User talk:Codman

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New article: Fish in Australia
Hi - you might be interested in a new article on Fish in Australia that has been cobbled together from various wikipdia articles. Regards--A Y  Arktos 23:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * thanks for your Albury, New South Wales edit. Is there a source for the info about the flows in the Murray River at Albury before the Hume Dam - not because I have any qualms about the info but rather it gives the reader who wants more info somewhere to go.--A  Y  Arktos 21:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks. A lot of info floating about on the original flow patterns of the Murray River and southern tributaries.  A book called "The Murray" - a good compilation of research by a number of authors, and put out by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission in 1990 - has the info and I believe is one of the places where you can source a graph of pre-regulation verses regulated flows of the Murray River.

cheers

Simon

Hi - just to check I have the right one ...

Found from National Library catalogue Regards --A Y  Arktos 02:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yep, that's it. It's an excellent book.  Of course, some of the science in it is a bit dated now, but overall it's still an excellent and useful book.  The MDBC has now released a companion edition called "The Darling" that I look forward to reading sometime too.  Another thought - graphs of the original verses regulated flow regimes of the Murray River may be available on the MDBC website (www.mdbc.gov.au), which is pretty good.  I am pretty passionate about MDBC rivers and their ecology, particularly as it relates to native freshwater fish, so I am happy to help with any queries you may have.  Cheers, Codman 03:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi
Just wanted to say hi, and appreciate your fish additions, including great pics. There are all too few species with the properly in-depth treatment that you've written! You might want to consider re-uploading your images to the commons, which is better-organized to make galleries of multiple images, and also makes them available to people writing in other languages (oftentimes I notice that they find good articles in English and translate them). Stan 14:48, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks Stan. There's a few things in Wikipedia that I haven't worked out yet.  Putting photos into commons, and putting up disambiguation pages are two examples ('Guyu' needs disambiguation between a Chinese solar period and a genus of Australian native fish).  If you can advise on how to do either of these two things, that would be great.  RE pictures, I'm hoping to put up a couple more nice Australian native fish pictures at some stage.  Cheers, Codman 00:22, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Seconded. Your articles are excellent, and it's nice to see that you have a username. Gdr 14:51, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Guyu
Hi Codman. You might be interested to know that I have created an article for the Bloomfield River Cod based on your comments on the Guyu page. Couldn't find much information but it is a start. Garglebutt / (talk) 21:59, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


 * If you have a look at the source for the Guyu page you will see that the link to the cod article is a special template. I don't think it is worthwhile creating a separate disambig page as I doubt many people know about this very rare genus of Percichthyidae.Garglebutt / (talk) 23:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Upland and lowland
Since upland (freshwater ecology) and lowland (freshwater ecology) have almost the same content, I think it would make sense to merge the articles so that improvements can be made in a single place (see windward and leeward, left and right for examples where a merge of opposites works well).

Could you suggest a name? Upland and lowland (freshwater ecology) would be straightforward, but maybe there's term of art (along the lines of "freshwater ecological zone" of "riverine ecological zone"). Gdr 15:15, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I merged the two pages into Upland and lowland (freshwater ecology) and added a couple of illustrations. Please check that I haven't made any errors in carrying out the merge. You'll see that links work properly from pages like Mountain Galaxias. Gdr 19:44, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Murray cod
Actually B is the highest rating before GA and FA (leaving aside A, which is a bit of an oddity). To get to GA or FA somebody has to to ask for it to be assessed for those classes. On the other hand the issue with this article is references, which despite what may be said in some places boils down to in-line references. There is no evidence that much more than 3 or 4 general references is useful. You need to concentrate on footnotes, which are created by inserting text between using cite templates (see WP:CITET), especially for online refs. For witten refs you need only write. Nowadays FA processes seem to require anywhere more than 30-50 footnotes.--Grahamec 04:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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