User talk:Bugboy52.40/archive 2

I've been wondering too

I don't know. I've been trying too do that for a while.--Abce2|AccessDenied 16:03, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: DB Icon

Hey that's looking great. I actually wanted to do all the icons in SVG but didn't have any editor that supported the format. Could you please tell me which editor you used?  UzEE  14:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes please. You can covert them all :)  UzEE  18:51, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Lol I meant the ones at WP:DBZ.  UzEE  23:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Question!

Could you help me? I have a few different signatures, and I can't decide which one to use. They're on my user page, could you tell me your favorite, please? TheSavageNorwegian 20:28, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I know they aren't that different... sorry. TheSavageNorwegian 20:29, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Analogue Clock

I made one of those too! Mine used divs and I never really told anyone about it... until now that is. I don't think it displays the correct time here anymore, but it's still pretty cool... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tkgd2007/Analogue_clock _{TKGD2007|TALK} 23:21, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Shoutbox manual:

Talk page shoutbox ver. 1.0

Owner´s manual
1. Introduction The shoutbox is a useful tool where smaller comments are posted. Examples are, "thanks for .....", "are you online?", "nice edit", "I´ve finished the ......", etc. It can also be used as a semi-instant messaging box where conversations can be held. These are some advantages of using a shoutbox: Avoids the need of creating a whole new section to place a small comment As consequence of the previous, it prevents overflooding in the talk page (a talk page will be filled eventually with more comments, and the user may have to create archives for storage of the previous discussions, the use of this tool allows to keep clean or compact the talk page, and prevents the early need to use archives) For users that are online, this can facilitate the synergy in cooperative edits on wikipedia. For example; if two or more users are working in real time on an article, articles of the same list or articles within the same category, they can communicate about progress or coordination tasks (again, avoiding overflooding) The shoutbox is intended to be in the talk page, so the user gets inmediate notification of a new message. My intentions in creating this chat-tool are to help in wikipedia´s improvement and enhancement, not to be confused with a WP:NOT violation. The idea of using a shoutbox in talk pages was originally mine (I don´t know of other user who had the same idea as me previously), however, it was inspired by: ♥Soccer5525♥Talk To Me! (so I´m giving his/her corresponding credits)
2. Use & maintenance To place a new comment in the shoutbox, a text in the bottom says "Please make comments at the top. Click here to shout" and it redirects to the edit section of the page. The shoutbox is a fixed object that must be in the first (on top) part of the edit section (the source code) so a user can see an arrow which leads him where to place the comment. The reply is suposed to be in the respective shoutbox of the other wikipedian. Image of the shoutbox source code, highlighting the section in which you can alter the position of the shoutbox You can change the position in where the shoutbox is placed; in the picture, you can see a line highlighted, that is the code for the positioning stuff. The number "20px" means that the object will separate 20 pixels from the right margins (and 50 pixels (px) from the top margins). The proper separation varies in each user talk page. You can also change the word "right" for "left" and "top" for "bottom" and the code will work accordingly. The code highlighted in the left means that the position from margins will be taken as of the page and not the screen. For example: if you change the word "absolute" for "fixed", the position will be separated from the screen margins (which are not the same). In consequence, the object (in this case, the shoutbox) will stick to the screen, no matter if you scroll down the page. Also, in the section marked below, if you change the word "collapsible" for "collapsible collapsed", with this you can make the shoutbox to stay collapsed all the time by default (untill you press the button "show"), keeping the shoutbox even more compact. Periodically you must manually clean (delete) the past comments, so the shoutbox is kept clean.
3. Technical support Feel free to send me a message to fix something, answer a question or help in some way. - Damërung ...ÏìíÏ..._Ξ_ . --  17:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Another question?

Is this signature too overbearing? TheSavageNorwegian

Oops! That didn't work very well. I thought that was my new one... Be right back!

Ah, there it is! Tell me if you like it. TheSavageNorwegian 18:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it was too much... all that text wouldn't fit into my signature prefrence, any tips on how I can downsize this?

[[User:Thesavagenorwegian/guestbook|<span style="color: blue">The</span>]][[User:Thesavagenorwegian|<span style="color: orange">Savage</span>]][[User talk:Thesavagenorwegian|<span style="color: Blue">Norwegia</span>]][[Special:contributions/Thesavagenorwegian|<span style="color: orange">n</span>]]'''</font> 18:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Your signature is splendid! I wish I knew how to do that! TheSavageNorwegian 01:26, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

You see, my problem is, when I go to my preferences and paste <font style="font-family:Monotype Arial; font-size:16px;">'''[[User:Thesavagenorwegian/guestbook|<span style="color: blue">The</span>]][[User:Thesavagenorwegian|<span style="color: orange">Savage</span>]][[User talk:Thesavagenorwegian|<span style="color: Blue">Norwegian</span>]]'''</font> in, it's too long and doesn't work... could I take out the "font family"? TheSavageNorwegian 01:41, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey, it works! I don't know what was going wrong before... TheSavageNorwegian 01:47, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh drat, it doesn't. It says "Invalid raw signature. Check HTML tags." TheSavageNorwegian 01:48, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

I was using this one,

<font style="Arial; font-size:15px;">'''[[User:Thesavagenorwegian/guestbook|<span style="color:blue">The</span>]][[User:Thesavagenorwegian|<span style="color:orange">Savage</span>]][[User talk:Thesavagenorwegian|<span style="color:Blue">Norwegian</span>]]'''</font>

to produce this: TheSavageNorwegian —Preceding undated comment added 01:57, 14 June 2009 (UTC).

Aha! My raw signature was ten characters too long, I'll streamline it. TheSavageNorwegian 02:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Done, it works! How's this? TheSavageNorwegian 02:22, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!

		The Guidance Barnstar
		You most certainly did help! I would have given up on my new signature without you... TheSavageNorwegian 02:33, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pachyna

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Where...?

Where is the shoutbox template you made? --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 20:56, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Template for a shoutbox!

About your idea of templatizing the shoutbox, it really did a mess in my talk page when you put it there, however, I have been considering and testing it (in my sandbox) and i found some errors:

• It has a bug that doesn´t let you sign (maybe not to all signatures, but since it fails with mine, so do others surely)
• You can make a general template, but what if a user wants to move the shoutbox to some other position, if he alter the main template, he would be altering everyone's, so he would have to avoid having the template (having it raw as it is originally)
• The space reduced is not really much (since it´s only big (well, not big, medium) in the edit section (source code), not in the talk page)

In the other hand:

• As you said, it will reduce space, wherever, but it will reduce it
• I actually think that your idea of making a general template is really good, but it has to be positioned in the most non disruptive place for users' talk pages in general
• Having a non-general template (for example: User:Example/Shoutbox) could be a good suggestion for those who want to have it as a template, but who also want to have it in a different position (maybe some users still prefer to use more space in source code than in creating subsections)

So in conclusion, if you manage to fix the main bug of the signing, that would be great and I will consider adding this to the manual, specially the suggestion of the non-general template. - Damërung ^{...ÏìíÏ...}_{_Ξ_} . --  02:34, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I was about to say that it would be a good idea to have a section for this in wikipedia (like: Template:Shoutbox) but I´ve seen that Bugboy52.40 has already boldly done that (congrats). I have only used it for internal aspects of wikipedia (like talking about itself), but as I have experienced, it could be a good tool for wikipedia's more general work (maybe a test of that would be useful). - Damërung ^{...ÏìíÏ...}_{_Ξ_} . --  03:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I feel like I went behind your back when I made the template and asked around, but I thought a collaboration would be nice and to get other's opinions. I am currently working on those bugs dam you bugs..., to me the bug with the sig is a paradox, it is truly perplexing, while everything else can be easily fixed. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 03:16, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I have identified the problem, if you notice in my sig, the straight dash ( | ), is conflicting with the box syntax, it thinks that anything in front of | is apart of the box. Is there any way to move |} above the text? Bugboy52.4 | =-= 03:39, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean with 'above text'? Perhaps you can try this:

<nowiki>|</nowiki>

for the pipe mark. But still, my signature doesn´t have any pipe mark and still affect the shoutbox (do you think we should move this conversation to the general discussion in your talk page (so others can see it))? - Damërung ^{...ÏìíÏ...}_{_Ξ_} . --  04:22, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

That would be fine. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 15:09, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I will write documentation for the template (there probably is not much to say, but I will write some anyway. --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 15:30, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Documentation? Bugboy52.4 | =-= 15:53, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

That would be a great idea! (now, what about the position?). - Damërung ^{...ÏìíÏ...}_{_Ξ_} . --  16:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I am done with the shoutbox documentation (tell me what you think; it's very basic). I changed the shoutbox position to the defualt position. Dag-nabbit, now we need to get people to start using it (jk). --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 16:12, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

It's very nice, but maybe you should add that it is possible to add text, seen in this example,

 {{User:Bugboy52.40/sandbox|1=
 <!--
 ************   SHOUTBOX   ***********************************************************
                  __
                 |  |
                 |  |
               __|  |__
               \      /
                \    /
                 \  /
                  \/

 ************LEAVE SMALL COMMENTS BELOW THIS LINE************************************** -->

 *Text

 <!-- *******************AND AVOBE THIS LINE (but in the top please)************************ -->
 }}

And what does substr: do? Bugboy52.4 | =-= 16:19, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I will do that and tell you when it is done. Subst: means that the page using the template is not going to have {{template example}} on their page, but will have the actual source on their page. Does that make sense? Do you think it is good to tell users to append subst: to the beginning, or not?

There´s still a problem: there´s a bug in the line: "Cick here to shout"; the hyperlink does not lead to the edit section, and the word "here" is missing. --Woglinde 02 (talk) 16:25, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Dude, that's too many indents! When there are 3 indents in a talk page conversation, the indent thing starts over. Anyway, I think the subst is good because as Damërung said, "You can make a general template, but what if a user wants to move the shoutbox to some other position, if he alter the main template, he would be altering everyone's, so he would have to avoid having the template (having it raw as it is originally)" plus, you have arrows to guide folks that are less code-minded. Of course, you will still retort to that :P --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 16:29, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh-also, I think "instruction on the possibility to add text" should be put in the manual, as the template documentation is only for how to use the template, not what you can do whth the shoutbox (the shoutbox and the shoutbox template are two different things) --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 16:34, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I like the over-use of indents! ROTFL! By the way, as soon as the bug in "click here" line is fixed, the shoutbox template will be finally ready, I think. - Damërung ^{...ÏìíÏ...}_{_Ξ_} . --  17:12, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I think the template is ready to roll now. Agreement? --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 18:12, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Sure. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 18:47, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

So that's all to do... The work is done. :P --71.135.50.185 (talk) 19:12, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Still the same bug. And now, no text is displayed at all. --Woglinde 02 (talk) 20:00, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Is it just me? --Woglinde 02 (talk) 20:01, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

It works on my sandbox page, at least --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 21:00, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Sory, but it doesn't work on eather of ours without {{{1}}}. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 21:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

OOPS. Sorry for getting rid of that. Anyway, I think now it's ready. --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 00:25, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		I hereby give you this bluprinty template barnstar for your creation and tweaks to the {{Shoutbox}} template. I really appreciate it and know it will in a way change how people "talk" on Wikipedia. Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 00:43, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

!?!?!??! I thought Damërung created the shoubox. Am I wrong? just a little insignificant 01:39, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Well thats why I gave him a barnstar, because he did. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 01:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

This barnstar is for creating the template. Damërung did not have much to do with the template, just the shoutbox. Of course you helped with the Template, and now we have an easy way for everybody to have the shoutbox! (I owe Damërung a barnstar too, I love my shoutbox) And also, Bugboy52.40 Thanks so much for the barnstar! --Sushiflinger (Goldblattster) (talk!) 02:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Whoops, now I understand. Ditto for your work on creating and working to perfect it. :D just a little insignificant 04:20, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Script-based article creation

I am told you may be able to help me out with that ^. In return I offer you an improvement to your latin translation: I've read only a little Virgil and precious little else, but "is vidit id quoque" for "he saw it too" sounds wrong. Try "ille" in place of id is, it's what Virgil would have done :) - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c, rfa)} 14:23, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm told you may have some sort of script I could "borrow" for a bit? And I meant ille for is, btw. Typo. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c, rfa)} 16:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, the things that has most taken me aback is that lack of even stubs about michelin-starred restaurants, particularly here in the UK. And then there were some professional golfers I had a look at a while back. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c, rfa)} 16:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Best to use the "E-mail this user" link in the toolbox. (CTRL-F if you don't know WTH that is.) - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c, rfa)} 16:48, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Cheers, will look at it later. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c, rfa)} 16:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Userpage design! It's like a wikitext hair salon!!!!

Could you help me to design my userpage and talk page? just a little insignificant 17:09, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for the slow response, I decided to get lost on the University of Maryland campus for a bit.

Anyway, I like the idea of a menu-toolbar-thing much like the one on all of your and User:Download's subpages. I'd like to base my userpage on a menu-toolbar above a blue border which would contain all the fun stuff. Does that make any sense or am I just rambling? just a little insignificant 21:29, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Whoops, no, I meant a blue background with maybe a regular black border. (I've been going through different signatures, as you can tell.) just a little insignificant 22:17, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

It looks awesome for such a quick draft, thanks so much for your help! Could I change it to a navy border and light blue background per my new signature? just a little insignificant 00:19, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Gotcha, thanks. just a little insignificant 00:22, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I've moved the whole thing to User:A little insignificant/userpage draft so that I don't feel like I'm messing around in your sandbox. Also working on User:A little insignificant/menu, based off yours. just a little insignificant 00:32, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, that would be awesome. Is there a not-impossibly-complicated way to have the icon for the sandbox split into four different links to my four sandboxes? Example on the menu page. just a little insignificant 01:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Pterocerina colorata

Have left a taxonomy question at Talk:Pterocerina colorata. Hope you had a good break! Heds (talk) 01:37, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

For your amazing work

a little insignificant has given you a LOLipop! This horrible pun and delicious candy promotes WikiLove and tells the world how low you will stoop for the sake of humor. Spread WikiLove by giving someone else a lollipop, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Spread the unrelenting joy of lollipops by adding {{subst:Lollipop}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

Thank you for my awesome userpage! a little insignificant 20:58, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Signature

Hey. Your signature has an open font tag at the end which is causing part of my sig to turn green on this guestbook. Could you please fix it somehow (with a </font> tag or whatever)! Thanks! Oliver Fury, Esq. message • contributions 02:57, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Bugboy!

It's me again. I have come for your help. I am preparing Ctenomorphodes chronus. It is a stick insect. The draft is here [1]. The bug has a zillion synonyms and the taxonomy is changing a lot. I am just wondering if I am making a duplicate article or if the taxobox is way off. I could use your guidance.

This stick insect could generate interest at DKY because it is a strange bug. From preliminary research it looks like it drops eggs for ants to carry away, plus it is parthenogenetic and it's a sex maniac.

As for Red palm mite, it worked out well getting into the DYK with photo and getting 8,000 visits. Thanks for any help you can give. Cheers.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:56, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

P.S. You can reply here as I am watching your talk page. Thanks.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:57, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Is it alright if I edit your sandbox? Bugboy52.4 | =-= 18:05, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Of course. Please do.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:35, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

You are awesome! Thank you so much. I will further fix the article up. What do you think for a DYK hook? How about: Did you know that Ctenomorphodes chronus has a serious pencil fetish?--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't think that will work, how about an interesting fact. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 02:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Interesting? Think of it from the pencil's point of view. Seriously. Very seriously, the ants carrying the eggs away is probably the best bet.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

That is an interesting fact, but how does it get the ants to nurse the eggs? Maye you should find out more info on the net or in a book. I'll se what I can do. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 13:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

How about, ...that like most phasmid species, Ctenomorpha chronus flicks it's eggs to the ground to be attracted by ants, and then carried to the nest were it will over-season (pictured)? Maybe showing this picture. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 15:16, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm. I wonder if DYK has used this hook before for a stick insect. I will dig, but it's best so far.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:25, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, after quite an extensive search, I've found nothing else on this species. I was really hoping to find more info on the fate of the eggs. I've given the draft a once over and it looks pretty good. Thanks for checking the refs. I was just about to do that. I'll put the article up and hopefully others can find some more info for it. Well done and thanks for your help.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:39, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

I just wish I could of done more, sorry, but I will do more research. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 01:56, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Not at all. You did plenty. Good work!--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:54, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Bugboy52.4 | =-= 03:03, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Erythrism

Hi Bugboy, sorry that it took me so long to reply to your question regarding erythrism; I was traveling. I don't know the answer to your question. Personally I would think that the pink form of Amblycorypha oblongifolia should be qualified as "erythrism", but I'm not an expert. I took the photos from flickr where they were annotated as "erythrism in katydids". Maybe we can find an expert over at Portal:Entomology? Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 14:21, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

re: Reverted edits?

Manual of style, for starters. And genres are generally not changed without reliable sources or a consensus at the talk page. Your edits encourage edit warring, which is strictly forbidden. Erzsébet Báthory_{(talk|contr.)} 15:07, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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Abce2|Aww nuts!Wribbit!(Sign here) 19:58, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Re:genre

Sorry... Must not have been thinking straight when I put that genre in.

But you do have to admit, it is sorta hard to categorize Slow Burn (another song that has had difficulty genre wise) and Falling down, Genre wise. Like, they are by a Metalcore band, but Falling down has traits of Hard rock, Post-Hardcore, Pop Punk, Pop Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative rock, and even Glam rock in it; and Slow burn has traits of Metalcore in the backing lyrics (you can hear guttural screaming in the background), and synth rock, pop rock, hard rock, and post-hardcore. But people insist on calling both Metalcore and Alternative metal, which I think is insane. Altenhofen 01:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, and actually, the <br> is preferred in genre boxes.

Altenhofen 03:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

How are you? Shady Leprechaun (talk) 00:50, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

I liked this one better. And people kept calling me "Ali", which is confusing, since it's my friend's name. Did you like the old one better? I could change it back it you want. Shady Leprechaun (talk) 20:32, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

It's okay, I can change it back. And you're right, I haven't seen anybody lately. I think they must be busy. Shady Leprechaun (talk) 23:19, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Meruidae

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Rant

Eh? What?! "For now"? What do you mean? Is this article GA-class or no? I'm going to start filling in redlinks, once they're done, we'll see what else needs to be taken care of. The article is brilliantly written, and one of the most impressive I've ever seen. See this? This is a featured article! Tell me that Insect is only B-class! It failed the review because some of the refs looked sketchy! They can be replaced! It will be done!

I've replaced the Encyclopedia Brittanica ref with yet another Gullan and Cranston page I found on Google Books. Now I'm starting on redlinks. A little insignificant (talk) 16:36, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Alright, I think all of the review's concerns have been addressed. Refs look okay... all the well-written stuff is taken care of... I think it's good. The minimal criteria is covered by a long shot. All the remaining redlinks are in the Classification section, which looks daunting, but what the heck. In the meanwhile, however, they are not addressed in the criteria for good articles. Shall I nominate it? A little insignificant (talk) 16:50, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Done! A little insignificant (talk) 20:30, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

RE: Alum cover

I started a discussion at Talk:Congregation of the Damned. Thanks. Fezmar9 (talk) 23:11, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

You might also want to read WP:SAMPLE in regards to the music sample you uploaded. Fezmar9 (talk) 23:22, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:Congregation of the damned album cover.png)

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New Butterfly articles

I noticed you made some articles on Hamadryas species. They are extremely short though. I would like to ask you if you could at least add the species authority, the synonyms and the locations these species can be found. Only stating that this species exists is not really informative. We are having the same problems with tons of genus articles without any info. Someone swooped by and made 1000's of genus articles without any info or reference, a lot of which are not even valid anymore (they are synonyms of other genera). Anyway.. I just wanted to make sure we don't get the same problems for species. Cheers! Ruigeroeland (talk) 08:42, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Some images without a home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micragrotis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochlora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acylita

These I have to check with http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/spod/catalogue/search.html and other sources. The species on wikipedia right now are from funet, but funet is regularly incomplete, so these might be still valid. Heliothis nigrifasciata (Hampson, 1903) - Timora nigrifasciata.JPG Heliothis bimaculata (Moore, 1888) - Timora bimaculata.JPG Heliothis uncta (Swinhoe, 1885) - Timora uncta.JPG Heliothis sanguinolenta (Moore, 1881) - Timora sanguinolenta.JPG Heliothis nubila (Hampson, 1903) - Timora nubila.JPG Heliothis leucosticta (Hampson, 1902) - Timora leucosticta.JPG Heliothis decorata (Moore, 1881) - Timora decorata.JPG

The ref is either http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/spod/catalogue/search.html or funet. Much of these species have no info available on the net, except the fact that they exist. http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/spod/catalogue/search.html also list the type location, so if you can't find anymore info, you can just leave it at that.. Cheers and good work on the Insect article! Did it make GA? Ruigeroeland (talk) 13:10, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Great work! I added the binomial authorities and am looking up some links and the locations. I think the text under description cab stay, it's the original description I think? Ruigeroeland (talk) 20:40, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Guestbook

How can you make a #0 so that you can be first? anyways you are FIRST!!!!!!!! RuneScape Adventure 15:10, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Graphics design

Hello Bugboy, first, I want to give you this:

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		By this barnstar, I propperly recognize your special contributions to wikipedia by uploading notable and useful graphics (specially in SVG) ☩Damërung ☩. -- 05:01, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

And also, I wonder if you can help me on how to make SVG graphics (specially, the backgroundless images). - ☩Damërung ☩. -- 05:01, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Heya!

Hey Bugs, been awhile. Just popping in to ask how y'all are, how things're going. Do you have any form of an instant messenger? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZackTuren (talk • contribs) 01:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I have both AIM and Windows Live. ^Zack (talk) 19:11, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Happy WikiBirthday (a day late)

I saw from here that it's been exactly one year since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:56, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

here

here's a barnstar for signing my user page

The Orangesodakid Guestbook Page Barnstar

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This user has signed orangesodakid's signature page.

—Preceding undated comment added 11:51, 19 October 2009 (UTC).

Re: Music Favs

Hey, sorry about the late response! (1 Month, 8 days since your post....) I personally love "Did My Time," "Break Some Off," "Everything I've Known," "Y'all Want a Single," "Souvenir" and "Liar," among many others. Those are just a few that I can come up with off the top of my head that I couldn't live without. However, there hasn't been a single Korn song that I've heard that I don't like! —Signed by KoЯnfan71 ^{My Talk} _{Sign Here!} 22:53, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Atreyu

I used to be a pretty big fan around the time The Curse came out. The last record was not terrible, but nothing to rave about in my opinion. Fezmar9 (talk) 23:40, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I am certain you received permission from both Atreyu and Hollywood Records to post copyrighted media on YouTube. And I am sure you also have permission to not only post copyrighted material, but to provide a link to the public for a free download. All before the album is legally made available. So, I am sure I don't need to remind you of YouTube's Copyright Policy, especially the part where it says, "Posting copyright-infringing content can lead to the termination of your account, and possibly monetary damages if a copyright owner decides to take legal action (this is serious—you can get sued!)." Fezmar9 (talk) 01:45, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

The guy that accused me of trying to get laid had little to nothing to base his beliefs on. I am completely unaffiliated with that band. My admittedly uncivil comment stemmed from you being borderline proud of posting a leaked album online while ignoring the Constitutional rights of the artist (Atreyu) and the label (Hollywood Records), and US Copyright laws. I love music, and to watch the entire industry crumble daily in the hands of anyone with a youtube account or a blog does not sit well with me. Especially when his or her attitude toward the matter is "Ahhh come on! Don't be like that." If that makes me an ass, then so be it. Bugs to you seem to be like music to me, so perhaps I can try to level with you. (Keeping in mind that I know little to nothing about insects or your specific interest in them...) Let's say I come across a family of Salt Creek tiger beetle somewhere in Nebraska. Putting aside the Endangered Species Act, I decide to smash said beetles with a hammer and post videos of it on youtube. And my attitude toward it is "Dude! They're just bugs! Calm down. So which video did you like of their little guts squirting out?!" Would that sit well with you? In the interest of creating a decent article for Congregation of the Damned, I will remain civil with you in regards to editing. But I will not engage in friendly conversation with someone who completely disregards the rights of others, and in this case, the legal rights of artists. Fezmar9 (talk) 21:51, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Insect GA review

Hi, Bugboy. You or your colleagues should call me if you get stuck on some point. If I just jumped in after you have almost completed the job, you might be unhappy about my habit of redeveloping things. I got into the habit when I started on higher-level taxa (mainly phyla), most of which were in poor shape. You guys are the only others I've seen that have had the guts to taken these big subjects. As I said, give me call if you want anything specific. --Philcha (talk) 06:56, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Bugboy. I wasn't kidding about being busy with 6 (!) GA reviews - 4 I'm reviewing and 2 I've nominated and for which reviews have started in the last 2 dates. Sleep would also be good some time. --Philcha (talk) 21:35, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Fur meine Freunde....

This is the barnstar you deserved.

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For signing on my talkpage! --Boeing7107isdelicious|Sprich mit meine Piloten 23:25, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Test

test... Bugboy52.4 | =-= 22:17, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

....what?----_{Boeing7107isdelicious|Sprich mit meine Piloten} 03:15, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Insect - congratulations

Articles with such large scope take a lot of work, and you've made great improvements. Congratulations! And thanks for the Barnstar, I only wish I could do more. --Philcha (talk) 07:56, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

AAH! It's a GA! Itsagaitsagaitsagaitsaga... I'm so happy! Must thank everybody ever, including User:Cliff smith, User:Philcha, User:Emw, User:Damërung, me, myself and I, and of course, you. Oh, and how could I forget our most prolific contributors, User:69.92.198.92 and User:41.223.35.138? I swear, we should have a wiki-party. Something on IRC, if anyone knows how to work that.

So, for everyone involved:

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		For their help in an amazing collaboration, helping the Insect article reach a milestone in its potential, I award (put your name here) this barnstar. A little insignificant Giving thanks to all that is me 16:00, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

But honestly, we didn't do that much at all. Not in comparison to Bugboy. Since the GA review began, 50% of the edits in the history have been yours. You have been improving this article since the day you registered, and you stuck with this article through 3 GA reviews. That's something I could never do, and I think it's something for which you should be respected and admired.

So, here you go. I am certain that you've earned it.

		The Golden Wiki Award
		For your shockingly impressive work and diligence towards and for all insect-related articles, I'm giving you this. No refunds. A little insignificant Giving thanks to all that is me 16:00, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you Bugboy, and congratulations on a job well done. Great work, indeed. Cliff smith ^talk 01:52, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar. I feel a little bad for not contributing more to the article before the GA review was closed, as you may note in my contributions in the past days, I have been a little busy, and my edits became sporadic and I... well, whatever ...Before I went absent, I could (at least) leave an incentive here to atract collaborations for that article's GA upgrade (which worked at least for one user). It´s been a hairy week, but I will keep editing the Insect article to feel like I deserve the barnstar. Oh yes, and:

	- The Super Bio-Barnstar
	This barnstar is given to Bugboy, in recognition not only for bringing the Insect article to a GA status (by being the main contributor), but also by making a large amount of substantial editions to the insect-related stuff here in wikipedia. Keep up the good work! - - ☩Damërung ☩. -- 07:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)	Congratulations!

Since you did the most of the work, this barnstar is a little different from the other three. - ☩Damërung ☩. -- 07:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Classification & Taxonomy sections

Hi, that's quite a collection in the preceding thread - congratulations! Back to your question, the truth is that I'm still feeling my way and the next article I work may force me into a new approach to placing Classification & Taxonomy. So I guess the best advice is: be flexible; allow yourself a few days of reading around before start writing (I should try this more often myself!); and try to work out your own list of factors that favour various orderings. As a principle I'd like to place Classification & Taxonomy as late as I can, so that the reader gets plenty of information about anatomy and physiology, including variations on these themes - that way Classification & Taxonomy changes from a pure laundry list to groupings of features (X has features A, B, and C; Y has D, E and F), e.g. at Arthropod. But often particular articles force me to place Classification & Taxonomy earlier, usually because a group has such disparate members that I need to make this clear up front, and then I have to introduce the names along with summaries of names to distinguish the names, as I did at Mollusca or Annelid. And Sponge has Classification & Taxonomy in the middle (sigh). If you look at the "Zoology" section of User:Philcha#Improved_and_got_passed_as_GA you'll see the various orderings I've used. I hope this helps(???). --Philcha (talk) 08:03, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Bugboy52.40, doing insects is quite a project - you might to recruit some children and grandchildren :-)

As your comment implies, organising the info requires a lot of thought, as there are millions of species, so at least hundreds of genera, and so up the tree. Hide/show boxes have some disadvantages: accessbility; printing and equivalents like the WP Version 1.0 DVD, etc.; and the download of a lot of info that is initially hidden. You might want to check whether List-class articles and/or Categories might be worth using. I haven't used these, so I'd see if I can get some advice.

Re Earwig (easy to type than Dermaptera, so I pasted the latter), it was a GA candidate as few months ago, and I was the reviewer. The topic's harder than it looks, because it seems hard to get good info about 2 of the 3 orders. A small edit war also broke out as just as the reviewer started. However, the nominator, Earwig, was enthusiastic to going improving the article, and you might want to contact Earwig. --Philcha (talk) 12:36, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Re etymologies, sometimes a textbook provides a decent explanation, but I often use the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, which is very thorough - and will give you practice in using the Insert->Greek tool on the Edit page :-) --Philcha (talk) 21:28, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Just in case...

I made a reply at my talk. Thanks for the invitation :-) ZooFari 01:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Great. I also added it to List of mantis species. Should that be considered top or high importance? ZooFari 02:47, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Also, I'll be tagging all mantis articles tonight. I will use WikiProject Insects and Mantodea. Should I keep Arthropods? I see you've been removing them, so I was wondering. ZooFari 02:52, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Re:Insect

It looks great! You've done a great job improving it since then! It's fully referenced with academic sources and is extremely informative. Next stop: FA! Reywas92^Talk 23:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Earwig

If you revert him once more, you will be violating the three revert rule. Of course, we don't want to see that happen.  :) Please keep the discussion active on the talk page, and remember to remain civil – but do not keep reverting him. Thanks! — The Earwig @ 01:52, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Copy editing of Lepidoptera morphology

Great work! Reads better now. After the cp ed, we should try to fill in the gaps, I had indicated before in the progress chart AshLin (talk) 19:36, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Dist char of Earwig gone West?

Hi, The dist characteristics of Earwig got deleted! Planning a seperate earwig taxonomy article? AshLin (talk) 09:37, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

He he he, you thought you were making morphology edits to Insect. Surprise, some are phiological too! AshLin (talk) 13:26, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Earwig GA

My pleasure! I've got a long list of easy concerns on the talk page now. Take care of those and you've got yourself a green +. Reywas92^Talk 01:10, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

thanks!

Smithers7's special award Thank you for being the first person to sign my guestbook! Accept this award for doing so!

smithers - talk - sign! 18:52, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Test

Hello, this is a test... 66.229.214.152 (talk) 21:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Stop! Before It's Too Late and We've Destroyed it All sample.ogg

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A glowing thing that informs people whether or not I am online?!

I MUST HAVE IT!

Yay, thanks! I wanted this before but I couldn't figure out a way to have the color change to red or green based on what I typed in.

Wait... on the other hand, you already helped me with my awesome userpage, for which I have never been able to thank you enough. I am hesitant about forcing you to help me again. This is a conundrumnumnum... ALI ^{nom nom} 02:05, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and before I forget again, you must move your archive box, because it is always blocking the words on the bottom right and making them unreadable, which is tragic. There's a big empty space on the left-hand side of the page. Maybe if you moved it there it wouldn't be in the way? ALI ^{nom nom} 02:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

^{(Copied from my talk page, where I accidentally replied :P)} Thank you so much!! Although the link you gave me reminds me of User:A little insignificant/monobook.js. Is that what I should go to? ALI ^{nom nom} 14:28, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

(Sorry for the late response!) I know I didn't have to delete the other script, but it was just another import for Twinkle, which I already have set up in my preferences, so it wasn't doing anything.

But WOO! Now other people online can know exactly what I'm doing at all times! ...hm. Anyway. Now I crave customization! Do you know if I can set different messages in the script (for example, instead of having an "online" option I could replace it with something like "online, battling the forces of darkness" or something.)

P.S. Whatever happened to the king of fonts? ALI ^{nom nom} 18:13, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Cats

Hello. You have listed yourself as a member of WikiProject Cats. I would appreciate your help in creating Canadian Cat Association, which is a request on the to-do list. Thank you, Brambleclawx 03:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Oopsss...

Remember that question you asked me over a month ago, about the Earwig article? I completely forgot about it, and I see that it's a GA now. Sorry for the (bleated) inconvenience, Abce2 (talk) 06:37, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh, check the bottom of your user page. There's a |} at the bottom.Abce2 (talk) 06:39, 9 January 2010 (UTC)