User talk:Tommy Kronkvist/Archive 2014

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Wow, thanks Tommy!!!

Hi Tommy. I am a founding member of WikiProject Gastropods and I wanted to thank you so much for creating all those new articles about species in the freshwater snail genus Clea. It is a fascinating genus. Do you keep these snails in your aquarium? In any case, I am very glad to see our coverage of these amazing snails expanded. I am sending you this invitation just in case you are interested:

I've noticed your edits on pages relating to Gastropods; perhaps you'd be interested in joining WikiProject Gastropods?
If you would like more information, please visit the project page or the project talk page.

All very best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 23:40, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello dear Shell Lady! I mainly breed different Pomacea and Melanoides tuberculata, but also keep and breed Clea helena in several of my aquariums. For obvious reasons they not always share tanks, though... The other Clea would be interesting to study but seem hard to come by, at least here in Sweden. Sadly I don't think I will join the Gastropods wiki project, at least not for now. It's not that I wouldn't like to, but these days my time for contributing to Wikimedia is somewhat limited, and it doesn't feel okay to enter a project and not being able to contribute as much as I would like to. My main focus for the next few months will be creating articles regarding freshwater bivalves and egg-laying toothcarps. There are literally hundreds of oviparous killifish-species in the the families Aplocheilidae, Cyprinodontidae, Fundulidae, Nothobranchiidae, Profundulidae, Rivulidae and Valenciidae that are only represented by a red link, and since I've been breeding about 30 of the those I have both experience, contacts and quite a few books to aid me in that work. Nonetheless I will follow the gastropod project from afar, and will be happy to chip in with the occasional new article or edit whenever there is time.

Warm regards and all the best, Tommy Kronkvist, 07:52, 6 March 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks again Tommy, the gastropod project appreciates your help, and the bivalves project will be very grateful for the freshwater bivalve articles you are going to create. I will tweak your Clea articles a bit: since you don't give a citation for "It feeds on ... after burying themselves and ambushing their prey.", it seems a bit much to put that in every single species article in the genus, even though each species probably does have that behavior, if you can't find a source to support that it's a bit questionable to have it in all of the articles I think. Invertzoo (talk) 15:35, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Any and all help with the articles is of course most welcome. I might have gone a bit overboard with the initial versions of the Clea articles, since I haven't yet had time to add all the necessary citations needed to verify all of the information. However, just the other day I added data and references regarding IUCN status and geographical distribution of most of the species, so at least some progress have been made. I have sent an email to the Swedish Museum of Natural History asking for more scientifically verifiable information about Clea systematics, taxonomy and behavior patterns when foraging, but haven't yet received an answer. They usually know their business though, and cooperate with a vast number of universities, libraries, scientists etc. from all corners of the world. That said, an answer might take some time and I agree that any questionable bits of information should be removed from the articles, until good enough citations can be entered. Whether that information is removed or tweaked by you, me or anyone else is of no real matter to me. :) Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 19:36, 10 March 2014 (UTC).[reply]

April 2014

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 03:17, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very sorry about the result of my edit in said article. I know not to remove or change categories without good reason, and in this case I really only intended to edit some wiki links and, most of all, the list of Van Someren's published works. The text in the list is not very well formatted (among other things it lacks spacing here and there) and a few of the items in the list seems not to be easily verifiable (particularly the top two, Bird Life in Uganda and Notes on Birds of Uganda and East Africa.) Unfortunately, in this case parts of my edit got mixed with an edit in Wikispecies I made at the same time. Wikispecies doesn't use nearly as many categories as Wikipedia, for instance no Category:1886 births or Category:Australian emigrants to Kenya and such. Unfortunately I didn't see the change of categories in my Wikipedia edit. That said, I always press the "Preview button" before saving, so there's no good excuse to why I didn't observe that the categories got changed in this particular case. Still, it was an honest mistake. My intentions here are always good, and I always try to comply with Wikimedia/Wikipedia policies and guidelines, as well as praxis. I will be more careful in the future. Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 04:59, 13 April 2014 (UTC).[reply]