User talk:Dunkleosteus77

Hello Dunkleosteus77. I should have introduced myself yesterday, but was still finding my way around Wikipedia editing. Thankyou for fixing those link issues. I am unsure as to your comment "that is not what Wikipedia is for" and I have no wish to enter into a changing each other's edits 'game', but I need to clarify that I was asked by the Society for Marine Mammalogy Education Committee, along with a team of marine mammal researchers to update and maintain species pages. That is not to say that your previous work is unappreciated, but the edits I have made follow the format requested by the SMM Education Committee and were published only after review by an expert on the species (in this case, Dr Robin Baird from Cascadia Research). I would hope that you can see the amount of work that has gone into making sure the info is current, accurate and reflects the important literature published on MHWs, not just by myself, but also Dr Baird and the Education Commitee. Best wishes, VickihamiltonVickihamilton (talk) 07:26, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Vickihamilton: I know who you're affiliated with and you've added a lot of good information, but Wikipedia is not TripAdvisor, we don't say things like "it is important to choose a company that follows responsible whale watching guidelines". Giving out instructions for how to have a fantastic trip to Dominica is not what we're about   User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk  15:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Vickihamilton: so I'm going to delete it again. If you're adamant about it's inclusion, we can discuss further on the article's talk page and get other inputs   User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk  23:52, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dunkleosteus77: I am sorry if you have misunderstood the intent. Advising someone who has consulted Wikipedia as a source of info on melon-headed whales, and may want to see them in the wild to "choose a company that follows responsible whale watching guidelines" is broad, general advice, recommended by the Society for Marine Mammalogy and the International Whaling Commission. There are a large number of whale watching operators in the world that do not put the safety and wellbeing of cetaceans foremost, those that do follow guidelines set by an independent authority will obviously be a better option if an informed choice is to be made. If I had mentioned a specific company (in say Dominica to quote your example) now that would be akin to Tripadvisor, and completely inappropriate, we are in agreement on that front. VickihamiltonVickihamilton (talk) 10:07, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cool page!

Alan Schlickmann (talk) 21:02, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 01:07, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious[edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:23, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Truly well-deserved, congrats for the TFA! Sainsf (talk · contribs) 06:24, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have the best userpage ever. That is all ;) Opabinia regalis (talk) 06:04, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1401 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:45, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for today's Steller's sea cow! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 2 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for today's Paleocene, about "the 10 million year period after the dinosaurs went extinct"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:41, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

... four years now --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for making Wikipedia a better encyclopedia! BrightRoundCircle (talk) 14:35, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant work on this article. You should be very proud! Josh Milburn (talk) 22:36, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

F uyck you. 173.91.69.114 (talk) 23:46, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For all the work on animals; here's another one!

RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 00:34, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating Ursus rossicus, Dunkleosteus77!

Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

make sure taxon articles have a valid {{taxobox}} (I've already added one to Ursus rossicus). A quick and easy shortcut is to copy and paste a related taxobox, just changing the specifics. Cheers,

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Also, make sure that sources discussing "cave bears" are actually referring to U. rossicus and not for example Ursus spelaeus, much more widley referred to as "cave bear". I removed the incorrect photos that were of U. spelaeus. lastly, you can group duplicate repeated footnotes of the same source with <ref name=...>.: see WP:REFSTART for more tips on formatting references and citations. Let me know if you have any questions (Wikipedia can be a tricky place at first), and welcome to Wikipedia! --Animalparty-- (talk) 04:08, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re [1]: citations are usually not repeated in the lead per WP:LEADCITE. Cheers! jonkerz ♠talk 00:35, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. That's an hour of my life I'll be needing back... Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 00:37, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ouch :/ by the way, why did you remove the previous comments you added a couple of hours back ago? Was this on purpose or did you perhaps edit an old revision of the page? Curiously, jonkerz ♠talk 00:48, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I based my comment on GA criteria; copy/pasted the GA criteria onto the page and made some comments on each one. I meant to delete the criteria list and just keep the comment, but I was in a rush and hit save, meaning to delete the criteria list later (which I did just now). Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 00:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see :) If you're interested in reviewing another ant article you should take a look at the FAC Banded sugar ant. jonkerz ♠talk 01:07, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you're interested in reviewing another animal article, you should take a look at Peer Review Whale. Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 02:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a few comments. I'll try to find time to read the whole article and return with more comments, if not, then perhaps whenever the article is a GAC, which I hope it will be soon! jonkerz ♠talk 14:06, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your time Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 21:06, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for expanding the article; I can only imagine how much hard work you've put in, well done! I've marked my comments as resolved. jonkerz ♠talk 21:23, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Look, it's the reviewer's job to decide if a comment is resolved. The nominator's job is to resolve each item to the best of their ability; the reviewer then decides if indeed the right action has been taken, or whether something more needs to be done. I have—repeatedly—reminded you of this but you're still at it. The article is not going to make it to GA if you keep modifying the taxobox, for example. May I suggest you now apologize, and state here that you accept the process. Thanks.

By the way, that applies a fortiori to the GA Table, where all signoffs are (I hope obviously) only for the reviewer's use. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:06, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, I've formatted a lot of refs in the article and fixed a few things. When I noted that the species list was redundant with both the List of cetaceans and the Cetaceans template (at the bottom of the article), I decided that the lists really had to go - sorry about this, but after looking at them every which way, it seems clear they simply aren't needed (and this isn't Cetacea, either) - I suspect the closeness of Whale to that article has caused quite a bit of the difficulty really. Similarly, I've removed some paragraphs about dolphins which may be relevant in Cetacea but don't belong here - at least, if dolphins are whales, then Whale = Cetacea and we need to merge the two articles, which I doubt is what anyone wants.

All that is left is a little bit of history and culture; the history of whaling can be derived from the Whaling and History of whaling articles, while a brief account of whales in art should not be too difficult. You might look at Werness 2006, van der Grijp 2009, Wallace 2004, Kaalund 1983, for example. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello
I have been tracking down edits by User:GammaCepheus001 (who is now banned, and is probably a sockpuppet of User:Jonas Poole who has been banned for a long time) and I notice he left some here. I have been undoing them as they are more than likely to be disruptive, but There were some on the Bryde's whale and Omura's whale pages which I would be pleased if you s could review for me as you will know more about the subject than I do. If I have undone content which is actually worth keeping, please feel free to undo what I have done there. Regards, Xyl 54 (talk) 01:06, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You were correct to undo his most recent edit on the Bryde's whale page, but the edit he made on January 2, 2015‎ was correct since it's redundant to say "rorquals baleen whales". GammaCepheus001 was right to delete the sentence "notably within Komodo National Park" on Feb 12, 2015. All of his edits on the Omura's whale page was non disruptive and verifiable and should be kept. Glad to help, and good luck! Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 02:27, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, Dunky. As I said before, European whaling in the South Pacific didn't begin until 1789. American whaleships didn't reach the South Pacific until the early 1790s and British whaleships didn't reach Australia until the early 1790s as well. Read Dakin's Whalemen Adventurers and Colwell's Whaling Around Australia. SplashyHumpback (talk) 01:27, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry. Forgot to change that.

No, worries. If you need any help or need to find references for something just post something on User:Grimlock1986's talkpage or whichever one isn't banned. Apparently if I post anything constructive on someone's talkpage it gets deleted by certain simpletons. Oh, well. Good luck. SplashyHumpback (talk) 02:44, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I really need some help with the Conservation section of the Whale article to fit within the GA review suggestions. Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 03:00, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You could start with talking about Foyn's monopoly off Finnmark in the 1870s and 1880s and the British licenses in the Falkland Island dependencies in the early 1900s to reduce waste. Then you could mention the protection of right and gray whales, cows with calves, in the early 1930s; negotiations in the mid to late-1930s on quotas in the Antarctic; the formation of the IWC in the late 1940s and the use of the BWU (Blue Whale Unit) and why that failed. You could then mention the protection of various species and stocks in the 1960s and onwards; the "Save the Whale" movement in the 1970s; the UN asking for a moratorium on commercial whaling in the early 1970s; US protection in the same deacade; and finally the moratorium in the 1980s and the rise of scientific whaling. Oh, and how ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, and habitat degradation are now their main threats. This is off the top of my head and I haven't really taken a good look at the conservation section but hopefully it will help. SplashyHumpback (talk) 01:38, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article Whale you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Whale for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:41, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, congratulations on bringing Whale to Good Article status. Please do not spoil this achievement now by attempting to undo the hard work we have both put in, in the past week, as we sought to make the article conform to the required standard: such behavior is entirely unacceptable on Wikipedia and is not expected from experienced and committed editors. Unlike Cetacea, Whale is not a taxon article and it is not appropriate for it to duplicate the article on Cetacea. If you want to create detailed lists of whales with images and so forth, Cetacea and its subsidiary articles are the (plentiful) places for that - Whale is not. Thank you for your understanding. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:13, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I will be changed the college image to add a beaked whale and a porpoise so you should change the image map. LittleJerry (talk) 15:08, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What?

Oh I see now. Done Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 17:31, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Dunky. This section talks about JJ the gray whale, which was kept at SeaWorld in 1997-98, but your citation is from 1991. The citation is probably about GiGi, the first baleen whale to be successfully kept in captivity in the 1970s. It appears you (or whoever added it) confused the two. SplashyHumpback (talk) 01:53, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing that out Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 01:54, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Dunkleosteus77, I notice you archived the talk page [2] for Dolphin, but I don't see where that is. cygnis insignis 20:36, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I see that you implied on the Whale FAC that citing sources will be a problem for you, so did you need any assistance with that? I'll be glad to help. Burklemore1 (talk) 15:02, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I really desperately need help on this. Thank you very much. Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 22:08, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I'll get around to it shortly. I'll first take a look at what the reviewers suggested with some of the sources. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:47, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I am referring to the changes on Whale and River dolphin. I am sure you were just trying to achieve consistency, but who's to say consistency should be achieved by changing everything one way or the other? Well, the way the issue has been resolved on Wikipedia is to stick to the first version of each article (unless it has strong ties to a nation, but I don't think that's the case for either of the articles in question). Since both articles were originally written using American English, and your edits changed a substantial portion into British English, I do not think it was fair to impose respect of that with "Use British English" templates: in fact, my research showed the opposite (meaning, American) templates should be used.

Hope you understand, LjL (talk) 17:59, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was informed that the Whale article was originally written in British English, and the template {{Use British English}} has been on the article (not the talk page) since April, when I tried to resolve British/American English inconsistencies by changing it to American English.

Uhm, well, I checked the article's actual history and as soon as it was no longer a stub (while it was a stub, there were no variety-specific words in it) it was immediately full of American-style words. Sometimes people just "decide" that an article is written in a given variety and slap a template on it, so maybe this was the case here. Hopefully the research I've posted on the article's original terminology solves this issue for good. The article should now be in consistent American English as I've used a nontrivial automatic tool (VarCon) to convert it. LjL (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll continue this debate over at the Whale talk page

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Hi, I will finally clean up all of the refs on the article tonight. In the meantime, another Myrmecia ant species has been nominated for GA (Myrmecia inquilina), so feel free to check that out if you're in the mood for reviewing. Cheers, Burklemore1 (talk) 10:54, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I saw the requirements for DIY passing, and it says that the claimed tidbit must be present and cited with an inline citation in the article, but I don't see the word "turn" anywhere. Unless it uses different wording (but it should probably use the verbatim wording used in the did-you-know question), it ought to get added... --LjL (talk) 13:17, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks for taking on this review LjL

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DYK nomination of River dolphin[edit]

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On 15 January 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Porpoise, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that porpoises (pictured) were one of the most accessible species for early cetologists, because they could be seen very close to land, inhabiting shallow coastal areas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Porpoise. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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On 23 March 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Baleen whale, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that baleen whales, although carnivorous, have gut flora similar to that of herbivores? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Baleen whale. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Excellent job on this, keep it up!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:57, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Marine mammal[edit]

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Hi Dunkleosteus77! I noticed that you had the top icon for administrators ({{administrator}}) at the top of your user talk page. It doesn't appear that you are an administrator, so could you please remove it? It's misleading to editors, as upon seeing it, users might unwittingly approach you with requests for administrative attention. Thanks! Kind regards, Mz7 (talk) 23:49, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How'd that get there? Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 14:37, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your edits at Odd-toed ungulate because it is not how you put an image in a taxobox. It's supposed to be |image=image.jpg and not putting in some unnecessary image map voodoo in.--Mr Fink (talk) 02:17, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You should perhaps be aware that the article was nominated (in good faith, I'm sure) by an editor with very weak English skills and very little Wikipedia experience, who has not contributed to the article. Before investing a lot of effort you might wish to find out whether anybody is around who can act on the points you raise. Best wishes, Looie496 (talk) 12:14, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Your GA nomination of Porpoise[edit]

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Hi, Dunkleosteus. I noticed that you did substantial work on this list when it was at FAR and am interested in selecting it for a Main Page appearance in the near-future. The only concern I have is a shortage of references in the last two paragraphs of the new lead section, for passages that are not cited in the body of the article. I wouldn't want to see a bunch of cite tags being added to the lead on the article's big day. If you have some spare time, would you mind beefing up the referencing in the lead, so that my concerns over scheduling the list at TFL are eased? Thanks for any help you can provide. Giants2008 (Talk) 19:11, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy with the references you provided and have scheduled the list to appear on January 8, 2016; you can review the TFL blurb here. While preparing the blurb, I did notice something interesting. It says multiple times that there are 88 species, but the IUCN counts only go up to 87 and it later says there are 90 living species (including one functionally extinct, but not two). Meanwhile, I count 92 entries in the various tables. You might want to reconcile the numbers before this has its main page date. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:28, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see what happened. I'm pretty sure the source you're referring to was published before the Yangtze finless porpoise was accepted as a different species by the IUCN. Also, there are 3 having a conservation status of "NE" (Not Evaluated), meaning they're not recognised by the IUCN, but I'm almost certain they're recognised by other conservation groups. I changed the "90 living species part" to 89, and changed "2 Critically Endangered" to 3

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I think we have addressed all your concerns and them some. Please take a look at the improvements. I think we are done. User:Atsme should take a look, too. 7&6=thirteen (☎)

I think so too   User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk  23:11, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Would you kindly post a note? Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:08, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Heres a book you can use for information on feeding mechanisms. LittleJerry (talk) 22:25, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, can I ask why you removed the paragraph about the Prishibinsk tiger, in the article Caspian tiger? That was sure a huge tiger, compared to the one which had the greatest skull length amongst Caspian tigers. Leo1pard (talk) 17:51, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know that was a uniquely large tiger because the average length is not mentioned. You can re-add it if you want   User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk  18:32, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, just checked progress and see that all but Evolution, Adaptations, Protection, and Military sections are now complete. None require much work to get to GA. Hope all's well with you, if you need to hold for any reason just let me know. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:27, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

...for the edits I made to the article on porpoises. I so loathe words like "baby" when referring to newborn animals, and the milk squirting thing seemed absurd to me until I found a source! Seems it is true after all. I see you are the individual responsible for getting Whale to good article status— good show! KDS4444 (talk) 16:26, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dunkleosteus77. I'm just posting to let you know that List of parrots – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 13. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 23:22, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]