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:Hello Llez, thanks for your note and for the list of books. Well, at least I got the window right! Really it is amazing how shiny some of those cowries are, it's as if they were glassed! :) I am gradually putting more and more of your images into articles. [[User:Invertzoo|Invertzoo]] ([[User talk:Invertzoo#top|talk]]) 00:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
:Hello Llez, thanks for your note and for the list of books. Well, at least I got the window right! Really it is amazing how shiny some of those cowries are, it's as if they were glassed! :) I am gradually putting more and more of your images into articles. [[User:Invertzoo|Invertzoo]] ([[User talk:Invertzoo#top|talk]]) 00:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

== Thanks for Sharing Pictures ==

--[[Special:Contributions/75.169.12.223|75.169.12.223]] ([[User talk:75.169.12.223|talk]]) 14:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)Hello,
My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Wikipedia/Wikimedia freeware picture. I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site:
1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at:
http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at:
http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at:
http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm
Slang Dictionary link at:
http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely, 
Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com--[[Special:Contributions/75.169.12.223|75.169.12.223]] ([[User talk:75.169.12.223|talk]]) 14:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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Fabulous work

I am sitting in your presentation at the Wiki NYC Conference. Fabulous work on gastropods. Thank you. :)--Jimbo Wales (talk) 21:01, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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Mattheus Marinus Schepman

Thanks for the copy edit. I was trying hard to avoid WP:copyvio, whilst creating a lot of content, and it needed help. It also needs review by someone like you, who is into the subject matter. Nice job. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:23, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is from just the first 40 listings under "Schepman" when I conducted an advanced search of Wikipedia. here. Might save you some time. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:40, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This is way beyond my area of expertise. I said "beyond my ken" but that's already 'copyrighted.' I only got involved because it was being deleted, and that was a really unspeakable result. In any event, we should be able to get a DYK out of this. Can you handle it? I'm supposed to be working on real life right now. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:07, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
replied to you. I trust that will assuage your concern. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:05, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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stubs

hello Invertzoo! Hope the storm wasn't too bad in your neck of the woods. i'm writing to you because an editor is impeding me from creating any stubs, and is subsequently tagging them for speedy deletion. i am obviously unable to continue working for the gastropods project in that regard until this editor is told off by someone. would you mind taking a look at my talk page? cheers! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 11:19, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading images from journal articles - (c) issues

Hi Invertzoo. I am confused about the Wikipedia (c) issues. I know that we can't just upload anything out there on the internet, unless it has a Creative Commons license or is legitimately public domain. So then, how is it people can upload SEM images from journal articles? See, e.g. the images in protoconch. I am confused and would like to be able to upload similar images for prodissoconch that I have found on the internet - but are from published journal articles. I do not have my very own Scanning Electron Microscope in my shell-cave! Shellnut (talk) 05:50, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Those are from open access journals (the entire content is CC-licensed, just like wiki), note the license at the bottom of this page. Most journals are not at this point in time. --99of9 (talk) 06:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Eisenack

thanks for your edits on A. Eisenack - it really improved the page! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmertens (talk • contribs) 14:37, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Juliidae mollusk and shell images

Hi Invertzoo! I found some really neat images of Juliidae on the internet and contacted the author/photographer via e-mail. He is not interested in joining Wikipedia as an editor (too much time involved he thinks), but I have asked him whether he would be willing to sign a Creative Commons copyright release. Where can I get one if he agrees? Do you need one for each image, or would a blanked one for a website be sufficient? His images of these fascinating gastropods are are incredible (see site at http://seaslugsofhawaii.com/ ). Please let me know what you think. Shellnut (talk) 19:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again Shellnut. I hope you don't mind, I copied your question onto the talk page of User talk:Moonriddengirl, an editor who is very nice, very bright, and very active in WikiProject Copyrights. I don't know much about the process of getting official permission from other people to use their images, having only done it twice before... with lots of help from Moonriddengirl! The process used to be rather hard to do at our end, but perhaps it has gotten easier more recently, I don't know. In any case, she is the one to ask. Best to you as always, Invertzoo (talk) 22:00, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Invertzoo. :) WP:Declaration of consent is the form that's needed. He can use the same form for as many images as he wants, but the more specific his language is the better. If he is willing to license all content published as of this date, for instance, he should say so. If he is willing to release all content on certain subpages, etc. This protects him and us! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:54, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Trimusculidae and Siphonariidae images and articles

Hi Invertzoo! Pursuant to your expressed wishes, today I uploaded images for Trimusculidae and Siphonariidae and created stub species articles on: Trimusculus reticulatus, Siphonaria diemenensis, Siphonaria gigas, Siphonaria hispida, Siphonaria lessoni, and Siphonaria normalis. I will move on to other little white cap shells, Hipponicidae and Calyptraeidae as time permits. Enjoy!!! Shellnut (talk) 18:31, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WOW! How great is that! Thanks so much for rescuing these interesting groups from obscurity! Terrific work! Invertzoo (talk) 02:42, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher Cattle article

Thanks for improving on my writing. Blackash have a chat 14:07, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are very welcome Blackash. Please check to make sure I did not change the meaning on anything you wrote... Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 14:23, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
All the info is correct and follows the refs. Great work. Blackash have a chat 23:22, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Invertzoo, you might want to have a look here. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:43, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much FoCuS for calling my attention to that discussion! Invertzoo (talk) 14:51, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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My pictures

Hallo Invertzoo, thank you for your comment and the complimemts. I'll insert also pictures in genus descriptions. It is a good idea. Some minutes ago, I added one to the "Actinella" article. --Llez (talk) 18:24, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject gastropods

HiInvertZoo,

I have been impressed by your work, and I'm often looking for places to put some underwater photographs which might be useful to others. I've a lifelong interest in Nudibranchs, SCUBA, UW photography. I'm a marine biologist, based in Ireland. Not sure about details of protocols with wikipedia - I use facebook a lot, so uncomfortable with anonymity! I do get it when it comes to wikipedia though, as I can't stand narcissistic people. Hard to get it just right.

I'll try and get myself a bit more organised and add more to Wikipedia.

BernardP (talk) 14:14, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your friendly note BernardP. It's always very nice to talk to a marine biologist; I am a serious amateur malacologist, so I am interested in both marine and non-marine mollusks. My name IRL is Susan J. Hewitt. I am British but I live in NYC. I did a couple of weeks intensive mapping of non-marine mollusks in Ireland, back in the 1970s. Any nudibranch images that you would like to upload to Commons would be most welcome!
Invertzoo (talk) 18:33, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing images

Hi,

If I wanted to get a picture from someone - eg here http://www.fishbase.org/photos/thumbnailssummary.php?ID=5574# and it was CC-BY-NC (the Jim Greenfield one) how should I do that? (He is a contact of mine from years ago). Can I just take it and upload it to Commons, then add it to a page?

BernardP (talk) 17:11, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again Bernard. To be honest, I am not really very knowledgeable about copyright stuff. I would recommend that you ask my Wiki friend Moonriddengirl here on her talk page. She is very active in Project Copyrights, and I am sure she will give you the right answer. Best to you, Invertzoo (talk) 18:45, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Hi Bernard, CC-BY-NC stands for CC by Attribution Non-commerical. That license is not acceptable on Commons where images need to be made available for both commericial and non-commercial purposes. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:43, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thank you, Invertzoo. Your compliment is much appreciated. That was a fun article to put together...made all the better by nice photogaphs in the Wikimedia library. Enviromet (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Area of Interest

Thank you for the invite to project bi-valve. My area of interest is not specifically with bi-valves, though I have nothing against them. In fact my best friend is a bi-valve. Seriously, I'm interested in the entire natural world, but most focused on inter-tidal life along the coast of California (many of these creatures extend south into Mexico and north to Alaska). I'm an active trained volunteer intertidal naturalist at a marine reserve. I am also a citizen scientist working with the California Academy of Sciences on a couple of on-going projects. I would be interested in doing more articles for Wikipedia, but I'm very strapped for free time. It would need to be totally flexible and limited. Let me know your thoughts.Ssakolsnow (talk) 11:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reflections on shells and Mollusc literature

Hallo Invertzoo. I try to avoid reflections on the shells, but in this case is was impossible. So we have reflections, but it is impossible, by the way the photos were taken, that you can see me (and I have also no pictures on the wall). You asked also for books. Very good to genus level (but the overall taxonomy is not up to date due to the publishing date) are the two volumes of Johannes Thiele “Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde”. Landsnails worldwide you find in R. Tucker Abbott “Compendium of landshells”, marine species of the European coasts in F. Nordsieck “Die europäischen Meeresschnecken : (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae, Rissoacea)”, “Die europäischen Meeres-Gehäuseschnecken : (Prosobranchia)“. In many cases I also try to loan special literature by the library, e.g. Mary S. Seddon “The landsnails of Madeira”, a very good work with all species of the Archipelago depicted and described, or, concerning the Albinaria species of Crete, the publication of F.W. Welter-Schulters in the Arch. Molluskenkunde 139 “Revision of the genus Albinaria in Crete (Greece): presence of geographically variable monotypic and polytypic species“. Very good for determining European land snails is the webside of the University of Göttingen (http://www.animalbase.org/) with many descriptions (partly with links to scans of old publications with the original descriptions) and pictures. You see, if necessary, I go down to monography or even to original descriptions. --Llez (talk) 14:37, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Llez, thanks for your note and for the list of books. Well, at least I got the window right! Really it is amazing how shiny some of those cowries are, it's as if they were glassed! :) I am gradually putting more and more of your images into articles. Invertzoo (talk) 00:11, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for Sharing Pictures

--75.169.12.223 (talk) 14:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)Hello, My name is Duane Hurst and I recently made a free (non-commercial) English web site to share information with people. I added links to your Wikipedia/Wikimedia freeware picture. I also gave credit to you on my web pages for your work. Thank you for sharing with the public. My website is:[reply]

http://www.freeenglishsite.com/

I add pictures such as yours to one of the following major sections of my site: 1. World section - contains information and over 10,000 images of every world country and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/index.htm

2. USA section - contains information and images of every USA state and territory. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/world/usa/index.htm

3. English section - "Mel and Wes" lessons in conversation format. Stories are located in various USA states and world countries such as China, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Thailand. Each lesson has many slang terms and idioms, which I link to my Slang Dictionary. This eventually will have over 5,000 terms. Currently, it has about 3,000 slang and idioms. I regularly add new lessons and slang terms. Link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/lessons/index.htm Slang Dictionary link at: http://www.freeenglishsite.com/english/slang/Eslang_a.htm

Prior to retirement, I taught English at several private and public universities in the United States.

Please share this free site with your friends. I hope all will enjoy the pictures and find the English information useful. Sincerely,  Duane Hurst in Utah, USA

Email address: duanerhurst@freeenglishsite.com--75.169.12.223 (talk) 14:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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