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Faendalimas

I urge you all to oppose the adminship request of Faendalimas (talk • contribs • block log • all projects) , for although he is a taxonomist (in herpetology), he IMHO has an aggressive bias in favour of his own personal taxonomic opinions, and refuses to aknowledge that issues may not be as simple as he wants them to be, thanks --Stho002 (talk) 00:04, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Further to this, some user (User:Hesperian) who has contributed almost nothing to this project has now come out of the woodwork in defence of Faendalimas (talk • contribs • block log • all projects) , and is threatening to take action against me for preventing Faendalimas (talk • contribs • block log • all projects) from editing the Wollumbinia page, see: User_talk:Hesperian#Re:Wells_again and my talk page here User_talk:Stho002#Wells_again. Under the circumstances of a well-known heated dispute over Wollumbinia (Wells vs. Thomson (=Faendalimas (talk • contribs • block log • all projects) ) & Georges), I believe I have rightly protected this page --Stho002 (talk) 02:59, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Actually I have over 4000 edits to this project. And over 150,000 edits to Wikimedia projects. And administratorship on three sister projects. I don't appreciate Stho002 running off to this board without telling me he had done so. I told him that I intended to take the matter further—"I think there has been a gross error made here, and I am pretty sure that it would be overturned if we had more eyes on it. I will have a think about how to proceed from here."—and it rather looks to me as though Stho002 has tried to preempt that by running off here to tell his version first, needlessly running me down and belittling my contributions here, and canvassing for support. Hesperian 03:06, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

>Actually I have over 4000 edits to this project< Special:Contributions/Hesperian: only 50 edits since Nov 2006, anyway. It is clear that Faendalimas (talk • contribs • block log • all projects) has run off to Hesperian (talk • contribs • block log • all projects) for support when things didn't go his way --Stho002 (talk) 03:18, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

"Gosh, sorry I needlessly and nastily called your 4000 edits 'almost nothing', Hesperian." "Apology accepted, Stho002". Right, I'm glad we got that out of the way. Let's move on. I give you my word of honour that I have never communicated with Faendalimas. This issue was brought to my attention by a third party. I saw what appeared to be a gross error of judgement, compounded by misuse of administrative tools, and decided to address it. Stupidly, I failed to anticipate that my polite disputation on the topic would be met by nasty ad hominem attacks behind my back on a public notice board. Silly me. Hesperian 03:23, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Third party, eh? Who? If they are not willing to be publicly named, then we can safely ignore them as likely biased. I reiterate two things: (1) the taxa in question are searchable under both names; and (2) the unavailability of the name Wollumbinia has not (and cannot be) proven. I have flagged the issue on the Wollumbinia page, using the 'Disputed template', but Faendalimas (talk • contribs • block log • all projects) and others will clearly not accept that, so I have locked the page on the current version, as there is no reason to change it at present. Thomson & Georges can call on as many friendly editors as they like to publish claims about Wells, and call on as many Wikimedia admins as they like to get heavy with me, but it changes nothing ... Stho002 (talk) 03:34, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, we'll see about that. You go right ahead and publicly insult me, attack me, belittle my contributions, question my motives, etc. That'll achieve plenty. Meanwhile, I'll do what I said I would do, which is to go away and have a think about how best to proceed to address the issue. Hesperian 03:43, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, and you go right ahead and deflect my questions, make idle threats, and try to twist this into an issue about me, which it isn't. >Meanwhile, I'll do what I said I would do, which is to go away...< By all means, go ahead! Stho002 (talk) 03:58, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Multilinguality

I'm not sure this has been discussed before, but I seriously think that Wikispecies needs multilinguality in the way Commons has it. 'Species doesn't have multiple languages, so it's imperative that all (or as much as possible) languages be represented here, just as it is on Commons. I'd like opinions on this proposal. Pikolas (talk) 19:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

I think it's possible and desirable to do so. Ucucha 05:16, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

I created {{LangSwitch}}, {{GetFallback}} and {{GetFallback2}} copypasting it from Commons, but LangSwitch is apparently not working as it should. Can any administrators take a look at this? Pikolas (talk) 23:41, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

User:121.6.139.177

User:121.6.139.177 Contribs has been making a lot of peculiar edits, some plain vandalism, others superfluous (e.g. adding categories to numerous pages, as if they were wikipedia pages), mixed in with a few edits that are good. Needs a careful check-over by an admin. - MPF (talk) 09:28, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Unidentified Sciurus

Yann posted this to Commons --SJ+ 15:07, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Hello,

Please could you help identifying this squirrel species? Thanks, Yann (talk) 14:31, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

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Wikispecies might be a good audience to help with this.

Not Sciurus, rather Funambulus palmarum. Ark (talk page) 15:53, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Ucucha 05:15, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Synthetic life

Have you addressed how to list synthetic life forms as they begin to be created? im thinking of craig venters recent research, and im not sure if its considered a viable new organism. if it is, then it violates the evolutionary tree, with branches combining again. (though i know genes are swapped outside of reproduction in nature). link here: [1], and i posted comments at Mycoplasma capricolum and Mycoplasma mycoides. Mercurywoodrose on WP.76.234.122.26 07:23, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Unidentified animals from India

Hello, Could you please help me identifying these animals? Thanks in advance, Yann (talk) 10:48, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

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  This is quite big: the bamboo stick is about 1.5 cm of diameter.
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  About 5 cm long
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I think the unknown insect is a male ant - you could perhaps try Brian Fisher (bfisher@calacademy.org) for more help on this --Stho002 (talk) 02:10, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

A male ant? It is about 5 cm long... Yann (talk) 08:53, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, check this out: [2]

The bird is Turdoides striata - MPF (talk) 00:04, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Some more. Yann (talk) 11:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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Reference desk

Hi, may I ask if you have any page similar to en:Wikipedia:Reference desk here on Wikispecies? Regards, Höstblomma (talk) 09:13, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

This is the place =) OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 11:56, 12 July 2010 (UTC)