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Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

You are invited to join us at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for our upcoming editathon, a part of the Black WikiHistory Month campaign (which also includes events in Brooklyn and Westchester!). Saturday February 7 Black Life Matters Editathon (RSVP). 12:00pm - 5:00 pm at NYPL Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue), by W 135th St The Wikipedia training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a reception following in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building at 5:00pm. We hope to see you there!--Pharos (talk) 06:03, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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Messages from Bernard

Could you take a look at Goniaeolis typica? I'm being criticised for not citing consistently. I'm not using cite templates but I don't like external links. The person criticising is an historian, not a zoologist. I see part of the point now, though and will link only title to external source, not whole reference. BernardP (talk) 08:33, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Also Cuthona distans. A when has been added. Clearly the user does not understand the meaning of original description, as I have linked to that. BernardP (talk) 08:48, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

I read your messages on my talk page Bernard. Actually it would be good to add a heading above your message the next time you leave a message on a talk page, so it stands out better as a separate topic. I am not exactly superb at organizing an inline reference myself, but seeing as how you are still quite new to Wikipedia, it would have been nice if User:Manxruler had left you a note explaining exactly how he thought you should to do it... But in any case, looking at the references in the article on Cuthona distans, I don't think you should ever make the whole thing into a link as you did with the first ref. You need to list the book and then say "online at" and give the URL. If you put the URL between one square bracket at each end it will be invisible but it will provide a link to the page. The way that the WoRMS listing came out is much better. Anyway, as you will see, I kind of fixed those two up a bit myself and removed the citation style tag. Invertzoo (talk) 00:29, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

I tried to fix the ones in the other article too. May not be perfect but better than they were. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 00:38, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Actually I checked in a few other places and the neatest way to do it seems to be to link just the title to the external source. That way it leaves the journal name free for linking and the author as well. I'll have a lot to fix! Started with Cuthona abronia, Cuthona acinosa, etc.. I also discovered recently that it is possible to jump right into a page inside an article in Biodiversity Heritage Library. This is great as many of the works with original descriptions are several hundred pages long, so a link just to the publication is rather frustrating. Could you check the Friele link in Cuthona berghi to see if this works OK from where you are? BernardP (talk) 09:52, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. The Cuthona berghi reference works fine from my end. But before you go through your other articles changing the reference style to this new version, I would drop a message onto the talkpage of User:Manxruler and see what he has to say about the reworked ones. Invertzoo (talk) 13:54, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Patellogastropoda

Hi Susan. I've just added the following paragraph to the description in Patellogastropoda. I think you could use this for a DYK.

"The teeth in the radula of limpets are about the strongest biological material known, about five times stronger than spider silk. Limpets are capable, when the tide moves out, of carving with their radula holes, called "home scars" in tidal rocks. They adhere to the substratum so strongly that they are unlikely to be dislodged.The teeth are composed of goethite, an iron-based mineral, woven in a particular way into grouped 1μ thick bundles." JoJan (talk) 17:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

You are right JoJan that this is a fascinating fact and well referenced. But a DYK article has to be either brand new, or an article that was just expanded to 5 times its previous length. Since Patellogastropoda is long established and already of considerable length, it's not really a contender for a DYK. Invertzoo (talk) 01:49, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

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