User talk:Calilasseia

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 * I intend to. Oh, by the way, I perused several of the pages linked to above in advance. Some of them make fairly heavy reading to a newcomer, and I suspect I shall have to re-read them several times before all of the nuances sink in. However, I think I'v earned a small pat on the back for reading them before posting anything! :) Calilasseia 17:22, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Category:Aspergian Wikipedians
Category:Aspergian Wikipedians which you have included on your user page has been proposed for deletion you can comment at Categories for deletion. The is also a proposal to create an association to meet the needs of users with mental health conditions. --Salix alba (talk) 18:29, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the 'heads up'. I've posted my view, which should leave no-one in any doubt whatsoever where I stand on this! :) Calilasseia 20:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Aquarium Fishes
Hi David. I saw your panda corydoras article. That was an excellent job. You have got some cute babies. Anyway, I just set up the WikiProject Aquarium Fishes. I wonder if you'd be interested in joining it and help with the start up. Thank you and take care !! --Melanochromis 04:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm, something I can devote some time to! I'll need more info. There's a LOT about Wikipedia I am still finding my feet over (such as redirects, user templates and a whole gamut of other things). You'll have to let me know more about what a WikiProject entails. Then I can make a decision as to whether to come on board. :)


 * I'm glad you are interested. Fish is an extremely large subject (28,000 species or so) and it's obvious that projects with a specific focus within fish are needed. Sharks already has their own project and it successfully produced a couple of featured and good articles as well as generating numerous species articles. I notice that there are many editors who contribute regularly to fishkeeping and aquarium fish articles. Why not get together to brainstorm and help each others? Also, there are not clear guidelines how to write about aquarium care and different articles just go in their own ways.


 * In my opinion, the Aquarium Fishes Project shouldn't have specific expectations from the participants. They can do whatever they want or do best. For examples, you can help revising the guidelines, maintaining our references resource list, helping with articles in the tasklists, or even just observing and randomly helping other people works when needed. You can just check the the project page and see of it'd interest you :-) Cheers, --Melanochromis 04:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks intersting. I can't guarantee at this stage that I'll be a full time contributor, but I'll certainly pore over this project with interest, and probably contribute a few articles. If my Panda Catfish article hasn't already acquired the WikiProject sticker, I'll add it. I'll track down a few other articles I've edited and see if they need the sticker adding too. Calilasseia 10:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I saw the lemon tetra article got a major revamp. Great job!! And thanks for spreading the aquarium project banner. We just got two more people (beside me). If you'd like to make yourself known to them, just introduce yourself here. Cheers, --Melanochromis 15:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: December 2006
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The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: January 2007
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Rasbora dorsiocellata
Hi David. You did a great job with this article. As requested, I posted my article review at the talk page. Cheers. --Melanochromis 19:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: Febuary 2007
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The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: March 2007
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race in biomedicine
I just saw your plea that "race" be properly defined in regard to the article entitled Race in biomedicine. I hope you will continue to monitor that article. I have a long time interest in spiders and the resident spider expert on Wikipedia wrote to me that he has little patience with the idea of subspecies (AKA race in biology) with regard to spiders. If anything the situation with regard to the "races" of honey bees is even more problematical. Try to find anything about the various [races] of honey bees in Europe and you will find references to "broad bands of hybridization" and other indications that the differences between the so-called [races] are clinal in most cases. Before commerical bee keepers brought other [races] of honey bees to Cyprus there may well have been a subspecies distinction to be found. There are also a couple of populations of honey bees in northern Africa that appear to have a sharp cut-off from other groups and no great amount of hybridization. The case with human beings is very much otherwise. Some people may believe that the aboriginal population of Australia may have stayed isolated for long enough to have been considered a subspecies, but as far as I know there is only Homo sapiens sapiens and no second subspecies extant anywhere in the world today.

As for the factors that make, e.g., a group of long-term Icelanders look very different from a "pure stand" of San tribesmen in Africa, if you pick remote points and eliminate visiting anthropologigists and any progeny they may have procreated while in residence then you will find the appearance of clear differences, but if you walk and swim between Iceland and the land of the San you will not find a gap or even a "narrow hybridization margin." The number of definitions that have been contrived to distinguish between [races] are, I would guess, of the same order of magnitude as the number of researchers who believe in or use [race]. Put another way, there is no [operational definition] for the word "race." It is at best an expedient and most of the time it is far more trouble than it is worth. People seem to me irrationally attracted to it -- even the ones who are the targets of racism. Go figure. P0M 01:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: April 2007
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The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: May 2007
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WikiProject Aquarium Fishes June 2007 Newsletter
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Invitation: WikiProject Autism
Greetings! You are hereby invited to WikiProject Autism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of autism, Asperger syndrome, and Autistic culture on Wikipedia. As the project emphasizes contribution from autistic editors, it is especially interested in you, who have chosen to list yourself as a Wikipedian with Asperger syndrome. Muffinator (talk) 19:51, 8 August 2014 (UTC)