User talk:Go uf

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Vandalism
Excuse me, but all of your edits so far amount to nothing more than vandalism. Please stop this. If you persist, your account and IP address will eventually be blocked. --Jwinius 00:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Please explain how all of my articles are vandalism? Go uf 00:29, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Your edits, not your articles. "Prairie jack", "pygmy jack", "blackjack" ... ? --Jwinius 00:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * "Jack" can be a colloquial term for snake, especially in rural areas, occasionally with nonvenomous species, but usually with vipers such as the gaboon and rhino...surely even as an ameteur herpetologist you have heard the usage; hence river jack, swampjack, etc. Go uf 00:39, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

"River jack, "swamp jack" and "forest jack" and the only common names that I know of that have been used to refer to certain species of snakes -- African in this case. Importantly, the usage of these particular names has been documented, the references for which are included in the relevant articles. To go around adding nonsense names to a series of articles as you have amounts to vandalism. --Jwinius 00:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * How are those names any more nonsensical than "poplar leaf," "chunk head," and "candy stick," none of which are in common usage in any area within the range of Agkistrodon Contortrix and Micrurus Fulvius which I've researched during my studies of North American venomous snakes; am I to assume that since I was unable to find anyone who used them that they vandalism and thus subject for deletion? Go uf 01:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Believe it or not, names like "poplar leaf," "chunk head," and "candy stick," are mentioned in literature. If you read Handbook of Snakes by Wright and Wright (1957), you'll see that they were actually once in use, although more than a few of them may date back to the 1800s. On the other hand, it's obvious to me that the names you've been adding are of your own fabrication. That's obviously not helpful. --Jwinius 01:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)