Just saw the great iceberg image. Very very nice, thanks for making this available to wikipedia! -- mkrohn 20:38 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)
I like the images very much (being a biologist myself)! Just a "formal" question: You are aware that by putting them here, you release the images under the GFDL? You do keep the copyright, of course! You might want to move the copyright notice onto the "image:" page, though (the one you reach when you click on the image). This seems to be the common way at wikipedia, to state the source on the image page, not within the article. Thanks! Magnus Manske 21:34 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)
I've just found one of your excellent pages- I liked the photos too. Tannin and I have done most of the bird articles, and we have taken to putting a taxobox classification summary on each page (see Great grey shrike). Some of the mammal and plant people have done the same, and I've added boxes to some other articles to get consistency. I don't have the specialised knowledge to add to taxoboxes to your articles. If you think its a good idea, you could give it a try. I'm not a computer person either. I copied an existing taxobox and changed the words. Keep up the good work. jimfbleak 14:32 Apr 10, 2003 (UTC)
Hi, Kils
I noticed you were starting a new page at West jersey, having already made one at West Jersey: the software here is case-sensitive for every character except the first one of a title, so this created two articles. I've made the one redirect to the other, so there's no need to duplicate your work! (You can use that energy for East Jersey, instead<G> -- Someone else 17:52 17 May 2003 (UTC)
Hi Uwe - brilliant albatross pics! jimfbleak 05:27 23 May 2003 (UTC)
Uwe, I also love the pic of the albatross from behind - beautiful! Congrats on being named a sysop! ArloBee 15:23 24 May 2003 (UTC)
I saw you ask on another page about time stamps. If you sign your comments with three tildes "~~~" you get your name, and with four tildes "~~~~" you get your name plus the timestamp. -- Someone else 20:19 24 May 2003 (UTC)
thank you, someone else Kils 20:26 24 May 2003 (UTC)
Wonderful pictures, Kils. I particularly like the new one at Ice fish. Thankyou! Tannin ---
- thank you, Tannin, Wikipedia is a great project
- uwe
- Kils 19:18 26 May 2003 (UTC)
In a moment I'm off to take some more marsupial photos for the day (up at 4:00AM and another 400km round trip - uuugh!) but it will be my pleasure to work with you on giving a final polish to Eel story a little later. Perhaps I should dust off my field guides and write a companion entry on the Australian eels - which as I'm sure you already know, have a rather similar life pattern and were very significant indeed, as prior to the introduction of northern hemisphere trout and redfin, they were the dominant species in most Austraian streams. Tannin
Hello, Kils. I notice that you just deleted User:Viking and User talk:Viking/ban. I was not aware of any consensus to do this. The recent mailing list discussion suggests that Viking has not been banned. Can you please explain why you have deleted those pages? Thanks. -- Oliver P. 17:47 31 May 2003 (UTC)
Uwe, are you identical with User:Viking, or were his edits made by someone you know? --Eloquence 18:15 31 May 2003 (UTC)
Eloquence and Oliver: this user group viking was established with my concensus by offsprings, friends and students of mine - after certain events I advised them to close it, and we closed it - they felt they reached most of their goals - looking forward for a fruitfull cooperation - Uwe
- Uwe, could you please confirm this as a signed in user, and not anonymously? Could you also please explain why this group was "established", since some of the edits by these users were considered vandalism? --Eloquence 18:33 31 May 2003 (UTC)
Eloquence: I confirm this - I do not think any had the quality of vandlism, otherwise I would have stepped in. We were concerned that a "handbook type" with direct instructions to certain practises on certain pages was endangering the reputation of wikipeia and of us as visible contributers and cooperators. A first thing many teachers and professors for example do, before they endorse or use a web based project in class or with students/parents, is to search for ugly content within. And there was some, and as we were supported by responses of colleagues with the right background it was beyond the rules of wikipedia - young vikings are often of very spontaneous mannors, I advised them to do things different, but then we are also very democratic. they plan to do it different now - we could have done everything anonymous, but we did not - from that you can deduct that we all are interested in communication and construction - we are all astonished how much time you spent in the wikipedia project (Anerkennung!) you seem to need only very little sleep - best greetings across the ocean (from the USA) from uwe kils - user Kils 18:50 31 May 2003 (UTC)
Uwe, I have temporarily revoked your sysop status, see my post to the wikien-l mailing list [1] and feel free to respond there. It is my understanding that you do not want this discussion to be visible, I will therefore unprotect this page as soon as this matter is settled so you can revert to a prior revision. In the meantime, I want to allow others to view your response. --Eloquence 19:11 31 May 2003 (UTC)