User talk:Goliathus

Welcome!

Hello, Goliathus, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Morpho ID

Hi; thanks muchly for catching and correcting the bad ID at Morpho. It wasn't my image and I didn't insert it, but I did write the article it illustrates. (M. menelaus and M. godarti are my images, however; I'm fairly sure their IDs are good.) It's great to see another (amateur?) entomologist join the project! I hope you stick around. :) Cheers, -- Hadal 02:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Beetle

Since you were so kind in helping me identify that Pelidnota Punctata beetle I was hoping you could help me with this one:

It made a loud "Zhee zhee zhee zhee!" sound when I picked it up.PiccoloNamek 01:10, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's family Passalidae. Goliathus

Thanks!

I added the proper name to the "Beetle" article and also added the picture to the article for this specific beetle. If I find anymore unknown beetles I'll be sure to ask you. ;) PiccoloNamek 08:13, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I like beetles

I noticed that there isn"t a lot on your disscusion page because not a lot of people like dung beetles!!! Lol!!! I like beetles though. And cocroaches. fell free to post on my page about 'em.--Calvinsupergenius 16:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting

Say you wantd to revert my talk page. First you would open the history [1]. If you know which version you want then just click on the date/time for that one. If you don't know which one then choose two dates using the little round buttons to the left click on "compare selected version". Then you can go back and forth to see which is the correct version.

The "Reverted edits by ----- (talk) to last version by ----" is generated automatically when an admin uses the rollback button. You can do it manually by typing in Reverted edits by [[User:Goliathus]] ([[User talk:Goliathus|Talk]]) to last version by 293.xx.xxx.xx, which produces:

Reverted edits by User:Goliathus (Talk) to last version by 293.xx.xxx.xx

By the way 293.xx.xxx.xx is a real user and the reason that talk is bold is because we are already on your talk page.

Also, if you haven't seen them already you should look at Wikipedia:Tools, Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups and User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool. Using the second one will allow you to do a sort of rollback and produce edit summaries like this: (Revert to revision 41560305 using popups). Hope this helps. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External links

I see that you've been contributing for a while, so I won't just revert outright. However, the very many additions of external links to your own site (goliathus.com) would definitely be frowned upon: Please do not add links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. I'd like to ask you to consider adding some of your content to Wikipedia or even the Commons (so that other language Wikipedias can re-use it). dewet|™ 15:15, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

request concerning dung beetles

hello, i noticed that you had linked some pretty photos to the dung beetle article. every sign indicates that you are a true connoiseur of beetles, so i venture to ask that if you could help find an image of Scarabaeus sacer for illustrating the article... cheers :) --K.C. Tang 04:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chilean rose tarantula

I noticed that on the Chilean rose tarantula page, you removed some information stating that the rosea wants a low humidity. As mentioned on talk page, I don't believe this is wrong information. Other keepers seems to have experienced the same as me with regards to humidity. I don't want to start a war or step on anybody, so I'm just going to ask and if you don't agree to this, I won't do anything about it other than possibly argue some more. :-)

The reason I'm addressing this is also based on some personal experience. I was told in the store where I bought my first tarantula a year ago that it needed a high humidity. This was based on advice they had found on the Internet. I've later seen the same advice more places on the net, but it has never had any deeper arguments than "this is what all tarantulas need". Eventually, I started to discover that it seems all books and many experienced keepers did not agree with this advice and recommended keeping the humidity between 50-60% for this species. I've noticed that after I reduced it the tarantula seemed much more comfortable judged by it no longer trying to climb to higher grounds, something it always did whenever humidity got above 70%.

This cost me time (and a few bucks) having to basically empty the spider's home of everything and adding new substrate to get the humidity down. And while it didn't kill the spider, I imagine it wasn't that much fun for it either living in an environment where it were not comfortable. All of this would've been avoided if I weren't given what in my opinion was wrong advice to begin with.

--Debolaz 03:41, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]