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ARCHIVE PAGE 35: November 2010
Thank you, for your edits to Don't Forget the Bacon!. Much appreciated, --Cirt (talk) 13:30, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Susan! You may have noticed it already, but I haven't made many edits in wikipedia lately. Though very satisfying, both my job and my studies have left me with no free time. This will surely change for the better, but not until the end of the year. In the meantime, my contributions will be modest and sparse, or so I believe. Oh, by the way, I think it's time for Eustrombus gigas to be moved into Lobatus gigas. WoRMs is currently accepting Lobatus as a valid taxon, andEustrombus has been synonymized. Since E. gigas is a GA, will the transfer bring about any issues I'm not aware of? Best wishes! Daniel Cavallari (talk) 22:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
On 4 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Broderick – Terry duel, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how,quick check ) and add it toDYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
-- Cirt (talk) 12:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi thanks for your invitation. I am new to Wiki and try to find my way.. not sure how much time I am going to spend here. But you are guessing right, I have some interest in snails... Once I know whether or not I like to spend some more time here, I'll sign up :-)
--Snaildoc (talk) 10:50, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello Susan, I have made some portal updates; hopefully made it easier to add new articles. Let me explain how the portal works using the selected article example. Selected article has many numbered subpages. The portal uses a randomizing logic to pick one of the numbered subpages to be displayed. The ((Random portal component)) template that is used on the portal main page has a "max parameter" that will need to set to the maximum number of numbered subpages that have some populated information. In the selected article example, there are currently 7 populated pages (keep scrolling the selected article page until you see red links and that will give you the max number).
((Random portal component|max=7|header=Selected article|footer=More articles...| subpage=Selected article))
If a new article is added to the selected article listing, the max parameter will need to be increased to 8. The same logic applies to selected picture and selected biography and now Did you know. I have added the randomizing logic to Did you know by splitting the big list into numbered subpages with 10 items each.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. —Ganeshk (talk) 00:03, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Dear Zoo,
Luckily, the Australian Museum identified a snail photo for me. Nitor medioximus. I've written a very brief stub, knowing practically nothing of the animal. Please advise Mr Snek, as the article needs a lot of help.
cheers, Peter Poyt448 (talk) 06:26, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Susan, I was wondering about that myself. Thanks for letting me know. The portal box looks really good now. — Ganeshk (talk) 01:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Susan, You are doing great. My updates were pretty minor. I do the same thing. I will visit other pages on Wikipedia that have similar functionality and copy-paste the code into mine. Templates are what you are referring to as code. Wiki markup and Templates are good starting pages for learning about them. — Ganeshk (talk)01:12, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Susan! How are things? I am so sorry to have disappeared for so long. A perfect storm of things came up that have kept me too busy to work on Wikipedia. I have one more biggy coming up: I am moving to another apartment in the middle of December. Then, hopefully, things will settle down, and I can get back to editing. All the best to you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:20, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Susan, I'm thinking about writing a new article in a day or so. Would you have a time to copyedit it? Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:59, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Susan. I wrote this article about a French artist yesterday. I had visited the day before a new museum of modern art in France and my attention was drawn to this outsider artist who made portraits with seashells. His biography was lacking in wikipedia. So I wrote this article. If you can give it a quick look-over and rephrase where necessary, that would be fine. It wouldn't take too much of your precious time. Thanks. JoJan(talk) 09:47, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Wouldn't this 3D-photo Commons:File:Wentletrap 001.jpg (Epitonium scalare ?), that I just uploaded from FlickR, be a nice photo for the portal ? JoJan(talk) 10:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Susan, I have fixed the portal box width issue. I had to do some sandbox tinkering to figure it out. — Ganeshk (talk) 22:08, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
On 27 November 2010,Did you know? was updated with a fact from the articleKing Philip shipwreck, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, every so often the sand recedes enough to allow the 19th century shipwreck of the King Philip clipper ship (pictured)to become visible? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how,quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 27 November 2010 (UTC)