User talk:Marcus334/Archive 1

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Join WikiProject Protected areas of India
Hi, liked your article on Manjampatti, i think u are interested in Protected areas of India. Why don't u join WikiProject Protected areas of India. U can contribute to the National parks and sanctuaries of South India. As per ur comment on the talk page u are absolutely right to put the link there. Protected forests comes under this WikiProject. Best of Luck. Amartyabag  (Talk)  10:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to the Wikiproject PAs of India. Great going with the new articles ! I have categorized Manjampatti in Reserved Forests of India, is that right ? Thanks, and keep up the good work ! ray 17:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
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Your edits to Palani Hills National Park
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Re:PA userbox image
First of all I have not removed the picture yet, I just proposed to be removed. The picture u suggested cannot be used as a part of North India and NE India is not visible. U can use the image for ur base.

As per u want to know wheather it is acceptable to solicit a knowlegable person, like a sanctuary director whom you don't know, to contribute to a wiki page. Wikipedia doesn't allow original research if u can provide reference to the article which is available in printed or other form it is acceptable. Amartyabag  (Talk)  08:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Good Image? Continuing about the acceptability of requesting help from knowledgable person outside Wiki: I was thinking of initiating Knowledge capture from expert person outside Wiki with good knowlege of published sources on the subject and ability to share good local photos, not originial unpublished research. is that OK?
 * PA Userbox Image, 2nd Draft

Neo-Wikipedian, Marcus334 20:44, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Nice image, i am going to use it. Carry on with ur work. Amartyabag   TALK2ME  11:52, 1 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey, good works keep it up. Please do not comment on the main Project page itself. Do it on the talk page instead. Pls see its talk page for some more details. Amartyabag   TALK2ME  11:31, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Pls. do not delete other user's comment until it seems to be too offensive. Its against wiki giudelines to delete other's comments. Amartyabag  TALK2ME  11:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

About Manjampatti
I'm not sure how the name of the place was derived. 'Patti' is a common addendum for villages in Tamil Nadu (similar to 'ville' in the US or 'shire' in UK). However, the first word, 'Manjam' can mean multiple things one of them being the color Yellow. --Natrajdr 07:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Under the context of the song you'd mentioned, 'manjam' means bed/mattress. --Natrajdr 11:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, manjal means yellow and patti is village (both in tamil and malayalam, and also in old kannada and probably in telugu too). Manjam is a malayalam variation of the word manjal. It most certainly means yellow village, and that could probably be because of its mango orchards. Thanks for seeking my help. ­ Kris (talk) 17:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

PAs of Tamil Nadu
Hey, nice work on the PAs of Tamil Nadu ! Sorry I havent been able to take a look at the userboxes and tools page for the project, am upto my neck in work these days. Again, keep up the good work ! ray 04:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Well, I am nearly done sprucing up the project page. A few edits to the talk page will still be needed. Kaziranga is 2/5 completed and behind schedule. I'm proposing Silent Valley National Park for the month of March. What do you think ? ray 05:26, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:Maps
Yes, there is a way, although it may take some trial and error to get it right.


 * 1) To crop an image, you would have to lower the canvas size, and move the image to make sure that the state boundary falls inside the canvas borders. The canvas size can be set via the Document Properties
 * 2) To select a district, use the Edit path nodes or control handles [or F2] button on the left bar to select your district. Then fill it with the appropriate colour.
 * 3) This image might be of some use Image:India Andhra Pradesh locator map.svg to start with.

Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  12:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

JPL maps
I am using the software uDig. Let me know if you install it - I will look up my software and tell you exactly which map server to connect to. Cheers. ray 14:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Map
Okay, you need to go to the Catalog tab, right click and select Import, choose Map server, use the URL wms.jpl.nasa.gov. Once that server gets added, click on it to see all the datasets it offers, one of them would be global_mosaic, drag that into the main window. After that since its a world map, just zoom and pan to get where you want. To import the final picture, I was just using the quick and dirty Printscreen. Hope this helps, ray 16:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

udig troubleshooting
hmm .. that sounds like your udig is working, but something else is going wrong. i think i wasnt clear enough .. i am using xp as well, it took me some time and effort and some weird messages (like yours) to get udig running. I'd suggest reading the FAQ and maybe emailing their contact team ? in the worst case, you can tell me the lat - long, and i can get you the snapshots. cheers and good luck ! ray 01:20, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

vulture ref
hi marcus, i ve read thru the blackwell paper. i cited it so dont worry :) and great job on the silent valley dam location front. cheers. - User:Pradiptaray

Silent Valley
Thanks. Yes, I looked up the JBNHS issue and modified the text. There are a lot of things that I would like in the biodiversity part in that article. Will work on it as and when possible. Shyamal 07:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Natural History of South Asia mailing list
Thanks for your work on the article.

Atulsnischal 03:20, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Marcus,

Discussion has been moderated for many years it seems, it currently is too, the reference page is very old, it still states that discussion in un-moderated, not true. Here is the sample acknowledgment:

- Forwarded Message From: Princeton University LISTSERV Server (15.0)  To: Atul Singh Nischal  Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 8:20:36 PM Subject: Message ("Your message dated Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:20:31...")

Your message dated Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:20:31 -0700 (PDT) with subject "18 March 2007 - Asiatic Lion  News - 2 more  Asiatic lion cubs  found dead, drowned  in an  open well"  has been  submitted to  the moderator  of the nathistory-india list: Vivek Tiwari .

Atulsnischal 20:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Chikkamagaluru district
Marcus,

Thanks for your appreciation on my updates to the Chikkamagaluru district article. Appreciations are always motivating...

-- Amarrg 03:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Great job
U are doing great job in Silent Valley, hope to see this article in FAC soon. U can get some of the necessary comments at the peer review of Kaziranga. After u have done some more modificaton put it in the PR for the second time. More over I have the marked the article as B rated High importance article. our hard works will surely show its fruits. Amartyabag  TALK2ME  10:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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WP:WINSPA Collaboration of the Month
I think if u agree the next month (April) can be declared as a month of overall improvement. I have drafted a rough details of development. I will post this to several other user to collaborate. I will post this later today. Amartyabag  TALK2ME  06:34, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Here goes the draft, pls check and if u like approve it.

Dear , For the last two months, since the creation of WikiProject Protected areas of India have seen good contribution from its members. As the part of the project, Kaziranga National Park and Silent Valley National Park were selected as the  “Collaboration of the Month” for February and March, respectively and both of them achieved B on quality scale. Both the articles have good potential to become a Featured Article in near future. Thanks to the contributors who have helped in the project, with special thanks to ray and Marcus. Thanks to Ganeshk for including this WikiProject to the  template. I, on behalf of this WikiProject also thanks the owner of Snowbot and LostBot for helping in tagging the articles. Thanks to Nichalp for the Dashboard and restructuring the project.

April 2007, is selected as the overall development of articles related to Protected areas of India. Firstly, we will improve the previously collaborated articles to FA level or atleast GA level. Second task will be development of List of national parks in India so that it can become a Featured List. Around 160 articles are unassessed, which need to be assessed. Members are requested to assess as many articles as possibe. Tagging the articles with appropriate tags, messages and Categorising them accordingly will constitute the last leg of this developmental process.

Hope your kind help and collaboration. Amartyabag  TALK2ME  10:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Vattaparai Falls
If you want, I will ask for it to be deleted. I spent many hours on and off Wikipedia trying to find information on it and could not. I could find no consistent information and I have given up on the article. Even on Wikipedia there is conflicting information about that area. I am at a dead end regarding it. Sincerely, Mattisse 12:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Vattaparai Falls - you are doing a terrific job!
You are doing a terrific job on Vattaparai Falls! I have a question though. I could find no evidence that it is on the Vaigai River. Have you found some? I'll put a fact tag on it and you can reference it. Sincerely, --Mattisse 17:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Climate
Hi. I think that weather charts/tables in a protected area article might be overkill--it should be fine to just have the kind of detail (one or two paragraphs) found in the PA articles at WP:Featured articles. But if you still want data and charts, I suggest asking User:Amartyabag or User:Fowler&fowler (they seem to have access to very specialized print sources that I don't). Afterwards, if you want a nice svg graph, you can get in contact with User:Nichalp or User:Ambuj.Saxena, since my own last attempt failed miserably. Thanks. Saravask 13:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Kaziranga edits
Hi! I reverted a few of your edits in Kaziranga National Park. You removed subsectioning in "Geography" and "Climate" by removing the subsection headers and using bold fonts instead. But IMO it is not a solution. We have to either keep the subsections, or summarise severely so that subsectioning is not needed. (this can be aided by creating relevant daughter articles). I will have a go at it. However, your help will be needed. So if I can manage to create appropriate daughter articles and heavy summarising, I shall notify you for further copyedit. Also I removed breaking of paragraphs in the intro. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi! I have tried to bring "Geography" and "Climate" in single sections respectively. Also did a "Geology" section. now every section in the article is without any subsection, except in case of "Fauna". You can check out and edit. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

kaziranga
Hi! While running a spell check, I mistakenly reverted some of your edits. Sorry. Please feel free to edit it again. Sorry, once again. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Invalid licence
Hi! Image:Coracias benghalensis.jpg has an invalid licence. Please could you correct it. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  12:04, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright violations
Hi! I notice you have uploaded the following images from flickr:


 * Image:Elephants, kaziranga.jpgdownloaded different image: Commons 2.5, public, attribution, no derivitive.Marcus 15:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Image:Golden Langur, kaziranga.jpgdownloaded different image: Commons 2.5, public, attribution, no derivitive.Marcus 15:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

and labelled it as cc-by-sa-2.0. The actual licence is cc-by-nd-2.0. These images are not to be used in wikipedia and can be speedily deletes within 5 days. Could you request permission for a cc-by-sa-2.0 licence for these images and forward the email to permissions AT wikimedia.org? =Nichalp  «Talk»=  12:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Vilpatti
Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Vilpatti, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards,  howcheng  {chat} 00:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

pipit
Hi, if you are going to do any more bird articles (and thanks for helping out), you might want to look at the changes I made to your pipit article. jimfbleak 06:05, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Mukurthi
Hi Marcus, nice work on Mukurthi. A friend of mine is working on a booklet right now for the forest department. Once it is published, I might be able to add some material with citations. I see you are leaving India. Wish you a good summer of work. cheers. Shyamal 06:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Imperial crown of India.jpg
I can't find a notice on the source website saying that this image is under a creavtive commons lisence. DO you have email corespondance or something?Geni 00:16, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Message posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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 * Mimosa diplotricha and Aphanamixis polystachya have also been tagged as copyright violations. Please review WP:COPYVIO. I also reverted your edit to Crateva religiosa because most of the information you added was word-for-word from one of the sources you added. Please paraphrase in your own words and reference your sources. Thanks. Cheers, --Rkitko (talk) 05:32, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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Parambikulam etc
Aanamalai (or Aanaimalai/Anaimalai) Hills and Annamalai hills are completely different mountains and several hundred miles apart. As can be seen from this old version of Annamalai hills, it is a well-known pilgrimage spots in the eastern side. I believe it takes it name from this temple and is used as the name of the deity in that temple. Aanamalai literally means "elephant hills". Couldn't find a map in Wiki for its location but it is in the eastern part of Idukki district. For some reason, Annamalai is now redirected to Aanamalai.

If you are editing in this area, it would be better to clear this up (and ask someone who is more knowledgable than me). Tintin 15:38, 16 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks fine. You may have to undo the current redirect in Annamalai Hills as it points to Anaimalai Hills now. Tintin 17:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Would you mind if I fix up all the remaining Annamalai-Anaimalai stuff ? There are still some places where the wrong one is used. Tintin 11:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I have made the changes. Please have a look. Hopefully, it is settled for now. Tintin 14:44, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Just looked at your user page for the first time. How often have you been to India ? Tintin 14:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry for a late reply. Looks like you have seen much more of India than I have :) Tintin 11:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

helpme
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