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Painted honeyeater/ Taxonomy
Cite error: The named reference Driskell&Christdis was invoked but never defined (see the help page). This message arose after I corrected the spelling of 2nd author in Ref 10 to Christidis. I have tried several suggestions from Help Page (including add inverted commas " " & insert /ref> but the error message remains in References (not in article itself). I can't discover whether Ref 9 and Ref 10 are identical, although I would assume that they are.

Giant Honeyeater (photo)
Accompanying photo to Giant Honeyeater (Gymnomyza brunneirostris) is actually of the Yellow-billed Honeyeater (Gymnomyza viridis). The duplication evidently arose after 2014, when the former subspecies (G.v. brunneirostris) was elevated to species level by the IOU. It is therefore necessary to locate & insert a correct image of the Giant Honeyeater.Rogermccart (talk) 13:24, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Pied Honeyeater/Partial References
The following 4 references embedded in the text of Pied Honeyeater are incomplete, lacking detailed citations: Gannon 1962; Birdlife Australia 2014; Read 2008; Burgess 1946 Also, the section now renamed Other Sources contains a group of leftover citations which are not referred to anywhere in the text. These matters should be dealt with by the original contributor. Rogermccart (talk) 13:20, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Akane Yamaguchi
Hello. Help copy edit. Thanks you. Vomli (talk) 07:37, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!
Hi. I notice your improvements to Western wattlebird, that was probably to something I hacked out so cheers. ~ cygnis insignis 02:46, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

A "James Joyce" thank you!
I can't let you know how glad I am that you are copy editing this text. I've been trying to populate the material, and get the citations in shape, and I can just imagine that the text is messy. I just wanted to say that I'm glad you are there, and taking the time to clean up the text. Fleshing out Joyce's biography has been some heavy lifting, (though its is fun and quite the learning experience as well, of course) I appreciate it! I'm also trying to be more careful and edit sections you are not copy editing, so I can let you do the work without editing conflicts. Again, thank you so much! Wtfiv (talk) 17:54, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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Cape white-eye
Just asking, at the above article, did you move the images and recordings due to the 2022 skin that squeezes everything together? I felt that the previous setup showed the birds much better. JMK (talk) 09:21, 25 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, I can't remember how the images appeared before I set up the Gallery. Clicking on the thumbnails opens a full page view of each image. Also, I don't understand what 2022 skin refers to. Please enlighten me.
 * As for placement of the images, I only feel strongly about having them in a column down the left-hand margin of the text. Regards, Roger McCart Rogermccart (talk) 10:28, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * To clarify: I meant "feel strongly" in a negative sense. Otherwise, you should feel free to make any alterations you feel are warranted & which improve the page. Rogermccart (talk) 10:40, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Brackets in subspecies
Hi, can you kindly explain to me what do the brackets mean in the authority of a subspecies? I've also noticed that the use of it isn't consistent, e.g. Crested lark authorities all have brackets. Thanks. YedidyaPopper (talk) 04:27, 19 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Yedidya,
 * The brackets around an author/year indicate that the scientific name of a genus etc has changed since its original description. This includes subspecies.
 * The following extract from the Binomial nomenclature page of Wikipedia should help to clarify the usage of parentheses/brackets for you:
 * <<In scientific works, the authority for a binomial name is usually given, at least when it is first mentioned, and the year of publication may be specified.
 * In zoology
 * "Patella vulgata Linnaeus, 1758". The name "Linnaeus" tells the reader who published the name and description for this species; 1758 is the year the name and original description was published (in this case, in the 10th edition of the book Systema Naturae).
 * "Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)". The original name given by Linnaeus was Fringilla domestica; the parentheses indicate that the species is now placed in a different genus. The ICZN does not require that the name of the person who changed the genus be given, nor the date on which the change was made, although nomenclatorial catalogs usually include such information.>>
 * As for the crested lark, I think you may have misread. The subspecies are in brackets following the common names. However, the author/year has brackets only where the author did not use the generic name Galerida. I have just bracketed Linnaeus 1758 on that page because he originally named the genus Alauda. All instances of author/year without brackets have presumably used the generic name Galerida. This notwithstanding that there is some dispute as to whether the crested lark should be lumped together with Alauda.
 * I hope all this clears up the confusion for you.
 * All the best, Roger McCart Rogermccart (talk) 06:24, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

About your edits on Siberian sand plover
Please stop making any so-called "clarifications" or "copy edits" on topics you are not familiar with. ——🦝 The Interaccoonale Will be the raccoon race(talk・contribs) 13:35, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

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Precision in conversions of cm–in
Hi Roger. Thanks for all the edits you're making to articles on Australian flora, in particular the metric to imperial conversions. However sometimes the changes you make are not necessarily an improvement, usually when the measurements are less than, say, 10 cm. For example, lets consider this edit you recently made. The original had this code:

 1 - 3 cm  which gives 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in)

This is undoubtedly overly precise and you were right to edit it. However you wrote:

 1 - 3 cm  which gives 1–3 cm (0.4–1 in)

which is now not precise enough. May I suggest that in cases like this you use the rounding parameter rather than the sigfig parameter? We could then write the same conversion as follows:

 1 - 3 cm  which gives 1–3 cm (0.4–1.2 in)

I think you'd agree that this is a much better result. Thanks again for your work. Cheers, Steve Junglenut &#124;Talk 23:10, 18 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Steve, Thanks again for your assistance. I will be more careful in choosing either parameter, when a change appears necessary. Otherwise, it's best to leave the conversion as it is. Rogermccart (talk) 02:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)