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Belatedly, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:27, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
"Taxa by author" category edit
Hello Trepas. You added the wrong author name and author link when you recently created the "A. Sseliwanoff taxa" category. I have corrected that. Please be more careful in the future, and use the "Show preview" button before saving your edit. 
Thank you.
–Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 03:22, 10 April 2022 (UTC).
Gender of A. Sseliwanoff edit
When you created the A. Sseliwanoff page you added the g=f parameter to the {{Taxa authored}} template, i.e. saying that the author is female. However I haven't been able to find any information that supports this. Are you sure A. Sseliwanoff is a woman? The parameter is used in some languages when our server software auto-translates the page. It's needed since some languages use very gender-specific forms, e.g. German "Entomologe" (male entomologist) and "Entomologin" (female entomologist). –Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 03:41, 10 April 2022 (UTC).
- Thanks to pointing this out. I generally remove templates I don't understand when I copy the format from another page, but I forgot this one; at least now I know what's this template for. By the way, I'm pretty sure it's a man but I don't have any evidence, so I just removed it. Trepas (talk) 02:19, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, just saw this discussion and I think I may be able to help solve this mystery. Based on the surname itself, I suspect "Sseliwanoff" might be an alternative (probably German?) transliteration of the Russian masculine surname "Selivanov" (the feminine form is "Selivanova"), which would be evidence of gender being male. It's possible the myriapodologist is also cited under that spelling maybe. Some google results for "Selivanov" with "Geophilidae", "Himantariidae" or "Myriapoda" seem to provide articles mentioning more taxa and publications by this author (e.g. abstract and references tab of [1]), but I haven't found a first name yet. Hope this helps! Monster Iestyn (talk) 03:22, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Follow-up: I think I found his full name and it is ru:Селиванов, Алексей Васильевич (Google Translated to English) which I believe transliterates to "Alexey Vasilievich Selivanov" in English? His place of death was Ryazan (Рязань), probably the same place as the "Rjazan" of the publication you included. Monster Iestyn (talk) 03:37, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've pass some time looking for his full name before creating the page, but I was unsuccessfull, but indeed, I've seen both the transliterations 'Sseliwanoff' and 'Selivanov' aside species he described. So, I think you nailed it! I can correct this, but how do we handle names in non-roman characters on Wikispecies? Should we use 'Алексей Васильевич Селиванов' or 'Alexey Vasilievich Selivanov'? Trepas (talk) 15:18, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- 'Alexey Vasilievich Selivanov' should be the page title, but the name in Russian language should probably be added to the page too. Monster Iestyn (talk) 15:26, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks; I'll do the modifications later today! Trepas (talk) 16:07, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- 'Alexey Vasilievich Selivanov' should be the page title, but the name in Russian language should probably be added to the page too. Monster Iestyn (talk) 15:26, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've pass some time looking for his full name before creating the page, but I was unsuccessfull, but indeed, I've seen both the transliterations 'Sseliwanoff' and 'Selivanov' aside species he described. So, I think you nailed it! I can correct this, but how do we handle names in non-roman characters on Wikispecies? Should we use 'Алексей Васильевич Селиванов' or 'Alexey Vasilievich Selivanov'? Trepas (talk) 15:18, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Follow-up: I think I found his full name and it is ru:Селиванов, Алексей Васильевич (Google Translated to English) which I believe transliterates to "Alexey Vasilievich Selivanov" in English? His place of death was Ryazan (Рязань), probably the same place as the "Rjazan" of the publication you included. Monster Iestyn (talk) 03:37, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, just saw this discussion and I think I may be able to help solve this mystery. Based on the surname itself, I suspect "Sseliwanoff" might be an alternative (probably German?) transliteration of the Russian masculine surname "Selivanov" (the feminine form is "Selivanova"), which would be evidence of gender being male. It's possible the myriapodologist is also cited under that spelling maybe. Some google results for "Selivanov" with "Geophilidae", "Himantariidae" or "Myriapoda" seem to provide articles mentioning more taxa and publications by this author (e.g. abstract and references tab of [1]), but I haven't found a first name yet. Hope this helps! Monster Iestyn (talk) 03:22, 12 April 2022 (UTC)