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Wikipedia Fungus Collaboration as of Jan 2007

Hi, I noticed you showed some interest in fungi previously. DYK there are no fungal Featured Articles on wikipedia at all? I've modelled this on the dinosaur collaboration which has yielded a few FAs. Please have a look and cast your vote and we'll try a real concerted attempt at an FA. Link here......Fungi Collaboration

(hope I got all the templates right...) cheers Cas Liber 10:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Chromista collage.jpg

Great collage - but you can't take a "fair use" image and stick it in a collage and put in in the public domain. You may find something to replace the problematic panel on the commons. --Peta 23:48, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Fungus collage.jpg

Please take a look at commons:Image:Fungus collage.jpg, I think you should list images which you used to produce it. Are they all in the public domain? Conscious 17:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Changing Hierarchical nomenclature

Please do not change hierarchical nomenclature without (1) posting on the appropriate discussion page the reason for the change with (2) citation to the authority. Thanks. --Bejnar 21:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the above poster. The hierarchical nomenclature of Plasmodium has been changed. It is actually correct but it now lacks the correct kingdom: protozoa. As Werothegreat may or may not know this 'kingdom' is a mess and undergoing revisions but at the moment (2007) is the correct taxonomy. Since altering the taxobox means re saving the entire page Im not going to change it - unless I have to add or delete more species which is quite possible. User:DrMicro

Thanks for the note. The taxonomy of this area is a complete mess at the moment. I would still appreciate it if (1) the use of edits to the taxobox are limited (the page is large so please be nice to the Wikipedia servers) and (2) if you do an edit at the 'top end' of things like taxonomy it would be nice to have a note in the discussion saying whay this was done simply because the taxonomy here is such a mess. DrMicro 17:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

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Postelsia GA feedback

See the talk page, cheers Pete.Hurd 02:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey Wero, I can't approve as a GA with the possibly unfree images, (I'm willing to call it a GA without the law links). Perhaps the source website might give permission if requested? (thanks for the nudge to archive my talk page, finally got around to doing that) Cheers, Pete.Hurd 19:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Protista or whatever they are called

We may disagree with adding your taxonomies to Wikipedia, but feel free to go ahead and propose them all you want. Try to get them according to peer-reviewed scientific papers, though. As you know from reading the articles on all these families of single-celled eukaryotes, Wikipedia is in desperate need of attention in this area. I appreciate all the work you do to try to make Wikipedia better when it comes to Protist taxonomies. I've tried to change things in this area, too, for the photosynthetic ones, to no avail. KP Botany 18:05, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Amoeba proteus / Chaos diffluens

Amoeba proteus and Chaos diffluens are synonymous. C. diffluens is the old name not really used since the 60's see: http://www.nies.go.jp/chiiki1/protoz/morpho/flagella/amoeba.htm#Amoeba%20proteus —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jvbishop (talk • contribs) 20:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

While Ameoba and Chaos are different genera the particular species Chaos diffluens has been reclassified as Amoeba proteus. There are still several other species in the Chaos genera (C. carolinensis for example) Jvbishop 12:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Euktree.jpg

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{{Chromalveolate-stub}}

I hope you don't mind my having "standardised" the above stub template somewhat; if there's any howto information editors need to know, the stub category page is generally a better location, as a rule of thumb. Pardon me only thinking to ask after the fact, but how many of these stubs are there? And I also notice there's no obvious corresponding permanent category: would it be useful to also create a Category:Chromalveolates or Category:Chromalveolata category? Alai 04:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

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Postelsia

Please find more references, thanks. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:30, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Let me know when you're finish. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 16:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Awesome, not only did you find more reference, but you also expand the article. I should give credits to you. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:15, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I have now given the article as GA status. By the way, I enjoy seeing some images created by you, especially the life cycle. It's fascinating to see interactive images. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:22, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Taxobox discussion

Hi,

Sorry to have taken so long to reply to your comment in this discussion - I missed it in my recent changes. Have I addressed your point? Thanks. Verisimilus T 19:41, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Color change

You know, I forgot that this would impact the lower level taxa also, and that meant you had to change a lot of boxes. In the future, and I apologize for not realizing this, this can be done by a bot. We have a botany bot, I think Rkitko (whose name I always get wrong) runs it. Sorry!!!!! Also, when done by a bot people don't second-guess and revert, or they simply ask the bot. But you did the changes correctly, references the dicussion in your notes. KP Botany 19:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

A taxobox colour changing thought..

Hi,

Just a thought, it might perhaps be easier to wait for template:taxobox colour to be updated (should be a matter of hours), then simply remove colour parameters (rather than updating them). Although the previous post suggests that bot assistance may be available if you ask the right person!

Verisimilus T 14:08, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

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Assessments/banners

Hi Wero. Could you please try to add appropriate banners to pages you create, such as alternative taxonomical classification (tree of life banner). You don't need to assess them, but if you want to you can do that as well. Richard001 (talk) 08:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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Image:Modeuktax.PNG

Hi,

Could you provide your sources for the classification in Image:Modeuktax.PNG? I'd like to be able to look it up.

Thanks, kwami (talk) 09:56, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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