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5769:) in such maps. But in these cases the present range is usually nested within the former range like little islands - it's obvious that the species was also found in the areas where colour denotes it is presently found because of this arrangement. But with the Huia map there is a confusing dichotomy of north and south in the distribution change. What's the significance of this? I have thought about it and if we say "pre human range light green and pre 1840 range dark green" people will get confused.. you need to be able to show, visually, that the Huia was also found in the southern bit before humans arrived - so that people don't think they all lived in the north part of the NI in pre human times and all in the southern bit after humans arrived and before 1840 - see what I mean? My suggestion is that you modify the map and put diagonal bars of the same light green used in the northern part (sloping downwards to the right - which will look better in my opinion that if they were sloping the other way) through the southern portion of the north island (south of the line I e-mailed you) which is presently all dark green. Then, modify the caption to say something like this: 2269:

The problem in previous edits is the confusion with Alpha Centauri the star and Alpha Centauri as a system. There was much about alpha centauri, especially its brightness compared to Arcturus as well as the relationship with Proxima Centauri. (See the Discussion with the associated page to this article.) It was thought best to avoid complexity by giving the basic information, and add complexity in sections so information could be understood at various levels of knowledge. Also as there is much interest in Alpha Centauri from children to amateur astronomers, it was best to give the introduction as brief as possible and explain the complexities as we go. As to modifications of articles as drastically as you have done to complex article, it might be better to do so with some discussion in the discussion section before doing so. Although I note that you have much experience in doing wiki edits, much better than me, it is better to make small changes in complex articles paragraph by paragraph than carte blanche changes. (I am very happy to discuss any issues on the article with you in the alpha centauri discussion to improve the article.)

7642:—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody! 3007: 1645:. vii. 23). But also in these cases the doubt is not justified. For pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter. The principal reason why the Law forbids swine's flesh is to be found in the circumstance that its habits and its food are very dirty and loathsome. It has already been pointed out how emphatically the Law enjoins the removal of the sight of loathsome objects, even in the field and in the camp; how much more objectionable is such a sight in towns. But if it were allowed to eat swine's flesh, the streets and houses would be more dirty than any cesspool, as may be seen at present in the country of the Franks. 9852:. Her sire, Ralvon Pilgrim, may be close to 100% Crabbet, though to prove it I'd have to get anal enough to check to see if a few of the UK horses were Blunt/Wentworth's or not. His dam line looks to go to some of the oldest Australian bloodlines out there. Her dam, Nike, has some really old Au bloodlines too, all also go to the UK, many to Crabbet and there to the desert, some interesting horses there. Looks like she was one of the earlier folks to do the Egyptian/Crabbet crossbreeding that is now quite popular down there. Anyhow, the whole Crabbet saga is a great human interest story due to the people who got it going ( 9296: 2495: 2503: 3014: 7469: 4665:

required? Can I post questions on their talk page and elicit their support? Is that not presumptuous? And who has time for this stuff anyway? Is there a "white flag" that Wikipedians can raise on their talk page that says "Hey, I'm busy this month, don't bug me"? ...etc. It's often been said that if everybody is responsible, nobody is responsible. This is often the downside of "big teams", and so that's why I'm seeing perhaps a different module to get neophytes like me fully plugged in, making useful rather than superfluous contributions.

9342: 5181:, you'll see where I got my information. Now here is where the copyright concern comes in. Scroll down all the way to the very bottom. See the black line? It says "Copyright 2000 - 2010 © European Space Agency. All rights reserved." So I don't know what that means in terms of this Knowledge article. If I tell the reader in the body of the article that this information came from their website, then provide a reference, and then a link right to the information, is Knowledge covered insofar as copyright concerns? 642:

and reviewing it-- Yet, with my limited knowledge thus far on editing in general I feel that due to posts of the aforementioned type existence, that in order to better contribute to lovely Knowledge-- I need to learn all that I can to improve my contributions and conduct (ie What is appropriate to do when stumbling upon an opinion-based/biased/unreferenced article) i have no problem with simple edits, however I have a bit to learn on a larger scale for everyone's benefit. (coding is #1 in my problem area! help?)

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colonization of imagined planetary systems. These themes are common to many video games and works of science fiction." has little to do with the basic facts on alpha centauri. I.e. Nearest star, third brightest star, binary star, etc. As for "Kinematics" as a title, this is irrelevant (Sirius article also has it wrong). (Also see Discussion page for Alpha Centauri with SpacePotato) Note: I have contributed much to this page - 713 edits according to the statistics. (27th April 2008 to today)

10783: 9731: 6068: 4718:'declining' ratings is actually wholesale upscaling of the classes as wikipedia adopted inline referencing a couple of years ago. You can look in the history and compare an old version of those articles and see. Although pages list alot of editors, often only a handful are active. Luckily for me there have been a few folks interested in what I write about. Right now I generally concentrate editing on getting results - that is, editing to get to a stable point. My suggestions are (a) list 7522: 4081: 2043: 2332: 9947:. Ralvon Pilgrim reminds me of a Crabbet-bred stallion who was quite the mega-horse here in the 60s and early 70s, Serafix. Very nice horse, lovely neck and shoulder, in particular. Much more substance than AIH, who was a bit too "dry" for my tastes. The Au Arabs overall have done a nice job of keeping substance and athleticism, something that has gotten hit or miss in the US as breeding for specialization has gotten a little out of control, especially in the 8102: 7656: 7454: 11683: 11603: 11523: 11443: 11363: 10933: 10242: 9989: 8928: 8751: 8578: 8352: 6953: 6873: 6793: 6713: 6633: 6469: 6389: 6322: 6165: 6098: 7537: 7439: 7424: 4156:(Sommerville & May, 2006). Commonly known as banksia discs, they have all been found on eastern Australian Banksias and one is also known in Western Australia. They are discomycete fungi, growing on the fruit and appearing as small, shallow dark cups on the follicles (Fuhrer, 2005). When dry they fold inwards and look like narrow slits. Their effect is unkown but it seems unlikely that they are responsible for degradation of the seeds." 2351:

Similarly, you could argue for two pattern lines (dextral and sinistral spiral) or four (dextral, sinistral, vertical and horizontal), but there is no way you could argue for 3, because there is no reason to include vertical whilst excluding horizontal). On top of that there is a beautiful symmetry in the way each common bract is surrounded by its own floral bracts and those of its neighbours. But George's diagrams destroy that symmetry.

385: 376: 6008: 8509:. I recently more than doubled the size of the article and I was wondering if you could reassess it for me; while it's certainly a way off from GA atm, I am pretty sure it's above "start" class now.. I will try to make those last additions to "Huia" this week, I'm actively working to improve my time management so that i can get more done on wikpedia and this should hopefully allow for this to be done this week :) Cheers, 8416: 6546: 5995: 71: 9129:, may well be understandably quite put out by this proposal. He's been offline since you put up the merge template. Forgive me if this is unnecessary, but I don't know you. Please give him a good hearing and explain the rationale. He has, in my opinion, done a very good thing here, and deserves, and may need, to be extended patience and respect. Again, sorry if this was (as I strongly suspect) unnecessary. 603:

pages here and there, and adding images sometimes. I am more of a Knowledge reader than a writer, but on occasion I find something kind of cool and wish to share it with others, but because I'm unfamiliar with how to use all of the formatting, it is difficult. I would like to learn how to write things in a way that they are coherent and in the wiki-accepted format. The formatting bit drives me crazy.

8863: 3659:), or, alternatively, maybe enough for a GA on the genus. What are the chances of images? Apparently these fungi make small but visible apothecia on the seed capsules. Berkeley and Broome first wrote about the fungus in 1887, so maybe there's a sketch from the protologue that's useable. Anyway, I'll start adding text in a day or two and maybe we can have the first Banksia/Fungi wikiproject collaboration? 10862: 5387:

will simply discuss additional variability issues like periodicity. It's always a judgement call as to what constitutes "too much information". We'll see. What makes Betelgeuse so challenging is there is a lot of conflicting information out there — just like all the conflicting information I saw regarding distance. My intent is to at least cover the different findings and put them into perspective.

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with few or no references. It's a bit of a "grunt job" frankly, but if you're working on a team, there's a sense of accomplishment, and clearly it raises the overall quality of the encyclopedia. Maybe there's an astrophysicist in the group that can guide the effort and from there, we hand the ball off to another team. I don't know. Does any of this make sense? Would it even work?

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assessments and reviews of worker safety and health plans, and have a bit of a medical background. So, I'm guessing that in the future, my contributions would be very public health or chemical exposure related. I want to contribute to Knowledge, but am not ready to do so and don't want to until I know how to do things correctly.

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so tightly that their dense coverings of hairs form the fibrous brown material that comprises a typical flower spike, and the common bracts at their apex will form the bract pattern on the surface of the spike. At that point, they will no longer be distinguishable as individual peduncles, but will simply be part of the spike.

403: 7495:), who has also scored well over 500. The top two from each pool, as well as the next four highest scorers regardless of pool, will make it through to our final eight. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at 10673: 735:. This further confuses the subject and it appears that at some point some bizarre consensus was reached by people with a limited understanding on the subject. I'm worried about stepping on toes, starting an edit war, getting into a petrol/gasoline argument(ALARP is primarily a UK principal, ALARA is US). 10188:

As yet I am informed that not one unconfirmed user has commented in the closing discussion as to whether they like it or not, another question is, did the vandals like it? Personally, I stopped requesting semi protection and started requesting pending as the first step which allows more contributions

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Thanks for having a look at this great little plant. By the way, a fellow Knowledge editor and I are climbing Mount Imlay sometimes in the spring. We hope to photograph the near extinct Imlay Mallee. As well as look at the Imlay Boronia and the gully rainforest to the south. I was there last November

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for the latest. I actually included 4 out of the 6 paragraphs that I'm contemplating. The extra 2 paragraphs I will add in the next week or so as I gather more information. This first import holds together pretty well by itself, I think, and may not need the extra paragraphs. The extra information

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The scope of this project has turned out to be far more than I ever imagined. There is so much information to absorb — kind of like putting together a giant jig-saw puzzle with 10,000 pieces. What I'm finding is you can't just work on one section at a time, as every piece is interconnected, and you

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page could be created to help new contributors get oriented. Also I notice that the word "collaboration" itself, in Knowledge, is virtually synonymous with "immensity" and "overwhelm" — given that its focus is a global community. Turning the word upside down and looking at it from the standpoint of

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When the flowers start to develop, they get squeezed together even more. At this point, sometimes, a peduncle may break off the axis and be squeezed right out of the spike as the flowers around it develop. Thus you may see one or two of these furry things sitting at random positions on the surface of

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In very young spikes like the one pictured here, they are not yet very densely packed together, so they can be perceived as individual peduncles. Given time, they will continue to grow, and as they do so they will become more and more densely packed together, until eventually they are jammed together

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flower spike. Both diagrams clearly show a hexagonal layout; i.e. every common bract is surrounded by six equidistant common bracts, thus forming little hexagons. In support of this, George (1981) states "The unit inflorescences are so arranged on the axis that there are three pattern lines—vertical,

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So, Maimonides argues "pork contains more moisture than necessary , and too much of superfluous matter", whatever that means! More importantly, the "principal reason" is that if you keep pigs, you end up with a dirty and unhealthy environment. Important note: Maimonides was writing from Islamic Egypt

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I have stumbled upon submissions, to say the least, in need of SEVERE help, editing, revision, references of an reliable nature added etc. and/or possible removal, yet I haven't learned and haven't the slightest clue what to do first if I see a post of this nature. My instinct is to help via editing

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However, I am far from an expert. Thus my issues with my personal writing are as follows: grammatical errors, such as typing errors of which I overlook in proof-reading and elaborating possibly too much, as opposed to being concise thus repeating my points merely rephrasing them (I do not notice this

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I have kept track of my DYK count so I know how many it is, except for the fact that my count may be one too high. There aren't any more of mine tucked away anywhere as far as I know. I think the "bold" count you gave me is good, so I am going to go ahead with that. Thanks so much, I appreciate your

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project. The VPC project is suffering from a chronic lack of participation to the point that the project is at an impasse. A discussion is currently taking place about the future of this project and how to revitalize the project and participation. If you're interested in this project or have an idea

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I'm pretty psyched to work with you on this. So I already decided to do some cleanup. The Starbox really needed some work. So that's now all up to date with refs included. Also I created a personal sandbox and imported the latest version to completely redesign the article's structure. There is

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Okay I understand. I started off similar, by just editing and watching articles grow, then read somewhere about not contributing if you mind your contributions getting edited mercilessly by someone else. This got me wondering how to go from there a bit like you describe above. One of the reasons for

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I see you've taken it on, good work. The display and vision bits at Crested Tern apply for all the genus. The opening sentence isn't fully supported by Bridge - although Elegant is very close, Lesser Crested isn't, other than being in the same genus. I won't abandon this article (after all, one good

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lesson to be learned there, apparently, that the pig is immodestly and falsely proclaiming its religious cleanliness, when it is not. Anyway, that said, I'll look into the M comment - he was quite ahead of his time in terms of medical knowledge (check his biog). And NB my OR/POV antennae buzzed when

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LOL, I love your sense of humour. Maimonedes is a good reference. The reality is that Islam takes food restrictions from Judaism; and Christianity doesn't have any restriction (courtesy of three references in the New Testament). The reason why pork should be restricted (along with many other things)

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to think about these things. The issue I think is the utility - I think it was an enlightening trial. I think you're having difficulties getting an understanding of what is actually the plus and minus because it is a grey area. I haven't followed the discussion that much. Be interesting to see what

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Thanks. I think there's still room for some more (like reproduction, and a little more behavior, or some elements from the description). The lead's main problem was that it placed too much weight on the variation and the subspecies, which are an important aspect of the species, but not so important

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I will work on the article tonight and make those last changes to the text that I had talked about, as well as doing some more tweaks that I have thought about lately. If would be awesome if you could make the changes I have suggested - alternatively, if you disagree with them, please discuss your

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Hi Cas. Thanks for doing the map and the template just now for Huia - they look great!! However, I must advise you that there is one major issue with the map and two major issues with the template; please read my detail below as to what these are carefully, it's a long explanation but the detail is

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Hi Calisber. I've got a new section for you to look at. To be honest it's not quite finished. But given my commitment to have something ready within a day or two, I've produced a "condensed" version for prime time. There are two more additional paragraphs that I am still working on. I will try

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Given my training, I tend to take a "bottom-up" versus "top-down" approach. So when I think of "collaboration", I think of 2-5 people max teaming up to achieve a specific objective. In this respect I could see dozens of small teams like this working on different goals. Whether that would work or

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Oddly, I'm no astrophysicist either. So I don't know if I qualify to manage a group on this topic. My background the last 30 years has been banking and finance — specifically launching new ventures. I just wanted to learn something about astronomy, starting reading articles, got hooked, and very

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I have unfortunately had to revert much of the changes you have made to the Alpha Centauri page - mainly to the structure revisions that you have done. While I agree it is best to standardise between bright star pages (i.e. Sirius), there is significant problems doing so to the Alpha Centauri page.

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pastor. Her theory is excellent, based on her cultural anthropological observations, with a decent feel for how Biblical text works. It's rather an abstract theory though. Anyway, I'll see if I can manage a literature review of dietry restrictions in the ANE, especially if there's anything explicit

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I am currently learning a lot about beryllium exposure and public health and radioactive waste, because that is what I do right now. Most likely, when I write things, it will be in human health, public health, environmental health, or laws related to those areas in the U.S. I do walk-throughs and

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for next year's competition. Contributions to those discussions would be appreciated, especially concerning the flags, as next year's signups cannot begin until the flag issue has been resolved. Signups will hopefully open at some point in this round, with discussion about possible changing in the

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for GA. Apart from a few minor things, its main problem is that the lead doesn't adequately summarize the article. However, the author is apparently unable to write a more MOS-consistent lead. Would you be willing to have a look and improve things? (As I'm the GA reviewer, I think I'd get a little

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Issue # 1 - The former distribution map: Dude it looks good but at present there is no explanation as to why there are two different shades of green/people don't know what those different colours mean(!!) Now, this is where it gets a bit complicated.. Traditionally on wikipedia a lighter colour is

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Interesting - so the version you want to import is the condensed one above the olive text? Looks good - I find it easier to work with when I see it in the article, so bring it in. I think the olive bit is worth bringing in sooner rather than later and working from there. The prose can probably be

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In conclusion, if I were to be the catalyst for a new collaboration, it would be something like this. Let's take one constellation per month and get the 10 most important stars and other deep sky objects in that constellation up to C class or better. There's a lot of Stub-Class articles out there

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Am working on the article behind-the-scenes now... that picture you uploaded is excellent, and thanks Hesp for finding the protologue. Too bad the scan resolution is so crappy; I can upload a screen capture/crop to Commons, but will first investigate to see if there's a copy of the original around

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etc). The pig (NB pig, not pork - an important distinction which is relevant for the Maimonides comment too, I note) is "singled out" because it alone of the animals that have one of the two "signs" (it has split hooves but doesn't chew the cud) lies down with its legs sticking out. Most quarapeds

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by the side of the creek, under a waterfall at Leura in the Blue Mountains. The National Parks & Wildlife Service have been advised. Maybe I can try to get the twig to sprout roots, if I attempt to grow it from a cutting. Horticulture is not a strong point of mine. But it looks very green and

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for further information - short version is that we're hoping to meet in a fortnight in the city for a beer and a chat. Minors and Miners are welcome, with a responsible adult and a minimum of coal dust ;-) - do try and get out if you can, it's been a little while since wiki folk met in Sydney :-)

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I've been frogging over the past few days, and the fungi season has definitely started! I have a coral fungi that I thought you would like for wiki, plus I also have a puff ball which I will upload later, will leave a message here when it is uploaded. Saw lots of fungi over the last few days, but

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It was at that point that I really saw an opportunity to do a great job and explain why all the information on Betelgeuse is so conflicted. The essence is that we still haven't quite figured out how far Betelgeuse is. So this section from ESA is a perfect conclusion to the section. The Enigma

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section and I found it intimidating. There are 117 names on that list. As a manager, the first thing that pops into my head is "OK, so what? Who's in charge? Who's assigning what to whom? Who's taken on what assignments? What is expected of members? Is there a minimum level of contribution

4657:. But here's the rub. I don't know if either of these contributions have any merit. So this is where the concept of "collaboration" comes into play for me. I would be good if I could simply "hand the ball off" to someone else and say "I've taken it as far as I can take it, what do you think? 2350:

cone. Look at that pattern. There's no way you could call it hexagonal. It is a rectangular (or rather diamond, since the lines are diagonal) grid. Depending on how you define a neighbourhood, you could argue that each common bract has 4 or 8 neighbours, but there's no way you could argue for 6.

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As to the introduction, much of the additions you have made are actually speculative, and are not necessary on fact. I.e. "This makes it a logical choice as "first port of call" in speculative fiction about interstellar travel, which assumes eventual human exploration, and even the discovery and

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Hello, I am Kelidimari. I am new to writing Knowledge articles and honestly I'm not a very good writer. However, I am trying to improve. I have not written any large article in Knowledge yet because I'm uncertain on how to do it well. So, mostly all I've done are little edits on pre-existing

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Neat! I don't know enough about the Au breeders for her to ring a bell, but seems she knew what she was doing, as the bloodlines are very nice! I don't know if you are into bloodline stuff at all, but there's good stuff there. Some connections: AK Sirhalima was imported from the USA, by the

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Published reports of Atherosperma & Pittosporum bicolor at Imlay are apparently not correct. As are fanciful rumours of the Myrtle Beech at the two hectare Mount Imlay rainforest. Last time there I saw several native privet. A.G. Floyd only saw one. But I didn't have the presence of mind to

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and will focus on just that for the next 48 hours with the idea of transporting a coherent block of text back Betelgeuse in the next few days. Right now I'm doing a lot of reading. There's a lot of information on this star. So I'd like to give myself a couple of days to pull all the elements

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If you snap a spike axis in half, they are just that brown colour, and essentially made of closely packed fuzz. I wonder if there is initially no gap in the axis for the flower to grow, so the developing flower literally has to shove some of the axis out in front of it as it extends. This would

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So far the only option I know of is going ahead with replacing the redirect along with my reasoning for doing so in the talk page. What would be really awesome was if there was some way to get pre-approval on my concept, but I have no clue on how to do that. Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Curious about your statement about Arabians and your grandmother. Curious if she was someone I've heard of... which is possible if she lived in the UK, less possible if in Au, but depends...?? Not asking you to ID yourself, but if you want to chat about it via email, I'm just idly curious.

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what I see are 19,238 stub articles and 3,040 start articles, the sum of which comes to roughly 97% of all the Astronomy articles written. I'm vaguely aware of the fact that Knowledge is very interested in editors creating more quality content. What's the strategy to achieve that objective?

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I am Vega. I write Psychology, Medical, Science, Philosophy, and Biology articles mainly and as a hobby. I have submitted only one to Knowledge thus far and I believe it to be excellent, considering it is a first submission and I took so much time to proof-read and make sure to reference my

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Also, due to it being a very large passion of mine to research, learn, share knowledge, help others, and to write in general-- I wish to learn correct ways in which follow the terms of service/guidelines of Knowledge appropriately in order to edit to articles/leave feedback to the authors in

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In any event, I'm glad you liked it. I'm pretty happy with it myself, although it would be great if we can get an astronomer like RJHall to make sure everything works. As I see it, I'm a pretty good "guinea pig" for this sort of thing, as I try to understand the subject form the layman's

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to see that it was originally flagged in 2008 for improvement from C to FA class. Result? It's still C-Class. That's scary! Maybe there are very few out there that actually want to collaborate. Or maybe it was a failure in how the project was originally designed. Is there by chance a

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Looks cool. I have the Richard Hinkley Allen book and the Kuntzisch book to get the etymology right - I also have a longer oxford dictionary (with magnifying glass). Will pull out books and go from there in the next 24-48 hours. Feel free to tweak and/or add any bits of text you can.

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Thanks for the quick reply. Given your suggestion, I'm willing to step "to the plate" and start a collaboration page... if that's the most effective approach. To me it's a question of what works and what doesn't work. And given that I'm new here, your insights would be very useful.

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page. I basically decided that I needed an article that described what projectional radiography is AND how it is achieved. What it is is relatively simple and I can heavily borrow and link from other topics. How it is achieved is the more difficult of the two. A key concept is called

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not one single word changed in the article itself — just moved a few blocks of text, added headings and sub-headings, and repositioned some pics. I think it works better. If you have a chance, take a look at the redesign and let me know if you think it works. You can find it at

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If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars.

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section starts with the distance estimate of 56 parsecs in 1920, does a fair job of explaining what has happened in the interim and then concludes with "What's next". So that's why I definitely want the ESA information in there. It pulls all the pieces together for the reader.

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outsiders (i.e. IPs) think. For me that is critical - did we lose a bunch of people who couldn't see their edits appear instantly, or gain some who were happier to get something into a 'pending' slot on what would otherwsie be a semiprotected article? That is what I wonder.

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Its summer here, and the best one we had for about 5 years (the late 00's were horrid weather wise). Today is not exactly warm, but not exactly cold either, so how bad. I'm with you on the cabbage, but pork? Dude. Bacon and cabbage and white sauce is the best thing, ever.

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thoughts with me. I will email Kahuroa the photos tonight as he seems keen to help. Once we have these 3 visual elements in place (Map, deforestation photos, template) and I have done the last additions to the text I think we will be ready to submit Huia as a FAC. Cheers,

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about pork. Don't think I'll find a reference for "why" the pork taboo is in place, though, if it's documented, I'd have read about that in commentaries. Perhaps a clay tablet with the answer has been destroyed in only the last few years during the "troubles" in Iraq. :(

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is terrible. (Apart from my photos). If you have time, please have a look. This article gets a large readership every day. And the readers may think poorly of Knowledge when seeing such scant information. Congratulations for all your awards, you are most deserving.

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and became geographically discombobulated (despite considerable planning). In fact it all worked out fine, when walking out of the gully. That was after sliding down the steep side of the rocky gully to get to the rainforest in the first place, (not recommended).

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Hm, thanks for the comment. Presently I am unable to really get a clear understanding of what is actually the plus and minus, there seems little interest somehow, reminds me of the checkuser and oversight election and following RFC, as you say there is always the

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ah yes.. that time of year, jejej. Heather and Robinson (standard NZ ornithological society endorsed filed guide) has it as one species, 2 sub species - pretty sure HANZAB says the same thing, as this version is quite new and there is no way they would disagree.

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at the time but I feel that it must bore readers) and drawing out the main point, and finally It have trouble with the format of Knowledge's coding style and have (but was brought to my attention) placed too many redirect links into my personal writing. Help?

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Looks great - I was just thinking something along these lines about how to find it and our theories on how far it is have evolved over the years. Stick it in and we can continue copyeidting from there. I am not sure which bit is copyrighted - can you highlight?

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Great! I'll update a few things, copy it over and post a short note on the talk page. I'm not sure about the sub-headings for Observational History, but that section was so big, it needed some structure to it. We can modify the sub-headings as we go along.

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as good things to aim for, as they represent 'stable points' that one can refer back to once/if articles degrade or change. Anyway, I will think of how we can tweak the above. If yuo want to start an astronomy collaboration I am happy to help (collaborate) :)

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Yes. I too love actually spelling out who says what and why rather than just presenting facts as facts. There are similar issues in taxonomy, botany etc. and very often the answer is just not so clear cut. I will look at the copyrighted material in a minute.

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I thought about simply paraphrasing the essence of the ESA information, that way avoiding any copyright infringement. But frankly, it was so well written and informative that I thought it would be a more honorable gesture to copy it verbatim and provide the

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nearly ready to go but the first I need to access a document I can only get hard copy via interlibrary loan, and the second I am trying to contact folks who've photographed it, so both are out of my hands for the time being. Am collaborating with a new user

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I have today taken a long lunch and gone bushwalking with Gnangarra. While he took happy-snaps, I did some OR on this question. My diagnosis is: these are peduncles that have developed common bracts, but have not yet developed floral bracts or flowers.

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Thanks for reminding me on this one - I think it was Alex (or Kevin??) who told me that every bract pattern was unique to a species and hence diagnostic, but as far as I know not much if anything has been published on this area. The similarity between

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S.F.Gray. It was only described, without species, and covered an earlier mentioned, but unnamed group of ringed, non-volvate species, regardless of spore color. Fries restricted the genus to white-spored species, and made into a tribe, which was, like

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titled "the genera of fungi" (or was it agaricaceae?). It's filled to the brink with mind-numbing nomenclatural discussions of all the genera ever described (I think, anyway). Would it be any use if I looked up the specific ref or any specific genera?

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has been a long interest of mine. I would love to see this page achieve at least good status. Right now its a mess and although I have done some work I have lost some steam and could use some advice on how to eat this elephant. Also I started work on

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I finally got most of those "chucks" cleaned up over the weekend and, pursuant to your suggestions imported them into the main article. Also, I've posted some observations related thereto for your insight and comment. When you have a moment, click

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I have da book with a section on this; I don't have it with me at the moment. Thanks for the tweaks. I tweaked some of the images on Common. People should learn to hold their cameras level. The Pura Besakih particle really should be of the scale of

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Ah no, I mixed in Abbott's slogan as well, maybe I should have made a green ref in there....No it's hopeless editing current politics articles especially with the 4-5 party clowns who would stuff everything up and try to selectively delete all day

9872:. W. Blunt created enough soap opera to fill at least a good miniseries) OK, so you didn't ask about any of this, but it's cool. I don't know how much User:Cgoodwin is into Arabs, but may be another person to gossip with about this stuff. 1401:. This tribe became a subgenus, than genus via various authors, Quélet, altough not the first, often being attributed the change. Sometimes it was used in a Persoonian sense (whether that is a correct use according to ICBN is not clear to me). 5163:

and you'll see it there in bold as well. What follows is almost verbatim (with a few tweeks), then as you'll notice there's the ref #36 which, if you click on it, takes you to the Reference section where you can click on the web-link called

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with a "few" more articles. I think the problems outweigh the benefits in any other type of article just about. The big question is whether you need to protect against vandalism or not. Alternative to more trialling is ditch it altogether.

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RE your suggestion of a trial on all BLP articles, how many BLP articles have we got? I am wondering if that would be statistically possible and what do you think it would find out that we don't know from the BLP articles so far trialled ?

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But that does not affect the new paper much, since they remain refreshingly noncommitted on the things they cannot reliably assess from their data. And data they have a lot. Also always nice to see geography mapped on phylogenetic trees.

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with persistent florets. Not just a bit late to fall: there were old cones from previous seasons with the florets still bolted on. In fact, there wasn't a single bald cone on the whole tree. I've never seen anything like it. Have you?

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Thanks so much for making this article look better. The photo is probably the worst of any I put on Knowledge. I had a weekend away in the Blue Mountains with my new g/f. She's a doctor which is even more bizarre, as I hate doctors.

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which needs a lot more work, but I'm a little stumped on the logistics. Any suggestions you could provide for how to improve my article writing or even how to find new articles of merit to write/expand would be very much appreciated.

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is not finalized, but the preprint is ready and formatted. It may well be one of the most comprehensive and beautiful papers on the topic of Psittaciformes evolution. Only gripe: it still does not consider the fossil record fully. Is

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articles. So I decided to invest the time to fully research it. If you have a moment, I’d be interested in your reaction to the ideas put forth. And let me know when you’re ready to start with Betelgeuse. I’m ready when you are.

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I'm enjoying the challenge of it. I believe the goal of completing the different sub-sections by mid-August is still achievable. Let me know if you think the condensed version is ready to be transported over to the main article.

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Yes, it's intended to be open indefinitely as a place where people pile on feedback without any commentary from me. I have long removed it from the main admin review page, but it's prominently linked from my user/talk pages. --

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I don't know of any way except laboriously going through your talk page to count all the awards, and any others that might have been - if you count 35 with a split of 34 expansion and 1 nom, then that is a good start, so I was

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While I was out a-walking in the bush one day last week, I spied a banksia with an unfamiliar jizz. Even on closer inspection I was bamboozled for half a minute until the pieces fell together and I realised I was looking at a

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Sounds great! I'm going to call it a night. Tomorrow, I'll look at expanding the Visibility section. I just cut and pasted the last two paragraphs from the former "Characteristics" section. It needs to be massaged a bit.

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reducing the overall quality of Knowledge? If I understand you correctly, it looks like my idea for a "collaboration" would have headed in this direction, and would have therefore been counterproductive. When I look at the

3564:, which has three Greek words with diacritics. I'm reasonably certain about two of them, but the middle one has that ~/^ problem that I seem to remember asking you about a long time ago. Could have have a quick look for me? 6559: 5789:- the name "New Zealand Wattlebird" was actually coined to avoid exactly this type of confusion. The second thing regarding the template is that you didn't include the second element I talked about in my email to you here; 10812: 9410: 9400: 9376: 6298:. I've seen big ones of these up north. They are majestic trees. The taxonomy of these trees is totally confusing for me. So much so that I couldn't attempt to write out the synonyms. If you have the time, please assist. 3081:

It's quite near my place; about ten minutes drive. Even closer to where Alex lives (assuming he still lives at the address he has been publishing under lately): only five minutes drive from there I would guess. If it's

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From the abstract of Somerville and May 2006: "Apothecia of these crops are of different macroscopic appearance, with lighter apothecia being mostly immature, and darker apothecia producing spores." ... so who knows?

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What is going on in the lower image? Clearly this is an inflorescence in very early bud, but those furry white things are apparently not developing flower pairs. Are they some kind of protective bract or something?

7499:, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the 1686:, it's catching), but let me know if there's anything specific esp from BWP, Olsen or Harrison, where I have the books. Now, must be time for a couple of slices of bread with some meat in. 10:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC) 5295:. That will take you to a new Visibility sub-section which I've entitled "Rhytmic dance" — an effective metaphor, I think, for the star's oscillating character. Consistent with comments made a few weeks ago at 5209:

Just so you have a little context, what I love about this sub-section "The enigma" is I noticed with every single article I read on the internet all these conflicting quotes on Betelgeuse. My first reaction was

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Sorry, forgot again. I've just scanned it now. Cas: I'll forward shortly; if you have Sasata's email address, can you forward it on please? Otherwise, Sasata: send me an email so I know where to send this scan.

4501:(i.e. post it anyway and see if it reeks!!!???). Needless to say, I haven't posted these articles as they never seem to get past the "Work in Progress" stage. Your thoughts on this would be much appreciated. 7548:). We appreciate his enthusiasm, and contestants are of course welcome to award each other prizes as they see fit, but rest assured that we will be sending out "official" awards at the end of the competition. 5434:

Hi Calisber. In notice you've been busy the last few days. When you have a moment and have been able to review the "chunks" enumerated above, your thoughts on what to do here would be really helpful. Click

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was noted (the bract pattern remaining in the fossils). I seem to recall feeling bamboozled as well by the description when I read it some time ago. I will have to refresh myself with some bedtime reading....

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I've gone ahead and included the revised "Angular anomalies" sub-section with a few additional improvements. When you have a chance, your insights on a few other issues would be helpful. You can find them

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article. What I see, however with your discerning comments is that a focused and interested contributor can get "plugged in" pretty quick. This dialogue has been very useful. Let's see what happens next?

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It is reference 49 in the current version now. I was looking very long for this bulletin, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Can You help me to find this bulletin, or do You know something exactlier about it?

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it seems that new/unreg. users are blocked yet pending changes is activated for that group. I don't know much about pending changes, but is that setting ok? I just ask because an IP wants to edit (see talk

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Generally, that's pretty arcane and only relevant to genus articles, or species that were tightly involving in defining them (for example, there seems to be an odd debate over the multiple type species for

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article for the full citation.) Page 92: "As its thickets suggest, parrotbush regenerates readily. A prolific flowerer, it produces many seeds. In the Darling Range it is a good colonizer of gravel-pits."

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as a kind of outline tool. That way, when I read an article, I have an idea where the new information fits, I can cut and paste for future editing, and then come back to it later. I hope you find this

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Hi Alastair, welcome back. Please note that my bahasa Indonesia is the pits; and that's four years along. It does take being tough to be here ;) Let me know if I can help. Been there, done that. Cheers,

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Thanks, lol. Well I have a proposal, you can FARC the Australian flora and fauna FAs and bring them back for the WikiCup final....and your FAs get reviewed real quick too...poor old Hamiltonstone and

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hybrid - how far is the tree from you? I'd compare the newgrowth/leaf dimensions/trunk all for comparison. Did it have any new flowers? Some of these old cones have an aura of prionotes about them...

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photograph them. The only problem with this guy coming along is his 170 IQ, he makes me feel very silly in comparison. In the unlikely event you have free time. You are most welcome to come along.

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My main concern is the ESA copyrighted information at the bottom of the Visibility section. Let me know if that is handled appropriately. There is still much more work to do. I have quite a few

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Yeah, it'll do the trick. I gave the article a good push towards GA. Hesp, do you have easy access to Beaton 1984, or maybe Fuhrer, B,; May, T. (1993). "Host specificity of disc-fungi in the genus

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Thanks for finding that, wonder why it didn't show up in my database search. Cas, if it's too mush hassle for you to get these, let me know and I can order them, would take 1-2 weeks to get here.

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I maintain that the food which is forbidden by the Law is unwholesome. There is nothing among the forbidden kinds of food whose injurious character is doubted, except pork (Lev. xi. 7), and fat (

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I would very much appreciate if you could be my mentor, because you had listed in your "adopter" section that you were interested in biology and medicine. My interest is in those areas also.

7188:, but alot of the astrophysics I am out of my depth really, but fascinating nonetheless. We're still trawling through articles. Some more bird ones, but need to buff them to GA first, maybe 4734:. You will quickly find a group of interested editors helping out. This is a much better directed way of finding interested editors. I'll post a note at the astronomy wikiproject. I'd leave 7533:), who has bowed out to spend more time on the book he is authoring with his wife. We wish him all the best. In other news, the start of this round also saw some WikiCup awards sent out by 645:

Sorry to ramble. It's a habit. I would greatly appreciate you as mentor, if you are interested. If not, then Thank you anyways for reading my drawn-out request to be adopted. Thanks. --

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Agreed wit that approach. I had semiprotected a stack of articles and slung all that I could remember into the trial to see what happens. I think for most, the good edits are pretty rare.

10909:? The article needs much improvement, and you are a very experienced editor as far as I know. In case you have the time and patience, your help would be greatly appreciated! Best wishes, 4678: 3378:

I've added a mention myself, in discussing high fecundity as fire adaptation. I have a handful of solid pathology papers here, so I'll make a start on a disease subsection next. G'night.

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world, where all the breeds, not just Arabs, seem to be going the way of dog breeders and making Bonsai designer creatures for the in-hand classes that are unridable and in some cases,

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would be a good one to check too. let me know if anything interesting pops up. I'll see ifd I can think of any other taxonomic quagmires later today. Work just got real busy :( cheers,

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really so hard to get? 2 cites in 3 years for what is essentially the baseline review is far too little... even Mayr does not cite it - granted, most is not Paleogene, but still...).

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I haven't dissected an inflorescence, but in some species the pattern persists right through flowering and can be seen on the infructescence. You won't get a better example than this

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In my own case, where I saw that I could contribute was simply taking Stub-Class, Low or Mid-Importance articles and get them up to Start or even C or B Class. The recent article

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Now I have looked at the books and bract architecture, question is are they common bracts or are they something which falls off (don't think so but..). Something else to ask Alex.

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Have you seen him on your hard-fought FA save?? Arguing for undue weight chunk on Socceroos and claiming that some Socceroos are good enough to get selected for Brazil and Spain.

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Sorry, didn't see this last night. Done now. I have a couple of papers on root physiology that I want to read to see if it is worth adding a paragraph, and then I'll be all done.

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produced a very useful result but also triggered a copyright violation requiring some attention. Your insights as always would be valuable. You can see my comments by clicking

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from unconfirmed users but what percentage of those contributions required reverting I am yet to discover, anyways, good morning and enjoy your coffee. Thanks for the feedback.

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Issue # 2 - The template looks great and I am very grateful for you for creating one based on my design :) There's just one little problem in that you currently have a link to

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You certainly see those thingies on the developing buds of alot of banksias. I'd be intrigued what the Nikulinsky book, which is essentially a series of plates of a developing

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Cute tool that. We'll see how many GAs, DYKs and FAs we can get. Got bits and pieces of horticultural stuff to add yet :) ...just musing on how to bonsai my species... Cheers,

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per modern standard, so Persoon gave it a new life unrelated to its previous incarnations, and that is finally published after a starting date by Hooker (the citation is Pers.

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We had under 2000 pages in the trial apparently, and lots of keen editors to try Pending Changes, hence it would be intriguing to see how things go when the novelty wears off

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She's a senior tutor in philosophy at Cambridge, written several very entertaining and informative books related to the history of science, probably including her doctorate.

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You know what I don't get? On page 245 of George (1981), and again on page 40 of Collins (2007), George gives a diagram showing the arrangement of unit inflorescences on a

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Hmmm, that's what I initially thought when I read the description and sketches in Beaton 1982, but after seeing B&B's 1872 sketches, I was pretty sure Cas's pic was a

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to GA. I still plan to add that information into the Geography section. Hopefully I'll be able to peer review the article and then take it to FA as well. Thanks again! --

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Wherever one of those "furry things" is found loose on the surface of a spike, you will also find a gap in the bract pattern beneath it, where the common bract is absent;

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describing the concept in full would really be beyond the scope of my article but an article has been created and is a redirect to a similar but different concept called

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and think I've possibly gone mad! No need for alarm however. I just found that I needed to bring some organization to the drafting of these sections, so I'm using the

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comment. The normal teaching is that pork is no more or less offensive to Jews than any other forbidden meat (dog, horse etc) or forbidden part of kosher animal (blood,

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The other option is expanding it (by bot,say) and delineating to all BLPs and BLPs only. We get an instant large number and that was the reason it was brought in.

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Thank you for the notes. I think I got a little obsessed, and the annoyed over the ALARA mess I lost sight of the bigger goal. Thanks for keeping me on track :-)--

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there. Photographing moss and ferns in a cool wet mountain rainforest gully is an appealing prospect in the dead of winter. And I can't wait to get there. cheers

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One last thing. I got your note... All systems go... I'll be cutting and pasting into the main article shortly. As each new section matures, I'll let you know.

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need to have a sense as to where all the pieces fit. In any event, you'll see how each section is coming along. Some sections are more advanced than others.

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Like last time, I have imported the most recent version of Betelgeuse into my User page so you can see the new section in context. It can be found by clicking:

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Hi Casliber. When you have a chance, I've posted some recent thoughts on the future direction of the Betelgeuse article, and would value your insights. Click

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together. That way, I hope to have both these sections flow properly. Before I do this "block transport", I'll let you know, so you can offer any suggestions.

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I've responded with a few notes, nothing much exciting, but would appreciate it if you could look and see if the changes I made ameliorate some of the issues.

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As OZtrylia has a notoriously under described rang of and field of mycology study - any signs of further fungi or algae work is to be encouraged at all points

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and think I have addressed most of your points. Added a couple thousand more bits of text and a few more recent reviews. Cochrane did not have a great deal.

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mentioned its colonising of disturbed areas being observed in the Darling Scarp.Can you add as I am wrestling with microsoft word in another tab? Back later.

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Haha yeah. Not a bad comparison at all. a diamond pattern it is there as well. You sorta let your eyes go a little out of focus and see two diagonal lines....

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Vayikra Rabba (ch 13) where it is mentioned as part of an elaborate metaphor, but not in connection with any reason for particularly abhorring the creature.

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is an interesting paper: "Between 5% and 25% of species were projected to suffer range losses of 100% by 2080." I can send you a PDF if you're interested.

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This is the great thing about uncertainty. Lacking an answer, the reports of Maimonides, Mary Douglas and the other guy mentioned are fascinating.Cheers,

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The tricky issue is finding free images or navigating fair use policy - eg screenshots etc. I am not great on policy and will ask someone more clued in.

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that a small crucifix on the top right of the word "Huia" is used to denote that this species is extinct, then there is a key to explain what it means"

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Hi there! Thank you very much for your kind offer to help me with article writing. I would very much like to take you up on it! I do already have one

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The name has been republished three times in 1821: in Hooker, Roques and Gray (in that order). Roques maintained Persoon's circumscription, including

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Another FARC nag. Grumble for lists of random famous fans and admirers. It's annoying when fancruft waves from established users keep on hitting FAs

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I had a few minutes spare now so was doing a bit of copyediting to make the lead a bit more snappy. I will look at all the etymology stuff tonight.

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is not given explicitly in the Hebrew Bible, hence Bible commentators have been offering guesses since ancient times. My own favourite, however, is

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inflorescence, says (not sure, I don't recall whether it had commentary...). Another thing to look up. Was about to look up the patterns just now.

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Cas, email arbcom about what you know of this. I've put it on ice. If it's him, it's unneeded, if it isn't the RFA will only cause a dramafest.

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A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GoCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the

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Argh, sorry, have run out of time tonight and I need sleep for work tommorow - but I should get those text additions done in the next few days.

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the Ansata_Ibn_Halima article - we also took Emerald to Rahalima which was another US import and son of Ansata_Ibn_Halima. Ralvon Pilgrim was

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Don't wait on my ones. I have a bunch of articles but all have some frustrating stuff to sort out before I can sned them up. I'll take a look.

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I do have a few articles I've been working on that I need help with, but haven't figured out how or with whom to collaborate...except for the

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here so I might rescan at higher resolution. Four DYKs and 1 GA doesn't sound unreasonable for the lot, but I'll see what I can come up with.

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Daytime is warm here but still a wintery chill in the evening. Nice for hot food. Me garden is just starting to put on early spring growth...

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Many thanks indeed for the tedious labour involved in checking my submission and awarding me the Crown. It is greatly appreciated. Regards,

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Her name was Molly Kaufman and she had a small stud called Koh-i-noor Stud. I'll see if I can find some horsey descendants online somwhere...

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I also was wondering if you would consider adopting me, still pretty new at all this. Not nearly as verbose as the person above either :-)--

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the "New Wikipedian" trying to figure out the most effective way to interface with others in the community might make this section useful.

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65. 1797 is cited as devalidated: "Introduced to cover three groups already previously distinguished by Persoon (in Tent. 18. 1797) under

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DYK nomination of Melithreptus, Black-headed Honeyeater, Western White-naped Honeyeater, Black-chinned Honeyeater, Brown-headed Honeyeater

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you had asked about a couple of weeks ago. There's enough info there to make DYK-worthy stubs on the genus, and three of the species (

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Yeah, should be straightforward -that's why I love tagging talk pages with wikiproject tags - allows us to do things with bots etc.

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If you think that is a technical possibility I will add it. I am sure it would be easy for a bot and have added it via your comment.

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Eiker A. (1990). "Commercial mushroom production in South Africa". Bulletin (Pretoria: Department of Agricultural Development) (418).

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has been considered validly published on different occasions, depending on various considerations." Proposed types include (given as

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I should have read it before posting here, in which case I wouldn't have bothered posting here at all: it is as boring as bat shit.

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Interesting - makes for some dry reading. Hadn't realised it was 10 populations out of 27 which have become extinct since 1996.. :(

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Having found nothing in George, I've been reading Douglas's stuff on ontogeny of Proteaceae flowers, and found nothing there either.

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helpful in understanding how I'm trying to tackle this project. If you have any idea as to how it can be improved, let me know.

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as soon as I have time. I printed out several useful papers today, but have been too busy to read them let alone work them in. The

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at the time too. When I was a kid I did a huge family tree, and my grandmother had a book about the Marbach Stud with photos of

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Interesting - Gah! Forgot to ring Alex - evening is a crazy time with little availability for me, but will see what I can do.

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Ah! Glad I mentioned it then. I'm very confident you'll find Patricia's writing as entertaining as it is informative. Cheers.

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