User talk:Tannin/040224

There is nothing I like better.

Thanks for the kind words! Fuzheado

Thanks for you-know-what. I've also joined that other group - you'll get to see what I went through in my efforts to contact you on your Red Hill address. Arno 06:46, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Taxobox

Tannin, thanks for adding that nicely formatted box to the llama article. The box really makes it easier to read the article; it doesn't "break up" the layout but actually improves it. --Uncle Ed 13:15, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response on the vandalism. I appreciate it! Guppy 14:22, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Attribution info

Tannin, Your image Image:HumpbackWhaleLeaping.jpg was recently deleted on the French Wikipedia because there seems to be a belief it is not in the public domain. I checked your image page and you state that it comes from the NOAA government web site. On that site it states that some photos are copyright by non-government employees. I can't find the particul*****age that you uploaded. Did you check to see if it was made by a government employee? If so, could you mark that on the image description page as that will clarify for everyone if it is fair use of public domain. Thanks. Alex756 03:22, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Many of the images on that government page are not government property, they are made by individual photographers, it states that in the copyright notice. So it appears that unless you can determine that the photo is one of the few on that site that was made by a US government employee then it is not a public domain photo. Do you want to remove it or try to qualify its use as fair use? Alex756 17:18, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

This has wider relevance. At the moment the Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans page is recommending NOAA as a source of usable photos. If this is not the case, then that recommendation needs to be reverted soon (nb it would be a great loss, but if it has to be....) There a couple of other whale pages where NOAA photos are used. If needed I will do an audit. Pete 21:12, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

The fish articles by 80.225.73.197 all seem legit - there really is a catfish genus Satan and so forth. I'd hazard a guess that the nonsense articles were exuberant newbie-ness, and that the person is done with that and now trying to add real content; the latest edits show much better wiki style than the earlier ones. Stan 16:17, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I've added a list of species to parrot (family), so that I could do a stub on Rose-ringed Parakeet. Do with it as you as you will in terms of changing format etc. I'm a little worried that African Grey Parrot isn't in the list, maybe it's officially called something else now? Jim

have a good holiday, look forward to some more brilliant pics. Jim

Great to see you back after your protest against software. I could have done with your help a bit earlier this year. It still amuses me enormously to read your comment 'Tidied up Australia a bit'. I did not realise that Australia had also got in a bad way environmentally. O well they paved paradise and put up a parking lot!Norwikian 11:15, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)~