User talk:Richard001

Geneticist

I saw that you helped edit the geneticist page. I have been working on it for a class and I was wondering if you had any other suggestions or helpful ideas on anything that could be added or changed on the page. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nichschn (talk • contribs) 17:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I was wondering if you could help me add a picture, I am new to wikipedia and I am not sure how to do this. Thanks for all of your help Nichschn 15:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lewis Structure

I completely agree with your comment on the lewis structure article; the majority of the information too, doesn't fit with the text -- in the formal charges section, there are partial charges used in the initial example, which generally make it more confusing for those reading the article for the first time. I'm always wary of those who edit in things such as "consider", "imagine" or "suppose" because it's in a tone which some people can't derive meaning. Minestrone Soup 13:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Pā (Māori)

Can you please provide references for your change? Thank you. MadMaxDog 23:26, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing that. Wikipedia still has way too many claims without references, we should attempt to not add new stuff unless well referenced. Good of you to go to that effort. MadMaxDog 10:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On a further note, the link you provided to me needs a password. But I think I can assume that what you say is correct. After all, not all references need to be available online. MadMaxDog 10:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I would like to place the text at User:Badgettrg/death into the Medicine subsection of the death article following causes of death / autopsy. Does this seem appropriate? - Badgettrg 00:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Erg

Thanks for the Good article rating on Erg (landform). Not to denigrate your efforts, but I feel like I got this one too easily. I mean, I really had to work hard to editing my first GA, Rancho Camulos to GA status and then this one you just come by and declare it good enough. If you have the time, perhaps you can reassess it. See User:IvoShandor/submissions/GA reviews/criteria for some help. After reading this, if you feel that the article still meets GA criteria as-is, I'm more than happy to accept the rating. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 16:23, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

assessment script

"I've just started using your script, and find it quite helpful. I noticed it comes up with the rating on disambiguation pages - would you be able to turn it off for those pages? Richard001 07:01, 3 May 2007 (UTC)"

I've implemented this (for the majority of cases; I'm not concerned if it misses some, as it's a "nice to have"). Give it a try. –Outriggr § 08:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Detritivores

I think the difference between detritivore and decomposer is just that detritivores are animals and decomposers are microbes. Or at least that's the only difference I can find in how the terms are used by soil ecologists. Elements of Ecology, by Smith & Smith (a pretty good college ecology textbook) is actually explicit about this distinction, but all my other references don't seem to notice how confusingly similar the definitions are. I'll tinker with the two pages a little more. Cheers, Justinleif 04:49, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Velvet worm

Hi Richard. I found a bit of time over the weekend and I've re-started the translation of the German Stummelfüßer article. So far I've done the anatomy section - you can see my progress to date at User:Yummifruitbat/Velvet worm. It needs wikifying/linking and the German article doesn't have inline references, just a list at the end. Ironically all the references were originally in English, so hopefully my translation won't have lost too much of the original meaning via English-German-English... if there's any hope of an FAC when it's finished, it'll need someone to get hold of the reference works and do the citations properly. I think it's best for me to finish the entire translation first, then do a mass-update of the English article, so I'll do what I can while it's still in my sandbox. Feel free to add wikilinks etc. if you've got some free time. Best wishes, --YFB ¿ 08:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]