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Same again please Geronimo?

For the gastropod genus Cylichna, is this from Powell? "The shells are ovate to cylindrical, with a sunken spire, a long aperture, and a simple columella, often with a weak single fold."

Best, Invertzoo (talk) 21:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Geronimo. From my limited perspective it seems to be the case (as I think I said at the beginning of this unpleasant discovery), that every article that GB started contains copyvio. In the case of the gastropods at any rate, it is the description section that is the usual offender. I think I will just go through and remove that section in all the gastropod articles I can find that he started, the ones that were not flagged before as they were not in Project Gastropod and also were not in Category molluscs of New Zealand. Unfortunately he also started a lot of gastropod family articles too, those I will have to check for through the genus articles. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 14:14, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Maybe you can try to look up this: Powelliphanta "Augustus"... GB claims to have used Powell on this but it seems the species was not discovered until after Powell's book came out so that doesn't make any sense. Thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 21:31, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

And I am wondering if this sounds too much like Powell or not? It could be under Keyhole limpet in Powell or perhaps under a Powell section on Fissurellidae:

"Keyhole limpets somewhat resemble true limpets because of their simple conical shells, but in reality they are not closely related to true limpets, which are in the clade Patellogastropoda."

"For respiration, the shells of fissurellids have an apical perforation, marginal slit, notch, or internal groove. This allows a direct exit of exhalant water currents from the mantle cavity. In addition, keyhole limpets differ in several other ways both internally and externally from true limpets."

Thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 21:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Here I am again. Would you check Powell under Cancellariidae please? Does it say:

"The shells are mainly clathrate sculptured and have a rather simple aperture, the anterior canal being represented by a weak sinus at the end of a columellar twist. The columella has three or four plaits that may be very strong or weak. Cancellarids are carnivorous."

And a question about the family Trimusculidae. Is some or all of this in Powell?

"The shells of these snails are somewhat limpet-like, but they are not at all closely related to the true limpets. They are air-breathing pulmonates, and can be distinguished from the true limpets by the presence of an internal lateral groove on the right side along with an interruption of the internal muscle scar ring. These shell features corresponds to the positioning of pulmonary orifice. These distinguishing shell characters are not as noticeable as they are in the shells of the Siphonariidae."

Thanks so much, Invertzoo (talk) 13:59, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

It's me once again. I am now on the gastropod family Bursidae. I think you said that Powell does not have family descriptions, so I suppose that the info might be under the genus Bursa (or under the species Bursa bubo lissostoma or Bursa verrucosa.)

"Species in this family occur in tropical oceans, including the Indo-Pacific, the Caribbean Sea and other marginal warm seas."

"The anterior and posterior canals are well developed. The varices are often in two continuous series, one down each side of the shell. A periostracum is usually absent."

"The radula is distinctive, the central tooth being saddle-shaped, with long basal limbs, each bearing a cusp-like spur upon its face."

Bursa: "The shells are moderate to very large, often very thick and solid. The operculum is thick and horny, and the nucleus varies from mediolateral to terminal."

Bursa bubo lissostoma "Distribution: This subspecies is endemic to the Indo-Pacific oceans. "Habitat: This frog shell is found from low water to depths up to 180 m. "Shell description: The shell is large with long, pointed peripheral tubercles, and a dilated outer lip. The apertural callus is pinkish, with a rim of bright orange-red just within the aperture."

Thanks so much Gerononimo.... Invertzoo (talk) 21:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks for looking all of these up, I really appreciate it. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 23:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Fishing

Sorry if I didn't say in the edit summary, but it seems like a violation of WP:EL If you disagree, let's discuss on fishing page talk. Thanks Bob98133 (talk) 16:15, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

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Re: Ed Ricketts

Why is the image necessary? Just curious... Feel free to respond on the talk page. Viriditas (talk) 10:56, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Looking into this further, I can see why you added it back in. But, I think it would help if you expanded the article to include more information about their relationship. Viriditas (talk) 11:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

I have apologized to Nihil novi. I would like to apologize to you as well, and I hope we can work on Ed Ricketts together in the future. Viriditas (talk) 09:47, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the thoughtful message! :) Viriditas (talk) 11:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The Powell book

Thanks for asking. Here is my situation: the Sunday after next (the 19th April) I will be going away on vacation/fieldwork for 3 weeks, and will not be online during that time. From today until the 19th, I will keep working on fixing up suspected copyvio mollusk articles, but most of the time now I can guess pretty well which ones have copyvio, and which parts are the copyvio sections.

Thus, if you want to take the Powell book back now and then maybe get it out again after May 9th when I return, that would be one reasonable possibility. I could simply tag on my list which articles (a minority) I would like to check with the book, and then hopefully do that after I return (once I am back in gear again which takes me a few days.) How does that sound?

Invertzoo (talk) 22:24, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks Geronimo, that sounds like a plan. Invertzoo (talk) 22:32, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Orlady adminship

I think your comments on Orlady's Talk page explaining why you would oppose her admin nomination would be appropriate to share in the RfA, FYI, now open. doncram (talk) 02:10, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Fishing tournament

Apparently, you didn't notice, but your link was never removed, but it was moved to the "External link" section where it's more appropriate. Jauerback/_dude. 02:05, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

As I tried to explain above, the only reason I undid the change again without discussing it on the article's talk page was because I didn't think you realized that the link was, in fact, still in the article. Anyway, I've now opened up discussion on the article talk page rather than through edit summaries or on your talk page. On a sidenote, I accidentally hit the "rollback" button on your edit yesterday, so I rollbacked my own revert, since that's not the purpose of using that function. I apologize on any confusion that might have caused. Jauerback/_dude. 13:03, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Do you plan giving your reasoning for using your link as a reference? If not, I plan on moving it back to the "External link" section. Jauerback/_dude. 11:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

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Library books

Just a reminder that the library books are due back in two days time, on Tuesday. If you still need them, let me know and I'll try to renew them for another two weeks.-gadfium 01:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Huberia striata

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Loihi Seamount

Resident Mario (talk · contribs) is getting ready to nominate Loihi Seamount for FAC. I have concerns about some of the material in the article. Would it be possible to request your help in this matter? I was wondering if you could run Copyscape Premium on this article. If not, that's ok, maybe you can help out in some other way since you are knowledgeable in this area. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 00:50, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :) Viriditas (talk) 05:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

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Peer approval

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Proposed deletion of American shad fishing

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Mahi-mahi fishing

Sorry about that. That edit summary on the page probably came across as rude. I wasn't trying to "harass" you, either. Anyway, I'll see what I can find to help add to the article - if I'm going to delete something, it would only be fair to add something in its place, as well. Radiant chains (talk) 07:39, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

References for intensive aquacultrure

Rather than dumping my endnotes files, I just added one on superintensive recycle water treatment and one for hetrotrophic recycle systems (where you grow decomposers on the fish manure along with algae and get the whole mass of material recycled back into the fish -- clever, but an energy burner with high oxygen demand with low capital cost. Also goes under the name of ODAS (organic detrital algal soup).

Almost all other system are in between these two extremes.

Dallas Weaver —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deweaver (talk • contribs) 21:33, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

American shad fishing

Hiya. Whilst I appreciate you're trying to clean up the article, my concern - and the reason I PRODded it, was that the article reads less like an article about the fish per se, and more like a list of the best places to go fishing for it....which to me violates WP:NOT. CultureDrone (talk) 06:58, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Fast response :-) As long as you're intending to clean it up, thats great - how about tagging it as underconstruction to avoid me (or other over-zealous editors) trying to delete it in the meantime ? CultureDrone (talk) 07:13, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Oceania topic

Hi Geronimo,

I'll certainly give it a go!

Happy editing,

Neelix (talk) 23:16, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

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Re: Gallery

WP:IG: "if, due to its content, a gallery would only lend itself to a title along the lines of "Gallery" or "Images of ", as opposed to a more descriptive title, the gallery should either be revamped or moved to the Commons."

Rename the gallery to something more descriptive and useful, then. Gary King (talk) 22:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Taura

I wrote the original long article. It was a cut and paste from another article I wrote and the reference system does not make any sense for wiki (Lightner et al. 1999b????). I am trying to make my text more wiki friendly and refer to internet sources that are easily searcheable. I don't want to justify all my edits as this is a non controversial topic and I am simply cleaning up my original text. Some highly technical stuff isn't relevant to the wiki audience and has been removed. Please let me finish cleaning up my article. I will try to be done tonight. You can edit for grammar and English if you wish but I am very knowledgeable about this topic and I am doing a good job. Thank you. I am not familiar with all wiki functions so I am taking this window to communicate with you. Ferts —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferts (talk • contribs) 21:33, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

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Powell

Thanks very much for the note Geronimo. I will attempt to do all the remaining odds and ends of mollusk copyvio clean-up over the next few weeks. Thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 14:30, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

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School and the dab project

1. Please add a reference to Shoaling and schooling for the "synchronized" definition of school
2. Please discuss any change to the dab page used as an example in the dab guidelines before making the change, as requested in the comments of the page. Ignoring that is disruptive.

Cheers! -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:26, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

No, this is just another case of an editor not reading or understanding the requests in pages. And, of course, I only reverted your edit once; other editors reverted it before. Instead of working within the guidelines (WP:BRD), you opt to skirt close to WP:CIVIL. The disruptive note was not lightly; your edits were disrupting another project, and I made you aware of it. Remember you're in a group here, and not everyone is going to agree with you. -- JHunterJ (talk) 13:43, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you --Geronimo20 (talk) 19:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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Powell copyright questions

Hi Geronimo, I wanted to ask about the land snail genus Powelliphanta and one species. I got stuck on these because I can't guess how much of them was copied verbatim from Powell. Can you maybe help me a bit with these two?

• Powelliphanta "Augustus" -- ??? I need some help with this one, can't make out if GB put copyvio info into this or not. Invertzoo (talk) 21:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

• Powelliphanta

Thanks so much! Invertzoo (talk) 13:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

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Check in Powell?

HI Geronimo, if you still have Powell, could you look at the WP article Hydatina and see if the text under "Species" is copied from that source?

Thanks so much, Invertzoo (talk) 23:26, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on all this stuff. I really appreciate it. Invertzoo (talk) 01:34, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Please consider giving your opinion here

About italic titles for articles about taxa at the level of genus and below. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 22:41, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

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Greek Love

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