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Contents 1 Archive 2 Bird names are Capitalized 3 Kent FAC 4 Watergate editing 5 K-T extinction event 6 Cyanosis 7 Thanks 8 Cúcuta 9 Tool (band), a FAC, needs copyediting 10 AmigaOS 11 League of Copyeditors roll call 12 For no particular reason 13 Expression Profiling Changes

[edit] Archive

User talk:Pgan002/Archive

[edit] Bird names are Capitalized

Hello there. Common names for bird species are capitalized in English. When you read the MoS section on Capitalization of Animals, Plants, etc., you should have seen the note that starts that section:

Main articles: Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life#Article titles and common names and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)

The second article listed there has a section devoted expressly to common names of species that specifically states:

Insofar as there is any consensus among Wikipedia editors about capitalization of common names of species, it is that each WikiProject can decide on its own rules for capitalization. In general, Wikipedia follows academic practice in each group of organisms. For example, ornithological societies have established official lists of common names, and these are almost always capitalized.

The current practice is, roughly speaking:

   * Birds are always capitalized (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds).
   * Mammals are mostly capitalized (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals).
   * Fishes are mostly in lower case (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes).
   * Reptiles and amphibians are a mixture.
   * Arthropods are mostly in lower case (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Arthropods), except that Lepidoptera and Odonata are often capitalized.
   * Plants are often capitalized.
   * Most other organisms are in lower case.

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There are some disputes about naming conventions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds, mostly about hyphenation, overlapping names from different regions, and a few other issues. Capitalization is not a problem. One of the first things that anyone who starts learning about birds learns is that each species has an official common (English) name. List of official names are published by regional academic associations, and they are accepted very broadly by virtually all ornithologists, authors of field guides, and other professionals. English names undergo the same process as scientific names, and therefore are just as standardized, universal, and useful (until you leave the English-speaking world, when the scientific names become essential).

I hope that helps clarify. Cheers. Fredwerner 06:31, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kent FAC

Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a LoCE member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Kent article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 21:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I have edited it, I hope you like it. It was quite good to start with. -Pgan002 23:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you very much for your copy-edit of Kent during its FAC. Epbr123 00:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watergate editing

Nice job with the copy editing. I'm glad the Watergate Scandal article is getting some recent attention. I will be re-working a good bit of it and would be greatly appreciate your review if time allows. Thank you for your time and effort!
Warm regards, Ukulele 10:05, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] K-T extinction event

Hi Pgan,

Thanks for your copyedits to this article. It is greatly appreciated. I made two slight adjustments after your edits, one of which was "14" back to "fourteen", as the WP:MOS indicates.

Where does it say that it should be spelled in letters? What I see is that you should be in digits if it's more than ten. -Pgan002 22:35, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Numbers_2: "Numbers above ten may be written out if they are expressed in two or fewer words, except in tables and infoboxes. Example: "sixteen", "eighty-four", "two hundred", "twenty million" but "3.75", "544", "21 million"."

OK, so they may be, I had missed that; but they need not be. -Pgan002 01:44, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

If you have time, would you consider copyediting Parasaurolophus? This article will eventually be sent to Featured Article Candidacy, probably fairly soon, and it's clear you're able to whittle down redundancies and improve the flow of prose better than I am able to. Would you consider looking? Thanks again for your assistance on Katie. Best, Firsfron of Ronchester 12:33, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

If I have time, I will :-) -Pgan002 22:10, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for considering it. :) Best wishes, Firsfron of Ronchester 22:13, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

You will definitely get it done faster if you ask my friends at the Wikipedia:WikiProject_League_of_Copyeditors? -Pgan002 22:35, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Probably not. WP:DINO gave up on using the League of Copyeditors. Styracosaurus was added to Wikipedia:WikiProject_League_of_Copyeditors/proofreading#Copy-edit_requests_for_other_articles back in early May; we finally gave up and asked other editors for copyediting. There's no point in waiting two and a half months for copyedits that will never happen. Firsfron of Ronchester 22:54, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I made a couple of changes, let me know what you think. -Pgan002 05:09, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

It's wonderful. Thank you very much, Pgan. Firsfron of Ronchester 18:51, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cyanosis

I moved the new paragraph you put under "Central Cyanosis" so that it's now an introductory paragraph. Is that all right with you? --JDitto 06:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

• That's a good place for it. It's very polite of you to ask :-)

Okay then. Thanks. --JDitto 06:50, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi Pgan002, I just wanted to thank you for copy-editing the Marathi language article. It had long been suffering from bad grammar and awkward wording in many places, but it looks much better now. Thanks again, Max ^{- You were saying?} 19:47, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cúcuta

Could you please help me to wikify and copy-edit the article of Cúcuta.

Thanks,

Ricardo Ramírez —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.29.129.225 (talk) 23:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tool (band), a FAC, needs copyediting

Hi Pgan, I stumbled on your userpage at the League of Copyeditors' page, and come here in need of your copyediting skills.. sorry to bother you, I hope you aren't too busy and could help me out.. Tool (band) needs someone with better capabilites than mine to proofread spelling and grammar (en-US). Any suggestions or hints regarding bad or clumsy prose in the article would be appreciated as well and could be added to its FAC. Of course, if I can return the favor, I'd gladly help out with any of your articles. Thanks in advance and best wishes, Johnnyw talk 17:24, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AmigaOS

Better active voice and style on your rewrite. Gratz. Alatari (talk) 14:53, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] League of Copyeditors roll call

Greetings from the League of Copyeditors. Your name is listed on our members page, but we are unsure how many of the people listed there are still active contributors to the League's activities. If you are still interested in participating in the work of the League, please follow the instructions at the members page to add your name to the active members list. Once you have done that, you might want to familiarise yourself with the new requests system, which has replaced the old /proofreading subpage. As the old system is now deprecated, the main efforts of the League should be to clear the substantial backlog which still exists there. The League's services are in as high demand as ever, as evinced by the increasing backlog on our requests pages, both old and new. While FA and GA reviewers regularly praise the League's contributions to reviewed articles, we remain perennially understaffed. Fulfilling requests to polish the prose of Wikipedia's highest-profile articles is a way that editors can make a very noticeable difference to the appearance of the encyclopedia. On behalf of the League, if you do consider yourself to have left, I hope you will consider rejoining; if you consider yourself inactive, I hope you will consider returning to respond to just one request per week, or as many as you can manage. Merry Christmas and happy editing, The League of Copyeditors.

Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 18:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] For no particular reason

[edit] Expression Profiling Changes

I liked your fine editing work on Expression Profiling. I have not had time to fully appreciate it, but on the whole I could see that it used fewer words to say essentially the same thing.

Thanks.

Tombadog (talk) 20:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)