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Brown people

AstroHurricane001, Sorry, I guess I missed the closed part. Just getting back into wikipedia again and well I am still making mistakes. I guess I can take some days out and thanks for leaving my entry in. As of late some of the others have also shown kindness and help fix my mistakes as I edit and this has raised my spirits. So, I do appriciate your kindness too. PEACETalkAbout 06:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

My "vanity article" on WP:MOTD/N

That was a joke on my part - referring that we want to complete human knowledge, but we don't have to know all about how little Timmy built a sandcastle in his back garden. Sorry if I was a little cryptic. Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 20:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you, sir. I did not know of these wikipedia rules and I am very ashamed of myself. Thank you for guiding and teaching me. I appreciate you non-offensive help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pepperboi (talk • contribs) 23:22, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

Comet

Hey, where can I find the right to see the Comet Mcnaught or whatever it is called in which ever city I am in (which is right now, Sao Paulo)? The weather is lousy right now so I doubt I can see it now, but do you know of a source for where and when to look in a particular city if the weather is right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arthurian Legend (talk • contribs)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #9

Number 9, February 4, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list."The NHC is the official basin for the Atlantic."^[1]

Storm of the month

Cyclone Clovis approaching Madagascar

Cyclone Clovis was named late on December 31 near to Tromelin Island. Clovis strengthened as it moved to the southwest reaching its peak the same day with 60 knot winds (according to Météo-France). The JTWC intensified Clovis more slowly, and assessed that it reached its peak with 65 knot winds on January 2, as it was nearing the Madagascar coast. The JTWC maintained this strength until it made landfall on the island on January 3. The resulting floods damaged a number of structures in Mananjary and about 1,500 people had to be evacuated.^[2]

Other tropical cyclone activity
The only activity during January was in the Southern Hemisphere, with a total of 5 cyclones existing throughout the month.

• Dora, the second cyclone the Southwest Indian Ocean formed late in January well to the east of Réunion; and reached tropical cyclone strength at the start of February.
• The two storms in the South Pacific, Zita and Arthur followed very similar tracks to the east of the Dateline. The JTWC estimated that Zita reached its peak on January 23 and Arthur briefly had hurricane force winds two days later.
• Cyclone Isobel formed between Indonesia and Australia late in December and headed south, making landfall in Western Australia on January 3 as a minimal Tropical Cyclone.

New articles and improvements wanted

• Articles are wanted for each of the tropical cyclone breakpoints (see this list).
• An article is wanted for Tropical Storm Debbie (1965).
• The Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons articles need splitting into the 3 component basins.
• This sandbox for Typhoon Durian badly needs completion, please help.
• Large chunks of the project's imagery needs proper categorization.
• The number of stubs has markedly increased in the past few months, please improve them.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The January member of the month is Chacor, formerly known as NSLE. Chacor joined the project in November 2005, and has contributed to a wide variety of articles across the project. Recently he has generally focussed on the West Pacific and did most of the work on the first Good article in that basin: Typhoon Ewiniar (2006). He has also started the much needed process of splitting the Southern Hemisphere seasonal articles. Finally, Chacor is probably the user who maintains the quality of the most visible part of the project, the current activity.

Main Page content

• Hurricane Juan appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on January 29.
• Entries from 3 articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Ignacio (2003) and Hurricane Bob (1979) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during June.

New and improved articles

• The WikiProject has its first Featured topic on Retired Pacific hurricanes.
• New Featured articles: Hurricane Ismael, Hurricane Juan and the Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware and Maryland and Washington D.C..
• New Wikipedia:Good articles: 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Iwa, Hurricane Alice, Hurricane Kenna and 1936 Atlantic hurricane season.
• New articles include: Hurricane Ignacio (2003), Hurricane Cindy (1963), Hurricane Isaac (2006) and Chris Landsea.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb
FA	16	19	23	25
A	7	6	2	2
GA	48	57	74	75
B	83	78	71	76
Start	210	200	193	195
Stub	11	15	16	16
Total	375	375	379	389
percentage Less than B	58.9	57.3	55.1	54.2

A quick note: When you create a new article please list it in the appropriate section on the project's page and add a fact from the article to the Portal. Thanks.

Double Redirects

You recently requested a doubleredirect bot.

Please Vote here: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8799 ;

Then the page will start to update again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:DoubleRedirects

thnx. --Parker007 05:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thank You for the barn star! It's my first one! :D ->AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 00:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

I appreciate that barn star. :) :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 18:28, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Top 20

I linked it wrong, sorry. Thanks for telling me, though.

Thanks

Thank you for signing my autograph book! · AndonicO ^{Talk · Sign Here} 00:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Front page protection

Hi. You wrote:

• Don't one of those guidelines state that all images and articles that link from the main page should be semi-protected?

I'm quite sure this is mistaken. The Wikipedia:Protection policy states:

• It is not appropriate to fully protect the day's Featured Article except in extraordinary cases. For a rationale of this, see Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection. Other pages linked from the Main Page may be semi or fully protected if under attack, though more leeway should be given with these than with most articles.

In general, it is acceptable to protect main-page articles in extreme cases, but this is by no means the norm; a higher standard should be required. Let me know if you have other questions. Thanks.

--Ryan Delaney ^talk 23:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, WP:NOPRO is for the main page featured article. I should have referred to the protection policy in my unprotection of the article, which I quoted above. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 21:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Awww...my first barnstar...thanks! --Tewy 00:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Zog-Zog

Sorry about that.. it looked to me like the article was about a specific monkey, not a new species of monkey(zog-zog also sounded like a cute monkey name to me I guess). Perhaps you can clarify the article by stating that the monkey discovered is of a newly discovered species, thereby establishing the notability. Danski14 00:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

My quotes, BJAODN

So you took the quote that I gathered, and put it in BJAODN, eh? That's perfectly fine! It's the funniest unblock reasons I've seen... and how stoically Pilotguy refused it! Glad that you got a laugh out of it. Gracenotes^T § 05:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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on ur main page u said u wer makeing user boxes at that sand box thing wat is that and how do u make them thx --Rsivad 22:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Just a note...

As of the last build of Wiki, you can't do a cross-name space redirect (IE: To meta.) that will work. Wikipedia uses "Soft Redirects" to make it work. Logical2u_Talk 21:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm vague; I guess what I meant to say is that a cross-name space redirect won't work (yet). Soft-redirects are weird, here's the guide page on'em : Wikipedia:Soft redirect. Hope it explains it better than I can. Logical2u_Talk 22:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I didn't know that. You learn something new everyday. Thanks! Logical2u_Talk 22:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

ya i understand wat u mean

i no wat u mean about the table but those things on my table are the things u make the code with. lol ive been studying lol. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rsivad (talk • contribs) 23:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC).

another ?

do u no wow to make a link where i can experument with out messing up my other things — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsivad (talk • contribs)

Thanks

Thank you for signing my Autograph Book!!! Leor Natanov 16:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for signing my Autograph Book!!! --Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 00:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Userpage protection

One of the newer admins denied the protection, but then I saw it and accepted the protection and left a note at the admin's user talk page.

If you think the vandalism is still going to be a problem, do you want me to fully protect the page? If I do that, then even you can't edit your userpage. Nishkid64 21:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Your sigs page

Thanks for letting me know about that. He he he... I read what the guy wrote. Actually I kind of like it. O well. Thanks for removing it. Captain panda In vino veritas 03:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #10

Number 10, March 4, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.

Storm of the month

Cyclone Favio near Madagascar

Cyclone Favio developed well to the east of northern Madagascar on February 12 and moved to the southwest as it developed. The storm did not significantly intensify until February 19 when it was just off the southern coast of Madagascar, but rapidly intensified soon after to its peak with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds. Favio turned to the northwest and hit Mozambique worsening the floods already occurring in the country. Favio claimed at least 4 lives and destroyed thousands of homes.

Other tropical cyclone activity
There were a total of 6 tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere during February. Five of these, including Favio, were in the South West Indian Ocean.

• The only other storm in the Australian region was Cyclone Nelson which formed at the end of January in the Gulf of Carpentaria before it hit Queensland.
• Cyclone Dora was active in January and reached its peak as an annular cyclone on February 3 with 185 km/h (115 mph) winds.
• Cyclone Gamede was an unusually large storm that prompted the highest level of cyclone warning on Réunion and brought strong winds to the island on February 27, causing a bridge to collapse.
• Neither Enok towards the start of the month or Humba near its end, had any impact on land.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The February member of the month is Miss Madeline. Miss Madeline is responsible for many of the projects featured lists such as List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes and List of California hurricanes. She has also put serious work into many of our Pacific hurricane articles since she joined the project as one of its founding members. Recently she has worked on 1996 Pacific hurricane season, bringing it from a stub-class article to a Good article candidate.

New and improved articles

• New featured content: Hurricane Erika (1997), Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Maryland and Washington, D.C., Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma, 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, Hurricane Isabel and List of Florida hurricanes (pre-1900).
• New Good articles include Hurricane Pauline, Hurricane Isis (1998), 1939 Pacific typhoon season, Typhoon Tip and 1983 Atlantic hurricane season.
• New articles include Hurricane Isis (1998), Hurricane Debby (1982), Hurricane Adolph (2001), Hurricane Alberto (1982) and Tropical Depression One (1992).

Main Page content

• Entries from 6 articles: Hurricane Flossy (1956), Hurricane Able (1951), Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma, Effects of Hurricane Wilma in the Bahamas, Tropical Depression One (1992) and Tropical cyclone basins appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during February.

New articles and improvements wanted

• Articles are wanted on Pacific typhoon, North Indian cyclone, diffluence, Outflow (meteorology) and Central dense overcast.
• Improvements are wanted to Subtropical cyclone, Japan Meteorological Agency, Intertropical Convergence Zone, 1919 Florida Keys Hurricane Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Andrew.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
FA	19	23	25	28
A	6	2	2	2
GA	57	74	75	80
B	78	71	76	78
Start	200	193	195	194
Stub	15	16	16	16
Total	375	379	389	398
percentage Less than B	57.3	55.1	54.2	52.8

Comments wanted on project talk Many discussions that potentially have far reaching impact for the whole project are carried out on the project's talk page. However, only a fraction of our active contributors actually engage in those discussions. If you add the project page to your Watchlist and keep an eye on discussions there to monitor upcoming changes, even if you don't participate in those discussions it would help both yourself and the project as a whole. For instance, at the moment the primary infobox templates such as {{Infobox hurricane}} are in the process of being deprecated and replaced by new versions which do the role more effectively.

How?

^^ I have several wikipedia accounts (but I mainly use one), and just because I don't have many edits on THIS IP address doesn't mean I don't elsewhere. I lived in California last summer and I edited like a madman. Also, not all the questions are about just having edits. Sargun 03:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: WP TEST

Yes there is a discussion an the project page but all I did was copy and paste a revision without the fake score. Other than that I didn't change anything. Feel free to revert or rework the section. --ROASTYTOAST 15:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

You have new questions at Editor review

The Transhumanist   04:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Signatures

The page was getting kind of heavy, I just figured I'd clear some off. You can put it back or put yours back if you want; it is after all, your page just as much as mine. [Mαc Δαvιs] (How's my driving?) ❖ 19:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

RE:Teh Signatures

Thanks for leaving me a signature! User:Da.Tomato.Dude

Pagename vs PageName

You left the following comment at the article PageName:

"Pagename is a rediect to Dummy target. Why isn't this one?"

The answer is that wikipedia article titles are case sensitive. Thus, Pagename and PageName are entirely different articles. Another example is PANDORA (all caps), which re-directs to the Pandora Archive, and Pandora (first letter caps), which sends you to the article about the Greek mythological figure.

Hope I could help!

The Dark Lord Trombonator (((¶))) 08:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Question on MOTD

Hi. I'm kind of confused about the edits procedure, proposed by you. If a motto has several edits, is the one with the most supports approved, and the other ones rejected? Also, are mottos with too few votes always reopened, even if it's one of several edits? Were there any mottos that were rejected and forgotten even with too few votes? Also, is there an archive for past mottos? I really think the mottos should be archived, or at least removed from the in review section, if it's already on the nominations page. This is because if the in review section is too long, it can cause browser problems, but the nominations page can be edited over several sections. This problem hasn't occured before, did some rule about it change? Also, great job with everything else on MOTD. PS. I created the motd star. Thanks. AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)} 22:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, first off, the most common way to close an edit is to approve only one and reject the other versions. This is because consensus usually favors one over the other, and they're usually so similar that approving two versions would violate the rule of duplicate mottos. However, as in the case of this nomination, some edits may be approved in addition to their original nomination. In that case, the "edits", if you can call them that, we different enough from the original nomination that they all were approved.

Next, about approving edits with too few votes, as long as one of the versions has gained enough support to be approved, the other versions may be rejected, even if they haven't received enough votes. The only time they would be reopened is if none of the versions had received enough votes to determine consensus. If that were the case, the entire nomination, edits and all, would be copied back into the "In review" section.

I don't know of any (recent) mottos that were rejected and forgotten even with too few votes. I know of one mass closing by User:Vanderdecken, which essentially created the Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 2 page, in which he was forced to either make a decision based on the 1 or 2 votes, if any, or reopen nearly all of them. Of course, that was back when MOTD had Overseers... But now, I think nominations are receiving enough votes that most are either approved or rejected. You can take a look at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 4 for my recent mass closing, and to see some of my reasons for rejecting mottos. Most of the time it was because of a unanimous oppose or because there were strong opinions on both sides, and therefore no consensus (even with enough votes).

Yes, you can view the archives for discussions from the link on the nominations page, which includes archives 1, 2, 3, and 4. A similar archive for the schedule page can be found at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Schedule/Archive/2006, or from the archive box on the schedule page.

The "In review" section is merely a subpage for the current mottos, and is transcluded to the nominations page, so no duplicates should exist. The nominations page essentially acts to display all of the current nominations, with its three sections ("In review", "Awaiting decision", and "Decisions to be acted on"). The In review subpage was initially created by User:Geo.plrd, with the reason, In review allows for speedy archiving. (discussion).

I think that covered most of your questions. Contact me further if you need more detail, or if I interpreted one of your questions wrongly. --Tewy 23:38, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Reply. Hi. Thanks for answering my questions so thouroughly, and yes, you did answer practically all my questions. I could still not find a direct reason why the in review page is being so large, I thinkit is because of your mass reopenings and closings, and the huge number of mottos. I am beginning to resee mottos already forgotten for weeks. I don't really mind the page being so large, I think my browser can handle it. I guess the problem is,some mottos are so boring or unpopular, people are not paying attention to them, not even enough to oppose on its boringness. Anyway, thanks again. Bye for now. AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)} 00:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd say it's the combination of a large number of nominations with a small number of votes. That leads to more reopenings, which only compound the problem. And yes, I've noticed that many people don't vote on bland or just plain bad mottos. The unanimous opposes are usually only for obscene and offensive mottos. --Tewy 01:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I've revised the procedures on the nominations page, to address some of the "FAQs" on my talk page, but you can revise them further if there's a part that might confuse someone. --Tewy 04:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Score

Greetings AstroHurricane001!

Please read the message I have put at the bottom as a reply to the accusations from several people (here). Thank you for your interest in this matter. It is nice to know that there are hardworking Wikipedians who believe in fairness and no-cheating(as I do).

Sincerely, Yuanchosaan^Salutations! 07:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Nice job

Good work on copy-editing homework. Chill Factor Five 18:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

About that...

Ah ha! Our first victim is one of our own! See Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 1, 2007. Happy April Fools' Day! --Tewy 00:15, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Ha, or was I the intended victim... --Tewy 00:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Guess not. --Tewy 01:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #11

Number 11, April 1, 2007

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.

Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles.

Storm of the month

Hurricane Will developed from a tropical wave to the east of the Caribbean Sea and intensified. It crossed over Jamaica and re-emerged over water a few days later. The storm intensified into a hurricane and an eye began to develop. Will became a major hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the vulnerable Gulf Coast of the United States soon after. To date, Hurricane Will has claimed over 350 lives and is directly responsible for about $5 billion of damages; of which an unknown amount was insured. Despite the damage, it is not expected that the name will be retired by WMO.

Other tropical cyclone activity

• After threatening the Eastern Seaboard for some time, Hurricane Hink has turned away and the NHC has cancelled all warnings associated with the storm.
• The 2007 Pacific typhoon season began with Tropical Storm Kong-rey forming on March 31.
• There were a total of 7 cyclones in the southern hemisphere: Becky in the South Pacific, Indlala and Jaya in the Southwestern Indian Ocean and Odette, George, Jacob and Kara in the Australian region. Indlala killed at least 80 and left over 100,000 homeless; whilst Cyclone George was the worst storm to affect Port Hedland in over 30 years.

Member of the month

Cyclone barnstar

The April member of the month is HurricaneIrene. Irene began contributing to tropical cyclone articles on Wikipedia in August 2005, but ran out of steam and left after barely 2 weeks. However, Irene's influence on the project has been wide-reaching. Her efforts led directly to two articles attaining featured status and her legacy inspired many of our most active editors to write a plethora of good articles on a wide range of storms.

New and improved articles

• The was one new featured article: Hurricane Kenna
• New Good articles include: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Hurricane Florence (1988), Tropical cyclone observation and 1996 Pacific hurricane season.
• New storm articles include: Hurricane Lili (1990), Tropical Storm Alberto (1988), Cyclone George and Typhoon Durian.
• New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone naming, list of cyclones in Western Australia, Hurricane evacuation route and Tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting.

Main Page content

• Hurricane Iniki appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on March 15.
• Entries from 2 articles: Hurricane Katrina (1981) and Hurricane Guillermo (1997) appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during March.

Storm article statistics

Grade	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
FA	23	25	28	29
A	2	2	2	2
GA	74	75	80	82
B	71	76	78	80
Start	193	195	194	209
Stub	16	16	16	17
Total	379	389	398	419
percentage Less than B	55.1	54.2	52.8	53.9

The Main Page

The WikiProject has a narrow scope, so it is not surprising that our articles are not frequently selected for Today's featured article. Most destructive cyclones are likely to be mentioned on the In the news column. We have no real control over that, but we should submit suggestions when appropriate.

However, we can do a more lot more to place our content in the other major section of the main page: The Did you know column. In the past month we created over 30 articles. Of these only 2 were even submitted as suggestions for DYK. We can do much better, please submit DYK entries for new articles when you do the initial assessment.

Re:please decide on it soon!

Hi. It wasn't meant to be a joke on my part. I only remebered that there was a motto like that after you showed it to me. I was wondering where the April fools' nominations had gone, I couldn't find it in the history. Also, I see you turned your page into AAAAAAAAAA! Why not add the diagonal banner at the top? Thanks. AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)} 14:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

If you haven't found them already, the April Fools' Day nominations are here. As for the border, I might add it later, maybe. --Tewy 19:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Sponge quotes

• See: Wikipedia:Quotations. -AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 19:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The Motto

I want to post this motto @ MOTD if you like it:

Over the river and through the woods to editing Wikipedia I go!

If I nominate I'll be sure to format it like this: AstroHUrricane001 proposed it; motivation from Squeak (see User talk:Steptrip#That Box for further information). Tell me if you like it.  ~Steptrip 23:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

RFB vote

Ah, that's great. I hope I didn't jump in too early... by the way, I have answered your question at the help desk about popups... or at least, I think that I answered it (correctly, that is). Happy editing, Gracenotes^T § 01:31, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Nesolagus

AstroHurricane, Most times when ecologists and biologists don't know why an organism is exceptionally rare they say it "may be habitat loss." That's all the reference said. [Mαc Δαvιs] (How's my driving?) ❖ 00:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Since that's what the source said, I don't see why we can't say it, too. Instead of removing the content, find a better source that explains it better. - UtherSRG (talk) 01:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

The only thing is that there are not many sources period. On Google Scholar the relevant sources start falling off by the second page. I suppose my argument doesn't look so good, but I still believe "may be due to habitat loss" should be removed because the answer is not known. [Mαc Δαvιs] (How's my driving?) ❖ 01:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

By the way AstroHurricane, I think it was exceptionally good of you to notify each of us of the happenings and get us to talk about it. I personally believe it is from to recent speciation due to habitat bubbling from sea level rise after the Pliocene epoch. The sea level rose (and ironically) this cut off the ancestor(s) of the Nesolagus from each other and put them in their own separate bubbles; they turned into their own species (plural), but there were only few of them in each bubble, and they weren't that suited to begin with in the new native land.[3][4]

During glacial maxima, sea levels over the Sunda shelf were almost 150 metres lower than today, connecting Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the Asian mainland7. The ancestral Nesolagus may have been distributed over areas of this region at a time of lower sea level in the Pliocene, and its range would have been repeatedly dissected by periodic changes in both sea level and forest habitat.

The contraction and expansion of ranges in and out of such allopatric refugia can generate divergence, with the sister genomes being protected by hybrid zones if they make contact, leading to speciation⁹. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mac Davis (talk • contribs) 03:17, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you/It's a pleasure

Thanks for signing my page, and for caring about my sig being there (most people would have relished the chance to mercilessly delete something). And: it's a pleasure, signing yours. Happy Editing! Goldfritter 08:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

For the sig Mr. AstroHurricane001The New Mikemoral