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new fossil macaque article
Keep up the good work. :) In the future, if you create a primate article, give me a head's up, please. I have them all on my watch list in an effort to keep them all consistent. Thanks! - UtherSRG (talk) 10:47, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * On my talk is fine. Thanks! In fact, I had thought ages ago about doing the categorization you are doing now, but was going to put it into the taxobox somehow so that it was automatic, and linked to something about the actual description of the taxa... and that all got overly complicated so I abandoned it. At least the basic cat'ing is getting done. :) - UtherSRG (talk) 11:13, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Biota of Great Britain and Ireland
Heya Elspooky, just thought you might be interested in helping out at WikiProject Biota of Great Britain and Ireland. We're involved in improving the coverage and organisation of articles about the fauna and flora of Great Britain and Ireland. Cheers, Jack (talk) 23:50, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Geography of gastropods
Hello, per WikiProject Gastropods/Categories it is discouraged to create categories of gastropods (as well for molluscs) by country. Create a list article instead. Thanks. --Snek01 (talk) 11:05, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Mammals of French Guinana
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BTW, are you sure Water Opossum should be in Category:Mammals of French Guiana? --Fama Clamosa (talk) 15:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

New Species of Frontonia
Thanks for adding F. subtropica to Frontonia. I hadn't seen the article (Pan et al, 2013) before! Deuterostome (talk) 18:25, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Petrocosmea species
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 * | synonyms = Clathrina africana Klautau &amp; Valentine, 2003

Your edit to Cochineal
Please see Talk:Cochineal. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:04, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * Formed of regularly and tightly anastomosed, very thin, delicate tubes . In shape it is lobose, and full of folds. Each fold is flat, thin and delicate. Oscula have not

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Ways to improve List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1722
Hi, I'm Rambunctious Racoon. Elspooky, thanks for creating List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1722!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. I dont't nkow if other sources exist for this, so the tag might be entirely pointless (in which case feel free to delete it), but it is technically relevant.

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Sources needed for Days of the Year pages
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Sorry, I was just going by Laurents' own Wikipedia page which says he was born in 1917 Elspooky (talk) 07:12, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi. I'm trying to understand how geographical categorization of species works (and can be improved) (see User:DexDor/BioGeoCat) and I came across this edit of yours. Can you explain your reasoning for placing the article in those categories? DexDor(talk) 07:28, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, it was 3 years ago and I don't remember doing it Elspooky (talk) 20:33, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

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