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2014

Happy New Year! wishing you all the very best in 2014 Seascapeza (talk) 09:38, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 05:06, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikilinking

Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:

• dates
• years
• commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
• common terms you’d look up in a dictionary (unless significantly technical).

Thanks and my best wishes.

Tony (talk) 11:14, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Invertzoo, I neglected to respond to your request. I don't know of an essay on linking. I did this page years ago (maybe I should go back and improve it). I'm starting to sound like a fanatic, though! I do have other wiki-interests. Tony (talk) 12:07, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Help re Stella Turk article

I have been working on a page for British conchologist Stella Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Turk Having received the following feedback I have sought to improve the article. And seek help via the talk page. I have already completed an edit on the citations and the article was never an orphan, perhaps I could get more pages linked to Stella's. I am also probably not qualified to properly defend Stella's notability. She is certainly held in very high regard in Cornwall. How can this be contested?

Was great you got in touch on my talk page so I copied across the above comment I have also made more generally. Craig.chamberlain11 (talk) 10:28, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting that so quickly. All the errors are now clear. Great work. Craig.chamberlain11 (talk) 14:53, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Glad to be able to help Craig! That's one good thing about having edited the encyclopedia for so many years: usually I can fix something pretty quickly. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 19:38, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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Eswar

Eswari is wSte and is not a fixed ...... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.62.71.251 (talk) 13:34, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your note 202.62.71.251. Unfortunately I do not know what you mean or which article you are talking about. If you can tell me, let me know. Invertzoo (talk) 16:18, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014

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Identification

Hi, there! We met back in NYC during one of Wikimedia's fundraising events. Anyhoo, I was wondering if you might help me identify the photo to the right. I thought it might be a Banana Slug (Ariolimax californicus) but it doesn't seem quite yellow enough. I found this little fellow very near the Pacific coast here in Northern California. Hope you're well, Steven Walling • talk 04:49, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Steven, I remember you of course. I am not at all expert on the West Coast non-marine fauna, but I would say this handsome beast is indeed a banana slug -- sometimes they are all tan, brown, or tan with darker spots; they don't have to be yellow. However there are actually three species of banana slug, all of them in the genus Ariolimax. Since you were in or near the redwood forest by the coast (?) this might possibly be Ariolimax columbianus [1] but I have to dash off to see someone this morning and will have to look up more info later today or tomorrow. Talk to you later, Invertzoo (talk) 14:29, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Again my guess is Ariolimax columbianus. Supposedly the position of the pneumostome (breathing pore) behind the mid-point of the mantle (the saddle-shaped area) helps to identify this species, but it may be the case that the three species can't be separated with certainty without dissection of the internal genitalia. How big was this critter? I believe that Ariolimax columbianus is the biggest of the three banana slug species. Invertzoo (talk) 13:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Identification keys for species, etc.

In dealing with taxa of 2 or more species, it can be convenient to provide an identification key to the next lower subdivision. I was digging around in the infobox section, and got nowhere. What I am after is a format, possibly collapsible, to provide clean appearance. Is there one I missed, or can we develop one? Neferkheperre (talk) 04:55, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello again Neferkheperre. I would suggest that you put a copy of this question onto the talk page of Wikipedia:Tree of Life and see what people say there. I think I personally have not so far seen an identification key in a Wikipedia taxon article (although there may be some somewhere that I have not come across.) In any case, a key would not fit into the taxobox, and so if one is included it would probably be as a section under a heading within the main text of the article (as we do in the gastropod project with cladograms). I am assuming you mean identification keys that you yourself would have devised? Not keys copied from published texts? The Tree of Life project editors can give you some input as to whether self-constructed keys (or attributed keys) are OK to include. Invertzoo (talk) 13:47, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Leptoxis carinata

Under "Synonyms" on the US page for "Leptoxis carinata", should "Nitrocris" be "Nitocris"? 204.47.193.147 (talk) 20:51, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Charles Stephan, USEPA, Duluth, MN

Yes you are absolutely right, and I fixed it just now. It was a typo that had been there since the article was started. Thank you for noticing it and taking the time to tell us about it. Invertzoo (talk) 21:05, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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