User talk:Willinam

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Hello, Willinam, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for grey mouse lemur. 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 talk 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! UtherSRG (talk) 15:03, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
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Gray mouse lemur edits
Thank you for your contributions to the Gray mouse lemur article. I have gone through and formatted your citations to match the style used on the page, and removed some urls that pointed to subscription-only content (replacing them DOIs so that everyone else can find the paper easily). I only have one request: Please provide a reference for the last bit at the end of the "Reproduction" section. This is a featured article, and missing citations can cause it to be demoted. If you cannot provide a reliable source, I will have to remove those sentences. Otherwise, keep up the great work! – Maky  « talk » 18:47, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your feedback! I'll do my best to make the changes you requested. I'm very new to editing Wikipedia (I'm doing this for a college primatology class assignment). Just as a note though, all the information in the last paragraph of "Reproduction" is from the same article so I'll just move the citation down. Hope that's acceptable/appropriate! Thank you again for your help! - Willinam


 * Thanks from me as well! Just a few notes, when talking about a species, e.g. gray mouse lemur, the article is written in the singular, while articles on genera, families, etc. are written in the plural. So some of your edits are in the plural, however I'm not sure if that's because you're referring to mouse lemurs (Microcebus) or if it's in error, if it's not an error I apologise! Other small tips: leave a single line space between paragraphs rather than two, and to sign your talk page posts just use four tildes ~ . Hope you're here to stay, we always appreciate help on the primate pages (come and say hi at WikiProject Primates)! Cheers, Jack (talk) 15:39, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the correction on the singular vs. plural! I hadn't realized that but I will go back and make sure my edits are consistent with that style. This whole thing is quite a learning curve, but I think once I get the hang of it I'll find myself working on more articles whenever I have time. (And hopefully I got the signature right this time!) Willinam (talk) 00:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Citation styles can vary from page to page since there are many ways to do it. Your method wasn't unacceptable, but it did conflict with the standard used on the article.  (It's always best to see what is currently used and mimic that style... unless there is no standard within the article, in which case it is best to clean it up and standardize it.)  Ultimately, I plan to revisit this article and standardize it with the rest of the lemur articles I regularly write, which use Sfn.  This would have helped with the citations your are providing, because as it stands now, I have to read the entire article to find the material you are discussing.  With Sfn, you can provide the page number, helping readers check your edits more easily.  (For an example, see my latest article, Toothcomb.)  Anyway, Gray mouse lemur was only my third or fourth article, so it is in need of serious work.  Thank you again for your edits.  Are you planning to go on to do more work with the various lemur articles, or are you updating this because you are spending time studying the species?  –  Maky  « talk » 15:54, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * That makes sense, about the citations. I will continue to try to make them consistent for now until you revise it with the Sfn format. And to answer your question, I will probably only work on Gray mouse lemur for now since that is the species I'm studying. For my project I am reviewing primary sources and will be adding to the article as I can over the next few days, although it looks very thorough already. I hope I'm not making more work for you, but I will do my best to make sure everything is accurate and correct, even with my Wiki-naivety! Willinam (talk) 00:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * You are doing excellent with the cite book and cite journal templates. Again, I really appreciate your work.  This article was one of my first, and is in bad need of repair and updates.  Your work will save me a lot of time.  You are certainly not making more work for me.  The only way to do that is to insert uncited claims or expand an article with very poor research, writing, and citations.  I tend to completely overhaul articles, though I try to be nice and preserve as much of the original text as possible.  Needless to say, a long, poorly written article is a lot harder to clean up when you take that approach.  That's why I usually love re-writing short stub articles.  But your edits are very good quality and make my work easier.  If you ever move on to another species and want to team up, just let me know. Best, –  Maky  « talk » 05:01, 14 March 2012 (UTC)