User talk:Ryan shell/Archive 1

Welcome!

Hello, Ryan shell, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Also, welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs! Best wishes, Firsfron of Ronchester 00:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reply[edit]

No apology needed, I completely understand. There are many vandals out there, so don't feel too bad if some of them are people at your school. As long as you continue to contribute in a constructive manner, you have nothing to worry about. You will not be associated with the vandals because you have a user name, while they remain anonymous. I appreciate the apology and happy editing. --Cyrus Andiron ^t/_c 19:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cutlass in 1941[edit]

Ryan, the guy who put the cutlass quote in there never registered and hasn't been seen editing since last March. I wouldn't count on him or anyone seeing your question on the cutlass talk page.

If I were you, I'd contact the Pirate King, Rob Ossian (http://www.thepirateking.com/historical/cutlass.htm), who makes the same claim on his website. That's probably where the unknown editor picked up the 1941 cutlass allegation anyway. --Pirate Dan 03:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC) (sorry, forgot to sign earlier).

tendaguru[edit]

To anyone reading- the following is a list of dinosaurus that may (or may not) have been found in Tendaguru. if anyone sees this list, plaese help me cross reference them before i add them to the tendaguru article.

thankyou Ryan shell 18:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ouachita Madtom[edit]

On 13 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ouachita Madtom, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi[edit]

Should we make an article about the school? Will dwane 16:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was bored in Word Processing so I put a bunch of userboxes on my user page.

Fresh Water Fishes Project[edit]

I'm glad you agree. North American fishes, especially the freshwater fishes, sounds like a workable scope of a project. Fishes of this area are probably well identified and studied than fishes in some other parts. And I have seen several good books that you can use as sources and references. Although the books I found include only The U.S. and Canada fishes. Mexico is typically excluded from those books. Maybe because it's considered Central America? I don't really know if "North American fishes" extend to cover the Mexican ones but this is something you'd probably want to clarify in the proposal too as Mexico (and Central America) have a very large number of fishes that are probably quite different from the U.S./Canadian ones as they include the tropical areas. --Melanochromis 23:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

63.215.29.11[edit]

Hi. I replied to your message on my talk page. I'm at a loss to know what you might have looked at, as the contributions and talk page with a history of nasty vandalism shows up clearly for me. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 03:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

Did you know? was updated. On 14 May, 2007, a fact from the article Humberto Mauro, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 15:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)...[reply]

Lame[edit]

None of your userboxes are funny. They're all pretty sad and pretty much based on things that I have already said. Plagiarist. Send me a message on how to create my own. I'll show you true wit and sarcasm. You should get a Ph.D. in philosophy. It as useless as your and your brother's attempts at wit. P.S. my summer has been pretty sweet except for the old people. OUT, rtard. Will dwane 20:30, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Fish Quiz[edit]

Just thought you might be interested to join our game :) --Melanochromis 20:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Behold[edit]

I left a userbox on the sandbox. It's a Willism with a twist.

Neo-Giant[edit]

I've found several mistakes in the Neo-giant article, which I can't fix. Hopefully you can as you wrote it. Please see the Article's talk page for my points. Totnesmartin 19:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Longsnout butterflyfish[edit]

On 13 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Longsnout butterflyfish, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 17:13, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 8 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leptocleidus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 22:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 16 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Doctorfish tang, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 19:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 21 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article bar jack, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 15:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Status of Coccothrinax argentata[edit]

You listed Coccothrinax argentata as Vulnerable [1]. I can't find a source for this. Do you have one? Guettarda 03:00, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Turkey Trot Links[edit]

Why did you remove those links I've put for the Miamisburg Turkey Trot? MarkDonna (talk) 19:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-It might of been the edit conflict....I'll fix it :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkDonna (talk • contribs) 19:36, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

page patrol[edit]

I marked Princeton Media Group for speedy-delete, then you marked it patrolled, then I changed my mind and took off the speedy tag. But maybe it ought to have a speedy tag. I wasn't sure. Anyway, you might want to put the speedy tag back on or something. Sorry to complicate things. --Coppertwig (talk) 01:29, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind -- somebody else speedied it. --Coppertwig (talk) 01:31, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re:barnstar[edit]

You're very welcome! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1bookfan (talk • contribs) 02:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for some help[edit]

You don't suppose I could get you to help me with some of my other giraffe articles that I've started? (Including Bramatherium and Honanotherium?)--Mr Fink (talk) 03:49, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much!--Mr Fink (talk) 19:21, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

[edit]

Hi Ryan: Thank you very much for the welcome message and advise links. Along the just gone last year I found the Wikipedia a very valuable tool for seeking information usefull for the development of the subject I was teaching at the university (biogeography), and I found it also to be great in finding a lot of interesting information on a lot of general items. I then decided "why not" to contribute in a field I know rather well, wasp taxonomy. As we all know, there is a lot to be done on taxonomy and each one of us can contribute not only to the scholar research but also in putting the taxonomic information acesible to the general public and rise real interest in the real core but shamely neglected central item of the biodiversity subject. Cheers Bolosphex (talk) 23:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)Bolosphex[reply]

Invite[edit]

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks!

DYK[edit]

On 7 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Horse-eye jack, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Wizardman 04:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Horse Eye Jack[edit]

Hi Ryan I am currently away working without all my resources at the moment. I will be home in a couple of weeks or so, and i will make your Horse-Eye Jack pic my top priority when i do. I am glad to see someone else hammering away at fish articles; there are so damn many of them that it seems like a never ending task creating them all. Also, i will be redoing the bar jack picture; i was unhappy with the way it turned out, but i have improved my methods since (razorbelly scad pic is quite nice, as is cleftbelly trevally). If i don't respond to messages promptly, its because im busy or the internet here connection is down (it's hopeless). Keep up with the great articles. Cheers Kare Kare (talk) 10:09, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Online freelance[edit]

I was thinking about this page when you gave it a db-spam. I don't think it really is spam (though it might become so if the promised links were added); rather than see a speedy declined I have changed it to a PROD on grounds of being original research and a how-to guide. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I saw the author had been banned, so I'm sure it'll just vanish in a puff of smoke after 5 days. I preferred PROD because the speedy criteria are sometimes interpreted quite strictly and I thought, without the advertising links, a speedy fro spam might be declined. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:48, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Almaco jack[edit]

On 26 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Almaco jack, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Black Jack[edit]

Hi Ryan,

I saw the new article up, nice work, but i'm thinking the page should be moved to either "Black jack (fish)" or "Black trevally" to keep inline with WP:FISH page name conventions. Any thoughts or suggestions? Cheers, Kare Kare (talk) 16:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the picture to Horse-eye jack. Unfortunately, it's a pretty drab looking fish except for that yellow caudal fin. If anything is obviously wrong with the image, let me know. Cheers Kare Kare (talk) 07:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually i notice a few sources, including the one you've used, state the caudal fin is black or dark, but every photo except one on fishbase show the species has the yellow tail. A couple of books i have state the tail is bright yellow also, so maybe there are two species being confused with each other or there is geographical variation in the species. Also, if the specimen is taken from an estuary or river, the colouration always tends to be darker, so maybe that affects caudal fin colour? I'm not sure really. Anyway, i like my pic with the yellow tail, it brightens things up. Kare Kare (talk) 08:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 5 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Black jack (fish), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

- P.K.Niyogi (talk) 14:05, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Styxosaurus[edit]

On 10 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Styxosaurus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 23:47, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar[edit]

Thankyou glad somebody noticed and appreciates it! I'm over half way through now. Once they are all started then they can be built upon into nice articles with infoboxes!! If we get 36,000 half decent articles by the end of it it will be a job well worth it. CHeers -keep those DYK'S coming too!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:27, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cottonmouth jack[edit]

On 24 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cottonmouth jack, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 09:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Repost of Beast of Dean[edit]

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Permit (fish)[edit]

Hi Ryan, as redirects aren't considered as articles I have taken the liberty of altering your DYK nomination to a new article rather than an expansion. Thanks, Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 00:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 8 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Permit (fish), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Victuallers (talk) 12:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Images to List of plesiosaurs[edit]

I'm not questioning that they are a welcome addition. I do think, however, that the edit is somewhat poorly done. Namely that the images are too many for such a short list and that they break the layout: [edit] links appearing where they shouldn't. In my opinion, I'd keep the images that fit and either remove or readjust those that don't. Dracontes (talk) 18:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nicholas Hilliard[edit]

Thank you very much for congratulating me on my good fortune.--Pataki Márta (talk) 21:07, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

dyk[edit]

On 15 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Trachinotus goodei, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Victuallers (talk) 09:47, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kimmerosaurus[edit]

On 30 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kimmerosaurus , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Victuallers (talk) 14:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested user sub-page deleted[edit]

Your user-subpage that you requested to be deleted has been deleted. -- Natalya 02:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks, Ryan shell (talk) 11:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alligator picture[edit]

Thanks for using that picture of an American alligator I took! I also nominated it for FP, see here! Again, thanks! –Sidious1701_{(talk • email)} 18:34, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

5/8 DYK[edit]

On 8 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lookdown, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford 18:54, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

5/17 DYK[edit]

On 17 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Callawayasaurus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford 15:47, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Atlantic bumper[edit]

On 22 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Atlantic bumper, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 08:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Atlantic bumper talk page[edit]

Hi Ryan,

Just saw the 'cause and effect' section on that talk page and your answer. Fishbase (where the article says you got the info from) says:

"Replaced by Chloroscombrus orqueta in eastern Pacific. These two species have not been adequately studied and may prove to be conspecific".

Always be careful not to read too much into a statement like this. Although its quite reasonable to suggest some kind of niche partitioning, fishbase doesn't state this. In fact, this statement questions whether the Atlantic and Pacific Bumpers are not a single species ('conspecific'). I'm not sure how to put it simply... the way you word it in the article makes it sound as though definitive ecological experiments have been carried out on the two 'species', and the article makes it sound very factual that the ONLY reason Atlantic bumper don't exist in the Pacific is because of the Pacific Bumper. All fishbase states is that one is replaced by the other, not WHY this occurs (if the 2 populations are a single species then this argument is meaningless anyway). I can't see anywhere on fishbase where it states they both occupy the same niche either.

I would suggest perhaps changing that statement to a sentence about how the 2 species MAY be the same. If you got that piece of info from somewhere else, don't mind my rant but put the ref in. I hope this helps.

Kare Kare (talk) 11:17, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Leurospondylus[edit]

On 2 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leurospondylus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Statustop template: alternate updating method[edit]

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Scouting and sex abuse[edit]

First, many thanks for your supportive comments on the censorship issue. It has been bugging me for ages but I only just found about WP:WikiProject_Wikipedians_against_censorship.

Second - how come the first thing you do is add an extraordinarily POV sentence to the lead toScouting sex abuse cases?

Of the hundreds of thousands of people who have been Scout leaders, only a tiny minority have been charged with abusive behavior

Not only is the language poor ("tiny" ???) but there is no source in the article for this "fact", which by implication could be seen as a comparison with other similar groups (e.g. priests, teachers). In fact serious research (which could be cited) suggests that scouting has about the same level of problem as similar groups. So are you now going to try adding a similar sentence to Catholic sex abuse cases (it wouldn't last a minute)?

Parity is at least as much my point as censorship. And at the core of the comparison are dramatically different POVs: the scouting gang want to pretend there aint no abuse going down, whereas the people working on the Catholic articles are ok with attacking the Church. Testbed (talk) 17:45, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for prompt reply. All clear now. Good luck working on this (I provided plenty of references on various pages if you can be bothered to look them up) - be warned, the scouting folk are very well organised, and seem (as I think I argued on some talk page or other) to consider that their loyalty to scouting overrides Wikipedia's standards (even though some are admins). Testbed (talk) 18:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for my sloppy language: by "scouting folk" I mean the (pretty small) number of editors concerned with the issue to date. You are clearly interested in being objective (and seem to value Wikipedia more generally, rather than just as a shop window for scouting promotion). All good news! Testbed (talk) 19:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keeltail needlefish[edit]

On 17 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Keeltail needlefish, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 06:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uronautes[edit]

Hi Ryan!

I just took a look at the article Uronautes, which you recently created. It is really looking good! Keep up the great editing work. :) Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 00:00, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dactylosaurus[edit]

On 4 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dactylosaurus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 19:14, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 18 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Robust redhorse, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Gatoclass (talk) 07:47, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A warning on sandboxes[edit]

Hi Ryan,

I just thought i would let you know i had an unfinished article i was working on in my sandbox (Stout whiting) taken out and posted in its article space by another user. I know you use the sand boxes also, and would suggest you use a word processing program in the future, except for final stages (images, formatting etc). I wouldn't want you to also have an article taken and posted prematurely. Keep up the great fish and marine reptile articles mate, Kare Kare (talk) 04:24, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP Palaeo[edit]

Hi, I see you've been tagging a few pages with the paleo banner. Just to point out that a page should only be tagged with one of WP geology or WP palaeo, as palaeo is a daughter project of geology. Thanks. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 15:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Lukwata[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Citadel Felbarr[edit]

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DYK[edit]

On 26 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Augustasaurus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Gatoclass (talk) 17:07, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mackerel scad[edit]

On 11 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mackerel scad, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 07:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Bathyspondylus[edit]

On 12 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bathyspondylus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

– RyanCross (talk) 00:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stub category[edit]

Just wanted to let you know I kill the stub template on your user page. I made the same mistake, and was informed it's against the MOS to stub template user pages. No offense mate :) Paranormal Skeptic (talk) 23:30, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Round scad[edit]

On 21 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Round scad, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cirt (talk) 23:58, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The 25 DYK Medal[edit]

		The 25 DYK Medal
		For your contributions to generate 25 DYK articles, I hereby award you the 25 DYK Medal. Your contributions centering on fish, prehistoric animals, and other species are appreciated! Royal broil 05:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unwatched[edit]

John Reaves 02:15, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]