User talk:Deadstar0

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Concerning Pezophaps
I redirected Pezophaps (Genus) to Rodrigues Solitaire because there is only one known species in the genus, and making separate pages for the species and genus of a monotypic genus is very redundant. I hope you understand.--Mr Fink (talk) 12:47, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Friendly advice
Hi, great work on the ant articles: Acromyrmex niger and Acromyrmex ambiguus. Could I ask that you provide inline citations to show which sources each fact has come from. This helps others in checking that information is verifiable. I'll show you how here:

If you edit this then you'll be able to see the text formats to use. Please message me if you have any questions. Thanks again! Smartse (talk) 23:18, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

"Buccal pouches"?
Hi Deadstar0,

I'm not a scientist, but it would seem to me somewhat odd that an arthropod like A. crassispinus has "buccal pouches". The tem would appear to me to be only applicable to vertebrates, and mammals in particular. Hamsters cerainly have them. And Dizzy Gillespie could puff out his cheeks out like no-one else. Should that perhaps possibly read "cavities inside their mouths" or something similar?

--Shirt58 (talk) 11:33, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Acromyrmex lundii
Hello, I reverted one edit from the Acromyrmex lundii article per A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), by A.L. Wild (2007), p. 41. A. pubescens and A. nigrosetosus have been elevated from subsp. while A. parallelus has been removed.-- Obsidi ♠ n Soul  19:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Leafcutter articles
Good work on your expansion of those articles. Well done! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:21, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Please be aware that copying text verbatim from other sources is considered plagiarism. Parts of your article on Acromyrmex echinatior were taken from the relevant article on AntWeb ("In Costa Rica this species prefers open dry habitats such as urban areas around San Jose and seasonally dry habitats of Guanacaste Province" ; "Queens multiply mate, and colonies are facultatively polygynous"). I have not investigated whether other parts were similarly plagiarised from other sources. While the text at AntWeb is available under a free license, it is a license which requires atribution, and AntWeb was not included even as an external link. Please could you have another look at the article and note the sources you used in writing it, making it clear which parts are copied wholesale, and adding inline references to appropriate sources. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:40, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Demographic history of Croatia


The article Demographic history of Croatia has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * excessive listing of statistics which is explicitly against policy, conflating population by language and by ethnicity, focusing solely on ethno-national matters in a single century = coat-racking

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