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[edit] Re: Butterfly

I tried to address your concerns on the Papilionoidea talk page.--Wloveral (talk) 23:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, looking forward to the results of the new research. Shyamal (talk) 02:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Can I send you the pdf of Lamas' paper? I also have all of the papers he cites, most in pdf, as well.--Wloveral (talk) 04:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC) Wloveral (talk) 04:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Sure, many thanks. Have sent you an email. Shyamal (talk) 04:58, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Birds June 2008 Newsletter

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[edit] Rufous-crowned Sparrow Sketch?

Shyamal,

Hey. Sorry to bother you (again), but I was wondering if you would be willing to do a quick sketch of the Rufous-crowned Sparrow. I've been working on the article and am aiming for a GA for my namesake, but do not know of any free images of the species after checking Commons and Flickr. If you want to do it, there are some photographs here. Additionally, there is a good sketch of the species at the blacklisted Whatbird website, which is on the first page of a Google Image search for the species (hopefully this will make it past the censors. First try failed). Feel free to give me a holler if I can do anything for you. Thanks. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 19:32, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi RCS, will try. Give me a couple of days. Shyamal (talk) 01:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Take your time, I'm in no rush. Thanks. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 01:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay- I had a long day yesterday. Anyways, thanks for doing the sketch. Just one minor problem- could you make the white/grey eyebrow stripe a bit greyer and darker as it approaches the eye? Other than that, I think you did a beautiful job. If you don't mind, I'm going to go ahead and put it in the article and on my userpage (with credit to you, of course). Thanks, and good luck with ant (I may review in a day or two). Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 15:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] William Lawrence

Thanks for your help and prods! I'll be putting in refs and/or editing the text (soon). Regards, Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Welcome. I have hopefully got the entry on the disambiguation page at William Lawrence right with the Baronet title. Shyamal (talk) 02:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ant

That's the way it is. FA writers, like Casliber and me, are prepared to help out, but some regular FA editors never write anything constructive, and see their role to criticise rather than help. I read through in Wiki Ed, and picked up a few more bits, good luck - let Casliber know if you haven't done so, and RCS is a a careful but constructive reviewer jimfbleak (talk) 10:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

A couple of general points. Most of the ref formatting problems were for books, using citeBook avoids those. Secondly, Firefox's in-line English dictionary underlines spelling queries in the edit text in red, and is invaluable for picking out American spelling, which it treats as errors (correctly imho) jimfbleak (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for those. The crime I made is to download the American dictionary. I am not sure how I get the BrE dictionary to dislodge the AmE dictionary within Firefox ! Will try. Shyamal (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I responded on jimfbleak's talk page. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 16:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
No worries! Shyamal (talk) 02:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AzLehrer's return

Hi. I see you've reverted some more of Andy Lehrer's edits. I've notified one of the admins who helped institute the ban on him for sockpuppetry, but the use of anonymous Israeli IPs is problematic. He's been banned from both the English and French Wikipedias, and simply will not go away. Dyanega (talk) 05:49, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I am somehow ok with removal of mentions of his name on the talk page, if the right to Wikipedia:VANISH can be extended a bit. Good to be a bit considerate and forgiving. Shyamal (talk) 06:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of types of spiders

certainly this article cant stay titled as is, but how about a move to "List of common spiders" ? It's still nontechnical and lists only a few, but it would be useful to the non-biologist. A suitable heading should be added to explain. I've deferred moving and deprodding to wait for your comment. DGG (talk) 16:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Common is a term that is rather difficult to define, not to mention that it is often region specific. As I said, attempting to produce the full list of 40,000 species is meaningless as it would be mostly red links. The category spiders and its subcategories would cover most of the "common"/"popular" species as articles for these most likely already exist. A legitimate encyclopaedic article that I can think of is an article on the classification of spiders going down to the family level (and can include a few examples species and images). This article could then also accommodate what lies in the identifying spiders article. Shyamal (talk) 16:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
This article is too slip-shod to attempt repair even - and there is a reasonably well structured article already at spider taxonomy. Shyamal (talk) 16:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)