User talk:Snowmanradio/Archive 4

Possibly unfree Image:Royal_dalton_(rose_of_love)_4o06.jpg

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Thanks

Thanks for the cleanup of the Ryton Pools methane section. You seem to be local am I right (what with the Baginton and Hillfields contributions!)? Have a pleasent week. Cls14 22:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Your work on local pages is appreciated. Snowman 08:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Self awarded service badges

Copyedit from my talk page:"You might be interested to know that on 4 August 2007 at about 2.35 pm UK time I used a wiki tool to do a quick count of your edits which totalled 9205. From your archives it seems that you have more than 1 years service now, so you could update the award on your user page to the level of Yeoman Editor (or Most Excellent Grognard). Snowman 13:43, 4 August 2007 (UTC)"

Sorry, Snowman, I do not know how to apply this award. If you wish you could update my page.Thanks for noticing. FWIW [:¬∆ Bzuk 14:28, 4 August 2007 (UTC).

Updated. Click on the link in the caption of the service badge and you can see the range of service badges. Snowman 14:42, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for the much appreciated Barnstar Snowman. (...jus' doin' my job!) -- Red Sunset 21:03, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Technical query

Hi Snowman, I've created a table of the relative performance and characteristics figures of the Macchi C.205V, N1, and N2 on my talk page (some of which don't match those in the specs section; note posted on discussion page) with the idea that it may be a neater way of displaying the information with a reduction in wordage. Unfortunately the table doesn't cover the width of the page, and I haven't found a way of incorporating it so that text fills the gap at the side to keep it tidy. Any thoughts on how it's done? --Red Sunset 12:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Snowmanradio, you a deserve a "full" barnstar. :-) Best wishes. Axl 18:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

		The Fauna Barnstar
		To Snowmanradio, for contributions to avian articles. Axl 18:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, it looks fine. A lot of work still needs doing. Have you got a parrot? Snowman 20:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Please upload to Commons

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Richard001 07:56, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree, the commons is good, but I did not know about it when I started uploading. I have been uploading to the commons for about a year now. Some of my earlier uploads were to the enwiki, and I would like to move them to the commons, but there does not seem to be a quick easy way to move about 70 images from the wiki to the commons. I am still thinking about how to do this and I will look at the links you have suggested. Snowman 08:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I have been using the commons helper tools, which I have recently stumbled upon. Snowman (talk) 10:57, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:First letter capitalisation of both words of binomial species names in italics

Hi, That bug wasnt actually AWB, it was the typo fixing.

Mets has removed that capitalisation for you, but if you have any more that are incorrectly capitalising, Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, feel free to remove them yourself, and leave an appropriate edit summary.

If its part of a more complex regex, and cant do it yourself, leave a message on the typo talk page, and someone will help fix it.

Reedy Boy 21:42, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

image on parrot

I chose the last imgae because it was the best image I could find of a wild parrot that looked good both reduced and close up - many images are one or the other but not both. While the fact that the tail is missing is unfortunate, I feel it was better than the one you replaced it with; lighting and crispness particularly, but also the fact that the bird in the new photo appears to have had its wing's clipped (I'm not 100% sure but the primaries look like it). Would you mind if I put the other one back until we can find a first rate wild parrot photo that is completely uncropped? Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

• Yes, I think that it would be better to show a bird or birds including tail feathers. I have found a third picture that is probably better than both the cockatoo photographs. I have found a pair of Senegal Parrots that was taken in Africa. The cockatoo was only a suggestion. I am sure that one of a lot of photos would be suitable. The Polish wiki has a collection of bird drawings in the taxobox. I like the Senegal Parrot photograph, but there are probably photoes with grater clarity about somewhere. Anyone can change the taxobox photo. Snowman 23:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Alexander Graham Bell

I really would appreciate your opinion on this article. I noticed you spotted a great number of typos and grammatical errors already. I am doing an almost complete rewrite of the article as it was originally a ridiculous piece of revisionist history (and still has much of that bias but I haven't edited that section yet as I am plodding along a paragraph at a time) and has already spawned a whole series of "Bell didn't do it" articles mainly by the same editor who has admittedly read very little about Bell other than one polemic that was recently published about Elisha Gray. I am trying to give a balanced and referenced account of this inventor's life but bearing in mind, it is also the subject of continual vandalism attacks, so the work is getting extended to an overly long period. FWIW Red Sunset is one of my "buds." Bzuk 13:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC).

Should the article be semiprotected? I have just added it to my watch pages today, but I do not know much about him. I am interested in his health as there are ways of treating pernicious anaemia now. Snowman 13:29, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

CMO (Star Trek)

I have tagged Chief Medical Officer (Star Trek) for speedy deletion -- please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chief medical officer (Star Trek) (2nd nomination). --EEMeltonIV 20:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Your Sun Conure photo...

Hi SMR. Have you seen this edit? Someone removed your photo because of the skin colouration around the bird's eyes. As I understand it, parrots with patches of bare facial skin can flush it pink when excited or angry, as a display. Just thought that you should be aware of this. After all, you saw the bird at first hand and are probably best qualified to determine whether it was a hybrid or not... --Kurt Shaped Box 15:44, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

HI KSB, the photo was taken on a warm summer day and the bird had been free flying. Could the skin have become flushed to help the bird cool? The removal of the photo with the comments make me question its breeding. I took several photos of it, but that was the best one. Snowman 16:09, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

It's certainly possible. If the blood gets pumping, the skin becomes flushed. I've seen that happen with a friend's macaw, to which conures are related... --Kurt Shaped Box 16:17, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Just a minor addition to above. As now also noted in the article itself, the use of darkness of the ocular skin is entirely unreliable for determining purity. Wild individuals *always* have relatively dark grey skin (as indeed also can be seen on one of the few photos taken of this species in the wild; the photo on this page was taken in Roraima in early 2007 by the famous Brazilian bird-photographer Edson Endrigo while he was surveying specifically for this species together with Dr. Luís Fábio Silveira et al). The issues on bare-part colours of captives/wild exist in many other species, too (e.g. adult wild Blue-winged Macaws have pale yellowish facial-skin, but this is typically white, or nearly so, in captives). Rabo3 (talk) 19:00, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps it is due to sun tan of the bare skin. I am surprised how dark the skin is on Senegal Parrots on the parrot main page. The bird I photographed was a free flying bird in a tree in the UK taken in the summer, so it might have had a sun tan. I speculate that it is due to the sun's rays, which can easily be tested by keeping birds in different sun light conditions. They need to get some vitamin D from sunlight, I expect. My photo is on the commons, with a note that it might be a hybrid. So is it a hybirid? Can my photo go back on the wiki parrot page now? Snowman (talk) 19:13, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

The individual on the specific photo is, regardless of ocular-ring colour, suspicious due to the amount of green to the undertail coverts and the faint greenish spotting to the crown. However, both these features are commonly shown by pure sub-adults, meaning that, without knowing the age, it would be difficult to test in real. Checking age of this and many other Aratinga is fairly easy by shape of the individual wing-feathers, or, in specimens, skull ossification, but unfortunately neither are useful from the available photo. Yes, vitamin D is synthesized by exposure to the sun, but the colour issues in various birds are more likely explained by diet, stress and/or excessive exposure to sun-light. Carotenoids, for example, are important components in the non-structural colours of many birds, and it is the loss of these that explain the relatively dull colours captive Cock-of-the-Rocks typically get (captive versus wild), and likewise the bluish tinge captive Cissa magpies get (captive versus wild). The eye-ring colour of A. solstitialis is more likely melanin based - and this is easily affected by all three factors mentioned earlier (and, in specimens, oxidation plays a role in melanin loss, too). Rabo3 (talk) 20:27, 23 November 2007 (UTC)