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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Leucothoe (genus) 3 Wikispecies 4 Talk:Trichoplax 5 Cumacean 6 Re: Peripetus 7 regions used in Template:Africa 8 thanks 9 Acrosome reaction 10 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 11 Species on Family pages 12 Your Vote on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hippo pod 13 What Amphipods do you think should be considered Scuds? 14 Wikispecies 15 Re: vandalism 16 WikiProject Belgium 17 FPC Promotion 18 Fair Use 19 Caribbean hermit crab 20 Graphic maps 21 Decayed tooth 22 Image:Receding_glacier.svg 23 Eutrophication image 24 Your images 25 Thank you 26 Zambia 27 Marrons glacés

[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] Leucothoe (genus)

Hi Lycaon - I guess this one needs sorting out (I didn't know about the amphipod of the same name). My proposal is to move the current plant page Leucothoe (genus) to Leucothoe (plant), and transfer your Leucothoe (amphipod) note from there to the Leucothoe page, which is already a disambig page. Let me know if you have any thoughts on it - MPF 19:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! - will do so now - MPF 18:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC) . . . 'tis done! - MPF 18:52, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikispecies

Will do. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:59, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Trichoplax

Why not just erase the inappropriate comment on this discussion page; speedy-deleting the talk page of a real Wiki article seems a bit pointless to me.Hynca-Hooley 01:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cumacean

Bedankt voor je correcties van mijn (niet-perfecte) vertaling! RexNL 01:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Peripetus

Hi Lycaon. Right now Peripetus redirects to Peripatus. Is Peripatus a legitimate article? If so, I think we should keep Peripetus, because it could be easily misspelled as such. There are many misspell redirects on Wikipedia, and it is one of the main reason we have redirects. For example, many people don't know how to spell Arnold Schwarzenegger, and if we didn't have redirects, no one could find his article. I hope this explains everything. Let me know if you have any more questions. --Fang Aili ^說嗎? 15:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] regions used in Template:Africa

Hi, I notice that you and User:E Pluribus Anthony have been reverting each others edits to how countries are assigned to different regions in the template {{africa}}. May I suggest that the two of you discuss this on the template's talk page rather than reverting each other. -- AJR | Talk 17:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)e

Thanks; I'm unsure another option is tenable. Regions are conceptual constructs and, thus, vary depending on source and even person: even dictionaries/compendiums yield different location descriptions for any smattering of territories worldwide.

Upon browsing geographic articles/topics in Wp, I found – and continue to – content that is unsourced and biased. In the quest to equilibrate and, in the least, to organise related content in Wp, the UN subregional scheme – and a neutral, verifiable one at that – obviates (or should!) opining about what country belongs where without the articles and templates degenerating into chaotic free-for-alls. And each of the subregional articles detail varied interpretations of each sub/region ... many of which I've added and, obviously, I do not disagree with (e.g., SADC). FYI: Zambia (née Rhodesia) was once a member of the Central African Federation, so that leaves me to wonder what a Zambian national would really say. :)

Anyhow, I hope this helps; let me know if you've any questions. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 18:00, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, clearly your wife is biased. :) Thanks! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 01:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Thank you for the news about UNZA. Your photographs are wonderful! gala.martin (what?) 13:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Acrosome reaction

hi could you check the new diagram on the acrosome reaction. would like to know if it needs more changes. Image:Acrosome reaction diagram.svgThanksLadyofHats 22:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Species on Family pages

Agreed, & I have made all the changes - let me know if there is anything more to do. I have been doing fish articles, & most do not have very many genera/species per family, so most fit nicely on the family page. Not used to these families with 1,000s of species... One thing I have noticed is the number of families linking to eroneous articles because of common names. There should be a bot to pick family/genera names that link to non-biological articles. Cheers GrahamBould 17:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your Vote on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hippo pod

Hi Lycaon,
Could you please specify which version you support in Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hippo pod? Thanks, --Fir0002 08:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What Amphipods do you think should be considered Scuds?

Hello Lycaon,
I saw you reverted my edits on Talitridae. I believe the web reference adequetly supported the fact that Talitridae were called scuds; specifically those in the genus Hyalella. How do you define a scud? What Amphipod families fall within the definition? All of them, or just Gammaridae? What references are you using to support your definition? Carnopod 22:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikispecies

Ah, thank you: should have checked the block log :-) I appreciate the block. All the best, Gwernol 21:14, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: vandalism

Done, I've tried a week-long block this time. Thanks for the message. —Xezbeth 13:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Belgium

Hallo,

ik heb momenteel het initiatief genomen voor het nieuwe WikiProject Belgium, neem eens een kijkje en als je geïnteresseerd bent aarzel dan niet om je bij de deelnemers te zetten!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FPC Promotion

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Loligo vulgaris.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Fir0002 00:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Great photo! --Fir0002 00:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Loligo vulgaris.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on December 23, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howcheng {chat} 17:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair Use

Fair Use is for images for which it is not possible to find a free alternative ([[WP:FUC] #1). Being a current product this is not something we need to claim fair use for. We should try and find a free picture, or take one. Thanks, ed g2s • talk 18:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Great, the more free content the better. Don't forget to upload it to the Commons. You could also do a flickr search for images tagged as cc-by or cc-by-sa. ed g2s • talk 18:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caribbean hermit crab

The link that you deleted from this page was meant to document text that I just entered. The population of the West Indian Topshell (snail) effects the population of Purple Pinchers in at least some locations (Bermuda). This snail is the "pica" snail mentioned in an earlier version of this article. OK with you if I put the reference back? - Jangim 18:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! The link is restored. I agree about using scientific names. The original text with "pica" was written by someone else. It took some research to figure out what "pica" they meant. The genus Pica refers to birds.

"most of the shells mentioned are not occurring where C. clypeatus lives."

Is there some reason that you didn't leave the other shells? Do you object to having the shell preferences in a separate section?

[edit] Graphic maps

Hello Lycaon and thanks for your contribution to the Graphic lab.
For the Vulpes cana map, think that for such maps the png format is better, because it is more widely reconized, and because the png map is 21ko and big enough while the same svg map more than 1000 ko (and scalable, that's true). Looking at the comparative advantages, I think the png map made by Interiot is more convenient for wikipedia. Lycaon, Have you special reasons to prefer svg ?
Autres chose (je viens de me souvenir que tu es francophone :] ), pourrais tu reflechir a des normes de couleur sur Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Maps. Je pense qu'il faudrait organiser le code de couleur pour certaines catégories répétitives, comme les zones d'habitats d'animaux.
Il y a déja la "norme" des animaux marin en bleu, et les cartes d'oiseaux sont souvent en rose/rouge. Toi qui es biologiste, pourrais tu réfléchir a une couleur "officielle" pour chaque famille animale, tels marin/terrestre/volant//plantes ou poisson/mammiferes/reptiles/oiseaux//plantes, voir aussi arbres/fougeres/fleurs. Je ne connais pas bien les autres systemes de divisions. Se travail d'organisation me semble necessaire, car tot ou tard, il faudra qu'on recolore toute les cartes avec des normes cartographiques wiki claires.

Merci tout de meme pour ta carte Vulpes.svg ^0^y Yug (talk) 18:26, 12 December 2006 (UTC) <PS: je prepare un exposé et je ne répondrais probablement pas tout de suite.>

Ok, je me demandais si tu avais put oublier ce message (cela m'arrive parfois d'oublier un message durant 2 semaine).

Pour le code des couleurs il faudrait que cela soit bien reflechir pour le mois de janvier/fevrier. Peut etre les biologistes ont-ils deja un code de couleur ? Voila.

A+ Yug (talk) 20:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Decayed tooth

I responded on the Graphic Lab's page, but in short I am very impressed at the quality and speed in which you did that. Thanks a ton, and seriously I will avoid pink wax as my background!! ;) - Dozenist talk 23:13, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Receding_glacier.svg

How do I edit this image? it only needs a small fix, replacing "font-size:27.792" in the CSS with "font-size:27.792px". This fixes the rendering in Opera. While I'm at it, I can also translate the labels in Italian --KJK::Hyperion 08:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eutrophication image

Hi Lycaon,
Your FPC did not get promoted, however perhaps you'd like to replace the original with the edit? --Fir0002 07:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your images

Lycaon, you are such a talented photographer! I love your images of scenery, flora/fauna on Dominica and of worldwide wildlife in general. Thank you for being so generous to the Wikipedia community with your images, your time and your efforts. Best wishes, Pia 03:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Some time ago I tried to tidy up the pout page, but I wasn't very sure about the fish species. Thanks for sorting it out! Telsa (talk) 09:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zambia

Hay if you aint got anything to add to the History part at least leave the link there, Gee. Enlil Ninlil 02:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Oops, hold your horses, it was late last night. I may have removed a line too much, but you must agree that Please fill me im im missing, doesn't look very serious in an encyclopedia... Lycaon 06:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marrons glacés

Thanks for the links. Know I know another useful editor for this subject. I have been meaning to get on wikispecies when I know a bit more about taxa. I've made basic start articles for a couple of trees, a frog, and a few improvements to biota articles. The gilgies and marron were part every of SW australian childhood, this is the 'country' I grew up in. Cheers, - Fred 18:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)