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Soil microbiology

Note the message I left on 83.215.123.233. Stopped adding them immediately afterwards. The anon needs to leave an ES for why... Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 11:17, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Good work! Perhaps the feeling that multiple editors were looking out for him did the trick. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:27, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

I did a few searches on the ISBNs:

• 978-3-642-14511-7 3 hits --- done
• 978-94-007-7413-1 ~20 --- done
• 978-94-007-4263-5 ~12 --- done

Should these be looked at? Probably more... Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 21:23, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't see that we have any reason to try to block these titles, though in some cases the links have been added by the blocked IPs and represent missed spam. I've been through the searches and removed all the links added by the blocked IPs. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:38, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Bat FAC

I think we better add another cladogram with the updated 2013 data will places the megabats within the microbats. LittleJerry (talk) 20:26, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Just a top-level outline, I guess and hope, as the microbat families will basically be the same barring that change. We mustn't do much or the FAC will get tangled. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:32, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't know what Brian means with some of these. He says cites 119 and 126 don't don't link, but they work fine for me. Did the numbers change? LittleJerry (talk) 01:15, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

I think so, yes. Best we can do is check the numbers a few above those stated. If still nothing wrong, we just say so. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:57, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

I hope you had a nice Christmas! I will need your help in finishing out FunkMonk's tasks. LittleJerry (talk) 20:10, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm still away for a couple of days and can only do really small edits really slowly from here. Will lend a hand asap. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:26, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Should I list the article for a source spotcheck? One user checked one source in their review but I don't know if that is enough.

I'd have thought not at this stage. In any case, we've had a whole Sources review during the FAC which is far senior to a spotcheck. What we need is to secure the support of the three reviewers who have given comments only so far. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:04, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

LittleJerry - it's starting to look as if we'll have to provide new numbers for all the refs to confirm that we've actioned them all correctly so as to get the crucial Support !vote... Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:42, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

An article passing does not depend on the number of supports but whether the reviewers combed though all the criteria (prose, images, sources, comprehensiveness) and improved. Checking sources for accuracy and paraphrasing is all that's left. LittleJerry (talk) 01:50, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Well maybe inviting someone to do that would help then. If a spotcheck is sufficient (whatever I think) then go for it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:26, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Another success! One thing, the economics section mentions bats saving "$3.7 billion to $53 billion per year in pesticides". Does it just mean pesticides and not also crop damage? The abstract mentions that the loss of bats could lead to "agricultural losses estimated at more than $3.7 billion/year". LittleJerry (talk) 16:19, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Splendid! And yes, it surely means savings in crop damage. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Housefly

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New page reviewing

Thank you for coming to my rescue with regard to the Indonesian bus company. New page patrolling seems to bring in a raft of complaints, but most of the articles I have nominated for speedy deletion have been promotional articles by undeclared paid editors. I could just skip the difficult ones in the new page feed, leaving them for somebody else to deal with, but that's not really my way. I have just listed Home management at AfD, not because the subject is not notable, but because the article is so feeble and I didn't know what to do with it. Mrs Beeton would have done much better. At the end of the month, the NPR backlog drive will be over, and I might return to my more normal activities, and we could perhaps work on a neglected insect or other taxon again. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:00, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, yes I've tried a bit of it as well, and it's a brain strain. There are articles with half a good idea, half a citation, half a problem with use of English, a dash of plagiarism, and a whiff of commercialism but it's nearly always hard to pin a straight CSD on any of them. I think NPP drives are worthy things, but I'd far rather get on with something more obviously constructive. Let's see what we can do in February. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:12, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Discussion on image at Talk:Earth

Hi Chiswick Chap, would you consider adding your thoughts at a discussion about the inclusion of a phylogenetic tree image at Talk:Earth#Phylogenetic Tree image removed? Cheers, User:HopsonRoad 13:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Eliza

Hi CC, I've started off The English Bread Book with bits culled from the Acton article and a few contemporary reviews I found in the course of my research. I doubt I'll get round to doing much else with it, but feel free to steward it if you wish, or to take it up to another cooking GA, if you feel so inclined. If you need confirmation of info, or have any questions about anything else in the sources, please give me a shout. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 16:06, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks, I'll take a look. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:13, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
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Bellman

I included him in WP:Selected anniversaries/February 4, but I need to have a citation for his birth and death dates. Since you undid my edit, please add a citation. Otherwise, I'll have to find another article. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 03:37, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Howcheng - done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:56, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

On the cats: I accept the decision to make the descriptions of apex predators more concise. I have a good reason for putting in that all cats are formidable predators; without such I can easily imagine the gallery being loaded with cats. In fact I put that line in the caption for the tiger very early when a gallery was being established. Except for the cheetah, the solitary cats are so similar that one can hardly distinguish their techniques. I've seen plenty of big-cat video and the behavior of domestic cats; domestic cats hunt and kill in much the same manner as leopards, and they are about as likely to make a kill in a hunt as any other cat.

All cats are similarly lethal, if to different prey.Pbrower2a (talk) 16:46, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

"One of the greatest travel books of all time"

Let's begin our dialogue with the above phrase, which you restored to the WP article but which I realise is not your own. Its source is the cited Daily Telegraph list of 20. The reason I left out the claim from the lead was that it is chauvinistic and journalistic, not encyclopaedic. To begin with it contains a couple of novels and only includes works written in English. If we're going to include works of fiction, then the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and arguably the Luciads outclass everything in the Telegraph list, not to mention genuine travel accounts like Xenophon's Anabasis, the Icelandic saga of Eric the Red's Greenland and American voyages, and any number of earlier accounts of African and Asian travels. Colour supplement hype, however impeccably referenced, is not objective and has no place in an encyclopaedia. I'm reasonably sure, from what you say about yourself, that we'll be in agreement on this. Sweetpool50 (talk) 16:56, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Look, 1) the Telegraph is a respected national newspaper. 2) The claim was and is reliably cited, and you deleted it without making that basic check. 3) It is utterly presumptuous of you to suppose I will agree with your talk of "hype", "chauvinis[m]", "journalistic" writing or whatever (I can't begin to imagine how a journalist should write otherwise, and if journalism could not be relied upon, we wouldn't allow national newspapers as reliable sources.) 4) I already replied on the article talk page, asking for time to reflect quietly on what best to do rather than making any kind of hasty decision as can easily happen when an independently reviewed article is suddenly edited without discussion. You had no reason to dive right in to my talk page, given we already have a discussion running, and you already knew I was taking time out to think about your edits coolly. I would be quite within my rights to revert your entire change per BRD - you overB'ed already, I am free to R, and then we could begin from a clean slate with the article in the neutral state in which it was left by the reviewer. Now, please, leave me be and I will reply in due course. Thank you. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Red imported fire ant

Hi,

I think my hiatus has ended and I am trying to actively edit here again. Now, I have taken up your offer before we nominate this for GA and I noticed your recent major edits to the article which I will not contest. Perhaps we can finally have an active discussion regarding this article? I simply don't want to leave this article after so much work and effort was put into it. Cheers, Burklemore1 (talk) 03:15, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

OK, if you'll renominate it and ping me, we can take up the reins, with my previous GAN comments remaining to be addressed. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:29, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good. I'll go along with that and renominate it once everything looks fine. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:02, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Burklemore1 - are you ready to go? Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Just a Friendly Reminder

Whenever you see edits like [1] by an IP starting with "139.(dotdotdot)," please to revert it and all other edits, good or bad, that IP has made, as it's a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong term anonymous vandal with a history of spamming pages with inappropriate, nonexistent, and inappropriate and nonexistent categories, in addition to posting nonsensical, poorly written to the point of incomprehensible edits that are usually WP:OR + WP:SYNTH opinions. I would have it blocked every time it rears its head, but, I've found that doing so simply accelerates its habit of jumping from one IP to another, so, I just revert every edit it makes.--Mr Fink (talk) 21:41, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks, I'd never heard of it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:43, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

I think it evolved from the "Megafauna Man" vandal who tried to spam just about all animal articles, living and extinct with megafauna categories about 7 to 10 years ago.--Mr Fink (talk) 22:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Novocrania anomala

What do you think of the unexpected merging of Novocrania anomala into Novocrania? It seems to me to be against policy, the genus name being customarily used as the title of the article when the genus is monotypic, but that is not the case here. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth Yes, that seems definitely wrong.

Aphid

BTW we seem to have got Aphid ready? Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:25, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Just about. A few more citations are needed and the lead probably needs expansion. I seem to have got stuck on new page reviewing but will have a go at Aphid this evening. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:32, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Super. I'll have another look then as well. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:38, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Shall I nominate it then? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:17, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth – yes, I think the efforts of the last couple of days have done the job now. Let's go for it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:21, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth – However, we make fairly extensive use of McGavin, possibly a reliable source, but without page references... Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:46, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Actually, I find page numbers increasingly difficult. Many Google books do not seem to have them, but the url can often be manipulated so that it takes one to the right page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:53, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Sometimes it's possible just to name the chapter, useful when it's basically a paper in an edited collection. Failing that, we'll have to resort to paper books in brick libraries - imagine. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:57, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Good Article Nomination

Hi. We've both nominated articles for Good Article status in the Culture, sociology and psychology area. I offer to review Reptiles in culture (or Tuberculosis in human culture if you prefer) if you will review Humanlight. If agreeable, there'd be no guarantee of an approved review in both cases—just a good faith offer to advise on what's needed to get it across the finish line if the article is short of GA status. Thanks! --Airborne84 (talk) 01:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Airborne84, it's a tempting offer, quid pro quo, and it would certainly help unblock a lengthy queue. However, it's not suggested in the instructions, and people might easily get the wrong idea. I'll take it as a stimulus to look harder for something I feel competent to review, and I'll use every GAN I do to remind the other person that they might like to do a GAN or two themselves. You've written a carefully-cited and interesting article and I'm sure it'll do well; there needs to be a little more punctuation in one or two of your "Notes", and I'd wonder if the current base of references is wide enough – ideally there'd be one or two more independent sources. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:44, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. No problem. I haven't nominated a GA in years and thought there used to actually be a suggestion to ask other experienced editors to review articles with vice versa. But after a brief look, I couldn't find that, and you're right that people could get the wrong idea. Thanks for the response and feedback! Airborne84 (talk) 16:48, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Arab Agricultural Revolution

Good work on Arab Agricultural Revolution. It has been a problematic article, and you are sorting it out. SilkTork (talk) 12:26, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! It was about as much work as getting it to GA in the first place, but the text and the title are plainly more congruent now. I do hope this business of, ah, revisiting GAs doesn't become a habit. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:29, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Counter-illumination

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Maudie Littlehampton...

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Your GA nomination of Tuberculosis in human culture

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Your GA nomination of Animal

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Clams

For the Clams article, you're right. There is no obvious reason to have local names. I've removed all other local names too. Either reinstate all local names including my edit or no local names allowed in any other language either. :) - xpclient ^Talk 13:12, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Sounds sensible. Now all the article needs is decent reffing... Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:25, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Sea urchin

I seem to have been drifting around doing new article reviewing for some time, so perhaps its time for something a bit more substantial. Do you fancy joining me in working on Sea urchin? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:59, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that would be a pleasure. I guess you saw we got Animal to GA - it's nice to get the important ones there. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:23, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Great, congratulations on Animal. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:55, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth - we're about done there, no? Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:28, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

I have dealt with the top half of the article, and if you are happy with it from Evolution onwards, then it should be about ready. I just need to finish off the Ecology section. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:05, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Excellent. I think my bit is ready, if you can't see anything too much wrong with it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:33, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Host (biology)

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Image at Cold-weather warfare

You are invited to join a discussion at Talk:Cold-weather warfare#Choice of images. Sincerely, HopsonRoad (talk) 21:11, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Host (biology)

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This article had passed at GA before I even knew it was under review. Have you any special ideas for a DYK hook? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:16, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: Never mind! I thought I'd managed to ping you. A hook. Um. Maybe something about the sludge worms hosting whirling disease? Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:48, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Before starting on a new project, it's really best to check the article for existing copyvios. In the case of this article, I don't like this Earwig's finding, which show up some definitions added on 10 May 2007‎. I propose to rewrite the definitions and leave it at that. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:49, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: But they copied us. Their file (only a Powerpoint slideshow, cobbled together from who knows where, not an original paper) dates from 27 May 2014. Back on 10 May 2007 Dysmorodrepanis~enwiki edited the then existing words

(13 April 2007, but written much earlier) "A primary host or definitive host is a host in which the parasite grows mature; a secondary host or intermediate host is a host that harbors the parasite only for a short transition period."

to "A primary host or definitive host is a host in which the parasite reaches maturity and, if applicable, reproduces sexually. A secondary host or intermediate host is a host that harbors the parasite only for a short transition period, during which (usually) some developmental stage is completed."

"if applicable" was later tweaked again to "if possible", a typical bit of Wiki-editing, certainly free of plagiarism.

In other words, we know that these phrases grew organically here at Wikipedia, starting with simpler wording and incrementally tweaked by editors. We are free to DYK or anything else, and I hope we do. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:30, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Good, you have dug into it a bit deeper than I did. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:33, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Host (biology) has been nominated for Did You Know

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Bikont

not sure what to do with the extra |2= in Bikont, so I commented it out. perhaps it should have been |label2=? Frietjes (talk) 20:11, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for starting Bread in culture. It is a clever article idea. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:12, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

That's very kind of you. It's part of a series of 'in culture' articles. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:27, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Aristotle

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Rescuing

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Aristotle

Sorry. For the time being I've been limited to be a low-level awkward bastard, but I figured it was a role that I could play. LOL. I am more of a content- oriented editor than a GA person, so I'll try to play a devil's advocate role for now - hoping to make sure the content is not simplified to achieve GA. I know: most GA fans will say this is a ridiculous thing to be worried about, because GA, but anyway, at least I am transparent. I do applaud your efforts to make the article better, and that's hopefully the most important point. You're a good editor and not many people could take this on without making me very nervous! Like I keep saying, I just hope we can keep some sense of how alien and surprising Aristotle was and should still be. He is more radical than Heidegger and Nietzsche put together. It is so hard to explain because his terminology permeates our languages but we do not know what it meant anymore, but I get the feeling you see at least something of my point.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 22:29, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Well, thank you. I want the article to be as good as it can be. It is already far more comprehensive than it was, with a much better balance between the three branches of his philosophy that we have as section headings, much more apposite and helpful illustrations, and a much better chance that first-time readers will come away with an inkling of the extraordinary breadth and depth of his thought. More than that for a brief encyclopedia article probably isn't possible, but 'alien and surprising' should now come out of such a first reading. At least people can think 'a logician and a biologist, wow', if not 'invented logic and biology, gosh'. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:06, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Aristotle

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I'm truly sorry to be as severely critical as I have been about the referencing, but I see no choice. I'm happy to leave the review open for longer than a week if wanted, and to show willing I'll convert the existing 10-digit ISBNs to the prescribed 13-digit form for you. (Later:now done.) It's a superb article and I hope to be able to promote it. Tim riley talk 14:12, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Tim riley - Not to worry Tim, I'm sure we can sort the refs out. Given that it's the Easter break it may take a little longer than a week. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:18, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

You shall have as long as you need. I checked the other day apropos of something else, and GAN reviewers are free to expand or contract On hold periods as necessary. B.t.w., if you are in favour of separating the explanatory footnotes from the general citations as I suggest on the review page, let me know, and I'll do the necessary. But No Obligation, as the notices used to say in the shops of my distant youth, shortly after Aristotle was around. Tim riley talk 16:11, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Tim riley - that's very kind. Yes please, format the notes as you like. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:21, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Aristotle

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Re: Aristotle's biology

It wasn't only based on my opinion, it was mainly based on the paragraph stating aristotle thought animals with placentas were generally higher than egg layers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.17.164.224 (talk) 19:09, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Not a reason, I'm afraid. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:02, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Girih

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Your GA nomination of Parasitism

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Hi Chiswick Chap just a note to say that things have come up that are making unwelcome demands on my attention. I am happy to continue with the review but with your understanding that i am somewhat slowed down.--Iztwoz (talk) 21:42, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Well, thanks for letting me know. Hope things improve for you soon. Chiswick Chap (talk) 03:18, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Sonic

Since there wasn't a ref (and this is far from my area of expertise!) I couldn't quite figure it out and reading over Sonic hedgehog I saw no mention of anything related, I am guessing it was supposed to be Sonic hedgehog (protein)? In any case, I've added that, so please let me know if its wrong! CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 12:49, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Host (biology)

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About copy-paste:

I don't really rely on the other wikipedia-page(s). It just that the wikipedia-page did not contradict what I have read from the other sources such of Lindberg for example. But thanks for noting it, next time I will provide secondary sources just as you did. En historiker (talk) 20:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks, it was just the edit summary then, but the addition was uncited. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:48, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Keystone species

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A Barnstar for you!

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The Very Best of Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 14:03, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks, Barbara, that's very good of you. Much appreciated. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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Aphid

For your information, Aphid is under review. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:10, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Let me know what you would like me to do with regard to the GA review because I don't want to waste my time duplicating your effort. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:35, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth Anything that's on the bits you edited really. I'm not sure whether we've almost finished (as it seems) or whether there are lots more fixes to make. If you feel like checking the refs for formatting errors you're very welcome! For instance, all authors should be like Bloggs, Joe B. (or failing that, Bloggs, J. B.) not Bloggs J.B. or J.B. Bloggs (etc), there are some to fix (yeah, exciting). Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:40, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: "* Reading through doi:10.1146/annurev.en.37.010192.001541 revealed to me that there are sexual (oviparae) and parthenogenetic morphs - and the complexity of life cycle strategies seems to be incompletely covered in the article." -- Maybe you'd like that one? Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:58, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

OK, I will look into the matter. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:04, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: reviewer wants a bit more ... are you on for doing that? Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:26, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

I was just working on it when you pinged me. I think I have covered the main reproductive strategies, and the extreme variations are out of place in a general article on aphids. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth Yes, I do rather agree. Perhaps you could add a brief mention of one or two of the weirdo bits you've found to humour the man? I've mentioned a couple of odd mechanisms listed by G&C. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:12, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth I'll try to respond to the additional comments (in answer to my question on the GAN page). You might want to ask him for https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev.en.37.010192.001541 which he mentioned. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:34, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

I see you have been responding admirably at the review while I have been involved in RL matters. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:26, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks, all sorted. Now for those leeches! Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Indeed. I'm busy today, but I'll get back to the leeches tomorrow. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:45, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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Your essay

I'd come across your essay years ago but then forgot how to find it. It was my inspiration for making the {{Preloaddraft}} template, which can be used to populate lists of redlinks that when you click on them load up a skeleton template of how an article could look. Since it was mentioned here, I thought I'd send a belated thanks. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:09, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Tom! And it seems that Boris found it helpful... I'll add a footnote about your template. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:18, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

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	For Parasitoid, which passed today, congratulations. A thoroughly engaging article that I'd not normally read. CassiantoTalk 08:15, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

That's very kind of you, many thanks and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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DYK for Aphid

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Speciation diagrams

Chiswick Chap, I am slowly working on converting over the speciation diagrams to SVG. Unfortunately, not all of them will be possible to convert, but some of the major, simple ones certainly are. Cheers! Andrew Z. Colvin • Talk 23:37, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Azcolvin429 --- One can convert anything, at least the labels, by dint of leaving an image bitmap in the SVG (e.g. for a photograph) and drawing or labelling around and over it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:00, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

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Honeybees vs. honey-making bees

I really don't want an edit war so I thought I'd just say here: the article on Honey Bee specifically says that it doesn't refer to stingless social bees. It's therefore not appropriate to talk about the Mayans raising and exploiting those explicitly-excluded bees. If you want to to include them, you need to change the up-article text to not exclude them. ("Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, including the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.")

Thanks for all the excellent work you do. IAmNitpicking (talk) 14:00, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Cestoda

I don't know if you would like to join me in working on Cestoda?

I would also like to ask you about the circular redirects in the taxonomy section of the article leading back to Cestoda. I blanked two of the redirects creating redlinks (Spathebothriidea and Diphyllidea), but these changes were officiously reversed by another editor. I could create stubs instead, but have nothing meaningful to say about the taxa. What do you think? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:09, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: OK, let's have a go. I've chopped the redirects with a detailed edit comment. By the way, I can't see why we have a separate article on tapeworm infection as it's quite short and overlaps with what's in the main article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:18, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Actually, just blanking the circular redirect pages (there are about ten) is not very satisfactory as it leaves a bluelinked empty page. So instead, I am replacing the redirect pages with starter stubs for each tapeworm order. I can easily replicate these, and the stubs can be added to when someone feels enthusiastic. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:51, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

OK, that'll work. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:47, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: gosh this is a complicated group! I think we should have a table of life-cycles as they vary widely by Order with one or two intermediate hosts (for different larval stages) and a definitive host for the adult: though the adults are sometimes in exactly one vertebrate species, sometimes in a wide range of possible definitive hosts. I've added host sequences to the phylogeny for now, which makes some sense as (by Fahrenholz's rule and Eichler's rule) parasite phylogeny often mirrors host phylogeny. We should mention and link that fact, too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:30, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Your internal phylogeny is a great improvement on what was there before. My Ruppert has a section on "life cycle examples" which we might model a section on. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:52, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: I've found sources for the different taxa so we now have their hosts pretty well listed. What else do you think needs to be done? Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:45, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

That's good, the article has changed considerably since we started work on it. I will do a bit of reference tidying tomorrow, and the lead could be expanded/improved, after which we are about finished. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:56, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Super. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:18, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Bat

Firstly, thank you for making me aware of the mistakes I have made. You make some valid points about my intended additions. I had no intentions of forcing anything upon the bat page, and I will take more caution when edited another "featured article". Secondly, thank you for making edits to the edits that have been kept. I will be adding the citations to where I received my information regarding the beginning additions as I find them important. Best MountainFoot (talk) 18:14, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:00, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Awarde for bringing Aristotle to good article status. You did some incredible work on a vital article, and I wanted to thank you on behalf of the millions of college students taking philosophy prerequisites who rely on the article. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 02:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks, that's very kind of you. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:25, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Monarch butterfly migration

Thank you for your offer to review this article for GA. It is large and I am in the middle of a major across-the-country move. My responses to your review questions may take up to one to two days. Is this acceptable? I didn't expect anyone to take on this review so quickly. Thanks again. Best Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 10:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Barbara, there's no hurry at all. The article is quite well-cited but is in need of reorganisation and pruning. Hope your move goes well. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:11, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Evidence of common descent

Any idea what the Arnold G. Kluge book is? I looked around, but didn't see any 2000 publication. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:55, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

No, I tried quite hard to find it without success. We'll have to find other sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:23, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Apex predator

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Sea urchin

Sea urchin is also under review. It got off to a rocky start, as you can see from my talk page, but has now reached calmer waters. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:41, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth I couldn't find any real run-on sentences, but there are several quite complex sentences with dependent clauses. It might be as well to split some of those, as non-Brits can find them difficult or wrong-looking. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:35, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

I found and dealt with one sentence that rambled around a bit. Will have a further look. I think the lead lacked polish, and the etymology should really be elsewhere. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:39, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Lead is better now the etym is elsewhere. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:58, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	For adding the upright attribute to the Low-key photography. I had no idea that it's possible. Thanks! Robertgombos (talk) 03:28, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, thanks. It's a very small thing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 03:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you so much for correcting my clumsy mistakes!

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Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:02, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Flagship species

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Basilosauridae Progress? Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:44, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Chiswick Chap, sorry for the delay. I don’t intend that to be my regular MO, I just had to shelve it for a moment while I focused on finals at school, but I didn’t forget! I’m almost done and will post it by the end of today. ^†Basilosauridae❯❯❯Talk 17:40, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Hammersmith

Hi, thought better to ask here first. I'm not sure why you reverted my edit about Jaime Murray [2]. Aside from the noun gender, which is a minor point, all I did was link to the relevant article and add a reference for her birth place. Was it a mistake or am I missing something obvious? Roger 8 Roger (talk) 08:00, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for checking.

• Mirren - "actress" is a deprecated term; she acts, so she's an actor.

• Murray - IMDb is not a reliable source. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:04, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I found this about IMBd [3] which I had not seen before. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 08:28, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Who We Are and How We Got Here

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Basilosauridae -- hope all went well your end. I've completed the GAN fixes. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:04, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Agriculture

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Your GA nomination of Flagship species

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Thanks, Chiswick Chap!

For all your help on my messily posted draft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tcampo123/sandbox/Matter_of_Fact_with_Soledad_O%27Brien#cite_note-4

Tcampo123 (talk) 18:40, 16 June 2018 (UTC) Tom

Octopus scheduled for TFA

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DYK for Sea urchin

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Genetic engineering/GA1

Hi. I undid this at Talk:Genetic engineering/GA1, but thought I better double check it wasn't you. AIRcorn (talk) 23:09, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Indeed it wasn't! A remarkably pointless bit of editing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:02, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

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:-)

Cheers. 83.199.145.218 (talk) 21:34, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Blending inheritance

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"Brown-tail" is a moth

I have worked on the article, and nominated for GA. I know that you and Cwmhiraeth dabble in insects. I wanted to bring this GA nomination to your and C's attention in case you want to add to your work load or recommend someone else. I suppose one order of business will be to change the name of the article. David notMD (talk) 23:45, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. The name seems quite serviceable to me. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:53, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Related deletion request to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of plants of The Edge Chronicles

You had voted in the deletion request for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of plants of The Edge Chronicles. You might be interested in other deletion requests on the same subject:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of The Edge Chronicles characters
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Galerider
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sky Ship,
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stone Pilot

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Your GA nomination of Agriculture

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I thought about reviewing Agriculture but didn't get around to it. Meanwhile, Cestoda is under review. I have left a few points for you to deal with. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:48, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

TFA

Thank you for today's octopus, one of the most intelligent invertebrates, rivaled only by other cephalopods"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt: A big thanks to you, Gerda, for your ceaseless work encouraging other Wikipedians. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:06, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

About Knson

You may not have noticed, but in addition to reverting a number of taxonomic classifications to schemes last used 10-20 years ago or longer (FYI: the only citations that they might have provided are all out-of-date or recent sources based on those same out-of-date original sources), Knson also removed all the edit war warnings and such that you and others had placed on his talk page here. Is there no policy against removal of warnings? Thanks for helping with this. Dyanega (talk) 21:32, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

I had noticed. I'm neither an admin nor a Wiki-lawyer, but I believe people can clear their own talk page if they like, and that attempts to prevent that for people with named accounts might be harassment. Admins know to look through history; and you are free to note the clearing of the warnings at ANI. But I think someone already did that. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:00, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi. A follow-up: the same user appears to have created at least one different account (Knson7 this time), and is presently using that account to engage in an edit war on the Beetle page, again mucking about with phylogenies. A little more digging reveals that he also had accounts Knson3 and Knson5 (now both blocked), and was also using those to edit phylogeny pages, all edits unsourced, and Knson5 was engaged in numerous edit wars. A little MORE digging reveals an ongoing investigation and series of blocks related to sockuppetry here. This person is persistent and completely unresponsive; the blanking of warnings from their talk pages is evidently part of the pattern of pretending that they're not doing anything wrong. They're likely not going anyway any time soon. Dyanega (talk) 01:02, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Leech

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Hygiene Hypothesis

Hello. I think the article Hygiene_hypothesis ought to appear in the {{History of biology}} and {{Public health}} templates. What do you think? However I don't know exactly where -- i.e. under theories or history.. Afartrip (talk) 15:11, 31 July 2018 (UTC)afartrip

Not sure it belongs in the biology one; the public health one is a better match, maybe under theories, but it could really do with quite a bit better citation before it gets there - it seems to have been tagged for a while. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:26, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Monarch butterfly migration

I would like to withdraw my nomination for Monarch butterfly migration. Best Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 02:39, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Reptiles in culture

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DYK for Cestoda

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A question

I seem to remember that you can speak Swedish. Is this correct? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:05, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, to a reasonable level. I can read pretty much anything. --Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:51, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

The reason I ask is in connection with the article Laurent Leksell which I have nominated for deletion. The point at issue concerns the founding of the Swedish company Elekta, and who was the founder. The matter is mentioned in the AfD nomination and refuted in the creator's statement there. The article's creator is user LOTE2009, a single issue account set up a month ago. I am not asking for your support at AfD but am asking you to look into the history of the company Elekta so that I can decide what to do at the AfD (like comment further there or withdraw it if appropriate). Thanks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:41, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

OK, I've read the AfD and the creator's reply seems reasonable (a priori, I've read nothing further as yet) though the father thing feels distinctly flaky. I'll try to get to this later today, after that I'll have even less availability. Cheers, Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:09, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

I was incensed by the apparent intention to change history through the medium of Wikipedia. However I found an English language source which discussed the formation of Elekta and it seems father and son were joint founders. I have altered both articles to reflect this, and if the creator of the Laurent Leksell article had done this in the first place, I wouldn't have wasted so much time. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:16, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes indeed. I think it's sorted now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:15, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Refs of possible interest?

FWIW - several very recent refs/studies may be of possible interest - iac - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 20:30, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

References

Your GA nomination of Parasites in fiction

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Your GA nomination of Predation

Chiswick Chap, I see that you are already acting on my review. I know that you nominated the article way back in April, so when you're ready to nominate it again, let me know and I'll do my best to review it quickly. RockMagnetist(talk) 21:37, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 22:04, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

RockMagnetist: I've revised it taking your comments into account, and put it back into GAN. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:51, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

O.k., I'll try to get to it soon. RockMagnetist(talk) 04:26, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

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Monarch butterfly migration

Hi there,

I saw your GA review for Talk:Monarch butterfly migration/GA1, where Barbara (WVS) felt she could not continue. Looking at it, it looks like the only bulletpoints that haven't been resolved are the ones about the table of organizations and the images? That seems pretty doable to me -- I've not gotten into the literature, though, so if it's more than that we'll see. Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:41, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Rhododendrites: Yes, we were almost there. If you'd like to take up the reins I think it won't take very long. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:48, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Basal (phylogenetics)

You may be interested in recent changes to Basal (phylogenetics) and the comments I made at its talk page. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:30, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

History of aluminium

Hi! When you were reviewing the article against the GA rules, I promised you I'd let you know when the FAC of this article starts. I'm sorry for the long waiting time, but here we are, facing the FAC! I hope you'll find the time to write a review and I will be very grateful if you do so.--R8R (talk) 19:26, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Mandalay (poem)

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Your GA nomination of Mandalay (poem)

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish is under review once more. I have dealt with the comments so far with the exception of the initial comment about jellyfish and dead zones, and jelly falls. Do you know anything about these? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:58, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I've added a brief paragraph on each of them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:23, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Predation

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Congratulations, Chiswick Chap! It was a pleasure working with you. RockMagnetist(talk) 05:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:07, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Dear Chiswick Chap, You took some interest in the gallery for the above, some years ago. If you have time, I'd appreciate your thoughts on the images as they stand following a recent expansion I've done. I've actually removed the gallery and tried to place the images used in some relation to the text. I'm particularly interested in the overall impact/effect, the sizing, the spacing, whether the ones used best illustrate the "points" being made etc. etc. I'll also be rolling this one along to Peer Review at some point and your input there would also be much valued. And last, a very big favour - could you do a map? I know you've done some and this article desperately needs one. I've requested it here, Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop but haven't had any response. I know it's a huge ask and will absolutely understand if you've neither the time nor the inclination. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 12:47, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

KJP1 Well, hundreds of edits later ... it looks amazing. I'll think about a map, as you say it's a bit of a project. Easiest might be an OTRS ticket from the NT! Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:54, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Glad you like it - I'm quite pleased with how it's turning out. I hadn't thought about approaching the NT. An excellent idea and I shall get on to that. But should you, in the meantime, find yourself with 20 or 30 hours to spare....! KJP1 (talk) 12:58, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Reptiles in culture

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DYK for Medusozoa

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Sea

I remember with pleasure working on Sea with you, such enormous scope for creating and developing a really important article, but the FA was decidedly tough. I don't know if you still have the article on your watchlist, but I wondered if you approved the considerable changes made to it in the last couple of days? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:27, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth: I haven't been following it. It seems the editor has single-handedly put the article back to 2013, just post-FA: not sure why that took a multitude of edits really. Not sure whether it's a good idea; that would mean reviewing all the changes since 2013. On his claim that there were at the end of Sept 2018 a mass of uncited statements and paragraphs, I found only a few, so it looks as if the edits might well be unjustified. What is your view? Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:11, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Basically, I don't want to spend the time sorting out to what extent it was a good thing and if some things should be reinstated so I guess I will do nothing (or in reality I will do something else more worthwhile instead). Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:39, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

It was certainly a drastic bit of work. Might be worth watching to check nothing more happens. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:56, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

• As I have this page on my watchlist, I thought I might chime in, the same user has also been doing drastic stuff, including a FAR nomination, of Tyrannosaurus, so they seem to be doing some drive by FA stuff lately, with little regard for regular editors (see the Tyrannosaurus talk page). FunkMonk (talk) 18:01, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

FunkMonk: I see. What if anything do you think the community's reaction should be? Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:48, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

A ping on the talk page resulting in a discussion kind of worked on the Tyrannosaurus article... FunkMonk (talk) 12:40, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Ah, that's good news. Well done! Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:29, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Ecstatic dance photos

I'll see what I can do about getting photos of modern Ecstatic Dance events. It has been many years of doing it without photography, but there are few that exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skymakai (talk • contribs) 18:04, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Sissinghurst Castle Garden: quick update

Morning CC, just to say that I did approach the NT re. a plan but they've not got back. However, User:Hchc2009, who did the ones for The Tower House and Chartwell, has very kindly agreed to go back to the drawing board for Sissinghurst. So I hope you've not been beavering away?! All best wishes. KJP1 (talk) 07:31, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. No I haven't, it's not a project I wish to take on. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:32, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Absolutely understand. But if you have time to comment at PR/FAC, which will probably be around mid-November into December, it would be much appreciated. KJP1 (talk) 08:50, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Genetics in fiction

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Grasshopper scheduled for TFA

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Your GA nomination of Biology in fiction

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Precious

Precious

Six years!

Following an armistice day pattern ;)--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:46, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks as always for your constant encouragement of other editors from all countries, Gerda, specially on this day of peace and remembrance. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:48, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for today's grasshopper, done in collaboration! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your constant encouragement, Gerda. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:49, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lamarckism

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DYK for Jellyfish

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— Maile (talk) 00:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lamarckism

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Nice work - I would love to collaborate on something biology/medicine-related in the future if you have any interest. ceranthor 17:25, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

That's very nice of you. I'll certainly consider any suggestions. Right now I seem to have been sidetracked on to Yoga, whose history turns out to be very surprising. Look forward to hearing from you. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

As intended?

Is this as you intended for Felice della Rovere? Shenme (talk) 04:08, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

You repaired an {{sfn| link? Of course. Such things can happen if the left little finger lifts momentarily too early from the shift key, should explanation be needed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:10, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Review trade

Hi Chiswick, and happy holidays! I've noticed you have a GAN awaiting review in the 'Media and drama' section. I actually have two there as well. I was wondering if you wanted to trade reviews? You could pick either of mine and I'll review yours in return. Let me know or just initiate a review and I'll return the favor, but no worries if you're not interested, and I'm certainly happy to wait until the new year to trade if you're busy at the moment. Cheers. :) Damien Linnane (talk) 12:10, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Damien Linnane Thanks for kind offer, I was away and missed it, barely able to check anything on flaky connection, and I see both your articles are now under review. Happy to take you up on any future opportunity. Happy New Year! Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:35, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

No worries. Have a great new years. :) Damien Linnane (talk) 01:19, 29 December 2018 (UTC)