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1. December 2005 – December 2006

Thank you for your support of the Medicine Collaboration of the Week. This week Marfan syndrome was selected. Hope you can help…

NCurse _work 13:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks Snowman, and much appreciated. Red Sunset 16:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Barnstar, Snowman. I really appreciate it. --Joelmills 20:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Snowman, thanks for your nominations. It's nice to see someone takes an interest in the portal. Please review my comments on that page, I'll contact User:NCurse to have a look as well.

When I went to look at the portal, there was no featured picture... NCurse seems busy with Admin tasks, Hungarian wiki, the Medical genetics project... and I have to study. Maybe you'd like to join us on maintaining the Portal? It would be greatly appreciated, and it's not a lot of work, but it needs to be done to keep it featured!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great, great idea. I often create a log for a month in advance, but now it's exam period for me and a helping hand is always welcome. :) I hope you join our "team" with Steven. If we'd work on the portal, there'd be just a few things to do. NCurse _work 18:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Can I do a no-obligation trial for 2 or 3 weeks, and then reconsider? I do not know what the tasks are. Snowman 23:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this how I leave a message? Ah, I think it is.

Ok well I have various images (and if you need any specific images I can always go and take them.) I have a few of Upper Stoke, and I think some of Hillfields. I live in Finham, so any Finham pictures are not a problem. Let me know what you require.

I have left a message on your talk page. Snowman 13:40, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thanks for your message. I will try my best to get some of these images. I get pictures of Finham Park School and Bishop Ullathorne for next week. I am about to upload some images you might want. -Neil

Hello, I have receieved a notification about the coventry farm image which I uploaded, and that it must be deleted ASAP, but I'm not sure how I delete this photo? I'd appreciate it if you could let me know how I do this. Cheers. Neil

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I was trying to delete a Category, which I had just made in error with the wrong capitalisation. I have now listed it on the appropriate speedy category page, I hope. Snowman 15:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would be glad to help out with some articles on bird health. There is already a Category:Bird diseases which you may want to have as a subcategory to Category:Bird health. There is also an article entitled egg bound which can be expanded to have more info on pet birds. I tend to refer sick birds except in the cases of beak overgrowth, mites, and simple injuries, but I'll have a go at improving existing articles and creating some new ones soon. --Joelmills 22:11, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your attention to this article. Dr Steven Plunkett 15:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Will try, but my digital camera isn't up to much. Can't remember if the egg is still on show either, but will inspect when next in there, and try my best. Dr Steven Plunkett 16:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The egg must be a real treasure. Take good care of it!! Snowman 16:21, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Casliber. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Take a look at our guidelines about external links. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. TNTfan101 03:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It contained some useful parrot care information, some good parrot pictures as well as some adverts. I see what you mean. Snowman 08:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded Your enhanced image with the same name as the original, this way the image history remains intact and there is no need to change the license. Also the image links remain. If I had deleted the original image, You might have got someone in the future asking for this "original image" that You edited, having been deleted You will have no chance to show/prove this. Also while the original has errors it is still available in the image upload history for download, or re-enhacements, edits etc. I guess if You don't drastically edit an image it is better to upload the new version on top of the old one. Best, feydey 16:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see, I know what to do now. Snowman 18:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Currently there is no easy way to rename an image — they will not "Move" to new titles in the ways that articles will." Read the relevant Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Image titles and file names. The Summary (in Image:DSCF3286.JPG) You gave is the best We can do. Other route is to upload the image again (with the correct info) and then have the old one deleted as a duplicate. Cheers, feydey 18:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That information is useful. Thanks. Snowman 18:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks for your reply.

So this is what I shall do;

Re-upload the Coventry Farm picture, with the following information attached to it: Coventry Farm, Hillfields, Coventry, West Midlands {{PD-self}} Taken by Neil Reid in January 2003. Is that correct?

Then, I will re-upload the baginton castle photo with the folling information: Baginton Castle, Baginton, Coventry, West Midlands {{PD-self}} Taken by Neil Reid in May 2006. Is this also correct?

Cheers

Neil reid 11:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is correct, I think. You are learning the ropes. Rename the Baginton Castle photo prior to upload. Please check when you took the Baginton Castle photo, because the camera info on it indicates that the photo was taken in 2003. Have you seen the new Cov farm page? Snowman 17:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you have found your own talk page, please indicate this by writing a reply on it. Snowman 17:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have checked it, the time on the camera was incorrect and this photo was taken last year. And yeah, I have seen the Coventry Farm page at Hillfields - Wikipedia right? Neil reid 15:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mr Snowman - I'm with you on the deletion of the original, overexposed snowscene! Tomtom08 20:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like the snow picture. Your original has not been deleted from the wiki as it is kept as part of the file history of the image, but a digitally enhanced version is used on the page. The wiki recommends fully descriptive image file names, incidentally. Snowman 22:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some of your pages are causing too much "What links here" noise. It is standard wiki format not to use scientific names for species. Please explain why have you made pages with so many links. Snowman 16:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For my own reference. I consider it a bug of Mediawiki that links from userspace cannot be hidden. —Pengo ^{talk · contribs} 21:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I would agree with you on "English spelling". Most bird books use "Rüppell's", which seems more appropriate to me...—GRM 21:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ü is not English. Try an internet search. Snowman 21:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And, so, we should use no accents or umlauts or other "extra-letter" markings in English usage...? Again, cannot agree (sorry!). In this case, especially since "Rüppell" is someone's name. (Yes, I know that "ue" is officially equivalent to "ü", but if I was to come to Wikipedia and look for this bird, I'd type "Rüppell's".) —GRM 21:50, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On an English keyboard it is not possible to type "Rüppell" with simple keystrokes. If you did use a rather complex method of putting a ü in the word, it would redirect to the right page, so there is no problem. All the scientific names do not have a "ü", but have a "ue", by way of an example. I have asked a German speaking person and he said that "ü" it is commonly translated to a "ue" to the English and even in Germany it is used when there is not a "ü" on the keyboard, so I think that it is a safe usage. You can put this to a consensus on a talk page if you want too. Snowman 21:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, as a birdlover I hate to think of any bird as of low importance :), but wondered how you go interpreting the scale. If all individual species are of at least mid-importance or higher, have you ranked any bird articles as of low importance? I guess the way I have seen it done on Wikiproject fungi and Banksia is that low importance=specialised area (I rated alot of aussie birds like that) so that there ends up being a spread of articles. cheers Cas Liber 12:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]