User talk:Calilasseia

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia!

Welcome to the Wikipedia, Calilasseia! And thanks for the contribution to the Heritability of autism article. Hope you enjoy editing here and becoming a Wikipedian! Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Best of luck, Calilasseia, and have fun! Ombudsman 19:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I intend to. Oh, by the way, I perused several of the pages linked to above in advance. Some of them make fairly heavy reading to a newcomer, and I suspect I shall have to re-read them several times before all of the nuances sink in. However, I think I'v earned a small pat on the back for reading them before posting anything! :) Calilasseia 17:22, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Aspergian Wikipedians

Category:Aspergian Wikipedians which you have included on your user page has been proposed for deletion you can comment at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Wikipedians by mental condition. The is also a proposal to create an association to meet the needs of users with mental health conditions. --Salix alba (talk) 18:29, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the 'heads up'. I've posted my view, which should leave no-one in any doubt whatsoever where I stand on this! :) Calilasseia 20:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Aquarium Fishes

Hi David. I saw your panda corydoras article. That was an excellent job. You have got some cute babies. Anyway, I just set up the WikiProject Aquarium Fishes. I wonder if you'd be interested in joining it and help with the start up. Thank you and take care !! --Melanochromis 04:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, something I can devote some time to! I'll need more info. There's a LOT about Wikipedia I am still finding my feet over (such as redirects, user templates and a whole gamut of other things). You'll have to let me know more about what a WikiProject entails. Then I can make a decision as to whether to come on board. :)

I'm glad you are interested. Fish is an extremely large subject (28,000 species or so) and it's obvious that projects with a specific focus within fish are needed. Sharks already has their own project and it successfully produced a couple of featured and good articles as well as generating numerous species articles. I notice that there are many editors who contribute regularly to fishkeeping and aquarium fish articles. Why not get together to brainstorm and help each others? Also, there are not clear guidelines how to write about aquarium care and different articles just go in their own ways.

In my opinion, the Aquarium Fishes Project shouldn't have specific expectations from the participants. They can do whatever they want or do best. For examples, you can help revising the guidelines, maintaining our references resource list, helping with articles in the tasklists, or even just observing and randomly helping other people works when needed. You can just check the the project page and see of it'd interest you :-) Cheers, --Melanochromis 04:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks intersting. I can't guarantee at this stage that I'll be a full time contributor, but I'll certainly pore over this project with interest, and probably contribute a few articles. If my Panda Catfish article hasn't already acquired the WikiProject sticker, I'll add it. I'll track down a few other articles I've edited and see if they need the sticker adding too. Calilasseia 10:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I saw the lemon tetra article got a major revamp. Great job!! And thanks for spreading the aquarium project banner. We just got two more people (beside me). If you'd like to make yourself known to them, just introduce yourself here. Cheers, --Melanochromis 15:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC)