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Re Hard Rock templates

Hi Chris, I think that would be a great idea, as this is my first ever wikiproject. Thanks. DavidJJJ 06:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC) We should also do that. DavidJJJ 17:20, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Schweisser

On 01-July, you tagged Schweisser as a copyright violation. However, you had already removed the copyrighted text that had been added by a previous poster. Since you removed the copyrighted material, that resolved the problem and you didn't need to apply the copyvio tag. I have untagged it. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 02:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Featured Picture Candidate

Hi Chris, I've nominated one of your Hummingbird Hawk-moth images for FPC. You can monitor its progress at Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Hummingbird_Hawk-moth. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Black concert T-Shirt

Hello - The sentence you removed from Black concert T-Shirt may have been dubious, but it provided a reason why the t-shirts are typically black in color. Perhaps we can come up with a different way to explain the color choice? --Mattarata 16:12, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Moth FPC

No reason, I was just interrupted before I could get to adding all the new FPs to the various lists, and I wasn't able to get back to the computer until now. I'll finish everything off tomorow, but of course your welcome to do it yourself if you'd like too... :) Raven4x4x 14:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Macroglossum stellatarum1 NR.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution!

Now I see why you asked me about it! Congratulations, and thanks for taking it for us. Raven4x4x 07:48, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Macroglossum stellatarum1 NR.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on September 27, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howcheng {chat} 17:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hard rock templates

Hi Chris, I made this template. {{Hard Rock}}

This user is a participant in WikiProject Hard Rock.

DavidJJJ 09:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Rainbow not progressive metal

All you need to do to figure that out is listen to them. The only reason people don't group them into the genre is because it didn't have an official name until the mid-eighties. However, Rainbow's blend of classical stylings into the realm of heavy metal is the obvious precurser to the "official" prog metal scene.

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Request for comments concerning gender bias

I would like to request comments and suggestions for the following situation in Talk:List_of_major_opera_composers#Not_so_fast.__There_is_obvious_POV_gender_bias_here . This is a very long, complicated situation involving whether women should be included on this list of Opera composers. As a male musician who has done quite alot of research on women in music, I firmly believe that a representative sample should be on the list (I'm not suggesting 50/50 or even 30/70, just two or three representative women). When I first noticed this article, it was completely unsourced, and the "important composers" were chosen by a collegial system ("I like that." "I don't like that") without any mention of sources. I marked the article NPOV and Unsourced. The article quickly became sourced, but I continued to bring up the issue of gender bias and brought three sources to the discussion after consulting the International Alliance of Women in Music [[1]], all of which were dismissed because they only contained works by women. However, when the list was finally completed (I was asked not to participate, as I was considered to be have a POV agenda towards women and living composers), six of the ten lists used only contained the names of men. The other four only contained one woman (Judith Weir). If lists of only women composers are unacceptable, why are lists of only men composers acceptable? And was are sources which could prove the importance of women in music dismissed as having a POV agenda.

A colleague who is a teacher of Women's studies at an American University has suggested that this is a textbook case of "canon forming" or the creation of hierarchies using preconceived notions. The process involves making a hypothesis using the notions that one already has, such as "Important operas are only composed by dead, White, European males", using the sources already utilised for making the hypothesis for proving the statement and then dismissing contradictary sources or discrediting individuals who make statements which oppose the primary hypothesis.

I am certainly not asking anyone to get directly involved here, as this is already become quite violent and an RfA is currently underway. I would however appreciate any ideas concerning how to confront this sort of gender bias, any useful sources and other ideas, as well as general comments. Thank you Jean-Thierry Boisseau 20:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

epic metal

the list seems to be a mixture of bands of different subgenres... why not just go ahead and AFD it? Spearhead 07:21, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Reply

I think the newer format works very well, it lists bands who encyclopediacly fall into the specific heavy metal genre; the subgenre bands each have their own lists on Wikipedia that they belong on instead.

As a "term".. the word "metal" is used by some broadly, but that doesn't have anything to do with what heavy metal as a specific "music genre" which is described as in its article.

The older version just doesn't work.. I mean, who is going to read that? Its just a mish mash of bands lumped together which have little to no relation to each other, nu-metal bands put in the same list as black metal bands, mixed together etc with no order at all... it was no use to anyone at all...

In the new format if people are looking to read about the original heavy metal.. its right there; or if they want to see a list of specific subgenre styles they're interested in, like thrash metal for example.. they scroll down and can easily find the link, and for people who don't know which bands fall into which subgenre, it gives them three notable examples of each.

There will always be fans who add bands like Cradle of Filth on the wrong list regardless.... some try to add them to the list of gothic rock bands from time to time, when they don't belong there either...

I suppose if somebody created a list for Symphonic metal acts then Cradle of Filth may fit onto that one. Problem solved. - Deathrocker 16:46, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Expansion of Wikiproject Hard Rock

Dear WikiProject Hard Rock members,
This is a notice about the proposed expansion of the WikiProject, so the scope covers rock music in general, changing it from "WikiProject Hard Rock" to "Wikiproject Rock music". Like I pointed out to the creator, DavidJJJ, what falls under the scope of "hard rock" may come into dispute, and there is no existing WikiProject for rock in general, only WikiProject Alternative music and WikiProject Punk music come somewhat close. This expansion will hopefully in theory be a guide/directory, and bring much needed attention to articles of this genre. DavidJJJ has already given kudos to the idea, and it is encouraged that you express your thoughts and concerns on the WikiProject's talk page before anything goes forward. We hope start the transition soon. Until then, please, make your voice heard! Cheers. -- Reaper X 22:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Great image, IronChris

Well done. Just noticed User:Kylu's comment about the Macroglossum stellatarum being the featured pic for 27 Sep 06. I have taken the liberty of adorning the Lepidoptera project page with it. AshLin 16:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Your image Image:IC Polistes gallicus.JPG

Hi Chris. Well, I like the photo and you have done well to capture it, but I don't think it would pass as a featured picture mainly because the depth of field (what is in focus) is so small. Half of the wasp is out of focus and for an encyclopedic image, it really needs to be completely in focus. Keep trying though. :-) Next time (if light permits it), try stopping down the aperture more - that way you'll get greater depth of field. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Rock music

Well, after nearly no response, the expansion of WikiProject Hard Rock has gone ahead. We are now officially known as WikiProject Rock music! We are still in dire need of your participation, to add articles that fall within the scope of rock music, to invite users to join the WikiProject, and to get this show on the road. Be sure to drop by and see the new changes. Feel free to add {{User Wikiproject Rock music}} to your userpage.
I hope to see you around eh? Cheers. -- Reaper X 01:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Lebron's Lightning Lemonade

Why do you care so much about Lebron's Lightning Lemonade to act like you know more about being kvlt than me? and why do you want to delete its page? its the most kvlt gum ever and you should be hit in the face with a mace if you dont think so. maybe instead of insisting your right and telling me to find more resources you could find resources saying im wrong. go ask euronymous yourself...p.s. epic metal sucks' ~jt milos

LLL

also might you add, wikipedia isnt just not a blog, but its not a way of fucking life as you may think Major t milos 16:09, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem

Hey. No problem, it looks like I had to do some reverting on your user page too. Prolog 16:48, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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multi-page article gradings

here's what kingboyk said about the problem that although you created /1, /2 etc. pages in the article grading system, the bot wrote everything into the main page: Mathbot creates subpages /1 /2 etc when there are a certain number of articles. If the articles fit comfortably onto one page the bot makes just one page. cheers --Sarefo 01:36, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

A Class article

Thanks for bringing the article to my notice. Was offline for a month, another offline period likely till end 2006. Am working to bring Lepidoptera upto Aclass. Regards, AshLin 04:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject

I see your doing some wikiproject tagging. I have a bot that could help if you are intrested. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

All I need is the list of categories that have the pages that you need tagged. I also need the template that you use. Ill get on it soon and will be done quickly. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 03:23, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Dork

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Peer review of bacteria

Hi there. I'd value your input on this article. Thank you. TimVickers 05:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

This article is now a Featured Article candidate, the nomination page is (here). Thank you. TimVickers 04:54, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Help

Hi, wonder if you could check template:LepidopteraTalk and see why the talk page comments get into the tag box if the ratings are added and why it sits at the bottom of a talk page when the ratings are not added. thanks in advance Shyamal 05:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Shyamal 01:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Black concert T-shirt

I appreciate your assistance with this article. I spent a good hour scouring and compiling references which I added here Talk:Black_concert_T-shirt. Hopefully this can be incorporated into the article in some way or at the very least used to show that this article can stand on its own seperately from T-shirt or Concert T-shirt. Maybe I can add a section that says "References to the Black concert T-shirt in news and media"? (even though i know wikipedia is not a collection of links, and i generally dislike articles like that)--Mattarata 00:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Arthropod assessment categories

I think I may have got slightly confused about the different categories involved, but I'm fairly sure that there was one too many. According to the instructions at {{ArthropodTalk}}, the category for unassessed-importance articles is Category:Unassessed-importance Arthropods articles. This also agrees with the category linked to in the summary table. However, until this morning, the template was actually placing all unassessed articles in Category:Unknown-importance Arthropods articles. I have changed the template to fill the former category, but that seems to leave the latter with no purpose (no pages link to it, and it is empty). Have I misunderstood, or is Category:Unknown-importance Arthropods articles now redundant? I can delete it if it is, but I keep getting confused every time I try to work out what's going on. The link to the category in the table, for instance, is below the links to stub-quality and start-quality articles, suggesting it's a quality-based, not importance-based category. If I've made a mistake, please tell me and I'll revert it. --Stemonitis 12:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

One of my fears has been realised: the table is entirely re-created by MathBot daily, over-writing the changes you made. It looks like we might have to contact the bot's owner; the bot clearly mixes by-quality and by-importance categories in the same column, which must be wrong, mustn't it? Curiously, the same problem doesn't affect other similar tables, so perhaps it is something we could fix, although I would prefer to have access to the importance categories as well as the quality categories. If only I understood how the whole set-up works, I might be able to suggest something, but I really haven't got a clue! --Stemonitis 07:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

This is a little late in coming, but I'd like to apologize for "fixing" those redirects you mentioned on my talk page on 12/6/06. I've since glanced at WP:REDIRECT, and it appears that I was indeed completely misguided and that you were quite right to bring it to my attention. It seems I don't know anything you don't. :) All the best to you, 24.11.177.133 00:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC).

comments bug in template

hi,

i just realized there's a bug in the streamlined Template:WPSpiders, probably the same that Shyamal mentioned a month ago. i tried to implement the changes you did to LepidopteraTalk, but could not get it to work. could you tell me what's the problem? thanks a lot :) --Sarefo 01:20, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

happy 2007 to you too :) here's a page where i noticed the bug (yep, it's still there): Talk:Tarantula. The "Length" section is from the comments, the others are from the talk page. good luck ;) cheers --Sarefo 05:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Black Metal

I need to respectfully disagree with the comments you made on the black metal page. Nowhere did I state or even imply that all black metal bands condone church burning. And why did you put that hateful and antireligious attitudes are only found in some black metal subgenres? I don't even know what you mean by this - those are universal themes in black metal. Scskowron 04:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Battle metal on the French Wikipedia

Hi, I have seen that you participated in the discussion concerning the very poorly written article named battle metal that is on the French Wikipedia. I just wanted to invite you to participate to the article's entry on the Articles for Deletion. Thanks in advance! ^^

--Zouavman Le Zouave _{(Talk to me! • See my edits!)} 11:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Rock mites

Hi. I picked your name from the list of Wikipedia:WikiProject Arthropods participants as somebody who might be able to help. An article on Rock mites has been created, but there are no references provided, and I've not been able to find any through my own searches. Three separate new edittors have contributed to the article, without editting any other articles. My "hoax alert light" is flashing, so I thought I'd ask for help from somebody with more subject matter knowledge to take a look. Regards. -- Whpq 20:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject France

Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 16:01, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for spotting and reverting vandalism on my user page. This user doesn't seem to know when to stop. Prolog 19:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Oops. I reverted what I thought was vandalism and came here to warn you and was like "Woah... A real user. Wha?" Much to my surprise, when I looked back on the revert I realized it was not vandalism. I apologize. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 23:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

NRBQ

Hi, Chris! I'm eager to work with you to improve the NRBQ article; I agree citations would help. What needs to happen for you to be comfortable with removing the unreferenced tag? If you could post a list on the article's talk page of text you feel needs a citation, that'd be enormously helpful. Thanks! Skyraider 20:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Rock music Wikiproject invitation

Hello WikiProject Metal member.
WikiProject Metal music is important in expanding encyclopedic coverage of the metal. It brings attention to the lesser-known bands, and significantly improves the quality of the famous ones. Five Featured articles and two formers is proof of that.
This is the stuff I wish to achieve with the somewhat recently resurrected WikiProject Rock music. I hope to also attract attention to rock music articles of all sorts, and hopefully change some to GA or FA status. I invite you to come join us, and embrace the links between metal and rock music in general.
Rock on.
-- Reaper X 04:53, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Manowar

Sorry about that I was reverting the "Third" claim as you did. I had gone to the Official Manowar page to confirm, that's what my comment was about that they do claim to be the loudest. I was actually trying to do the same thing as you, sorry for the confusion. -- Borameer ™ 21:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Commensalism

Regarding phoresy -- Millipedes and pseudoscorpions on birds? Is that for real? If you get a chance, it'd be awesome if you could add a reference for that to the article, it sounds interesting. Thanks! -Madeleine 03:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Tripod beetles

Hi there, I saw that you were on the Arthropods wikiproject and figured you could help me out. I think Tripod beetles might be a hoax, based on its creator's recent questionably edits. Do you have any ideas? Thanks. --Wafulz 17:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Cover lotr green gandalf.jpg

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WikiProject Lepidoptera policy - Assessment of importance of articles

Hi IronChris,

I've brought up a policy issue for discussion on WikiProject Lepidopterahere . May I request your valuable contribution and counsel, as a member of WikiProject Lepidoptera, in this regard. AshLin 21:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Lepidoptera policy - Draft categorisation guidelines & Common vs scientific names

Hi IronChris,

I've brought up two policy issues for discussion on WikiProject Lepidoptera here . May I request your valuable contribution and counsel, as a member of WikiProject Lepidoptera, in this regard. AshLin 18:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Triops longicaudatus

I have expanded the Triops longicaudatus article, and I am still adding any new facts I can find on the Internet. I am thinking of promoting it to GA-class status, but I need to know exactly what improvements it needs to make it flow. If you would like to make any suggestions, please leave them at Talk:Triops longicaudatus/Comments. Thank you. --Crustaceanguy 16:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I just remembered: I will soon try to upload two files, Image:Triops anatomy en.svg and Image:Triops anatomy ru.svg, the first for the Triops longicaudatus article and the other for the Russian version of the Notostraca article. Both of them show the external morphology of Triops longicaudatus.--Crustaceanguy 16:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Montreal

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Assessments

I notice you were the one who assessed the arthropod article [6]. I think you need to be a bit more conservative on the ratings there. Compare our arthropod article with Britannica's. I think ours is much closer to start than an A-class, and have reassessed it accordingly. Richard001 (talk) 08:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Redirect of Tankard page

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WikiProject Rock music Newsletter for October 2008

The Rock music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 9 - October 2008

"As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen."- Mick Jagger Project news The project has a total of 106 GAs and 91 Featured Articles and Lists put together. We collaborated on Soul Bomb. Help us select good versions of WP:ROCK articles for inclusion on the Wikipedia 0.7 release! Find out more about Wikipedia 0.7 selection on the project talk page and add your thoughts to the discussion. If you are personally responsible for a Featured or Good Article listed here, please the select a version to include in Wikipedia 0.7 on that page if you haven't already. Page versions must be selected by October 20. The genres in infobox fields have been removed cause of the discussion found here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?. You can provide any opinions you may have about this. This month's "Recommended Rock Album" is Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994).

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Harvest mite

Wondering if you would be interested in helping out with the Harvest mite article. It currently references several different species and needs some work to take it up to encyclopedia standard!--Gak (talk) 13:12, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

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