User talk:Styrphid Fox

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March 2022
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May 2022
Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as Palpada agrorum. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Plagiarism, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 13:02, 24 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for bringing this to my attention. There are about 500 pages (perhaps 50 already in the works) similar to this that I plan to edit, and in some cases create. Unfortunately much of the information, by nature, is in the public domain as the original descriptions and sometimes only description of an insect species fall before copyright. I can easily add the information you request. I reformat nearly all the work from sources to make the text more readable, i.e. complete sentences conjunctions. There are times when I conflate two or more works and simply footnote at the end of a paragraph or section. Perhaps 90% of my reference material comes through the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and i believe they do provide information on the copyright status of their information, so doing a trace back should be not too hard. Thanks again for doing what you do. From years of experience, I know most people take criticism badly. Styrphid Fox (talk) 16:07, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello again, sorry for not replying sooner. It's actually easy to add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template after your citation. I have done so for Brachyopa diversa. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. Thanks,  — Diannaa (talk) 16:53, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Anasimyia chrysostoma.

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* Pppery * it has begun... 13:48, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Platycheirus scamboides moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Platycheirus scamboides, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. –– FormalDude   talk   01:48, 10 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the review, I have added three references to the two. One is a journal article with the original description, another is a masters thesis, and the third is the standard online source for basic taxonomic info. I resubmitted that article for review and will be working on the other article you flagged today. Styrphid Fox (talk) 13:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Platycheirus normae moved to draftspace
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Platycheirus normae has been accepted
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Thanks again, and happy editing! Curbon7 (talk) 05:56, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Platycheirus scamboides has been accepted
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Thanks again, and happy editing! RPSkokie (talk) 13:35, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

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Ways to improve List of syrphids in Minnesota
Hello, Styrphid Fox,

Thank you for creating List of syrphids in Minnesota.

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 * I could easily do as you suggest. With nearly all species linked to their own pages it seemed redundant to provide a reference for each one so i went with the general references at the bottom of the article. I checked with other lists of species on wikipedia and it is a mixed bag concerning references but i think you are right. I have previously made a list of the New York species with around 90 references and it seemed to be too much information. I am currently working on another state list of species and will definitely take the reference requirement into account. Keep up the good work. Perhaps the more thankless job than writing articles is reviewing them. Styrphid Fox (talk) 16:05, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

List of syrphids in Minnesota moved to draftspace
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