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Contents 1 Welcome to the Wikipedia! 2 Category:Aspergian Wikipedians 3 WikiProject Aquarium Fishes 4 The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: December 2006 5 The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: January 2007 6 Rasbora dorsiocellata 7 The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: Febuary 2007 8 The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: March 2007 9 race in biomedicine 10 The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: April 2007

[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)

[edit] The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: December 2006

The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - December 2006
News Welcome to the Aquarium Fishes WikiProject, everyone. We now have six people: Melanochromis, Neale Monks, Terrapin83, Calilasseia, Kerripaul, ChicagoPimp. The {{catfish-stub}} and {{characiformes-stub}} have recently been created. Have a look at Category:Catfish stubs and Category:Characiformes stubs to see if there're any stubs you are interested to expand into articles. Our first collaboration article is fishkeeping (see discussion here) Articles recently created: brackish water aquarium, Siamese algae eater, Texas cichlid Articles recently expanded: lemon tetra, rummy nosed tetra See or edit the current tasklist here	Discussions A new fishkeeping stub is being created. Suggest your idea or vote for the design you like here
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--Melanochromis 23:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: January 2007

The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter Issue II - January 2007
News Please welcome our new member: Pnphappy (talk • contribs) As discussed, the {{Fishkeeping-stub}} has been created and about 25 articles has been marked with this stub as you can see in Cat:Fishkeeping stubs. However, the stub was almost immediately proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. If you want to save our stub, here's what you can do: Let the stub-sorting people know you're supporting the stub and vote to keep the stub here. Find more fishkeeping-related stubs and mark them with {{Fishkeeping-stub}} (but please do not mark this stub to the fish species/genus/family articles as they are in the scope of fish-stub) Our current collaboration article is fishkeeping Articles recently created: x-ray tetra, rosy red minnow, Pelvicachromis taeniatus, Nannacara Articles recently expanded: labyrinth fish, List of freshwater aquarium fish species See or edit the current tasklist here	Discussions "Aquarium box" for fish articles. Several wikipedia in other languages have boxes for aquarium care information (temperature, pH, water hardness, size of fish, etc.). Should we apply that to ours too? See more info and discuss here. Should Bloodworms be merged into Midge (insect)? (discuss) Should Nano reef be deleted? (discuss and vote)
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--Melanochromis 04:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rasbora dorsiocellata

Hi David. You did a great job with this article. As requested, I posted my article review at the talk page. Cheers. --Melanochromis 19:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: Febuary 2007

The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter Issue III - February 2007
News Please welcome our new members: Mmoyer (talk • contribs), Niceguys (talk • contribs), and MidgleyDJ (talk • contribs) As Nano reef was proposed for deletion last month, the voting result was to keep. Tilapia has gone though a major restructuring. The original article is now split into Tilapia Tilapiine cichlid Genus Tilapia Genus Sarotherodon Genus Oreochromis Tilapia in aquaculture Tilapia as exotic species Articles recently created: Eye-spot rasbora, Diamond tetra, Rainbow cichlid Articles recently expanded or revised: Harlequin rasbora, Pacu, Algae eater, Gyrinocheilidae, Cypriniformes See or edit the current tasklist here	Discussions Should Managuense cichlid article be renamed as "Parachromis managuensis"? See discussion and vote here. Seems like there are some minor conflicts going on whether to include the Loaches Online website as references or external links. This has been added and deleted several times in some loach articles. See Burmese Border loach, Skunk loach, Botia striata, Dwarf loach Addition of Ivanacara as a new cichlid genus. See discussion here.
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--Melanochromis 15:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: March 2007

The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter Issue IV - March 2007
News Please welcome our new members: Antony1103 (talk • contribs), riftreef (talk • contribs), Roan Art (talk • contribs) Pufferfish has been retitled as Tetraodontidae. See discussion here. Various goldfish pictures have been deleted due to copyrights issues. This left many goldfish articles with no pictures at all. See Celestial Eye, Pompom (goldfish), Ranchu, Ryukin, Veiltail. User:Melanochromis is attempting to organize uncategorized uploaded pictures (excluding pictures from wikicommons as those are already categorized in wikicommons). If you see uncategorized pictures, please add appropriate categories such as Category:Fish images, Category:Cypriniformes images, Category:Barb images, Category:Perciformes images, Category:Cichlid images, Category:Gourami images, Category:Tetraodontiformes images Articles recently created: Celestichthys margaritatus (Microrasbora sp. 'Galaxy'), Nimbochromis polystigma, Cuckoo catfish, Metriaclima, Thick-Lipped Gourami, Colisa Articles recently expanded or revised: Bolivian ram, Maylandia, Protein skimmer, Giraffe catfish, List of freshwater aquarium fish species, Calico goldfish, Banjo catfish, Cypriniformes See or edit the current tasklist here	Discussions User:MiltonT has proposed to combine some goldfish breed articles. Discuss here. Anyone wants to design the "aquarium box"? Websites references and/or external links. What do you consider appropriate websites and what're not? What about Planet Catfish, Loach Onlines and the likes? Discuss here
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--Melanochromis 22:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] race in biomedicine

I just saw your plea that "race" be properly defined in regard to the article entitled Race in biomedicine. I hope you will continue to monitor that article. I have a long time interest in spiders and the resident spider expert on Wikipedia wrote to me that he has little patience with the idea of subspecies (AKA race in biology) with regard to spiders. If anything the situation with regard to the "races" of honey bees is even more problematical. Try to find anything about the various [races] of honey bees in Europe and you will find references to "broad bands of hybridization" and other indications that the differences between the so-called [races] are clinal in most cases. Before commerical bee keepers brought other [races] of honey bees to Cyprus there may well have been a subspecies distinction to be found. There are also a couple of populations of honey bees in northern Africa that appear to have a sharp cut-off from other groups and no great amount of hybridization. The case with human beings is very much otherwise. Some people may believe that the aboriginal population of Australia may have stayed isolated for long enough to have been considered a subspecies, but as far as I know there is only Homo sapiens sapiens and no second subspecies extant anywhere in the world today.

As for the factors that make, e.g., a group of long-term Icelanders look very different from a "pure stand" of San tribesmen in Africa, if you pick remote points and eliminate visiting anthropologigists and any progeny they may have procreated while in residence then you will find the appearance of clear differences, but if you walk and swim between Iceland and the land of the San you will not find a gap or even a "narrow hybridization margin." The number of definitions that have been contrived to distinguish between [races] are, I would guess, of the same order of magnitude as the number of researchers who believe in or use [race]. Put another way, there is no [operational definition] for the word "race." It is at best an expedient and most of the time it is far more trouble than it is worth. People seem to me irrationally attracted to it -- even the ones who are the targets of racism. Go figure. P0M 01:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: April 2007

The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter Issue V - April 2007
News Please welcome our new members: Toniher (talk • contribs), MiltonT (talk • contribs), Regani.de (talk • contribs), Codenametiger (talk • contribs) User:DSWebb has created "breedbox" which replaced the taxobox in all goldfish breed articles. See our discussion here. User:MiltonT has created the "Aquarium and Fishkeeping Hobby" box which has been placed in many articles in the category:fishkeeping. See discussion here. In the past two weeks, four different articles have achieved the good article status. They are Oscar, Pelvicachromis pulcher, Fish, Cichlid. User:MidgleyDJ deserves our praise for arduously contributing to most of these improvements. Kribensis has become a disambiguation page. The original contents were moved to Pelvicachromis pulcher. The Portal:Fish has added a new feature - the Fish Quiz. Feel free to come test your knowledge, interact with other fish editors, try to win the game and collect a special prize. The project now has an award program for outstanding and exceptional editors. Articles recently created:List of brackish aquarium fish species, Red-tail dwarf puffer, Chromis viridis, Chromis atripectoralis, Filter (aquarium) Articles recently expanded or revised: Cyprinid, Dwarf pufferfish, Fathead minnow, Rainbow darter, Green sunfish, Oscar, Cichlid, Convict cichlid, Pseudoplatystoma See or edit the current tasklist here	Discussions Our parent wikiproject, the WikiProject Fishes, is having an important discussion about the policy of "Titles of fish species articles". This policy covers the selection of scientific and common names as article titles. It will have a significant impact on a large number of fish articles. See or join the discussion here. Related to this discussion is the title change of the article Mayan cichlid to Cichlasoma urophthalmus. Aquarium, a featured article since 2005, has been proposed for a review which may lead to the article being de-featured. See the proposal and discuss here. Discuss how to improve the article here.
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--Melanochromis 22:11, 4 April 2007 (UTC)