User talk:PDH

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Citrus canker

I think that your citrus canker article is quite well done and I thank you for it. I myself have lost several trees to the disease and I didn't even realize that we didn't have an article on this subject. This link is Broken 2 July 2005 20:55 (UTC)

Image... Not PD?

Hello. A few minutes ago I added Fall Creek Falls.png [1], believing it to be Public Domain, as I have seen several times on Wikipedia that US Government images are Public Domain. As the image came from the Tennessee State Parks Department, I just assumed it was. I am not complaining, I applaud your diligence if I am in error. Could you please point out where I have made the mistake? Thank you very much. Dan the Man Khan July 3, 2005 01:30 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chagas disease

The article has been changed to adress our concerns. Could you please review your vote? - Mgm|^(talk) July 3, 2005 20:36 (UTC)

User:Bedel23

You blocked User:Bedel23 for "vandalism and creation of attack pages" but I see no evidence of either of these offenses. Please explain this block. Kelly Martin July 5, 2005 00:22 (UTC)

Moving a Category title

Hi! I think Category:Adelaide Parks and Gardens needs to move to Category:Adelaide parks and gardens to align with the case of similar cats: Category:Brisbane parks and gardens and Category:Melbourne parks and gardens. There doesn't appear a way a mere mortal editor can do this without losing the Category history. Can your admin powers assist?--Takver 5 July 2005 01:24 (UTC)

Women project

Haven't seen anything more on this for a while - still interested? Ambi 5 July 2005 14:35 (UTC)

Birmingham Gun Quarter

Hi Peta, sorry to bother you again but the Gun Quarter, Birmingham edit history still does not reflect my initial addition which basically took me about one and a half days of my life to research and write over a period of several weeks after my day job, I really do not understand why ALL of the edit history was removed, I can understand the copy violation work being removed but every single edit since this (initial edit by me): 18:26, 5 Jun 2005 . . 195.92.67.65 (restoring to last version after the copyright violation was removed, a lot of work went into that thank you.) is non copywrite and should still be able to be viewed, otherwise my effort (and many others hard work) has been a complete waste of time, anyone could have written the main of the article and other members are now questioning what I have written (i.e. the person that asked you to sort it out in the first place?), please can you restore the edit history, I am really unhappy that it is all gone? Why did you delete everything? Thanks NickBoulevard.

I have just stumbled across your inclusion of the first page after the copyright vio, thanks for that but but I did not receive a response to indicate you had done this, please do not make out that it is by my pestering that you have been forced to do this, why did you delete page history on the Jewellery Quarter that was clearly non copyright violation in the first place, I am bemused as the current article does not contain any copyright material at all? You have lost much of my original work on this article by removing the edit history the version you have reverted to is not the one that I took the time to re-write? please can you re-add all the pages that you deleted after this edit, please? if it was down to a particular user that you did this then state this? how would you like it if I deleted page history of articles that you had taken several hours to write? Please respond, thanks Nick Boulevard 23:47, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I meant Gun Quarter not Jewellery Quarter, the old gun quarter article was listed as copyright violation, so I took the trouble to write a totally new (in my own words) article which bore no resemblance whatsoever to any article on or off the internet, I then followed the procedure set out in Wikipedia and I added it to the temp page, someone else had already added a brief intro that was questioned by Brumburger or Andy Mabbett who then deleted the whole page including my work saying it was copyright vio again, Ray Girvan cleared this intro as being ok and so the page remained, what we see there today is the by-product of my hard work, not only the research and citing of sources but the initial framework of the article, you were contacted by Brumburger in some way and asked to delete the page history that was copyright but as I understand you decided to remove all of the page history which is totally unfair, it was clear by reading the temp page talk that the new article was not copyright vio in any way, now please either explain why you removed my work unfairly or I would rather that you simply restore the following edit history to indicate that I am the original author of the clean article, Brumburger is now conveniently disputing this.

I realise that you cannot restore everything but please, all I ask is that you restore these pages to start from the beginning of the edit history and I will be really grateful Peta, I believe that you may have been embroiled in a dispute here without knowing it?.

19:27, 14 Jun 2005 . . Nick Boulevard (American trade - prime example of my p.c. logging me out again, sorry that last edit was by me.)

19:25, 14 Jun 2005 . . 195.92.67.69 (American trade)

19:22, 14 Jun 2005 . . 195.92.67.69 (American trade - American or foreign trade???)

20:24, 13 Jun 2005 . . Nick Boulevard (m)

20:22, 13 Jun 2005 . . Nick Boulevard (I have restored a section now named Gun Making that another user contributed before the coyright violation page was removed.)

11:33, 13 Jun 2005 . . Pigsonthewing (copy vio)

09:46, 13 Jun 2005 . . Pigsonthewing (cat link name)

09:17, 13 Jun 2005 . . Pigsonthewing (rv.)

23:09, 12 Jun 2005 . . Nick Boulevard (Goverment Orders - m)

23:07, 12 Jun 2005 . . Nick Boulevard (Goverment Orders - m)

23:05, 12 Jun 2005 . . Nick Boulevard (I am working on the American section which is quite interesting.)

Thanks Nick Boulevard 18:07, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou, regardless of what you may think, I could have taken Brumburger to question over this but I am not interested in any dispute, I merely wanted my work to be restored and now that it is I am very please, thanks Peta. Thats all Nick Boulevard 23:10, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Grafton Bus Crash

I've expanded the article Grafton Bus Crash that you voted to delete. Please look again and consider changing your vote. Thanks. --ScottDavis 6 July 2005 14:13 (UTC)

Moving Red Deer

I've noticed that you've moved the Red deer article to Red Deer, which has created over 40 double redirects, which you have not fixed. My understanding is that there is no clear Wiki consensus on capitalisation of animal names, especially in ambiguous cases, such as with the Red deer, thus the article's previous name was probably acceptable. I currently don't have the time to fix all the double-redirects, but I would suggest that it may be simpler to move the article back to its original location, given the capitalisation ambiguity. The Red Deer article should probably remain a redirect, although the inflow of new articles that link to Red Deer, Alberta as Red Deer is quite sizeable (I often check "what links here" for the Red Deer to fix new indirect links, so I'm speaking from experience). I leave the final decision up to you, given that you're a sysop and all. --Aramգուտանգ 7 July 2005 06:28 (UTC)

Fixed. Tannin

PS: nice work on Australian fauna, BTW. The article is starting to shape up pretty well now. I like the way you get into a task and stick to it till it's done. Not like me — I'm a wiki butterfly :( Tannin

Try Image:Pobblebonk.jpg. I might be able to find a Growling Grassfrog too, but the picture isn't mine and I'll have to ask permission. I'm a little tied up with another project tonight, but I'll slip by over the next few days and add a little more background to Australian fauna. Best Tannin 7 July 2005 12:03 (UTC)

Another Plato, reanimated

Hi Peta,

Is Image:Plato1.jpg a recreation of Image:Another_plato.jpg that you deleted recently. It was uploaded by User:Elle20 who appears to appears to be a close friend of User:Gabrichidze. -- Solipsist 7 July 2005 20:18 (UTC)

Hey

Hey, I hope your summer is going well. Do you still want to work on demining together? Or something else? I really enjoyed working with you before. Dave (talk) July 8, 2005 01:53 (UTC)

I saw Island Fox on the main page today. Good work! Dave (talk) 02:33, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

sounds good. I should have some free time tomorrow and Tuesday. Good luck with your work. Dave (talk) 03:17, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Scorpaenoidei

Hey, I have just noticed that you erroneously merged the scorpionfish article with the stonefishes article. The two are different fish families (Scorpaenidae and Synanceiidae respectively), and should have separate articles. I think you may have been confused by the fact that they're both members of the Scorpaenoidei suborder (see the Scorpaeniformes article for clarification). I reverted your changes, so you don't have to worry about it. However, I would also like to point out that when you made the scorpionfish article redirect to stonefishes, you created over a dozen double-redirects. If I'm not mistaken, this is the second time I've brought double-redirects caused by your changes to your attention, so please exercise more caution in the matter in the future. Thanks. --Aramգուտանգ 11:53, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Chanel Islands

There are not only 8-there are 10. Anacapa is a group of three islands. An island is an island, doesnt matter how big it is. If you insist on saying eight, change it to eight main islands or something. 24.14.92.28 22:34, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

redirect at Croatian War

You accidentally deleted it? :) --Joy [shallot]

re:Sharbat Gula images

I have not been able to find a reasonable fair use argument for these images, hopefully since these are now in the need of second opinion page somebody who knows copyright law better than I can help clear this up because as you said these images are definately in the grey area. Jtkiefer 19:33, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Plum pox, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• • Sir Benjamin Durban**

Your article on Benjamin D'urban needs to be updated with the more detailed version under sir benjamin d'urban

New Zealand To Do (and Tas Devils)

Hey nixie. I've transferred the to do list you added to the NZ talk-page to a template, and in the process, removed your signature. I hope you don't mind (if you do, just holler and I'll return it). Oh, and sorry for not getting back to you on Tasmanian Devil. I'll try to have a go at some more in depth copy-editing, and perhaps even some expansion. I must admit, biology is not an area in which I can profess much knowledge. Just on that article though, the statistic which states that half the Devil population has been lost to the tumors should probably have a reference. All in all, it seems pretty complete and not really needing much further effort. Great work, --Cyberjunkie | Talk 14:18, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I didn't notice it was referenced further down, so what I said is largely irrelevant. I'm misreading a lot tonight.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 14:27, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Fauna of Australia

This is a great overview of Australian fauna. The size and content mostly seems about right to me. I think it's good having it all on one page but I wonder if something like the mammals section should be condensed a bit and expanded in its own page. The images are really good - just needs some birds and invertebrates. Rhys 04:14, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Norman Borlaug main page

I've replaced the image with a PD one. Can you support the article to be on the main page, here.

Thanks. --brian0918™ 03:21, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

William Brydon

Hi, Re the above, would you pls point out your objections, so that they may be addressed? If there are any copyvios, they are possibly minor and easily remediable. Thx. --Peripatetic 23:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

With respect, if you could point out the sentences that need rewording, I'll gladly do so. I disagree that entire paras have been lifted as this is not the case. Thanks. --Peripatetic 00:02, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I was under the impression that paraphrasing was acceptable. It may be that I was misinformed. What are the acceptable bounds of paraphrasing on WP, if any? --Peripatetic 00:19, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi,

Since you have contributed to aircraft articles, you may be interested in a survey currently underway to help develop a revised version of our standard specifications section. Bobblewik 19:46, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Great Job

hey,

i just want to say that you've done a great job on the Tasmanian Devil. Very well written and thought out. I'm woundering when you plan on nominating it to be a featured article? --ZeWrestler ^Talk 17:08, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

• In reply: - It was my pleasure to help out on this article. I enjoyed learning about the Tasmanian Devil, and was happy that I could be of service with the Peer Review for this article. I'll be voting my support for it a little later today as well. Once again, good work with the article, and hopefully, I'll be able to work on some other articles again with you in the future. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 12:06, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Deleted images

Hi, I noticed that you deleted the images Image:Singapore Vanda Miss Joaquim.gif and Image:Circle Line map, Singapore.gif due to copyright violations but you hadn't removed the references to the images from various pages. I'd like to request you to remove the images from the pages that use them prior to deleting them in future. There's an explicit instruction to admins to make sure the images are not linked to at WP:IFD#General but this instruction seems to be missing from WP:CP. Thanks! -- Paddu 07:10, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

New Zealand

Hi, I noticed that you rolled back the link to the New Zealand Edge site on the New Zealand homepage. If you could take the time to explore the New Zealand Edge website you might notice that it contains a wealth of information about New Zealand and New Zealanders, including many excellent stories about some of New Zealand's greatest unsung heroes. Perhaps you could restore the link or find a more apposite location for it?

guess who

I see you have just left a message on a user page. You'll never guess who is the owner of that sockpuppet!!! Yup. that individual.

FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 06:30, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Two points

1. I translate Chinese science into English www.geocities.com/kevin_mccready_au

2. discussion page/talk page is used interchangeably on Wikipedia and confused me as a newbie. Mccready 14:34, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Soil

Thanks for catching on so quick that soil science is not a sub-science of agriculture. This is a common and absolutely understandable mis-conception, as common as considering soil science a sub-discipline of geology. The establishment of the International Union of Soil Sciences in 1924 confirmed soil science as an independent science, separate from the biological sciences and geological sciences. Interesting is that agriculture does not have an independent international union to represent it. Agriculture appears to be, at best, a sub-discipline of the biological sciences.

Article Improvement drive

Hey,

Since your an admin, can you do me a favor and take a [[Wikipedia_talk:This_week's_improvement_drive#Votes_changed.2Fremoved.2Fadded|look at this]. Something doesn't add up to a change that a user made, and I believe that it probally has compromised the integrity of the Improvement drive. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 19:08, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Category:Agriculture

Copied from User talk:Pollinator Why are you reverting the changes I adn other people have made moving aricles out of Category:Agriculture into its subcats? As it is the category is ineffective becuase of all the random stuff that is in there.--nixie 04:22, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I have no issue with other categories being added, but for some reason you and Maureen seem to have unilaterally decided to delete the agriculture category. Since such a huge change is being made with no discussion, I regard that as borderline vandalism. The agriculture category is a broad category that should encompass the entire scope of agriculture. When one looks for information on agriculture, he should not be forced to go through a complicated file tree to find what he wants. Wikipedia should be user friendly. Pollinator 04:34, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your support at Category:Agriculture. Maurreen 05:43, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Agriculture in Australia

What are you doing? Josh Parris ✉ 08:13, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

You and User talk:Pollinator seem to have fallen into a revert war. Which I would understand if either of you were, I dunno, clueless newbies pushing a serious POV about some genocide somewhere. A revert war over categories!??!' You're both serious, experienced wikipedians! Talk it out, get mediation, take a break! Josh Parris ✉ 08:28, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Page protection

Please protect Western United States and it's redirect American West. A problem user lost his POV duplicate article, childishly put it up for Vfd when talk page consensus went against him and lost, and now his (accidentally admitted) sockpuppet is making threats of POVing the merged article (Western United States). I'd protect it but I seem to be the anti-christ in his eyes, so that wouldn't be appropriate. -JCarriker 11:56, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

I hate to file a personal RFC, but I don't think he's going to go away— he's determined to make the article reflect his opinion alone. I probably should ask the other users involved what they want to do. Do you have any suggestions, BTW way if I know CPret <shudders>, probably be enragged by your protection. -JCarriker 12:15, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

• I've tried an article RFC for American West no one showed up, I guess filing an RFC for Western US wouldn't hurt anything, but I'm skeptical it would solve the problem. User:DialUp agrees with CPret/DHarjo, but DialUp has not made threats, childish Vfd nominations, or pretended to leave only to recede into an existing sockpuppet account. It's DialUp's bad attitude and behavior that are causing the problems not his opinions. Again, thanks. -JCarriker 12:31, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Agronomy portal

Hi Peta Holmes, I saw you did quite a lot of work in various agronomy-related articles. Do you like the iodea of an agronomy-portal? Do you know other agronomist Wikipedians which would like this idea too? Regards, Germen --Germen (Talk | Contribs File:Nl small.gif) 23:25, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Cochineal

I am not sure if the all changes introduced by User:Taxman on Cochineal page are real improvements, at least a) and b). I am not a native English speaker, that's correct, but in the case of a) constructions like "the method consists in putting baskets called Zapotec nests on cacti, which is a method known to be used in the past centuries" do not look sane for me. Also edit b) in my opinion is not perfect either, because I don't think that mixing life stage description and distribution of the specie in the same paragraph is a step towards better prose. I would discuss this on Article talk page, but now I am confused a bit and I need an opinion of native English speaker. DariusMazeika 23:34, 26 July 2005 (UTC)