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Category:Bird terminology
- Fledgling (birds)
- Flock (birds)
- Hawking (birds)
- Rookery–See for: Pterosaur
- Skylarking (birds)

Category:Epic of Gilgamesh

Category:Birds of the Madrean sky islands Category:Birds of Sierra Madre Occidental

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Saa–(not mine)
Shen ring–(altered)

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Hi

It is traditional to put a "Welcome to Misplaced Pages" message here. I won't do that because you have already been here at least three weeks! But welcome anyway.

If you are feeling a little confused at the moment, I have very little sympathy for you: you delayed so long in creating an account and took absolutely no part in the Votes for Deletion process. Now you have an account you can see that it is no big deal is it?

The good news is that nothing of your work has been lost. You will find links to it at the start of this list.

Go ahead, find the articles, do a few edits just to assure yourself that they all right, then stop. You said if you accept the Return of some Pages. The blunt answer is: we do not accept the return of any of your pages. The kindly answer is: Great work, Michael, but please do it elsewhere.

You must now turn your mind to finding a new home for your work. As I said in the talk page, you will probably be best creating your own site. If you go to Wikibooks or Wikisource you will run into the same sort of problems as here - they are colaborative projects so other people will edit your stuff or at least express opinions about it!

Please keep in touch. You can always leave messages for me at User talk:RHaworth and since Tony Sidaway did the job of moving your stuff, he should be willing to talk to you via User talk:Tony Sidaway.

RHaworth 19:40:44, 2005-08-28 (UTC)

Hello, RHaworth. Well, I have been busy at work, so this is my first chance to get back to what i was doing with Misplaced Pages. Since i Have hard copies of most of what I was working on, I must explain some things.

----First I think the El Amarna letters will go down in history as with other clay tablet, or lignuistic "Sources", as with other major linguistic, // slash antrhropological sources. With the ADVENT of the Internet, these letters are "Destined" to become available to anyone, For so long they have been kept hidden, and I mean that as Point of Fact, .....just like the Dead Sea scrolls, were kept hidden.
--- My efforts were partially finalized before I started, but I was able, Or Had To polish some, or come to conclusions.
----I have more conclusions now, say about EA 245, and the story of "The Plight of Yasdata". He may be now "Osiris Yasdata", the body of Dead Souls,.... I have looked at these really clear cuneif. characters, and am still Not Sure, of some things. Shepard is the other word that may apply here. "Shepard,Journeying, Yasdata". I KNOW, that few have really figured it out completely. What is interesting. ... the same "cuneiform" is used two lines later, ... so i think shepard is what applies.

---what is so "kool", is that there are interesting religious implications in these letters. the Amaran Letters, are Pre-Biblical, and they are not "translated" ! ! ! as the bible is. so, as i predict, they will eventually be studied by many, many more people. My talents, are more Earth Sciences, and Paleontology, Puzzles, but also in pictures, like the anthropological Hand-created items. Those are the puzzles i am refferring to. (The picture in a book, LIKE of Mr king Gudea ?)
----I think the future of wikipedia, is endless, ....in summary, ... so I look forward to doing more
---Thanks for being patient. The focus of the last weeks, was the stuff/the body of stuff I did, as well as the presentation available on the Display screen. I was focussed on the accuracy of my work, and 2nd its look in front of me.
----the transliteration Topic is where it is at. When a Human has the transliteration in front of him/her, they than can figure what it means. The Paragraphic Layouts i did, helped me immensely. It was truely Crossword puzzle stuff, trying to fill in words, and sometimes thoughts, in sentences, or parts of sentences. .... The best example of that is in EA 28, taling about the "problem" of the messengers going and returning to eqypt. the scribe uses the word for "hurdle", to address ... i.e, the mountain, the hurdle. there are such exquistite English words that drop into place, once the story in front of one is Understood.

So, I reread, and just proof, read, I look forward to again talking with, you, and Tony,. Thanks again, Michael McAnnis, in YumaAZ (the desert ! )

Michael, thanks for getting back in touch with us. Our main concern now is that if you have content in the articles currently on Misplaced Pages, you *must* take the opportunity to download them within the next seven days. We really shall delete them, but we're granting a stay of execution out of consideration for the appreciable amount of work that they must represent. The articles are where RHaworth said they would be, so if there is any content you need please download it immediately. I'll let it hang around for a week, and after that time it'll be gone from Misplaced Pages. --Tony Sidaway 03:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Please don't edit those articles. The clock is ticking. They will be completely removed by 8th September. --Tony Sidaway 21:59, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

RHaworth , this is Michael McAnnis, here ...Please look at a year 2000 calendar. It was NOT a leap year. 1600 was not, and 2400 will not be a LEAP YEAR. I first read this stupid formaula para ( 2 ) months ago and could hardly get thru the first sentence. I made corrections back then on " 1899" . I read how others had also found the formula so confusing. Any way it is correct at the moment until somebody goes and revises it again. It is not worded trerrilbly well. I was just trying to make it factual. Please check a calendar, etc. Monday noon, Labor day....MMcAnnis,YumaAZ

I was working on the Rosetta Stone, and the Grandfather's the Decree of Canopus, which implemented Leap year, 238 B.C.E. The book I was given at the Reference desk by a Librarian, had 1 and a half pages on Leap year. It was implemented by Caesar in 55 B.C.E. in 1592 ( ? ) the reorganezed calendar was done. 10 days came off the calendar. then 1600 was skipped, Only the second 400 year skip occurred in 2000; the next 400 year skip is on Feb 28, 2400, certainly a long way aways....MMcAnnis

Rosetta Stone etc.

Thanks for your comment on the Rosetta Stone. In future, please don't remove other comments from people's talk pages when adding your own. Thanks. It really is a nice picture... there are quite a lot of talented people in the project that contribute. I agree, it would be nice to have more pictures of stuff in the British Museum. The best way to get some is to take some yourself. If you don't get out there too often (quite reasonable since you appear to live in Arizona, not the UK) then you could try asking someone to get what you're looking for. You could always try leaving a note on the image's talk page, contacting the uploader, or maybe having a look around Misplaced Pages:UK Wikipedians' notice board to see whether there are any willing people around.

P.S. Regarding Leap year, see 2000, 1900, and all of the other years. A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 but not 400. So, 2000 was a leap year, and 1900, 1800, 1700 aren't. Cheers, JYolkowski // talk 20:56, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I just read up on the Facts of leap year..... with a smug shrug, i have to admit I was sleeping all day on Leap Year Day 2000, and/or I was translating. Oh well, ( I never did understand how the one day skip every 400 years equalled the ten days taken off. I guess I screwed up the formula !). MMcAnnis,YumaAZ.... It was obviously 3 days per 400 years !

Good. We have got that 'sorted'! The article Gregorian calendar says it was 1582 only for the Popish heartland of Europe. Some countries did not change until the 20th century. There is a wonderful painting/engraving by William Hogarth (which, strangely, I cannot find on the web) in which someone is waving a placard saying give us back our eleven days. -- RHaworth 17:24:44, 2005-09-06 (UTC)

I did not look hard enough! It was here in the Commons. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 03:22, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

After: Amarna letters Rosetta Stone THE Epic, My creations

RHaworth, and others, Thanks for your Patience. My practice of Amarna letters was Really important. Just today, I Now see how these, User, Talk pages work. I just looked at the developer of the LMLK seal page, Mr "Funhistory" 's Talk page, and with the help of many people, I now know how to make and add to " Category: " pages.

So, I am assessing directions to go in. Today I completed (For Now) the "Impression seal" group. I finally opened a Masterful type Book" from Germany(Konemann Publ.) see ref at Scaraboid seal, (subgroup of Impression seal ), 2 editors, and 35 Authors. Quite the pics, etc.

Note on Kushite phar. Piankh 1074-1070 BC

I asked at the Talk:Lunar eclipse, page, Lunar eclipse if someone could check on the Stela of Piankhi for the lunar eclipse(asked about season of year) mentioned in his Stela Autobiography, of about 40 pages, (Long), It is in the 1907 work by James Henry Breasted who in the 5-Volume( Ancient Records of Egypt ) work redid all the Egyptian translations (How long did that take him?). Any now, thanks fellow citizens (grk, demotoles), guys and gals. (Work, and other business.) Michael McAnnis,YumaAZ

Mummy

Hi, you changed the code on Mummyy//Mummy but then left a stray character at the end of the article. I just erased all of that thinking it was a mistake of garbled code everywhere, but then I see that the code for the Egyptian word for mummy got changed in the process. I'd like you to relook at that and make it the way it's supposed to be. Thanks. DreamGuy 22:08, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

3D images

Hi, I'm in Ventura County California. I really like posting museum objects in this new "compatible form" of 3D. It really makes eveything of this type look more realistic, while not ruining the effect for those lacking the simple glasses. There are always a few million glasses out there at all times, especially kids are likely to have saved them from "Spy Kids 3D'. I would appreciate if this format were to be given a chance as it draws kids into interest in archeology and museums. 3dnatureguy 21:57, 22 January 2006 (UTC) Originally misposted to user:Mmcannis.

sandbox

I distinctly recall you saying that you do not want a user page. I encourage you to create one:

it makes you look less like a newbie
it is where you can list pages to which you have contributed
it discourages people from mis-placing talk messages there

but I won't insist. However I do insist that you should not use your talk page for notes to yourself, etc. Talk pages are for dialogue with other users. You are encouraged to keep private pages for your own jottings - you will now find yours at User:Mmcannis/sandbox - please use it. -- RHaworth 12:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)Thanks. I just got home from work, so I'll write a complete note later, after I look at the sandbox ( I see now why the name 'Sandbox' must exist). Thanks again. MMcAnnis,YumaAZ--Mmcannis 02:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your help on Laguna Diversion Dam. I appreciate you catching that typo. I had wondered if anyone had noticed the new article yet. It is a dam with a very interesting history. Kukini 19:57, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Winged sun=winged--Ra, note

Ancient Egyptian use

All of the subordinated gods of Egypt were considered part of the Sun god Horus, (= the Pharaoh).
List of gods represented in the Winged sun center disk:

Horus, –the hawk(the pharaoh)
Horus, –(= Ra), the pharaoh
Mut, –the pharaohs wife/consort, (the Protectress of Egypt)
Xeper, –the Pharaoh, transformed into the Sun God
etc., (various others)--Michael McAnnis--Mmcannis 16:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi/Arizona flora

Hi Michael, Thanks for your comments on my talk page. They were interesting in terms of the plants you've seen recently as well as the info about stuff that can be done with "related changes", "Contrib", etc. I'm learning as I go along. I don't have a lot of time to work on Misplaced Pages, but my respect for the project has greatly increased as I've looked at it, and I'm hoping to add some middle Tennessee botanical stuff in the near future.

I'm going to southern AZ this July to visit two sisters-in-law and families. They tell me that the drought has pretty much creamed all of the vegetation there. So I don't know what I'll see.

Steve Baskauf 20:04, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of Arizona Wilderness Areas

Hi there. I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article List of Arizona Wilderness Areas, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. The material in the article is virtually identical to List of U.S. Wilderness Areas. It's much easier to maintain one list for all of US instead of an separate list for each state. Additionally, I have implemented Category:Wilderness Areas of Arizona to keep it easier to track which wilderness areas have articles.

If you disagree with the deletion, discuss the issues raised at Talk:List of Arizona Wilderness Areas. If you remove the "{{prod}}" template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Thanks! ClarkBHM 18:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I saw that you removed the template. What would you propose instead? ClarkBHM 18:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I should have written you earlier. I have been redoing this list, and am just about finished with the associated Mountains, etc. And, I mentioned, that I was never really happy with the fact that I just copied the whole body of the "U.S." page; it was just quick and easy to do it. So.... I was glad that you made the update happen. I am also trying to get to the Sky islands of SE ariz, since "Bauskauf" just added a great link (out of Vanderbilt) with a better map. ....So I'll have the second list done(on this Wilderness page) in about a half hour or so. And, I want to say thanx for all the help, too. --MichaelMcAnnis,YumaAZ, down in the Lower Colorado River VAlley---Mmcannis 18:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Saguaro ext links

Hi Michael - I've added a response to your query at Talk:Saguaro - MPF 16:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanx. Before I found the NRCS database, I was proceeding more slowly. I had been working on a page for plants in the Sonoran Desert, after I made the Lower Colorado River Valley, category. (originally because of a bird page).... So, I then pulled up my Volume 3, Minor Hardwoods of North America. Only after doing other flora's, in other states, did I finally come up to the Buckthorn's etc. And see the renaming of some of the Genus levels..... Anyhow..I finally looked at the maps (as in the Jepson maps), for the Saguaro: AZ, CA for the USDA data and saw that it was Not updated. The saguaro's go all up the river, both east and west side. In Imperial Co, San Bernardino Co., and Riverside Co. And of course they extend up the "Joshua Tree Parkway" towards Western Mohave County, Arizona, and the Mojave Desert. I'll go look at the Saguaro talk. Thanx again.(PS, as a young teenager(new to Ariz.), I will never forget seeing tham at Bagdad, in the foothills, down in the Open Pit Mine, Miles from Nowhere, literally! ) ,,,,,MichaelMcA,inHotYumaAZ--Mmcannis 17:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Sully Island

Hi - can I please confirm why you've added a Nova Scotia category to Sully Island, a page about a small island in South Wales? Vashti 12:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I probably totally misread the article. I'll remove it, and thanks. Michael, inArizona,--Mmcannis 03:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

No worries, we've all done it. Thanks for your quick response. :) Vashti 05:41, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

naturalhistory cats

Well, I don,t mind going through Category:Natural history of the United States by state to make sure categorization is pertinent (see WP:CG: Articles should not usually be in both a category and its subcategory, for why I've been making many adjustments). While there are sometimes arguments for puttng an article into a cat and its child, I do not believe they apply here. Right now, I'm working on Subdivision footers standardization, but I can go through Natural history of the United States by state onceI'm finished. Circeus 13:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed that like the avifauna cats, the flora is divide by reions and states. Well, I hope somebody is going to add the states under the regions as for avifauna, because it's not oing to be me. Circeus 20:47, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

fauna

you might be interested in the deletion proposal for all the 'fauna by state' categories. So far, I am one of few to oppose it. Hmains 03:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Discussion can be found here. —Viriditas | Talk 04:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

if you do not agree with the planned deletions, you may go to discussion page (above) and vote to 'keep all' Thanks Hmains 16:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Links

Hi Mmcannis - please don't add links like "] ], from central ] ..." - by doing so you are stating that Canada is part of the United States, which of course, it isn't. Also please go easy on categories; if a species occurs in more than 4 or 5 states/provinces, then use a regional category that covers the whole area. - MPF 10:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! That Oak Ridges Moraine certainly looks an interesting place - MPF 11:06, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Category:Natural history of Trinidad and Tobago and Category:Land Birds of Trinidad and Tobago

I am curious about why you chose to come up with Category:Natural history of Trinidad and Tobago, and why you placed it as a subcategory of Category:Trinidad and Tobago, rather than one of the other subcategories. While Category:Environment of Trinidad and Tobago is poorly named, adding a parallel Category:Natural history of Trinidad and Tobago seems redundant, especially since it does not include a lot of articles which really belong in there.

With regards to Category:Land Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (and those of other islands), I was wondering why you chose that and not the more common cat:Avifauna of Foo. What is your cut-off for land birds? Would this be a subcat of Avifauna of Foo? Guettarda 14:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello,Guettarda. I'll explain quickly; I had started avifauna, after seeing the Category:Avifauna of Florida. It was the only Avifauna page. I did western USA, then ALL the states(of the West) then headed to eastern US, but the regions(also): ex: (the one I just entered, the Common Black Hawk), to: Category:Avifauna of Southwestern United States. It is all under Category:Natural history of the United States by state(Somebody else after the mess I created put 'all of it' into the "by-state" categories, and then I did like,... canada by-province, and some(Most)of the Mexican states by-state)(None of that applies in the same way to the Caribbean). they list the Fauna/Flora, then Trees, and Avifauna, a basic 4; some states have an addition: For example: Category:Natural history of New Mexico was the first addition I made of Category:Rio Grande.

I just//almost finished Ontario, the Category:Natural history of Ontario. I added the Category:Oak Ridges Moraine, the landform that extends parallel to the St Lawrence Seaway, and covers/Extends all across S. Ontario

I only started Central America yesterday, but kept coming up with the South American, and Caribbean connections. When I was finishing up Ontario, I ended up off the east coast of Canada. and even just added a bird from the Lesser Antilles that also goes up to even Greenland. .... so it is in Category:Avifauna of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. The Cocoa Thrush.

I assume the "Birds" should, in some cases, try to be organized as "terrestial" vs "Shore", vs "Water". I really don't have the answers to it. I only just started, so I try to find the category that has already been created, for example: Category:Wildlife of the Caribbean, and made subcategories for it.

Any thing can be Re-arranged. I just now am going thru the Lesser Antilles, but I appreciate your asking. I have to get off this computer, but I started this saturday morning, and am just about to take an intermission.. .....///Thanks for being curious. Out-in-the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.. --Mmcannis 15:38, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

When I did Mexico, I fairly quickly went back and Did: Category:Avifauna of Eastern Mexico, Central and Category:Avifauna of Western Mexico. The Eastern Mex birds go down into Central America. Anyway this is just a work in progress, Andddd... the Natural history stuff has for the USA all the Tornadoes, and Derechos, which I hadn't even heard of.. Also Impact Craters—(Plus somebody just added the Big Fires to Nat. History-I had added some earthquakes. The Caribbean has its earthquakes, etc.). I've done about 10-20 states fairly completely for the Natural History---- So still working on this. Look at the bird pages I tried at Yuma, Arizona-(2 pages of birds)..Mmcannis 15:38, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure that you understood my questions.

Why did you create Category:Natural history of Trinidad and Tobago, and what was the reason for creating it without any relation to the other categories?
Why "land birds" (it should be "Land birds", not "Land Birds", by the way) and not Avifauna? There are lots of "Avifauna of Foo" categories, so why have separate Land birds, Shore birds and Water birds (and by water birds do you include waterfowl? waders?)? What is the underlying basis for this division? And why is it necessary - I have never seen anything other than Avifauna of Foo or Birds of Foo. Guettarda 22:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

? Guettarda 07:42, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

talk page etiquette

Regarding Talk:Graffito (archaeology): If you're wondering who made a comment, please use the edit history; it will tell you who said what and when they said it. If you wish to reply to a specific part of a comment, please quote it and add your response; posting inline destroys the flow of discussion and is the equivalent of interrupting someone while he's talking. See Misplaced Pages:Talk page for more. —Charles P._(Mirv) 15:03, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Trees of the Caribbean Basin

Can you explain what the benefit of this edit is? If you want to include common names, why just a few, and why bold some and not others? Could you explain what your plan is? Thanks. Guettarda 05:11, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I realize this is all somebody elses work, However, you must know that I have just been creating some of the Fauna, Birds, Trees, Flora etc. I had started in Western US, (where I live). I went thru Canada, and parts of N. Mexico. The Madrean sky islands of the Sierra Madre Occidental, etc.

Anyhooowww, I just went thru the C. Amer stuff and the South American. I have no plan, just creating as I go (For example: Category Talk:Trees of Chile). And once I ended up at Tierra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands, I found how the sub categories like: Category:Trees of the Guianas need to be put together.

And I just started again on the Lesser Antilles, for Trees; I had done some of the Birds. And I started putting Trees into the (New) category: Category:Trees of the Amazon; Since I don't live there, and can only read about it. ..... I do need advice. The cycad Zumila, or whatever its name is I had added to Category:Trees of Cuba when I was just starting. I just entered the Durango Pine starting down the W.Mexico side, after doing many of the categories for the states. And today I was redoing Category:Sonora, looking at links in Sonora, and updating stuff I had added to categories back in January thru July. Soooo.... I just had started, and certainly expected somebody to say something, And I could use some advice. If something ends up dumb and wrong please make an obvious change. I expect to NOT have any final answers, but some of the things I did, were at times, I think "inspiring" (like the name I found for the midwest U.S.) Trees, Fauna, and Flora, and Avifauna of: Category:Trees of Plains-Midwest U.S., i later made Category:Trees of Appalachia U.S. and left off up at the Great Lakes (after working on: Category:Natural history of Ontario, which is southerly into the U.S. and has gobs of stuff from all over the South, just extending into Ontario.

Any how change anything you think appropriate, or give it a day or two. Obviously the page shouldn't be Junked-up with irrelevant info. (And I just figured out all the Yucatan stuff too: Category:Natural history of the Yucatán},and redid how it looks in the Supercategories.(and I can't reread all this to edit it.) Michael, out in the Sonoran Desert; .....--Mmcannis 05:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually I am in Oklahoma (and very homesick). Guettarda 06:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner (and I'm just here for a moment now) but the Trees of the Caribbean Basin is very incomplete - I found it with just a handful of examples and have added a lot to it, but not systematically. I'll probably harvest what I can from your "Trees of..." cats when I get a chance. The list of palms of the Caribbean should be pretty much complete, at least based on the species recognised by the compiler of the Kew list (now to add some info about each species...). The Trees of the Caribbean will probably take a decade to finish ;) Guettarda 02:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Flora/Fauna by continent categories

Hi,

You recently reverted my edits to the continent articles, stating this: "As with the "Island Nations" of "Oceania", (and "Hawaii"), and for Flora (the "Flora of Eurasia"), so this goes here, as does "Central America", w/ its Nations".

Could you please explain to me what you mean, as it doesn't make sense to include islands, and regions of North America as seperate continents. We don't call New Zealand or Tasmania there own continent. --liquidGhoul 03:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Please don't ignore me, and continue with what I am inquiring about. I want to clean up these sections, and there is still some work which needs to be done on them. These changes may fix the problems you are trying to "fix". In the mean time, I would prefer you not make any major changes without discussion. --liquidGhoul 03:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

But why include them as continents. It is arguable as to whether the Caribbean is its own continent, but Central America is definitely not. --liquidGhoul 04:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Yuma, Arizona radio stations

AM

_560 - KBLU --- Local/Talk - Yuma
1320 - KAWC - National Public Radio, etc - AWC (college) - Yuma
1400 - KJOK --- Oldies - Yuma

FM

_88.1 - KCFY --The Source– Christian - Yuma
_88.9 - KAWC - National Public Radio, etc - AWC (college) - Yuma
_93.1 - KLJZ ---- Z93– Modern Rock - Yuma
_95.1 - KTTI ---- Country - Yuma(Ktti-Kountry)
100.9 - KYJT -- The Jet– Modern Rock - Yuma
104.5 - KCEC - La Campesina– Modern Rock/{Hispanic/Mex/USA) - Yuma

List of palms of the Caribbean

Hi. I was wondering if you might have a look at List of palms of the Caribbean and see what you think of it. I am especially interested in what you think of the format - do you like the distributions the way they are formatted, do you think the comments at the end of the genus sections are useful (and do you think they would be better at the top of the section, or as they are at the end)? Thanks for your input. Guettarda 20:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the redirects - I was working towards WP:FL standards - list items aren't supposed to be redlinks, so I made them redirects. I agree with the issue of redlinks vs redirects - so, obviously, I realise that creating the redirects leaves me with the obligation of creating all those articles. Guettarda 03:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:Historical people of U.S. natural history

Could you add some criteria for inclusion in Category:Historical people of U.S. natural history? It's not clear to me how some of the categorized folks qualify. -Will Beback · † · 01:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Message page

Sorry for wrong page! Cheers, Pete Tillman 19:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

New talk-Dec-Jan1

Hi -- & thanks for the compliments. I lived in Tucson for almost 30 years, so know S. AZ well. Will take a look at your new page.
Cheers, Pete Tillman 19:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

wrong page

I am mystified by your comments: I do know how to search now, so I really don't have the excuse of not finding my name easily. a) providing you are logged in, it don't matter what browser you are using, there will always be a link to your user page on every Misplaced Pages page you view and it will always be in the same place; b) does it really make things any better if it is a red link? c) if you want it always to be a missing page, why do you need to find it?

But no matter. Yes it is something you can fix yourself:

copy and paste the present content to your talk page (standard Misplaced Pages courtesy)
replace this page with {{db|I prefer my user name to be a red link (even though it makes me look like a newbie)}}
wait and see what happens.

-- RHaworth 11:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)(moving informationa).... -Mmcannis 08:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Good try. Now change { into { ! -- RHaworth 20:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

ratings

hi,

just wanted to clarify what the ratings in certain talk pages are good for: this way it's much easier for maintainers of projects like WikiProject Spiders to assess which pages need work, and which are good already. it's not meant to be some kind of contest ;) cheers :) --Sarefo 22:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Cat:Avifauna of Texas

Curious, what all goes in this category? I was considering adding the Greater Roadrunner to it but wasn't sure, since Category:Avifauna of Texas falls within Category:Avifauna of Southwestern United States, if its worth putting in that category? I'm not sure how the entire Fauna/Flora of ______ system works. drumguy8800 C T 22:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

and/or

In reverting an edit to the page Morph (zoology), you indicated that "It seems pretty clear why '...and/or...' was used here-....Putting and/or back in."

Perhaps you can explain to me what seems pretty clear about it? What seems pretty clear to me is that A OR B is True if A is True, B is True, OR A AND B are True. Please provide an example of a situation where A AND/OR B is True when A OR B is NOT True or, if you prefer, the converse.

Perhaps you find it more convenient to use the language of the article. Assume that species A is behaviourally distinct but not morphologically distinct from species B; this means that species A is behaviourally OR morphologically distinct from species B. Similarly, in the case where species A is not behaviourally distinct but is morphologically distinct from species B, we can say that species A is behaviourally OR morphologically distinct from species B. Finally, should it be that species A is behaviourally AND morphologically distinct from species B, we can see that species A is behaviourally OR morphologically distinct from species B. Can you not see that the OR condition includes the AND condition?

Please show me a possible construct where A AND/OR B conveys information that is not already included in A OR B.

For this reason, I maintain that the use of "and/or" is an abuse of the language and should be avoided. Of course, I am willing to be convinced otherwise. It's just that I can't fathom a case where "and/or" means something distinct from "or". If you can help me out in understanding why it seems so pretty clear to you, I'd be in your debt.

In the interim, I'm sure you'll understand why I shall revert that edit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fluri (talk • contribs) 05:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

Oops! Yeah, sorry, I forgot to sign that comment... Thanks, bot. :-) Dave 05:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Aretalogy

Nice to see you still around. I saw aretalogy and thought of you. -- RHaworth 00:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

thanks

Well, thanks much. And good luck in your work, which you obviously enjoy. Hmains 01:59, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Environment and natural history

You might want to look at the attempted discussion at Talk:Natural history which is about whether Natural History categories should be subcats of Environment categories or vise versa or something else. This started about U.S. states, but by extension is about all countries. Hmains 16:39, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Black-throated Mango

I noticed your cats for this. Is Blue-throated an error, or have I overlooked something? Jimfbleak 14:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Mountain Plover categories

Hi. You put Mountain Plover in three "endemic" categories—Endemic birds of the U.S. Rocky Mountains, Endemic birds of Plains-Midwest U.S., Endemic birds of the Southwestern United States—that are mutually exclusive. Also it's seldom found in the Rocky Mountains, and it's not even endemic to the U. S., as it's also found in Canada and Mexico. I'm removing those three categories, but what's going on? —JerryFriedman 02:13, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

cross posted on WP-categories project

I notice you are busy adding birds of country x cats to bird articles and formatting so that they are listed on the category page by their type name; thus Blue-spotted Parrot comes under P and Yellow-rumped Fan-parrot comes under F. Why? is this some Misplaced Pages wide standard? Surely this doesn't aid in finding articles if you have to hunt unalphabetically for the article you want. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:39, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Endemic

Please stop adding "endemic" categories that don't apply. "Endemic" means the species is found nowhere else but in that region. —JerryFriedman 17:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Red-capped Cardinal

Your amendment to this article read as if in South America it only occurred south of the Amazon, which cannot be what you intended since it is common in Venezuela and Colombia. I assume that you meant in Brazil, please correct if that is not what you meant. Jimfbleak 05:31, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

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Sorry for that; I've reverted it. Are you related to User:71.227.26.32?--Oneiros 20:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Endemic birds of Alaska

Hi Mmcannis: I'm just letting you know that I've nominated this category for deletion, as only a single species (McKay's Bunting) qualifies as an Alaskan endemic. If you'd like to comment at the CfD, you can do so here. MeegsC | Talk 14:38, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Endemic birds of Canadian regions

Hi. I've just done the same for four categories such as "Endemic birds of Western Canada". Canada has no endemic birds at all. If you want to comment, please do so here. —JerryFriedman 05:28, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of archaeological world treasures (major and minor)

List of archaeological world treasures (major and minor), an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that List of archaeological world treasures (major and minor) satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not" and the Misplaced Pages deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of archaeological world treasures (major and minor) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of List of archaeological world treasures (major and minor) during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 00:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

User page

It would be good if you could put a little about yourself (not too much) on your user page. It is not a home page, but it belongs to the wiki. Your user name always shows up as a red link, and can give they wrong impression that you are a new editor. Snowman (talk) 18:14, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I am very appreciative of your hint/advice/suggestion. I have had to revert by name back to red a couple of times,.....and I use it so I can find my name more quickly. ...So I found that more important than any- -body knowing who I am. On the talk page,.... I kind of Have a List of some of the Nice things I have done. .. --Again, I thank you for the advice..(whenever I get a message, I always wonder: "Now what?"..) so I will at some time compose some UserINFO... I recently moved near a small ARBORETUM, and i.(sic) also recently made my first 3 plant pages. I have stayed away from it, because of the depth, or study, .. one has to do. But I have some ideas for developing a nice couple Arboretum pages... thanks again. Michael, SonoranDesert guyYUMA,AZ, ..Mmcannis (talk) 18:38, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I understand that you can use the "nickname" (see "my preferences") to name some or part of the words of your name a different colour. The nickname should not take up too much space. Snowman (talk) 18:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Double-listing plants in flora categories

Please explain the rationale for putting common-name redirect pages into categories. If you want it to appear under the common name, you can always do a redirect on the article page. As it is, every page you do that to appears twice in the category.--Curtis Clark (talk) 04:08, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Grave goods

I see you have a history of working on the article Grave goods. I am looking at it from the project Misplaced Pages:Unreferenced articles where it is one of the longest {{unreferenced}} tagged articles that does not meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability. It has been tagged and completely without references since June 2006. It would be extremely helpful if you had some references you could add to the article to help support its verifiability and notability. Thanks for any help you can give. BirgitteSB 19:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Defaultsort

Hi Michael: I know you do a lot of work categorizing biology articles, and I wondered if you'd come across the DEFAULTSORT template yet. It can save a lot of time (and typing!) when adding the same species to a numebr of categories. Instead of having to type the same thing over and over again, you can simply list the sort name once and it will be applied to all the categories which follow the template. See Least Grebe for an example. Here, I've put {{defaultsort|Grebe, Least}} at the start of the list of categories, and that order has been applied to every category that follows. I thought the template might come in handy for your ongoing efforts! MeegsC | Talk 12:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your tireless efforts to improve the quality of bird articles, I award you this barnstar of Diligence. Keep up the good work! Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:38, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

EA (el Amarna)

I've nominated this for deletion, see http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2008_May_26#EA_.28el_Amarna.29 Doug Weller (talk) 10:45, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Eshnunna

I'm pretty sure that "within the first two centuries of the third millennium BC" would be from 3000 BC to 2800 BC (give or take one year based on your view of millennium).

Since Eshnunna reached it's height during the first babylonian empire, that would be like 2000 BC to 1700-ish (depending on when you set the 30th year of Hamurabis reign).

Ploversegg (talk) 23:39, 2 August 2008 (UTC)ploversegg

AfD nomination of Cagebird trade

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Well done on Trackway (disambiguation)

^ --mboverload @ 02:40, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

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Muggins Mountains, et al

Thanks for your good work on fixing up the photo caption at this article -- and, while I'm at it, for your many contributions to the Lower Colorado River Valley articles. Best regards, Pete Tillman (talk) 01:23, 2 November 2008 (UTC), Rimrock AZ

Ankhnesneferibre

Strangely, you don't seem to have ever touched the Egyptian hieroglyphs article. So you probably did not see this image which appeared there briefly. Read down the second column from the left! I have memorialised the incident in this blog post.

As a total irrelevancy, I note a curious commonality between you and the hoaxer: you have both edited from sites which have grabbed more than a reasonable share of the limited pool of IP addresses! You edited from Yuma and the hoaxer edited from Ford Motors. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 03:22, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

List of sofer scribes

Hi, could you please explain to me the difference between a sofer and a sofer scribe? The Hebrew word sofer means scribe! Thank you, Yoninah (talk) 21:53, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

OK, I went ahead and cleaned out "Category:Sofer scribes" (maybe it even disappeared?) and added a new sub-category to "Category:Scribes", called "Category:Jewish scribes (soferim)". I also did a redirect from List of sofer scribes to List of sofers. You could check to see that I did it right. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:36, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

CfD

Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 December 16#Lower Colorado River Valley flora categories Hesperian 06:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Wishing you the very best for the season. Guettarda (talk) 07:30, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Mexicali

The reason for inclusion of Mexicali (municipality) on the Yuma County article is that the municipality borders Yuma County. I'm not arguing that the city of Mexicali borders Yuma County, or even that it's nearby: but the municipality plainly is, as you can see from this map. If you're confused about the status of Mexican municipalities, as I was until a couple of days ago, read Municipalities of Mexico — you'll see that they're analogous to US counties. Nyttend (talk) 04:02, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Bridgwater Bay

The wierd fishing sledge thing used in Bridgwater Bay is known as a mud HORSE so I have reverted your edit. I can see why you thought that might be a typo & I had to check it twice when I wrote it.— Rod 08:40, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Enuma Elish category

Can you please clarify what your intentions are with this? What is the point of Zodiac (Enuma Elish) being a redirect to Zodiac, seeing that the Enuma Elish isn't even mentioned there, nor is the Zodiac mentioned in the Enuma Elish article? It would be more helpful for you to expand the articles to include whatever it is you seem to think connects the two topics. Please also note the existence of Babylonian calendar, which may be a better redirect target. But as far as I can see the Babylonian calendar as reported in the article is a full millennium younger than the Enuma Elish epic. The burden would be on you to provide evidence of the form of the Zodiac at the time of the epic's composition. This may be connected with the Sumerian "Umma calendar", but we don't seem to have any references regarding that. --dab (𒁳) 18:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

I have figured it out now. As I suspected, the Enuma Elish predates the zodiac. King has chosen "stars of the Zodiac" in his translation for simplicity's sake, rendering lumashi, the name of a group of seven stars. See Babylonian zodiac. --dab (𒁳) 13:32, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Madrean sky islands graphic

You're right: User:Tom Radulovich asked for permission and posted the email to my Talk page (see User talk:Hike395/Archive 6#Madrean Sky Islands Image). I simply forgot about it after three years. I'm sorry. I've asked the admin at Commons to undelete the image (see Commons:User talk:MichaelMaggs), hopefully that will work. Thanks for pointing this out. —hike395 (talk) 05:01, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of List of tree species common to Cuba and Florida

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