User talk:Ryan shell/Archive 2

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Hi Ryan!

I noticed you helping out with some of the gastropod articles, and wanted to thank you... because the gastropods are such a huge group, we need all the help we can get! If you have some interest in that particular area, I wanted to say:

I've noticed your edits on pages relating to Gastropods; perhaps you'd be interested in joining WikiProject Gastropods? If you would like more information, please visit the project page or the project talk page.

Either way, thanks again for your help, and all good wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 21:41, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

OK, no problem, but I will bear you in mind if there is something specific we need help with that you could do. I am sure we will come up with something... Thanks so much for offering! Best, Invertzoo (talk) 21:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Ha! OK, almost immediately I find something that needs correcting that I don't know how to do... so... maybe you can explain to me how to do it? If you type "Mactra" into the search slot, you get Mactra corollina which should read Mactra corallina, and you also get Mactra acquilateralis, which should read Mactra aequilateralis. Many thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 22:27, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey Ryan, peace to you too. I should explain that the great advantage of the Latin names, the scientific names of species, is that they are >exactly< the same in any language anywhere in the world. So "corollina" is just a plain old spelling mistake, and so is "acquilateralis". It is true that M. corallina is a synonym of M. stultorum, but still we needed a correctly spelled version of it in the search function, so thanks for putting that in there. And the same is true of M. aquilateralis rather than the misspelled "M. acquilateralis", we need the correctly spelled version to be shown in the search function. The incorrectly spelled ones should at the most be simply automatic redirects rather than being listed as if they were a real spelling, at least that is how it seems to me? I don't know if that can be fixed by us or whether an admin needs to do it. Invertzoo (talk) 01:31, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

About public domain paleontology books

Hello Ryan, you are member of project Paleontology. If you will find any paleontological public domain book which is available on-line, with images of gastropods, just let me to know and I will crop, retouche and upload them. Thank you for your cooperation. --Snek01 (talk) 19:35, 15 December 2008 (UTC) Added a heading for Snek's post. Invertzoo (talk) 03:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

About speedy deleting the wrongly-spelled versions in the search function

Yes I do think that sounds like a good idea. Can you tell me how you add that speedy delete tag? I mean how do you find the page to add the tag to? I think perhaps I knew once and have forgotten. Invertzoo (talk) 03:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

About a brand new article that appears to be 100% bogus

Hi Ryan, Would you do me a favor and check out Comic x? I appears to be completely bogus. A google search finds no such thing as "Roast Beef Publishing Ltd" or any of the other key words. If it is a piece of vandalism it needs to be deleted. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 23:47, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the tips Mr. Ryan

I really appreciate the useful guides to Wikipedia you've given to me since im just a begginner and your the 1st one to talk in my user discussion page! ^^ +10 points! Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Gintong Liwanag Ng Araw (talk) 17:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Typhlops diardii

Hi Ryan, Sorry to have reverted your last edit to the Typhlops diardii article, but this is a common format that's used for the entire series. I've tried to explain my rationale for it here. Like I say, I started out following WP:LEAD, but that method soon struck me as being so inefficient and inelegant for this particular task, that I just couldn't see myself writing and formatting hundreds of articles like that. It's unfortunate that it's sometimes only regarded as a weird departure from WP:LEAD, but luckily it does seem to be gaining some acceptance. --Jwinius (talk) 16:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Diamond darter

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Dravecky (talk) 21:10, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Flat needlefish

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--Dravecky (talk) 06:15, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Smells like old fish

You're right, it should be. I tagged a couple that way, then couldn't think of the wordl.:( If you find others, feel free to change 'em. TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 02:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Advice

Thanks for the advice on my talk page! I don't have much time to edit Wikipedia but I'll be sure to take a look at Translations. I think they might also have a request list for articles to be trans-Wikied at WikiProject Japan. silverneko (talk) 23:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Brazil

I didn't mean to make the article about the ruling military junta, but about the historic period during the dictatorship, and for the name, I followed the title of the wikipedia article in Portuguese (Ditadura militar no Brasil). The articles I merged (1960s and 1970s in Brazil) were already predominantly on this topic, and besides, they both need some serious work to have them make sense.--Le Petit Modificateur Laborieux (talk) 19:13, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

We could… recreate these two pages, leaving in all the details not directly related to the dictatorship era itself. What do you think?--Le Petit Modificateur Laborieux (talk) 19:59, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Houndfish

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Gatoclass (talk) 09:00, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Referencing Advice

Hi Ryan,

Long time, no talkies. I just thought i'd let you know (if you didn't already know) about citation templates located here Wikipedia:Citation templates. I noticed you use quite a few long winded references, and i find they tend to look better when using these templates. Quite often additional information such as ISBNs etc can be found by simply googling the title of the book or journal and put into the template. Another advantage is that it standardizes your references, which is necessary if you ever want to take an article to Good Article status. Another thing - you don't necessarily need to put a reference after each sentence. If you have several sentences which are attributable to the one source, put the ref after all of those sentences. It tends to keep the page a bit neater.

By no means am i saying you need to use them or do anything i say, just thought i'd share! Also, do you know about google books and scholar? They are great tools for finding free information. Keep up the good fish work, and good to see you working on beloniformes - quite a few red links there!

Cheers, Kare Kare (talk) 05:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Add Taxobox for Emperor tetra

Just wanted to let you know. I added a taxobox to the Emperor tetra page and moved it to its scientific name and redirected the old page. I'm kinda new to editing wiki, I think I joined maybe a week ago, but I alreay have two articles. If you wouldn't mind checking them out they are Long-nosed Loach and Violet Goby. Violet Gobies are kinda a hobby of mine and I was so dissapoited to find out wikipedia didnt have an article on them at all that I promptly joined, made an article, and posted it. Drew R. Smith (talk) 10:20, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Mirrorwing flyingfish

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Royalbroil 16:43, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Atlantic flyingfish

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DYK for Atlantic flyingfish

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Giants 27 14:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Balao halfbeak

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Gatoclass (talk) 07:07, 11 July 2009 (UTC) 08:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Northern sennet

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{{User0|Candlewicke 17:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK question

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DYK for Southern sennet

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Orlady (talk) 13:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Guachanche barracuda

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WP:DYK 02:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ryan, with regards to this article, our OTRS system got an email suggesting that the weight you have given may be a typographical error. The relevant sentence is "Guachanche barracuda can grow up to 200 cm in length.[3] They can also weigh up to 1.75 kg." The emailer contends that these measurements would make it the skinniest fish in the world, thinner than a snake, and that you possibly meant 175 kg.

I confess to having no knowledge on the subject and no access to the reference used, so if you could enlighten me so that I can reply, that would be fantastic!

Regards,
Daniel (talk) 09:34, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Boga (fish)

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DYK for Boga (fish)

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DYK for Atka mackerel

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≈ Chamal ^talk ¤ 13:15, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Sweet, two of 'em! Ryan shell (talk) 19:38, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Spottail pinfish

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Mifter (talk) 21:28, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Western Atlantic seabream

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— Jake Wartenberg 07:07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Saucereye porgy

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DYK - Jolthead porgy

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DYK for Jolthead porgy

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Materialscientist (talk) 00:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Service awards proposal

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DYK for Pluma porgy

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Non-free files in your user space

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DYK for Littlehead porgy

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Proposed deletion of Andy Maddocks

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Greetings!

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Andy Maddocks

Thanks for adding the sources to the Andy Maddocks article. I withdraw any objections I had. Cheers  –Joshua Scott 21:18, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Knobbed porgy

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DYK for Acteosaurus

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DYK for Shantungosuchus

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Pleurosternon DYK nomination

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Just to let you know that I've put another comment under your nomination, as there are problems with your review. Schwede66 18:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Pleurosternon

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DYK for Rimasuchus

Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Hyla arboricola cellty

About this. You can't find records of it because user:Rymity21 made it up. Pretty much every page this user has dealt with involves making false claims on status (e.g. changing IUCN species ratings) and adding fake species or subspecies. Many were reverted by other users and as evident on his talk page several of his fake species articles have been deleted. In the pages where it remained I have now deleted the fake information, but the fake subspecies "Hyla arboricola cellty" and the fake species "Giant leaf tree frog (Agalychnis Gigus [sic])" remain. For now I added the hoax template to these two pages, but only because I don't have the time right now to familiarize myself better with the Speedy delete rules. 62.107.220.109 (talk) 22:55, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Tzaganosuchus

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