24 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
:They're good/improvements. thx. ] (] '''·''' ]) 19:57, 24 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
== This week's ] (week 13, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 14, 2024) == | |||
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== WikiCup 2024 April newsletter == | |||
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round. | |||
Our current top scorers are as follows: | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}} with 642 points, mostly from 11 ]s about radio and television; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|voorts}} with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (] and ]) and three GAs; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|SounderBruce}} with 497 points, mostly from a ] about the ] and two GAs; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Tamzin}} with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink ] and three GAs; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Kusma}} with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist ] and a GA. | |||
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on ]. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from ] to receive more points. | |||
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== WikiCup 2024 May newsletter == | |||
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014. | |||
The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points: | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}} with 707 points, mostly from 45 ] reviews and 12 ]s about radio and television; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 ] nominations about coinage and history; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|SounderBruce}} with 552 points, mostly from a ] about the ], three ], and two good articles; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|BennyOnTheLoose}} with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player ], two featured lists, and one good article; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|voorts}} with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (] and ]) and three good articles. | |||
The full scores for Round 2 can be seen ]. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 ] credits and at least 200 ] credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to ] and ]. | |||
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== Problematic digital media use and Major depressive disorder == | |||
Hello there! I noticed that the Digital media addictions subsection from the Major depressive disorder article that was excerpted the Digital media use and mental health article Depression subsection. Considering that you are a psychiatrist and helped get the Major depressive disorder article up to featured article status (per your user page), I was wondering if you'd be willing to trim that section on the Digital media use and mental health article in accordance with WP:MEDSAY. I've been trying to improve the Digital media use and mental health article (hopefully to featured status if possible), initially by just tracking down systematic reviews and meta-analyses that find associations between the various problematic digital media use categories and recognized mental health disorders by the DSM and ICD and other human factors issues associated with problematic digital media use. Unfortunately, I am not a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist so all I can do is look things up using Google Scholar and often do not have access to entire articles. Another editor has raised issues with the article's layout at its talk page, if you have the time to comment on it. Thanks! -- ] (]) 01:12, 30 April 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Okay, difficult topic and I have little time for the stuff I want to prioritise on as is. First thing, some context is good but too much is unnecessary - e.g. paragraph is just too distant from the topic at hand. Am even unconvinced about whether the remaining paragraph is needed (leaning to not but need to read and think some more) ] (] '''·''' ]) 02:41, 30 April 2024 (UTC) | |||
== RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins == | |||
Hi there! Phase I of the ] has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus: | |||
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* '''Proposal 3b''' (in trial): ] | |||
* '''Proposal 13''' (in trial): ] | |||
* '''Proposal 14''' (implemented): ] | |||
* '''Proposals 16 and 16c''' (''']'''): ] and ] | |||
* '''Proposal 17''' (''']'''): ] | |||
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== This week's ] (week 21, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 24, 2024) == | |||
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== Mr. Two Hundred Thousand == | |||
{{stupid t-shirt|'''I MADE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND EDITS AND EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT AROUND MUCH ANYMORE I STILL GOT THIS STUPID T-SHIRT!!!'''}} <b style="font-family: monospace; color:#E35BD8">]×]]</b> 02:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC) | |||
:''(Hyuk hyuk hyuk)'' fair point. I keep trying to reignite the fire...but hard competing as I've returned to being a DnD DM...competing priorities...sigh ] (] '''·''' ]) 02:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC) | |||
== This week's ] (week 25, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 26, 2024) == | |||
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== WikiCup 2024 July newsletter == | |||
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points. | |||
The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3: | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 ] on ], 11 ], 18 ] nominations, and dozens of reviews; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Skyshifter}} with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on ] and ], 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}} with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on ], 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AryKun}} with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on ], with a high number of bonus points from that article. | |||
The full scores for round 3 can be seen ]. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 ] credits, and at least 285 ] credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to ] and ]. | |||
Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on ]. | |||
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== This week's ] (week 27, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 28, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 29, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 32, 2024) == | |||
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== Humpback whale FA == | |||
Do you think the article is Satisfactory? I could expand a little more, but I'd also like for your to participate since you were the original nominator. ] (]) 22:36, 11 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
:I'll take a look. It's been a long time so will undoubtedly need something ] (] '''·''' ]) 01:09, 12 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Here are some more articles you could use and ] (]) 15:09, 12 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
::How are things going? Do you still plan on working on this. I would do it by myself but am a bit hesitant since I didn't nominate it and I may have already made it into the ]. ] (]) 22:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
== This week's ] (week 33, 2024) == | |||
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== This week's ] (week 35, 2024) == | |||
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==]== | |||
You protected this article 5 years ago. I thought it could be unprotected as vandals would have long gone? ] (]) 09:49, 27 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Let's give unprotection a whirl. ] (] '''·''' ]) 22:09, 27 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Thanks ] (]) 22:58, 27 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Good article reassessment for ] == | |||
] has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the ]. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ] (]) 20:38, 27 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
== WikiCup 2024 August newsletter == | |||
The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points: | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 ]s, 2 ], 7 ], and 13 ] nominations; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Arconning}} with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews; | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}} with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on ] and 2 good articles; and | |||
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|BennyOnTheLoose}} with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on ], 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles. | |||
Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen ]. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 ] credits, and at least 333 ] credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to ] and ]. | |||
Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on ]. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October. | |||
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see ]. Further questions are welcome on ] and the judges ({{User|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{User|Epicgenius}}, and {{User|Frostly}}) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from ].</small> ] (]) 03:11, 30 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
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*{{pagelinks|Shuhada' Davitt}} | |||
Hi. An article you protected over a decade ago seemed to have its protection settings removed recently. Do you mind removing protection settings from its redirect as well?] (]) 18:51, 31 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Sure, why not. Done. ] (] '''·''' ]) 19:20, 31 August 2024 (UTC) | |||
== This week's ] (week 36, 2024) == | |||
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== Vandalism of Gold standard articles by a person who's disruptive edits you've dealt with previously. == | |||
Dear administrator. Can you please take a look into the edit history of these Karnataka dynasty pages | |||
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They have been continously getting vandalised by a Maratha caste IP looking to promote his caste. Please take a look at his edit history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/2409:408C:ADB5:3805:E56B:A989:87F5:F563 | |||
I think similar edits were made by the same person in the ] dynasty page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Rashtrakutas&action=history) which made you protect the page for a period of 3 months about 4 days back. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Rashtrakutas&diff=prev&oldid=1247580284) | |||
Kindly do the same for the other dynasty pages he is targetting as well. He is using old British period sources which according to WP:RAJ is unreliable (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_172#Are_British_Raj_ethnographers_unreliable.3F.) | |||
The same account seems to be adding those dynasties to promote his caste here as well ]. Please look into it (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/search/?title=List_of_Maratha_dynasties_and_states&action=history). | |||
Thank you. ] (]) 10:25, 29 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
== This week's ] (week 40, 2024) == | |||
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Casliber, it looks like things are busy where you are, but in case you have any time, might you be able to promote any DYK preps to queues? The queues are all empty, and six preps are full; it would help if we could get some movement here. Many thanks even if now's a bad time; you've done so many promotions over the years. ] (]) 02:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
:Taking a look ] (] '''·''' ]) 04:50, 1 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
::Thank you so much! ] (]) 19:45, 1 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
:::Not a problem. Been busy (and busy still). Will try to keep an eye on it. ] (] '''·''' ]) 01:03, 2 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
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Nomenclature of fungiHey there. I recently stumbled across an issue of Nova Hedwigia Beheift titled "the genera of fungi" (or was it agaricaceae?). It's filled to the brink with mind-numbing nomenclatural discussions of all the genera ever described (I think, anyway). Would it be any use if I looked up the specific ref or any specific genera? Circeus 00:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
LOTS of "per" in citation here. See
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A first incarnation from Tentamen dispositionis methodicae Fungorum 65. 1797 is cited as devalidated: "Introduced to cover three groups already previously distinguished by Persoon (in Tent. 18. 1797) under Agaricus L., but at that time not named. It is worth stressing that was not mentioned."
Donk concludes the earliest valid type is A. muscaria, the species in Hooker, adding that he'd personally favor A. citrina.
Phew! Circeus 18:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
PorkLOL, I love your sense of humour. Maimonedes is a good reference. The reality is that Islam takes food restrictions from Judaism; and Christianity doesn't have any restriction (courtesy of three references in the New Testament). The reason why pork should be restricted (along with many other things) is not given explicitly in the Hebrew Bible, hence Bible commentators have been offering guesses since ancient times. My own favourite, however, is Mary Douglas, wife of Louis Leakey, daughter of a Lutheran pastor. Her theory is excellent, based on her cultural anthropological observations, with a decent feel for how Biblical text works. It's rather an abstract theory though. Anyway, I'll see if I can manage a literature review of dietry restrictions in the ANE, especially if there's anything explicit about pork. Don't think I'll find a reference for "why" the pork taboo is in place, though, if it's documented, I'd have read about that in commentaries. Perhaps a clay tablet with the answer has been destroyed in only the last few years during the "troubles" in Iraq. :( Alastair Haines (talk) 21:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Spotted this. I'll look for a ref to the Maimonides comment. The normal teaching is that pork is no more or less offensive to Jews than any other forbidden meat (dog, horse etc) or forbidden part of kosher animal (blood, Gid Hanasheh etc). The pig (NB pig, not pork – an important distinction which is relevant for the Maimonides comment too, I note) is "singled out" because it alone of the animals that have one of the two "signs" (it has split hooves but doesn't chew the cud) lies down with its legs sticking out. Most quarapeds have their legs folded under them. There's a midrashic lesson to be learned there, apparently, that the pig is immodestly and falsely proclaiming its religious cleanliness, when it is not. Anyway, that said, I'll look into the M comment – he was quite ahead of his time in terms of medical knowledge (check his biog). And NB my OR/POV antennae buzzed when I read that little section. --Dweller (talk) 22:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Have found good stuff, including online version of Maimonides text. I'll dump it here for you to use as you wish.
So, Maimonides argues "pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter", whatever that means! More importantly, the "principal reason" is that if you keep pigs, you end up with a dirty and unhealthy environment. Important note: Maimonides was writing from Islamic Egypt at the time, which is why he mentions "as may be seen at present in the country of the Franks." (ie France) The comments about the pig's habit of lying with its legs outstretched come from Midrash Vayikra Rabba (ch 13) where it is mentioned as part of an elaborate metaphor, but not in connection with any reason for particularly abhorring the creature. Hope that helps. --Dweller (talk) 09:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC) References
Bract patternYou know what I don't get? On page 245 of George (1981), and again on page 40 of Collins (2007), George gives a diagram showing the arrangement of unit inflorescences on a Banksia flower spike. Both diagrams clearly show a hexagonal layout; i.e. every common bract is surrounded by six equidistant common bracts, thus forming little hexagons. In support of this, George (1981) states "The unit inflorescences are so arranged on the axis that there are three pattern lines—vertical, and both dextral and sinistral spiral." I haven't dissected an inflorescence, but in some species the pattern persists right through flowering and can be seen on the infructescence. You won't get a better example than this B. menziesii cone. Look at that pattern. There's no way you could call it hexagonal. It is a rectangular (or rather diamond, since the lines are diagonal) grid. Depending on how you define a neighbourhood, you could argue that each common bract has 4 or 8 neighbours, but there's no way you could argue for 6. Similarly, you could argue for two pattern lines (dextral and sinistral spiral) or four (dextral, sinistral, vertical and horizontal), but there is no way you could argue for 3, because there is no reason to include vertical whilst excluding horizontal). On top of that there is a beautiful symmetry in the way each common bract is surrounded by its own floral bracts and those of its neighbours. But George's diagrams destroy that symmetry. I thought maybe B. menziesii was an exception to a general rule, but you can see the same diamond grid, though not as clearly, in File:Banksia serrata4.jpg, and I reckon (but am not certain) I can see it in my B. attenuata cone. And in File:Banksia prionotes mature cone.jpg too. What the heck is going on? (I'm not just being a pretentious wanker here. I thought the diagram was interesting and informative enough for me to whip up an SVG version for Misplaced Pages. But since copying George's diagram isn't really on, and it is much better to go straight from nature if possible, I was basing my version on this B. menziesii cone. But it isn't going to work if the diagram shows a rectangular grid and the text has to say it is hexagonal.) Hesperian 13:28, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
QuestionI note that the last six images to be posted on your talk page were posted by me. I'm not sure whether to apologise.... What is going on in the lower image? Clearly this is an inflorescence in very early bud, but those furry white things are apparently not developing flower pairs. Are they some kind of protective bract or something? Hesperian 01:24, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
In very young spikes like the one pictured here, they are not yet very densely packed together, so they can be perceived as individual peduncles. Given time, they will continue to grow, and as they do so they will become more and more densely packed together, until eventually they are jammed together so tightly that their dense coverings of hairs form the fibrous brown material that comprises a typical flower spike, and the common bracts at their apex will form the bract pattern on the surface of the spike. At that point, they will no longer be distinguishable as individual peduncles, but will simply be part of the spike. When the flowers start to develop, they get squeezed together even more. At this point, sometimes, a peduncle may break off the axis and be squeezed right out of the spike as the flowers around it develop. Thus you may see one or two of these furry things sitting at random positions on the surface of a developed flower spike. As evidence for this hypothesis I offer the following observations:
Hesperian 05:58, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Not OR any more. Look at the picture of "Banksia flower bud seen in profile" here: clear evidence of the common and floral bracts forming one of those little furry upside-down pyramids, with the flower arising from it. Hesperian 03:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Banksia menziesii with persistent floretsWhile I was out a-walking in the bush one day last week, I spied a banksia with an unfamiliar jizz. Even on closer inspection I was bamboozled for half a minute until the pieces fell together and I realised I was looking at a B. menziesii with persistent florets. Not just a bit late to fall: there were old cones from previous seasons with the florets still bolted on. In fact, there wasn't a single bald cone on the whole tree. I've never seen anything like it. Have you? Hesperian 04:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Banksiamyces againI finally made it to the library and got a hold of the article you had asked about a couple of weeks ago. There's enough info there to make DYK-worthy stubs on the genus, and three of the species (macrocarpus, katerinae, toomanis), or, alternatively, maybe enough for a GA on the genus. What are the chances of images? Apparently these fungi make small but visible apothecia on the seed capsules. Berkeley and Broome first wrote about the fungus in 1887, so maybe there's a sketch from the protologue that's useable. Anyway, I'll start adding text in a day or two and maybe we can have the first Banksia/Fungi wikiproject collaboration? Sasata (talk) 14:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
As OZtrylia has a notoriously under described rang of and field of mycology study – any signs of further fungi or algae work is to be encouraged at all points SatuSuro 01:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
From Collins, Collins and George (2008), page 47, first paragraph of a section entitled "Fungi and lichens": "Many kinds of fungi are associated with Banksias. There is even a genus of fungi named for their association with these plants—Banksiamyces. The first species of these was recognised in the 1880s and placed in the genus Tympanis, then in the 1950s transferred to the genus Encoelia. Further collections and research led to the description of the genus Banksiamyces by Beaton and Weste in 1982, with two further species. Six taxa are now recognised, so far known from 13 species of Banksia (Sommerville & May, 2006). Commonly known as banksia discs, they have all been found on eastern Australian Banksias and one is also known in Western Australia. They are discomycete fungi, growing on the fruit and appearing as small, shallow dark cups on the follicles (Fuhrer, 2005). When dry they fold inwards and look like narrow slits. Their effect is unkown but it seems unlikely that they are responsible for degradation of the seeds." At the bottom of the page there is a photo of Banksiamyces on B. lemanniana. They look like little light grey maggots on the follicles. Based on the photo and textual description, I would suggest that the B. violacea photo doesn't show this genus. Hesperian 11:17, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Anything else to add to this article? Shall we put it up for GAN? Sasata (talk) 17:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Abraham HalpernYou may want to have a look there as well. Appears to have been improved by a Szasz fan. I've read diagonally this article, but even that doesn't seem to support the light in which the Halpern-Szasz issue is presented in Misplaced Pages. Tijfo098 (talk) 13:19, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Aboriginal AstronomyHi Casliber – thanks for your note. Yes there's quite a bit more out there which Duane Hamacher and I are slowly trying to get written up. You can find some more stuff on www.emudreaming.com and you may find some papers you havent come across on http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnorris/papers/papers.htm Have fun! RayNorris (talk) 03:34, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Orange-bellied ParrotNeophema99 (talk) 07:58, 19 February 2014 (UTC) Hi. I would like to open for discussion the format of the entry for 'Orange-bellied Parrot'. As news occurs in the recovery program for this species, the limitations of the current format of the Misplaced Pages entry become more obvious. The heading, 'Conservation Status' should, I believe, be reserved for the actual conservation status in Australia, and in the three states, SA, Tasmania and Victoria. What follows after that, but still under that heading, at present, is a running commentary of events since about 2010. This is not acceptable. I propose another heading be inserted, 'Recovery Program' or similar. In it, a short history of the OBP recovery program could be given – since 1980 or so – and then, new events could be smoothly inserted as they happen. What do others think? The Misplaced Pages entry is an important first port of call for many people interested in this bird. We owe it to them, and to history, to provide a better entry. Neophema99 (talk) 07:58, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
got any advice for writing a constellation FA?Thinking of diversifying and trying Corona B. Double sharp (talk) 16:17, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Carcinoma in situThe carcinoma in situ page has been updated and it explains the different views that sometimes carcinoma in situ is seen as a cancer and sometimes it is not. You will probably remember earlier this year that you supported changing my use of the term "invasive cancer" to "cancer". The expression "invasive cancer" is used frequently in books particularly when talking about cancer of the cervix and in my opinion using the term "invasive cancer" can improve clarity. What do you think of the explanations in the carcinoma in situ article? Snowman (talk) 13:13, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
I think the first one or something like it – will take a look now. I wonder if the fact it is roughly cylindrical makes saying it's round in cross-section redundant. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:22, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Running a contest (talk page watchers welcome)Right folks...I can't decide which (long overdue) contest to run again. Putting this out there to see what folks reckon the 'pedia most needs or would be most fun (as without enthusiasm, it won't work). For folks unfamiliar, I try to get a wikigrant so several folks have a chance of winning a $25 (or more) Amazon voucher. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC) Core contest
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Refideas editnoticeLetting you know that the edit notice is now live - if you edit any article with refideas listed on the talk page, you will get the notification. :) You can click "edit" on Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) to see it in action, if you have not already seen it. :) BOZ (talk) 18:28, 25 November 2023 (UTC) Pre-FA review?Hi Cas: I'm wondering if I can get you to cast your seasoned eye over lichen growth forms. I'm going to try for FA, and wonder if you – as someone not particularly interested in lichens – find any of it hard to understand or lacking in information. Any comments much appreciated! MeegsC (talk) 19:38, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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ArbCom 2023 Elections voter messageHello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add WT:Featured article candidates/Rock parrot/archive1Hi Cas. Edits and comments on the blurb are welcome. I'm thinking of running this at TFA on January 11; does that work for you? It hasn't changed much since your edits in 2019, and Jim has recently looked at it, so I think we're in good shape. - Dank (push to talk) 18:05, 28 November 2023 (UTC) NotaThis article is just crying out for your expertise. Enjoy! Drmies (talk) 02:48, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
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FAC requestHi Cas, I hope that things are going well for you. While I am not keen to add to your list of unsolicited requests, Teloschistaceae is at FAC and could do with both another review and a look through by a knowledgeable editor. If you felt up to providing either of those, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:12, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas!
Time to unprotect Ivy League?Over a decade ago, you semiprotected Ivy League. Can you please remove that protection so we can see if it's still necessary? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 03:24, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Masked booby, "about another sulid". Thank you also for another year of great contributions, and best wishes for 2024! For me, 2023 was a year of stories, and a click on "music" will give you the latest music and memories, promised. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:51, 31 December 2023 (UTC) Happy New Year
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Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2024)
TFAThank you today for Rock parrot, "about a cute little parrot that has not been much-studied...meaning it is a shorter article than many bird articles"! I have a DYK, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:05, 12 January 2024 (UTC) On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:49, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 30 January 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2024)
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Mentor requestHi, seeing that you're the only one of the mentors listed at WP:FAM naming astronomy among his interests, I would like to request mentoring from you before an FA nomination of Near-Earth object. For some background: I achieved GA for that article back in 2018, and have recently restored it to that level. I have attempted to bring an article to FA once (in a completely different field: railways), but aborted it for some reason - after lots of work based on helpful reviews, which taught me about some finer points of the English language and citation templates -, and it was 13 years ago, so I barely remember it & standards probably changed a lot since.Rontombontom (talk) 17:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 February newsletterThe 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017. Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
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BeerI obviously owe you one. Thanks! 86.177.202.213 (talk) 21:11, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 March newsletterThe first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2. The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list. Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2024)
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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase IHey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC) Reminder: GA backlog driveHello! Just a reminder that, if you have time, you are welcome to join the GA backlog drive; it runs until the end of March. You are receiving this message because you signed up on the drive page but have not yet listed any reviews. We hope to see you there! Either way, happy editing! —Ganesha811 (talk) 18:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC) TCC 2024Hi Cas, any interest in judging again for TCC this year? Myself and Femke are already interested. If you're too busy, I'm happy to find someone else. Best – Aza24 (talk) 05:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/April 10, 2024I just made a few small edits; feel free to revert or discuss. - Dank (push to talk) 16:04, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
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Signups open for The Core Contest 2024The Core Contest—Misplaced Pages's most exciting contest—returns again this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve vital or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". Signups are open now. Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24. – Aza24 (talk) 02:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC) If you wish to start or stop receiving news about The Core Contest, please add or remove yourself from the delivery list. Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Move protection of Gravity Falls (season 2)In 2015, you had protected the page to temporarily restrict edits to autoconfirmed editors and at the same time, indefinitely restrict moves to sysops only. Is it OK with you to have the move protection to be dropped? – robertsky (talk) 03:57, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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Thank you today for the beautiful Telopea speciosissima, introduced (in 2010): "What's not to like? The state emblem and a darn fine flower at that....and it's been attracting birds and looking nice and red for over 60 million years....."! - I saw flowers on Madeira, and if you see me just naming one "red flower" and know better, please correct ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 10 April 2024 (UTC) plum tree blossom for Kalevi Kiviniemi in the snow - see my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC) WikiCup 2024 April newsletterWe are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round. Our current top scorers are as follows:
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Misplaced Pages policies or processes to receive more points. If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2024)
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WikiCup 2024 May newsletterThe second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014. The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics. Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC) Problematic digital media use and Major depressive disorderHello there! I noticed that you removed the Digital media addictions subsection from the Major depressive disorder article that was excerpted the Digital media use and mental health article Depression subsection. Considering that you are a psychiatrist and helped get the Major depressive disorder article up to featured article status (per your user page), I was wondering if you'd be willing to trim that section on the Digital media use and mental health article in accordance with WP:MEDSAY. I've been trying to improve the Digital media use and mental health article (hopefully to featured status if possible), initially by just tracking down systematic reviews and meta-analyses that find associations between the various problematic digital media use categories and recognized mental health disorders by the DSM and ICD and other human factors issues associated with problematic digital media use. Unfortunately, I am not a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist so all I can do is look things up using Google Scholar and often do not have access to entire articles. Another editor has raised issues with the article's layout at its talk page, if you have the time to comment on it. Thanks! -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 01:12, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II beginsHi there! Phase I of the Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2024)
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Nomination of RX Telescopii for deletionA discussion is taking place as to whether the article RX Telescopii is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/RX Telescopii until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. InTheAstronomy32 (talk) 18:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2024)
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Mr. Two Hundred ThousandI MADE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND EDITS AND EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT AROUND MUCH ANYMORE I STILL GOT THIS STUPID T-SHIRT!!! jp×g🗯️ 02:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 July newsletterThe third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points. The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:
The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics. Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2024)
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Humpback whale FADo you think the article is Satisfactory? I could expand a little more, but I'd also like for your to participate since you were the original nominator. LittleJerry (talk) 22:36, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
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Director Sergio Leone (right) and actor Enzo Santaniello on the set of the film
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Marie Antoinette
You protected this article 5 years ago. I thought it could be unprotected as vandals would have long gone? LibStar (talk) 09:49, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- Let's give unprotection a whirl. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:09, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks LibStar (talk) 22:58, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for British people
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The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:
- Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
- Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
- AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
- BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.
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Shuhada' Davitt
Hi. An article you protected over a decade ago seemed to have its protection settings removed recently. Do you mind removing protection settings from its redirect as well?197.2.203.207 (talk) 18:51, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sure, why not. Done. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:20, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
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Vandalism of Gold standard articles by a person who's disruptive edits you've dealt with previously.
Dear administrator. Can you please take a look into the edit history of these Karnataka dynasty pages
1) Chalukya_dynasty 2) Western_Chalukya_Empire 3) Kadamba_dynasty 4) Pallava_dynasty 5) Hoysala_Kingdom 6) Kalachuris_of_Kalyani
They have been continously getting vandalised by a Maratha caste IP looking to promote his caste. Please take a look at his edit history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/2409:408C:ADB5:3805:E56B:A989:87F5:F563
I think similar edits were made by the same person in the Rashtrakutas dynasty page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Rashtrakutas&action=history) which made you protect the page for a period of 3 months about 4 days back. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Rashtrakutas&diff=prev&oldid=1247580284)
Kindly do the same for the other dynasty pages he is targetting as well. He is using old British period sources which according to WP:RAJ is unreliable (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_172#Are_British_Raj_ethnographers_unreliable.3F.)
The same account seems to be adding those dynasties to promote his caste here as well List_of_Maratha dynasties_and_states. Please look into it (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/search/?title=List_of_Maratha_dynasties_and_states&action=history).
Thank you. Mpatrol (talk) 10:25, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2024)
Eight gold Spanish escudo (1687), issued during the reign of Carlos II of Spain
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Any chance of a DYK prep to queue promotion (or two)?
Casliber, it looks like things are busy where you are, but in case you have any time, might you be able to promote any DYK preps to queues? The queues are all empty, and six preps are full; it would help if we could get some movement here. Many thanks even if now's a bad time; you've done so many promotions over the years. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:35, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Taking a look Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:50, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! BlueMoonset (talk) 19:45, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Not a problem. Been busy (and busy still). Will try to keep an eye on it. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:03, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! BlueMoonset (talk) 19:45, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Mentor for GA/FAC
Hi Casliber, I am wondering if you would have some time (not urgently) to be a mentor/provide some specific advice regarding the Geologic Time Scale article I've helped significantly revise over the past couple of years. It is currently rated as B-class, but I believe it to be much improved since that assessment. I have requested an independent assessment of it on Wikiproject Geology as I think it may be of A-class now. Additionally I am considering either a GAN or FAC listing, but would appreciate advice from a more experienced editor. Thanks for your time. Jarred C Lloyd (talk) 02:04, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Taking a look Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:11, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
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You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, thank you for promoting her to the queue, - my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. -Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:53, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:10, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
DYK credit
Hello Cas Liber, it seems my DYK credit for Juno (song) has not been processed despite it being part of a double hook with Bed Chem? I had added it to my nomination within seven days of it being created and bolded it.--NØ 00:25, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
Mentor for Tumor Necrosis Factor FAC
Hi Casliber, I am a new editor and recently got Tumor Necrosis Factor promoted to GA status. I'd like to go for Featured Article status, and am wondering if you could be a mentor and provide some advice. Would greatly appreciate any help! AdeptLearner123 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:03, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ah ok. Bit busy but will do so in a few days Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:34, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2024)
Josephson voltage standard chip developed by the National Bureau of Standards as a standard volt
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Mentoring for FAC
Hi, I'm contacting you because I noticed your username is listed at WP:FAM and I am interested in nominating a FAC but have never done so in the past. I'm contacting several people listed as FA mentors so if you are busy that is okay. The article is Neurocysticercosis, a parasitic brain disease. I have started a peer review for the article which can be found at Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Neurocysticercosis/archive1. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration! IntentionallyDense 21:55, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'll take a look when I can. Been busy IRL and wikipedia has been pushed aside for higher priorities alot of the time but I'll see what I can do. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks so much I really appreciate it! IntentionallyDense 01:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2025)
Entomology is the scientific study of insects.
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Copy of deleted article Vaughn J Featherstone
Hi. Could you please provide me a copy of the deleted article Vaughn J Featherstone or Vaughn J. Featherstone? Many additional sources are available and I'd like to see whether I might be able to flesh it out. Thanks much. Davemc0 (talk) 19:16, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Okay I have userfied it and placed it at User talk:Davemc0/Vaughn J. Featherstone. Just keep an eye on notability requirements before moving it to article space. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:11, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think it should have been moved to Draft:Vaughn J. Featherstone. If there was a problem with that, it should have been moved to User:Davemc0/Vaughn J. Featherstone. It is not a talk page. Anomalocaris (talk) 21:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for providing it. Yes, I'll see whether I can solve the notability problem. Davemc0 (talk) 17:53, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
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SAARC Region
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