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ARCHIVE PAGE 60: December 2012

Area of Interest
Thank you for the invite to project bi-valve. My area of interest is not specifically with bi-valves, though I have nothing against them. In fact my best friend is a bi-valve. Seriously, I'm interested in the entire natural world, but most focused on inter-tidal life along the coast of California (many of these creatures extend south into Mexico and north to Alaska). I'm an active trained volunteer intertidal naturalist at a marine reserve. I am also a citizen scientist working with the California Academy of Sciences on a couple of on-going projects. I would be interested in doing more articles for Wikipedia, but I'm very strapped for free time. It would need to be totally flexible and limited. Let me know your thoughts.Ssakolsnow (talk) 11:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Reflections on shells and Mollusc literature
Hallo Invertzoo. I try to avoid reflections on the shells, but in this case is was impossible. So we have reflections, but it is impossible, by the way the photos were taken, that you can see me (and I have also no pictures on the wall). You asked also for books. Very good to genus level (but the overall taxonomy is not up to date due to the publishing date) are the two volumes of Johannes Thiele “Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde”. Landsnails worldwide you find in R. Tucker Abbott “Compendium of landshells”, marine species of the European coasts in F. Nordsieck “Die europäischen Meeresschnecken : (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae, Rissoacea)”, “Die europäischen Meeres-Gehäuseschnecken : (Prosobranchia)“. In many cases I also try to loan special literature by the library, e.g. Mary S. Seddon “The landsnails of Madeira”, a very good work with all species of the Archipelago depicted and described, or, concerning the Albinaria species of Crete, the publication of F.W. Welter-Schulters in the Arch. Molluskenkunde 139 “Revision of the genus Albinaria in Crete (Greece): presence of geographically variable monotypic and polytypic species“. Very good for determining European land snails is the webside of the University of Göttingen  (http://www.animalbase.org/) with many descriptions (partly with links to scans of old publications with the original descriptions) and pictures. You see, if necessary, I go down to monography or even to original descriptions. --Llez (talk) 14:37, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Llez, thanks for your note and for the list of books. Well, at least I got the window right! Really it is amazing how shiny some of those cowries are, it's as if they were glassed! :) I am gradually putting more and more of your images into articles. Invertzoo (talk) 00:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for Sharing Pictures
--75.169.12.223 (talk) 14:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)Hello, My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Wikipedia/Wikimedia freeware picture. I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site: 1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm Slang Dictionary link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely, Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com--75.169.12.223 (talk) 14:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I would like to know which image of mine you used? Can you tell me? Thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 20:26, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

just finishing...
those Vallonia articles. have a nice vacation! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:43, 5 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much FoCuS! Invertzoo (talk) 20:24, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

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Slug
Hi Susan! It's been a while now... I'm on vacation again. Boy was I surprised when I saw someone had recently nominated Slug for GA review! Well, I'm not confident it will pass. On the contrary, I believe it will fail, but I'll try to help. Too bad I don't have access to the Museum Library... Otherwise I could provide a lot of info and references. Please help us if you are willing to participate in another review-beating! Best, --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 06:44, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Daniel. I too am shocked that slug is in GA review, and like you I don't think it's ready. I am willing to help but... I am a little bit sick and also I am about to fly to Florida extremely early tomorrow am. I will be pretty busy while I am away for 2 weeks but I will try to drop by Slug and help out if I can. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 20:24, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

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Pyramidellidae project templates.
Hello Invertzoo, thank you very much for your kind recognition, I appreciate it when I receive compliments on my work.

I am most certainly willing to insert the gastropod project templates when I am creating talk pages for my created Pyramidellidae articles, I will do this with the Eulimidae articles as well. Unfortunately, Pyramidellidae is a very misunderstood family, I have to completely agree with your statement, it seems as though I am one of the minorities when it comes to this category. I hope to continue my progress in the gastropod articles, thank you, Merry Christmas, and a happy new year! Happy editing! Solo Toady (talk) 08:18, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

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Cleaning the Eulimidae articles.
Hello Invertzoo.

I have gone to the effort to clean up the Taxoboxes in the new Eulimidae articles I have created, I just wanted to check with you to see if these modifications are acceptable, this include adding the binomial field, modifying the synonyms of species and adding italics to Latin names. Here are some examples of the articles I cleaned.


 * Bathycrinicola (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
 * Bathycrinicola curta (Warén, 1972)
 * Bathycrinicola fernandinae (Dall, 1927)
 * Bathycrinicola macrapex (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
 * Bathycrinicola media (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
 * Bathycrinicola micrapex (Bouchet & Warén, 1986)
 * Bathycrinicola nacraensis (Peñas & Giribet, 2003)
 * Bathycrinicola talaena (Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1897)
 * Bathycrinicola tumidula (Thiele, 1912)

I apologize if I happened to overlook anything, thank you and happy editing! Solo Toady (talk) 04:59, 29 December 2012 (UTC)