User talk:Invertzoo/Archive 13

ARCHIVE PAGE 13: January 2009

Happy New Year

Dear Invertzoo, let's make of Wikipedia a swan in stead of an Ugly Duckling.
I wish you a very happy New Year and all good for your family, yourself and of course for the quality on Wikipedia.
Finest regards of Davin (talk) 16:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Dear Susan, I wish your family and you a happy New Year. It was a pleasure to work with you!
Best wishes and many new shells in 2009!--Mbz1 (talk) 22:26, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Please help ID an aquarium fish

Hi Susan, here it is. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC) Thank you, Susan. I took the image in San Francisco Academy of Scinces, but I've never looked what this fish was, and where it came from.I guess I have to go back there one day.Best wishes. --Mbz1 (talk) 22:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

You could try asking Kare Kare or posting a query on the talk page for WikiProject Fishes or WikiProject Aquarium Fishes. --Geronimo20 (talk) 00:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. I will.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:39, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Picture question

Hi Susan. I took this image in a shallow hot spring in Yellowstone National Park File:Hot Spring in Yellowstone.JPG. Do you know if the blue things are alive. They were about .3 inches long I know it is not the area of your expertise, but maybe you know somebody, who knows? Thank you for your time.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:13, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Susan. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 05:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Football Talk

Hi Invertzoo,
There's some talk on an article that I wrote. It's on one of the national Football player of Tibet. It is discussed whether he is notable enough here. Could you share your view? Thanks, Davin (talk) 17:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Shells image

Hi, all of those shells are from the beach at Clacton-on-sea. And yes, it probably was flipped at some point... it was originally intended to be aesthetic rather than encyclopaedic, so I wasn't thinking the right way for a Wikipedia image :) I don't even recall why I uploaded it here. Glad you find it useful (sorry for the slow reply, I'm pretty inactive here these days, I work for Wikia so tend to wiki over there now) -- sannse (talk) 21:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't really consider it an encyclopaedic enough image to bother with uploading a higher resolution image. If the shells were spread out and labelled with species, then maybe... but I don't have the shells any more. I think it's big enough for the use it's put to, and not worth putting it to more use ;) sorry -- sannse (talk) 10:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi again Sannse, Best wishes for the New Year. I very much value that image of yours. I find it very useful as an encyclopedia image, and I am a semi-professional in the field of malacology. Your image is already one of the lead images in the English Wikipedia article Seashell, which about 400 people a day look at. This image is particularly helpful as an illustration for the seashell article because all of the shells come from one locality, and therefore it illustrates the mollusc fauna of that one area. (It is not easy to find images of a good variety of shells all from one locality, especially in such an attractive composition.) I can easily identify most if not all of the shells, list them in the caption and give links to articles about the individual species. I personally think it makes a great illustration. Therefore I would ask you very sincerely if you still have a higher resolution image to consider giving it. But if you do not want to release it at higher resolution in case it is used for commercial purposes or whatever, I do understand. It certainly is a great image. Very best wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 15:41, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

You're invited!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday January 18th, Columbia University area Last: 11/01/2008

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, look at our approval by the Chapters Committee, develop ideas for chapter projects at museums and libraries throughout our region, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the November meeting's minutes and the December mini-meetup's minutes).

We'll make preparations for our exciting museum photography Wikipedia Loves Art! February bonanza (on Flickr, on Facebook) with Shelley from the Brooklyn Museum and Alex from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We'll also be collecting folks to join our little Wikipedia Takes the Subway adventure which will be held the day after the meeting.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 02:12, 12 January 2009 (UTC)