User talk:Pmeleski
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I'm no IT expert, but I've always assumed that you can't edit the history page -the comments are those you make manually when you edit the article, or are automatically generated by rollback or various bots. AFAIK, only developers can change history, and they are unlikely to do so without a very good reason.
You're right about vandalism, I have all the NAm species I've seen on my watchlist, and articles like Bald Eagle are regular targets
Let me know if I can help with any info for the missing articles. Most of these, almost by definition, are peripheral to the US, but I have the Croom Helm family guides for several families, and the field guides for Venezuela, Costa Rica and T&T for species having ranges extending that far south.
Good luck, jimfbleak 05:51, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Infobox city ma1
Hello, I noticed that you made a copy of Template:Infobox Town MA and changed the leader field to default to "Mayor". Were you planning on making any additional changes to the template? If that was the only change you were planning to do, your template is not really necessary as you can change the leader_title to whatever you want with Template:Infobox Town MA. -- Gogo Dodo 20:24, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Re your message: Ah, okay. Thryduulf already fixed the problem that prompted me to contact you [1]. I'm not familiar with how the government of cities/towns are usually setup in Massachusetts, but if the Worcester setup is common, you might want to modify the Infobox Town MA template to support the city manager, mayor, and city council. That way it can be used with other cities/towns. -- Gogo Dodo 22:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Osprey
Your comment reminded me to ask a US editor to look at Osprey to check two points.
- Is the distinction bewteen the American and nominate ssp correct?
- The sex and age plumage distinctions are based on the nominate form. Do they apply to the American ssp too?
Thanks for any help you can give
jimfbleak 06:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for comments - I've been away for a few days, so lots of catching up to do. jimfbleak 15:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rock pigeon link removed?
Hello,
If you could take a minute, I'd like to know why you removed the link I added to the Rock pigeon article. Were those birds not rock pigeons? The article is just a stub, I'd like to expand it. Please reply on my talk page or the article talk page when you get a minute. Thank you!--Son of More 06:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] {{CongBio}} and {{CongBio2}}
One should only use {[tl|CongBio2}} for People who served up to or after 1991. Otherwise, use {{CongBio}}. See Caleb Cushing. —Markles 18:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of current members of the United States House of Representatives
Great work!—Markles 05:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Import Wikitable from US House Current Members
Expanding on your idea of another list, how's this: I'd like to import the wikitable someone created for the List of current members of the United States House of Representatives and import it to the Congressional roster of the 110th Congress. The graphics I think make for a better read, although it does extend out the article a bit more. The other option is to link the table from a seperate article to the 110th. I'd also like to create the same wikitable for the U.S. Senators over the next few weeks. They then could be used as a template for future congresses as we move forward. Any strong thoughts either way. No comments I'd interpret as to go forward............ Pmeleski 12:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- Sounds great, having this information (in the nice table format) integrated, rather in a separate article. Either way it will definitely be an improvement over the past situation. Let me know what I can do to help - it seems like you've got a lot of this under control. :-) Qqqqqq 18:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Sortable Table
Well, you can put them by state now by clicking on the sorting button in the state column. I'm not an expert with the techie stuff, the sortable CSS class only works when the cells are equally sized. But thank you for the compliment otherwise, feel free to help me finish that table off and/or expand it into new categories! Just H 01:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Maine's 5th congressional district
Great Article! Sounds like a notable contribution to Wikipedia. I would reccomend you put a source and also some external links for pages with more info. Again, THANKS A LOT!!! Nenyedi 01:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of United States Representatives from Foo
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States Representatives from Minnesota. It is about to get deleted (any day now) and I think that would be a shame. —Markles 21:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bird lists
I just have to say that we have been doing almost the exact same thing the last few days Special:Contributions/Basar. Good thing we didn't do it for the same state. Basar 05:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Massachusetts
Yellowdesk, I've made a first attempt at narrowing the focus of the Massachusetts article. I've also noticed there are now two articles of famous people from Massachusetts. One is the List I've created moving all the names off the Massachusetts article, the other is a previously named article . They should probably be merged. You can find them at the see also area for Category:People from Massachusetts. Let me know what you think of my consolidation.Pmeleski 00:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
- It's a start.
- Yes List of Famous people from Massachusetts should be merged with List of people from Massachusetts. I put in tags to do that.
- I think the various other historical "see also" items should be revived.
- There should be a section on people, so that editors will not be tempted to start new lists again, and cite the List of people from Massachusetts as the main article for that section.
* Probably desirable to create a stand-alone list for the federal parks/heritage/wildlife areas, and cite that list in some section.
-- Yellowdesk 20:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I found the stand-alone list for federally supervised areas. If you had described your edits all the time in the edit summary, I would not have missed it. It's good practice, and saves editors that are sympathetic to your efforts confusion and grief. -- Yellowdesk 04:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I like the box. It seems to be looking much better. Ideally I see the article as a nice box, which it has, then a series of brief intros pointing to full articles. After all, our state is densely populated and has a long history, all of which is central to the history of the United States. Just about every topic can use an article. As to how much of this I will do, I don't know. It isn't my area of interest. One thing leads to another in Wikipedia and before you know it you are contributing to a chain of articles all of which have to be corrected or filled in before you can do the thing in which you originally were interested. Thanks for the invite.Dave 15:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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- .Pmeleski, Thanks for inviting me to look over your edits to the history section. Alas, I won't have time to properly read it carefully till next week, and I'll comment then. -- Yellowdesk 01:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Woonsocket
I've fixed the infobox template to show the picture. Nice pic though you may want to crop it a little since it is a bit too tall. --Polaron | Talk
[edit] Snipe
no problem. jimfbleak 06:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Stonechat
Hi. You asked me about Stonechats a little while ago. The simplest answer is that there is no common agreement yet on whether the three groups of subspecies should be treated as separate species; however, some authorities haven't yet considered the split proposal, so their current sticking with the status quo (lumping the three) shouldn't be taken as support for lumping. In terms of the American list, I'd suggest sticking with the AOU approach for the moment (you could add a note though, to explain that Siberian Stonechat is the taxon involved). Do come back to me if you'd like to discuss further. SP-KP 11:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bird FA
I'm happy to help. But be warned, it is a huge huge task, and you'll loathe the article. Passionately. But hey, it needs doing. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
