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File:Acridoxena hewiana 4.jpg

You licensed this as GFDL, Would it also be possible to re-license it as Creative Commons Share Alike?

It would also be helpful; if you could confirm you are in fact Martin Goss :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 07:41, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hello Megaraptor12345,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Steve Hopkin (Scientist) for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 10:22, 24 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Look at List_of_Theraphosidae_species - the red entries have no article yet. For example the Brazilian Blue Green Pinktoe.

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Thanks Rich! Megaraptor12345 (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you DPL bot! I did not even know! I will go and fix it now!Megaraptor12345 (talk) 10:30, 4 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

Edited and fixed! Thanks again bot! Megaraptor12345 (talk) 10:35, 4 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

 

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Thanks for all the articles you've created on spiders!

For the authority for the scientific name, it's best to use a secondary source (as recommended by WP:RS); for spiders the most reliable is the World Spider Catalog. Search for the species name here. The reference for a species will look like:

• <ref name=WSC_sID>{{citation |title=Taxon details ''GENUS SPECIES'' AUTH |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/ID |accessdate=DATE }}</ref>

where ID, GENUS, SPECIES, AUTH and DATE are replaced by appropriate values.

What variety of English (see WP:ENGVAR) do you use? I ask because this should be consistent, and I saw that you wrote "colourful" (British) and "colors" (American) at Typhochlaena amma. I changed "colourful" to "colorful", but maybe I should have changed "colors" to "colours" (which, being British, I would prefer).

If I can ever help in any way, leave me a message on my talk page. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:42, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hello Peter coxhead! I actually use British English; I accidently used "colors". But do not worry, I will change it myself. And yes, I do use WSC as nearly all my sources, except for some, which come mainly from a website called Tarantupedia, but for the descriptions I must use the scientific descriptions on the WSC references, as without those descriptions the page would be very dull, e.g. "(Spider name here) is a tarantula. It is native to New Zealand." Megaraptor12345 (talk) 16:19, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Although Tarantupedia seems to be quite good, it probably would not be accepted by Wikipedia purists as meeting the standards of WP:RS, so if possible you should "look beyond" it, i.e. use it to find the sources it uses for its information and reference those.

Another point I would make is that the latest genome-based phylogenetic research (e.g. this) says that most of the families of mygalomorph spiders are not monophyletic, so we can expect some major changes in the next few years. One of the advantages of using the "automated taxobox system" (e.g. {{Automatic taxobox}} and {{Speciesbox}}) is that it will be easy to change all the taxobox for a genus and its species from one family to another by changing one template page. So it may be worth your learning how to use these templates rather than "plain" taxoboxes. The automated taxobox system is widely used in spider articles. See Template:Automatic taxobox/doc/intro for an introduction. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:07, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Paraphrasing Another important point I can perhaps make about Wikipedia editing from this article is that you need to watch out for copyright problems. In this case the Zookeys article is marked as "CC-BY", which means that it's ok to copy the text, provided that it is attributed. In other cases the fact that the text beginning "The specific name is a patronym ..." is word-for-word the same as the article would be wrong. I would still recommend paraphrasing, though.

I'm happy to fix bare URLs; they are much better than no references at all! However, it will be helpful if you learn how to avoid repeating a reference. What you need to do is:

1. The first time you use a reference, give it a name like this <ref name=NAME>REF DETAILS</ref>, where NAME is any unique string of letters and numbers.
2. Then when you use the same reference again, just put <ref name=NAME/> – don't forget the "/" which I'm always doing!

Please don't let any of these comments put you off creating articles, which is the most useful activity. They can always be fixed up afterwards. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:12, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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I noticed the wikilink you added to Typhochlaena, namely ([[Spinneret (spider)|spinneret]]). I didn't know about this article, and have instead been using [[Spider anatomy#Spinnerets|spinneret]].

I wondered if I'm alone in thinking that it would be useful to have a "standard" set of wikilinks for all spider anatomical terms, perhaps added to WP:SPIDERS/Resources. Any thoughts? Peter coxhead (talk) 17:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I think I agree on that. Not only because it would be very useful in editing (because I use a lot of terms that are rarely heard); but also because it could provide interesting information about things such as the rastellum, which is currently without a page. But there is a problem: sources. Sticking with the rastellum example, things like this are considered "boring" and I can find no very reliable sources on such things, and doesn't some page say that if something has no reliable sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it? On the other hand, I am rubbish at finding sources, as I'm sure you know, so there may well be reliable sources out there. Personally, I agree completely and want those sort of articles, so I will do whatever I can to help. Megaraptor12345 (talk) 18:06, 3 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

You're right – sources are a problem. I regularly read some scientific source needed for an article and find it uses terms I don't know and aren't explained. It was reading such a paper that encouraged me to write Palpal bulb. There doesn't seem to be a textbook on spider anatomy at the right level – or at least if there is, I don't know of it. Some more thought needed... Peter coxhead (talk) 18:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

I'm guessing that you weren't aware, but when a group of animals has a single subgroup, e.g. a genus has a single species, we only create one article. This is described at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life#Article titles, where the relevant bit is: "In cases where a group only contains a single subgroup, the two should not be separated ... for a genus that contains a single species, the genus name should be used [as the article title] since it is included in the binomial nomenclature." So I merged "Mascaraneus remotus" into Mascaraneus.

By the way, you had written "It is the monotypic species of Mascaraneus ...", but in this context "monotypic" means "has only one subordinate member", so it's the genus that is monotypic as it has only one species (more precisely it's monospecific). Peter coxhead (talk) 15:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Peter!Megaraptor12345 (talk) 18:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I got an automated Wikipedia message saying you'd left a message on my talk page today, but it's not there and not in the page history either. Very odd. So if you did leave me a message, could you please try again? Peter coxhead (talk) 22:04, 7 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

I was going to ask you something, but you see whilst I was editing I thought what I was saying was not really worth saying, so I left the page unsaved but Wikipedia must have automatically sent you that message you received. Sorry for your inconvenience! But actually I've changed my mind, so I will ask you that question. Wikipedia also sent me an automated message saying you had thanked me, for an unreferenced edit in the article Annandaliella travancorica, which I thought you would be angry about, not pleased. But do note I am not complaining, just curious. Thanks and sorry again. Megaraptor12345 (talk) 23:05, 7 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

I've now replied to your query on my talk page. Re Annandaliella travancorica, I wasn't sure that I'd understood what you wrote at first "The male only lacks any stridulating hairs..." The "only" confused me: did you mean "Only the male lacks any stridulating hairs (but the female has them)" or "The male has hairs but only lacks stridulating ones"? So your second edit clarified what was meant, hence the thanks. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for making it clear, Peter! Megaraptor12345 (talk) 11:11, 8 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Re a recent edit you made: actually in many spider families, subfamilies are not currently important, since their boundaries are unclear. The problem is complicated by the fact that some subfamilies within a family are well-defined, whereas others are not, so any attempt to divide a family up consistently is at present doubtful. For Theraphosidae, see e.g. Guadanucci, J.P.L. (2014), "Theraphosidae phylogeny: relationships of the 'Ischnocolinae' genera (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)", Zoologica Scripta, 43 (5): 508–518, doi:10.1111/zsc.12065.

The other problem is that if the taxobox displays a subfamily, as Tmesiphantes did after your edit to Template:Taxonomy/Tmesiphantes, this needs to be sourced in the article. Since the World Spider Catalog doesn't use subfamilies, this means adding a Taxonomy section to the article with a separate explicit up-to-date reference supporting the subfamily. Without such a source, the subfamily is unsourced.

Your change to Template:Taxonomy/Tmesiphantes meant that the source given did not support the placement, so if you really want to show the subfamily in the automated taxobox, you need either to remove the WSC ref or (better) replace it with one supporting the subfamily. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:00, 20 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Indeed, subfamilies are not important taxonomically, but when I was a new comer to the group, I found subfamilies made the Theraphosidae easier to understand... Not sure if this is a good reason for adding subfamilies (:

I added sources to both articles, and thank you alerting me to the problem; I most definitely wouldn't have noticed otherwise!Megaraptor12345 (talk) 15:19, 21 June 2016 (UTC) (By the way, sorry for the delay in replying; my internet connection is bad and homework and the like had to be done)Reply

Thanks for providing the reference. I suggest using it as I've done now at Tmesiphantes. My reasoning is:

• WP:WPNOTRS strongly prefers secondary or tertiary sources. The World Spider Catalog is clearly a secondary (or even a tertiary source), since its editors review other sources to create the database. So where possible, e.g. for the authority for a name, it's better to use the WSC and avoid possible challenges from other editors over the use of primary sources.
• Unfortunately, at present there aren't reliable secondary sources for subfamilies, superfamilies, etc. So we are forced to use primary ones. In which case, it's better to put the information in the article as well as in the taxobox, and then you can put the reference directly afterwards.

Spider taxonomy is very tricky at present: it changes rapidly in my experience, and even family placements are sometimes doubtful.

Anyway, keep up the good work – we need more spider editors! Peter coxhead (talk) 08:46, 22 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, when I started editing spider articles, rather than plant ones, I looked for some guidance on the ordering of sections. (For plants, we have Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Template.) There doesn't seem to be one. So I looked at the FA/GA articles for spiders and arthropods, such as Redback spider. These suggested to me that the consensus among the few top-rated spider articles is to have the order:

• Taxonomy and naming (or Taxonomy and etymology or just Taxonomy)
• Description (or Morphology or Anatomy, etc.)
• Behavior/Behaviour (or Biology or Natural history, etc.)
• Distribution and habitat
• Others as required

Personally, I prefer the WP:PLANTS order, i.e. Description first, since I think that most readers want first of all to know what the animal looks like, so if I create a new article, I tend to reverse the order of the first two sections. In support of this, if you look at other Featured Articles for other arthropod groups, such as Homarus gammarus, Taxonomy is often put last. This works for species articles, but not for genus articles, because to discuss the distribution, for example, you usually need to know what species there are.

What do you think?

(Minor point: the English Wikipedia doesn't use "title case" in section titles, so it's "Distribution and habitat" not "Distribution and Habitat" – not my preference, but it's what the Manual of Style says.)

Keep up the good work! Peter coxhead (talk) 10:57, 9 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wow, I never thought about that! I usually just pop the sections in in a fashion I've seen done before i.e. taxonomy first, then description, etc. I think the arrangement in Homarus gammarus is really nice and clear, and I like how the biology (or life cycle or whatever) is near the top, as I like to know the behaviour and description of an animal before I learn any thing else. I'll use this for my new article, Augacephalus breyeri. Thanks for telling me, Megaraptor12345 (talk) 23:58, 9 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

I do agree that, for species articles, the Homarus gammarus ordering works well, although I've tended to use the Redback spider ordering so far, just because it was a spider article. Um... Peter coxhead (talk) 07:59, 10 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

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