User talk:Pall-Gergely

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--- Angel from PAKISTAN ^{Let's talk about it!} 14:09, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Welcome and an invitation

Hello Pall-Gergely and welcome to Wikipedia! I am here to give you an especially hearty welcome because I see you are seriously interested in land snails and have already been making lots of contributions in land snail articles, including creating seven new articles on taxa that we previously did not have represented! That's terrific, thank you very much! I am guessing that you might be Barna Pall-Gergely, a Hungarian graduate student and biologist? Here on Wikipedia we have a group of people who enjoy expanding and improving Wikipedia's coverage of gastropods, and that group is called "WikiProject Gastropods". This is an invitation to join us:

I've noticed your edits on pages relating to Gastropods; perhaps you'd be interested in joining WikiProject Gastropods? If you would like more information, please visit the project page or the project talk page.

Although my current research is mostly on marine species, in the past I used to do a great deal of field mapping of the non-marine mollusk fauna of the British Isles for the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, which eventually led to Michael P. Kerney's "Atlas of the Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Britain and Ireland" . A 1972 paper of mine on a new locality for Monacha cartusiana is listed here

If you have any questions or comments about any aspect of Wikipedia, please feel free to leave a note on my talk page. Welcome again and all good wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 20:42, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Excellent! You joined!

Hello again Barna. Yesssssss! I was very happy to see that you joined the project. That's exciting that you are doing your PhD in Japan. Wow. Is your research currently on Japanese land snails or do you gather material in Hungary, preserve it and work on it in Japan? Yes, I am Susan J. Hewitt. Martin John Bishop was my first husband, from 1967 to 1973; he started out in organic chemistry, then he was in malacology for a while, and after that he was working on the human genome project. Yes, he is the person who wrote that 1977 paper on Amphidromus.

Actually I was the one who got Martin interested in mollusks. As a child and a teenager he was very keen on paleontology, but his father told him to go into organic chemistry because at the time it had better career prospects. You can find info about me using Google, the first thing that Google pulls up is my volunteering at AMNH.

Oh, and there is a Wikimedia blog post about me here.

Welcome! A very big WELCOME to WikiProject Gastropods for you, Pall-Gergely, a new member! We are delighted that you decided to join the Project and look forward to many more of your very valuable contributions on land snails! Thank you for joining us and please feel free to ask questions or make comments on the project talk page or on the talk page of any of the members. Invertzoo (talk) 23:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Oh and by the way, if you leave a note on any talk page, at the bottom of your note put four of these wiggly things or tildes ~ and the software will automatically turn that into the time, date, and your "signature".

Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 23:18, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to the Project! It will be great to have someone from the land snail background here. I know a lot less about land snail than I should, and hope that the recently updated higher taxonomy will make it easier for you. Shellnut (talk) 03:47, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Also a well-meant welcome from me. We're a small (but dedicated) group, but most of us are interested in marine species. We have already created more than 24,000 articles (however most of them are stubs) and are now in a process of creating with a bot many more. But all these new articles will be about marine species. That's why your contributions about land snails are so important. We hope to see a lot of them. JoJan (talk) 12:50, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the welcomes! I will do my best in editing the land snail pages... :-)

(Pall-Gergely (talk) 13:11, 17 March 2012 (UTC))

And a warm welcome from me as well. I am helping with the bot stub creation that JoJan was mentioning. We are using the World Register of Marine Species database as our resource for marine species. Let me know if there is a good resource for the land snails that we could use to create stub articles. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:08, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to tea

Hello! Pall-Gergely, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! Charles (talk) 14:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

A question on "Provincial"

Hello again Barna, I have been taking a quick look at some of your new articles. I was just now fixing up the one on László Ernő Pintér. I edited the prose to make it read better, and I put it into sections with headings, as is the Wikipedia accepted style for a biography. I think I was able to understand almost everything you wrote, although you may want to check to make sure I did not change the meaning anywhere. However I have one question. You wrote, "Beside teaching, he was secretary of provincial since 1974. Later, in 1976, he was vice-provincial. He was elected provincial in 1979". In English the word "provincial" is an adjective meaning "of the province" and it does not function as a noun, so I am not clear what title we should use for this position. If you mean administrative head of the province, then in Canada the word is "premier", but I have no idea if that would be a suitable word to use for the position in Hungary. We could say "leader of the provincial government" maybe? What do you think? Invertzoo (talk) 13:30, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Dear Susan, Thank you very much for your help. Actually that was maybe my first page here, but I think I will not really produce more about malacologists (or only exceptionally). My English is not good enough to do that. I'll work on snail pages. The text was copypasted from Pintér's necrologue. I'm sure Pintér was not leader of the provincial government, but responsible for provincial duties within the order. I hope it is undersandable. But you can simply skip this and I can check as soon as I arrive back to Hungary.

All the best: Barna (Pall-Gergely (talk) 13:48, 18 March 2012 (UTC))

You are very welcome Barna! And please don't feel that you should not make any more biographies of malacologists. We need lots of those, and we have very few. And many of those we do have are just one paragraph or two, much less than this article you made. Have you seen our List of malacologists? It very much needs expansion. I don't really mind cleaning up the prose in your articles, it is easier than writing a new one! I am sure that you must be right that Pintér was made the head of the province in the Franciscan Order. I will put that in and you can check it and change it later if needs be. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 00:26, 19 March 2012 (UTC)