User talk:Vijaybarve

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नमस्कार! Vijaybarve,Wikipedia Embassy from Marathi Wikipedia(आंतरविकि दूतावास) invites you to Marathi Wikipedia!This template shall keep you informed about support and contribution required in various Marathi Wikipedia articles in times to come.


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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Birdeyeview.gif

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[edit] Bangalore meetup notice

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[edit] Invitation to WikiProject Maharashtra

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[edit] image:HoysalaEmpire VB.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Western Ghats Butterflies

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[edit] Images need checking

Hi Vijay, I added some images and text. I am not entirely sure of the ids, so please keep a watch on the illustrations added and recheck references or expert opinions. For instance I am not sure of the identification of the illustration by Robert Templeton that I added to Neptis jumbah. Shyamal 15:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Silent Valley

I hoped you may be able to add some info about Butterflys in Silent Valley National Park which is the article of the month, March for Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas of India. I heard somewhere that the largest in the world lives there but checked it out and that's apparently wrong. Thanks==Marcus 08:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lamproptera curius

The specimen has it marked as Lamproptera meges. Any id problem ? Shyamal 06:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Oops my mistake. Corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out. Vijay Barve 11:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability?

[edit] Notability of ATREE

A tag has been placed on ATREE, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hypnale hypnale

Hi Vijay. Nice image ! Do you have a side view that explains the name ? Shyamal 07:21, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately I have only 2 images that I have loaded. Vijay Barve 07:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Vijay, did you get a chance to handle it? I always try to do so for getting good shots of scale patterns of head from different views, underside, body dorsal and ventral views.
Happy to see that so many indian butterfly photos being added. By your edits, starting new articles and adding so many missing photos, you have become the fourth member of the Indian butterfly endeavour, besides Shyamal, Viren and self. Welcome to the team and congrats!AshLin 13:43, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Nope, I did not handle the snake. Few people in the group will have better pictures, but I thought it was important to have some pictures to start with. Thank you very much for accepting me as a member of Indian butterfly endeavor. I want to bring in more members in the team soon so that the work really picks up momentum. And thanks for the help and support in helping me to contribute in wikipedia. Vijay Barve 06:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB

Ever considered using Auto Wiki Bot. Will greatly simplify the kind of edits you are doing. I have got my name added but yet to start using it. Regards,AshLin 09:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Category tagging is often controversial, especially when widespread species are involved. Also categories tend to be used in a rather slipshod way by many other country users. Lists on the other hand can cite sources for why a species in included in a regional fauna for instance. Eventually, when semantic search is well established, this category system will be redundant. AWB can indeed be a good idea for now though. I can try running it if you want that done urgently. See you tomorrow. Shyamal 09:18, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Fine. In that case I will hold on the categorization for the time being and work on other aspects. Vijay Barve 09:23, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing Pierids list

Thanks for updating it. I was updating offline in a textfile. Imagine my surprise to find it already done! Regards, Ashwin Baindur

I was not aware you were working off line.
Can we call these Image inventories rather than missing lists ? Vijay Barve 17:21, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moth lists

Hi, a few comments.

If you are quoting from the excel file provided by Roger Kendrick, please add the reference to that specific list. He has given the exact wording of the reference in his post.

Please consider adding sections for genera. It makes it easier to edit and maintain the list as it grows in size including navigation and placement of images.

If you make a new list, request you take the first line and end sections from one of the other lists and add them. I'm still developing the end sections. In case you make a new list which is not included in the template {{Butterflies and moths of India}}, please amend it and add the new family. You can access the template at Template:Butterflies and moths of India.

I'm updating strictly from Hampson. My data is from an imperfect OCR dump of Hampson. Since my slow internet refuses to download the massive pdfs, I hope someone will correct the specific names by cross-checking from Hampson Vol I.

I request that you take on adding the species from Roger Kendrick's Hong Kong list. We should reference each species to indicate the source, Hampson or Kendrick. We may either use symbols to indicate where the species is listed from or use footnotes. I recommend footnotes.

Regards, AshLin 19:14, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Very useful comments. I will follow them. I will add Subfamily and genera to the list. I will take up the checking of OCR from the pdf soon. Please show me a sample of how we should footnote the species, so that I will take that up too. Vijay Barve 07:00, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to refrence

Hi Vijay,

I include two species in the example given below. The citation wikitext is given in full for the first time you use it. You use a shortcut html-like tag each time thereafter.

wikitext begins...

*'''Scarce Evening Brown''' ''[[Cyllogenes janetae]]'' de Nicéville, 1887 (Bhutan, Naga Hills.)<ref name="Savela Cyllogenes">Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/cyllogenes/index.html|Page on ''Cyllogenes'' genus.]</ref>

*'''Branded Evening Brown''' ''[[Cyllogenes suradeva]]'' (Moore, 1857) (N.India, Sikkim - Bhutan.)<ref name="Savela Cyllogenes"/>

wikitext ends...

At the end of the article you have to make sure the following wikitext is included :-

wikitext begins...

==Cited references==
<references/>

wikitext ends...

You can see the effect of this in List of butterflies of India (Satyrinae). Giving different references for each species is quite painful and slows you down considerably, but I believe we might as well start doing it henceforth.

Regards, AshLin 11:23, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I will get going in this fashion. Vijay Barve 16:50, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Creation of state lists

Hi Vijay,

As per Manual of Style, the lists should have word 'butterflies' not 'Butterflies'. Please move them to correctly labelled pages using the move tab on the page. The old page and its talk page become automatic redirects to the new page and its talk page. If you need help let me know. Since you are interested in lists would you consider working on a few other important states too - Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh. States which appear in the group as well as completing the Western Ghats and South India.

Also please create a talk page every time and add the following template {{LepidopteraTalk|mid|start}} . The template puts the Project banner on the top. Why mid/start? A list of state butterflies is 'mid' importance while a national list of continental list is 'high' priority. They allow red links to come up which get stubbed and also form indexes to species lists while each state lists merely repeats these links. 'Start' because your list needs to mature before it develops into B class.

AshLin 11:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing our Ashwin. I have done the needful. Do you recomend Western Ghats Butterflies also to be moved to List of butterflies of Western Ghats ?
That would be quite appropriate. AshLin 08:09, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Vijay Barve 04:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Lepidoptera policy - Assessment of importance of articles

Hi Vijaybarve,

I've brought up a policy issue for discussion on WikiProject Lepidoptera here . May I request your valuable contribution and counsel, as a member of WikiProject Lepidoptera, in this regard. AshLin 08:53, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Lepidoptera policy - Draft categorisation guidelines & Common vs scientific names

Hi Vijaybarve,

I've brought up two policy issues for discussion on WikiProject Lepidoptera here . May I request your valuable contribution and counsel, as a member of WikiProject Lepidoptera, in this regard. AshLin 18:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ID check

Vijay, could you get someone to check the id of this commons:Image:Bushbrown_wynaad.jpg Shyamal 05:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tamil Nadu

Marcus 19:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A gazetteer

[1] Shyamal 14:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Re map on Orchid Tit

Hi Vijay,

I use Firefox (latest one). In my browser the Jairampur record spot falls outside our international boundary in Myanmar. Can you just check it out? Regards, AshLin 16:01, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Its okay now.AshLin 08:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)