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Open2universe 12:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks

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Hi, thanks for adding all those newly described species. It is very much appreciated. What sources do you monitor to find out? Lycaon 10:24, 10 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

100,000

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The 100,000 article mark is just around the corner. Please consider stating your preference for a celebration logo on this page. Additional logo proposals are also very welcome. Thanks. Lycaon 09:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hoffstetterichthys

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It's nice that you included a reference in the edit comment for Hoffstetterichthys (http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01418p300.pdf) but why not include a more formal citation in the "==References==" section on the page? I made an attempt at doing just that, on that one page. A separate issue is Magnolia Press's copyright statement in that PDF... I'm not sure if the Wikimedia Foundation (or just someone contributing to Wikispecies) would need to (or just as a professional courtesy) get permission before drawing upon that work, especially since the work is mostly a "checklist". You may want to ask around before continuing to draw from that PDF. It would be unfortunate to take more time entering information here and then have a request to remove it. I do not represent either party, I'm just raising the possible issue. --Georgeryp 16:43, 9 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your response. I moved it from my userpage to my talk page. --Georgeryp 01:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Vandal

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Thanks for dealing with that vadal named Oop the Duck. I have blocked his profile and IP indefinitely. Totipotent 08:39, 25 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Vandal2

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Again many thanks for fighting wikicrime. If you want your userpage deleted too, just tell me, but I thought it would be a good idea that the red link to your name has finally turned blue, after all this time of editing! Even though it's empty, you have a userpage :) --Kempm 09:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Kurtamia Entry

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Hey there.......I was going through the Percoidea and came to Kurtamia. I noticed no Fishbase or ISIS entry and when I did a MSN search, all I came up with was the Wikipedia/Wikispecies entries. I then went to your Wikipedia user page and saw that you entered some entries that were questioned, so I deleted the link on the Apogonidae page. I subsequently found good a reference on Google, but Fishbase is pretty good about keeping up to date with recently discovered species. My guess is somewhere after 2006 it was decided to locate the fish somewhere else???? In any event, you can still find your entry, but it is still delinked...........Feel free to do as you wish, particularly if you know the fish to still be valid, which is more than I know..........Pvmoutside 22:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

I have update your side with genus Petascelis. There where a lot of mistakes. You didn't make a template for tribus Petascelini and youdidn't make Taxon Authorities for Signoret and Dallas. The authors in the genus or species have you do with Dallas, 1852. If you have questions about make Templates or Taxon Authorities you can ask me or Mariusm. Please look to this side if you want make new species et.

Regards,

PeterR 12:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

You make the same mistakes.

  • 1. Authors you wright them with ...
  • 2. You have to make

References

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  • , 2008, then the information and then [The link]
  • 3.Have you create the Authors?
  • 4. You have to fill the species. Only the link is not enough.

Regards,

PeterR 17:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)Reply


Isfisk,

I see you make everytime the same mistakes. Authors have to be wright in Lowry and you have to make a Catalog Taxon Authorities for Azman. Further you don't mention the References like ==References== J.K.Lowry & B.A.R.Azman, 2008, Zootaxa 1760: 59-68 [1]

I have update your side Gbroidea. If there are questions you can ask me for help.

Regards,

PeterR 12:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please try look at Help:Taxonavigation section and Help:Name section to see how it should be properly formatted. We have changed the formatting several times after you first registered. Please make sure you're following the latest formatting. OhanaUnitedTalk page 18:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Isfisk,

I have a question about Pseudophasmatidae. I see only tribus, but no subfamilia. The genus Malocomorpha is subfamilia Pseudophastimatinae without a tribus. See allso Zootaxa 1748: 1-64 (2008).

What is your speciality?

Regards,

PeterR 18:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your replay! We have rigid conventions at WIKISPECIES. Also Meyrick permits us to link to the page of author's details while "Meyrick" does not link! (see the blue color)

If you had made the page Gbroidea on my way, than you can see that there are no Templates. I did't create any Lepidoptera page either, but when I see mistakes, I make Templates for Family, Subfamily, Tribus etc.

I have allready update my mistake.

You didn't answer my question about your speciality. My speciality are Lepidoptera.

Regards,

PeterR 12:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Brevisiphonaphis

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You have type:


Taxonavigation: Aphidoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamilia: Aphidoidea

Familia: Aphididae
Subfamilia: Aphidinae
Tribe: Macrosiphini
Genus: Brevisiphonaphis
Species: Brevisiphonaphis hirsutissima

Name

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Brevisiphonaphis hirsutissima Stekolshchikov & G. Xia, 2008

References

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  • Stekolshchikov & Ge Xia, 2008, Journal number: pages [link to journal]

You have add it as upstares.

If you have the journal on internet than you know the names and forenames of the authors and than you can make the Catolog:Taxon Authorities.

Regards,

PeterR 20:18, 4 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Zootaxa

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I don't know how you works, but I look everyday on Google and surge for Zootaxa. The insecta from 2008 jan., febr., march, 2007, 2006 etc. have to be done without the Lepidoptera. If you can pick it up than I can go further with the Lepidoptera.

Regards,

PeterR 20:23, 4 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Amazonatolica

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Please can you update Amazonatolica?

Regards,

PeterR 07:29, 6 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Pericapritermes

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I see that you have done the new species of Pericapritermes. On 4 may 2008 I have ask you to do the Genera and Species with Pericapritermes and Pericapritermes papuanus. Why don't you do this?

Regards,

PeterR 07:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please improve your edits

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Hi Isfisk,

I want to thank you for your valuable contributions to Wikispecies. I nevertheless want to ask you to make a minor improvement regarding the author's names:

Instead of writing:

 
==Name==
''Pericapritermes papuanus'' Bourguignon & Roisin, 2008
 

Please write:

 
==Name==
''Pericapritermes papuanus'' [[Bourguignon]] & [[Roisin]], 2008
 

This is important so we could link to the author's names, and make Wikispecies more imformative.

Thanks for your cooperation!

Mariusm 09:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

You're perfectly right about the author name's ambiguity, but in my opinion the case of Lynch is somewhat rare. Some author pages do contain more info than just the name, and may be extended in the future, putting some "meat" in them. It is also nice to have a uniform and standard format for all Wikispecies pages, and not everyone including or omitting info according to his inclinations. In any case I would be glad if you inform me about such author discrepancies, and I'll give it a try to sort them out. Meanwhile I'll be glad if you could make the effort and add the author links in-spite of all your justified reservations.

Mariusm 16:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Follow-up comments

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  1. As for the case of the author Lynch which you rightly pointed out, I added a new page for the Colombian Herpetologist John D. Lynch. I'll try, if the time allows me to change the links to [[John D. Lynch|Lynch]]
  2. I happened to see your mail to PeterR, where you ask him why he made the modifications in your page. I'm afraid he's rightly done so: The templates {{g| }} and {{sp| }} were constructed for handeling lists of genera in Family pages and lists of species in Genus pages. The line "Species: [[]]" must contain the full name of the species and not the abbreviation resulting from the template.

Mariusm 06:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Regarding the genus you're correct: no difference.
Mariusm 08:29, 19 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I'm working now on the Anura, and I'm intending to change the position of Alsodes as soon as I reach this familia... Please be patient... Thanks for your observation.

Mariusm 08:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Cymothoe

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I don't know what you means. If you have a genus than the rules are

Genera: Cymothoe
Species: C. capella

With species:

Genus: Cymothoe
Species: Cymothoe capella

What is wrong with Cymothoe?

Regards

PeterR 09:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Ecnomina

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I see your busy with Ecnomina. First Genus is Genus: Ecnomina
NOT Ecnomina

This is in according what Mariusm says.

2. There are species group.

Genus: ...

Species Group a...

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[[...{{{2}}} {{{3}}}|.... {{{3}}}]] – ... [[...{{{2}}} {{{3}}}|.... {{{3}}}]]

Species Group b...

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[[...{{{2}}} {{{3}}}|.... {{{3}}}]] – ... [[...{{{2}}} {{{3}}}|.... {{{3}}}]]

...

Regards,

PeterR 19:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Polyura

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One of my contact informants is Nigel Robinson from Thomson. Every month I get a new update for many years. I'm a specialist of Lepidoptera so I get information from authors all of the world. But thanks for the information. Therefore groups and subgroups are important for the science. The groups are sisterspecies in a species. I have allso the disposal about thousands of books in the library of Entomology.

Regards,

PeterR 09:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Answer to wour qustion

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HI,

I happened to see your question to Peter. Visually speaking, there's no difference beteen <br /> and <br>. But if you want valid XHTML code, the <br /> is required by specification. Using <br /> is a way to signify termination of an element instead of using <br></br>. Using <br> on it's own is essentially an unterminated element, so if you want Wiki to work best on all browsers please use the <br />.

Mariusm 12:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Neuzina

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I have add the Type species by Neuzina. I see in your work that you often forget the Type species or Type locality and Holotypes.

Regards,

PeterR 15:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Makrokylindrus

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There are two subgenera Adiastylis and Makrokylindrus see [2]

Regards,

PeterR 12:21, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Fabricinae

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The subfamily is Fabriciinae see allso [3] and [4]

Regards,

PeterR 09:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Comment Requested

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Wider opinions and comments are requested on the village pump here regarding a proposed change in formatting of the taxonavigation section. Please read the and comment.--Kevmin 00:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
Discussion closes 26 April 2009 Stho002 00:14, 23 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

BASEPAGENAME

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Hello Isfisk, thank you for your contributions to Wikispecies. Please note, that the use of the "magic word" BASEPAGENAME is not wanted, so please copy the full name of the species for the taxonavigation section and the name section. (See Wikispecies [Help pages]). Kind regards, Thiotrix (talk) 07:37, 30 March 2023 (UTC)Reply


Autopatrolled rights

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Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:35, 25 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Taxa described in year categories

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Hi, and thank you for contributing to Wikispecies! I don't think there's any consensus for categories such as Category:Taxa described in 1890 currently. Most of them were created by Philippe rogez in the last year or so, but oddly nobody has spoken to him about this yet? (Admittedly this includes me, but I also think he is primarily a French speaker, and I do not know enough French to communicate with him most likely.) Monster Iestyn (talk) 23:16, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ok. Thanks for the information.
Is there consensus regarding categories on "New species [year]" for individual species pages? Isfisk (talk) 15:18, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
None for those either that I know of. Actually, when I asked about all these kinds of categories on the Village Pump last year (Wikispecies:Village Pump/Archive 63#Categories for taxon pages), I was directed to several old discussions, though it reads as though no consensus was ever really reached on them? Monster Iestyn (talk) 15:39, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply