User talk:Indici

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Unreferenced BLPs
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 * 1) Guido Poppe -

Copyright issue - Guido Poppe
Hi. I have been adding references to some biographical pages to help with the Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons project and came across your article on Guido Poppe. In looking for references I noticed that much of the original article appears to be identical to the content on http://www.poppe-images.com/?t=5. The article's talk page does not contain any reference to permission to use that content, so it would appear to be an infringement of the site's Terms and Conditions. Copyright violations states that, having detected this, I should remove the offending content etc etc but before I start down that route I wonder if you have a connection with the originating site, seeing as you claim that the image of Guido Poppe is your own work? If you are able then it would be better to seek permission for use of the text and, assuming permission is granted, indicate that on the Talk page to prevent the page from being deleted. Please advise. Thanks! KenBailey (talk) 05:56, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Conchology, Inc.


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License tagging for File:Conchology, Inc.jpg
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February 2011
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Proposed deletion of Guido Poppe


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Orphaned non-free media (File:Conchology,_Inc.jpg)
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Copyright problems with File:Guido Poppe.jpg
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 * Hello, that text above is just formal information. I do believe that you are the copyright holder of the image, but it is necessary to prove the evidence that its is so. One of the possibilities is to send an email with permission to the email address as mentioned above. Thank your for your cooperation and have a nice day. --Snek01 (talk) 11:57, 13 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm the owner the image.

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A page you started (Cantrainea alfi) has been reviewed!
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 * I own that image. I'll add the type locality as well. --Indici (talk) 03:43, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, that's ok then if you're either Guido Poppe or Ph. Poppe. I suspect that could explain a lot about your editing here. And I shall address that later. But either way, if you own that image, I'm afraid you will have to prove it to our OTRS Team, as it as clearly labelled as copyright 'G & P H Poppe 2016'. I see you've now uploaded a this cropped version with no copyright claim visible on it. Now, it's great if you're part of the publication team for this new taxon and are making images available. It will be really helpful But I'm afraid you will need to demonstrate this - not to me but to the folks at Wikimedia Commons who care about protecting the rights of individual photographers - maybe even yours. It's a simple - if slow - process to follow, and you have received that guidance in earlier posts to your talk page regarding deleted images, I see. It would be a shame if an editor gets blocked from uploading images, especially if they are the legitimate copyright holders. They just need to show that's the case, and I'm rapidly coming to appreciate that you can and should. Regards Nick Moyes (talk) 10:57, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Homalopoma
You don't link Homalopoma.Xx236 (talk) 09:52, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * stud added --Indici (talk) 03:45, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * fixed the space issue. --Indici (talk) 03:48, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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"One last issue with your snail stubs, please stop using WP:SORTKEYs when categorizing them in the sea snail category. They are not the main articles for this subject. Only the article on Sea snails should be sortkeyed."

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Bennv3771 (talk) 10:41, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Regarding my above message, please see this edit on how to remove the inappropriate sortkeys in all your snail stubs. The Category:Sea snails currently has over 100 stubs that have been misidentified as the main topic of the category due to the sortkeys that will need to be removed from those stubs. Bennv3771 (talk) 10:46, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


 * thank you for the info. --Indici (talk) 03:47, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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"Thanks for creating all these stubs. I understand you want to help expand Wikipedia's content, but I would suggest you slow down a little and make sure the stubs are of good quality. In this particular stub for example, you copy-pasted the contents from Homalopoma concors without changing anything, not even the species name."

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 * Thank you for pointing out. A work in progress. --Indici (talk) 03:46, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Homalopoma parvum) has been reviewed!
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"Good job with your new stubs! Most of the previous issues have been fixed, but it would be helpful if you tag them as stubs by adding at the end of the articles."

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Bennv3771 (talk) 01:23, 22 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Added to most stubs the corresponding tag . Robertgombos (talk) 04:10, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Noted. Thank you. Bennv3771 (talk) 04:13, 22 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm working on all the pages. Trying to take in the suggestions given. --Indici (talk) 03:42, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Copyrighted images
All the images in your stubs have a copyright claim right on the image itself. Please do not upload copyrighted works on commons and claim it is free use. If you are the copyright holder, you must inform OTRS that you intend to change it to a free license. Merely taking a screenshot of someone else's image does not make you the copyright holder of the image. Bennv3771 (talk) 01:41, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I highly recommend you do not add anymore images until the deletion discussion over the images you've uploaded to commons is resolved. Bennv3771 (talk) 05:22, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Some of the images have a clear watermark, others have no watermark but are uploaded as 'own work' as well. This needs to be explained ASAP. please respond. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  01:34, 23 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I've ownership of all the images uploaded. It seems that some individuals are not happy with the copyright notice from the images. I'll remove this and re-upload the images without the notice. --Indici (talk) 03:41, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * NO!!! This is not the way to go about dealing with images that you say you own. You know you own them; and the authors of the scientific articles know they own them. But none of us know conclusively whether they are one and the same. So, you need to demonstrate this relationship to those you upload the images to, and you can do that privately via . The advice that have given is to respond at Wikimedia Commons and prove, very simply to them, who you are and that you own them. You can do this by emailing them from your professional email address, and linking to the conchology website that you and I know it is published on. Once that's done there should be very few further issues - apart from your need to address the very important matter of WP:COI declaration, plus and halting the creation of stubs for subspecies and forms that I have explained in detail in my two posts to you below. Please understand that we want to be supportive of editors with expertise who don't quite understand how things are done here. Failing to follow the guidance given by other experienced editors tends to lead to the unfortunate consequence of editors losing their rights to add or upload content. And in your case I do think that would be a real shame as you clearly have a lot to contribute to Wikipedia in the field of malacology. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 12:24, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Please respond and/or address the problems
Please address the issues I have repeatedly raised over your stubs or at least respond here on your talk page. It is taking a strain to have to repeatedly correct these issues given the large number of stubs you are creating. I was glad to see some of the issues I raised previously addressed, but they've returned in your latest batch of stubs. To be fair, the issues are minor (random blank spaces in the wikilinks, not adding stub template), but the WP:SORTKEY issue needs to be fixed. Please stop adding sortkeys to the categories. If you are not sure how to remove them, just follow this edit. Bennv3771 (talk) 05:31, 22 August 2018 (UTC)


 * okay, will try to be more careful when inputting the information. Mostly they are typos when working on the many pages. --Indici (talk) 03:39, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * extra information will be added to this landsnail. --Indici (talk) 03:37, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Cyclonidea notabilis
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 * thank you - I'll improve the page. --Indici (talk) 03:35, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * removed the red link on the page. --Indici (talk) 03:33, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Subcancilla bellulavaria
Hello! Subcancilla bellulavaria begins "Imbricaria bellulavaria is a species of...". Is this a typo, or some quirk of snail naming I'm not aware of? Thanks and happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 23:59, 22 August 2018 (UTC)


 * the shell has originally been described with genus Subcancilla, overtime the genus assigning has been changed to Imbricaria. As shown in Worms.  --Indici (talk) 03:31, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * This is correct, the genus has changed. updated the info. --Indici (talk) 03:27, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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"Something seems to be wrong with the picture here? It isn't showing up on my screen. That said, it looks fine on Commons, and the Commons page says it's used on this page. Is it showing up for you? Maybe it's a problem with my browser for some reason..."

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 * Corrected the issue with the image. --Indici (talk) 03:24, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

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"The WoRMS page indicates this scientific name is invalid, a synonym of Cypraea leucodon leocodon. And, it's probably a good idea to merge this topic and all subspecies to Cypraea leucodon, rather than create a plethora of stubs. We already have online databases, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia."

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 * it is normal that Worms does not accept a form name of a species. But this has been described a form name to represent a localized form of the shell and the name is in active use today. --Indici (talk) 03:21, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * is absolutely correct to advise you to merge this content into the page for Cypraea leucodon. Yes, it's a valid form name, but that doesn't mean it merits a separate page. Think of it from the point of a user who wants information on a taxon - keeping it all together in one place helps them considerably. Just have a redirect from the form name to the species page (with a section on the form(s) in that page) is the appropriate way to go here - at least until such time as there's so much information that a fork to the form is warranted. And we're far from that right now. In a similar vein, please also note my comment lower down, asking you to take care not to use synonyms for new articles. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:36, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

August 2018
Your recent editing history at Calliobasis lapulapui shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Dl2000 (talk) 01:37, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * (To be specific, this is not WP:3RR but mass unexplained reverts of justified edits`) Dl2000 (talk) 01:43, 23 August 2018 (UTC)


 * apologizes. Only trying to input the correct information. --Indici (talk) 03:23, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * , please stop reverting everyone's edits on your stubs. We are trying to help. More information (like img src) may be easily added by further edits. As  already highlighted, please stop edit warring. Thanks! Robertgombos (talk) 07:53, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for responding and for going through your old articles to fix the issues. It's greatly appreciated. Bennv3771 (talk) 05:10, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Fusivoluta lemaitrei) has been reviewed!
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"Please be careful in future not to use a synonym as the main title of an article. I've moved this for you now.Please see the additional ref in the Worms database which will enable you to add to this article that its a gastropod found of the east coast of S Africa."

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 * thank you. --Indici (talk) 06:29, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Please take more care, and don't create pages for sub-species without good reason
Hello there. Whilst it's really great to see you hard at work, creating new articles on invertebrate species (and I really don't want to discourage that), I do have to ask you to stop creating articles - especially about forms and subspecies - based upon invalid taxonomic names. Some of these duplicate existing article content, and are doubly unnecessary.

If you don't understand synonymy and whether or not a taxon name is accepted or regarded as invalid by the scientific community, I invite you to take some time to familiarise yourself with the topic before continuing. I also ask you put content about subspecies, forms and varieties into the page for the relevant species so it's all together and so that users here can find it. You should read Notability (natural sciences), which instructs that: Individual versions of a particular species shall be written about within the article about the species unless there is plenty of sourced information about that version (example: poodle is a separate article from dog). This include versions of a particular microbe, including various strains. You should consider this as applies to all subspecies, forms, varieties, cultivars, etc.

By way of an example, looking through the list of mollusc-related articles you have been rapidly creating recently, I found you made Conus nobilis abbai on 21st August. But if you had properly read and understood this reference that you actually based it upon, you would have appreciated that the status of this taxon is listed as unaccepted by the scientific community. A couple of lines down, you'd have seen that Conus nobilis victor is the accepted taxonomic name for this subspecies. But, even then, you should not be creating pages for subspecies, even when valid. In this instance I would have expected a competent editor to have checked and found that the page on Conus nobilis already contains an entry for many of its known subspecies, and that Conus nobilis victor is listed there. That is where your reference should have gone. I would not normally expect a redirect to be created from any subspecies to the parent species as this just bloats up search results without delivering anything worthwhile.

As an extra observation, why you included the identical Worms citation in both 'References' and 'External links' is beyond me. It only needs to go in once. Nor should your inclusion of the original monograph have gone into a section entitled 'Original description', and the Poppe G.T. & Tagaro (2011) reference could either have been used as a reference, assuming you had access to it, or be listed in 'Further reading'. Kind regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 11:02, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest - please declare
Further to my post left above, asking you not to create these new articles on forms and subspecies of molluscs, I have gradually come to appreciate that you are promoting many articles where the taxonomic name is authored by Poppe, G. Your answer to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Indici#A_page_you_started_(Cantrainea_alfi)_has_been_reviewed! this earlier review comment of mine] suggests there may be a very close relationship between the two.

We have a behavioural policy on Wikipedia which you should read at Conflict of interest, noting that you are expected to declare your interests and involvement in any articles you edit. You may do this on your talk page, or in each edit summary at pages you edit.

In my post immediately above, I thought I was addressing a person with little taxonomic understanding; I am now concerned that you are creating articles which promote mollusc subspecies and forms which you or someone close to you may have authored, but which are not accepted by the scientific community. This would be of far greater concern, as Wikipedia is not here to either promote an individual (such as Guido Poppe or their work; I have just flagged that article for a potential WP:COI). Do please read WP:NOTPROMOTION. Wikipedia certainly not should be use as a means of trying to gain legitimacy for either a nomenclatural system which the scientific community does not accept, or for overly promoting the achievements of one person, especially if it is the editor themselves. So, please declare your involvement in new pages on taxa you do create (which is otherwise fantastic and very welcome, by the way!), but please don't create any more pages on invalid taxa about subspecies which you or a colleague have named - these should all go in the species page. And by invalid/unaccepted, I mean where the name is not accepted by scientific consensus, whatever you might personally believe or have helped publish. If there isn't a page for a species, please create that first before adding in subspecies etc. If you do have a Conflict of Interest to declare, I advise you not to edit the page on Guido Poppe any more, but instead to place a Edit requests on its Talk page, asking for the necessary edits to be made for you.

Finally, creating a user page for yourself, and declaring any malacological expertise and interests you may have, would have the added benefit of helping editors like me who initially assume naievity on the part of an amateur editor. I am genuinely interested in supporting scientist and experts add data to Wikipedia - providing it's done in the appropriate way. A little bit of support in the right place can go a long way to improve this encyclopaedia for everyone. So shout if you need any further guidance. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 11:46, 23 August 2018 (UTC)


 * okay then - we stop. bye. --Indici (talk) 06:50, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * To be clear: I wouldn't want you to stop your contributions to Wikipedia, nor of sharing your obvious malacalogical expertise with the wider world. You have clearly made a significant contribution in your field, and through your many publications. I only urge you to follow the guidelines we have here, that apply to every editor (including the professional Antarctic geologist who I am currently supporting and mentoring). If I can assist you, or offer support, feel free to email me directly if you prefer, and I'll help if I can. But maybe that one article referred to above should not be edited by you directly without making clearer the connection between Wikipedian and professional biologist. I'm aware that when we write things here, their tone may not always come across as was intended, which was both to guide and to support. Kind regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 13:06, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Cypraea jandeprezi
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 * added a reference to an information page. --Indici (talk) 06:40, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Cypraea lefaiti
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Conflict of Interest - 2 years on - response now required
Two years ago (see above), I invited you to make a very simple declaration as to any potential Conflict of Interest you may have in adding huge amounts of detail to the article about Guido Poppe. Rather than respond to that formal request, you chose simply to cease editing. As you have recently resumed adding more detailed content again, I now need to repeat my question to you and ask again whether you have an undisclosed connection to Guido Poppe?

See WP:COI to follow our guidelines on declaring any connection on your user talk page. Kind regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 21:57, 26 September 2020 (UTC)