User talk:The knowledgable

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Hello, The knowledgable, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 13:16, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi The knowledgable, and thank you for your feedback. Wikipedia does indeed have a lot of policies and guidelines to follow, but don't worry - no-one expects you to know all of them on your first day! The fundamentals of Wikipedia are laid out in the Five Pillars; read through these and you've got the basics. Other policies will rear their heads during your editing career (usually when you get pulled up for breaking them, I'm afraid), but since they're all based on the Pillars, if you grasp those, you shouldn't go far wrong.

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Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for your willingness to contribute, but could you please check your facts in future; contributing to an encyclopedia that serves billions of people who rely on its correct functioning is a matter of great responsibility. You claimed in at least three edits that only three species of mosquitoes are known to cause disease. This is total nonsense; I assume that you are referring to Anopheles, Culex and Aedes? Those are not species, but genera. There are in fact other genera that may vector diseases, some in humans, and some in other animals, and the total number of disease vectors is probably several hundreds at least. As you are patently not an entomologist, and did not supply a citation for your claim, I can only assume that you retailed the claim from hearsay, probably from an incompetent source. In future please limit yourself to claims that you can support by supplying validly acceptable citations in support. That will reduce the probability of more embarrassing errors. Thanks. JonRichfield (talk) 12:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you so much for your feedback as it means a lot to me.But what I tend to convey is different.The information which I've added to Wikipedia is factually correct,I feel as I took it from a renowned magazine.I should think that you must have also referred before telling this to me but,as I have aforementioned,the information is correct as far as I know.


 * Thank you for your friendly response; I know well how irksome it can be to be contradicted in WP, especially when one is new. However, you are correct in at least one of your remarks: I did check. Many years ago. I am an entomologist. There are over 3000 species of mosquitoes known already, and most of them are bloodsuckers, the females anyway, though a minority of the bloodsuckers either do not attack humans at all and many (I have no precise figures) only do so if hungry or out of their usual territory (such as forest treetops). I assume that your source was thinking in terms of the genera Anopheles, Culex, and Aedes, but all that demonstrates is that even the authors of renowned magazines are not necessarily reliable sources (let us not go into how often they speak absolute rubbish!) For a start, those three genera alone include possibly hundreds of species, and there are many more, such as Mansonia, Coquillettidia, Ochlerotatus, Culiseta, Sabethes, over a hundred genera, some of them with about 100 species, new ones discovered every year, and by far the most being bloodsuckers. Many of them are disease carriers too, though probably the majority are not very important. That still means hundreds of species though, not three. If you correspond with the magazine you mention, you might like to mention a few of these points. Cheers for now. JonRichfield (talk) 08:50, 10 August 2012 (UTC)