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ARCHIVE PAGE 58: October 2012

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Answer to your last message.
Hi Invertzoo, Thanks for your help to show me how should be written a readable article. I will do my best to follow your advices. Don't worry if you notice that I get inactive for a while because I go soon abroad in the Indian Ocean on a boat for 5 months. Best regards from France. Bastaco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bastaco (talk • contribs) 09:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Bot Articles
Ah, I was wondering why there are so many pages for different species. Thanks for the time-waste prevention! I don't have a particular interest in natural history - just an interest in science. I typically just hit click on 'Random article' and see if I can find data or anything relevant to the article if I'm interested enough it it. Regards. Thricecube 19:48, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

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snail in the garden
Dear Zoo,

I hope you are well. At home in the garden yesterday I photographed a small native snail. It was identified as probably being the carnivorous Vitellidelos dulcis. On the same leaf I also photographed a Red & Black spider. Hopefully you or Mr. Snek can expand the snail article.

Recently I was in the jungle at Boorganna Nature Reserve, there was a rainforest snail shell the size of a tennis ball. Too bad it was so old and decayed, that identification was impossible.

kind regards, Peter Poyt448 (talk) 06:33, 15 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Peter, always great to hear from you. What a superb image of the small snail! Thank you! Could you say roughly how long it was from tip to toe when active? And how cool to see a land snail shell the size of a tennis ball, even if it was tremendously eroded. All good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:31, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

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gastropods
Re: your offer, i would be very interested in any more stub-related work for the project if you have any! thanks again :) FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 23:24, 17 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, that's extremely kind of you to offer to help, FoCuSandLeArN! I noticed your new stubs because we have a bot that lists for us any new articles that have certain snail and slug-related key words in them, and I am the person who checks those listings every day. Actually I do feel that we could use a lot of help with making more freshwater snail stubs, and probably also numerous land snail and land slug stubs. I have to think a bit about where I should ask you to start, and what I should ask you to use as references, unless you have some suggestions yourself? I was just about to ask one of our members to create a new list of articles on species where there is no corresponding genus article, maybe that would be an OK place to ask you to start making new stubs once I have that list... But there are alternatives too. Invertzoo (talk) 23:45, 17 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I just found out yesterday from another project member who runs a bot, that we have only one article with a genus red-linked in the taxobox, and I fixed that one, so we are all up to date on that... which is terrific! Invertzoo (talk) 21:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * One possibility that you could do right now if you like, FoCuSandLeArN, is to go to Trochoidea (genus) and make stubs for all 10 of the species that are currently red-listed  there, using Ref 2 on that page (the AnimalBase list) as a reference to back up your stubs. If you are going to do that, you should use the species article for Trochoidea betulonensis as something to copy and paste and then tweak to fit the additional species one by one. By the way, I have not yet cleaned up the other blue-listed species stubs in that genus yet, but I will be doing that tomorrow morning. As you can see, T. pyramidata has a nice image already, so you could add that to the appropriate stub. It would also be great if you can copy the project template from the talk page and put that on to the talk page of any new stubs you make. Let me know if you are going to start that process and I will keep an eye on what you are doing. Also please feel free to ask me any questions you may have! Good wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 01:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Trochoidea seetzenii
Now that I've double-checked, Trochoidea seetzenii isn't listed on AnimalBase...but that's because it's now known as Xerocrassa seetzeni. Should it be made into a redirect instead, then? FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks FoCuS! I just got back from working at the museum so I'm a bit weary and out of it, but yes, that stub should be turned into a redirect (you know how to do that, right?), but first we need to list that new "combination" Xerocrassa seetzeni, on the Trochoidea (genus) page in the Species list section, putting it as a synonym at the very bottom, like this:
 * Trochoidea seetzenii is a synonym for Xerocrassa seetzeni


 * We also need to put in a new reference on the genus page. The new ref is AnimalBase how it now is in 2012. They updated their info since 2008, and now we need to update ours. Thanks so much for all your work! Invertzoo (talk) 22:11, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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so sorry
for your tendinitis :( hope you get better really soon. I used animalbase as a reference, but yes, don't worry I do know how to add in-line references. I will be creating all the articles today.

Talk to you soon, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:35, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

About Chart of English animal nouns
Hello, from Oliver Puertogallera.

I don't mind if my article "Chart of English animal nouns" is deleted, as suggested by one editor. As for your inquiry if the info was from one source -- No, I compiled the info from various references (dictionaries, encyclopedias, science books, English books) over the years.

Please excuse me if I make any mistake of procedure in answering your inquiry. There is so much (confusing info) to learn about Wikipedia procedures, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.

If I have to put four tildes, here they are: Oliver Puertogallera (talk) 05:01, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

About English animal nouns
Thanks, Invertzoo, for your advice. I'll look through some dictionaries or encyclopedias, for source references. Oliver Puertogallera (talk) 15:28, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Note to self
Some suggestions for stubs that FoCuS might want to create:
 * Currently red-linked genus stubs for the Veronicellidae, land slugs
 * Currently red-linked species stubs for the genus Vertigo, land snails, BUT FIRST make a proper ref for Animal Base info, and check that list for all the species.
 * Three red linked species at the land snail genus Vallonia, but may each need a reference.
 * One red-linked genus link at the land snail family Valloniidae, would need a ref, but there are plenty in a Google search.
 * Current red-linked species stubs in the genus Tryonia, small freshwater snails, but each one will need a suitable reference. But decide first... does Tryonia belong in the Cochliopidae or the Hydrobiidae?

Invertzoo (talk) 18:19, 27 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello there, Invertzoo! Hope you're better. Just finishing up on the Veronicellidae slugs today because I've had a hectic week. Will continue with the other tasks as next week progresses. Talk later! :) FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:29, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

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