User talk:MeegsC/Archive 2

List of Ontario birds
Hello, I've been working on a list of Ontario birds here from scratch. I have a strong interest in birding but am by no means an expert, so I was wondering if you could take a look at the list and let me know if I'm doing anything wrong. Thanks, Scorpion0422 03:06, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Mozart list: thanks
I'd like to thank you for leading the supports at FLC; others were to slow to follow your example, but they finally did, and the list is now promoted. Your help in achieving this is much appreciated. Brianboulton (talk) 21:17, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Donovan McNabb references
I have again removed the refimprove tag from the Donovan McNabb article. The article has 14 references already, which probably puts it in the 95th percentile of references per article, and no explanation is offered as to what references need to be improved. While every single article on Wikipedia would benefit from better referencing, applying the tag without labeling and identifying your specific issues of concern is not likely to address your issues. I would suggest that you label the specific items that require sources and elaborate on these issues on the article's talk page. Alansohn (talk) 16:15, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Bank Jumping Theory
Well, I can just barely understand why you removed my "bank jumping" theory from the theoretical section of the "origin of birds". But, when you removed it from your discussion area, you become intellectually dishonest. My theory of the origin of bird flight, that all can read at protobird(dot)blogspot(dot)com, is why, how, and where flight evolved. It won't go away, ever, because you or anyone else can't give a cogent and persuasive argument why it is wrong. Ground-up or tree-down theories are easy to refute, try me! Bird flight evolved by plunge diving from river banks! Protoart(at)gmail(dot)com. Arthur H Tarver69.225.121.234 (talk) 05:37, 4 August 2008 (UTC) Oops! Sorry, ther are two sites "origin of birds" and "bird flight" You didn't remove it from discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.225.121.234 (talk) 06:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Subst:BirdWelcome
Hi MeegsC, it may be good to have a BirdWelcome template that can be easily "subst"-ed into new bird editor pages. Your current format is a good starting point. Shyamal (talk) 09:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, had not noticed. Have not seen many of the birdproject sub pages carefully enough. Shyamal (talk) 07:47, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Subst:Sibleys
Hi MeegC, Charles Sibley was my father-in-law, and I am referring to a copy of his CV. What do you want?

--Tom Lum Forest (talk) 21:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
Hi,

As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.

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You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Meetup, for updates on future meets.

We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!

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RJ: formatting inquiry
My changes to the article reflect more than just the guidelines in the manual of style. For articles on geography, in particular, and the animal kingdom, a "further reading" section will eventually develop. It is a waste of time to compile a bibliography when more general articles will be written on the authors in ornithology. Ottre (talk) 08:37, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Feather
Have tried to improve the content and referencing in the article. It may still need some gap identification, re-organization and copy editing. Do take a look when you find some time. Shyamal (talk) 16:55, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels Newsletter - September 2008
This newsletter was automatically delivered by TinucherianBot (talk) 15:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Donovan McNabb
Well, when I had placed the tag (which was probably shortly after the end of week 1, I can't remember) his stats and possibly the game description (once again I don't remember) was missing, but the problem has been fixed and the tag was removed. Thanks for pointing that out tho.  RC-0722 361.0/ 1  02:46, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. :)  RC-0722 361.0/ 1  20:40, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Removed image
FYI. A user posted an image with "birds are Dinosaurs!" scrawled on it and that has been deleted. Shyamal (talk) 05:23, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Mexican footballers list
Hi do you know of any good title i can move the list to, it's a list of active mexican players playing in other countries.  Blu  e  Red  19:31, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Turkey list
Hello. Thanks for the welcome. Tonight I have started adding to the Category:Birds of Turkey. But, apart from random burst of enthusiasm, I won't be able to be a regular contributer until I have finished my masters thesis by the end of this academic year (sadly it is in Eng Lit not ornithology!). Still will contribute to the project as much as humanly possible. WikiLambo (talk) 18:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds October newsletter
You know a lot about birds! Oh, and birds are dinosaurs. For more information, see Avialae, Feathered dinosaurs,Theropod, and Dinosaur.--Vuerqex (talk) 01:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

How do I get to the talk page for the bird article? I can't figure it out. Please respond soon. --Vuerqex (talk) 01:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello? I would like a reply. I still can't figure out how to get to the talk page for the bird article.I would really appreciate help. I really don't know how to get there. Please respond soon.--Vuerqex (talk) 01:54, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! --Vuerqex (talk) 23:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello again. Thank you for helping me. --Vuerqex (talk) 01:58, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

"Wiki-magic"?
I've asked a question about "wiki-magic" on the Citation talk page. You may want to comment further there. — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 15:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Colymbus
The synonymy list is given in Hellmayr 1948, full scan here http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/oca/Books2007-11/catalogueofbirds1312hell/ Unable to find the German reference you refer to but http://www.peterbertau.de/seite09.htm suggests that the word "lumme" is indeed of German origin. Shyamal (talk) 02:43, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I am lost. The one scanned book of Brunnich (p 39) has the description in Latin. The other on the nest and eggs work of Lorenz Oken gives the names used by him and identifies the eggs in the illustrations with current names "8. Sterntaucher - Gavia stellata Bei Oken: Rothkehliger Taucher - Colymbus septentrionalis". Do let me know the exact link if there is still an issue here. I have a German speaker around to help me. Shyamal (talk) 09:39, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, seems like he got the summer and winter forms as two different species.

130. Stellatus, corpore supra nigricante maculis stellatis albis innumeris, subtus albo. [Which I presume is : body above black spotted with numerous white speckles and underside white] Willoughby Orn. Tab. 62 Colymb. max. stellatus 132. Lumme, corpore supra nigricante, subtus albo, collo, antice ferrugineo. [Which I presume is: Body above black, below white and front of collar ferrugineus.] Shyamal (talk) 10:16, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Quite a mystery. The AOU checklist had the name as Urinator lumme until 1895 http://darwiniana.org/zoo/AOUa.htm - and the Hellmayr paper seems to clearly says 1761 - the genus Urinator was established in 1800 (Cuvier 1800 - Anat. Comp. I. table ii. Type Colymbus imber)

It is possible that the the authorship being assigned to (Pontoppidan, 1763) is perhaps explained in the paper by Leonhard Stejneger of 1882 in Proc. US Nat. Mus. V has an explanation. Shyamal (talk) 10:16, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Colymbus lumme Gunnerus Trond. Selsk. Skr. I. 1761, pi. ii. fig. 2.
 * Elliott Coues does not seem to have had a good opinion of Stejneger ! http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v015n03/p0271-p0272.pdf The intrigues of taxonomy ! Shyamal (talk) 10:20, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Flickr post for newsletter
I'm not sure how long this should be, but here's an example of what you could say:

In the last month quite a few new photos have been obtained from the photosharing website Flickr. A few photos are already suitably licensed for use on Wikipedia. However, for the majority of unsuitably licensed images it is also possible to ask uploaders to change the license of their photo(s), and a good portion of Flickr users have been willing to release images upon request. This is particularly useful for articles that currently have no images. There are still thousands of bird articles needing photos and few people involved in this process, so any help is appreciated.

Richard001 (talk) 04:11, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome to wikiproject Madagascar! -- Rayqayza Dialga Weird 2210   16:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter
How do you get that newsletter thing? Vuerqex (talk) 15:52, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Vuerqex
is my very own website. I just created it. The website is far from finished, though. Vuerqex (talk) 05:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

--  Tinu  Cherian  - 12:44, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds November newsletter
This has been an automated delivery by TinucherianBot (talk) 07:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Feedback?
Hi. I'm new to WikiProject Birds and have done a bit of work on Eurasian Woodcock. If you've got time, I'd be grateful if you could take a look and suggest further improvements. Thanks! Bogbumper (talk) 17:49, 21 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Re: Woodcock. Thanks, that would be great. Now stay off the computer! Katie Bogbumper (talk) 18:24, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. Hope you had a great time in Madagascar. Sorry to be cheeky, but if you fancy having a look at any of the bird articles I've been working on lately (Eurasian Woodcock, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Woodpecker or Sedge Warbler), that'd be grand. Thanks! Bogbumper (talk) 21:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Dysart, Fife
I have managed to get around to doing the peer review work you gave me back in August. Do you feel that there are anymore edits i can make to the article? Kilnburn (talk) 17:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

unitarian greetings

 * a fine Xmas message for all of us to be mindful of.... hehehe. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:07, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I used the wrong adjective, and meant meant global pan-religious not unitarian (i.e. uniting church), now for alot of reversions/amendations...Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Long-toed salamander comments
Thanks for coming to my article and giving the feedback. I'll take a look at your recommendations and will keep working at this.Thompsma (talk) 16:39, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Over the top
The way it was said certainly made it seem like they were the ones being over the top. Wikipedia is seeming rather anti-science these days, and, contrary to them getting bored, they're wearing down the good writers and interfering with the writing of articles. It's been going on for months now. It's too much. --KP Botany (talk) 03:08, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Red-throated Diver
I've got to drive to London shortly, which should be fun, so I can't look now, but I'll respond tomorrow. I have a good source for old names, and I might be able to reference some of them. I wouldn't worry too much about synonyms anyway jimfbleak (talk) 05:57, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Distraction display
Noticed this in your sandbox (from last summer), looks like its time has come. See Talk:Rufous-crowned Sparrow, and I have added a red link in the article. Shyamal (talk) 14:14, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I jumped the gun...Maybe the challenge article can be changed? Shyamal (talk) 15:22, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

R-t D
jimfbleak (talk) 15:24, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * An alternative ref for the rain goose is.
 * OBBBN doesn't have any of the other folk names, so I guess they are American. Personally, I would just chop them, and if people want them in, I would source them.
 * Binomial synonyms (in taxobox) - I don't give binomial synonyms other than, say, the original name for the species as a whole if it differs from the current. Even then I'd put it in taxonomy rather than the taxobox.
 * If I did give synonyms, I wouldn't normally reference them. Similarly, for subspecies I just give the author and date without a source, never been queried yet. On the whole, the people in the project won't ask for that detail, and at FAC its the type of dash you use, rather than the minutiae of taxonomy, that will be queried. If you do keep the synonyms and refs, you're expected to spell out journal names.
 * For consistency, I'd be inclined to put all the real books in sources, difficult to see any logic in just two. jimfbleak (talk) 15:28, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You have some Harvard citations, which need to be converted to cite templates, mustn't mix citation styles jimfbleak (talk) 15:35, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

R-t Diver
Roads fine down to west of London, not much snow left snow in Heathrow area, but Guildford and Caterham very icy according to traffic news. Ring-necked Parakeet in Wraysbury in a five-minute detour from the motorway and a Red Kite over the M25 were new for the year. Fine with the refs, I tend to either take out all the books or none, but that's just me. jimfbleak (talk) 17:47, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

re: newsletter
Hello. I think I could accommodate you. I need several details to prep up: Cheers, Миша 13 16:36, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) How often?
 * 2) To whom? (All participants? Only a selected spamlist?)
 * 3) Where would it be located?
 * 4) Has this been discussed (link?) and is there a consensus?


 * Hi. Sorry for not getting back to you in time. :( Please signal me again next month (or whenever you feel like sending it out) - I should have all the code ready to fire by then. Cheers, Миша 13 22:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Chimango Caracara
Thanks very much for the confirmation. I wish I'd taken more bird photos now. I've put another 4 up (http://picasaweb.google.com/Stevage/Unidentified), if your friend can help any more. Pity the photos are so bad, I don't have a telephoto, since I normally take landscapes. Stevage 01:46, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

EFD
You do realize Editors For Deletion is a humor page. It's frequently opposite-day around that place. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  23:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Acoustical luring
Hi MeegsC, the article challenge seems to be rather narrow in scope and I just see that avian foraging is a red link and could be much larger article that can introduce this term as it applies to shrikes (seems to be the only case in birds). The term itself seems a bit ambiguous as call play back and pishing might actually qualify. Shyamal (talk) 04:13, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Some suggestions that come to mind so far: Ornithophily currently redirects to zoophily. I think a lot more can be said on the topic. A much larger possibility is avian ecology and it could encompass what is now standing in avian ecology field methods. Shyamal (talk) 16:40, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I seem to be thinking of many large topic ideas. There was a suggestion on the bird project talk page as well about avian distributions - which could cover a bit on phylogeography, niche concepts, invasions and expansions. There is a somewhat isolated fragment at Avian_range_expansion. Shyamal (talk) 12:28, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Avian tool use might be an interesting topic - some nice references here http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/lefebvre/ Shyamal (talk) 15:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Now what about....
Red-throated Diver.......Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:21, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Birds newsletter template
I like it. I suggest not hiding it - it's not going to be a nuisance. Go ahead and add it to all the newsletters for navigation. Richard001 (talk) 08:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to help with WikiProject_Organismal_Biomechanics! I'm awful at a lot of this coding and layout stuff, so it's really, really appreciated! Mokele (talk) 14:13, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Newsletter
It would be good if there were a way to navigate more easily between newsletters, e.g. a 'next' and 'previous' button, or better still a template at the bottom with all newsletters on it. Another suggestion is to link to WikiProject Birds/Article requests in the section on the new article.

For the next newsletter, you could mention moving photos to the Commons, e.g. "Except in very rare cases, all bird related images must be freely licensed and thus should be uploaded to the Commons. There are however a number of bird images only found here at en.wikipedia (sometimes being the only one of that species), which prevents them from being used by other Wikipedias and Wikimedia Projects, and makes them harder to find. Some are not used in articles, and most are not placed in a bird specific image category. If you come across one, consider moving it to the Commons, which has a much better category system for bird images. You can search for and move them on a regular basis if you want, but you can also help simply by putting them in Category:Bird images (which should only contain images from here, with the occasional exception such as featured pictures), where others can find them and move them. For help on this you can ask User:Richard001."

(That's quite long isn't it? Oh well, I'm sure you can do something with it.) Richard001 (talk) 08:48, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd like to offer my bot services for future delivery of the newsletter. Just let me know if you're interested. – xeno  ( talk ) 16:06, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep - Category:Newsletter delivery bots. If your usual deliveryperson is still on break for the next one, just let me know and I'd be happy to fill in. – xeno  ( talk ) 16:40, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

References, a clarification
In answer to your question, please let me explain.

This is the formula recommended on Help:Cite errors. It indeed is a little ambiguous. It means that the list itself is not part of the template. If it were, you would have found the whole references section including == References == This reference list does not appear in the article. in all articles that use the template. The references themselves obviously are part of the template.

So the trick into understanding this is in the words this list.

If there is anything more I can help you with, please write. Debresser (talk) 08:59, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

User talk:MZMcBride
FYI MZMcBride is on a wikibreak, I took the liberty of responding at the above-linked thread. –xeno talk 17:09, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Ruff
Many thanks, the link as given is fine even at FA, doesn't have to be to the journal site as long as it has the text jimfbleak (talk) 13:35, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Spoken articles in Bird newsletter? Great suggestion! Can we pend it a bit?
Hi MeegsC,

Thanks for the message. Sorry for the delayed reply. I left on 22nd for Bangalore and I'm accessing my email only today from there. The fact is that aside from a small spoken article on "Bank Myna", my second spoken article "Bird" is progressing slowly and is still incomplete. As of now I feel that I should write the article you want once I have some experience behind me. Would you consider waiting another month till then? I'm beginning work on it right away. Let me know. You may like to fill in the vacant slot in the forthcoming issue in the meantime. Could you tell me the word limit and other rules for the Bird newsletter?

AshLin (talk) 04:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, go ahead. My post on WikiProject Bird should be enough to base a paragraph or two. Please add my name as a contact for interested people. AshLin (talk) 03:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Spoken articles are Wikipedia articles which have been read aloud. Spoken articles make Wikipedia content available to those who can understand English but cannot read it, for users who enjoy podcasting, for visually challenged users and for people learning english. As of date, Spoken articles are prepared by users under the auspices of WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia. To ensure adequate voice quality and minimal size, spoken articles are recorded from 48 kbit/s to 96 kbit/s encoding bit-rate, 44.1 kHz sampling rate, with one channel (mono)in ogg vorbis format. Recording and editing an article can easily be done by users using a home computer setup with microphone and the free software Audacity. Users wishing to record an article will find guidance on the WikiProject pages. At present WikiProject Birds has only 14 spoken articles. Considering that the Project has 76 FAs/GAs and thousands of other articles, there is a dire need to ensure that more than an insignificant fraction of bird articles are available to the visually-challenged people of the world.
 * You could use this as a preliminary draft and amend it to your satisfaction. AshLin (talk) 05:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Rollback
You might find this Rollback feature useful. It is a server-side revert and much faster. Shyamal (talk) 15:04, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have already changed your rights :) Shyamal (talk) 15:12, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds May newsletter

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  06:25, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * ✅ =) Let me know if you need this again next month. –xeno talk 06:34, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

IBC
Hi MeegsC; I'm sorry to have overlooked your comment on my talk page. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 00:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Italics
I'm not sure I follow. If the genus name matches the page title, is contained within five 's in the taxobox, and there is no name parameter in the taxobox, then the title will be italicised automatically. Won't it? Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  16:31, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds June newsletter

 * Newsletter delivery by xenobot  14:06, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Good job on Down feather article
Much improved from earlier versions! Bob98133 (talk) 15:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

HVC
http://www.avianbrain.org/neostriatum.html

cheers, 128.118.29.7 (talk) 22:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Nice work
I noticed you started an Outline of birds page and just wanted to say nice work. Thanks for being so proactive.  T i a m u t talk 21:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds August newsletter

 * Newsletter delivery by –xeno talk 02:12, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

User:MeegsC/Sandbox
Hi. Your sandbox is shown in a category. There is a wiki-guideline against having sandboxes in a category. Snowman (talk) 11:32, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I did not mean to cause any difficulties. It would be simple just to add the hidden mark up and that is fixed the problem. Snowman (talk) 12:49, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Naming Conventions. RFC: Removal of exceptions to "use common names" passage.
This is to inform you that removing exceptions to the use of "most Common Names" as the titles of Wikipedia articles from the the Talk:Naming_Conventions policy page, is the subject of a referral for Comment (RfC). This follows recent changes by some editors.

You are being informed as an editor previously involved in discussion of these issues relevant to that policy page. You are invited to comment at this location.  Xan  dar  21:38, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Animals
Are you still and Active participant of WikiProject Animals WP:ANIMALS ? Please let me know.  Zoo Pro  05:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks i will list you as Active.  Zoo Pro  03:18, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

house sparrow
Are you interested in helping me try get House Sparrow up to featured article status? (It's currently C-class) If so, I have lots of questions for you. Thanks, innotata (Talk | Contribs) 21:11, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * First, I guess I really don't know much about improving articles like this. I've been looking at Tree Sparrow, and have adopted a few ideas from that page, for instance, putting the description on the top. I think I'll start by beefing the article up, as I feel a lot is left out. One thing I want to add immediately is a discussion of House Sparrow evolution, a subject well-known since the 1960s. (Not microevolution in Australia and elsewhere, another interesting topic). Where to put it I don't know. It is very difficult in general to decide how to organise the text. I also think it may be good to change the name of the heading "As an invasive species". It is becoming common for authors on the subject to describe the native range of such species as the house sparrow and rats as wherever there are humans. This is partly just my pet peeve (right phrase?), so don't give it much heed. That'll be all for now, innotata (Talk | Contribs) 17:01, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Here's something I'd like you to do: Would you mind expanding and adding refs to the standard texts at the description section? I probably would do a bad job of it. (As at Tree Sparrow, but please try to cite descriptions that apply to sparrows worldwide, i.e., not just the Collins guide.) I've also found, by searching in several search engines and journals such as Carnéts de Geologie, that it appears no major developments have been made in our understanding of house sparrow evolution since 1988, the year my main ref (Summers-Smith's The Sparrows) was published, so it and the sources referred to in it will be suitable. innotata (Talk | Contribs) 22:14, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm having a hard time making inline/harvard cits for the primary references, so I'll just give sources without them for now. Can you help here? (Though it seems you messed up too). innotata (Talk | Contribs) 19:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * A quick note, in case you care to know: you may have heard of the declines of the House Sparrow, in Western Europe, especially. There actually was a somewhat poorly done section on this earlier–an IP address deleted it and nobody noticed–, and I'm giving it some work at User:Innotata/Decline. I've got this covered, completely. I also have a file on my computer with around 30 urls for webpages and papers on the matter, so you don't need to put any effort into this. innotata (Talk | Contribs) 00:49, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yet more little notes on house sparrow: I think one reason for your apprehensions on the removal of the cit and text to the bluebird society was my ongoing move of info on the house sparrow's spread from the invasive species to the to the distribution section, leaving the invasive sp section to focus on current status. Another major change I'll be making is the addition of habitat and decline subsections to the distribution section. If you have other ideas as to how to arrange the text, please do leave a note at my talk page. I've found another useful source, Kate Vincent's PhD dissertation and webpage. I'll probably be citing Vincent a good deal, but I can't find out how to cite dissertations in the citation template. Also: do you think that since Groschupf is so short, it should be given as an ordinary inline cit? Lastly, I'd like to note that I can't find many things on the house sparrow's harm to native birds, except in North America. Can you try to find some things on this matter? innotata (Talk | Contribs) 18:19, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Here's what I've got as for a cit to Vincent:


 * I can't tell what parameters to use with Template:Citation. innotata (Talk | Contribs) 17:33, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, the italics are wrong with this template, too. innotata (Talk | Contribs) 17:35, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

This is something I just typed at my talk page, in a discussion with Jimfbleak, who is going to work on sparrow articles: "I've done it: I've found how you use Harvard and cite x templates!! You add the parameter ref=harv !" Now to fix House Sparrow. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 16:35, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Another template
Hi MeegsC, this template might be of interest since you usually prefer the Harvard notation presumably due to this. Template:Rp - I spotted its use in "Insect". Shyamal (talk) 03:23, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
I was going to tell you something about refs, but I added it to a response to your queries at the talk page. innotata (Talk | Contribs) 01:45, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds template
Thanks for removing the project talk page banners from those duck breed articles. If you want to double check, there are probably also chicken and turkey articles that have the same problem, though I'm not entirely sure. Steven Walling 05:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Not everyone is happy about the removal (probably temporary) these birds from WP birds. There is a discussion about this on the bird talk page; see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds. Snowman (talk) 21:12, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Purple Martin
Thanks for the note to User_talk:70.144.83.69 re purple martins, feel free to revert/edit or expand to a more accurate or complete entry, no edit war I promise! I just felt that the scale of use of artificial nests by martins merited a mention. Markletp (talk) 15:50, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

GA review reminder
Hope you have not forgotten ... Shyamal (talk) 04:00, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Eurasian Sparrowhawk/GA1
A gentle reminder - the above review has been on hold for 97 days, which is rather a long time. Jezhotwells (talk) 01:06, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Birds
Birds are dinosaurs. Just saying. One and a half years later, I still think you're wrong. --Ferocious Flying Ferrets 03:47, 27 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I know that. --Ferocious Flying Ferrets 01:35, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Oddie article
Hey, how are you doing? I can't even remember the last time I checked the Oddie page. It's been ages. Feel free to remove any tags you disagree with. Thanks for letting me know. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 13:31, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Red Warbler
The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Grab some glory, and a barnstar
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You are now a Reviewer
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Red-throated Loon photos
Hey! and thanks for the positive feedback. I had a magnificent evening with the birds and shot more than 400 photos, of which i kept around 40. I didn't want to clog the article with too many, but there are some very nice actionshots, both of the feeding as well as takeoff and landings. They are all available here for now (http://picasaweb.google.com/boaworm/BirdsAtEyrarbakki#), I'm happy to contribute more to wikipedia if you think any of the others would benefit the article. Boaworm (talk) 10:29, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Pink-headed Warbler
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 12:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

per admin...
Hi, sorry my brevity with saying "per admin. approval" wasn't clear - I meant "awaiting an admin. review and approval to stay" - 'said' with respect that it is a secured article. Seems the opposite interpretation was made. Sorry Look2See1  t a l k →  03:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your two notes, you were right, I would have missed issue-discussion. Have posted a response there between these notes to you. Best--- Look2See1  t a l k →  04:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)