User talk:Atamari/Archive Aug 2008

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, ! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:


 * How to edit a page
 * Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
 * Picture tutorial
 * How to write a great article

There are a lot of policies and guides to read, but I highly recommend reading over those first. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Please be sure to sign your name on Talk Pages using four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;) to produce your name and the current date, along with a link to your user page. This way, others know when you left a message and how to find you. It's easier than having to type out your name, right? :)

I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Acetic Acid 00:27, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Gambia photos
Hi Atamari: Thank you for your message. I look forward to seeing your pictures! MeegsC | Talk 16:35, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * WOW, you've been busy! Sorry it's taken me so long to look at your posted pictures&mdash;I've been in Costa Rica for the past two weeks.  Did you stay at the Senegambia Hotel?  Some of the photos of the grounds look familiar!  Most of the photos are correctly identified, but there are a couple of mistakes.
 * Turdus pelios 006, 007 and 008 are actually Yellow-billed Shrikes (Corvinella corvina). That dark mask across the eye is a good field mark, as is the long tail and shorter, broader bill.
 * Most of the pictures labeled African Silverbill are actually Grey-headed Sparrows (Passer griseus). Silverbills don't show such strong contrast between the head and back&mdash;but the grey head and rich, red-brown wings are a good field mark for the sparrows.  The three pictures labeled Longchura cantans 0005, 0006 and 0007 aren't Grey-headed Sparrows either.  I suspect they might be Spotted Flycatchers (Musicapa striata), but the resolution isn't good enough for me to tell for sure.
 * Thanks for contributing all of these pictures! They'll help to improve the articles. MeegsC | Talk 19:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * yes, i'm stayed at the senegambia.


 * I use the book: Clive Barlow, Tim Wacher, Tony Disley: Birds of the Gambia and Senegal (Helm Field Guides). ISBN 0-7136-7549-7
 * Turdus pelios -> Corvinella corvina? Are you sure? my picture and a picture from Corvinella corvina. Another picture. I think, the beak is different. And now see this   --Atamari 20:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Atamari. Turdus pelios 005 is definitely an African Thrush.  However, pictures 006, 007, 008 and 009 are definitely not! MeegsC | Talk 08:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

you know, that between the two photographs (Image:Turdus pelios 0005.jpg/Image:Turdus pelios 0006.jpg) only 12 seconds was away is? My next look is African Silverbill... --Atamari 19:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Image:Turdus pelios 0006.jpg new name : Image:Corvinella corvina 0001.jpg
 * Image:Turdus pelios 0007.jpg new name : Image:Corvinella corvina 0001.jpg
 * Image:Turdus pelios 0008.jpg new name : Image:Corvinella corvina 0001.jpg
 * Image:Turdus pelios 0009.jpg new name : Image:Corvinella corvina 0001.jpg
 * Lonchura cantans is renamed (except image 5,6 and 7). --Atamari 22:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Atamari: I went through the other unidentified/uncertain pictures you'd put in your gallery below and either identified them or confirmed your identifications. Let me know if you have any others! MeegsC | Talk 18:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * thanx - i rename now the images.... --Atamari 20:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * thank you for your work. The last bird-picture from gambia is a litte bit difficult. --Atamari 23:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Euplectes franciscanus
i missing the red color? ;-) --Atamari 22:47, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The photo labelled 0002 looks like a female Village Indigobird (flatter head and different bill), but the others look good for Northern Red Bishop. You'll have to go back in the breeding season sometime&mdash;they're spectacular then! MeegsC | Talk 17:10, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * they look very similar --Atamari 19:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Gulls
These are all Grey-headed Gulls. MeegsC | Talk 17:10, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * thanx --Atamari 18:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Turdoides reinwardtii ?
The belly is from a "Turdoides reinwardtii" but the beak is too yellow (image 24). --Atamari 23:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope! These appear to be Western Grey Plantain-eaters, which show those big white wing stripes, as well as a banana-yellow bill and streaked underparts. MeegsC | Talk 17:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * (Picture at Flickr.com) yes it is Crinifer piscator ;-) --Atamari 18:18, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

404
Der toolserver hatte einen Dateisystemfehler, und ein paar Dateien waren nicht wiederherstellbar. Habe meine letzten Backup-Kopien genommen, die müssten halbwegs aktuell sein. Danke für den Hinweis, Magnus Manske (talk) 19:18, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * ok, danke. --Atamari (talk) 19:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Fajara
I would argue that the Medical Research Council is located in Fajara, not Bakau. It's on the same road as Fajara Army Barracks, and is nearer to Fajara than to Bakau. Annatto (talk) 08:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I think Fajara is'nt a independent city, i think it is a sursub ob Bakau. Have you any infomation about this? --Atamari (talk) 09:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

"I think Fajara is'nt a independent city, i think it is a sursub ob Bakau. Have you any infomation about this?"

Look at http://www.gambia.gm/Statistics/PDF/S04.pdf and other sources, you can't find Population. See the spell here: Fajara, Bakau. --Atamari (talk) 15:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Annatto"

Hi Atamari - first forgive me, I'm fairly new to editing and not sure where to reply to messages. I'm going to have to get myself a wiki-mentor I think.

Yes, I accept your point, it is a suburb of Bakau. I think of Fajara as an independent entity. But obviously that's not the point. I've also created a Fajara article, so I'm going to have to go back to that and clarify it. Annatto (talk) 16:36, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * First: ... the best way is continue the discussion where they began.
 * I think, Fajara is a former independent village like the sursub of Serekunda (Latrikunda, Dippa Kunda, Eboe Town, Jeshwang, and so on).
 * And last: please forgive my bad englisch, i'm a citizen of Germany. And where comes you?
 * --Atamari (talk) 18:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Africell
I'm in London. Is there a thriving Wikipedia community in Deutschland?

I've noticed that we've worked on similar articles, in English and German. You did some work on Africell. I placed this tag the English page:

But I notice that the German page has some fairly detailed technological information on it. I wonder whether you'd be interested in translating it for me so that I can improve the English page?

Just thought I'd ask. Annatto (talk) 07:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The german wiki is the second largest, with over 700.000 articels and 500 articels about Gambia. Mostly written by me - see my Project page.
 * The german version of Africell is two years old. For simple translation, you can use Google translator
 * A Question in detail: i asked me: what spelled the plural of Dalasi? It's Dalasi or it's Dalasis correct? I hear Dalasis seldom - but i can see the spell here. --Atamari (talk) 15:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The plural is definitely dalasis (with lower case "d" in English), as it appears on the banknotes. I can't say that I've ever noticed people using dalasi as a plural.


 * I hadn't thought of using Google translator. I will certainly do so.


 * A question for you: When I first started going to Gambia I had a lot of difficulty understanding the accent, and sometimes still do. Being a non-native English speaker, do you find it difficult?


 * What first brought you to Gambia - I'm guessing you're a birdwatcher? I first went in 2001 and have been back many many times. It's a wonderful place. Annatto (talk) 20:18, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps it's a (my) german error, we didn't say "Marks" (old currency) and no "Euros". Mostly we say dollar (also for plural).
 * I have somewhat fewer problems to understand African English, because they tend speaking word-for-word. I think the sentence melody is not so strong. But my luck is that I met a gambian citizen with resident in Germany and we travel two times to Gambia. --Atamari (talk) 23:58, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Wuppertal/Wupperthal

 * Echo ;-) Disk only on one place: User_talk:Rotational

Gambia project assessments
Hi, just a note. Gambia project assessment use the Africa Project Template:AfricaProject. For Gamibia national project assessments where there is already an existing AfricaProject tag, please don't add an additional

tag, as this duplicates the Africa Project assessment. Please edit the existing Africa project tag to include a Gambia assessment. So for example, you entered on Talk:Balafon:

This duplicates the Africa project assessment. This should be changed to:

In short the QUALITY assessment (Stub, Start, B, etc) are universal. The IMPORTANCE tags are BOTH for Africa Project AND the seperate national projects.

Hope this helps, T L Miles (talk) 16:09, 18 July 2008 (UTC)