[edit] User Talk: Wikipedian Prolific

If you would like to leave me a comment or a request for a map or diagram please do so here. I will strive to get back to you as soon as possible. I generally check my wikipedia talk page on a daily basis so it shouldn't be too long before I get back to you. If you are requesting custom graphics please check the instructions for how to properly format such a request on my user page and then post your request back here.

[edit] Congratulations!

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Wasp morphology.png, 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! :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Wasp morphology.png is scheduled to be Picture of the day on November 13, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howcheng {chat} 16:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Basically....wow! I am very pleased. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 10:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture request

Hi Prolific!

I have a rather ugly request for you -- could you provide a scientific diagram for the Hemorrhoid page? There is some great source material at NIH, but unfortunately these are part of the copyrighted ADAM series, so we can't use them here.

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/17069.htm
• Surgery series:
  • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/presentations/100026_1.htm
  • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/presentations/100026_2.htm
  • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/presentations/100026_3.htm
  • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/presentations/100026_4.htm

Could you create a single good diagram for us, illustrating internal and external hemorrhoids? There's no rush, but we'd really appreciate your help. Thanks! — Catherine\^talk 02:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Done, left a more detailed message on your user talk page. thanks. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 12:03, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Excellent! Thank you so much for quick and excellent work -- I am thoroughly impressed with the professional quality of this diagram. I know it is not a pleasant topic to work with, but this is SO much better than the photos we had to work with before... thank you!

There's nothing I can suggest to improve the diagram -- it's perfect. However, if you are willing, it would be very useful for you to create a version for Wikipedia Commons with number labels, instead of English words -- that way it could be used in other language Wikipedias, as they can use the image caption to notate the numbers in their own language. Thanks! — Catherine\^talk 17:03, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another request

Diagram To Show Coeliac Disease

Sorry to bug you. I've heard wonders of your artistic skills, and remember seeing them first hand with the wasp morphology image. We're working on the FAC of coeliac disease and one illustration that would be very useful is the "Marsh Classification". Unfortunately, there are no free versions that we could find. If you have some time, would you be able to replicate something similar? The best on-line illustration is found here: [1]. If you're too busy, that's cool. Please let me know. Thanks -- Samir धर्म 10:28, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Great! The hemorrhoid image is fabulous also! Many thanks -- Samir धर्म 14:07, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Done, note left on your user page. let me know if corrections are needed. usually I don't do corrections but to be honest it was quite hard to do without fully understanding the histopathology of Coeliac Disease so changes may well be needed. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 15:00, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Flat-destructive stage (III)

Wow, so quick! The diagram is very well illustrated and I think it'll make a superb addition to the article. There are a couple of little things that needed to be added and I've put labels on the slide at the right to try to illustrate things. There are 3 components in determining the staging (I should probably have mentioned this before): (1) the villi, which you've illustrated very well; (2) the crypts, being the circle like-structures between the villi (they're lined with the same enterocyte cells as found on the surface); and (3) lymphocytes, which are the little dark purple cells that are all over the place in the microscope slide (they ones that just look like a dot). Pre-infiltrative is perfect as illustrated with just crypts that need to be added (no lymphocytes). For the infiltrative stage, there are lymphocytes that enter into just the crypts (like where it says "lymphocytes in crypt" on the slide). Infiltrative-hyperplastic means that there are lymphocytes in the crypts, and the crypts get bigger. The flattening stage is like you've shown except there are tonnes of lymphocytes all over just like in the slide. In the hypoplastic state there are a tonne of lymphocytes and the crypts disappear (maybe one tiny one at most).

Hope I was able to explain things? Many thanks again for helping out with this; it's really appreciated! -- Samir धर्म 16:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diagram for cell nucleus?

"The Ran-GTP nuclear transport cycle"

The cell nucleus article, the current MCB article improvement drive selection, badly needs a visual aid, and yours are awesome. The nuclear transport section is unavoidably an alphabet soup of very similar-sounding acronyms and it's difficult to keep straight which proteins are in the nucleus vs which are in the cytoplasm without a diagram. The illustration doesn't have to be complex, it just has to clearly show the Ran-GTP nuclear transport cycle. There's more discussion/clarifications about it on my talk page if what's already in the article isn't clear, though since you're a biologist it's probably material you have at least general familiarity with. If you're too busy, that's okay, though it may lead one of us to commit atrocities with MSPaint :) Opabinia regalis 05:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Opabinia, this won't be a problem. I'll get on it as soon as possible. I have about 3 diagrams in my backlog at the moment which I won't be able to start on until the weekend so it may be about a week before its finished, I will also need to consult with my textbooks as I'm as yet unfamiliar with the Ran-GTP Nuclear transport cycle as I'm only a 2nd year Undergraduate. One quick question what does 'Ran' stand for/mean, what else may it be called?. I'll keep you updated, thanks. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 19:25, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Ran is usually written lower-case, as if it weren't an acronym, but stands for Ras-related nuclear protein. The name Ras is entirely historical and I believe originally stood for rat sarcoma protein. This is the best online image I found, though it's rather small. This paper also has a reasonable exposition, though they for some reason they didn't compile it all into one diagram. Opabinia regalis 01:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Diagram finished. See across. Thanks WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 15:47, 23 September 2006 (UTC).

Nice work, thanks! This article is coming along very well - hard to believe it was only a stub before the AID started. Opabinia regalis 01:28, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Celiac diagram

To WikipedianProlific for creating the best diagram of Marsh's classification of celiac disease pathology that I've seen. Well done -- Samir धर्म 11:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

• This is perfect! Honestly, it's the best schematic of Marsh's classification that I've seen in print or otherwise (better than pathology textbooks). Thanks for such a great job! -- Samir धर्म 11:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Featured picture promotion!

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Dragonfly morphology edit 3.svg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thanks! --KFP (talk | contribs) 12:52, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Dragonfly morphology edit 3.svg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on January 11, 2007, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howcheng {chat} 16:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Request for help!

I know you and I've seen your work: it's beautiful. My lab turns out a sizable number of publications, and I myself am planning on trying to publish in the next couple of months. I will most definitely ask for your help, and I think that it can benefit both of us. If you want to get a head start, take a look at any images you can find of human gC1qR/p33, the receptor for the globular heads of the c1q complemet protein. No rush though: it may be a little while. Good luck! – ClockworkSoul 18:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

• I don't have much in terms of details of what I'll need just yet, but that information will be forthcoming. I good deal of my current research involves the binding of the peripheral membrane protein gC1qR to both the cell membrane and to its myriad ligands. – ClockworkSoul 18:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Your work is stellar (and I entirely agree that it rivals and often exceeds what is published). With the right exposure, you'll have a brilliant medical graphics career. I do clinical research and my group doesn't really publish much with diagrams, but I've taken the liberty of forwarding your contact info to the entire medical staff at my hospital (hope it's okay?). If I run into a colleague publishing a textbook chapter, I'll definitely forward your e-mail (it's on my PDA). Hopefully you get some pings soon. Take care -- Samir धर्म 23:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Malate-aspartate shuttle?

I just wrote malate-aspartate shuttle as a supporting article for adenosine triphosphate, but it's another one of those cycles in cell bio that's very confusing without a diagram. There's a reasonable one in BioCarta and probably in any cell bio book, but it's beyond my ability to reproduce. If you get some time, would you mind taking a look at this? Thanks!

(I should say, I may also be contacting you sometime soon about a similar pathway diagram for RNA interference and microRNA (they use much the same pathway) but I don't think the articles describe the proteins involved very well yet.) Opabinia regalis 03:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] category links

I noticed that you had a few links to categories on your user page. To make a wikilink, you add a colon before Category—such as [[:Category:Biochemistry_stubs Biochemistry stubs]]. --Midnightcomm 02:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture Request

Do you think that you could make an svg or an other type of image of a Roman legionary? I would be very appreciative. J.Steinbock 03:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Replied. Very happy to do it, although I need to know what exactly it needs to illustrate and where its going to go, as at present there isn't room on the roman legionary page. Thanks. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 12:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant it to go on the Warrior page and possibly the Legionary article and label the parts of battle uniform. I have made images of other warriors, but have not uploaded them to the commons, and I was going to write a new section of the warrior article once I finished. :) J.Steinbock

[edit] Rhino diagram request

Hi,

I'm a fan of your drawings, and I'd really like to suggest a diagram comparing different species of rhino. I saw one on a sign at a zoo once: here, but would rather see a diagram on wikipedia. It seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to recreate. 4 out of 5 species of rhino are threatened with extinction. Cheers. —Pengo ^{talk · contribs} 10:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

That's brilliant! Thanks muchly! —Pengo ^{talk · contribs} 12:30, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Graphics Lab

I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 00:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Carburetor: "gas" is an americanism

1. According to dictionaries including Oxford, "gas" is an americanism for "gasoline" first noted in 1905. Since you declare your dislike for American English, and so presumably share my preference for British English, and because "gas" can be misunderstood in the Basic Carburetor context, I am surprised you put the legend "gas" - why not Fuel or Petrol? 2. This may be "gilding the lily" but I feel the float arm/valve would be better drawn slightly tilted about its hinge, actually blocking the inflow. That helps show that it is a single rigid assembly. 3. This will be my last "improvement" for now: draw the throttle valve also tilted i.e. part open. This helps show that it has a center of rotation and also cures the present diagram of the impossibility of any air flowing at all. 84.210.139.189 16:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC) (cuddlyable3)

At present I do not plan to ammend the diagram as it is just a basic overview, more detailed technically accurate blue print diagrams may emerge later for the article, the diagram is more aimed at giving a lay-person a general idea of the layout of the carb. With regards to the spelling of gas, although I agree with you, sadly wikipedia has a policy of not changing correctly spelt american/british english around. The policy was introduced to stop for example me changing it to petrol, then a US member reverting to gas and a revert war occuring over a pathetic spelling difference. However, if I do revise the diagram I will change gas to fuel or gasoline while I'm at it. Thanks for your comments. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 16:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

You don't need to bother fixing Carburetor because I have replaced the drawing with Carburetor2.Cuddlyable3 14:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image Credits

Many of your images are excellent, but contain watermarking or credits in the image itself. This is against Wikipedia's policies, and you should make an effort to remove these watermarks, and not post new images with them in the images. Thanks.
Steevven1 ^{(Talk) (Contributions)} 01:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank-you for your excellent illustrations. Illustrations are a great unmet need. I am waiting for a clarrification on the licensing exception mentioned above, however I disagree with the idea that a signature on artwork should not be allowed. I am going to ask that the policy be changed. --Gbleem 05:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I disagree with Gbleem. Writers submit text to Wikipedia with the explicit understanding that their work will be critically edited by anyone, and that the Wikipedia project is a group network effort not a memorial to, or advertising for, any person. All diagrams that I give to Wikipedia are now tagged Public domain since I do not seek any personal recognition or copyright. The history log built into the Wiki system makes IMO a signature or watermark (?) redundant clutter, which brings into doubt the motive of the person who inserts them. Cuddlyable3 15:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I disagree, my reasoning is that I don't have any links or names or anyway that anyone can find out who I am and what my name is on here. If they did or if I pointed links to my own gallery where images could be purchased or such then that would be most inappropriate advertising. I was technically advertising by putting my wikipedia screen name on an image, but I was advertising for more graphics requests on wikipedia, not personal gain which is what the free license agreement is all about. The no-watermarking policy is a wikipedia policy not a strict requirement of the license agreement. You'll notice none of my pictures for a long time have had my name added in the bottom, infact I think theres only 2 or 3 of them which have it and I plan to request deletion on one of those soon as its no longer needed. It's because since about the third diagram I uploaded I've had plenty of requests to fill my time and so don't need to advertise for them. Also, although wikipedia has some 4,000,000 editors, you find after a while that there are only really about 20,000 editors and 1000 admins who actively participate on a daily basis. Consequently it doesn't take long for people to learn who you are and vice versa, especially when your diagrams are up on the front page every few months and your somewhat active in RfA, RfD, IfD, FP etc. I can see why watermarks of a financial incentive are very alarming, but even if someone loved what I do, I don't think theres anyway anyone here can actually find a gallery of mine and buy my work. Don't get me wrong, I am proud of my work, why shouldn't I be. I'm sure text editors are equally proud of their FA's. But literally my sole reason for adding my name to those few images was just to spread my name around a bit. Equallt when I did it I didn't fully understand WP policy on the matter. WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 19:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

You know who you are WP, and you have this talk page where anyone who cares can contact you. Thus "I don't have any links or names or anyway that anyone can find out who I am" is incorrect. You defend your self advertising by "I was advertising for more graphics requests on wikipedia" which is no good defence as long as there is a long Wikipedia page of illustrations wanted. All text editors may be proud of their work but none are encouraged to seek individual prominence or reward in Wikipedia. I don't see that your diagrams let you demand any preferential treatment.

You refer to the "free license agreement" that you use, which is actually the Gnu FLA. To clarify, this is not a no-strings gift such as text editors and I make. The Gnu FLA explicitly "preserves for the author...a way to get credit for their work Cuddlyable3 19:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your image Image:Wasp morphology.png

I've just made an SVG version of this image, as it had the {{SVG}} template on it. Had I read your userpage first, I would have seen that you had asked not to do that. My apologies. Either way, the images are now at Commons:Image:Wasp morphology.svg and Commons:Image:Wasp morphology Generic Text.svg (I'm sorry, but I'm not going to have spent 3 days doing a diagram only to have it sit on my hard drive doing nothing forever.) Let me know of any errors in the diagrams (apart from being in SVG format, which IMO is not an error per se) and I'll be happy to try and fix them. Stannered 20:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Coaching

Hi - I'll be only too happy to help you out! I would prefer to work thru e-mail - will this be convenient for you? A few particulars on me - I became an admin last November (my first failed nom (May 2006), second successful nom). Rama's arrow 22:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

You've got mail. Rama's arrow 23:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to wasp

Just a heads-up; while most of the work you are doing is good, and appreciated, a number of the edits you recently made (and continue to make) to the wasp article are technically incorrect, and I intend to revert them - this is just so you know that they are being reverted because they ARE incorrect. Also please do NOT unwikify the wikified red-links - this is definitely counterproductive, forcing me to go in and re-wikify all of them. There is a very important reason for red-linking, and that is to tell future editors which terms NEED to have articles written; by removing red-links, you are making it LESS likely that these articles will ever be written. Dyanega 00:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

In response to your message on my talk page; I was trying to be polite. A lot of what you have written is incorrect, including a large number of spelling errors, and the list of changes necessary to remove all of the inaccuracies and errors is substantial, and for me to enumerate and explain them here will take almost as much space as the article itself. I am trying very hard to allow you some leeway, as it is clear that your edits are in good faith, but they are so often wrong as to make my job as an expert editor very difficult, trying to fix everything. A large part of the problem is that you seem to be extremely focused on vespid wasps, and much of what you say is ONLY true for vespids, and as such would not belong on the wasp page, but instead on the Vespid page. Dyanega 01:52, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

You request "if changes need to be made they're going to have to be discussed beyond spelling and such". In that case, if you insist, I will start to list all of the changes that need to be made.

• (1) Your edit: "which differ from members of Apocrita by having a broader connection between the thorax and abdomen known as the petiole." This is incorrect in two respects. The petiole is a constriction between the first and second abdominal segments, and it does not occur at all in Symphyta. The first abdominal segment in wasps is fused with the thorax, which is why the terms "thorax" and "abdomen" are technically incorrect when referring to wasps.
• (2) Your edit: "black (or brown in the case of the hornet) and yellow striped yellowjackets (Vespula, Dolichovespula spp.) and hornets (Vespa spp.)" This is incorrect; many species in these genera have white, red, or orange stripes.
• (3) Your edit: "Solitary wasps generally live and operate alone, building their own nest and mating via mating flights." This is incorrect in two respects. Most solitary wasps do not build nests - most are, in fact, parasitic. NO wasps mate via "mating flights" - the only Hymenoptera that have mating flights are honey bees and stingless bees.
• (4) Your edit: "By contrast, social wasps exist in colonies numbering up to several thousand strong, they build a communal nest and do not make mating flights." This is incorrect; the term "communal" refers to a specific life history, which is by definition NOT eusocial. Further, many social wasp queens build their nest by themselves, and it is expanded upon later. Also, see the preceding comment regarding mating flights.
• (5) Your edit: "Parasitic wasps are also increasingly used in agricultural pest control as they have minimum impact on crops and are effective in spreading pollen and controlling local pest species." This is incorrect. Parasitic wasps are not effective pollinators.
• (6) Your edit: "Workers are smaller than queens and never lay fertilised eggs." This is incorrect. Workers in various paper wasps will occasionally lay fertilised eggs.
• (7) Your edit: "These parts are known as the head, thorax and abdomen". This is incorrect. The three body regions in wasps are head, mesosoma, and metasoma (or gaster).
• (8) Your edit: "Wasps also have a small connective region joining the thorax and abdomen which is known as the petiole." This is incorrect; see above.
• (9) Your edit: "Males can also be identified from females as they typically have more divisions (more tergum) on their gaster (the upper region of the abdomen)." This is incorrect in two respects. The gaster is the entire structure that you are mistakenly calling the "abdomen". It is also not true of all wasps.
• (10) Your edit: "The gaster is divided into individual plates known as the tergum." This is incorrect. The terga are the dorsal sclerite of each gastral segment.
• (11) Your edit: "The total number of tergites varies among species but is typically around 6 or 7." This is incorrect; it is rare for a female wasp to have more than 5 visible tergites, and males rarely have more than 6.
• (12) Your edit: "Wasps can be identified from similar insects such as bees by a variety of features." This is incorrect; bees ARE a type of wasp - a type that has become adapted to use pollen. The ONLY visible character that separates all bees from all wasps is that bees have a flattened hind basitarsus. One visible feature is not a "variety".
• (13) Your edit: "The compound eyes of most bees are elliptical, by contrast those of most wasps are kidney shaped." This is incorrect in two respects. Many bees have kidney-shaped eyes, and the vast majority of wasps have elliptical eyes.
• (14) Your edit: "Most species of wasp have few hairs on their bodies, most bees however have many hairs on their thorax, head, abdomen and limbs." This is inaccurate; most wasps have hairs, and quite a number of them have MANY hairs. What they typically lack are PLUMOSE hairs, which bees possess. In some bees, these plumose hairs are so sparse and so small, that it requires a microscope to see them.
• (15) Your edit: "Generally wasps are ominvorous, feeding on a variety of fallen fruit, nectar and carrion." This is incorrect (also note typo). Most wasps are parasites as larvae, and feed only on nectar as adults. Virtually none are omnivorous.
• (16) Your edit: "Wasps also prey on, or scavange the remains of other insects." This is incorrect (also note typo). While many wasps are predatory, virtually none of them scavenge at all, let alone on dead insects.
• (17) Your edit: "Most species of wasp raise their young on a diet specifically of live insects and meat." This is inaccurate and incorrect. Laying an egg on a living insect can hardly be called "raising their young on a diet...of live insects" - that phrase implies being FED, and no wasps FEED live prey to their larvae. They definitely do not feed their larvae on meat, which is not a food source available to wasps in nature except under exceptional circumstances.
• (18) Your edit: "The host is usually incapacitated or killed by the adult wasps sting venom, and then consumed by the wasp offspring." This is incorrect. Most wasps attack helpless or vulnerable hosts, which commonly are not incapacitated at all until the wasp larva(e) matures; they are parasitoids.
• (19) Your edit: "Instead they reproduce between a single queen and a male drone in the vicinity of the queens nesting area." This is incorrect in THREE respects. Male wasps are not called drones (that term is used for honey bees, yes, but not wasps), most social wasps mate away from the nest site (often at the overwintering site), and a number of them mate with multiple males, not just one.
• (20) Your edit: "This varies from species to species, as not all wasps live in paper nests." This, being stated in a section on social wasps, is incorrect in that context. All eusocial wasps live in paper (or fiber) nests.

I will further note that the entire section on social life cycle is based exclusively on temperate zone species, and is completely inaccurate for all of the tropical social wasps, which are actually the larger group, in terms of species numbers. I think you will agree that, given that the above only covers perhaps only 1/3rd of the article, your editing does in fact contain quite a large number of problems, and that these need to be fixed. I would like to go ahead and fix them without having to list them all individually, as I did for the first 20. My intent is not to offend you, but to demonstrate that you are making MANY more errors than you believe yourself to be making (mostly through gross oversimplification and overgeneralization), resulting in a great deal of misinformation, and this is going to necessitate a lot of corrections. Evidently, whatever resources you are using to assist in your editing are not suitably technical. Dyanega 06:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I have to correct one of my own corrections, as I look this over now that I'm more awake; it is indeed most common for female wasps to have 6 gastral terga, though most do not have differences between the sexes (i.e., the most common pattern is for both males and females to have 6). The extra segment for males is common in Aculeata, but Aculeata are not the majority of wasps. Dyanega 22:17, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Horseanatomy.png

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Horseanatomy.png, 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! KFP (talk | contribs) 19:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)