User talk:OhanaUnited/Archive 6

Use of Creative Commons-licensed Flickr images?

I'm wondering... There are some outstanding images in specialized streams on Flickr (e.g.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30703260@N08 ) that have a CC license with them. It would be nice to display these images on the appropriate taxon pages directly (as is done for images from Wikimedia Commons, which also have CC licenses), instead of merely providing a small, boring link at the bottom of the page. Is this possible? Is it kosher?

And, how should I be handling attribution of images? The license text often says something like "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)." I don't see photographers acknowledged directly in Wikispecies, but I realize that clicking the photo takes one to the Commons where the photographer is usually identified. Is this enough?

I searched through Village Pump archives but didn't see these exact issues discussed (sorry if I missed available answers).

Thanks - MKOliver (talk) 03:39, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of talk page

Hello. Thank you for deleting "User talk:Careful With That Axe, Eugene", added by a vandal using an anonymous IP address. I was notified of this by email. I would like to assure you that this was not me, although this would be my WikiSpecies TP if I were to create one (I spend most of my time on Wikipedia). What would happen if I, the rightful user, attempted to re-create this TP for my own use? Please reply either here or on my normal TP here: [1] Many thanks. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (talk) 12:45, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Usurp request

Hi, I don't have any experience with these and it seems as though you do. Would you be willing to handle this User_talk:Open2universe#.D7.A9.D7.9C.D7.95.D7.9D or explainn to me what I am supposed to do? Thanks so much.

Open2universe | Talk 02:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

שלום

I'm trying to unify my user name אבגד in wikimedia. If you can please usurup the name אבגד so I can use it, it would be appreciated. you can see my reqest on meta here. thanks אבגד1 (talk) 15:14, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Please provide the old username and new username in question. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

his old name :אבגד new name אבגד. due to unification problems of different passwords he requests the usurpation of "אבגד". he will log in afterwards and the account will be unified automatically. Matanya (talk) 00:29, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

?! tenkws. --אבגד1 (talk) 18:22, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

. --אבגד (talk) 06:07, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

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Main Page typo

Hello. Thank you for the template welcome. I posted a notification of a typo on the MP talk page which has yet to be acknowledged or actioned. Would you care to take a look? Careful With That Axe, Eugene (talk) 07:57, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello again. There's another typo on this week's Main Page regarding the magnificent albatross - "vessel" has been entered as "vassal", a wholly different word. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (talk) 10:46, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

The sentence I was referring to is "Fishing vassels with their longline fishing hooks and nets are posing a threat to this bird's survival," found within the details of the albatross on the Main Page. I see that I made a mistake in my report ("vassal" instead of "vassel") - I meant to suggest replacing "vassel" with "vessel". Ah, the irony! Careful With That Axe, Eugene (talk) 08:32, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Captcha

Hi, Ohana,

could you, please, help KuziasBot with the problem of Captcha? It arises when it tries to add a template with external links. Another question is whether I have a right to run a bot for simple tasks at first without an approval? Kuzia (talk) 08:46, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Well, that case I just experimented with redirects: the idea was to supply the bot with a list of redirect pairs and let it do the whole boring task, and that was fine. But the problem I'm talking about was with templates that link to external sources: e.g. the Bot was able to add Template:LSN10 without parameters but failed when a page number was supplied (in that case an external link is created).
OK, I should ask for an approval: that certainly will solve the problem (and will make things fair).
The idea of automatic species page creation (I'm thinking of red species links on pages of genera: we shouldn't automatically download whole taxonomies) is rather straightforward: for my job I implemented a series of modules that work with several databases like WoRMS-projects and IndexFungorum. So, that's just a question of species list composition. Kuzia (talk) 22:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Re.: Adjustments

Thanks, I always forgot to add "†". Burmeister (talk) 21:21, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Corynoptera images

Hi,

thanks for asking about images of Sciaridae. I have a lot photographs of male claspers and other parts, which I plan to upload some time. I am still not quite sure, if it is allowed to copy images from publications, even if the papers are open access. In the long term I am plannig to create species pages with all relevant information on Species-ID. Images may then be cross-linked from there.

Cheers, Kai Kheller (talk) 18:29, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi Andrew,

sorry for the late reply. For Sciaridae it does not make much sense to upload photographs of many different species, because they are much too similar in their general aspect. But I have some ideas to combine the habitus with the more distinctive male genialia. As soon as my next paper is published I will try to present some of my photos on wikispecies. If I needed some help I would come back to your kind offer of assistance.

Kheller (talk) 22:38, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

zfg

Hi, Andrew,

Stephen seems to ignore my person. Could you help me: what's the purpose for Template:zfg? Should we use it everywhere for family level taxa? Kuzia (talk) 21:33, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

As usual, the issues are complex, and I haven't got time to explain fully. It is a very common convention in taxonomic literature to capitalize family-group names in zoology (just like italicizing species and genus-group names), eg. see:

Template:Urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EAA376B7-6783-4FE4-8B33-BC0A0418B819 then only family-group names, genus-group names, and species-group names are quoted with author/date, not higher level names. Stho002 (talk) 21:50, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

I've replied on User talk:Stho002. Let us discuss the question there. Kuzia (talk) 05:18, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

How about we move on and add good content to the site without getting hung up on minor formatting issues??? Stho002 (talk) 05:22, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

If you consider me a bore - that's good. The structure of taxa templates in WS is extremely useful and we shouldn't make major changes to it. WS is used as a source for taxonomy and we should follow some standards in design. It's not a database, it's wiki, so we have to maintain the standards. It's not hard to make all families in small caps (that's a work for a bot for ca. 3 days). But I see no necessity in that. Furthermore I'd recommend to remove that style. Kuzia (talk) 05:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Andrew,

please, make a look at our "dialogues" with Stephen. Something is going wrong. Kuzia (talk) 20:40, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

User_talk:Stho002#Taxonav_loops_.26_zfg as an example. See also above. Kuzia (talk) 12:26, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

KoumzBot

Account created. KoumzBot (talk) 22:27, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Also, I have a mass deletion project I am going to do sometime soon (redundant and obsolete unused templates), so what is the best way to handle that in terms of flags? Koumz (talk) 01:59, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Male/female

Yeah, I knew I should have corrected that, too, but I was too focused on the other thing I was doing to go copy one from one of Alan's pages. Thanks for fixing it. There are a lot of problems with formatting in the way that editor adds pictures to pages, and I was trying to decide how deep I wanted to get into fixing them all just now. Koumz (talk) 16:14, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

OK, I see it in the edit tools bar now ... that was rather blind of me to miss it. Koumz (talk) 16:20, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

AWB

If you know anything about why the latest release of AWB hangs at the "Set Project" stage when I try to run it, that would be helpful to me. Thanks, Koumz (talk) 11:09, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

OK, thanks anyway. I got it to run from another machine, so maybe it's a machine-specific issue that will take some other work.

Re: Fruhstorferia

There are 2 homonyms, so Fruhstorferia is a disambig page ... Stho002 (talk) 05:57, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Me again about usurp

There are a number of requests in the queue, but changing the name doesn't seem to work because the new name already exist as unified logins. Is there something else I need to do? Thanks Open2universe | Talk 15:22, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Quession

Had a question in response to your post on my talk page. SMcCandlish (talk) 23:10, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

French main page protection

Do you have any objection to us doing a trial unprotect on the French main page for a few weeks to allow Amqui to work on it, as long as we watch over it? Koumz (talk) 13:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

2 letter genera

I thought it useful to have a category for these odd names, as they are very difficult to search for and keep track of, and are easily missed. I am not aware of any restrictions on what we can have as categories ... Stho002 (talk) 03:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC) Also, see: http://globalnames.org/node/13

Good advice!!

NEVER make your screen THIS COLOUR!!! http://www.famu.org/zoraptera/bibliography.html Stho002 (talk) 20:54, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Vernacular name redirects

Was there a reason nobody nuked all the ones User:Rjclaudio created? Koumz (talk) 20:26, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Nuking complete (although it had to be done with AWB instead of the Nuke function). Koumz (talk) 03:58, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

ID

Hey OhanaUnited

For my uploaded image, File:Figure of M. acidophyla.png. I am not the author of the image, so I am not Prof. Wim Bert; my name is Dennis Vlaeminck. But he is my boss and he asked me to make a wikipage for the new species. He provided me with the images from the article... If you doubt my work relation to him, you can always email him: wim.bert@ugent.be and confirm that I can use his images.

Dtvlaemi

GedawyBot

Hi, I made a request for bot flag, I hope you approve it. Thanks in advance.--M.Gedawy 15:55, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Need your help

If you have some time please look through this discussion. To my mind Stho002 have completely forgotten about civility. Mithril (talk) 07:08, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

FWIW, I completely agree. Someone (preferably an admin or bureaucrat, since that's apparently the only users here whose opinions he values) needs to explain to him how an admin should behave. - dcljr (talk) 04:14, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

Hello OhanaUnited, could you please unblock CommonsDelinker? The problem has been solved, see this discussion. Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 15:08, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Looks like you get all the boring jobs!! ... Stho002 (talk) 03:12, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

I have replied on my talk page ... Stho002 (talk) 06:25, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Following your reply, it is important that someone unblocks this bot, because it updates/removes links to deleted files only once. Category:Pages with broken file links contains pages that should be updated while CommonsDelinker is blocked. I've reverted its remaining removals on this project and the queue has been emptied by Multichill, so please consider unblocking it. Mathonius (talk) 15:56, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Strange category

I'm getting some pages, eg. http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cadlina_%28New_Zealand%29 self-categorizing as Pages where expansion depth is exceeded ... what does this mean?? ... Stho002 (talk) 02:45, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Well everything seems to still function correctly, so I think we can just ignore it ... Stho002 (talk) 03:03, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hello OhanaUnited, could you delete the vandalism on my Userpages please. Thanks and greetings. Orchi (talk) 10:34, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

few words

Hello Andrew,

have thanks for your welcome.

Ludwig, Silvio (talk) 22:54, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

OhanaUnited: can you un-block my account?

Apparently, Lycaon (maybe no longer an administrator?) blocked my account (philiptdotcom). Wonder if you could unblock it. Not sure why you blocked it in the first place, but because of this block, I'm unable to add this as a "unified account" along with my other wik(-imedia, -ipedia, -tionary, etc.) accounts....

Thanks!

philiptdotcom e-mail: pt@philipt.com

the account was blocked because of promotional username, i.e., see User_talk:Philiptdotcom ... Stho002 (talk) 06:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Look what I found last night!

http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sparassidae_sp._1_%28adult_female%29.jpg
I think I know the species (new to N.Z.!), but I'll wait for confirmation ... Stho002 (talk) 05:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned pages

Hey OhanaUnited In the list 'Orphaned pages' the page 'Klie' (#604) occurs. I produced it, but it didn't work as it should. It has been replaced by the page 'Walter Klie' which is working well. How can the page 'Klie' be cancelled? Can you do it? Kempf EK (talk) 16:47, 3 October 2012 (UTC)