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Thanks!

Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 15:11, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you have an interest in coinage rather than grammar, you may like to check out

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My username relates to my interests:

"Big Blue" - Aircraft, the RAF

Crayfish - small freshwater lobsters, of which the Blue ones are most prized

Kray Twins - British gangsters. And I was born a twin, in the UK

There is also a pun in there relating to computing -IBM (known as Big Blue) and Cray

But if I have to change it, so be it

Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 12:52, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've noticed that you have been changing the genus of birds in Wikipedia articles such as the blue crane, the demoiselle crane and the bluethroat.

English Wikipedia uses the taxonomy and the common names of the IOC World Bird List as explained here.

There are other world checklists including BLI/IUCN, Clements, and Howard & Moore 4. A project has been established to create a single taxonomy for world birds by the "Working Group Avian Checklists" – you can read about it here. It uses the IOC list as a starting point. - Aa77zz (talk) 09:16, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I did not realise. I did check the Talk pages, but did not see anything regarding

wp:BeBold Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 11:21, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Wikipedia has used the taxonomy of the IOC for a long time. In 2017 this was confirmed by a vote of the bird editors who were active at that time - see the archive here. By following a single authority we can keep article consistent - species, genera, families etc. The BirdLife International (BLI) taxonomy used by the IUCN (see here) lags the IOC and Clements - probably because BLI lack the resources to keep up to date with all the changes. For example the classification of the hummingbirds was reorganised based on a big study published 2014 (see the tribe Trochilini - 11 genera resurrected etc) - but BLI haven't yet implemented these changes. - Aa77zz (talk) 12:13, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy. If you are changing a redirect into a full article, you don’t need to hit revert. You can just edit. Reverting implies something is wrong and you want to return to an older version of the article. awkwafaba (📥) 16:38, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your move of

Blank-and-redirect explicitly disallows copy/paste pagemoves. Please keep this in mind going forward. Primefac (talk) 10:35, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure? The advice page you sent me does not say that!

I had no choice to do what I did as I could not move the page as the alternative name already existed in the articlespace

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Hi. Saw your edit here. I reverted and redid it as I think it's better to use an {{Automatic taxobox}} with manual parameters. Please take a look just to make sure you're happy. I also put the taxonbar back. Thanks. YorkshireExpat (talk) 21:03, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, OK. Thanks.

That looks a lot better!

Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 13:59, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noted your edits to Triplophysa and thank you for editing articles on fishes. Please note that in a list of taxa you should only name each taxonomic authority once, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking. Quetzal1964 (talk) 17:12, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I knew that.

What you don't seem to know is that I could not Move the page as the target already existed (as a Redirect page)

Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 17:37, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:RM/TR, there are page movers such as myself that can fulfill those requests without messing up the version history. Thanks! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 18:20, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Taxonbars should not be placed above an External links section, as you had done at mayhaw, nor above a navbox as you had at Pildra. Taxonbars go at the end of the page. The only things that should come after them are {{Authority control}} (if present), categories and stub-sorting templates (if present). Plantdrew (talk) 17:28, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	You spoke my mind. I was thinking of requesting that you create an article on Petitella, but you have already done it. Thanks for your work on the Petitella article. Maliner (talk) 15:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many, many Thanks for the Barnstar!! You made my Christmas

I think I have finished editing for now. It's sure a good start

Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 17:05, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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TheBritinator (talk) 19:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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@Dcotos:Thank you very much!! It's always nice to get praised for helping to fix Wikipedia! Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 19:18, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:34, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that user sandbox pages, such as your

Thanks. And Thanks for deleting stuff from MY Sandbox. I'm sorry you had to do it three times, yet only warned me now. This crackdown probably explains why I have seen articles produced from Drafts with lots of <-- remarks all over them.

As you seem to be a Very Important Wikipedian, perhaps you can convince the higher-ups to simply filter Users Sandboxes out of Categories instead? So that we juniors can actually experiment with a FULL page preview in our private, testing areas ?? I'm sure that is not beyond the realms of standard coding? Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 14:09, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]