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| :::::While I have greatly modified how I edit here as I rarely comment in AfDs anymore and the last two actually argued to delete, you keep making AfD comments like that add nothing serious to the discussions. As such, how can I not feel like "who are you to tell me anything"? Jack, I am willing to work with you on articles, but given your history and my past experiences with you, "advice" is hard to be taken as much of anything and I cannot imagine any reasonable editor seeing otherwise. It's beyond a pot calling kettle black scenario. If you start an Editor review on yourself and don't want me commenting, fine. And as such, I would hope that you would revert back to the archived version in mine, because you posted a hypocritical rant that fails to say mention my good faith effort in actually welcoming you back depsite my reservations with you being unblocked or to even create that Moon of Pejeng article to help get that started. I cannot tell you how disappointed I was after creating the article to see something other than "Thanks for getting that started, now let's..." on Cas's page. But instead it was back to trying to keep some dispute going. They say no good deed goes unpunished and apparently that's the case. By the way, apologies to Casliber for his talk page being used in all of this. Please do the right thing and revert your edit and either let's work together constructively on articles or ignroe/avoid each other. I'm open to either. Sincerely, --]<sup>'']''</sup> 06:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC) | :::::While I have greatly modified how I edit here as I rarely comment in AfDs anymore and the last two actually argued to delete, you keep making AfD comments like that add nothing serious to the discussions. As such, how can I not feel like "who are you to tell me anything"? Jack, I am willing to work with you on articles, but given your history and my past experiences with you, "advice" is hard to be taken as much of anything and I cannot imagine any reasonable editor seeing otherwise. It's beyond a pot calling kettle black scenario. If you start an Editor review on yourself and don't want me commenting, fine. And as such, I would hope that you would revert back to the archived version in mine, because you posted a hypocritical rant that fails to say mention my good faith effort in actually welcoming you back depsite my reservations with you being unblocked or to even create that Moon of Pejeng article to help get that started. I cannot tell you how disappointed I was after creating the article to see something other than "Thanks for getting that started, now let's..." on Cas's page. But instead it was back to trying to keep some dispute going. They say no good deed goes unpunished and apparently that's the case. By the way, apologies to Casliber for his talk page being used in all of this. Please do the right thing and revert your edit and either let's work together constructively on articles or ignroe/avoid each other. I'm open to either. Sincerely, --]<sup>'']''</sup> 06:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC) | ||
| :::::: The right thing is to drop this with my comments intact. You are are focused on me, not what I said. I am open to working with you in the future, but for the moment, I (and others) believe disengaging is best. Besides, I have a plane to catch and will be off-wiki for the rest of the week. | |||
| :::::: As to 'who am I to tell anything' — I am an editor of this project and I am no fool. I am back because a fair number of folks know this. You need to stop trying to cast me as a second-class editor. Ignore this advice at your peril; you're digging the hole deeper faster than anyone could for you. ] 06:30, 10 March 2009 (UTC) | |||
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More unIDed fungiG'day Cas, I've been frogging over the past few days, and the fungi season has definitely started! I have a coral fungi that I thought you would like for wiki, plus I also have a puff ball which I will upload later, will leave a message here when it is uploaded. Saw lots of fungi over the last few days, but only photographed the really interesting ones as I was using my small memory card, and wanted to leave some space for frogs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/52507572@N00/465979784/?rotated=1&cb=1177065560324 Thanks. --liquidGhoul 10:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Nomenclature of fungiHey there. I recently stumbled across an issue of Nova Hedwigia Beheift titled "the genera of fungi" (or was it agaricaceae?). It's filled to the brink with mind-numbing nomenclatural discussions of all the genera ever described (I think, anyway). Would it be any use if I looked up the specific ref or any specific genera? Circeus 00:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
LOTS of "per" in citation here. See
A first incarnation from Tentamen dispositionis methodicae Fungorum 65. 1797 is cited as devalidated: "Introduced to cover three groups already previously distinguished by Persoon (in Tent. 18. 1797) under Agaricus L., but at that time not named. It is worth stressing that was not mentioned."
Donk concludes the earliest valid type is A. muscaria, the species in Hooker, adding that he'd personally favor A. citrina.
Phew! Circeus 18:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
ndashesHTML ndashes suck. If you're on a Windows box, you can get a real ndash (i.e. unicode) by holding down the ALT key and typing 0150 on the numeric keypad. Hesperian 11:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
PorkLOL, I love your sense of humour. Maimonedes is a good reference. The reality is that Islam takes food restrictions from Judaism; and Christianity doesn't have any restriction (courtesy of three references in the New Testament). The reason why pork should be restricted (along with many other things) is not given explicitly in the Hebrew Bible, hence Bible commentators have been offering guesses since ancient times. My own favourite, however, is Mary Douglas, wife of Louis Leakey, daughter of a Lutheran pastor. Her theory is excellent, based on her cultural anthropological observations, with a decent feel for how Biblical text works. It's rather an abstract theory though. Anyway, I'll see if I can manage a literature review of dietry restrictions in the ANE, especially if there's anything explicit about pork. Don't think I'll find a reference for "why" the pork taboo is in place, though, if it's documented, I'd have read about that in commentaries. Perhaps a clay tablet with the answer has been destroyed in only the last few years during the "troubles" in Iraq. :( Alastair Haines (talk) 21:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Spotted this. I'll look for a ref to the Maimonides comment. The normal teaching is that pork is no more or less offensive to Jews than any other forbidden meat (dog, horse etc) or forbidden part of kosher animal (blood, Gid Hanasheh etc). The pig (NB pig, not pork - an important distinction which is relevant for the Maimonides comment too, I note) is "singled out" because it alone of the animals that have one of the two "signs" (it has split hooves but doesn't chew the cud) lies down with its legs sticking out. Most quarapeds have their legs folded under them. There's a midrashic lesson to be learned there, apparently, that the pig is immodestly and falsely proclaiming its religious cleanliness, when it is not. Anyway, that said, I'll look into the M comment - he was quite ahead of his time in terms of medical knowledge (check his biog). And NB my OR/POV antennae buzzed when I read that little section. --Dweller (talk) 22:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Have found good stuff, including online version of Maimonides text. I'll dump it here for you to use as you wish.
So, Maimonides argues "pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter", whatever that means! More importantly, the "principal reason" is that if you keep pigs, you end up with a dirty and unhealthy environment. Important note: Maimonides was writing from Islamic Egypt at the time, which is why he mentions "as may be seen at present in the country of the Franks." (ie France) The comments about the pig's habit of lying with its legs outstretched come from Midrash Vayikra Rabba (ch 13) where it is mentioned as part of an elaborate metaphor, but not in connection with any reason for particularly abhorring the creature. Hope that helps. --Dweller (talk) 09:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC) Greek proofing on WikisourceHi Cas, Would you mind bringing your knowledge of Greek to bear on these three Wikisource pages for me please: , , ? It should only take five minutes I think. If you've got a Wikisource or unified account, you can correct any errors you find; else you can let me know and I'll fix them. Hesperian 02:46, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Easy peasy you say... nearly all of the yellow pages on this work contain Greek. s:la:Liber:De assensione Stoici quid senserint.djvu. If you could verify even a few of them, especially p.20, that would be fantastic. John Vandenberg 15:57, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi again, we have a category for them now on English Wikisource: s:Category:Pages with missing Greek characters. The ones in the "Page:" namespace are accompanied by pagescans; the EB1911 pages usually have a link to the pagescan on the talk page. Cheers, John Vandenberg 23:59, 27 November 2008 (UTC) Updated UcontribsI added two columns and refined the scan logic on my most recent run, and since you are the originator of the concept, I re-evaluated you. Feel free to find any problems with the latest update, if you need an incentive, let me just say how disappointed I am that two weeks have passed and it is still not a solid list of FA's :) Also, if you're thinking of asking for a new program to show the changes between runs of my other program - no (at least not yet:). I'm wondering about putting in the latest "failed" status too, as in (Failed GA), but I'd need some category hints to work that in. Thanks for the idea, what a great way to learn about article assessments; the wide range(/incoherence) of category names; and mostly, the great diversity of interests and accomplishments of editors of the wiki! Franamax (talk) 12:21, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
userpage(continuing in this thread despite the different topic) I've skimmed through several categories on commons, like Books and Mappae mundi and Image:Vinland Map HiRes.jpg comes closest to what I think you want. I like the borders, esp. the hue. Unfortunately, it's not easy to lighten and probably not possible at all to remove the ink (I gave it a half-assed try with GIMP). Anyway, just to see if we're on the same page as to your idea. Ideally, several similar but non-identical images of blank pages could be used for something similar to the DT userpage, considering that you have quite a lot of stuff on your userpage (with a different section on each page and some playful navigation). Or did you have something like a central disambiguation in mind, putting all the stuff in different subpages? I envision a self-made treasure map (the real problem would be to get the ragged border to look authentic) with an imagemap overlay on the different words (rendered into the image, possibly handwritten), linking to all the different sections (like on my old userpage or using subpages). And I see a compass rose in one of the corners (bottom right?). Everyme (was Dorftrottel) (talk) 18:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Yes, I look for compass roses on commons, too, and I agree this one is nice and can also easily be used to put it in another picture. It's a pity that the background you found isn't free, because then we'd be ready to go. I've asked my GF about the Vineland map, but she said it would take ages to get it right. Everyme (was Dorftrottel) (talk) 23:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC) Sandwich TernI see you've taken it on, good work. The display and vision bits at Crested Tern apply for all the genus. The opening sentence isn't fully supported by Bridge - although Elegant is very close, Lesser Crested isn't, other than being in the same genus. I won't abandon this article (after all, one good ... aaaarrrggh, it's catching), but let me know if there's anything specific esp from BWP, Olsen or Harrison, where I have the books. Now, must be time for a couple of slices of bread with some meat in. 10:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC) Australian figsBeen a bit of a spike in editing the few days... Guettarda (talk) 00:22, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
UFOINFOHi, a site called UFOINFO is used in multiple articles as reference. Do you think it should be considered RS? I cannot see any editorial board or anything by which it can be considered RS. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 05:04, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
perennial user page projectHow about this? The hue is crap, but it's just a quick edit to see if you like the direction. user:Everyme 14:11, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I see a minor typo. It says "Welcome to Casliber's Cove" where it should say "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." Hesperian 14:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
You could use the image as a fixed frame, with a scrollable text frame overlaid within it, and/or you could use it as a frame for different "pages" like my old userpage (the final revision of my old userpage combined both: "individual pages" each with a scrollable "inner" frame for the content of each page. btw: could you do me a favour and restore it? I find I need access to some formatting tricks I've collected there). At any rate, I'm going to work over the hue and upload a version without the text. It'd be possible to clone the middle (blank) part, but the limitations are manifold (apart from the challenge of making it look halfway acceptable): Different browsers and different users prefer wildly different font sizes, so you'd end up with a scrollable frame any way (where people would have to scroll "twice", once within the page and once within the frame) or you'd end up with blank space towards the bottom. user:Everyme 14:52, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Banksia sphaerocarpa var. pumilioFloraBase has an entry for this, but no other information. Know anything about it? Hesperian 04:54, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
I guess you might want to have a look at this too. Hesperian 11:47, 26 September 2008 (UTC) VampireAn astute observation about vampires in movies: "I Vant To Upend Your Expectations". --JayHenry (talk) 14:09, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
BLP casesIf you're searching for cases related, I think two of the more important are the Badlydrawnjeff case and the Footnoted quotes case. Footnoted quotes isn't really about BLP content, but it established the "special enforcement" provisions that relate specifically to BLP. The Matthew Hoffman case also wasn't directly about BLPs, but it did get into how we deal with BLP-like problems involving editors and administrators who edit with their real names. Fair amount of interesting discussion in the workshop and on the proposed decision talkpage, although you'll have to wade through neck-deep crap to find it. Going through the closed cases page, here are some links:
Those I think are the big cases that deal with BLPs in 2008 and 2007. I'm sure I'm missing one or two, but if you look into them I'm sure any major principles articulated are cited to previous cases if they aren't new. I didn't follow arbitration prior to 2007, and the descriptions aren't very in depth, so I'm not completely sure which if any of the pre-2007 cases apply. I don't recall any being major factors in the above decisions. Avruch 00:34, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
South TangerangDYK… that this city of a million people has no article on en:wp? Cheers, Jack Merridew 05:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Request help with reviewHi Casliber. I know this isn't exactly your area of expertise, but I was wondering if you could have a look at Melbourne Airport. The page has been up for A-class review for a month or two, and has not received any comments. Any opinions, however minor, would really be appreciated. Hope to see you there! » \ / (⁂ | ※) 16:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC) A book you might enjoyIt's all about flowers ... well, err, kind of.
She's a senior tutor in philosophy at Cambridge, written several very entertaining and informative books related to the history of science, probably including her doctorate. But I expect you know of her and this book already. I would have thought it a must read for the Banks-ia Study Group leader. ;) Alastair Haines (talk) 11:57, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Addition of DSM-IV Code to Medical TemplateHi Casliber, It would be really great if we could add the DSM-IV Code to the Infobox Disease Template. It would be extremely useful in the psychiatric disorder articles. Thanks. Kind Regards, --blurpeace 05:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Huia - suggestionsRe this:
This will be hard to fix since I don't have the book Kotare used - and I wouldn't want to either, probably, since a pet hate of mine is anything which lumps traditions from different regions together without giving the sources. I would suggest getting rid of all of this:
We can also add a supporting reference from this page: and could perhaps still add the reference no . Hope this helps Kahuroa (talk) 20:22, 9 January 2009 (UTC) FA collab proposalHow 'bout spontaneous combustion? In all seriousness, it seems like an interesting subject. ]<font face="Gill Sans MT">] →(]→] →])</font> (talk) 02:00, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
HuiaHi Casliber. Argh this is incredibly frustrating for me, I did so much work on this article - especially the "place in maori culture" section and I'd love to be able to do more but these days I'm so busy that I honestly just don't have the time to contribute a lot - hence why i'm replying a few days late, having not logged in for a while. I will have a glance at some of the points you made tonight but otherwise will have to put it to one side for a bit. I'm taking some leave from the 24th to the 3rd of February and I can hopefully then FINALLY find the time to rip into this article and make some improvements.. no promises but if everything goes according to plan I will be able to do it. i have some questions though... 1.You are a prolific contributor and very active member of the wikipedia community, yet I assume you're pretty busy person too, what with the research that you do ( or so I gather from your profile page). i only found I could really comfortably contribute to wikipedia during months long university holidays - but i no longer have the luxury of having those - Any tips on how to fit in wikipedia editing time? 2. The edits I like to make most are the ones which I did on "Huia" - adding lots of new, well referenced material to expand an article substantially. However, I'm not quite sure how to go about the research bit.. It seems like a lot of editors have got some kind of system going..Here is how I did it back in '07; I simply went to the uni library and wellington central library and and got out all the books about the Huia I could find - in additon to magazine articles and books about it which i own. Next I read through all the information i had gathered and underlined the relavant stuff with pencil - then I categorised it according to what the info. was about - the categories I had were ( to give you an idea) 1. Description . 2. distribution and habitat 3. Behaviour - etc I numbered the paragraphs according to what type of info. they covered. Then I went through and collated all the info. for each number/category of information and composed my writing straight onto wikipedia. I didn't really know how to go about doing the research and may have sort of been "reinventing the wheel" a bit (so to speak). how do seasoned editors like yourself do it? and do you track down more hard to reach info. from scientific journal articles by ordering them in somehow? and finally, is there somewhere on wikipedia with hints as to how to do original research to write an article? Your response would be greatly appreciated and very helpful Hope the summer weather is treating you guys well across the ditch, Cheers, Kotare (talk) 05:51, 13 January 2009 (UTC) Thanks for the questionHere is the link: Candy cap DYKThanks for the nomination! I listed some alternate hooks over at Template_talk:Did_you_know#Candy_cap. If you have suggestions for further work on this article or on the DYK, I'm game. Peter G Werner (talk) 04:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC) It's kind of short but...... how do you rate Golden White-eye's chances of getting past FAC? I'm in two minds about submitting it. The GA review was very thorough, but the species is not well studied giving a paucity of references. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Dwellers of the Forbidden CityHi! :) I have nominated the article Dwellers of the Forbidden City for Good Article status, as I feel it has undergone significant improvement from the point at which it was almost deleted. Since you were involved with improving the article, and/or sparing it from deletion, I'm inviting you to help out in any way you can to improve the article so that it may join its fellow modules, Ravenloft and Dragons of Despair as a Misplaced Pages Good Article. :) You may want to place the review page (which may not begin immediately) on your watchlist to keep track of the review process. BOZ (talk) 20:59, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Cool find! Are you sure that bullywugs debuted in DotFC rather than the Fiend Folio? BOZ (talk) 03:00, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
The article is now up for good article review, so if there is anything at all you can contribute to get the article the rest of the way there, let us know. :) BOZ (talk) 04:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Acacia_mearnsiiYour next FA task, since you like plants, is this article. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:24, 20 January 2009 (UTC) Retrieval of Deleted TextHi Casliber, Is there a way of recovering the text of an article after it has been deleted from Misplaced Pages? The reason I ask is that Padres Hana has asked me this question about an article he had deleted: Eva Ducas. I had a feeling that this was something an administrator could do? Regards Marek.69 23:19, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
DeinosuchusHello, Cas; Would you be interested in taking a look at Deinosuchus? I've been participating in a peer review for the article, which the author intends to put forth for an FA nom. I think it is of high quality, but I haven't been on FAC for over a year so I don't really know what it's like now, so it would be good to get someone who's worked with the process more recently to check it over. Thanks! J. Spencer (talk) 23:57, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Pope John Paul IIHello again Casliber, I'm a bit confused. There already appears to be a Peer Review currently taking place on Pope John Paul II? (Please see: Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Pope John Paul II/archive2). I was unaware of this happening, but will try to go with it. Also, between myself and Can-Dutch, I thought we had already reduced the articles size considerably. I now understand what you were getting at previously about article length.(!) Any more ideas? Marek.69 04:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Another question, if I may? On the Pope John Paul II page, do you think it would be OK to significantly shorten the ‘Criticism’ section, transferring text to a new daughter article: Criticisms of Pope John Paul II, as we have done already to the other sections? I've already posted my question on the talk page. -- Marek.69 04:10, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Peer review for IcosI noticed on the peer review volunteers page that you're interested in biology and medicine articles. I've been working on Icos (was a biotech company), and I just put it up for peer review. Can you take a look at it and make/suggest improvements? I would like to be able to take the article to FA after the peer review. Thanks, Shubinator (talk) 00:13, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Candy cap
DYK for Crested penguin
Re:Mushrooms...Sure, I'd love to give the article a look, see if I can see anything that needs improving. I'm quite complimented that I'm on your contact list, as it were. I'll take a read now. J Milburn (talk) 16:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
"more fun to come..."C;
I won't start a new sectionMostly since there's a global shortage on equal signs. Thanks for the constructive edits to Tori Amos. If I'm being a pig-head (hey, there's a first time for everything, right?) please don't be afraid to let me know. Oh, and yes I am in Melbourne , although my presence there has never been explicitly condoned by either state of federal authorities. - brenneman 00:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC) ABCMaybe you should chip in, having appeared on ABC TV. YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 04:43, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Ghost filmsHello, if you need help accessing these print sources about ghost films, let me know! :) —Erik (talk • contrib) 04:16, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Amanita muscaria Hi Cas, I had a little go at it, I didn't strike out any of the comments at the informal peer review but I did attempt to fix up the toxicology related ones. It seems a shame the worlds most famous mushroom isn't a GA yet :), good luck with it, let me know if anything I wrote doesn't make sense or needs referencing, cheers Mr Bungle | talk 08:27, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Tree SparrowHi Cas, I'm working on Passer montanus now, one of the many species Oz and NZ have so gratefully received from Europe to enhance the fauna. I'm a bit unclear on its current status down under - can you help? Thanks, jimfbleak (talk) 08:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
WP:ORThis is Original Research - Synthesis. It is taking claims about the genus (the Asian fossils, not the American, and there are only American for the Deinonychus) and then reworking it to make a claim that none of the articles do. Misplaced Pages is not for new arguments based on various facts. Since you involved yourself in the discussion, could you please remove this clear violation? Ottava Rima (talk) 19:22, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
You responded at the Greece Runestones that you had no problem with using Swedish only sources. I have produced two books (in English) that goes into detail about what is unique about various parts of the stone and this information is not included. I have produced a journal devoted to the one region's stones and it is in English (with at least one article talking about one of the stones). I have produced information from the museum in Oxford's exhibit on the one stone and the history behind it. I think with even that little bit of information found from a cursory search that you should reevaluate if this is still a special case that Swedish only sources are acceptable. The user in question is refusing to add any of the new information because it will make his page too large. Its not longer "there aren't any" claims. Ottava Rima (talk) 18:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC) GHosts
You may be interestedI came across a new documentary film you might want to catch: Know Your Mushrooms Cheers,LeadSongDog (talk) 20:21, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. You may be interestedHi Cas; sorry I haven't got back to you yet—work is just overwhelming at the moment. I take a little time off for WP once a day. Right now, it's this proposal, which I raised during the ArbCom elections. You may wish to observe or comment. Tony (talk) 13:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
HiI think I am leaving. Cheers PHG (talk) 14:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC) thank you
Re:What next then?Well, Amanita muscaria is definitely ready for FAC after those changes have been made- probably, there will be some further reccomendations from FAC regulars, but it really is a brilliant article. I enjoy writing the minor species articles because there are enough sources to spend an hour or two knocking up a decent article (great for DYK, or, in a couple of cases, GA) and I'm only writing the milk cap articles becuase the first one I wrote happened to be a Lactarius species- thought I may as well stick with that for now! In terms of bigger projects, at first I thought maybe working on one of your creations- list of Lactarius species- and bringing to to featured list status. The technical side of things bamboozled me (sub-genus? Category? Subcategory? The only sources I could find for that stuff were far too technical for me) but I did clean it up a bit and add some pictures- I think it looks a little better now. Fairy ring would be a fantastic idea, but I've had another idea- Portal:Fungi has not even been created, but because of the wealth of great articles and whatnot listed at the WikiProject page, I reckon I could knock up a great one in a few hours, then hopefully nominate that for featured portal status. Another project I was involved in, WikiProject heavy metal, have a featured portal here- apart from the news bit (I'm not really aware of much fungi related news- perhaps someone a little more involved in the world of fungi could maintain that?) I think we could easily base a portal on that, then add links to various articles (perhaps tag it on to some infoboxes or something). What do you reckon? J Milburn (talk) 12:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Right, spent a while on it, but I'm done enough to "open it to the public", as it were. The portal can be viewed at Portal:Fungi, and I've asked for comments on the WikiProject talk page. J Milburn (talk) 19:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC) Awesome ideaMisplaced Pages:ARS/Tagged I think you deserve a barnstar. Coding: {{WP:ARS/Tagged}} Ikip (talk) 15:01, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Barnstar
WP:Bird collabHi Casliber: I'm finally getting around to putting out another project newsletter, and am wondering if we've dropped the collaboration article idea. It seems to have been last updated about the same time as the last newsletter! :P Let me know if there's a new one, and I'll plug it... MeegsC | Talk 14:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
FavorThanks for pointing that out to me. Could you do me a small favor? I need to move the article Ali-Ben Bongo to Ali Bongo Ondimba, as the latter is more often used, both in the press and official contexts. To do that, I need the redirect deleted. Everyking (talk) 02:13, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Not to be completely random but . . .Hey, I've seen you hanging around FAC, particularly at the Mother's Milk nom, and was wondering if you could review In Utero, which has a nomination that's received a surprisingly small amount of comments so far (this is probably the slowest FAC I've ever been involved in). Any comments are welcome. WesleyDodds (talk) 08:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Jf268G'day, I'm not sure where exactly I've interacted with you before, probably something bird related. I rather suspect that User:Jf268 is a sock puppet. Pretty much all of the users contributions are related to FPC (see ) over a period of a few months but I can't spot any correlation between Jf268 and any other user as far as votes are concerned. I think you have checkuser ability and was wondering what your opinion on the matter was? Noodle snacks (talk) 11:02, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Fungi portal, againYeah, there are a lot of good fungi images about- I just didn't want to declare any as selected pictures unilaterally. I'm currently filtering through the featured pictures on foreign language Wikipedias- I've set up a nomination process on the portal, so if there still aren't enough selected images after that, I'll have a look around and nominate some of the better pictures. If there are any you particularly like, you're welcome to nominate some too. If I find any good enough, I may slide them FPCs way- the only featured fungi picture we have is File:Haeckel Lichenes.jpg, some more would be nice. J Milburn (talk) 20:10, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
no pages enwiki are privateI agree. I've referred to the space within my userspace as "personal", which is a different matter. I said I would discuss with Mattisse in private over a new place to meet, and by that I meant by email. I just wanted to be clear on that. There are reasons why I wish the conversations with Mattisse to take place onwiki, and Mattisse also has her reasons. I made a mistake by making comments about Giano. I recognise that. I have apologised for that. What I am concerned with now is moving the matter forward. I would appreciate your assistance in this matter. SilkTork * 20:24, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
AddendumFine by me - have at it. Maybe we'll edit some horticulture articles sometime, another passion of mine but one I have done very little on-wiki to date. :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:06, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Ravenloft (module)Hello! I am notifying you that a article you previously reviewed for FAC has been nominated again. Please, if you can, take the time to see if the article has been improved enough to consider supporting, and if not, let us know what needs improving. :) BOZ (talk) 23:21, 4 February 2009 (UTC) WP:FUNGIHey Casliber. I just signed up at WP:FUNGI, and after seeing that you've contributed some featured content to that project, I was wondering if you had any tips or suggestions for a newbie like myself. :) Cheers, –Juliancolton 00:15, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
A. muscariaHi Cas, had a look at the Mushroom Observer site, and then the 'net for a free pic of an A. muscaria button cross-section, but no dice. I guess your best bet is to find one yourself, like you suggested, or even draw your own. Another option would be checking some older texts to see if there's a free pic to scan in, but that might just turn out to be a goose chase. I'll keep my eyes open though, I recently acquired Buller's 5-volume set Researches on Fungi (1922), and its chock-full of cool little diagrams that I plan to sprinkle liberally in various fungi articles :) Sasata (talk) 05:20, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Dragonfly fishing.jpg) You'll like this. I've been spending some time in rural Bali. Yesterday, at a house in the middle of some rice fields with no other buildings for about a half km, a local woman came walking down the path with a bamboo pole about 3m long. The pole was a lot like a basic fishing pole; light and springy, and the last 1/2m was a bit of stiff wire lashed to the tip of the pole. The wire was coated in a gooey white sap. She was catching dragonflies with it. There were hundreds within easy sight. All she had to do was wave the end near them and they landed in the sap and she pulled it back, plucked off the wings, and did it again. She had a whole bag full; dinner. Cheers, Jack Merridew 08:08, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Bali has lots of bugs, and many are rather large. Rainy season begins in November. After the first good solid rain, some species of termite hatch in the billions. They're about 2cm long with a wingspan of 3cm. They take to the air one night and are attracted to light. They swarm every light bulb on the island and they especially like florescent lights, which are common as they are cheap to run. Many street lights are just a plain florescent fixture with a cheap indoor-grade switch mounted where anyone can turn it on or off as they see fit. The termites batter themselves against the light unceasingly. They idea seems to be a mating gathering and they keep it up until the wings are shed and they drop to the ground (with a mate?). At Dewa Warung, they have a trick; they take a plastic bag and blow it up like a balloon and seal it shut with a hot kitchen implement. The bag is dipped in oil and pinned to a light fixture so that it's touching the bulb (even the incandescent bulbs are low enough wattage that they don't melt a hole). The termite wings really stick well to the oily bag and this accelerates the shedding of the wings. The Balinese also place a bowl with cooking oil in it directly under the bag to catch the now wingless termites. They are dipped in a batter and boiled, and offered to the tourists (most of whom balk — myself included), then they eat them to prove it's no joke. On termite night, your best bet is to retire early with all the light out; if you don't they will find you. The next morning, all that remains are the wings. There are drifts of them easily 10cm deep in wide piles under every light that was on all night. They clog the paths and you walk through them like autumnal leaves. They are soon swept up and I would expect they're used for mulch or something; the Balinese waste nothing. See Termite; is all true ;) Cheers, Jack Merridew 13:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC) WikiProject Birds February newsletterThe February 2009 issue of the Bird WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. MeegsC | Talk 21:31, 10 February 2009 (UTC) Hope you're safe!Hi Cas: Been reading and hearing some terrible things about the fires down there. I hope you and yours are all safe! MeegsC | Talk 21:32, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
ParoxetineHi. I was wondering if you have any thoughts on the Paroxetine page. In my view, warnings about "suicide ideation" belong in a sub section and not the opening paragraph. Why is it that the risk of "suicide ideation" gets highlighted, but not the reduction in risk of actual suicide. Here is an article you may find useful: http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2008/11/after_2_decade_decline_teen_su.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.150.2.55 (talk) 17:03, 12 February 2009 (UTC) Amanita muscaria GAThe GA process is very slow and backlogged at the moment (or, was for me!) and the article is very close to being ready for a FAC. You'd probably be better off just spending a couple more weeks (or how ever long it takes- you may find yourself with a free day at some point- you never know) working it up to that standard, then submit it. You could possibly be waiting a month for a GA review. J Milburn (talk) 10:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
AdminshipDid I leave you a message, or has this just came out of the blue? I don't recall leaving you a message, but it is perfectly possible. As for writing, I am currently working on an FT with Ironholds, so that should be okay on that side. As a side note - I am not a deletionist (at least as far as I am aware...) "Yep, wondered who you were and then saw the explanation page" leaves me to believe that you've actually messaged the wrong person, mind, as that seems to indicate you're replying to something, and I can't seem to find my signature on this page, and don't recall leaving you a message elsewhere. Am I missing something? Thanks. :) — neuro 07:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Amanita muscariaI don't suppose there is any chance we could squeeze this or even this into your article. No? Ah well was worth a try, though I suspect they would not do great things to those desperately checking wikipedia to find out what the hell is happening to me. Har. Ceoil (talk) 01:39, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
ElonkaHi. I am lecturing a graduate course in the University of Cambridge at the moment, so am on wikibreak. I contributed evidence to two recent arbcom cases (PHG and Fringe Science). I have a little experience editing medieval history articles related to the Crusader period. I removed one sentence written by User:Elonka from Knights Templar. She proceeded to perform a character assassination upon me on the talk page . I wonder whether you might prevail upon her to desist from this kind of personal attack in future. It was immoderate and completely untrue - an attempt to paint me as some kind of criminal. I made one edit. She seems to have completely over-reacted. Many thanks, Mathsci (talk) 22:32, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
FAC commentsThanks for taking the time to comment on my draft proposal. We obviously don't agree, but I shall do my best to take your comments into account. Best wishes, and good editing Physchim62 (talk) 11:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Cortinarius rotundisporus
--Dravecky (talk) 07:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC) Oversight?Hi there, I recently received an email from Martyn Joseph requesting that the personal information on his article be removed. He particularly requested privacy in regards to his family (his daughter's birth date and his son's name were revealed) and faith. The material in question has since been removed, but could these revisions of the article qualify for oversight to further respect his wishes? Thanks. Orlandkurtenbach (talk) 01:25, 18 February 2009 (UTC) Led Zeppelin IICasliber, I didn't nominate Led Zeppelin II for GA status but would there be anything wrong with me answering/responding to your questions in the review? Cheers. MegX (talk) 09:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Cortinarius triumphans
--Dravecky (talk) 07:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC) Symposium: FAC and the sciences
Re: Boletus pinophilusThanks for the help, I really appreciate it. I'll search for the page numbers for those publications, but otherwise the references have been cleaned up. –Juliancolton 15:23, 20 February 2009 (UTC) DYK updateHello. DYK is due for an update, and none of the regular DYK admins are around. Can you do an update? It should be from queue 5. Shubinator (talk) 23:39, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
EdmontosaurusHi, Cas; Any interest in having a look at Edmontosaurus? I have to warn you, it would take somewhat more time than Deinosuchus, as you know I have a tendency to go on and on... J. Spencer (talk) 16:59, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Smile! A Nobody has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend, Go on smile! Cheers, and Happy editing! Tricholoma terreumI added an ALT hook to your DYK nomination and thought you may want to offer your opinion. Thanks. shoot! 23:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC) Amanita muscariaI've adjusted the refs so that they are formatted in a way consistent with the way the cite templates format them- the commas and semi-colons- and so they are a little more readable (A. B., instead of AB). If you're not happy with the changes, feel free to revert, but I think that the refs the way they were before were irritatingly inconsistent. If you opt to go for the formatting they were in before (Smith QW, Jones DV, Taylor GH etc...) then I think the best option will be to take them out of the templates all together, that will always try to use commas between first and last names, and semicolons between people. J Milburn (talk) 21:27, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks and a request
Thanks for signing up at Misplaced Pages:Peer review/volunteers and for your work doing reviews. It is now just over a year since the last peer review was archived with no repsonse after 14 (or more) days, something we all can be proud of. There is a new Peer review user box to track the backlog (peer reviews at least 4 days old with no substantial response), which can be found here. To include it on your user or talk page, please add {{Misplaced Pages:Peer review/PRbox}} . Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch ><>° 03:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
WP:food & splayed/spork merger discussionJust a heads up, we have a merge discussion posting section on the project page. --Jeremy (blah blah 20:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Cardiology task forceCardiology task force
-- ~~~~ Maen. K. A. (talk) 22:13, 28 February 2009 (UTC) DYK for Cortinarius caperatus
Shubinator (talk) 04:41, 1 March 2009 (UTC) Boletus pinophilusHi, just letting you know that I have passed the article. Thanks for your time with it, I don't know how you manage to fit so much in. J Milburn (talk) 21:58, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Arbcom enforcementExcuse my bringing a tiresome matter to your attention but please take a look at Misplaced Pages:AE#Please enforce the pseudoscience arbitration which relates to an Arbcom ruling. Here we see User:ScienceApologist making a heated personal attack, quite contrary to the specific guidance at that page, which counsels against such slurs. This is not unusual, I suppose, but what shocks me is the attitude of the admin there. Rather than reproving this editor for his incivility, he just hands out warnings to the several editors with whom User:ScienceApologist is warring and so indulges his bad behaviour. I am left with the impression that the admin is partisan rather than impartial, though I may, of course, be missing something (and I am the butt of the tirade too). We have similar complaints about other admins who appoint themselves to act in Arbcom's name - Elonka is a high-profile example. Please consider appointing admins directly for enforcement of vexatious matters, so that neutral admins of high probity may resolve such cases, rather than those who may be attracted to the case for their own reasons. I am not sure who these paragons might be but User:Uncle G is one that I have considerable respect for. Colonel Warden (talk) 01:46, 3 March 2009 (UTC) Rational emotive behavior therapyIs this a real therapy? It reads very new age, but you'd know better. OrangeMarlin 17:27, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Birds March newsletterThe March 2009 issue of the Bird WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. ImpeachmentFor lack of FA/GA contributions! YellowMonkey (click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model!) 02:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC) Improvement driveSo as not to clutter Sandy's page (which is so fun to do) - I normally work on sections from those related to my user page lists. I can handle them easily. However, there are things that pop up all of the time at the Poetry page or other types of areas. Milhist has a lot of people. Places like Wikiproject Poetry only have three active members. There are pages that were once FA that need repair. Something like Pound's Cantos need to be worked on. Then you have people like Jayvdb who works on the journals project. There is a lot of work that needs to be done there. I would think of what a core issue Misplaced Pages needs. You were going around working on some topics (like ghost). Perhaps go through and get all of the "basic" monsters filled in and improved? Those would be highly searched topics. Ottava Rima (talk) 05:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Tricholoma terreum
Quick favour if possibleHey Casliber, I have a commited identity which I've put on a subpage in my userspace and sub'd it into my main userpage. Is their any way I can get the subpage protected so it can't be changed just to be extra sure no one tampers with it. Get back to me on my talk page whenever you get a second. Cheers.
New board maybe?Right now 6 of the 8 AE threads are on fringe and pseudo-science related things, makes me wonder if we need a Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement/Fringe crap board. </humor> MBisanz 01:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Moon of Pejeng
Cheers, Jack Merridew 07:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
BarnstarThanks for the horror barnstar for Bride of Frankenstein. It was an arduous process; good to know that the community appreciates the effort. Otto4711 (talk) 10:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Ireland naming questionYou are receiving this message because you have previously posted at a Ireland naming related discussion. Per Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Ireland article names#Back-up procedure, a procedure has been developed at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration, and the project is now taking statements. Before creating or replying to a statement please consider the statement process, the problems and current statements. GnevinAWB (talk) 17:55, 5 March 2009 (UTC) ThanksHi Casliber, belated post holiday thanks for your support in my RFA, which passed by an embarrassingly wide margin. There's a full glitzy Oscar style version of my acceptance speech here, but I wanted to thank you specifically as "helpful and positive in outlook" was a very nice thing to say. WereSpielChequers 21:51, 5 March 2009 (UTC) "thanks for bringing it to our attention SirFozzie"I must have missed something. Where did SirFozzie alert ArbComm/Clerks that he had modified the case page? Hipocrite (talk) 19:23, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
G.E. Rumphius
Cheers Cas,, have been distracted by local Avian population, and having digital camera probs. I see you are working as hard as ever. Luridiformis (talk) 12:58, 7 March 2009 (UTC) Research requestHi Casliber. While exploring the User talk pages of proflic editors, I somehow came across your name. I'm doing a research project at UCSC about Misplaced Pages and I see that you're very active member (even sitting on several committees?). If you have the time, I would love to hear about your thoughts and experience on Misplaced Pages. The discussion is currently underway at my talk page, it would be great if you could jump in wherever you have a comment. Have a nice evening! Thanks for your time. Rodomontade (talk) 02:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Disruption by Jack Merridew at Editor review/A NobodyHi. Thanks for closing the above thread. Yesterday, I commented at Misplaced Pages:Editor review/A Nobody and it was removed (twice, thrice) by A Nobody. There followed a fair bit of discussion by him and others about this. I have restored my comment and stated that it should not be removed again. More eyes welcome. Cheers, Jack Merridew 05:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Russula fragilis
BarleyI just wanted to make sure that you realised that Two Row actually redirects to that section of the article, not the barley article as a whole. Guettarda (talk) 13:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
The work of deleting IP vandalism on chem element pagesSince you've been involved in fixing element article IP vandalisms, I wonder if you'd like to comment on this discussion on semi-protection for element articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements Thanks! SBHarris 23:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Regarding suggestions from talk page, editor reviewHello! Do you mean stuff along the lines of Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Treveri/archive1? Thanks for your time and help! Sincerely, --A Nobody 04:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Editor reviewI have no intention of edit-warring the closure. I do find it sad that the review remained open so long as the comments were positive, but once it got to the negative sides of A Nobody's editing, like the deceptive edit summaries and implausible explanations for his vanishing act, the review was suddenly considered to have degenerated. Negative comments are useful input for any editor that has any serious intent at improvement. The community's acceptance of the vanishing act is something that I have to swallow and live with, but his continued defense of deceptive edit summaries is extremely troubling.—Kww(talk) 05:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
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