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Contents 1 thank spam 2 Pigeon stubs 3 The Pigeon 4 Pigeon Infobox 5 Brisbane meetup invitation 6 jack boden tippler comment

[edit] thank spam

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

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[edit] Pigeon stubs

I just noticed that the work we do is very similar. You work on Pigeon articles, including breed stubs, and I do sheep and chickens. After reading a good selection of the articles from List of pigeon breeds, I have one suggestion. In the first sentence of the breed stubs, I think an alternative approach would be better. Rather than saying that "...is a breed developed over many years of selective breeding", which is common to all animal breeds, instead state the obvious by something like "the Example Pigeon is a breed of fancy pigeon originating in Exampleland." Talking about where it came from, or perhaps the purpose it was bred for (i.e. if it's a racing pigeon or a utility) is more helpful to someone like me that knows next to nothing about the species than pointing out the obvious, that a breed was bred. Good luck, VanTucky 02:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, if you're looking for a breed infobox template to work from, I just had Template:Infobox Chickenbreed created. You could either copy from that and alter it, or ask the creator to do one for you. VanTucky 19:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure. I'll whip something up for you. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 17:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Poultry isn't really my forte. Pigeons are poultry right? Anyways a draft is at {{Infobox Pigeonbreed}}. If anything needs added; especially in the traits section (that confused me), lemme know! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 18:27, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Pigeon

Hey there. Looking at the pigeon group at the bird wikiproject, I noticed one of your goals is the creation of an article or something involving the book The Pigeon by Levi. Is this book very rare? Because the Powell's in my neighborhood has a pristine original copy for $35 bucks. I'd be happy to buy it, and maybe we could work out a way for you to borrow it. VanTucky 19:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pigeon Infobox

Hi,

I do not have a book to reference for the breed grouping for the English Fantail in the US. I never had to provide a book reference to anyone here because we all know that it's in the fancy pigeon group. My dad has the US NPA standards book and I'm sure I could find the fantail and which group it's considered to be in in that book but I'm not sure that it will be explicitly stated there either. It's simply common knowledge among people who raise pigeons in the US--fantails are in the fancy group and when a best fancy pigeon is picked at a large show, the champion fantail is considered too. I backed off the alternate breed grouping anyway.

While we're discussing the topic of breed groupings, maybe we should modify the infobox to contain at least those three major organizations as part of the template: Australian NPA, US NPA, and the EE (which is the overarching org in Europe). The EE puts fantails in the "Structure Pigeon Group" which is different than Australia or the US.

I backed off the German name for the breed but I thought it was appropriate to add the German name for the breed because of the name of the jpg file you're using in the infobox. I thought if someone did an edit on that infobox they may want to know which language that name Pfautaube.jpg came from. That's the only reason I added that alternate name. --Onorio (talk) 23:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Here's what I'm sort of thinking of (I'm not the world's best with templates but hopefully this will give you the idea of what I'm thinking of)

{{{name}}}
Conservation Status	{{{status}}}
Other names	{{{altname}}}
Country of origin	{{{country}}}
Nicknames	{{{nickname}}}
Classification Australian Breed Group {{{augroup}}} US Breed Group {{{usgroup}}} EE Breed Group {{{eegroup}}}
Traits

--Onorio (talk) 23:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Sting,

I would rather that we move the discussion about the infobox to the task force talk page. I realize the task force is basically you and I but I hope that someday we have other people join us in our efforts and it'd be good to have a history of the discussion behind certain decisions available to them. --Onorio (talk) 02:51, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brisbane meetup invitation

Brisbane Meetup Next: In Discussion Last: February 10, 2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Hey there, you're invited to the second Brisbane Meetup. Please see the page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/2 for more details. Hope to see you there!

Automated message delivered by Giggabot (stop!) to Wikipedians in Queensland and known Brisbaneites, at 04:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC).

[edit] jack boden tippler comment

just saw the message on jack boden tipplers

yes its Handsworth,West Midlands - he was my great grandad!

hope this helps x —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.146.58.87 (talk) 17:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd already found that out, but thanks anyhow.--Sting Buzz Me... 22:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)