User talk:LiquidGhoul/Archive 4

Amphibians of Australia

Good work on the origins section! I've had a bit of a look for info and been struggling to find any :) Cheers -- Froggydarb ^croak 10:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

lol, thanks -- Froggydarb ^croak 10:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately the way the pics are aligned doesn't work properly in IE. I had it like that and thought everything was alright until I saw the page in IE. There is a big gap between "Critically endangered species" and the list of critically endangered species. I tried to figure out a way of accommodate for both browsers but only could come up with what it was before. Cheers -- Froggydarb ^croak 11:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC).

Yeah, that works out. Cheers, -- Froggydarb ^croak 22:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Oppps! -- Froggydarb ^croak 06:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Not sure where to put this, but I just wanted to congratulate you on a well administered article (cane toads)! I ALWAYS take a look at the discussion pages on FA and am often disgusted at the amount of infighting that occurs. However, you do a GREAT job of asking for help and taking constructive criticism in a very congenial manner. A great many of contributors could learn a LOT from your diplomatic methods. Good on ya! Keep it up!The Pearl 14:59, 15 August 2006 (UTC)thepearl

Cogger

Since you seem to have come across Harold Cogger a few more times than I have, you're probably in a better situation to write a stub about him. I put the correct link in Green and Golden Bell Frog, where he was previously linked as "Cogger", and I put a link to what seems to be his website in the edit summary. Regards, Samsara (talk • contribs) 16:36, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Hey, sorry dude

i just thought it would look nicer in blue, ya know. User:Mickeynotmouse

Flora

Hi, I've largely rewritten this article, see User:Petaholmes/Sandbox/Flora of Australia - I have to finish the angiosperms, and I will probably move it into the main namespace in a few days.--Peta 06:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

The new flora article is up. If you want to help out, fungi, lichens and non-vascular plants could all use some expansion.--Peta 00:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

List of Testudines families

Thanks for helping out with the article, but I don't like the seperation of the table. It stuffs up their widths at my resolution. I also don't see an advantage to it, so it seems like it has been worsened aethsetically for no gain. What was the reason for the change? Thanks --liquidGhoul 22:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, just the general idea that when you have two things, you should have two tables. I see only a small white space and the table borders. I don't know how it could affect the widths of the tables which I see as exactly equal. Rmhermen 23:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

GGBF article

Just would like your opinion on what else should go into the article, all the inline refs are done. I know you wanted winter breeding habitat to go in, but I still haven't been able to find anything about it, do you have any papers/websites that have something about that. Cheers -- Froggydarb ^croak 02:49, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Opps, typo, thanks. But Is can't really write anything on winter habitat then... Is there anything else that should be included in the article? -- Froggydarb ^croak 03:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Yep. Thanks :) -- Froggydarb ^croak 04:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Fauna of New Guinea on DYK

On 5 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fauna of New Guinea, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

-- Scott e^iπ 17:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Re:Opisthodon

lol, I've had that paper for a while and never noticed :) Too much to read. -- Froggydarb ^croak 07:32, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Families and classification of Anurans

Hi!!

Thanks for your nice "welcome" message!I am new on Wikipedia, but very excited to contribute to Wikipedia and to the WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles. Regarding your question, I dont have photos of Arthroleptidae, Heleophrynidae, Hemisotidae, Rhinodermatidae (but I think I saw a photographs of a juvenile Rhinodermatidae somewhere in Wikipedia) or Sooglossidae.

I dont know if you are familiar with a large scientific paper published some months ago:

• Frost D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sa, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. (2006) The Amphibian Tree of Life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 297, 1–370. (PDF available by clicking here)

This paper re-estructures the entire classification of Amphibians, and most families of Anura are redefined (e.j., Brachycephalidae is now a family that includes the genus Eleutherodactylus and not just Brachycephalus), providing a phylogenetic taxonomy. The changes proposed are widely recognize and have been addopted by most global scientific and conservation sources (e.g., IUCN redlist, the Global Amphibian Assessment), and also national sources (e.g., Amphibians of Ecuador). I think that the WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles should addopt these changes. I can help!

Cheers, --DFCisneros 16:01, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Rove McManus

I just reverted a edit on the Rove McManus article. He removed the tag you placed and did what you said not to do.[1]. It was done by User talk:202.0.106.130. Thanks - Mike Beckham 06:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Taxonomy of Pelodryadinae

Have you downloaded the "THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE" paper? If so have you seen page 362? Am I reading it wrong or have they gone and placed all Cyclorana and Nyctimystes in Litoria??? -- Froggydarb ^croak 11:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar thanks

Hey liquidGhoul,

Many thanks for the barnstar. I'm impressed that the amphibian articles are still going as strong as they are - you're contributing to probably one of the most active WikiProjects around. Fantastic effort - no doubt you'll be due another one soon! :) - Samsara (talk • contribs) 09:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Britishblue.jpg

Is that your cat? (also, thanks for stepping in) —ptk✰fgs 14:23, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Applewild School

Hi LiquidGhoul. I reverted your edit to Applewild School. The school was indeed started in 1957 as per their home page and the category you added was non-existant. I can't see why you thought Greenshed's edit was vandalism. Robert Brockway 16:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Indonesia

That is a really good article LiquidGhoul/Archive 4! I'll help you the best I can, but only on the weekend, cause school has been very demanding these days. Okay, catch ya around, take care -- Imoeng 22:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Reptiles

Hi, when I was making the fauna of Ausralia article I made this, admittedly lame, List of Australian reptiles, I was hoping that you might want to work on it if you get a chance. --Peta 01:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Neat, thanks.--Peta 02:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Date format

Sorry if I described it in a confusing way. I'll give it one more try if I may. :) On most file systems, each file has a "last modified" date. You can list files in a directory chronologically by this date using the command "ls -t", or "ls -rt" for most recent last (this is typically what you want).

However, when transferring files between machines, some ftp clients will create the files on the target machine as though new, i.e. setting all "last modified" dates to the present, erasing the original last modified dates. This can also happen when transferring files between different file systems, e.g. if you have two partitions on your local hard disk, one of which may be an FAT32. In this case, you may have to set special permissions when you mount the drive in order to keep the original time stamps.

In a nutshell, this is one of those cases where the "works out of the box" assumption breaks down.

This is why, for files that I may save in various different versions, I append the date to the file name, in the weird order 20060816. Why NCurses suggested we do it that way for the biology portal could well be a different story... - Samsara (talk • contribs) 16:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I program a bit in Perl (this comes from having done DNA sequence analysis, for which Perl for many years was the best tool). - Samsara (talk • contribs) 16:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice to know that you're using Linux. GNU (the commandline interface) really is the best for usability and power out of all the *nixes. How did I survive before I discovered pipes? :) - Samsara (talk • contribs) 16:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Fauna of New Guinea

LG, marine mammals are not my bailiwick in particular, but I have references and can take a crack at it once I can clear the decks of some other things on my desk. Arjuna 19:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Tuatara

I was waiting for my academic contact to give a hand with providing references, but I guess it isn't happening. It needs those six (?) points referenced, and then it's ready for FAC. I don't see any great benefit in another PR. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 11:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Aus frog list

I've been working on this and before I add anymore info I'd like to know if you think it is worth being a article. A lot of the info is repeated somewhere else on wiki 'cos most Aus frog are endemic anyway. What are your thoughts? Cheers -- Froggydarb ^croak 06:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Most of the info was taken from the genera articles :) -- Froggydarb ^croak 06:27, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

No worries. -- Froggydarb ^croak 07:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Re:Featured pic

Thanks, I would of forgot. I knew it was going to be on the main page today but I was out all day tadpoling at Darkes Forest. It just slipped my mine. Thanks for the reminder. -- Froggydarb ^croak 09:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

L.littlejohni, spawn and tadpoles (there was also one calling), L.verreauxii spawn and newly hatched tads, C. signifera spawn and taddies and a few newly hatch L.jervisiensis, I think thats all. -- Froggydarb ^croak 09:20, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

You forgot Paracrinia. I was there as well, we went with Marion Anstis (the author of the tadpole book), so it was a good day.--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 09:27, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

re suggestion

Thats what I have, however I haven't uploaded all of my photos so they can't all be links. When I get around to uploading a photo I will add a link. Cheers––Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 21:27, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for thanks

Hi, Evan. We are a herp family, too, with several different Tiliqua and a P. viticeps. We're moderately active in MARK and my very herp-aware teenage son worked for a while at Canberra Exotic Pets. Cheers, Peter Ellis 07:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Re:Bullfrog

OK, fair enough, I was looking at it from a purely aesthetic value where the replacement is obviously superior. But I'm no expert on a frog's anatomy and if it doesn't adequetly show the frog, than feel free to revert (although it'd be good to keep the replacement on the article) --Fir0002 09:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Reptiles of New Guinea

You may have already have come across it but here is a PDF on the Reptiles of New Guinea. Hope it helps. Cheers -- Froggydarb ^croak 05:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Fauna of New Guinea

Hi Ev, I'll find out more about it (birds most likely) and hopefully I can contribute something to expand the article. Regards--Stavenn 12:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello again Ev, did you see the recent news about New Guinea, they found about 52 new species in Papua province of Indonesia, Western New Guinea. ["New species"]--Stavenn 23:23, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Frogs of Cape York Peninsula

Hi Ev. Thanks for the query. Ye, I do have quite a lot of photos of different speciess of frogs found up here - but many of them I haven't been able to identify. If you might be able to identify them and if you wish, I could send some to you for captions and then we could post them.

Cheers, John Hill 07:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Frogs of Cape York Peninsula 2

Hi again - thanks for your suggestions. I am a bit loathe to upload images to the Commons before they are identified and would prefer, if it is O.K. with you, to email them to you first for identification. Please let me know what you think. If you would be happy to look at them first I will start emailing them to you right away. Do you have ADSL or better broadband? If not, and you only have a dial-up connection, I will shrink the photos first. Also, I should add that all of my photos are really just "snapshots" and not carefully taken wildlife photos - the quality of some of them may not be as high as one might wish in a Wikipedia article and I would be grateful if you could vet them first. Finally, now that I know you are interested - I will do my best to obtain more frog photos (I didn't have any specific motivation previously) but I may have to wait until the next Wet Season to get any - we are just at the beginning of our Dry Season now.

It is paticularly worrying that we haven't had nearly as many frogs in recent years as in the past - either in total numbers (roughly measured by me on the number of sightings and the volume of sound at night in the Wet Season) or in the variety of species we used to get here. I know this is a very wide-spread phenomenon but thought you might be interested to know that we are suffering from it here too. We are also getting many less cane toads (thank goodness!) and very few really big ones. Previously people said this was due to the 4 years of drought we experienced - but we had a good Wet this year and still the toad and frog populations are down. Also, some of the toads seem to be suffering from a "wasting" disease - a local expert here claims this is just due to starvation - but I am not convinced.

By the way, I live on a block of land about 25 km west of Cooktown in the Endeavour River Valley (about half a km from the main river).

PS If you want me to email photos to you - please send me your email address - mine is (removed for spam safety)

Best wishes John Hill 22:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye out.................

Man, thanks for askin'. Never tried to take a photo of a frog. Am in an inner city 'burb and the only ones I've seen are the brown marsh (?) frogs. Next time we get a downpour I'll give it a go. I have been trying to snap a few birds and been to museums in Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane for Dino skeletons in the past few weeks.Cas Liber 11:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I can't help you; I may do a lot with FPC but I can't take a good photo to save my life. I don't see too many frogs around my place anyway. Raven4x4x 13:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Froggy stuff

I do have some photos of frogs, but the only ones we get around my house are Green Tree frogs (after we killed off all the cane toads), which I see are well represented, and none of my photos are better than the ones already here. Sorry I couldn't be more help, but if I see one, I'll definitely take some photos. As for the article, I see I graded it a B class - great work. The only way to improve that rating is to get it listed as a good article. You've already had it peer reviewed, so just go for it. I'll take a more detailed look at it and make some specific suggestions/make some edits on it on the talk page. Cheers. Iorek85 10:35, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S - This is the only semi decent photo I have, I also have it in higher res - Iorek85 10:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

On 30 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Desert Tree Frog, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Congratulations on behalf of User:Blnguyen --Bravada, talk - 03:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Amphibians of Australia

I think your best bet (and mine) is to re-read the peer review comments, not all of which have probably been addressed. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 16:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I made a list on my todo page what the peer review came up with some are already done. -- Froggydarb ^croak 21:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Photos

Your dedication is really inspiring! :) Great work. Nice photos, too. :) --pfctdayelise (translate?) 07:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Lucky you! I wish I could do the same. Instead, I seem to be busier than ever. :/

My mental "to do" list for Wikipedia just keeps growing... I'd like to take a week off life and just sit down and get through it. :) --pfctdayelise (translate?) 08:05, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Allophryne

Hi! Unfortunately I dont have a pic of Allophryne. --DFCisneros 01:39, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I think the Edvard Munch thing made the news here in Australia.

Well, I might have seen it on fox.--Greasysteve13 23:34, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Australian frogs

Hi, sorry it took so long for me to get back to you, I've been on holiday. You may or may not know that all the parts of the Fauna of Australia on frogs are freely availabe as pdfs here. I think that the natural history and biogeography chapters in particular contain heaps of relevant information that isn't really covered extensively in your article (the species density map would make a great addition for example). The collection and history of discovery chapters are also pretty interesting and could provide you with heaps of ideas for expansion.--Peta 04:29, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

frog articles

I noticed that there have been a few new photos coming into wikipedia lately, and you have been creating aticles to go with the photos. Do you what other species are likely to get photos soon, so I might be able to write a few articles as well (I could just write articles on other species, but it would be better if a photo of that species was going to be on wiki soon).--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 08:59, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Just on the note of the Neobatrachus frogs, I will be heading out west (Mudgee, Dubbo, etc.) in October and I should be able to get a Neobatrachus sudelli photo (hopefully a few others as well).--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 09:47, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you very much for the barnstar. I will continue to do my best to improve the articles on amphibians and continue to work on wikipedia well into the future. By the way, good work on all the articles you've been creating lately. Once again thanks!--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 11:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On 10 September, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Northern Barred Frog, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Andrew Levine 02:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

frog articles

I'll get to work, I'll start on the Cyclorana then move to the limno's. Cheers--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 11:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

frog life cycle

I have photos of a number of species of their entire life cycle. Take a look at my list and you can make your pick, however if you want a photo of the metamorph of that same species as well it might be a bit difficult, as I only have photos of a few species as metamorphs (ones that sill have a decent amount of tail) and after having a breif look through my photos I have found that I have barely any metamorph photos, however, I'm going out frogging this weekend and I might be able to get a photo of a metamorph (most likely to be Litoria littlejohni), so I'll see then. In the mean time I will have a more detailed look through all my photos today and tomorrow and give you a list of everything that I have all stage including froglet.--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 05:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

After having a detailed look through my photos, I found I have photos of metamorphs (still with some tail) of the following species: Litoria peronii, L. fallax, Rana sylvatica and Heleioporus australiacus. The only one that has a decent amount of tail is the Heleioporus, however the photo of it showing the most tail isn't exactly focused and the frog is in my hand. Sorry but thats all I got, if you would like to use any I would be happy to upload them (all those times when I've seen metamorph Lim. peronii in my pond and not taken any photos...)--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 11:13, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:Frog life cycle

I have photos of tadpoles, spawn and frog for several species, but don't have and froglet photos at all! I reckon Lim. peronii would be easiest. I think that we can just use your Lim. peronii pic to illustrate the frog. I will go and get a few pics now. If I can't find any metamorphs I might be able to get a L.littlejohni metamorph pic (pretty unlikely though) this weekend. (going back to Darkes Forest with Marion, getting chytrid swabs this time) Cheers -- Froggydarb ^croak 05:37, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I couldn't find any metamorphs in my pond and all the spawn had hatch (or was eaten). I'm going to a site that has Mixophyes at the end of this month, (and probably various other time throughout the frogging season) but I'd say that the Mixos wouldn't be metamorphing until sometime after January unless they overwintered. -- Froggydarb ^croak 11:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Did you find any morphs while swabbing? -- Froggydarb ^croak 22:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

What species did you see, or hear? -- Froggydarb ^croak 01:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey guys, I am replying here, as I want to talk to both of you.

My mum has been raising some tadpoles at her place. We were raising them to test my identification skills, as I am not very good with tadpoles (I got it right though!). They turned out to be Lim. peronii. She is going to take a photo of it, and send it to me tomorrow before releasing. Would you be able to find your best tadpole and egg photos? Hopefully mum's photos come out well (they usually do), otherwise it will take a couple weeks, and I will go down to her place after the exams, when another is morphing (there are still some to go). We have the amplexus photo for these guys, so that is a plus. The cycle should be: egg --> young tadpole --> mature tadpole --> morphling --> adult -->amplexing pair. Thanks --liquidGhoul 12:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

I have a good photo of Lim. peronii spawn (there is heaps in my pond at the moment) as well as some young tadpoles. I can upload these photos today after school. I will also have a look to see what else I have.--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 22:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Here are the photos Image:Lim. peronii spawn.JPG and Image:Limnodynastes peronii (tadpoles) 4.JPG. The only problem I think with the spawn is that not many eggs are visible, I could take another photo if you think it is better.--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 08:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey Evan, when I was out frogging last night I got a photo of a Litoria verreauxii metamorph with the entire tail, I have photos of the spawn from that species but I don't think I have a tadpole shot. Do you want me to upload it or were you going to get a Lim. peronii metamorph so they can all be the same species?--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 05:34, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

bibronii/major

Hey Evan,

If the photo you want to compare with is the one on this website, then I am fairly sure that that frog is not bibronii. When I first saw that photo I though it was P. ravenii, as my neighbour (who is an ecologist) did some survey work up in far northern New South Wales with Arthur White and they discovered some frogs up there that looked lots like P. ravenii, however there distribution currently did not reach into New South Wales, so it is either P. ravenii or P. major. P. bibronii usually (from personal experience) have many small red dots over there back like in this photo, however this is not always the case. P. bibronii is highly variable, however they normally are a lot more grey or brown in comparision to that reddish colour of that frog. As to your request for a close up, I'm afraid I don't have anything much closer than the photo which I uploaded before.--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 00:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Here is a close-up. -- Froggydarb ^croak 01:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Rove

Hey LiquidGhoul, this is just a belated response to the Rove section above and the corresponding comment at User_talk:Michaelbeckham#Rove. I know it's a bit late to reply, but I only noticed the comment on Mike's page a few minutes ago and wanted to clear things up. I did not place that in-text tag. I don't know who did, but it wasn't me. I was only reverting vandalism and I guess someone I was reverting to must have added it.
Anyway, I just wanted to clear that misunderstanding up.
Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:11, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Reptile authorities

Many of these, including Anguidae, came from the Center for North American Herpetology [2]

Xenosauridae I think came from the Zoological Record Index to Organism Names (ION) [3] but now you mention it the date does seem to be wrong. I think it has become mixed up with the date that Furbringer raised it to an infraorder Xenosauri - see [4]. The date given by ITIS any many other sites is 1866, although palaeology sites seem to prefer 1886 (we will ignore the Russian site which gives 1827, 13 years before E.D.Cope was born!) I will amend to 1866 with a note on the discussion page.--Keith Edkins ( Talk ) 18:30, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi from Nick Thorne

Hi Evan, thanks for the hello. I have been working on Wikipedia for a year or so, mainly concentrating on Australian native freshwater fish and things relating to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Australian Navy (a former life). I haven't looked much at frog things here, since I am not very knowledgeable on those matters, although I am certainly interested in them. I see that you have been very active, puts me to shame, but I suppose we all do what we can. See you round. Feel free to delete this message once you have read it.Nick Thorne 04:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Propaganda

Obviously you are creating Frog Nation propaganda and must be stopped. Your nation is teetering on the brink of civil war, but you refuse to see the forest for the trees. Your nation's inhabitants are ugly and their mother's dress them funny. And other silly quips. ;) - UtherSRG (talk) 16:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Decline

Hi, I saw that you're going to be working on Decline in amphibian populations. If you need copies of any research papers email me a list and I will and send you pdfs of the articles (if they're available).--Peta 01:20, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

• For some reason I imagined you slighly younger :) --Peta 01:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

T. acutirostris

This. I thought the last record was in 1994 aswell. It would be in one of the folloing papers: Ingram & McDonald 1993, Marshall 1988, Hero 1994 or Environment Australia 1999.

DYK

On 5 October, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Wrinkled Toadlet, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Peta 00:00, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Crinia parinsignifera

Both. It says on the frogsaustralia.net website that call and belly markings can distinguish it from all other Crinia and in "A Field Guide to Frogs of Australia" that its most readily distinguished by call from signifera. In the sloanei "similar Species" it says that it is distinguished from parinsignifera by call.

Congratulations

Good work - great article and beautiful pics! Glad to see the article on the Wrinkled Toadlet featured on the front page of the Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. I hope I can get some more photos for you if we are blessed with a decent Wet Season this year. The very noticable decline in frog (and bird) numbers and species in the Cooktown region recently is quite frightening John Hill 04:05, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your invite to join WP:Amphibians, but I'm not sure if I'm enough of a froggy person - a couple of lectures, pracs and a dissection (Cane Toad, ofc! ;) ) does not an amphibian buff make.  :) - Malkinann 12:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Humourous

Thanks for your support there. --Guinnog 09:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

Thanks for telling me about WikiProject Australia, thanks, I've now alredy joined

Kind regards John Harrison Highns 02:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Obsoleted categorisation

I would say this is very unlikely. There's 1 (one) paid developer working on MediaWiki and miracles cannot be expected. Pavel Vozenilek 20:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Chamelaucium uncinatum close.jpg

Hello

Our pic on Commons is without mention of author and license. Could you arrange that? If not, this file run the risk of delation

Friendly. (Oxam Hartog from Commons). 23:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Your Banksia image

Hi, just a courtesy call to let you know that I moved your Banksia image to Commons, and took the opportunity to give it a more descriptive name than "Banksia sp.jpg". It is now at Image:Banksia integrifolia subsp. monticola inflorescence.jpg. Hesperian 04:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

New Mixophyes

The paper's abstract is here. Since I don't have access to the journal except the abstract which doesn't tell the new names, I found the names here and here. At zoobank.org you can get alerts when they update their species lists. Isfisk 13:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Evan, if my memory serves me correctly, they figured out there were another 2 species or so species of Mixo's up in in something like 1994, but didn't describe them until now. -- Froggydarb ^croak 05:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Nope, it was Mixophyes :) -- Froggydarb ^croak 07:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Cathedral Photo

Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude, and you would know far more about wikipedia policy than I. I just thought that the comment about the church during the depression was irrelevant to your judgment of the photo; if its function wasn't related to that then I wonder whether it's worth saying something potentially offensive. I'm against T2 etc., I guess it was more the potential sensitivities of e.g. the photographer and a matter of manners. As for the decor, I thought the "pleasing to the eye" criterion went something like "Taken or created in a manner which best illustrates the subject of the image. The picture should make a reader want to know more." To be honest, I find the iconography you mentioned (& carpet) tacky but I reckon that's part of the subject, and not the responsibility of the photographer. Again, my apologies if I sounded rude. • Leon 11:02, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey don't worry, you didn't offend me. I hope your exams went well; I've still got one to go. I especially wish you well if you're doing HSC or somesuch. T2 is (or was) some wikipedia guideline/clause which was going to mean NPOV was enforced on userpages I believe. Anyway all the best • Leon 00:05, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

bell frogging

Hi Evan,

How was the bell frogging? Where about did you go and what did you see?Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 12:39, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah it's been bloody freezing down here lately. I've never been into the brickpit before as SOPA has something against letting us go in there on FATS feild trips. On some warm nights I've been out to Homebush, there have just been bell frogs all over the place, and once after a FATS meeting (FATS meetings are at Homebush) it was raining and we picked up a bell frog just jumping across the road.--Tnarg¹²³⁴⁵ 19:57, 17 November 2006 (UTC)