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I concur with your recent edit comment and I had half a mind to delete the Crab entry - I don't include Crabs as fish but I understand that some do. I have also found no good source for a number and to cap it all it is an Asian alien species which wouldn't be expected to survive cold winters. Evolution taking its natural toll I suspect. I might remove the entry entirely when I'm feeling particularly ratty. Regards Velella Velella Talk 22:10, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
My edits are intentionally and overwhelmingly within MoS guidelines - please, no self-agrandisement! If any of my edits are incorrect: please correct them. My talk page is just as accessible as yours -
Hey! I could use some help in learning to be a better editor - would you be willing to e-mail me?
My experience of red tides is very limited (as well as almost everything else marine) but we do have occasional and spectacular red-tides caused by Noctiluca scintilans a protozoan. The few occasions we have experienced them, there have been associated invertebrate mortalities, presumably from oxygen depletion in near shore waters. If there were fish they would have been difficult to see and would probably have been scavenged by the gulls. I was wondering whether there is an assumption amongst non-scientists that all red-tides are algae or is there good evidence for the identification of algal species in every case? Velella Velella Talk 23:10, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Epilpelagic, I've reviewed your nomination of cyanotoxin but have a query. Could you take a look at T:TDYK#Cyanotoxin? Thanks SmartSE (talk) 11:18, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 28 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cyanotoxin, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that cyanotoxins (pictured) are produced by bacteria which float on lakes and oceans as a green scum (pictured) and can kill animals by causing respiratory failure? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:02, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
I note that you blanked ((Aquaculture topics)) yet it is still used an a couple of articles. Is there a replacement for it? -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello Epipelagic, I have expanded cold seep article. Feel free to tweak it if you like and I hope you can lead it to "good article". --Snek01 (talk) 23:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Spawn (biology) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû (blah?) 11:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
The addition you made to Fish farming was seriously misleading. Your citation, aside from being very dated and unreliable, did not apply in any way to current or historic fish farming practices, whereas the context you placed it in made it appear that it did. Please consider this a warning, and desist contributing to Wikipedia if you intend to continue adding misleading information. --Epipelagic (talk) 20:19, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
Please elaborate, Epipelagic. --THC Loadee 15:56, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
How about a response instead of idle threats? I don't mind opposing viewpoints, however, dogmatic enforcement of so-called valid sources is a bit tedious. Let's talk --THC LoadeeTHC Loadee (talk) 18:01, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 12 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Spawn (biology), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that fish ladders are constructed so that salmon can navigate past hydroelectric dams on their way to spawn? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic, Forgive me if I have contacted you in the wrong way, I am new to Wikipedia and I am learning to understand how things work. In response to your question with regard to citing of sources, yes I can with regard to what I write. The material orginates from myself. I am the Chief Engineer of HDML 1387, and as such I am trying to provide first hand information regarding the operation of the vessel type's machinery space. This is not formally covered in any publication that I am aware of, and I have been running the vessel's machinery for over six years, ecompassing the rebuilding of her machinery and systems. Also, I note with a little concern that the power of the engines (Gardner 8L3s) is miss quoted. I can assure you that 152hp is the correct figure, I beleive the 204 hp figure is for the rail traction engine and/or the later 8L3B version. Neither of which were fitted to HDMLs. I have performed a hull speed analysis of the vessel using profesional Naval Architecture software, which provides accurate speed prediction, using the Holtrop model series, and the 152 hp (after adjustment factors) is the correct figure for the vessels top speed of 12.5 knots. I also know that the vessel will acheive this, because I have recently operated the machinery space during trials on HDML 1387 at emergency full ahead, and this was the speed recorded through the water. Further, if the Gardner manual for these engines is consulted (I have a copy, then it will be seen that I speak the truth. My intention is to provide a genuine and unique insight for people with regard to this aspect of HDMLs. I beleive I may claim to be some thing of an authority on this aspect of HDMLs because I am the only person in the world, that I know of, that operates a HDML engine room that is still in it's original form, or indeeed even operational. My intention is to provide photographs and more detail as time permits, but, I may reconsider enriching this page if the modifications that I make are tampered with or repeatedly undone. Of course I don't mind people adjusting my writing to reflect the correct style and format, infact I am grateful for this help. I will also request that all that I have written so far, and my name be removed if people refuse to accept the content of what I write. All information that I will forward will be sourced from my own experience first hand of this type of vessel, in the same way that my good friend Mike Boyce wrote 'Medusa'.
My appologies if the tone of this is a little stern, but I am trying to add value to the page, not vandalise it. If my additions are unwelcome then please indicate this and remove my name, and all that I have written from the page permenantly. That is all the material regarding the engine room operation, because I wrote all of it.
I would prefer to continue to add information, and provide some fantastic photos too. But this is going to depend upon whether I can write without fear of having my text altered by people who may not know the facts for sure. Please let me know your thoughts on all of this.
Kind regards,
John Weller — Preceding unsigned comment added by John A Weller (talk • contribs) 20:07, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
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I was tempted to block you for butting in on a conversation between admins... but instead I thought I'd give you this barnstar instead because
this made me laugh as I love a good bit of sarcasm. It's good to see that it's not only Brits who can use it! SmartSE (talk) 13:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks for your edits and safguarding of the page. I have since checked the G Welbourne name on the previous skippers section and seen that it is indeed spelt Welbourn; a typo on my part when originally writing the article. I'll correct this - Daft I'd have made a mistake with him as I see he sailed with my late Grandfather! Hope you're well, Regards, D Ornsby Dornsby (talk) 23:54, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
I have a reason (tangential) for wanting to learn about the fishes of the Guzman basin. Can you help? Also what's an administrator? Is that like...a moderator, on this...eh...forum? TCO (talk) 02:35, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
1. Wow. Very cool response. Thanks for typing so much (serious). I was going to ask Newyorkbrad "who the fuck are you? I never see you in FA or even in dasharguments at MOStalk or just editing around anywhere, but everyone acts like you are some Prince Charming." Maybe I will wait, for now.
2. On the Guzman, I am (no kidding) in touch with a 100 yo scientist, the most famous living American herpetologist (perhaps most famous ever) and have somehow hatched a science idea that is a worthy addition wrt a species that has over 2000 papers. In fact, the most published turtle species ever. The fish thing is the tangential connection. All of this coming from jerking around on teh Wiki.
3. You are really smart and funny. I like you!TCO (talk) 06:50, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
--Epipelagic (talk) 07:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
We need to generate a lot of turtle GA/FA content by 01APR. Do you think you could write up a GA on some turtle subject? Please? How about turtle fishing? Or Green sea turtleTCO (talk) 07:36, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Enough fishing related?TCO (talk) 05:35, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
How about a review for state reptile over at FLC? (It's a light easy article...the only tension is trying to explain stuff for the nonUSAians without bogging things down for the USAians, I'm hoping that I managaged it.) In exchange, I promise not to tease the moderators for at least 24 hours. TCO (talk) 20:23, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Lernaeocera branchialis at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 05:43, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Your inputs would be appreciated on this:
User:Staticd/Physoclists & User:Staticd/Physostomes
Currently I have set the pages Physostome & Physoclisti to redirect to Swim_bladder#Structure_and_function. Do they deserve a separate page?
Pro: linking / searching for these term should bring some thing immedeately relevant (there were a few dangling links to it). May be of taxonomic importance?
Con: Articles likely to remain stubs for a long time.
CC to User:Mokele.
thanks for your time. Staticd (talk) 12:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
Is there any policy that backs up your edit which I and others perceive to be a disruptive edit? Warnings to readers are most important now than ever as it gets the most attention now. Passionless -Talk 22:10, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 10 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lernaeocera branchialis, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a young Lernaeocera branchialis is an ectoparasitic crustacean on the gills of a flounder or lumpsucker, and it moves on to cod or related fishes after it has matured and mated (infested gills of a whiting pictured)? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic, thank you for what you've done today. It was brave of you, and it was nice of you because I know you do not like the article. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:57, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
dick with it...and fix it...and support it. Was some work to research it.TCO (talk) 00:43, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
I really appreciate it, and your comments. My involved with Wikipedia is minimal now, though I do some anonymous edits still. I just found the dickwickery (great word!) just too much.
Cheers, Neale
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![]() | On 21 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fish processing, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that there is evidence that humans have been processing fish since the early Holocene? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Biopreservation, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that biopreservation is a benign ecological approach to food preservation which is gaining increasing attention? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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![]() | On 30 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hurdle technology, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that hurdle technology is a technique where pathogens in a food product are subjected to "hurdles" designed to inhibit or kill them? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:04, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your thoughtful comments on Talk:Sustainability regarding File:Nested sustainability-v2.gif ... see Talk:Individual and political action on climate change and wp:tea
See wp:tea. 166.137.141.189 (talk) 22:48, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Epipelagic, excuse me if I am violating some wikipedia rule by posting on your talk page.
OK, fair enough, I will create an account- after my JetBlue flight! ; ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.25.27.130 (talk) 12:34, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey Epipelagic, please consider nominating this for GA review. It is a fine piece of work--thanks for writing it. Drmies (talk) 00:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 8 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bait ball, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that some whales "lunge feed" on bait balls (pictured), an extreme method of feeding which has been called the largest biomechanical event on Earth? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
User:Brian has done some of the initial legwork to get this set up. There is a website at http://nz.wikimedia.org/ but it hasn't been maintained for a long time. There's a still older page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_Zealand and there's a mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedianz-l which was last used in 2008. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/nz/5/5c/Wmnzproposal.pdf might also be of interest.-gadfium 03:31, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
To be quite frank, your negative comments around the board about admins and/or adminship are in bad faith and there's a limit to how far our Wikipedia 'AGF' mantra carries towards such postings. Continue editing where you will, but if you have nothing pleasant to say, at least please stay away from projects you are not interested in contributing to in a constructive manner. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:06, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Upbundling and unbundling are both potential solutions to RFA, but both ideas have flaws that need resolving before they are likely to get consensus. They certainly aren't the only potential solutions to RFA, but if you have ideas as to how we can resolve those flaws I'd be very keen to discuss them with you on the talkpage of User:WereSpielChequers/RFA reform. As for admin bullying, have you made a complaint and if necessary escalated it to Arbcom? ϢereSpielChequers 11:23, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 20 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Self-propelled particles, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the concept of self-propelled particles can explain why flocking birds (pictured) suddenly change direction for no apparent reason, or abruptly switch from a flying state to a landing state? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
First off ... your "push to talk" above is either inspired or theft :) Second ... can I help with copyediting any of your articles that are headed into GAN or A-class review? I see you're not feeling well, and I'd like to do something. - Dank (push to talk) 03:03, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello! The source for my graph was NOAA's ETOPO2 database: [2]. There is now a more detailed ETOPO1 available, but the graph would not noticeably change as a result. Let me know if you have any other questions! Citynoise (talk) 03:20, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Ah, sorry about that! As I've said over on the talk page it wasn't done deliberately, more as a way of trying to rationalise a bunch of Lowestoft related articles created by less constructive editors over the years. I'd be happy to work with you, or others, on developing something for HMS Europa/Sparrow's Nest. I hope I've managed to retain something about the place in the Lowestoft article as it stands. Blue Square Thing (talk) 13:10, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 28 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Walraversijde, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Walraversijde, the site of a reconstructed medieval fishing village, is the most studied archaeological site of its type in Europe? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
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Wow! Great work on so many new fishes, fishing and related biology articles... You have put 50 newly created and expanded articles in front of the public via the "Did you know" section of the Main page. Congratulations! Binksternet (talk) 04:08, 28 April 2011 (UTC) |
![]() | On 28 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Marine habitats, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the umbrella mouth gulper (pictured) lives in deep sea marine habitats where it swallows fish much larger than itself? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
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I appreciated your comment at Less Heard's talk page last week. Since you seemed to have an opinion on the matter, I thought you might want to know about this RfA, Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/SarekOfVulcan 2. Lvklock (talk) 20:18, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
--Snek01 (talk) 19:54, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I'm not quite clear why you feel that Sarek of Vulcan's admin style is bad for content editors. Can you point me to something specific? Kenatipo speak! 17:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
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Another article contributed, thanks Victuallers (talk) 18:02, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
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If of continued interest, User:Arthur Rubin (Arthur Rubin) continues to hide other's Talk, this time on User Talk:Zodon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Zodon&diff=429845197&oldid=429841834 ) ... on March 30th 2011 it was User talk:Granitethighs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Granitethighs&diff=prev&oldid=421531277 ) and User talk:OhanaUnited ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:OhanaUnited&diff=421531280&oldid=421528249 ). These are related to Sustainability (and associated topics). 99.181.147.187 (talk) 08:54, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic. As I don't know where to reply to you, I'll just reply here to your comment on undoing my changes to the swarm intelligence article. Please note that obvious content doesn't need citations. Note there are no citations for the other systems listed as exhibiting swarm intelligence. Read the definition of swarm intelligence and you'll see the brain obviously satisfies it. Please tell me if there is something I'm missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serketan (talk • contribs) 02:06, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your nice reply and for explaining to me why the other examples are cited.
I still think brains are obviously an example of swarm intelligence, but I can understand it's not obvious to anybody.
Here are some of my reasons: It is true there are different parts to the brain and some parts have some "centralized control". However, even these emerge from local behavior. Moreover, within a part of the brain, (which still typically contains many more agents than the other examples listed) there is no such centralized control or design. The behavior is clearly collective, and neurons self-organize, for example via Hebbian learning. Each neuron is a simple agent, which interacts only locally with 1000 to 10000 of its neighbors (compared to the 100000000000 neurons in the whole brain, that's very local indeed). The rules according to which they behave are quite simple too. There is certainly a lot of randomness in their behavior. And any individual neuron is not aware of the global intelligent behavior of the brain.
We know for sure that only a tiny fraction of the brain network is specified in advance, as the genome can only contain that many bits of information (See Geoffrey Hinton's work for more insights). So the rest self organizes during learning and brain development, which happens through local interactions.
Finally, see:
Johnson, Steven (2001). Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. New York: Scribner
http://www.kinephoria.com/assets/swarm-intelligence.pdf
or just do your own (Google) search on brains and swarm intelligence — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serketan (talk • contribs) 13:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks again for your thorough response and for being patient with me! I didn't know swarm intelligence is about moving agents (is it mentioned in the article?). It is true that neurons don't move too much once they have found their place in the network, even though they can migrate before that. What do you think about embryo-genesis, is that an example of swarm intelligence?
Serketan (talk) 02:55, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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[3] TCO (talk) 21:11, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
hi, My contributions for edit regarding Malaprabha river were deleted by you.! I would like to get published the notification to regarding what is required exactly as reference material to my stands.Your posts regarding yellama deity is completely a false.Neither is it a deity concern in the region and neither is the temple of the deity existing in the source region of Malaprabha in the village of Kankumbi.Only Kankumbi is followed as a pilgrimage center, and the temple concern in the region is of the Deity, Mauli Devi.The temple is of Mauli Devasthan(Cooperation Society), and the administration of temple is taken care by the Kankumbi Mauli Devi Trust Committee.The region was a completely inaccessible region in past and even today the issues regarding access remains a question mark,with only one bus of the Karnataka State Government transport plying to the temple of Mauli Devi per day.Survey regarding any form ,either Archaeological or soil always remained unsolved as a matter of inaccessibility. Only matter that can be produced at present form is the photos.The people of the village remained uneducated for lack of schools.present day education stands only clearances until standard tenth.No Higher secondary education, no libraries, no even connectivity of Landlines and Broadbands.Social problems always remained a question. Density and other factors of the region is laid by the Panchayats organised by the government.In past social problems of crimes and disputes were solved by the Panch Mandala of the Temples of the villages around neighboring regions including Chigule, Chorla, Parwad, Chikale all included in the legal forums of Karnataka at present; Surla, Sada, included in Goa and Kolik, Talewade, Mangeli, included in Maharashtra.These Panch Mandala are hereditary followers of the families who looked after the security issues of temples in prehistoric times.These regions are still compensated for losses of agricultural outputs due to environmental hazards and instability as the main occupation of the people here is agriculture. All these issues are related to Malaprabha and the Ecosystem, and hence as a responsible educated resident if the region, i felt the need to discuss it on this forum of Wikipedia as its the only way we as this residents of this system can raise through to reach to the ears on the Union of World Trade Organisation for compensating to the environment losses. I would be great full to you if our voices reach the concerned media.Support in the form of photos and Google uploads can always be directed by me.This is the only way we can discuss this issue.White papers are out of our reach to produce to you. Isotropic and anisotropic pore properties are not the factors which can be proved to you as of the lack of technical surveys, as it is also a rare event observed after 12 to 15 years due to orientation properties.I would appreciate it from your part if you could technically challenge the beliefs of the myth of such a thousand followers of the deity. Any more contributions from my side in my limit of reach would always be produced to you in the form of links.I am a new user to Wikipedia, and hence i would be happy if you could direct me with the process of system. Hoping you could contribute to the goodwill. No personal gains from my side but a hope of preserve of our ancestors contributions.Appreciation is calculated for the value.--14:14, 19 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepeshchowgule (talk • contribs)--DeepeshChowgule 14:36, 19 June 2011 (UTC) 14:01, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Epipelagic for your attention to Planetary boundaries. 99.190.81.244 (talk) 04:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey Epipelagic, I checked the article with WP:DYKCHECK and unfortunately it isn't long enough (missing 7000 characters). I've left a note at T:TDYK about it. Good work though with the expansion. SmartSE (talk) 13:50, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Please let me know if the landing page is not appropriate with the external link.. this site is dealing with fishing trips and fishing guides. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.236.121 (talk) 11:10, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Got It :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.236.18 (talk) 04:08, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I know this is getting silly, but in what sense is 'phosphorous' an adjective in the phrase 'phosphorous supply'? The supply was phosphorous? What does that even mean? The supply was of phosphorus - now that makes sense. Ewen (talk) 16:53, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
While I completely agree with your sentiments, your message on Arthur Rubin's talk page could be construed as a personal attack. I would recommend removing it. The fact that some people will see white and describe it as black, and others will call black white, is to be expected. Viriditas (talk) 10:09, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
No Planetary boundaries offense intending on my part. You have done great work there, thank you. Clarification needed on your Talk:Planetary boundaries comment, please. 99.181.130.125 (talk) 10:49, 6 July 2011 (UTC) Please be aware, I might get knocked-offline ... DDOS (?) 99.181.130.125 (talk) 10:50, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi
I think the gravity wave picture is inappropriate, as it is a complex wave with rotating water masses, not a simple gravity wave. I don't think it's appropriate for illustrating gravity wave principles. Please can you explain why you reverted my edit?
Thanks Andrewjlockley (talk) 23:01, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Do you still believe Template:Environmental law be deleted? Do you suggest a replacement? 99.181.155.142 (talk) 04:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks from me and the Wiki Victuallers (talk) 00:06, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your note to 174.118.72.222. Actually I simply forgot I was not logged in and made a one-word correction (I think that's the one you wrote about --- you're welcome). This is me otherwise. Still not used to the messaging system, hope I'm replying to the right place. Antillarum (talk) 00:42, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your contribution to Ban Ki-moon, regarding Climate change/Global warming. (",) 99.181.145.99 (talk) 19:02, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
this didn't look like a vandalism revert to me.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 18:59, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello Epipelagic, I made a comment to Rainer Froese DYK hook nomination. Best Regards, --Snek01 (talk) 14:49, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
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PanydThe muffin is not subtle 21:10, 25 July 2011 (UTC) 05:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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![]() | On 29 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences is breeding Chinese sturgeon in captivity to restore river populations before the species disappears? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
EncycloPetey (talk) 15:13, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
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PanydThe muffin is not subtle 16:35, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic, I reviewed your nomination for LarvalBase and there are a few issues. Could you read my comments and reply / address them at the nom? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:38, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
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PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:02, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 8 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences operates JAGO (pictured), the only manned research submersible in Germany? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 08:02, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Yes Epipelagic, looks good basic info at this scale. I have added it as a link in the text referring to "scale" along with a link to the book "Limits to growth" which develops similar arguments on a planetary scale. Let me know if you think it should be dealt with in a different way.Granitethighs 12:07, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Safe operating space. Since you had some involvement with the Safe operating space redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). — Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:00, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comments and I've already talked to Arthur. There is a way to stop their behavior and that's to create an easy, low maintenence method of either:
Assuming the kid's goal is to have the info be online for all to see (as opposed to just getting some sort of rewards for momentarily having a link up), then if the community takes that carrot away, the kid's behavior will stop. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 08:34, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic, I have reviewed your nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Tom Skinner 2 and there is an issue with the referencing. Could you please see my comments and reply there after addressing them? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:34, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
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Materialscientist (talk) 20:05, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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I though we already went through this some time ago when I was Googlesalot on the Admin board [[6]] I know it might have been weird having another account and editing when I did. I just lost my password from my other account. However I did create this account about a week ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Googlesalot2 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Also, ignoring your opinion on my status or whatever, do you really think the edits were that bad? Or was it that you thought I was a Sock/Meat puppet?Googlesalot2 (talk) 23:58, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Dear Epipelagic
Thanks for the welcome, I did have a look through the links you provided before posting my update to the Fish Hatcheries article. If there are any specific recommendations you could make to improve my style/formatting/areas that could do with some expansion I'm happy to make those changes. I have a fair bit more research in my notes however I was told to avoid getting into too much detail - if I have erred on the side of over-simplicity please let me know.
Cheers R.moyle (talk) 23:04, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
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You have been mentioned in a report at WP:SPI. You may wish to have a look and comment there.[7] LK (talk) 04:18, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Epipe, I've reviewed your nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Raceway (aquaculture) and I have an issue with paraphrasing and the interest factor of the hook. Could you see my comments at the nomination page and reply there? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:12, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't want to get into an edit war by any means, but your arguments for removing links from reference sections are to my mind unsound. WP:OVERLINK applies (only) to the prose of the article, and not to the reference sections; the idea that the links are distracting simply doesn't apply, because people read the references section only to find details of the citations, so it wouldn't matter if every character were part of a link. There are considerable benefits to including the links – mostly to editors, admittedly – and no practical disadvantage at all. The only valid argument you have tendered is aesthetic, and as such is entirely subjective. As an editor, it is much easier to see whether a journal article would be worth putting effort into (a vague proxy of notability, if you will) by examining the number of incoming links. That, naturally, only works if those links are generally present. It also makes typos in journal titles easier to spot if links are generally included: someone might see a red link, but know that an article on that journal exists, and thus realise that it is mis-spelt in the link (I've had this with titles using "&" and "and", for instance). I'm sure there are other advantages, too, which I can't think of at the moment. --Stemonitis (talk) 18:21, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Re-reading your edit summary, you even doubt the usefulness of blue links to journals. That is very short-sighted. I often check articles on the journals to find out information. You can often judge an reference by the journal it appears in, and in fields I don't know well, finding out that a journal has a high impact factor is likely to inspire trust in the source, whereas finding out that the journal is not peer-reviewed, for instance, would decrease it. I don't think you can reasonably argue for those links to be removed! It doesn't matter if the functionality is used by "hardly anyone", since their inclusion causes exactly zero harm. --Stemonitis (talk) 18:25, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
It's a useless filler word and a sign of poor writing. Just a pet peeve of mine.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 01:45, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
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The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks from me and the wikiVictuallers (talk) 12:02, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Two of your recent DYK nominations have been returned from prep areas to the noms page. See Wikipedia:Did you know/Removed for details -- and links to the specific noms that need attention. --Orlady (talk) 16:08, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
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For some very interesting articles of late on aquaculture. Keep up the great work! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:13, 10 October 2011 (UTC) |
I posted information a few times from articles I have written (yes, I am the primary author) on western North Pacific angelsharks. A lot of that was deleted due to fears of copyright infringement. It might be because I have a personal connetion to this subject, but the current entries leave much to be desired in their current form. They don't seem very usable to me if someone with little knowledge of them was to come to Wikipedia for information. And as a former teacher, I'm well aware that many people come to Wikipedia first. I understand that this is not a copyright violation if authors are posting their own work, and I think that people editing my posts know a lot less about the subject matter than I do. How can this be rectified? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.90.0.235 (talk) 20:55, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
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Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 16 October 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Raceway (aquaculture), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that poorly treated wastewater from raceways used in aquaculture can result in outbreaks of red tide? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Raceway (aquaculture). If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
I understand why the picture was removed, there was a query over copyright. I was explaining that as I am part of the company who sells these flexible liners I have the right to use the image as I wish. We do not want to use Wikipedia for advertising, we want to put as much information on as possible regarding garden ponds and fish keeping as there are a lot of things not currently covered on Wikipedia. I find that more and more people are using the internet now to find out information about potential new hobbies, our aim is to make this information as accessible as possible and we thought Wikipedia is the best way to do that. I am a beginner on Wikipedia and I find replying to comments or issues a bit clunky, so I apologise if this is not the way to do it. I know there are a lot of help pages available, I am trawling my way through them all and hopefully along the way you will see the pages improving. -- added by Pond101 (talk) 10:30, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Epipe, I've picked up the review from Orlady at Template:Did you know nominations/Offshore aquaculture. I'd like some feedback on some alternate hooks, if you please. Thanks! Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic - thanks for your friendly Welcome comments on my user page here. I'm an admin on Wikispecies (where I have a more informative user page) but, so far, only a sporadic contributor here. You kindly offered to answer questions, so here goes... I see that the several fish species I have named are already the subjects of pages in Wikipedia, but their taxoboxes, when mentioning my surname as author, had linked to the wrong person. I previously deleted the incorrect person's link and substituted my name; e.g.,
| binomial_authority = Oliver, 1989
but this results in a red link since there is no such page here. Since as already stated I did create a user page at Wikispecies, I thought I could just link to that one, so I tried:
| binomial_authority = Oliver, 1989
This external link, however, triggered a box stating "Your edit has triggered a filter designed to warn editors, organisations and companies against using Wikipedia as an advertising medium...." No advertising nor self-promotion intended; I merely want to replace a reference to the wrong person with one to the right person. Is it better to override the warning and link to my Wikispecies page (considered 'external' even though within the Wikimedia community), or link to my minimalist user page here which references the WS page, or just not link my name at all; or some other approach? Thanks for considering. MKOliver (talk) 02:07, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
See Template talk:Physical oceanography#Colouring. Thank you. Frietjes (talk) 21:43, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 27 October 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Offshore aquaculture, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that if roaming cages were used in offshore aquaculture, juvenile tuna starting out from Mexico could mature and be ready to market by the time they got to Japan? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Offshore aquaculture. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Hi, Epipelagic. I am concerned about your remarks on the talk page of One Ton Depot. Here we have a new user that is obviously quite knowledgeable, and at a time when Wikipedia is losing long-term contributors, it would be better not to post such remarks on a new contributor's talk page. You two seem to have gotten off on the wrong foot; please try to restrict your remarks to discussions of the content and not make volatile remarks that might lead to us losing a potentially valuable contributor. Thanks. --Dianna (talk) 19:00, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 28 October 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Octopus aquaculture, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that octopus aquaculture (common octopus pictured) is being seriously investigated because of overfishing, but so far it has been difficult to culture the early life stages? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Octopus aquaculture. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
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—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:02, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
I know you're not keen on the whole RfA reform project, but it is a good faith attempt to improve a part of wikipedia that is generally considered problematic. Whether you agree with it or not, comments like [9][10][11][12] appear to be designed to reduce enthusiasm for the project, and deter any action. Can I ask that you at least try to keep your comments constructive or if you are wholly at odds with the project, that you take it off your watchlist. I'm happy to inform you personally when any proposals are brought to the community. WormTT · (talk) 10:02, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello Epipelagic, How are you doing? I hope you are OK. I got an ACL tear a couple months ago so I am still in a brace and still in some pain. Over at Project Gastropods we have a new contributor, User:Shellnut, who recently made an article on Tangle net, because this is a common way in the Philippines of catching interesting sea snails for the international shell trade. They also used the old tangle nets rolled and bundled into a sausage-shaped "lumen lumen" net and left on the bottom for a while to pick up a vast diversity of minute mollusks. In any case since you are the fishing expert as far I am am concerned, I wanted to ask you to look over the article and see what you think. Many thanks and all my best wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 19:03, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Epipelagic. Did the tangle net article seem OK to you, at least for the time being? As for my injury, it was sort-of linked to shell hunting, but not very directly, as I partially tore it this spring on the way to Nevis to hunt shells, and then totally tore it walking in the shallow ocean water at Encinitas, California this September 5th. Invertzoo (talk) 19:40, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry for ranting on your page the other day. No hard feelings. Best, --Jsderwin (talk) 05:57, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Dear Epipelagic, My appologies for not formally logging in for the comment on coral reefs, but I did provide my name at the end of the comment. As far as promoting my article goes, I'm not suggesting that you replace what is written for my work; the suggestion was merely to get you source information from a recent scientific review rather than an intro to fish biology [17]. The point is to use primary scientific literature where possible or secondary literature such as reviews such as mine. I would be happy to help improve this article in areas were I have expertise. So feel free to contact me if you need input. If I don't know directly, I will know someone who does. Saludos, Paul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.33.189.245 (talk) 02:01, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed you reverted Weird.Tesseract as "vandalism" here. This looks like a mistake - AFAICT he was just removing somebody else's vandalism, which you've inadvertently re-added, so I re-reverted. --GenericBob (talk) 09:18, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
I see you added a link to Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia to your user page. I can't help but think something is wrong when there are fewer rules for you to date my teenage daughter than to edit Wikipedia.-gadfium 19:13, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your post at ANI and I must admit I hadn't realised you were still so concerned about the template issues. I took the time to review the discussions at Template talk:Physical oceanography and I was wondering if there's enough material in there to make the core of the essay that you think would help? I thought we both managed to see each others' point-of-view at that talk page, so I'm hoping that you would be willing to work with me to see if we can avoid more content editors being upset. I like to think of myself as bit of an "all sorts" of editor - I only have a few GAs, one FA and a FL to my name, but I can write reasonable content as well as poke about with the inner workings of the software. I would understand if you're too busy and I wouldn't want to drag you away from what you're currently engaged in, but I'm happy to leave an open offer for you, if you find yourself with some spare wiki-time on your hands. Regards, --RexxS (talk) 00:02, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear editor,
you may have noticed that I am not used to editing pages on wikipedia. However, when I read "Fish that spend part of their life cycle in brackish or freshwater, like salmon are a particular problem. A study in Seattle, Washington showed that 100% of wild salmon had roundworm larvae capable of infecting people." I felt forced to try to improve that part of the article. The roundworms mentionned in the second sentence are indeed Anisakidae that are obligate marine parasite. Their life cycle usally involves marine mammals or birds as definitive hosts, small crustaceans as intermediate hosts and fish as paratenic hosts. People can get infected by eating raw infected fish muscles[1]. The first sentence thus goes against the meaning of the second one.
More importantly, the whole meaning seems to explain that freshwater fish can harbour zoonotic parasite in constrast to marine fish. I hope to have convinced you that both freshwater fish and marine fish may harbour parasites, and this is precisely what I wanted to express with my editing.
Sincerily,
Sylvain aka Furet-bzh (talk) 22:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments on Talk:Animal cognition. Please see WP:Tea. 97.87.29.188 (talk) 01:46, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
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I do not dislike Malleus. I dislike his actions, his word choices and his temper. I am challenged by my faith to bring Peace to arenas of War. I feel that little acts of anger corrupt what could be. They lead us astray and prevent the natural flow of collaboration. For some reason, I trust your reaching out to me. I probably will have less and less to say at the various pages about the incident. The fact that I was present (at the table so to speak) at the moment of Malleus' cursing is what has kept me responding and involved...and the fact that, long ago, an essay I wrote about Incivility came about because of interactions with Malleus. I hope he stays and lives a long and happy WikiLife. But, I want to live here too and I prefer a peaceful climate. I hope we meet again. TRA! Buster Seven Talk 11:14, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
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