Ben Lunsford

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Crotalus durissus unicolor

Crotalus atrox pic

Hi Ben, I saw the new image that you added to the Crotalus atrox article, but I'm not sure it's of the correct species. Have you noticed those paravertabral stripes down its neck? That's more typical of the the C. durissus complex (which includes C. simus). However, considering the light coloration, this one looks to me more like an example of C. basiliscus (of which I can show you some more examples later). If it is actually an albino, it's not a true albino because it still has come scale/skin pigment and its eyes aren't red. --Jwinius (talk) 14:24, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello, you are right... it looks like I misidentified this rattlesnake after I took its picture! You were right with your first suggestion, it is a Crotalus durissus after all, and the subspecies is C. d. unicolor. Here is another pic of the very same snake that I found on Flickr where it is labeled as an Aruba Island rattlesnake. I will re-upload the same pic with the new name. Thank you! Ben Lunsford (talk) 17:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Images at United States

Regarding this, I very much agree with you that the current drab image needs replacement (telephone wires? really?). I plan on getting out to find a church somewhat similar to the one currently used in the article to replace it (they like the look of the simple building with the expected steeple, most likely not in a city). Care to take on the challenge too?

Though based on this edit summary, it seems we're breaking it down to sects of Protestantism and if that's the case—if I'm not mistaken—Catholics are more numerous than any other sects in the US (based on this and this); based on that, I'd say the church should be Catholic, no? This also needs replacement (desperately). If you have a place near you that is similar (the point being that there are a number of different American-style eateries placed together), that would be awesome. Plus if you're in CA, we won't add to that eastern bias (I'm in NY) ;-). I can think of one place locally that could work, but I'd rather replace the CA image with another CA image. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 05:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

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Hello, Ben Lunsford. You have new messages at Talk:List of National League pennant winners.
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I feel that your edits are horribly inappropriate, and have replied at the talk page. As the original deleter, you should be the one to initiate discussion, per WP:BRD, rather than reverting to your preferred version, which did not pass the featured content review, and saying that other editors should discuss. — KV5 • Talk • 15:42, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi, the article is about pennant winners. I'm being bold and editing it to reflect that... sorry if you felt this is inappropriate, but this is what the article is about after all. Ben Lunsford (talk) 15:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

I know what the article is about. I wrote it, after all. I've responded with my concerns at the talk page. — KV5 • Talk • 16:05, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Just remember, after you write something on Wikipedia, you no longer have any more rights to control the direction of the content than any other editor. See Wikipedia:Article_ownership. Ben Lunsford (talk) 16:08, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

You don't need to tell me about article ownership. It's not like I don't understand the concept. I never said I controlled the content, and to say so is misleading. All I said is that I wrote the article, which is true. — KV5 • Talk • 16:43, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

No worries. Ben Lunsford (talk) 16:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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