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[edit] Request

Could someone create an article on the Atlantic squid (Loligo pealei)? This species was an important model organism in neuroscience and was used by Andrew Huxley and Alan Hodgkin in their landmark studies on how axons work. Sayeth 16:25, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

Good idea, Sayeth. I'll add it to the page of requested articles for now. I'm assuming you mean the Longfin Inshore Squid (Loligo (Undetermined) pealeii) listed on the Loliginidae page. The Huxley and Hodgkin articles will need to be editted, as will action potential, if I'm correct. - UtherSRG 17:20, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious statements in Octopus article

I've marked several statements in the main article on Octopus that appear to be false. I have included a discussion of these at Talk:Octopus#Disputed. I hope some people with more octopus expertise than I have will review these and correct them if necessary. Thanks, Dominus 17:48, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Architeuthis Taxonomy

I've just changed the Giant squid article to reflect what I believe to be the current consensus -- that there is likely only one species, or, at least, that there is insufficient evidence to support a taxonomy of eight different species, each of which is represented by a single specimen. What say ye? Ben-w 30 June 2005 23:50 (UTC).

[edit] Southern bobtail squid

heya. Can someone who knows more about biology check over what i've done at Southern bobtail squid (specifically the taxo box which i don't entirely understand). Also the book i was using as a reference says that the southern bobtail squid has yet to be given a scientific name, however CephBase says that it is Euprymna tasmanica which my book says is a southern dumpling squid. Btw, my reference book is called "A guide to squid cuttlefish and octopuses of australasia. The bellman 02:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright?

Hello there! I'm Tony Morelli of TONMO.com. I notice that your Colossal Squid page leverages several photos/images of Mesonychoteuthis found on our Giant Squid and Colossal Squid Fact Sheet. When clicking on those photos, I notice the following claim: "This image is copyrighted. The copyright holder has irrevocably released all rights to it, allowing it to be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited in any way by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, with or without attribution of the author." My question: Have you received permission from Dr. Steve O'Shea and Kat Bolstad to use these images? I've pinged them to ask them directly, but thought I'd float the question here. Once getting that out of the way, I hope to check in here often, and perhaps we can contribute more going forward. Best regards -- tonmo Tonmo 20:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

G'day Tony. I have asked the person who uploaded the photos to provide evidence that all rights have been released. If the photos have been put up mistakenly then they will be quickly taken down. Thankyou for noticing and looking into the matter. As to your second point, i hope you do check back in, the cephalopod wikiproject is still very much in its infancy and needs as much help as it can get. Also, if you are a registered user of wikipedia (you can register in the top right hand corner) you can finish messages with four tildas (~~~~) which will magically create a signature with a link to your userpage followed by the time you made the edit, just like so -> The bellman 12:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, got it! I heard back from Dr. O'Shea; pretty sure the permission is NOT there. Appreciate your follow-up. Tonmo 20:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I commented out the pictures for the moment until XQ Fan (the uploader) responds. The bellman 23:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Octopodidae

The Octopodidae article has been listed as full length and needing its stub removed. In looking at the article, the scientific nature of it requires someone from this project to remove the stub (or not). Thanks! Stormbay 22:38, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

It is most certainly still a stub. - UtherSRG (talk) 02:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wonderpus

Does anyone know if the Wonderpus is a different species to the mimic octopus? If you know anything about it please sort out the Mimic Octopus article. Kernow 17:54, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wildlife Barnstar

There is currently a barnstar proposal at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals#Wildlife Barnstar for a barnstar which would be available for use for this project. Please feel free to visit the page and make any comments you see fit. Badbilltucker 15:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Veterinary medicine project

There is now a proposed project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Veterinary Medicine to deal with matters of veterinary medicine, a subject which currently has disproportionately low content in wikipedia. Any wikipedia editors who have an interest in working on content related to the subject are encouraged to indicate as much there. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

Hi folks, I admire your good work! I happen to occasionally come across some papers regarding cephalopod taxonomy/systematics. Not being a expert on the matter, usually I drop them into articles as annotations - either at the start of ther eferences section in articles that exist, or next to redlinks in parent pages if there is no article yet. You might want to check the history and/or source of articles for these annotations if you feel bored... the papers I get are usually about the more "weird and wonderful" taxa, and equipped with e.g. original descriptions, editors could also ask the authors whether they'd be willing to donate some photos. I like reading the occasional ceph stuff every now and then, but I feel not well-informed enough to actually do a write-up on what I read... except when there are obvious errors such as the double listing of 2 spp formerly in Grimpoteuthis (most of what I got in the last week seems to have been about Umbrella octopus taxa for whatever reason). Enjoy! Dysmorodrepanis 16:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:TOL template

I'm working on a proposal to subsume all the WP:TOL project banners into a single one. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Template union proposal and its talk page. Circeus 19:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cat:Ammonite stubs/{{ammonite-stub}} - requested split for Category:Cephalopod stubs

Although this issue mostly belongs to WikiProject Stub sorting, it also has to do with WikiProject Cephalopods, so I'm mentioning this here. I've requested a category split for Cat:Ammonites, which seem to be a significant part of both Paleontology stubs and Category:Cephalopod stubs. Please express your opinions about it at the main discussion. Od Mishehu 13:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Animals project proposal

I think it's both a pity and somewhat illogical that we have no animal WikiProject despite the fact that there are over 20 projects that are basically its daughters. There are also other projects that could emerge from it in the future, such as one on animal behavior. The project would provide a central place for people from all animal projects to talk, a central set of guidelines for articles on animals and zoology, and an assessment system for articles related to animals. If you are interested in creating such a project please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life#Animals project to discuss. Richard001 08:51, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The following projects would come under the parentage of this project:

[edit] Project Created

The Animals WikiProject has been created. I've got much of the framework for the project page layout done, thanks to the folks at WP:PLANTS, but there is still much to do. If you would like to participate it would be much appreciated. J. Hall • (Talk) 07:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How do molluscs breathe on land?

Although it describes how marine molluscs have gills, it would be useful if the mollusca article could contain a description of how land-based molluscs, or beached acquatic molluscs, breathe: [1] and [2] provide some explanations, but it would be useful to have an expert provide fuller detail for this article. -- The Anome 09:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed change to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)

There is a current proposal to change an animal-related naming convention, which directly effects the the Manual of Style guideline, and the naming conventions policy. If you are interested, your input would be appreciated. Justin chat 06:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Taxobox

Hello, a user in knoledge of cephalopod claasification is needed for entrys of user J.H.McDonnell. The article are very well writen scientific article, but maybe not for wikipedia. Anyway they need taxoboxes and maybe expanding. It is good work though. Enlil Ninlil (talk) 03:44, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

Why don't we have a userbox? Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 20:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Molluscs?

Posted to the animal, gastropod and cephalopod projects; please discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animals

I'm guessing some of you have noticed that there is no mollusc WikiProject, despite there being both a gastropod and cephalopod project (two classes of the phylum Mollusca). Should anything be done about this? They could perhaps be merged, made into work groups of a parent molluscs project, or a parent project created and the two left as subprojects? Molluscs are the second most abundant animal phyla in terms of known species and an active project on them would certainly be an asset to Wikipedia. Richard001 (talk) 11:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Who are Adam and Rees?

Hello! I am currently doing a disambiguation project: making sure that links to the disambiguation page Adam point to the appropriate page. I noticed that a few pages marked as being part of Wikiproject Cephalopods (Sepia cottoni, Sepia dubia and Sepia dollfusi) have an Adam link under their binomial name. Who or what is Adam? Is there an article about them on Wikipedia? If so, the link should point directly to that person; otherwise the link should probably be removed.

Similarly, one of this articles has a link to Rees which is also a disambiguation page. -- KathrynLybarger (talk) 01:01, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Kathryn. The "binomial authority" is the person who first published information on the named species. Unfortunately, the first name is not always available to the person creating the article. My recommendation would be to try searching for the following:
  • A Wikipedia article about someone with that name with a profession in invertebrate biology, marine biology, or cephalopod biology, or some related field.
  • Search online for a species paper about the named species using the scientific name (it should likely include the name of the authority, especially if you find the original).
Good luck! (By the way, this is a common problem with zoology articles, so feel free to fix as many of these links as you like!) Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 21:43, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
That would be William Adam (malacologist) and William James Rees. I've created short stubs for both of them and disambiguated all the links I could find. As Bob points out, this if often a problem in zoology as there are no standardised author abbreviations like there are in botany. Mgiganteus1 (talk) 22:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Thank you! With your help, Adam and Rees have now been completely disambiguated in the article name space! -- KathrynLybarger (talk) 02:12, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, know that these disambiguations is greatly appreciated, especially the fact that they are names! Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon (talk) 02:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)