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ARCHIVE PAGE 29: May 2010

The Wikipedia Signpost: 3 May 2010
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Today is May 5th

 * Hi Susan, I hope you are safely back from your vacation, and I hope you enjoyed it.
 * I wonder, if you have a time and a wish to copy edit my new article? I have not finished it just yet, but you could start editing the first section. I am more or less done with it. I am sorry to pick you up like that in the very first day you came home. May I please ask you to feel absolutely free to tell me to get lost together with my article:) Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:33, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I just got back last night. I just now went through the very interesting article a couple of times, but will do more work on it later. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 11:35, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, Susan. When you have a time please take a look at Orchid hunters. It is already nominated for DYK, but I believe needs a big improvement.
 * And I would like to add one more time, please feel absolutely free to tell me you either have no time or no interest helping me with the articles. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 11:50, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Susan, if you have a time, could you please suggest a DYK hook for Coco de Mer one? Thank you. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Request
Hello, could you add more hosts of Echinostoma cinetorchis please. I must confess, that I do not understand that 2001 article by Chung et al. "Segmentina hemisphaerula: a new molluscan..." article. Thanks. --Snek01 (talk) 19:29, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Re CSD on Turbinella (disambiguation)
Good explanation. Probably doesn't rise the level of Patent Nonsense but certainly as you've explained it satisfies the caveat of Biologic Nonsense. Unfortunately there is not a CSD cateogory for that. PROD it with the rational you gave me and it will probably go.--Mike Cline (talk) 22:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

New article
Hi Susan. Thank you for the great work you've done with Coco de Mer! Vallée de Mai with it mystic of light and shadows, black parrots that I was able to hear, but not to see, and Coco de Mer is a wondrous place. I even wrote a poem about those nuts that really could drive one nuts :) Here's my new article Carrier Pigeon (the ship). Once again I would like to stress out that in no way you should feel yourself obligated to improve my articles. I know you are still tired after the trip, and I know you probably came home with lots of new shells to write about. BTW where did you go, if I may ask please? So, if you have a time, and a wish to improve my prose and to fix my English, please do, but if you do not, it is not a problem. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 05:18, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Susan, thank you for working on the article! Here's proposed DYK hook: Did you know that the Carrier Pigeon successfully navigated the "roaring forties", "furious fifties" and "screaming sixties" only to get wrecked on the rocks pictured of Central California 500 feet off shore? Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:17, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 10 May 2010
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Amphidromus hook
Hello, would you like to help with better Amphidromus hook, please? Template_talk:Did_you_know (also sent to Daniel) --Snek01 (talk) 19:18, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

NYC Wikipedia Meetup Saturday, May 22
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New article
Hi Susan. Here's my new article Historical Lunar eclipses. If you have a time, may I please ask you to improve the prose and the English? Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:19, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. What do you think about this hook: Did you know that... it was the Lunar eclipse that helped Christopher Columbus (pictured) to make natives to resume the food supply to his men and him after they got stranded in Jamaica? --Mbz1 (talk) 22:17, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * And It is in. Please feel free to change it. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:38, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Legends of the Coco de Mer
Materialscientist (talk) 05:09, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Boronia imlayensis
Hi Zoo,

Previously you mentioned that I ought to chase up on the rarity status of the plant Boronia imlayensis. After innumerable e-mails, a personal visit to the Botanic Gardens and phone calls. I finally received a reply. (So much dodging and weaving by these dreadful public servants). They don't like to answer difficult questions. They just refuse to co-operate.

Finally I received a reply. The botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney agrees that the plant should be granted a rarity status, and the current situation is not acceptable.

Whether or not it progresses from here, who knows. Perhaps it will. But the article was put on "Did You Know", and it received a good number of readers.

Boronia imlayensis was prolific in flower last November, when I crawled up the mountain. There's heaps of them there in a very small area. But apparently, they occur no-where else the world. Because of the abundance of plants on the summit, I reckon "vulnerable" might be preferrable to "endangered". But that's for the scientific committee to decide, (if they get around to doing it). But having the article on "did you know" may have inspired the Royal Botanic Gardens to finally get back to me.

Kind regards Peter Woodard Poyt448 (talk) 05:13, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, further to the above subject. The Royal Botanic Gardens read the Wikipedia article Boronia imlayensis. And asked to use the photo from this Wikipedia page. So, thanks to you for inspiring me to follow up on the rarity status. Here's the official government site with my photos: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~imlayensis One of the botanists and I are planning to visit the mountain together later this year. As there is plenty of scientific interest yet to be discovered. (I thought field botany was for the 18th & 19th century, not today). Anyway, it's a lot of fun. And like you, I'm motivated by the great beauty and interest in nature. Thanks again. Pete Poyt448 (talk) 11:59, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Could you help please
If you have a time could you help with this please? Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:14, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 17 May 2010
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DYK for Orchid hunters
The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Species lists in genus articles
Hello Susan. How are things? A while back I made 16 Janthina stubs. Snek found out that 13 of these are synonyms: Janthina affinis, Janthina africana, Janthina balteata, Janthina bicolor, Janthina carpenteri, Janthina communis, Janthina depressa, Janthina globosa, Janthina grandis, Janthina involuta, Janthina planispirata, Janthina smithiae. He made the appropriate redirects, mostly to Janthina janthina. I don't know why I didn't see that they are synonyms when I made the stubs. I am happy that Snek noticed it.

My concern is that I picked Janthina quite at random to make the stubs, so of course it begs the question: how many of these genus articles contain species lists that comprise a large percentage of synonyms? It is troubling to think that a substantial percentage of the might be presenting false information to visitors. Your thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:52, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Historically significant lunar eclipses
Hello! Your submission of Historically significant lunar eclipses at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that 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) 07:44, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 24 May 2010
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DYK for Historically significant lunar eclipses
The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for fixing it.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:07, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Question
Hello Susan,

I'd like to ask you, if you are tired yet of fixing my articles. The thing is that I am going to write few more, and if you have no time to fix them, I would have to find somebody else, although nobody will do it as good as you do. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Carrier Pigeon (ship)
Bradjamesbrown (talk) 18:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: Shell books
Hello Susan, thank you very much for the shell book suggestion. I will be sure to pick that up on my next visit to the library. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:06, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Where I went
In answer to your question, I went to the small Caribbean island of Nevis. I was looking at the marine mollusk fauna. I also had three short visits to the sister island of St. Kitts looking for shells, and one very thrilling day-long boat expedition to the very small island of Sint Eustatius. Invertzoo (talk) 14:17, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds really exotic! Thank you for telling me about your trip. I've been to Kona, and as always kept you in mind. So here are are three images for you, Susan: File:Unidentified mollusks on corals in Kona.jpg and File:Unidentified mollusk in Kona.jpg, and File:Sea urchin decorated with shells.jpg (sea urchins are on the best places to see the shells :)) All images were taken underwater. I took one more out of the water, but I need to find it. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:35, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

New article
Hi Susan, here's my new article, if you have a time. It is still sitting in my user space. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:04, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. In case you'd like to edit it more it is moved to main space Underwater camouflage and mimicry.--Mbz1 (talk) 22:13, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Genus
Regards, SunCreator (talk) 15:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC)