User talk:Basvanhuut

Hippos
Hi Basvanhuut, thanks for your edits on those various hippo articles. I had a question about the Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus. Do you think the article should mention that the Cyprus Dwarf is "Classified as Hippopotamus minor or Phanourios minutus" or should it say, "was once classified as Phanourios minutus," or do you have another suggestion altogether? Also, do you have any more recent sources on the taxonomy? We should certainly note that the hippo was originally classified as H. minor, but is it possible that the H.minor classification has fallen into disuse? The more recent sources I used to write the article referred to it as Phanourios. Thanks for your guidance. --JayHenry 17:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response on my talk page. I'm glad to know you're a hippo expert!  I look forward to more of your contributions!  Let me know if I can ever help with anything. --JayHenry 03:54, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey Basvanhuut... do you know much about the hippos of Madagascar? I've read several different papers, and there seems to be little consensus on how to classify the different species. Right now we have separate articles on Madagascan Dwarf Hippopotamus (H. lemerlei) and Madagascan Pygmy Hippopotamus (C. madagascariensis or Hex. madagascariensis). But I wondered if maybe it would make more sense to put all the Madagascan Hippos onto one page. Is it something you have studied? --JayHenry 04:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC) -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 06:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Changing the names of the Maltese village articles
There is currently an ongoing debate about whether the articles on Maltese villages should be given their English names. Kyarichy has already gone and renamed a bunch of articles such as as Kalkara citing these changes from an old obsolete paper and http://www.geody.com, even though these names are no longer in use.

The naming convensions clearly state that foreign location names commonly used in English should be used as the article names.

It would be appreciated if you could assist us in this discussion. ~  ► W y k e b j s ◄  (userpage | talk) 10:58, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:27, 6 November 2016 (UTC)