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Talk:Oblong turtle

message: Chelodina oblong/Chelodina colliei/Macrodiremys colliei Regards, SunCreator (talk) 11:13, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The name until the ICZN nakes its decision on case 3351 is Chelodina Macrodiremys colliei continuously changing names while it is under a case just makes for more confusion. Cheers Faendalimas talk 16:14, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Name is now formalised: Chelodina (Macrodiremys) colliei is the official name, ICZN (2013). Cheers, Faendalimas talk 15:20, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name undetermined. 

message: I have received a request in my role as a member of the IUCN TFTSG that I thought I would bring to attention here as there may be some help this encyclopedia can do.
In many places the common name of this species is the Oblong Turtle. We are obviously not using that name here. However the suggested common name that might be useful to make popular is Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle. This name is currently not used much, except the IUCN Checklist and some scientific papers and reviews, but it makes sense as it says where it is from and distinguishes it from the only other turtle in the area the Western Swamp Turtle. 
With the ICZN decision that required us to remove the name Chelodina oblonga from this species and resurrect the name Chelodina colliei it is confusing if the common name is based on a scientific name that refers to another species.
Therefore I have started discussing this with the TTWG to change the common name in the Checklist. I wanted to suggest we could do this here too, moving the page to Southwestern snake-necked turtle and creating a redirect for all other names for this species, including the current one. The idea is to get rid of the common name of Oblong Turtle. To assist those who live and work with the species. This is an unusual request so I am not making it a page move request yet. I hope people will think about and help by discussing it. Faendalimas talk 10:50, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The common name on the TTWG IUCN checklist(2012) is already 'Southwestern snake-necked turtle' so I moved the page and added the checklist reference. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 19:25, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that Sun, still should put the synonymy in, but leave it for now. There is a name Chelodina oblonga (McCord and Uoni, 2007) that is a junior synonym of Chelodina colliei, how its confusing as to why this exists. So better that a taxonomy section and the article generally expanded to explain this before we put it in. Faendalimas talk 05:47, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Change and Move 

message: Please note the correct nomenclature for this species is Chelodina (Macrochelodina) oblonga Gray, 1841. As per the findings of Shea et al 2020. I fixed this a few months ago but someone reverted it. Etymology needs to be updated still though. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 08:28, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  corrected nomenclature
Talk:Reimann's snake-necked turtle

message: The Wikipedia article says that this turtle possibly lives in Papua New Guinea too. I noticed the April 2010 issue of the National Geographic Magazine (page 121, author: Douglas Chadwick) states that "Reimann's snake-necked turtle, a New Guinea native, has a seven-inch long shell and strong jaws to crunch snails, and it smells like a skunk." I'm not savvy enough to know whether this is correct or not, but I still wanted to point it out in case somebody bolder and more competent than me wants to check this source too and modify the article. Thanks ﻯναოթ€ռ (talk) 20:38, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ﻯναოթ€ռ, yes the sources say it lives on New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is half of the island New Guinea, so perhaps it lives there as well. Utopiantos (talk) 09:31, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Complete distributions of a number of species in New Guinea are not known, it is highly possible, even probable this species occurs west of the Fly in Western Provence. However there is no published evidence to confirm this. I assure you Nat Geo could not know one way or the other. I work on these species, and I do not know the full distribution yet. Cheers, Faendalimas talk 22:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Native to New Guinea
Talk:Northern snake-necked turtle

message: I have moved and renamed this page as Chelodina seibenrocki was synonymised with Chelodina rugosa a number of years ago. As they are considered the same species and no page existed for Chelodina rugosa renaming seemed a more logical use of existing pages. I will expand this page to discuss the taxonomic history and give due credit to the name Chelodina seibenrocki. Faendalimas (talk) 17:47, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason for renaming

message: they move by using the there legs.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.202.34.226 (talk) 14:31, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  how they move
Talk:Chinese broad-headed pond turtle

message: No such thing as a Chinemys megalocephala. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 18:01, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinemys megalocephala 
Talk:Domino (Van Morrison song)

message: If this song is R&B, why do I hear it on rock radio stations?
24.222.82.216 (talk) 17:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  R&B?  
Talk:Chinese pond turtle

message: It's Reeves' or Reeves's turtle. It was named for someone named Reeves (hence reveesii), not Reeve. 219.73.95.228 (talk) 02:41, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, have now amended to : Reeves' Regards, SunCreator (talk) 22:34, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Reeves

message: I used to have a pet Reeves turtle when I was in my early teens and lived North of Seattle, not far from Paine Field, decades ago. Not long before I moved away, it disappeared when I let it run loose in the tightly-fenced backyard for a moment while I hosed out the tank. I assume it somehow managed to burrow under the fence & out. The article makes it sound as though it breeds easily with almost any other sort of turtle. So I wonder if perhaps now there are several new varieties of Reeves turtle to be found in the Seattle area. Former neighbors say that they've spotted turtles crossing the road from time to time.... Of course it could also be my Box Turtle - they ran off together... if you can honestly use "run" in the same sentence with Box Turtle.... lol MarkoOhNo (talk) 09:29, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Breeding
Talk:Bach (New Zealand)

message: Is "bach" short for "bachelor house"? Or what? Stevage 02:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a possibility, though unlikely given what they were actually used for. It is a pity that the article claims that this is the origin.203.184.41.226 (talk) 07:31, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Before middle income New Zealand families were commonly able to own holiday beach houses in the 20th century, the bach was already in existence. Right from the beginning of European colonisation in NZ, single men (of which there were many more than married men) lived in small houses which were known as bachelor's houses or bachelor cottages or bachelor cribs (note not bachelor pad). They are often also called railway houses if that was their intended useage. They were so small, they were not suitable for families, (though out of necessity many a family squeezed into them) and they were quickly constructed from available materials, first raupo then rusticated weatherboards and tin roofs (corrugated iron roof). Because early to mid-20th century holiday homes resembled these in size and quality or in some cases were converted from these, they were nicknamed baches except in the southern south island where the term crib became more common. 203.118.157.84 (talk) 11:46, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That is some great historical background. Do you know where we could find a reference for this? 82.224.150.242 (talk) 17:54, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

text: I find the Welsh etymology relating it to Welsh bach 'small' to be extremely spurious. Welsh 'bach' is pronounced to rhyme with 'buck', not with 'batch'. Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 23:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely agree - moreover, Welsh immigration to New Zealand was not very numerous. I note that according to etymonline, 'bach' exists in American English "as a verb (1864, typically with it) meaning "to live as an unmarried man," especially "to do one's own cooking and cleaning." Whether influenced by the American usage or not, I think this is a far more probable derivation. Looking through Google books, the earliest references to "bach" I can find in NZ English are from the 1930s: the NZ Railway Magazine uses the word in 1937, and it occurs in Hansard a few times over the next decade before really picking up popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. 222.154.104.125 (talk) 12:00, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology?
Talk:Strawberry generation

message: OK, i had to write this article TWICE. I first created a stub and planned to coplete it on the first day, but it took me more time to get back to it...
Although the "Strawberry Generation" does not seem to be of importance from a North American perspective, I think that eventually, some Asian Wikipedia users wil react and help develop it.
Give the strawberries a chance to grow !
:I just added 2 sources. We're almost on Start class now. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 12:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub
Talk:Moondance (Van Morrison song)

message: "Schroer's solo is commented on in Saxophone Scales and Arpegios, as a reason why saxophonists should learn scales. The saxophone solos in "Moondance", Candy Dulfer's "Lily Was Here" and Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" are described as the most influential in pop and jazz music. The scale used in Schroer's "Moondance" solo is dorian B (B, C#, D, E, F#, G#, A)". 
The above edit has been questioned and said to be not accurate, so it would best  to copy the material that is covered by the reference as given [Saxophone Scates and Arpegios]  to this talk page below so there is no room for doubt. (Always best when the ref. is inaccess. to others and the material has been removed,  before restoring it.)  Agadant (talk) 15:42, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just the last sentence was questioned, which in the book reads "The sax solo in Van Morrison's "Moondance" is in Dorian B (B, C#, D, E, F#, G#, A)." I'm sure the edit was questioning the lack of sharp sign after the C, which I copied out wrong - I even know that scale realy well so it was an error on my behalf. Kitchen roll (talk) 20:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: This edit

message: In the  section, we have a quote from Van, naming two versions he likes.  But there is no reference given to prove he said it.  Can somebody supply the citation, please?  yoyo (talk) 05:51, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Not me, and it has been unsourced a long time. I'm inlcined to remove it unless a source comes soon. Doctorhawkes (talk) 07:25, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Van Morrison said …?
Talk:Bellinger River snapping turtle

message: Is this the same species which was ravaged by disease and wiped out except for about 16 survivors which were taken to the Taronga Zoo in Sydney?  (Secrets of the Zoo: Down Under, "Lemur Me Alone!", broadcast in the US on the National Geographic Wild channel in March 2020)  If so, the article ought to be updated accordingly.  — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:46, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: One and te sae species yes. Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 10:28, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Near-extinction?
Talk:Sweet Thing (Van Morrison song)

message: Please see thread at Talk:Sweet Thing. --Dweller (talk) 10:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed disambig page 
Talk:New Guinea snapping turtle

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.empireoftheturtle.com/elseya_novaeguinea.htm. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:35, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What was copied from Empire of the Turtle?? I mean that site has virtually no information on it, ie about two sentences and a photo. So please explain. I mean I had never been to the site until I saw this so not possible I copied anything in my edits. Faendalimas (talk) 17:28, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I recall it was a copy/paste straight off that page with the wording from "DISTRIBUTION:" up to and including the "NOTES:" at the end. The odds capitialisation made it stand out the odd. aha ha, see here. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 17:39, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it was all there, and it was all there twice. It also used to include the note that begins "From what I understand there is work underway..." but that was removed some time ago. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:20, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough then that is as it should be. I will try to get some information together on this species as its nothing but a stub in its present form. But I will not copy and paste..lol... Cheers Faendalimas (talk) 20:03, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Aqua Velva (cocktail)

message: I have seen the movie Zodiac which briefly features this (ficticious?) drink, but frankly, there seems to br no such drink recognised within bartending. The indgredients listed here make no sense - such a drink would be disgusting in my opinion. In any case, there's a cocktail with simialt ingredients called a Blue Lagoon which is a recognised cocktail in American, Canada and the UK. I think that this article should be deleted. Proof Reader (talk) 00:55, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: it is a drink, the ingredients on wikipedia are wrong tho, the two sources show there's no mint.--82.25.104.49 (talk) 18:47, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there such a cocktail? 

message: It's rather misleading to have a picture of the aftershave in the cocktail's infobox.  When this article opened on my screen, my first thought was that people were drinking the aftershave!  Maybe we could put it somewhere else within the article, but not the infobox.  Hoof Hearted (talk) 13:47, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture
Talk:Manning River snapping turtle

message: Given as a Myuchelys in the 2017 checklist. Myuchelys purvisi Regards, Sun Creator(talk)
There was a publication, also in 2017, in which the genus "Flaviemys" was described. Mghp00 (talk) 07:49, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: In agreement with  the name Flaviemys was sunk by Spinks et al. in 2015 pdf and this was followed by the IUCN Checklist 2017 and currently also by the Reptile Database and Wikispecies. As such the correct name for the time being is Myuchelys.  You have stated that there was a paper in 2017 that apparently resurrected the name but you did not provide the reference. An ITIS report does not consitute a taxonomic decision. Names should be reverted to Myuchelys. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 04:09, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Taxon

message: Hi  saw your recent edits on this page. I do not think attributing all this information to the web page of Aussie Ark is a great idea since all this information is available in books and publications. Most likely that have been condensed into the web page your reading. I have changed some of it but in the section on its endangered status I have not. I suggest you look at its IUCN assessment, Environment Agency (NSW) assessment etc and look to the references of actual research done to support this issue. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 21:00, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reported this s a copy violation, after realising the  recent text by  was copy and pasted from a website. I can rewrite this entire article if wanted but cannot do it this week. The taxobox is fine. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 01:49, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to this species
Talk:Brisbane short-necked turtle

message: It could be used for the Emydura macquarii page if renamed as it does not exist yet. My reasoning is that this "species" is not even a subspecies. It was synonymised with Emydura macquarrii macquarrii and hence was absorbed even at the subspecies level. Its ealiest synonymisation was Georges and Adams, 1992, this has been followed in the literature many times culminating in Georges and Thomson, 2010. Faendalimas (talk) 17:24, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: have set the page to redirect to Emydura macquarii with which it has been synonymised. Faendalimas talk 21:51, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: This page should be removed or renamed
Talk:Red-bellied short-necked turtle

message: http://opencage.info/pics.e/large_12684.asp Regards, SunCreator (talk) 04:37, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  photo 

message: if the turtle is endangered, then wtf the conservation status says least concern? 189.90.54.58 (talk) 01:26, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed that the species is LC with the IUCN. Faendalimas talk 04:22, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: endangered?
Talk:Warm Love

message: The article says this song was a top 40 hit.  Billboard says it never charted. http://www.billboard.com/song/van-morrison/warm-love/937195#/song/van-morrison/warm-love/937195  Also, the Van Morrison Discography wiki article does not show that it ever charted.  Did this song ever chart (top 40 or otherwise), and if so where?Tinman44 (talk) 16:25, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry to take so long to answer, I couldn't find the book til now. But Into the Music' does say on page 102 - "'Warm Love' was a moderate Top 40 single hit... The catch line"... and it's ever present everywhere, Warm Love..."was exceedingly engaging, one of Van's finest lyrical hooks in Top 40 terminology." The book was written in 1975, when Morrison was recording and living in US, so you would think he was talking about US and with the date of the book so close to the time of charting, it would seem likely the author got it right. It's difficult to find chart numbers on Morrison's older albums and singles. The discography is really lacking for that reason and because this reference did not say US or UK it wasn't used there. Hope this helps. Agadant (talk) 02:33, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Never charted
Talk:Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

message: What happened to this article?  This seems like someone copy and pasted from the website.  I understand the enthusiasm, but it seems like an advertising - complete with a phone number in the text? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terrenjpeterson  (talk • contribs) 02:47, 26 May 2008
:An overzealous employee or fan I suppose, I've added a cleanup tag. -- MiG (talk) 08:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've acted on that cleanup tag, improving the tone to a more encyclopedic one.  I looked to see if this text was copied from some copyright source but didn't find any.  It appears to be an editor who meant well but ended up including a lot of original research which was incorrectly tagged as coming from a single brief history page on the official website. The previous version, particularly the history section, read more like a promotional brochure for the property and biography of the family. The language has been made more neutral, more references used and cited, and appropriate links added to Ginter's existing biographic article.--MadeYourReadThis (talk) 16:54, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Article tone
Talk:K'ang Jo Fu

message: This page was deleted last year, rather inexplicably. It was almost 2 years after I created it. I think it's an important source of information that just wasn't available anywhere else on an unusual martial arts style. Wikipedia is the place to find this information, as it doesn't seem to exist elsewhere. I hope someone contacts me before deleting it again.David G 04:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Yellow-footed tortoise

message: I will be working on an overhaul of this article along the lines of the redone red-footed tortoise article. One question- does anyone know why the preferred name here is 'Brazilian giant tortoise' rather than 'yellow-footed tortoise'?
Madkins007 (talk) 04:43, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea to be honest, the person who first created the page knew it as that name. yellow-footed tortoise would be much better, IUCN use that. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 07:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved page, rarely edited page. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 07:51, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name
Talk:1911 in New Zealand

message: The last census before WW1 was conducted in 1911 I believe. Should the population be mentioned here?
:The total population of the Dominion (including Maoris and residents of the Cook and other Pacific Islands) in April, 1911, was: Persons, 1,070,910; males, 564,834; females, 506,076; of these, 2,630 were Chinese—2,542 males, 88 females.
:The population of the Cook and other Pacific Islands now included within the boundaries of the Dominion was 12,598 persons, of whom 180 were whites or half-castes living as whites. There were also 513 Natives of these islands absent on ships or at the guano islands, & c.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.107.175.53 (talk) 12:07, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population?
Talk:Bull Stone House

message: The Sarah Wells link goes to a Canadian Athlete.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.248.3.1 (talk) 21:42, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Person Page/Bad Link

message: moved here to keep discussion at the relevant page: 
Image placement in Bull Stone House
Thanks for the copyediting, but I moved the picture back (albeit smaller). There's no rule that says they all have to be on the right (in fact, I much prefer alternating placement because studies have demonstrated repeatedly that it improves readability since it mirrors the sweep of our eyes across a page), and I would IAR that idea anyway where an infobox is concerned. An image should always be as close as possible in the text to what it illustrates ... having it down by the footnotes is completely useless, and looks like a fifth wheel.
Also, was it really necessary to constantly reiterate "Bull and Wells Stone House"? First, the property's official title in the National Register is what the article is titled, and the sign on the nearby road says exactly the same thing. But over and above any issues with the titling, constantly reusing the title phrase is hitting the reader over the head. "Bull Stone House" is in big letters at the top of the page; I think most readers know which house is meant. Daniel Case 02:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Black-breasted leaf turtle

message: I think this article should be merged into the page Vietnamese Leaf Turtle as more people call the turtle by Vietnamese Leaf Turtle. 69.181.230.137 00:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  article merge 

message: — Assignment last updated by Hannah Fahrney (talk) 19:46, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Conservation Biology

message: I am not sure why my references are duplicating in the live article but do not do this in my sandbox. Hannah Fahrney (talk) 00:53, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference issues