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Welcome to my talk page. Feel free to leave a message. Peter Maas\talk 22:14, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Equus

Hi, Have seen your changes on the horse page and they it is great that you have added a reference for this. What is the significant text in the reference which makes these changes clear? Are they definitive changes? If so then this wikipedia presents different information from the rest of the internet and so I think the article also needs so explanatory text or the changes are just likely to get reverted by someone. Cheers, Malcolm Morley 21:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Previous name of these animals (tarpan, wild horse & Donkey/Wild Ass) was mainly based on the list of mammals published by Wilson and Reeder in 1993. Their list was based on the code of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (www.iczn.org). Thus the oldest name was used: Equus caballus for the horse and Equus asinus for the Donkey/Ass. These names were first given to the domesticated forms and this had created confusion. However, in 2003 to end the confusion of the names, the Commission ruled that the name for each of the wild species listed in their publication (see reference) is not invalid by virtue of being predated by a name based on a domestic form.

The following names are hereby placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology: (a) africanus Heuglin & Fitzinger, 1866, as published in the binomen Equus africanus (North African wild ass) (Mammalia); (b) ferus Boddaert, 1785, as published in the binomen Equus ferus (Russian wild horse, tarpan) (Mammalia); (c) ...etc....

Website of International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: http://www.iczn.org The publication (Opinion 2027) can be ordered there for free.

Main reference: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2003. Opinion 2027 (Case 3010). Usage of 17 specific names based on wild species which are pre-dated by or contemporary with those based on domestic animals (Lepidoptera, Osteichthyes, Mammalia): conserved. Bull.Zool.Nomencl., 60:81-84. Pmaas 21:54, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

FANTASTIC JOB! Malcolm Morley 22:01, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VWN en WCN

Beste Pmaas,

Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 18:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lizards?

I was reading your article on the La Palma Giant Lizard, and you left a sentence unfinished. Can you fix that, please? DS 13:55, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank for telling. I've finished the sentence now. Pmaas 14:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] macedonische leeuwen

ten eerste mr.maas, er was geen griekenland in die tijd, ten tweede macedonie was een eigen land, met eigen grenzen. en er is geen enkele bron die spreekt of zich uitbeeld over griekenland ivm leeuwen. Groeten uit Macedonia --Makedonia 22:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

In die tijd was er inderdaad geen Griekenland, maar nu wel. Om het duidelijker te maken heb ik het veranderd in hedendaags Griekenland (present-day Greece). Bronnen over leeuwen in hedendaags Griekenland zijn er wel, kijk maar eens op http://www.asiatic-lion.org/ om er één te noemen. Pmaas 17:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Two sources: (1) Guggisberg, C.A.W. 1961. Simba: The life of the Lion. Howard Timmins, Cape Town. (2) Nowell, K. and Jackson, P. (compilers and editors) (1996). Wild Cats. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. Pmaas 17:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Liger

I posted a reply on the talk page. - 23:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help me how to create Portal

Dear friend,

I cannot create portals. When I make a portal template and try to create a portal based on those portal templates, {{}} is recognized as template not portal :( --User:Ibrahimjon 08:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Friend, first I would say: create an account/register/sign in (before creating a portal)! That way users can discuss thing with you. Now nobody can reach you. Check first if the portal is needed and if it does not exist already. For more information on portals: Wikipedia:Portal and Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions. Peter Maas 08:14, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops, sorry for being anonymos, while working with my students using another comp, I found out that I am kicked off due to my session which was expired and didn't know about that. Sorry. So I wish to make portals in another wiki project but I fail :( --Ibrahimjon 08:29, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't matter. Maybe I can help! Where is the portal located? Which topic? For example, I'm currently working at Portal:Extinction. Peter Maas 08:33, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Great! Please visit Tajik Wiki Ibrahimjon

I've posted the following on your Talk page on the Tajik Wikipedia: Hi Ibrahim! At the English Wikipedia it is quite easy to create portals by following the instructions at en:Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions. Are you sure the Tajik Wikipedia has a Portal feature. The concept of a portal originated in the Polish and German Wikipedias. In early 2005, the portal concept was imported to the English Wikipedia and the first Wikiportals were established. Later that year, a special namespace (Portal:) was created for portals. It is possible that this has not been done for the Tajik Wikipedia. Sadly, I cannot help you with that. Peter Maas 08:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking time to write. Can we talk via Yahoo Messenger? --Ibrahimjon 10:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

My Yahoo ID is pmaas81. Peter Maas 10:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unio crassus

Sorry, Pmaas, you are quite right. It came about because of the terminology of the Category - extinct animals only means one thing to me, globally. :-) GrahamBould 16:01, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trinil tiger

Hello Peter, Now we have the Trinil-tiger in the german wikipedia, too. I never heard about this subspecies before. There are only two internet-sites, where I found something. Do you know good sources, who say that this is a valid subspecies?--131.188.170.86 20:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC) Oh, I see I am not signed in. I´m User:Altaileopard

I think it is valid, a prehistoric tiger subspecies. Some well known and reliable institutions name it. The information I posted here comes from the National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis) in Leiden, the Netherlands. This museum has the fossils in its collection, the famous Dubois collection: which includes the a skull of Java Man, the syntype of Homo erectus. It is mentioned at the following site: http://www.naturalis.nl/300pearls/. Just go there to "Extinct Animals" and than to the article "Javan Tiger - Ruthlessly hunted down". That is the reference I used. The subspecies is also mentioned in book "Frontiers of Fear Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600–1950 by Peter Boomgaard (Yale University Press) online pdf version. It is also mentioned on several other sites, but all contain the same short information. I also know that the article "Research on Early Man in Burma, with Supplementary Reports upon the Pleistocene Vertebrates and Mollusks of the Region, and Pleistocene Geology and Early Man in Java Hellmut de Terra, Hallam L. Movius, Jr., Edwin H. Colbert, J. Bequaert Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Ser., Vol. 32, No. 3 (1941 - 1943), pp. 263-464" mention a Felis trinilensis Dubois, probably the original name when it was named by Dubois. Sadly I don't have acces to the full version of the article. I haven't been able to find more yet on this Pleistocene tiger subspecies. Peter Maas 19:59, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I will soon visit the Naturalis museum again, maybe I find anything more there. When I do I will let you know. Peter Maas 20:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer. I already knew this www.naturalis-page and I think it looks quite serios, but I am not shure if it is a proper Source for WIkipedia. (They have no literature). The book and the article, you mentoined are new to me. Now I would agree, that P. t. trinilensis really seems to be a valid subspecies, but I will also try to find some more infos. Thanks a lot.--Altaileopard 15:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
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