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ARCHIVE PAGE 51: March 2012

I gave myself a bunny!
Ah, that feels better...


 * I'm sorry you had to resort to self-bunnying, but may it's soothing appearance warm your soul. I would have bunnied you myself, but I thought you would have seen it as childish. You were actually the very first person I thought of bunnying. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:58, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

I may be 63, but the small child version of me is still very much alive! I love bunnies. When I was a toddler I would grab every animal I set eyes on, from bees to horses, in order to try to pet it, or hug it and kiss it. Of course I got bitten and stung quite a lot by a large range of different beasties, but that has not discouraged me. I'm still out there trying to hug the world regardless of whether it hugs me back or not. Maybe you are the same? Hugs and bunnies to you too, Invertzoo (talk) 14:05, 3 March 2012 (UTC)


 * You are the sweetest! I feel the same way about animals. I adore them, but am not so nuts about people, at the moment. They spend lots of time arrogantly controlling nature, as though they are some sort of higher species, but never seem to question whether or not their own nature could use a bit of controlling. This whole "grab all the bananas and claw one's way to the top" bit seems a bit primitive. Not exactly conducive to carry on the 'ol genetic line indefinitely.


 * In the words of the to-be-famous Mary Smith, the 2165 AD committee member of the small group of people who survive: "Boy, those guys sure blew it. That's the last time we put idiots in charge." Deep words indeed. :)


 * Love, bunnies, and hugs to you. :) :) :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:30, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Love dart
Thanks for your comment. Well, actually, in my experience love darts are not very much like "darts". We can say they have the shape of a dart, but they are not fired like a real dart. It can take ten minutes to half an hour from the moment you can see the tip of the dart in the snail, until it is left behind by the animal. I have never seen the dart entering the other animal, it just falls and becomes part of the snail's trail, similar to what happens to their excrements. I did not touch the love dart until it was well behind both snails, so I did not interfere. Eynar Oxartum (talk) 23:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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Re:How to add authority and date
Hi Susan, I have added the additional parameters here. I had to look upthe instructions to pull the template. It is a good idea to always include the taxon parameter; it helps make sure the taxobox does not get messed up during page moves. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 22:38, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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First Lady of Malacology
You'd be happy to know I wrote my first malacology article :) Myra Keen. SO happy to see you drop by the Teahouse! Sarah (talk) 21:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh how fabulous! A million thanks, Sarah! It's a very good article too. How did you do that so fast??? Myra Keen was really a great pioneer in her field, so she certainly deserves her own article. I have her big book on the Panamanian fauna in 2 editions. You are very kind, and I am very impressed! Invertzoo (talk) 22:00, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out
Hi Invertzoo! Thank you for helping out and weighing in on the scientific name vs. "common name" discussion. Although I too have heard that species locally referred to as theGeoduck clam, undoubtedly common name usage is not always universal - like in bird species. For some strange reason not a lot of people think of mollusks as "sexy" or "cool" critters! Do we want to come up with some WikiProject Gastropods and WikiProject Bivalves standard guidelines that take into account the Wikipedia Fauna guidelines that the speaker was relying upon, and if so how do we deal with these issues like the "littleneck clam" aka "Quahog" (what the heck is "hard clam") formally known as Mercenaria mercenaria, as these issues are bound to arise repeatedly. We have articles on Abalone which maybe could and should link to Haliotidae, or vice versa. Any thoughts? Shellnut(talk) 00:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Congrats
Congrats on the blog feature. I was at the Wikipedia conference at NYU in January and enjoyed your presentation there as well. All the best. Jweiss11 (talk) 19:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue One - Recent news from the Teahouse
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thanks a lot
Dear Invertzoo,

Thank you very much for your nice words. It took me some time to learn the very basics of creating new pages, but now I love it and will continue whenever I have time. Yes, that's me, Barna Páll-Gergely. I'm from Hungary, but I'm currently doing PhD in Japan, and will return to Hungary in 2 weeks for 3 months. Is your name Susan J. Hewitt? I can see your numeruous and wonderful papers! Could you please tell me who is Bishop M. J, I think he/she wrote the paper about Amphidromus genitalia, which I currently use in my studies about the genus.

I'm very happy to meet you here. All the best: Barna —Preceding unsigned comment added byPall-Gergely (talk •contribs) 21:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Merci

 * Cette version live de Lennon est beaucoup mieux je suis allé prier ( peu importe votre religion - je respecte les autres religions]) pour les personnes mortes dans New York lors du 11 septembre 2001. Courage et paix pour les new-yorkais. Toute ma gratitude--Vieux supporteur de hockey féminin (talk) 19:12, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Je t'en prie, j'ai beaucoup de respect pour le peuple américain. Combien de jeunes américains de ma génération sont morts pour libérer mon pays La France des Nazis(le 4 juin 1944) . Malheureusement certains français ont oublié le sacrifice des humains canadiens et américains. Je te remercie pour ton papa et ton grand papa . Je rend hommage au peuple américain. Que Dieu protège les États-unis d’Amérique. Une chanson Mon papa et ma maman ont étés dans la résistance et fusillés par les allemands Orphelin j'ai été adopté par des canadiens et enfant je suis parti au canada,--Vieux supporteur de hockey féminin (talk) 21:24, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Talk Back
Kate Carter-Rigg (talk) 14:56, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: Importance rating on bivalves
Hi Susan, It took some to get around to this. It is done now. I had the bot update the importance rating based on the taxon rank. There are few that still need rating. — Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:02, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

The bot was not able to update the following:

— Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:10, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Talk:Bathymodiolus
 * Talk:Chesapecten
 * Talk:Chesapecten jeffersonius
 * Talk:Divarilima pellucida
 * Talk:Elktoe
 * Talk:Ellipsaria lineolata
 * Talk:Exogyra
 * Talk:Flame shell
 * Talk:Freshwater bivalve
 * Talk:Giant honeycomb oyster
 * Talk:Gillardeau oysters
 * Talk:Glochidium
 * Talk:Hyotissa mcgintyi
 * Talk:Hyriidae
 * Talk:Laevitrigonia
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Benin
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Iran
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Namibia
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of New Zealand
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Nigeria
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Senegal
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Sudan
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Taiwan
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Zambia
 * Talk:List of non-marine molluscs of Zimbabwe
 * Talk:Ming (clam)
 * Talk:Monopleura
 * Talk:Musculus somaliensis
 * Talk:Myophorella
 * Talk:Nuculanoida
 * Talk:Pinctada maxima oyster
 * Talk:Pisidiidae
 * Talk:Protocardia
 * Talk:Protothaca
 * Talk:Pycnodonte newberryi
 * Talk:Razor clam
 * Talk:Sculpture (mollusc)
 * Talk:Shell money
 * Talk:Trigoniidae
 * Talk:Veliger


 * All these are done now. Invertzoo (talk) 14:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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Extant fossils
Do whatever you feel is best. The original source for the list was Sepkoski's online genus database. Abyssal (talk) 18:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Table Code
Thank-you for taking the time out to respond to me. I managed to find the code via google search and tweak accordingly in the end. Your message was much appreciated.Tlarco29 (talk) 00:35, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications
Hi Susan. I've put my name on the list of applications forHighBeam/Applications. I advise you to do the same and I'll give the same advise to Shellnut. With the three of us, we are more likely to obtain at least one free, full-access, 1-year HighBeam Research account. Imagine, being able to read all those scientific articles hidden beyond a paywall ! JoJan (talk) 16:16, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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