User talk:Edisstrange

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I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 04:37, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Signed your GB and added it on Jack's list
Hi.... Did that and added your guestbook here. Feel free to undo it. Happy editing Volten 001  ☎ 21:52, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

iNaturalist page creation tool
The tool/script at iNaturalist for creating species pages on Wikipedia has a slight problem. It tries to fill out a speciesbox with parameters parent and taxon, with the name of the genus in parent. parent is only necessary on Wikipedia when a there is a rank between genus and species (e.g. subgenus, section). Speciesboxes with parent as the genus aren't broken, but it is not how parent is intended to be used here. I've brought this up a couple times at the iNaturalist forums, but it still hasn't been fixed. Plantdrew (talk) 23:02, 12 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up ! I do use the iNaturalist tool for a temporary template and then modify it to fit Wikipedia requirements in a sandbox. I'll make sure to use the species box correctly. I did see that discussion in the forums iNaturalist Edisstrange (talk) 23:08, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Native Drone Fly
Hello, and welcome. You created Native Drone Fly. I can't find a reliable source for "Native Drone Fly": all I can see is "Description of the preimaginal stages of the golden native dronefly from Australia, Eristalinus punctulatus (Macquart, 1847)" which I think is more a description than a common name, I'm not sure. So, please don't create redirects unless there's an authentic reason to do so (which there might be here, I'm not sure); please don't capitalise - if native drone fly is legitimate then it's "Native drone fly"; and please create hatnotes in accordance with WP:HATNOTE. eg using template redirect - hatnotes are only required to point the reader to an article other than the one they're at, and in this case there's no ambiguity. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:22, 14 January 2023 (UTC)


 * it may colloquial as far as I can tell. and a shorter version of golden native drone fly. While initially hunting for data a lot of photos and text refferred to it as a native drone fly and then Eristalinus punctulatus in brackets. I dont have any documentation to prove it (can common names be proved ?) other than from the taxon bar https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/480131 where its referred as Native drone fly first and Eristalinus punctulatus in brackets (but I know I cant use inaturalist as a source, right?). So I thought I should cover my bases. apologies Edisstrange (talk) 11:04, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Fabriogenia has been accepted
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A barnstar for you!

 * crikey...thankyou Edisstrange (talk) 03:00, 7 March 2023 (UTC)