User talk:Speednat/Archive/2009/Feb

Aepyornis redirect
Hi, in reply to your message regarding these 3 redirects. My inclination is that the redirects are appropriate as they are mentioned in the page they redirect to. The guideline for redirectsRedirect to me suggests they are appropriate and do not prevent anyone from creating pages there in the future. Even if they are not appropriate redirects the Criteria for speedy deletion for redirects are deliberately very limited in the cases where it is appropriate to speedy delete them. If you feel they should be deleted then feel free to take them toRedirects for discussion which is where such redirects should be discussed. I have removed the links from the Elephant Bird as you are right that there should be no links from that page that redirect back there.Davewild (talk) 17:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Birds February newsletter
The February 2009 issue of the Bird WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. MeegsC | Talk 22:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

albatross chicks
...are not altricial, they are semi-precocial, born with down and open eyes, but not fully precocial (they need brooding and defending for a few days. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  01:14, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sibley's behaviour book is adequate but not the last word. A quick lit search shows that the albies and petrels are generally treated as semiprecocial but more rarely as semi altricial.... but the important bit is that they are semi-something, not straight out something. From memory albatrosses can see at birth (as is the rest of the order) but Brooke (1998) doesn't discuss it.... I'll look at HBW at work tomorrow. Sabine's Sunbird   talk  01:38, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Altricial implies something like a passerine, naked, utterly immobile, blind. Utterly precocial suggests a chicken chick, running around at hatching feeding itself. Petrels tend to be able to move around the nest, have feathers and can see, but are still fed by the parents and brooded for a few days. They are effectively intermediate between the two extreme positions, but it is a matter of semantics to say they are semi precocial or semi altricial (although semi precocial is the more commonly used term). Sabine's Sunbird  talk  04:15, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

citing tips
Nice work with all the albie stubs. You might be interested to know that when using the same reference more than once instead of formatting it like you can instead use this format. Just a bit simpler. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  20:34, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost &mdash; February 23, 2009
This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 8, which includes these articles:


 * Philosophers analyze Wikipedia as a knowledge source
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 * Wikiproject report: WikiProject Islam
 * Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
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 * Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

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Ostrich Feed
Hello Speednat

You communicated with me regarding the amendment I made to the section called Ostrich Feed. You suggested that I had added the section. To put the record straight I was following the request to "improve" the section and provide referenced information. I attempted to do that with correctly referenced information and present not as a "how to", but to provide factual information on their nutritional requirements and differentiating between the wild and domesticated situation. As a newbie, can you please explain what made it a "how to" rather than "factual". I have looked at the section you referencedThis Policy, and the answer is not clear to me. Thank you Hegaldi (talk) 09:20, 25 February 2009 (UTC)