User talk:Carabidave

Proposed deletion of Mecodema tenaki


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Proposed deletion of Mecodema ponaiti


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Proposed deletion of Mecodema kokoromatua


The article Mecodema kokoromatua has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "No explanation of topic. No context whatsoever."

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The article Mecodema haunoho has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "No explanation of topic. No context whatsoever."

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Your articles
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. However, most of your articles provide no context whatsoever. You need to provide context so that readers know what they are reading about. ‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ᐐT₳LKᐬ  13:32, 24 August 2017 (UTC)


 * You now seem to have gone to the opposite extreme, creating articles which are entirely adornment and no text. There is a middle ground which doesn't rely on having other people clean up after you.
 * I'll move your recent creations to draft where you can work on them until they're ready for publication. Cabayi (talk) 08:10, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

New Mecodema species
Hi Dave,

It looks like Stephen Thorpe is being his usual unconstructive self, and just took out all the species names you added to the Mecodema list. While he's right in that the reference for all of them is not yet published, you know it's coming out and so do I and I'm not sure what harm there would be in letting the list stand for now. But, he's playing by the rules. My advice would be to hold off for now, or keep a draft in your sandbox, and when the paper is published we can go through and improve the article together. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 07:39, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Mike, I can understand that he took out the new species, but he also removed the valid species (and subspecies) that are the result of publications unlike Mecodema puiakium, which I dont recognise as a valid species. As usual with Stephen, he only recognises himself as an authority and therefore I will keep readding the valid species. He has been contacting me via iNaturalist regarding the publication. —carabidave

Your draft article, Draft:Neocicindela helmsi


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Your draft article, Draft:Neocicindela parryi


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Your draft article, Draft:Neocicindela brevilunata


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Beetles described by Broun


A tag has been placed on Category:Beetles described by Broun requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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About Orthoglymma
Hi Carabidave,

I hope you don't mind me barging in and making all those changes on that article, but its initial version might have been tagged for speedy deletion, as it didn't actually indicate what it was about.

It would appear that the genus Orthoglymma is a monotypic taxon, and its only described species is O. wangapeka. (I guess the species epithet relates to the NZ locality Wangapeka, for which there is only one existing en.wp article - Wangapeka River.)

There's an article name guideline about critters like this: WP:MONOTYPICTAXA.

Hope this helps. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:20, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

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