User talk:Jcolbyk

Welcome Colby and thanks for your work on ATA (in the 'pedia and in real life, hehe). You may be interested in knowning that we have projects dedicated to astronomy and a number of contributors related to the field such as you.

Related projects:
 * WikiProject Astronomical objects
 * WikiProject Telescopes

Related people:
 * User:Worldtraveller, PhD in Astronomy
 * User:Zandperl, made some work with FCRAO and the Nançay Radio Telescope.

Worldtraveller would be the perfect contact for more information about the community here, he is a nice guy. :)

Thanks for your contributions. If you need any help just let me know by posting a message in my talk page.

&mdash;Joseph | Talk 17:02, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello Colby, let me add another welcome to Wikipedia, hope you like the place and stay around! Great to see more people from the astronomical community here.  Another place you might like to drop by in addition to the wikiprojects is the astronomy portal, which is intended to be a general gateway to all the astronomical content here.
 * I see you've uploaded some great images already; it would be really helpful if you could also add an image tag, so that the copyright status is clear.
 * Welcome again, and drop me a line if you've got any questions! Worldtraveller 15:53, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:ATA42-construction.jpg
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Colony Collapse Disorder
Hi. Just so you know, this topic already has its own article, in which all the information is covered in gruesome detail, and it is also discussed on the Western honey bee page, where it is relevant. It has nothing to do with any other species of bees besides that single species, so it is not relevant to the bee page, which is about ALL bee species. You're not the first to try to include it there (and I'm sure you won't be the last), but that's why there are separate articles for things in the first place. Just because mosquitoes carry West Nile Virus, you wouldn't want someone to go to the insect article and insert a passage saying "insects transmit West Nile Virus", right? That's misleading, just as it's misleading to imply that bees are dying when only one species of bee is dying (and even that one is not dying in the wild - it's only the domesticated stock that is dying, and that could simply be bad beekeeping, instead of a disease). Peace, Dyanega 18:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I understand all that. But I think that the magnitude of the evolving story merits special reference to it. Just like how there is a section covering mass extinction on the dinosaur page. I agree it would be better to have this listed under a more directly relavent page, such as Honey Bees. Or a page devoted to domesticated bee keeping. But having no reference at all on the first place most people would look for information about bee's makes it harder to find the information in the end, not easier. I was not attempting to duplicate the full content of the CCD page, just provide relevant references to an evolving and potentially continent wide problem. Jcolbyk 18:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * In that case, it needs to be inserted into the text where there is mention of honey bees being used for pollination, as that is the only potentially appropriate place to include it. In fact, I'll do that now. Dyanega 18:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Jcolbyk 18:48, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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