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If you have any questions, see the Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Wikipedia:village pump. User:Angela 22:41, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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My guess for "quantify ethical anm outcomes" in that context is "quantify ethical and moral outcomes". Does that seem right? I would fix it but I am seeing the "can't contact database server" message, and getting only a cache copy. User:EntmootsOfTrolls
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Re Asities/Asites, don't forget about the Move-page feature. This moves a page to a new title, and preserves the edit-history.
I've redirected for you, in any case :) User:Dysprosia 06:00, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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Hi, glad to see someone else taking an interest in the bird topics. I've reverted the Asites move for the following reasons:
* both plurals are more-or-less equally common
* The standard text is called ''Broadbills and Asites''
* The new page was an orphan, not linking to anything, including the old page, and would not have shown in eg passerine
Hope this is OK, User:Jimfbleak
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Hi, me again
The bird article taxonomy is based on ''Handbook of Birds of the World'' and, for southern species, ''Hanzab''. You will appreciate that we need to have a consistency for taxonomy, otherwise all sorts of different listings will occur.
Obviously you may not agree with the current taxonomic choices, but if not it needs to be discussed with User:Tannin, User:Big iron, User:Cordyph and other bird article writers. I hope this is OK.
::ignore above, I've just realised you were just correcting errors, my apologies and thanks.
User:Jimfbleak 06:25, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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When I read your Madam Hooch article, I did not know that this was about the Harry Potter stories until I followed a link. That is wrong, you should have begun by informing us of that. You cannot assume that people come to your article from another article about those stories (I, in particular, did not). Also, you wrote only a dictionary definition rather than a complete sentence, and did not highlight the name Madam Hooch. User:67.4.150.5 14:30, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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You can use the ~ (tilde) feature to sign your name to talk pages. If you type ~~~ (three tilde), it will translate to ''User:username'' when you save the page. If you type ~~~~ (four tilde), it will translate to ''User:username Date'' when you save the page. Cheers, User:Cyan 18:09, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
P.S. Don't include the '''' tabs; that's what went wrong on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. User:Cyan
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Wiwaxia - Martin Yan was born in Guangdong, China, so am fairly sure he is Chinese. User:Fuzheado 09:11, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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I'm curious about your claim about DiCaprio on the Lesbigay page. What is its source? User:Jtdirl 19:19, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
:I found out from personal connections with DiCaprio. User:Wiwaxia 19:24, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
:-) So is he gay or bi? Having had the experience in the last two years of being hit on by two rather big name actors visiting Ireland (one who refuses to talk about his sexuality and one who has the reputation of sleeping with half the women in Hollywood) I can well believe it. One producer told me once that if you list all the hyped up heterosexuals actors, famous for having sex with women, half are actually gay and use their womanising for cover. He said the trick to spotting the gay 'heterosexual' is to see whom he sleeps with. If they are all actresses, then they are gay. The 'story' is being used by either or both to hide their true sexuality and to promote themselves. Only if they are sleeping with people unconnected with the industry and so with no reason to ''pretend'' can you really believe they ''did'' actually have sex and it was not the manufactured story of a PR agent or an 'act' being played to script by two professional performers. User:Jtdirl 20:03, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
::Interesting. We could find out for a lot of people that way. He's actually gay. Well, it turns out Leonardo has no interest in girls ''at all''. Good thing we're keeping it on this page. If the world found out my little secret I'd get piles of 12-year-old girls hounding me for his email address and current whereabouts. Or, maybe, after reading the news, they wouldn't. Kind of like the way they reacted after burning for Ricky Martin for months and months.
:::All fascinating stuff! However I just dropped by to say thanks for all the interest you've taken in Sperm Whale. The article is much better for it. User:Pcb21 12:32, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Hi there, Wiwaxia. I'm curious why you reverted my change of Decagon so as to include the gratuituous reference to Horace Donisthorpe by User:80.225.79.69? Now the main thing you find if you go to Decagon is a strange digression: decagon => the shape of pedicels => ants have pedicels => pedicels can differentiate certain ant species => according to British Ants..." => written by Horace Donisthorpe who was an expert on ants... Thanks, User:Bcorr 00:19, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
:I was editing for some spelling and linking corrections, when I got to an edit conflict, and I decided that just a blank space was less helpful than more information in place of that blank space, which would have rendered all my editing irrelevant anyway, so I just hit the "Send" button instead of fixing an edit conflict where we wouldn't lose anything. But shouldn't a Decagon article talk about decagonality -- all the ways decagonality is useful, just as occurring in nature in the pedicel of a certain ant? Can we find other important examples of decagonal things? User:Wiwaxia 00:31, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
::Thanks for the explanation, Wiwaxia. My sense is that Decagon should just go live in the Wikipedia and let it be a simple definition of a decagon -- unless someone out there has something encyclopedia to say about a simple ten-sided polygon. Thanks again, User:Bcorr 01:10, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
== Holy Zounds Batman! ==
I'm curious, where do you get the notion that "zounds" isn't obscure. I know you can't have gotten such an interpretation from the OED, since I just consulted it to verify my original characterization. -- User:Cimon avaro 01:44, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
:I've heard and seen it way too often to be obscure . . . the word even popped up in a cartoon in a "TV Smart" book my mother bought us kids back when I was nine. Hey, does anyone remember the TV Smart book? That would be a good thing to have a Wikipedia article on. In fact, when I first saw the title at VfD, I thought it was an article on the interjection rather than on some band . . . just like the article we got on bloody. User:Wiwaxia 02:07, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Why did you erase Daniel Quinlan's comments on VfD [http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion&diff=0&oldid=1487405]? I know it was a non sequitur, but it's bad form to just erase it. -- User:Cyan 04:45, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
:I originally cut it out when I was looking for a proper place to reinsert it. I hope no one would want extra votes to count in favor of deleting the nickname article when they were listed at different article headings completely? Does [http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion&oldid=1489701 this] look better to you? User:Wiwaxia 16:48, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
::Much, thanks. It might be a better procedure to simply inform the author of the comments that they don't appear to be in the right place. That way, there's less chance that some pushy person such as myself will come and harrass you. ;-) Cheers, User:Cyan 22:12, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
:I wondered that too. I have reinserted it. User:Angela 15:50, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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I think I've unblocked the IP number in question, but it's the first time I've tried doing this since there were a couple of tweaks to the system, so let me know if you get any problems again. --User:Camembert
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What's the problem? You get accidentally caught by a block on Michael? User:Evercat 12:51, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
:Oh, this was the third time. My server through AOL seems to waver in its IP number all the time. And occasionally it will waver onto the "wrong" number, and -- zap!! -- Michael! Michael hasn't vandalized recently, has he? Can't you unblock all the anonymous number addresses (as opposed to Michael screennames like "Eddie") in order to stop this from happening? Who knows what valuable, long addition the Wikipedia might lose someday because someone was logged into the wrong IP number at the wrong time? (See the Village Pump for my original complaint). User:Wiwaxia 21:20, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Hello,
regarding your capitalisation of ''bombyliid'' - this is not necessary. The word is not a taxon, simply an adjective derrived from a taxonomic name. So although Bombyliidae must be capitalised, bombyliid (or phorid, pimelodid, vampyromorphid, or whatever it may be) does not. Not terribly important, but I thought I should mention it. User:80.255 06:54, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
:Are you talking about the change [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Anthrax_(fly)&diff=0&oldid=1621348 from this to this]? I thought that was what I did. So how did I get it wrong? User:Wiwaxia 07:19, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
::Sorry - perhaps it was! Must be up too late and not thinking straight - you're absolutely right. Ignore the above! User:80.255 07:22, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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You were absolutely correct about List of Caucasian people needing to have a capitol C. I don't know who moved it to the lowercase version. -User:Nydigovoth
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I moved your comment out of the User talk:Angela/Archive3 and onto my User talk:Angelaas I prefer to keep things in a chronological order. I have also replied to you there. User:Angela 17:16, Oct 30, 2003 (UTC)
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Wiwaxia, Ark30inf has left. See Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. User:Angela 22:40, Oct 31, 2003 (UTC)
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Wiwaxia, Hi, thanks for copyeditting the Spectacled Porpoise and Chilean Dolphin articles. They sore needed it and as you are no doubt aware (!) and I was just too slovenly to get round to doing it myself - prefering to hack on with lots of other cetacean species articles... (see Related Changes for cetacea if you can bare to sort out any more of my grammar!!) User:Pcb21User_talk:Pcb21 14:32, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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Several days ago you joined the discussion of whether ''Brunswick'' or ''Braunschweig'' should be the home of the article on the German city. After a brief discussion, the question was moved from the Votes for deletion page to Talk:Brunswick. Quite a bit of fact-finding has occurred since then, but the decision appears to have reached an impasse. Could I ask you to take a few minutes to review the facts presented on Talk:Brunswick and share your current thoughts? Thanks. User:Rossami 22:26, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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If Chupacabra were to be listed, I'd vote for deletion, yes. User:Bmills 14:33, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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: Wow, that's a long name for someone with only one (very small) edit!
: Size matters not, to a Jedi. ;) User:Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair! 09:28, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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Regarding your changes to Willie Brown. Please look at the record: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Willie_Brown&diff=2897441&oldid=2897434 . The first line of your addition was a bit of nonsense, followed by a series of carriage returns. I assume none of this was intentional now, but at the time, it looked like vandalism. Please know that the spelling of "succeeded" was corrected and his birthdate re-added. Sorry for the misunderstanding. User:Moncrief 21:35, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)
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'One is the loniest number' is familiar, now that you mention it.. but I have never heard of Three Dog Night myself. Actually I'm sure I have heard of more 'One'ses, apart from Metallica and U2 (band)... but I cant think of any! --User:Chuq 00:42, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:Re: Dionne Warwick's death being greatly exaggerated. Yeah, she's alive... I was probably drunk when I wrote that... User:TUF-KAT 17:55, Apr 25, 2004 (UTC)
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The page on Ugli fruit that you started appears to have been rewritten as a POV advertisement, incidentally removing the actual description of the fruit. Just a heads up. User:162.40.183.110 12:18, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
==Malicious Deletion Attempt==
Hello. Sorry for the imposition, but I thought you might be interested to note that an article you supported in the past on vfd has been listed again under malicious circumstances - the 3rd such attempt in 7 months. Please feel free to review the discussion and cast your vote as you feel appropriate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Atlantium --User:Gene Poole 10:31, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
==Nomination for article un-deletion==
Hello. I noted your recent support for the Empire of Atlantium article on VfD:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Atlantium The most recent VfD resulted in 19 people (40%) voting to retain vs 29 (60%) voting to delete. Despite the fact that the count was fully 9 votes short of achieving a 2/3 consensus, the article was deleted by a sysop. Because this appears to contravene VfD policy I have listed the article for un-deletion, which you might care to review and support, if you feel it is a valid listing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion --User:Gene Poole 23:37, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
== List_of_songs_that_use_the_same_rhyme_throughout ==
The Hugh Laurie song "Mystery" rhymes on "ee" throughout. Well, alomst. Now I think about it a bit more, he does go through five verses rhyming entirely on "ee", but then he spoils it by rhyming "strong for you", "long for you" and "song for you" in the coda. So I suppose it doesn't actually qualify after all. -- User:Bonalaw 09:26, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
== Nahuatl ==
Hoi,
On wiktionary, there is an entry for Nahuatl. When I look at the dictionary that you placed on wikipedia, the spelling for the Nahuatlian name for itself is wrong. Could you please have a look and when it is wrong, change it.
PS It is really easy to start a wiktionary in Nahuatl. It starts with nah.wiktionary.org and, if you are the first one, it will be ther in roundabout an hour. Then the work starts :) User:GerardM 13:54, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
== Ceqli ==
Hi, I got your message. However, I'm not sure I'm able to help you; after reading through a couple of pages of debate, it seems that VfU is mostly for deleting "wrongfully deleted" articles - that is, which were not deleted for proper reasons. If people claim that votes to delete it had a consensus in favour (putting aside, for the moment, how informed those votes were), then I'm not sure that listing it on VfU will help much.
It may be better to have someone re-create the article. -- User:Pne 05:37, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
:If someone recreates the article, it will be speedy deleted, within policy, as being a recreation of a successfuly VfDd article. And, to answer your question, I voted to keep deleted because it wasn't notable. That is all. User:Ambi 09:09, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
::Well, I voted. Now to see whether it'll help. *shrugs* I hate politics. -- User:Pne 07:11, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for messaging me. I've put in my vote to undelete, and I'll also mention it elsewhere, but there does seem to be a few people who for some reason harbor a grudge and don't want it on. -- User:BRG 13:27, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
== Article Licensing ==
Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
*User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
*Wikipedia:Multi-licensing
*User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "" template into their user page, but there are other options at Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
:Option 1
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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:Option 2
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "" with "". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my User talk:Ram-Man. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- User:Ram-Man ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]| User talk:Ram-Man
== the issue of school articles ==
In November 2003, you participated in a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). The issue over this article remains contested. moreover, there still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. The article in question has been re-nominated for VfD at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland). My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. User:Kingturtle 02:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
P.S. The history of the debate can also be reviewed and discussed at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Precedents#Are_high_schools_encyclopedic.3F_-_Yes Are high schools encyclopedic?].
Wiwaxia
Wiwaxia is an extinct organism. Find more info for this page.
Wiwaxia
Wiwaxia is an extinct species known mainly from fossils found in Canada's Burgess Shale deposits. Although Wiwaxia is similar to a mollusk, it does not really fit this group because of its sclerites (armor). It is still controversial to what group Wiwaxia really belongs.
In 1899, Wiwaxia was first described on the basis of a single spine discovered in a Middle Cambrian bed on Mount Stephen, which lies across the valley from the Burgess Shale site. Later, after Walcott's discovery of the Burgess Shale site, complete specimens became available.
Wiwaxia has long spines that project in two rows along the back. These evidently provided some protection from predators. The rest of the upper (dorsal) surface is covered with small, flat, overlapping hard plates, termed sclerites. Each of these little scales was attached with a root-like base and it is assumed Wiwaxia grew by molting these plates from time to time. Since there are none on the bottom (ventral) surface, the animal partly resembles the slug, a member of the mollusk family. However, mollusks do not have any sclerite armor, so the animal's affinity to present day species is unsettled. It did have an anterior jaw with two rows of teeth on the ventral surface, suggesting it was another bottom feeder. Fossil sizes range from 1/8 to 2 inches.
Wiwaxia has recently been proposed as an annelid or at least a close relative of one. The first breakthrough in establishing Wiwaxia's affinities came from a postgraduate paleontologist at Harvard who was inspired by Stephen Jay Gould's lectures a decade or so ago. This young researcher, Nick Butterfield, managed to extract pieces of the scalelike armour from the fossilized animal. When Butterfield studied their microstructure, he noticed immediately that it was the same as that of the chitinous bristles (chaetae) that project from the bodies of such modern annelids as earthworms. His conclusion, published in 1990, was that Wiwaxia was not a mollusk at all but an annelid.
Fossils