User talk:PDH

Uluru Kata Tjuta

Please tell me why you deleted the whole text for Uluu Kata Tjuta. I am working for NT Government and we decided to use our material for Wikipedia! Please contact Tourism NT if you got questions regarding copy rights before you delete our work!

New ACOTF

Hi Peta. I'm about to select Australia and the United Nations as the new WP:ACOTF. You nominated it, so might like to be involved in creating the article, which does not yet exist at all. Thanks. --Scott Davis ^Talk 11:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Fellows of the AAS

Hello, Google says you're working up a page of Fellows, including Martin Fritz Glaessner. I just put up a stub under Martin Glaessner - it's pretty short but you could eliminate one redlink if you were so inclined. I imagine you'll spot any egregious errors too! --AndrewHowse 02:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Pebcac! It's Glaessner, of course, not Gaessner as I had originally typed above. Sorry. --AndrewHowse 15:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the unexpected PDFs Peta! I recieved them a while ago, but have been a bit down lately (as per my userpage) so haven't gotten around to making articles for any of them until today. I created the badger (I love badgers!) article today - Chamitataxus. If you see any problems with it, don't hesitate to fix. Thanks again. :) Spawn Man 07:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC) P.S. I like your new user page pic - bushbabies are also cute...

No one's better than Peta. ;) Spawn Man 07:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC).

Oh & I know you don't have a space for them on your userpage, but I thought you deserved a barnstar. You are incredibly nice to me - you give me stuff to do & I definitely need that right now due to my problems in RL. You're always willing to give a helping hand & you get on with your work. God, you'd make a great admin! ;) Anyway, thought you'd like this simple gift of gratitude from me to you. Thanks. :) Spawn Man 07:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Image uploads

You cannot apply a creative commons license to a public domain to a domain image; and most of the images you are uploading have nothing from their source to indicate that they are infact public domai. Please don't make false copyright claims. --Peta 23:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Peta, Pls can you be a little more specific? Most of the pics I have uploaded are where the author died >70yrs ago. Are you talking about those ones in particular or the few others? For the PD-old-70 photos, I've been using "Creative Commons 2.5." If that is the incorrect one to select, please can you advise me which is the best choice for PD-old-70 stuff.SuperGirl 12:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue I - March 2007

The inaugural March 2007 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter has been published. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse--ragesoss 03:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

A private apology

Some time ago, when I was under considerable pressure here, I strongly implied that I had spotted you outside my house, peering in through my kitchen window. On reading the Sunday Times today, I was surprised to find that it contained a photograph of you (along with a very positive article) and unless you have recently lost about thirty kilograms and thirty years, the woman I saw cannot have been you.

I am a suspicious old curmudgeon, and I apologise unreservedly for any insinuation that you were stalking me, and for the pain and embarrassment I undoubtedly caused you. I am happy to repeat this in any wikipublic place you nominate. --Pete 01:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Canberra Times

I too saw the CT article today on you as a wikipedian. I agree a very positive article! :-) --Golden Wattle ^talk 10:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

RAMSI

Thanks, please continue correcting my errors!  ;) --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 02:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Image tagged for CfD

Hello. I saw this image tagged for CfD as a result of this edit [1] which you made. I was just wondering if you meant for this to be nominated at IfD instead or if you had just made a typo when changing the category of the image? Please let me know if I can provide any assistance in doing any clean-up here. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 04:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Two stubs

I have tonight created stubs on Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen and Flora Australiensis. Both need attention; Fl.Austral. in particular reads like a puff-piece - anyone would think I was trying to flog copies online. :-) Anyhow, I just thought these articles might interest you, so I thought I'd mention them in case you feel like making them not suck. Hesperian 13:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Cheers. Hesperian 02:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I see you have brought forth Systematic Census of Australian Plants. Great, that's one step closer to a full house of Australia botany classics. Have you looked at Category:Botany books lately? - 7 of 12 articles are Australian! 8 if you include Supplementum Plantarum, which I created because it published Banksia L.f.. Thanks for your help, as always. Hesperian 00:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

A little secret about IPNI URLs: IPNI feeds URLs that look like:

http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=31944-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvAuthorSearch.do%3Ffind_abbreviation%3D%26find_surname%3DHnatiuk%26find_isoCountry%3D%26find_forename%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal

but everything after the id argument is session context, so they can be cropped back to

http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=31944-1

and will still work. Hesperian 01:28, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Hnatiuk, I'm not familiar with him, but I had a look at what he's done, and I daresay I'll be using his stuff if I ever get around to writing an article on kwongan. Among his contemporaries that IMO deserve articles are Bruce Maslin and Leslie Pedley. Hesperian 01:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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I generally don't bother with DYKs. If you want to go to the trouble, maybe something like "Flora Australiensis by George Bentham was the first completed flora of a large continental area, and became the standard reference on the Flora of Australia for over a hundred years."? Hesperian 04:10, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Circus

You're very welcome. It's a very good article and I can tell you worked very hard to get it that way, it seems a shame to let it be spoilt. I am hoping to create a new page for animal welfare in the circus or something like that, so that no one can say their material is being ignored, but it won't hopefully dominate an article that really isn't about that. Have a great day.Ms408 03:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Very nice work cleaning up the animal acts section. I was editing at the same time, but yours looked better, so I tried to put everything back the way you had it.

In the news

Template:In the news state that Jean Charest lost his riding, but this is not true; he narrowly won, see here. Regards, -- Jeff3000 03:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Edit-warring on the Main Page

I didn't mean to touch of an edit-war on the Main Page; please stop and bring this to WP:ITNT. It does not look good to have this occur on Wikipedia's most visible page. -- tariqabjotu 03:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

UN

Australian leadership would be good. Fatalities perhaps? It's also missing a few Australian operation names. In researching it I found there is a fair bit of disparity in numbers and type of troop/equipment deployed. Some quote the initial deployment, some quote the high water mark, others quote the total over the operation's life. But it's all a work in progress. --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 04:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes, and I think it's missing a couple of ops entirely. UNC-K Korea for one. --Steve _(Stephen) ^talk 04:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Category:Botany in Australia

I was thinking of

1. moving Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants, Australian Journal of Botany, Flora of Australia (series), ROTAP, Conservation Codes for Western Australian Flora, FloraBase, Nuytsia (journal), Western Australian Herbarium and Category:Botanists active in Australia out of Category:Flora of Australia into a new Category:Botany in Australia;
2. further populating Category:Botany in Australia with Flora Australiensis, Banks' Florilegium, Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen, Systematic Census of Australian Plants, The Genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae), The Banksia Atlas, Category:Botanical gardens in Australia and Category:Australian botanists;
3. making Category:Flora of Australia a subcategory of Category:Botany in Australia;
4. making Category:Botany in Australia a subcategory of Category:Science and technology in Australia.

What do you think? Hesperian 13:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I think your scheme looks good. I have a kind of related query - what should we do with people, who aren't technically botanists but contributed to description of the flora in some way, collectors and so on, Georgiana Molloy springs to mind - I usually drop them in naturalists - but thats not really correct either. I think I may have mentioned to you before that the second edition of Vol.1 of the Flora of Australia has a large annotated list of people that contributed to describing the flora. I think a catgeory for these type of people would be really useful since there are a lot of non-botanists that contributed to the flora, but I don't know what to call it. --Peta 03:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Slight tangent; do you think we could use a specific category for botanical illustrators? --Peta 03:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Under the proposal above, we could stick Molloy, William Baxter (botanist), Johnston Drummond, etc into Category:Botany in Australia for now... or we could roll out Category:Botanical collectors active in Australia? The difficulty is where to draw the line between botanist and collector. Even obvious non-botanists like Sydney Parkinson have published taxa.

Related to this is the question of what to do with botanists like George Bentham, who was a massive figure in Australian botany, yet never came here. He's certainly not a "botanist active in Australia".

I usually put them in Category:Scientific illustrators and Category:Botanical art. Neither of these categories are particularly big yet, so maybe wait until there's a need to break them out?

Hesperian 03:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the collectors cat has merit; considering there were a lot of people gathering plants and sending them back to Europe prior to the 20th century. I'll probably create it (unless you beat me to it) when I start writing some more articles for collectors. Could published taxa serve as the distinction between botanists and collectors; Wikipedia already categorizes anyone with published taxa as a botanist? As for botanists who worked on Aus. plants but never came here - maybe they could just be added to Botany in Australia? You're right, a botanical illustrator cat isn't really necessary yet. --Peta 04:01, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Yep, I'm happy with all that. I guess the botanist and collector categories needn't be mutually exclusive; e.g. Robert Brown collected his own type specimens, then went home and published them, so he is both a collector and a botanist.

I'll start rolling out categories over the weekend (unless you beat me to it). Hesperian 04:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for that. I had a crack at Alexander Morrison (botanist). I should be able to do up to Maslin without any sourcing difficulty. I assume your "Neville Merchant" is in fact Neville Marchant. Hesperian 13:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Just did Frederick Stoward. Hesperian 06:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Autocoitus undelete

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Autocoitus. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Sai Emrys 22:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Category:Platyzoa

I am not sure that a Category:Platyzoa is a good idea. There aren't so many animal phyla that subcategorisation is necessary, and the superphylar taxa aren't nearly as well known nor as stable as the phyla themselves. Was there some special reason why you took this action? --Stemonitis 07:08, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Singaporean executions CfD

You recently marked the category Category:Singaporean executions for renaming, but failed to list the category at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. I've done this for you. You may review the debate here- -- Longhair\^talk 12:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

...Phew! And the many other categories nominated. I'm supportive of your renaming suggestion btw. I'll see what I can do to formally list them on your behalf tomorrow when I'm more alert :) -- Longhair\^talk 12:58, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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