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Welcome to the Wikipedia, Calilasseia! And thanks for the contribution to the Heritability of autism article. Hope you enjoy editing here and becoming a Wikipedian! Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Best of luck, Calilasseia, and have fun! Ombudsman 19:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

I intend to. Oh, by the way, I perused several of the pages linked to above in advance. Some of them make fairly heavy reading to a newcomer, and I suspect I shall have to re-read them several times before all of the nuances sink in. However, I think I'v earned a small pat on the back for reading them before posting anything! :) Calilasseia 17:22, 15 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Category:Aspergian Wikipedians

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Category:Aspergian Wikipedians which you have included on your user page has been proposed for deletion you can comment at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Wikipedians by mental condition. The is also a proposal to create an association to meet the needs of users with mental health conditions. --Salix alba (talk) 18:29, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Aquarium Fishes

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Hi David. I saw your panda corydoras article. That was an excellent job. You have got some cute babies. Anyway, I just set up the WikiProject Aquarium Fishes. I wonder if you'd be interested in joining it and help with the start up. Thank you and take care !! --Melanochromis 04:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hmm, something I can devote some time to! I'll need more info. There's a LOT about Wikipedia I am still finding my feet over (such as redirects, user templates and a whole gamut of other things). You'll have to let me know more about what a WikiProject entails. Then I can make a decision as to whether to come on board. :)
I'm glad you are interested. Fish is an extremely large subject (28,000 species or so) and it's obvious that projects with a specific focus within fish are needed. Sharks already has their own project and it successfully produced a couple of featured and good articles as well as generating numerous species articles. I notice that there are many editors who contribute regularly to fishkeeping and aquarium fish articles. Why not get together to brainstorm and help each others? Also, there are not clear guidelines how to write about aquarium care and different articles just go in their own ways.
In my opinion, the Aquarium Fishes Project shouldn't have specific expectations from the participants. They can do whatever they want or do best. For examples, you can help revising the guidelines, maintaining our references resource list, helping with articles in the tasklists, or even just observing and randomly helping other people works when needed. You can just check the the project page and see of it'd interest you :-) Cheers, --Melanochromis 04:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
Looks intersting. I can't guarantee at this stage that I'll be a full time contributor, but I'll certainly pore over this project with interest, and probably contribute a few articles. If my Panda Catfish article hasn't already acquired the WikiProject sticker, I'll add it. I'll track down a few other articles I've edited and see if they need the sticker adding too. Calilasseia 10:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
I saw the lemon tetra article got a major revamp. Great job!! And thanks for spreading the aquarium project banner. We just got two more people (beside me). If you'd like to make yourself known to them, just introduce yourself here. Cheers, --Melanochromis 15:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: December 2006

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue I - December 2006
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  • A new fishkeeping stub is being created. Suggest your idea or vote for the design you like here

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--Melanochromis 23:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)Reply


The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: January 2007

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue II - January 2007
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  • Let the stub-sorting people know you're supporting the stub and vote to keep the stub here.
  • Find more fishkeeping-related stubs and mark them with {{Fishkeeping-stub}} (but please do not mark this stub to the fish species/genus/family articles as they are in the scope of fish-stub)
Discussions
  • "Aquarium box" for fish articles. Several wikipedia in other languages have boxes for aquarium care information (temperature, pH, water hardness, size of fish, etc.). Should we apply that to ours too? See more info and discuss here.
  • Should Bloodworms be merged into Midge (insect)? (discuss)
  • Should Nano reef be deleted? (discuss and vote)

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--Melanochromis 04:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Rasbora dorsiocellata

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Hi David. You did a great job with this article. As requested, I posted my article review at the talk page. Cheers. --Melanochromis 19:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: Febuary 2007

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue III - February 2007
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--Melanochromis 15:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: March 2007

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Issue IV - March 2007
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--Melanochromis 22:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

race in biomedicine

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I just saw your plea that "race" be properly defined in regard to the article entitled Race in biomedicine. I hope you will continue to monitor that article. I have a long time interest in spiders and the resident spider expert on Wikipedia wrote to me that he has little patience with the idea of subspecies (AKA race in biology) with regard to spiders. If anything the situation with regard to the "races" of honey bees is even more problematical. Try to find anything about the various [races] of honey bees in Europe and you will find references to "broad bands of hybridization" and other indications that the differences between the so-called [races] are clinal in most cases. Before commerical bee keepers brought other [races] of honey bees to Cyprus there may well have been a subspecies distinction to be found. There are also a couple of populations of honey bees in northern Africa that appear to have a sharp cut-off from other groups and no great amount of hybridization. The case with human beings is very much otherwise. Some people may believe that the aboriginal population of Australia may have stayed isolated for long enough to have been considered a subspecies, but as far as I know there is only Homo sapiens sapiens and no second subspecies extant anywhere in the world today.

As for the factors that make, e.g., a group of long-term Icelanders look very different from a "pure stand" of San tribesmen in Africa, if you pick remote points and eliminate visiting anthropologigists and any progeny they may have procreated while in residence then you will find the appearance of clear differences, but if you walk and swim between Iceland and the land of the San you will not find a gap or even a "narrow hybridization margin." The number of definitions that have been contrived to distinguish between [races] are, I would guess, of the same order of magnitude as the number of researchers who believe in or use [race]. Put another way, there is no [operational definition] for the word "race." It is at best an expedient and most of the time it is far more trouble than it is worth. People seem to me irrationally attracted to it -- even the ones who are the targets of racism. Go figure. P0M 01:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: April 2007

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue V - April 2007
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  • Our parent wikiproject, the WikiProject Fishes, is having an important discussion about the policy of "Titles of fish species articles". This policy covers the selection of scientific and common names as article titles. It will have a significant impact on a large number of fish articles. See or join the discussion here. Related to this discussion is the title change of the article Mayan cichlid to Cichlasoma urophthalmus.
  • Aquarium, a featured article since 2005, has been proposed for a review which may lead to the article being de-featured. See the proposal and discuss here. Discuss how to improve the article here.

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--Melanochromis 22:11, 4 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

The Aquarium Fishes Newsletter: May 2007

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VI - May 2007
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--Melanochromis 19:58, 2 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Aquarium Fishes June 2007 Newsletter

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VII - June 2007
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WikiProject Aquarium Fishes July 2007 Newsletter

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VIII - July 2007
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The Fish Quiz

The Fish Quiz is a friendly quiz competition designed to test your general knowledge of fish. The current game is Fish Quiz Tournament IV. You can read more and join the game here.

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WikiProject Aquarium Fishes August 2007 Newsletter

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue IX - August 2007
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  • From the live-bearing aquarium fish article: "Why is this article only about 'aquarium' fish? Are the only fish in the world that bear live young found in aquariums?" See more here
  • Discussions related to the Green spotted puffer. See more here


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Newsletter

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XII - May 2010
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  • Activity in Wikiproject Aquarium fish has slowed to a crawl, it seems. We still have a few dedicated editors plus a few new faces (myself included). Any participation is appreciated, however we really can't tackle big projects with this level of activity. Give us a shout if you want to become active again!
  • We are now ready to restart the awards program, but no one has done it yet. If you are up for the chalenge plese come forward.

Newsletter

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XII - August 2010
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  • Activity in Wikiproject Aquarium fish has slowed to a crawl, it seems. We still have a few dedicated editors plus a few new faces. Any participation is appreciated, however we really can't tackle big projects with this level of activity. Give us a shout if you want to become active again!
  • We are now ready to restart the awards program, but no one has done it yet. If you are up for the challenge please come forward.
  • I made a mistake when distributing the last newsletter, sending it only to those who are on the non member newsletter list. Sorry.
  • An automatic newsletter bot would be appreciated.

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The Aquarium Fishes WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XII - January 2011
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  • Happy New Year!
  • We are now ready to restart the awards program, but no one has done it yet. If you are up for the challenge please come forward.

Invitation: WikiProject Autism

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Greetings! You are hereby invited to WikiProject Autism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of autism, Asperger syndrome, and Autistic culture on Wikipedia. As the project emphasizes contribution from autistic editors, it is especially interested in you, who have chosen to list yourself as a Wikipedian with Asperger syndrome. Muffinator (talk) 19:51, 8 August 2014 (UTC)Reply