User talk:Pstevendactylus

Welcome!

Hello, Pstevendactylus, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Karm a fist 03:04, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ribbit-ribbit

I'm impressed with the work you've done with the frog article. Have a fly. You deserve it. Joyous | Talk 01:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Avoiding future conflict: append talk messages at bottom

To avoid future conflict, can you please append messages at the bottom of talk pages? Thanks. - Samsara _contrib ^talk 16:45, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

subpage?

I notice that you're working on the life cycle section of the "frog" article right on your userpage. I wanted to let you know that you can create a personal "subpage" as a sort of rough draft space by creating a page called something like User:Pstevendactylus/workspace. That would give you the freedom to edit out of the main article space without having to all the goodies on your userpage getting in your way. Your choice, of course, but I thought I'd let you know that the option is available. Joyous | Talk 19:19, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Colourful tadpoles

I couldn't find your sandbox page, so I decided to post this here. You were right about the warning colouration of the poison dart tadpoles. The example of a colourful tadpole was Hyla ebraccata. I don't know if this is warning colouration, I am hoping that you will know, as it is an American frog. Thanks for picking up the mistake, I am not sure how it got through. --liquidGhoul 13:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tuatara on peer review

Hi Steven,

I'd be glad for your comments on my request for peer reviewing the tuatara article. The link to the peer review is Wikipedia:Peer review/Tuatara/archive1. Many thanks!

Samsara _contrib ^talk 19:15, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frog FAC

Hi Pstevendactylus,

If you'd like to participate in the nomination of frog for FAC, please put your comments on Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Frog once User:liquidGhoul has finished editing.

Best wishes,

Samsara _contrib ^talk 11:26, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pstevendactylus,

There is a comment on the FAC by nixie, which is talking about frogs in research section. Could you please read that and see if you can help in the expansion. I am asking you, as you seem best qualified in this. I will try, but I think you are probably in the best situation resource wise. Thanks --liquidGhoul 08:10, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Frog Gallery

Hey,

I am creating a new list of Anurans in my sandbox at the moment - here. The new list will contain more information, but at the moment I am just trying to add all the families so it can be added to Anura (family list) without losing any information already on the page. I won't be using that description column, it was just a space filler. If you have a time limit, and can only add a certain number of photos, would you be able to upload photos for the families which do not have any example photos please. Thanks --liquidGhoul 10:40, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the award, I appreciate it. That photo is really good. I don't know what you mean by "not the best". Thanks a lot, I was really worried about filling the families which only had one or two species. Also, you filled up mesobatrachia, that is great! Have fun in the forest :) --liquidGhoul 22:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

Hey,

A new WikiProject has just started which is related to Amphibians and Reptiles. Considering this is your profession, I thought you might be interested in joining. It is only in its very early stages, and needs some more contributors. I know you are busy at the moment (thought you had gotten lost in the forest for a while, as last time we talked you said you were going, and I hadn't read the message on the top of your user page!), but if I put this here now, I won't forget, and I am sure you would be great halp to the project. Thanks --liquidGhoul 12:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, did you have any luck finding a glass frog on your last trip to the forest? --liquidGhoul 22:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frog identification

Hey, Samsara has found some frog photos on flickr, and has posted them on the Amphibians and Reptiles WikiProject. Could you have a look over the ones I couldn't identify (in other words the non-Australian ones)? Thanks --liquidGhoul 23:30, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you confirm the identification of this photo as an Ascaphid? I want to use the photo (it is creative commons) for the article, and for my list. Thanks --liquidGhoul 23:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scaphiopodidae

Hi, I don't know too much about these frogs, but was wondering whether Scaphiopodidae are actually part of a seperate family from Pelobatidae? It seems that the AMNH has struck again, and they have seperated it, but most of the other sites I have been to keep them together. Any ideas? Thanks --liquidGhoul 09:46, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to follow your advice, but I just don't feel comfortable with it. The current European Spadefoot Toad article is well referenced in the splitting of the families, so it seems someone has put some work into making sure that they are seperated. I was comfortable with merging Myobatrachidae, Limnodynastidae and Rheobatrachidae, because I they are Australian, and I have read tonnes on them, but this I am not too sure about. Thanks for the advice. --liquidGhoul 14:22, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Identification confirmation

Could you see if this identification is accurate please. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] They claim it as "probably Cordylus breyeri". And could you get back to me with the frog identification above as well. Thanks --liquidGhoul 02:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that man. The frog is from Olympic National Park, Washington, so it isn't a Leiopelmatid. I think I will trust the identification of the lizard, the guy owned it for 20 years, you should know the species by then! Thanks again. --liquidGhoul 03:00, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cane Toad

Thanks for your comments on the Cane Toad article. I have left replies there, and need your help with two sections. Could you write the similar Bufo species, and the section on the naming of marinus. I don't have the resources for those. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 06:17, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to be an annoyance, but would you be able to get me the scientific names of the frogs which can be confused the Cane Toad in their native range. I am still having problems, as the internet is flooded with stuff on Florida and Australia. If you are too busy, I will write up the section, I just need a push in the right direction. I would like to put the article up for FAC soon. I found a source for the specific epithet section, and have written it up. All I needed was to search for Seba's name along with marinus. Thanks --liquidGhoul 09:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have done what I can with that section, in stating that you should be able to distinguish with all Bufo based on cranial crests and paratoid glands. If you would like to expand that, please do. It is now up for FAC here. Thanks --liquidGhoul 05:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vocal sacs photo

I have been improving the vocal sac article over the last few days (was only a few bad sentences when I started). I was wondering whether you have any photos of fully inflated bilobular vocal sacs, like those of Ranids. It is a photo the article really needs. Thanks --liquidGhoul 23:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

liquidGhoul's RfA

Hi Pstevendactylus,

I'm not a fan of campaigning for adminship, but I thought you might want to know about this: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/LiquidGhoul. Some people complained that they didn't know about my RfA.

Best,

Samsara (talk • contribs) 19:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you back?

Hey!

Are you back? --liquidGhoul 22:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP: Australian biota

Hello, I thought you may be interested in joining WikiProject Australian biota. If you are, your help will be greatly appreciated. Atlantis Hawk 09:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Amphibians and Reptiles Portal (P:AAR)

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The Amphibians and Reptiles Portal

I'm glad to announce that The Amphibians and reptiles portal (P:AAR) has been created and is ready for you to use. This portal covers any subjects related to amphibians, reptiles, herpetology, as well as WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles.

Purposes of the portal

to act as the "main page" for editors interested in amphibians and reptiles. The portal page should contain all the common and useful links to relevant articles, lists, categories, as well as the project tasklist. As this portal is your tool, please feel free to organize, modify, or expand the Topics, Categories, Lists, and Tasklist sections of the portal as you see fit.
to lead potential AAR editors to WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles as well as to educate general readers. Feel free to add more items for the "Did you know..." section.

Thank you for reading. If you have any questions, please leave them on the portal talk page or my user talk page. --Melanochromis

--Melanochromis 06:13, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles: Rollcall

At WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, we recently did a purge of the members list, which your name was on. Please re-add your username as well as your area of expertise at our list of participants if you plan to stay active in this Wikiproject. Also, a discussion is going on regarding the standardization of taxonomy in lizard articles, located in this section. We'd like to have some more voices in this matter. Thanks everyone! bibliomaniac 1 5 23:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]