User talk:Rhynchosaur

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Shark page insident[edit]

Hi!

It, looks like your edits to the shark page is safe now, good that the matter it settled peacefully. On thing is that when you write on talk pages it is very good if you can sign your edits using four ~ character, then others can see who write what and when. Also it is nice to indent what you say with :, that way it is easier to see when one person starts and another ends, you can stack the : so that my first comment on the shark page I used one :, the next reply would have been using :: and so on. Anyway, it looks like you know a lot about sharks which is my favourite subject on wikipedia, I'm glad to have you here, lets improve the articles a lot, thanks! Stefan 01:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't mention it. Something I know and something I find on the net. I'll try to experiment with signtures and such in the future.

Rhynchosaur

Tuatara on peer review[edit]

Hi Rhynchosaur, maybe you would like to comment on the current state of the tuatara article? I've listed it for peer review: Wikipedia:Peer review/Tuatara/archive1. Many thanks in advance!

Samsara _contrib ^talk 19:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Sorry for the late reply. I havn't been logged in for a long time. The current state of the article is excellent as far as I can see, and I have nothing to add myself (even if I may find something more interesting information on the net later). Nice improvements.

Rhynchosaur

What references did you work from? We need to support a couple more points with references, and then we'll have a Featured Article. Would be really great if you could share your little secret. ^^ Samsara (talk • contribs) 22:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cut-and-paste[edit]

Please do not cut and paste articles from their correct titles (Rapunzel Unbraided) to wrong titles (Rapunzel (film)). Georgia guy 17:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never has. It is official that Rapunzel Unbraided now has changed its name to just Rapunzel (check out imdb). Rhynchosaur 22:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You say you got your info from imdb, which in turn got its info from... Georgia guy 23:12, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, but they wouldn't change it without a good reason. And since Siggraph 2006 now has started, it is probably just a matter of time before we hear and see something new from the project, including the title. As far as I know, the "Unbraided" in the title was originally added because of the original Shrek-inspired humor, but since this story line is now abandoned, it is no longer needed. Rhynchosaur 23:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb is, unfortunately, not necessarily a reliable source. It takes user submissions, much as Wikipedia does. At this point it's difficult to assess the accuracy of a name change using only IMDb. This also leaves unaddressed the fact that you performed the page move incorrectly. =) Powers 00:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Decompiculture[edit]

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WP:NEO sourced only to the paper that coined it; can only find a couple of other mentions of Myles using the word, and no wider adoption. (Artist Jae Rhim Lee appears to use the word in an unrelated sense.)

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Bat[edit]

Hi, sorry to have to revert your addition. We're in the late stages of an FAC here. Evolution including of echolocation is discussed at length; if we were going to add anything on that topic it'd be in the evolution section, but the article already discusses when the capability evolved, and whether it happened just once. And of course we're very sensitive to citation formats, etc etc. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:49, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Butterfly[edit]

Hi, and thanks for your contribution. You'll see I've formatted it so that it fits into the article with the same style of citation used throughout, and the names of species or genera in italics. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:50, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You welcome. I wrote "Most Heliconius" instead of "All Heliconius" because there is a couple of exceptions, but wasn't sure if it would justify another link: "All Heliconius species feed on pollen, including Heliconius doris. Related genera including Eueides and Podotricha do not pollen feed, and the behaviour is otherwise unknown among the butterflies. The origin of this behaviour therefore represents a single evolutionary event that has been considered a 'key innovation' in the diversification of the genus. The one anomaly is the Neruda clade (Heliconius aoede, H. metharme, H. godmani), which do not pollen feed. Molecular analyses clearly support these species as part of the genus Heliconius, suggesting that pollen feeding has been secondarily lost." Link Rhynchosaur (talk) 11:20, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I've been thinking about it, and basically I see this as something that's at Heliconius or similar level (i.e. a subsidiary article on family or genus) rather than butterflies-in-general – certainly it doesn't apply to every family and hence not to the whole. It's therefore doubtful whether we should mention the adaptation at all. What we don't want in the article (and this is a completely general point) is to cite a lot of single-family, single-genus or single-species primary research papers, saying this family does this, that species does that: that would be the opposite of an account of the whole group. So I'm feeling that we're starting to take the article in the wrong direction. I'd agree that if we have a section on feeding we could say that in the main, all families get their protein as larvae, but..., and describe the Heliconius exception; we need in that style to take great care to make the narrative coherent so the main story (feed up as larva, reproduce as adult) doesn't get obscured. I haven't reverted the edit, but the thought did cross my mind, and we definitely don't want to go on and on into sub-sub-sub-group complexity: the article is about butterflies-in-general, and we have a whole tree of subsidiary articles for the subsidiary details. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:31, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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