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A page you started (Megaponera) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Megaponera, ETF89!

Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

"Please harmonize this page with Pachycondyla analis: if we are talking about the same species (regardless of genus) then the two articles should be merged into one, where the taxonomic history can be discussed. Also, welcome to Wikipedia!"

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DYK?
Hi ETF89, your article Megaponera analis easily qualifies to be a DYK. It would be on the front page! You could nominate it yourself or if you don't feel comfortable with that, I am happy to do it for you. Julia\talk 17:49, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Julia, I would be more than happy to have my article be nominated for a DYK. Unfortunately I dont know how to do that yet, if you could do that for me that would be great (or tell me how to do it).--ETF89 (talk) 18:09, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I have nominated it now, it's at: Template:Did you know nominations/Megaponera analis. It may take some time for it to be reviewed by someone as DYK is backlogged.  Julia\talk  23:55, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. It really helps me getting familiar with Wikipedia. --ETF89 (talk) 07:39, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for your praise, glad you like it Yunshui. Its really great to have a Barnstar awarded for my work and motivates me to keep on writing articles for Wikipedia (I have to admit its a lot more fun than I expected it to be).
 * It does get rather addictive... I put up my 164th article this morning, and it's every bit as satisfying today as it was when I started. Keep up the good work, and drop me a line if you ever need a hand with anything. Yunshui 雲 水 14:51, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Wow Yunshui 164 thats impressive. I am currently planning on writing a rather long article about the Comoé National park in Ivory Coast (incidently the place I am currently writing from, since I am conducting my PHD there (who would have guessed: about the behaviour of Megaponera analis ). Unfortunately/luckily I have a lot of research to do at the moment so I am afraid that my article count wont go up as fast as yours :) --ETF89 (talk) 16:51, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Congratulations on the barnstar! :) Julia\talk  16:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks Julia, wouldnt have happened without your nomination :)--ETF89 (talk) 16:54, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Suggestions for Megaponera analis
I have some helpful comments for Megaponera analis:
 * The distribution map can be cropped to just Africa or to the central portion including Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Having all continents is not needed, and the cropped map would fit nicely in the taxobox, where there is a standard spot for it.
 * Done --ETF89 (talk) 11:08, 21 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Adding journal DOIs to the references, especially in a citation template, immensely helps others in finding and verifying the content. (The best way I've found is to turn on RefToolbar in the Gadgets menu of the Preferences, and entering the DOI will autofill the reference details.)
 * and done, I have to admit finding the DOIs for some was more work than I expected, but atleast all references have links now--ETF89 (talk) 14:59, 22 October 2014 (UTC)


 * There are a lot of good specimen photos on Commons, (workers and queens) but I don't know enough to know which is which. The would be good to supplement and illustrate the in-text description.
 * and done (the queen is a bit tricky to recognise in many ponerine species since she looks very similar to the larger workers but if you know what to look for its easy, i.e. enlarged gaster more pubescence etc.) --ETF89 (talk) 11:08, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

cheers! --Animalparty-- (talk) 23:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello --Animalparty-- and thanks for your suggestions. In general I agree with your suggestions and will try to edit the article in the coming week (Unfortunately I dont know a lot about DOIs so I will first have to learn how to do them, thanks for the tip with RefToolbar). About the specimen pictures I agree that some good ones are needed for the description part, I just dont agree with the ones of common being good enough for it :). I am currently in Africa working on Megaponera analis and I plan to take some better ones in the upcoming week to add to Wikipedia.
 * Thanks for your help --ETF89 (talk) 07:33, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Scarus scaber
Hey ET (Mind if I call you that?) Would you like to work on the article, Scarus scaber with me? Also, what's your favorite color? Thanks, Amanda  Smalls  13:16, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Amanda, feel free to call me ET I dont mind :). I will gladly help you with an article about Scarus scaber, unfortunately I have very little time at the moment due to work, so it will take me a couple of days before I can really help you out (or only being able to do some very minor edits). I did a quick research on Scarus scaber and it turns out there is also very little literature available on the species (by that I mean actual peer reviewed Journal articles (i.e. papers)). So the Wikipedia article will end up being rather short and even though thats ok I prefer working on articles with a bit more substance. Now since you only go to High School yet (as far as I know) I dont expect you to know about species with peculiar and interesting behaviour that isnt freely (or easily) available online. So let me suggest for you as a next project working on expanding the article of the Common reed frog. One subspecies present in northern Ivory Coast is known for its unique behavioral adaptation to the dry season. It is the only known amphibian to stay during the dry season on completely sun exposed leaves of trees and gras (for over 6 months!) and has developed some ingenious ways to protect its limited water reserves (if you are interested I could send you some primary literature to read, although it is quite difficult to read for somebody not used to reading peer reviewed science articles). Oh yeah and my favourite color if I would have to choose one would be royal blue.
 * Regards --ETF89 (talk) 14:36, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Megaponera analis
Hello! Your submission of Megaponera analis at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:13, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Megaponera
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  12:02, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hurray, a super nice DYK! Congrats! :)  Julia\talk  18:59, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks  Julia , and also for undoing the bad edit in the article :) I was thinking of maybe nominating it for a good article (after adding one or two more sections once I get my hands on the papers, about parasitism and ecological impact). What do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ETF89 (talk • contribs) 20:10, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Of course! Megaponera will be a great GA nomination after a few additions.  I'd also add to the taxonomy section the meaning of Megaponera (if you can find it) and analis, with an explanation like you gave on the talk page for potential confusion there.
 * I think that it is often understood that for some more obscure species, there are often things that are "unknown" and that if the article is as comprehensive as it can be, you're in a good place for Good Article. :)  Let me know if you want any help, but I'll keep an eye on the article for copyedits anyway.  Julia\<sup style="color:#008080;">talk  17:21, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Comoé National Park Research Station
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DYK for Comoé National Park
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Megaponera + GA = ???
Great work on Megaponera! Any updates on the GA plans mentioned above? Getting an article to GA may seem like a daunting task, so let me know if you want help with this, and I'm sure Burklemore1 wouldn't mind either. Cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 15:46, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks jonkerz! Always great to hear that people appreciate the effort :-). To be honest I am waiting for some of my new research articles about Megaponera to be published (one is in the last stages of publication and should hopefully be out by the end of the month). Since it greatly increases our knowledge of Megaponera in a very unanticipated way/behaviour (unique behaviour in the invertebrate kingdom, without wanting to disclose any more unpublished information), so I wanted to wait until I could include at least that aspect of my research in the article before promoting it to GA. Aditionally I am currently in the field (Ivory Coast) until the end of may with only limited internet access and would prefer to work on it in June when I am back in Germany. I would gladly come back to your offer though and work together on improving the article accordingly once the results are published (Burklemore1 also sounds like a promising young student who could help) :) Thanks again for the compliment and hopefuly we can work together in a couple of month (I will get back to you then). All the best ETF89 (talk) 18:22, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm all for helping! I have a couple of comments in regards to the article, but I'll discuss it with you when you have the time. If you also send your publications to me, I can happily add them in (Wikipedia seems to have a thingo with those who cite their own journal papers). Cheers, Burklemore1 (talk) 06:52, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear Burklemore1 and jonkerz it took a lot longer then expected but our publication has finally come out last wednesday and has been picked up by the media quite a bit (its in over a 100 newspapers and radioshows in all kinds of different languages). This is the link to the article: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/4/e1602187 and here is one to the coverage by national geographic and the guardian: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/ants-rescues-soldiers-injured-africa/ and https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/12/injured-ants-get-rescued-after-sending-chemical-sos-researchers-find
 * There is also a nice video I would like to include by science magazine which describes the behaviour perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBrW0dcHTK4 So if you guys are still up for it I would like to try to promote this article to GA! ETF89 (talk) 17:58, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:55, 13 October 2016 (UTC)