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Hi, regarding this edit, please could you explain why scientific racism is a form of phrenology? I think that you have got the cart before the horse. I'll likely have more to say about the edit but let's first clear up what appears to be a basic misunderstanding on either your part or mine. - Sitush (talk) 18:28, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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I had included a shot of a White-cheeked Barbet under the respective page but find it removed. The photo in question is of a Barbet with blue under the tail unlike the light green usually seen. I am mysef not sure about this colour difference or what it signifies. For this reason I felt the photo was of importance. Link to photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White-cheekedBarbet.jpg
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Greetings Shyamal Papilio sakontala Hewitson, 1852 is missing from List of the Butterflies of India possibly due to a confusion with sakontala Moore which is a mimetic forma of Papilio polytes or so it appears to me.see Funet. Any thoughts? How are you? Best regards Robert Notafly (talk) 15:34, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Second thoughts on sakolanta - Globis has this http://globis.insects-online.de/species&tree_h=.Papilionidae.Papilioninae.Papilionini.Papilio.Menelaides.298.6317&sub=yes&tree_status=plus&tree_seq= ] view. I think I will add notes to the sakontala page as it appears as a species in the better known books (and not redirect it just yet). There remains sakontala Moore as a queston mark at least for me.
Good evening Shyamal Starting to use your excellent work. Here first [1].More later. No matter how good the photography gets drawings often have the edge and the layouts are lovely too. Must "fly" now Robert Notafly (talk) 21:00, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Shyamal We are lacking an image of the larva and pupa of this popular genus.Can you extract one from this? [2].Robert Notafly (talk) 21:55, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
I actually prefer the whole plates, being none too keen on crops.The Purkiss plate I hadn't seen and it far better since the black body and red tubercle contrast is very clear.So many thanks. As to Troides see here for a cladistic approach.[3] I'll get the paper. I'd like to see that cladogram. And at least there is something to see - in many works (oft-cited)the decision is based on the authority of the author not his argument.And the argument can be very weak however large the book - and I'd hate to lose the evocative term Ornithoptera. Chanced on this too [4] Warm regards Robert aka Notafly (talk) 13:36, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Shyamal! I noticed you put up a great picture for the worker policing article. I was wondering if the picture was depicting a worker attacking a foreign queen or a gamergate? I read the article about these ants in the references and it seemed like the worker ants attack gamergates. Perhaps you could write a paragraph in the examples section to clarify the picture? I think right now it's a toss up for me between the picture you have proposed and the one with the honey bee hive. I originally used the honey bee picture since honey bees are among the best known examples of worker policing and since it hasn't been used before on another article. However, that picture you posted looks pretty awesome...is it possible to switch the main picture in the taxobox on the original article to another so that the picture you posted is unique? If we end up using the honey bee picture, I'd still love to include that picture in the examples section. GenesBrainsBehaviorNeuroscienceKL (talk) 21:22, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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Dear Shyamal, Because I miss a real good picture to describe a bird plumage, I should like to add the Dutch translation of the terms in your image I should like to add 23: Eye stripe. Is that possible? I how can I make this illustration useful fot the Dutch wikipedia. I always have difficulties in uploading a transformed jpg. Maybe you can help me.
Thanks in advance and a merry Christmas! Henrik de Nie --HWN 13:34, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
1. Snavel 2. Kruin (indien alleen bovenkant van de kop, vaak heeft vogel nog een wenkbrauwstreep)(if only the upper part is meant, thus I mean crown in English) 3. Iris 4. Pupil 5. Mantel 6. Kleine vleugeldekveren 7. Schouder 8. Grote vleugeldekveren 9. Tertials en armpennen 10. Stuit 11. Handpennen 12. Buik 13. Bevederd deel van de tibia ("dij") 14.Verbinding tussen tibia en tarsus 15: Tarsus 16. Tenen 17. Tibia 18. Onderbuik (achterste deel: anaalstreek) 19. Flank 20. Borst 21. Keel 22. Lel 23. Oogstreep (als streep boven oog ligt: wenkbrauwstreep) ("eye stripe, if this is above the eye, eyebrow") — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hwdenie (talk • contribs) 13:34, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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Looks like a good faith edit to ((birdbox/cell)) caused the problem. Fixed. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 19:05, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Shyamal, please check your last edit at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants: you left a split-up url in it. Hamamelis (talk) 02:36, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
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Yeah, I had to ditch that before it killed me. One day, but it won't be soon. Sabine's Sunbird talk 04:35, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
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Whilst I don't have any particular ties to the article on the Western kukri I am glad to see your clarification for the comment about "white (in spirit)"! I am fairly new to copy editing, and so did my best to understand the article and improve it, but lacking a fuller understanding of the subject I was stumped by that particular phrase. I hazarded a guess that it would mean that the skin was white when preserved in spirits, but could not be certain. It has been niggling at me since!
By the way, would you be able to shed some light on the "1+2, or 1+1+2" reference? I had noticed some experts talk about scale formations as being 1:1:2 and so on, but couldn't work out if that was what was intended here!
Thank you again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnthonyW90 (talk • contribs) 11:50, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
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Can you please lead to a site which can provide some imgs of the above species in Karnataka or Kerala? If you have the photos in your portfolio, please upload them to wikicommons. Thanks.
Hello again. I've been working on the Negros Fruit Dove article and was wondering if you would be willing to create an image for it. The species is only known from a single female specimen, and an image can be found here. Thank you so much. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 20:16, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Astonishing. Newly emerged? Can you give the size? Warm regards Robert aka Notafly (talk) 20:28, 6 May 2013 (UTC) PS. I added a phrase here Wingspan which is measured in either of two ways. A graphic would help if you could manage it.
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Inspired by seeing one of these in Suffolk a couple of weeks ago, I've started working this up to FA. I'm using IOC's treatment which splits off salimali, leuconyx and cookii as separate species, leaving just nominate pacificus and kanoi. I'm unclear what subspecies winter in southern India. Is it just the Himalayan species, pacificus or both? Thanks for any help, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:27, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Shyamal. The genus Atrophaneura, the Red-bodied Swallowtails, has been split into a number of genera. To reflect this change it has been agreed to keep all former Atrophaneura species on the same article, renaming 'Atrophaneura ' to 'Red-bodied Swallowtail'. However, the name 'Red-bodied Swallowtail' is already occupied as a redirect to 'Red-bodied Swallowtail (disambiguation)'. In order to clear the name, I put a deletion template on 'Red-bodied Swallowtail', but this was overridden. As an administrator, would you would be able to solve this? JamesDouch (talk) 06:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi,the people part of the project have also decided to add a section on natural history of Rishi Valley School.Soon we will put up information on the site itself.Hibiscus2581 (talk) 10:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
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I reached out to Marcy of Rishi Valley and haven't heard back, if you are in touch with the school about its weekend WP project. The Rishi Valley School article is also having sourcing issues right now—I left a note on the talk page. Are you working with the school on this project? Perhaps you can suggest a sandbox page for them to use as a draft instead of working on the main article and potentially getting reverted and discouraged? czar · · 11:19, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Shyamal. From some your edits I get the impression it's not all about birds :-). That's why I wondered whether I could ask you the following. Do you have any knowledge of copyright policies by the Survey of India regarding old maps (as in nrs 6 and 7)? There is nothing of the sort on Commons, I think. I'm a Dutch editor for WP, currentley working on The Great Trigonometric Survey in Dutch. Thanks, regards, Sander1453 (talk) 11:20, 4 September 2013 (UTC)