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	Hi! First of all thank you for all of your contributions! I am amazed! I am trying to translate a series of articles about lemurs in Greek for Greek Misplaced Pages (after that I ll try translating some mice of yours :)). I found the date of death of Mr L.R. Lorenz von Liburnau and just wanted to inform you, since you uploaded ] & ], unfortunately as I understand they won't be PD outside US until 2013. Kind regards! --]<i><font color="teal"> <sup>]</sup></font></i> 10:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)		Hi! First of all thank you for all of your contributions! I am amazed! I am trying to translate a series of articles about lemurs in Greek for Greek Misplaced Pages (after that I ll try translating some mice of yours :)). I found the date of death of Mr L.R. Lorenz von Liburnau and just wanted to inform you, since you uploaded ] & ], unfortunately as I understand they won't be PD outside US until 2013. Kind regards! --]<i><font color="teal"> <sup>]</sup></font></i> 10:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

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			Hi Ucucha, could you say how you reached , please? As I saw the posts, people were opposed to a move, though I may be looking in the wrong place. Cheers, <font color="maroon">]</font> <small><sup><font color="red">]</font> <font color="green">]</font></sup></small> 10:41, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Ucucha: can you have a look at User talk:SpacemanSpiff and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Kuttiyattu paradevada temple? Deletion and userfication is requested, so if you have a moment...thanks! Drmies (talk) 03:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I avoid AFD at all costs. No rice rats there, or anything else that's interesting. I had hoped that when I wrote an article about a single tooth, I would finally change that, but to no avail. Ucucha 11:57, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Holy moly. An article about a broken tooth. I can't believe it. I would nominate it for deletion, but all you admins, who are all conspiring to keep science nonsense in and relevant popular culture out, would probably ban me immediately. Drmies (talk) 13:23, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Sure. Ucucha 13:28, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Oh, I'm flying to the motherland next week. Need any cheese? Do I need to mail you some system, to an assumed name? Drmies (talk) 13:43, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I'll be going back in a month or so; I can just stand that much time without good cheese. Ucucha 13:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I hope for you that the ash will be gone by then.

There is something not quite right about the marsh rice rat having been on the Main Page a few days ago while today the Journal of Mammalogy published a study which argued (persuasively, I think) that there is not one marsh rice rat—west of Alabama it's a different species, Oryzomys texensis. And for good measure, Oryzomys couesi is also split into a species or four. I don't think I'll ever finish writing articles about rice rats in this way, if they continue to recognize new species faster than I can write about them. Ucucha 21:44, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Try lemurs! – VisionHolder « talk » 16:40, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Er, lemurs? How about whitefishes or damselfishes? Or what about katydids? —innotata 01:51, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Or moss-mice. Eight new species last year, out of fourteen in total. I think lemurs have been slowing down a little lately, actually. Ucucha 04:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Why do you think Ucucha is part of the administrative rat squad, Drmies? The only cabal Ucucha seems to participate in is the evil bunch of aristocrats living in castles. I wonder if the ash will be clear, yesterday the BBC said it would be clear in hours, but today it is made much of that the last eruption lasted for years (1821 to 1823).

More relevantly, are you splitting marsh rice rat? I'd like to see that process (I may do it myself some time). Maybe I ought to beat your broken tooth article with articles on single eggshell fragments, droppings, and feather impressions and those sort of things some dinosaurs are described from. —innotata 02:08, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

The marsh rice rat article shouldn't be much longer, but I won't split it now (unless the split is between Oryzomys palustris and Oryzomys texensis, but I'll wait with that too). I think a feather impression would be the summum; it's not even a part of the animal, or something that came out of it, but just an image of it. Now bring such an article to FA status. Ucucha 02:21, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I was referring to texensis. As for the feather impression, I remember there is one with a scientific name, which has been much debated in the paleontological literature because of its age. In the past it has been acceptable to name dinosaurs off of all sorts of little fragments; tracks are still OK. —innotata 15:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I think I'll do that when a major taxonomic review and/or the Red List accepts it. There are some loose ends, like exactly where the boundary is. Illinois rice rats, for example, were referred to palustris palustris by Goldman, but I read that they are a bit on the small side and may be texensis. When I do the split, I'll have to find out where all the sources got their rice rats from, and hope it's not too close to the border between the two. For Oryzomys couesi, I've been careful to attribute studies to their geographic origin wherever possible. But there I got the problem that Weksler (2006) apparently used specimens of both O. mexicanus (skins and skulls) and O. couesi (fluid-preserved).

There are also remaining taxonomic problems in both, which will make it difficult to write decent articles on the split species. For the marsh rice rat, we don't know what should be done with fossilis; it may be inferred that it is a third species that predated the split between the two, but it is from the range of texensis. In couesi, there are unstudied forms, like crinitus which could well be another good species, and the relationships of the other, genetically unknown species could give more surprises. I also wonder what will become of the Colombian population, which is actually east of the Colombian population of O. gorgasi. Ucucha 17:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

GA review for Oryzomys anoblepas

Hello Ucucha, I'll be reviewing Oryzomys anoblepas for GA status. I'll leave some comments on the review page shortly. Regards, Airplaneman ✈ 23:49, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll be watching and will try to address any issues promptly. Ucucha 23:52, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

(Quick) pass (wish there as an option for that...) Solid article; I left a few comments on the review page. I'll list it; I'm guessing it goes under the "organisms" section in Misplaced Pages:Good_articles#Natural_sciences. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Congrats! Airplaneman ✈ 00:15, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that's where I'd place it.

Thank you for the review and glad you liked it. Ucucha 00:19, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Congrats from me as well - glad i could help :) --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 18:19, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Without your help, the article couldn't have been nearly as good. Ucucha 18:44, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I've picked up Holochilus primigenus as well. Airplaneman ✈ 18:39, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Great! I'll try to address any issues promptly. Ucucha 18:44, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I am pretty sure science uses the metric system as a primary means of measurement; I'm assuming this is why the {{convert}} template isn't used in the article (in the description section)? Airplaneman ✈ 18:47, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I do give metric conversions for external measurements, but the measurements of these teeth are so small that it isn't really meaningful to add the imperial conversion. In the sources, of course, they are always given in metric units only. Ucucha 18:49, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good. Will add some comments here shortly. Airplaneman ✈ 18:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Passed - congrats! I have on comment on the review page. Airplaneman ✈ 19:08, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again. The backlog elimination drive is really doing good, I guess. Ucucha 19:12, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes :). Two more per person and zero noms would be left! I wish I could say more for the articles you have nominated, but I can't... they are GA quality. I'm taking up UA 8699. Airplaneman ✈ 19:25, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

OK, I've got just one little tiny thing. Please see Talk:UA 8699/GA1. Thanks, Airplaneman ✈ 19:36, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I replied there. Ucucha 20:33, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Passed. I'm placing it under the "Biology" subsection in the Natural sciences topic in WP:GA. Congrats! Airplaneman ✈ 20:49, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Good! I might have listed it under "Organisms", but that's of little consequence. Ucucha 21:14, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

GA review for Oryzomys antillarum

Hi there Ucucha! I will be reviewing Oryzomys antillarum for GA status. I do not intend to do this right now, but I will do so in a few hours. I'm looking forward to working with you. I've taken a quick look at the article, and the subject really caught my attention. Best wishes! --Daniel Cavallari (talk) 03:54, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll be keeping an eye out for your comments. Ucucha 11:08, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations on the GA listing. This is an excellent article, and you should consider a peer review and later a FA nomination.--Daniel Cavallari (talk) 17:35, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll send it to FAC someday, as I don't think it needs more to meet the FA criteria—but I think Oryzomys couesi will go first. Ucucha 18:41, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

JL-Bot italics

I notice you italicised some things on the Madagascar Recognised content page. Perhaps you'd like to talk to the bot owner about finding a way to respect DISPLAYTITLE (tricky or costly perhaps, if buried in {{taxobox}}). Because I suspect the bot will revert your changes with the next update. Rd232 09:07, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

I didn't realize it was a bot which did that. I'll just let it be; it isn't that important. Ucucha 12:06, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Isospora hammondi

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Materialscientist (talk) 12:34, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Italian Sparrow

Would you mind seeing if you can see these papers:

Fulgione, D., Esposito, A., Rusch, C. E., and Milone, M. 2000. Song clinal variability in Passer italiae Avocetta 24:107–112
Fulgione, D., Rusch, C. E., Esposito, A., and Milone, M. 1998. Dynamics of weight, fat, and moult in the Italian sparrow Acta Ornithologica 33.
Fulgione, G. and Milone, M. 1998. On the engimatic populations of the Italian Sparrow. Biologia e conservacione della fauna. 102.

They'd be rather useful for the article on the Italian Sparrow—you'll like this article, I expect, as the taxonomy is massively complicated. So complicated I'll rely mostly on reviews for the taxonomy bit. —innotata 18:58, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

1. No; no journal under that name in our library (please check whether you spelled it correctly—you also wrote "conservacione" instead of "conservazione").

2. Yes. ACT 0284a.

3. Yes. RIC 6412.

Looks interesting—a species of hybrid origin. I understand that that gives some taxonomic headaches. Ucucha 20:25, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. "Conservacione" was used in the source that mentioned this. —innotata 21:15, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

The Avocetta abstract is at http://www.ciso-coi.org/avoxvol24.htm, as well as abstracts for some more interesting papers. One on conservation status, at http://www.ciso-coi.org/avoxvol32.htm, concerns the Italian Sparrow, but I don't need the full text so much. —innotata 21:59, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

OK, I am afraid I can't help you there. Ucucha 22:38, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

OK, I was confusing the Avocetta in your reply with Biologia e conservazione della fauna. —innotata 00:02, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for sending the papers. The hypothesis in the second paper is pretty close to what Töpfer's review argues. Mostly reading up on aspects of the Italian Sparrow besides taxonomy is pretty crazy, since one can find many interesting little details like breast patch wear or catching methods, but few reviews or broad discussions; for example the only measurement I can find in a really reliable source is male wing length. —innotata 20:59, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for UA 8699

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Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

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Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is now infested with rats....

		The Original Barnstar
		...and I mean that in the best way possible. :) I'm in awe of your truly incredible content work. Keep it up! –Juliancolton \| 12:39, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! Don't forget the lizards, broken teeth, and worms, though. :-) Or the tropical storms, for that matter. Ucucha 12:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

... For this copyedit to the Rustock botnet. Did you know that editors such as Excirial always appreciate such assistance as they are non-native English speakers who can bumble up on the grammar parts sometimes? Excuse the Dyk joke, but thanks for that edit. Copyediting, Consistancy and WP:MOS were never my strongest area's, so i always appreciate a hand with them. Excirial 13:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. But I am not a native speaker either, so don't make too much of that. :-) The "compromised of" part of the article was kind of funny in context. Ucucha 14:09, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

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LOL you not a bot, so applogies not realising your human...ism? early to day :)--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 16:52, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I am not a bot? Don't tell my master, he'll be scared. Ucucha 16:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I knew it. You must be a bot, of a native English speaker too. —innotata 00:37, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

I wanted to thank you for participating in my RfA, which succeeded at 134/4/0. I am truly amazed but equally elated by the result and I hope I am able to serve as a good administrator. It was a surreal experience to succeed, and I will strive to meet your expectations.

More specifically, thank you for your support. I am really thankful for it!

Thanks! ceranthor 13:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Edward Alphonso Goldman

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Hadropithecus

Hi! First of all thank you for all of your contributions! I am amazed! I am trying to translate a series of articles about lemurs in Greek for Greek Misplaced Pages (after that I ll try translating some mice of yours :)). I found here the date of death of Mr L.R. Lorenz von Liburnau and just wanted to inform you, since you uploaded File:Hadropithecus Lorenz pl 1.png & File:Hadropithecus, Megaladapis Lorenz pl II.png, unfortunately as I understand they won't be PD outside US until 2013. Kind regards! --Egmontaz♤ 10:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Genesis creation article

Hi Ucucha, could you say how you reached this decision, please? As I saw the posts, people were opposed to a move, though I may be looking in the wrong place. Cheers, SlimVirgin 10:41, 28 April 2010 (UTC)