User talk:Chad Ordelheide

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Hello, Chad Ordelheide, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Hymenocera, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Hymenocera


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Hymenocera
Did you copy and paste the article from http://www.freshmarine.com/harlequin-shrimp.html ?? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

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If you need help
If you ever need anything, just ask. It seems you know your way around, but anyway, I'm always here.

Again, love the nudibranch photos. Lovely colours that say "I'm poisonous, but super-cool at the same time." Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:42, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

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A new nudibranch article!
Hello Chad Ordelheide and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you are enjoying being here even though it can seem like a lot to get the hang of at first. I want to thank you so much for the rather good new article on Nembrotha rosannulata you made, and the very nice image you took and uploaded of this amazing-looking sea slug.

I wonder if you have a particular interest in sea slugs? Just in case you do, I will invite you to join WikiProject Gastropods.

All very best wishes, and don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or comments. Invertzoo (talk) 20:15, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi again Chad, and Hafa Adai to you too! (I had to look that up, but now I figure maybe you live on Guam, or used to?) Your photos are very helpful to have here, thanks so much. Please do continue to ask me about any aspects of Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons that you don't entirely "get". As for the category thing, with animal photos the best category to use is the smallest one you can get away with, which usually is the scientific name down to the species level, assuming you know that. So, you would try to put your latest one in the category Nembrotha rosannulata. You do that on the Commons page here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nudibranch_-_Nembrotha_rosannulata.jpg

You just hit the edit button and at the bottom of the info on that page you open two square brackets, write in... Category:  ....and then the genus and species name and then close the square brackets, and then hit save. If that category does not exist yet (if it comes out as a red link), you can change it to the category Nembrotha instead, (a blue link because that category does exist) where your image will be grouped with other images of species in that genus.

I wanted to ask you, did you use the Upload Wizard to help you upload your images? It's a big improvement on the old way, which was super complicated and slow.

By the way, if you can, it's good to add more info to the description on the Commons page You could maybe say where you photographed the sea slug, and give more details if you can, for example what depth, what substrate, that kind of thing. Any extra info that you have makes the image more valuable scientifically, but it's also OK if you can't recall that info.

All good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:11, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

I also wanted to say that the info that Anna gave you on her page, feel free to copy that onto this page if that would make it easier for you to refer to. Also this may sound like a silly question, but do you know how to find Commons (where your donated images are stored) OK? I can help you with any of these things, just let me know.

By the way, you may want to put a little something on your user page, which is currently empty and so it is a red link. Once you sign up with WikiProject Gastropods, here you could put this on your user page if you like:

Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 13:16, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Noumea crocea
Hello again Chad, I have to say your first nudibranch article is very impressive. Seriously, it's about 1000 times better than the first gastropod article I made! I did a little bit of clean up on it and I assessed it as "start" class rather than a stub. I say "well done!" and thanks on behalf of Project Gastropods! Invertzoo (talk) 00:52, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

I put your new article in the category Chromodorididae, which is the family it belongs in, according to the 2005 taxonomy we use in WikiProject Gastropods.

When you want to put an gastropod article into a category, generally go ahead and try the category for the species first, and check this using the "Preview" function, and if that shows as a red link for that category, then try using only the genus name instead. If that also gets you a red link, then try for a category using the family name as it is listed in the taxobox, which I assume you copied from a related article.

Because there were previously no articles about Noumea and no photos of species in that genus, no-one has so far created a category for that genus, either on Wikipedia or on Wikimedia Commons. If you are going to be adding more Noumea articles (yay! I think maybe you are!) then we can ask User:Snek01 to create a category for Noumea on Wikipedia and on Commons. He has had more experience with categories than I have. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:05, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

User:Snek01 feels that the family category Chromodorididae is sufficient for the time being, so we will go with that. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 21:32, 14 August 2011 (UTC)