User talk:Nicolharper

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1 I was trying to look up this topic on wikipedia, but there was nothing listing all the types of animal that glide, so I decided to make one. I'll clean it up when I get a chance.
2 Flying and Gliding Animals
3 Greetings
4 Flying gecko image
5 Edit summary reminder
6 Savanna Theory
7 Message to you on the Battle of Tours talk page

[edit] I was trying to look up this topic on wikipedia, but there was nothing listing all the types of animal that glide, so I decided to make one. I'll clean it up when I get a chance.

[edit] Flying and Gliding Animals

Hi Nicolharper, I would just like to thank you on your work with Flying and Gliding Animals. You're doing a great job, and its a very useful article. When you've finished it, tell me, and I might as well award you something nice! Best of luck, --Chachu207 18:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC) PS. If you want to reply, can you do so via my user talk page.

[edit] Greetings

Just noted you poking around some mammal pages recently. Let me know if I can be of any help with anything. We should probably delete the glow-in-the-dark bit on the Godman's Rock Wallaby page if there isn't a reply there soon. --Aranae 18:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that you often make many edits to an article in succession. Did you happen to notice the "Show preview" button underneath the edit summary? This will show you what the page looks like without actually saving it. --Aranae 00:07, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flying gecko image

I uploaded Ptychozoon_kuhli_underside.jpg, it isn't a great image, blurred out at the top - my camera isn't up to snuff when it comes to moving subjects, but it does demonstrate the flaps of skin on the legs, feet, sides of the body, and "ear" area on the sides of the head quite well. I just thought you might be interested, from your article on flying and gliding animals. Cheers. -Dawson 22:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary reminder

When editing please remember to always provide an edit summary. This informs other Wikipedians of the purpose of your edit and reduces the potential for misunderstandings and disputes. Providing an edit summary also helps identify vandalism (as most vandals do not provide edit summaries). Thryduulf 23:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Savanna Theory

Nicol, I noticed you still didn't vote. That and improving an article are the best way for you to contribute in getting a pesky AfD tag removed. --Aranae 19:47, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Aranae. Maybe I should vote. The savanna hypothesis article needs a lot of work and I am not bothered that much if it is deleted. However, some of the older versions of the article are more coherent. However, savanna hypothesis is a term that is actually used by a number of people, and for that reason I tip slightly against deletion. Also I don't know how to vote. Nicolharper 19:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Just go here and add your input to the bottom of the list. The standard format is: *'''Your vote (keep, delete or other'''. Explanation of why you feel this way. Just see how others have formatted the votes. You've stuck to doing a lot of quality editing on a small set of articles. Otherwise I'd think you would have come across articles nominated for deletion after the amount of time and editing you've done. You'll certainly see it again. --Aranae 20:29, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Aranae, and thanks for the positive comments on my editing. Nicolharper 20:35, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. I think the type of work you've added to pages like Flying and gliding animals, venomous mammals, Terrestrial locomotion in animals, Cat righting reflex, limbless vertebrates, knuckle-walking, Prehensile tail, and Malagasy fauna are precisely the sort of encyclopedic, education oriented, comparative evolutionary additions that biology-related topics are needing here. --Aranae 21:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Friendly reminder. Don't forget to hit the "Show preview" button and check over your edits before hitting "Save page". It can save you time and clean up the edit history. --Aranae 21:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Aranae. Thanks for adding the Nesomyinae to the malagasy fauna page. I had never heard of these, they look like another interesting case of convergent evolution in madagascar.

Happily. There was a really nice article in Systematic Biology a few months back attempting to use molecular clocks to time the colonization events of the four mammal groups on the island. I'll see if I can incorporate some of that. --Aranae 04:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)