User talk:Pmronchi

Hi, Remember the dot! Thank you for merging the history in the article I started. Sorry for the error. Carpe diem! Carpe Wikipedia! Pmronchi (talk) 02:22, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Although I should tell you I'm sorry I did it a bit sloppily. This is the first history merge I've done and it didn't come through quite perfectly. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 02:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The non-alphabeticness (is that a word?) of the genus list is deliberate, it is what is known as taxonomic order. Taxanomic order reflects how closely related the various genera are to each other, for example

No need to apologise, it isn't intuitive. I just don't like reverting without explaining. Sabine's Sunbird talk 22:00, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos on being the first person I've pointed at

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Invitation

I've noticed your edits on pages relating to Gastropods; perhaps you'd be interested in joining WikiProject Gastropods. If you would like more information please visit the project page .

— Ganeshk (talk) 22:38, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Thank you for your contributions. Happy editing! — Ganeshk (talk) 23:09, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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		The Minor Barnstar
		For your helping with articles about gastropods. --Snek01 (talk) 01:19, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello P. M. Ronchi, thank you for contributing gastropod related articles. Your articles about Berghia species are good, useful, welcomed and very appreciated (although I have copyedited and tweaked some of them a bit). For more effective cooperation I would like to share few things with you: Categories of gastropods by country of by geography is not appropriate per Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Categories. Also it is usually not good to duplicate wikilinks in the "See also" section that are mentioned in the article already (and also links that are references allready). ITIS is not very good source for gastropods and usually does not even to be mentioned in the article, but is is good for vernacular names. Feel free to get inspiration of changes I have made or in other articles or in the WikiProject Gastropods talk page for your further creations. Have a nice editing. --Snek01 (talk) 01:19, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and

• If you have permission from the author to release the text under the
  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Berghia coerulescens and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Berghia coerulescens, in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission
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  with a link to where we can find that note.
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  GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Berghia coerulescens. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials
  for instructions.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Berghia coerulescens saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Snek01 (talk) 02:52, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed sentences that you have copied from http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall/bergcoer It is corrected now, but pay attention to informations about copyright above. Thanks. --Snek01 (talk) 02:52, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and

• If you have permission from the author to release the text under the
  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Pindar River and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Pindar River, in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission
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  GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Pindar River. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials
  for instructions.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Pindar River saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Snek01 (talk) 03:02, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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contributor copyright investigation has been opened regarding your contributions. It is at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Pmronchi. MER-C 04:18, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply

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Well, it seems that I am learning the hard way a few things about copyright violations. Thanks to a note by User:Moonriddengirl, it now seems clear to me what my mistake was:

[...](Some contributors are under the mistaken belief that if the source is cited, exact duplication of text is not a copyright infringement. This is not the case. United States copyright law does permit limited use of copyrighted text under fair use, but makes very clear that "acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission.") [...]

I am certainly one of those editors. All of my errors were made under that wrong assumption that I was making contributions under fair use. I feel embarrassed.

In order to help you, I will restrain from contributing text until around mid or late-April (or more, if you tell me so), even for articles not present in the review listing that you are using, because I am not sure if any new contribution from me can alter that listing and complicate your work further. I will neither contribute with the addition of internal links or disambiguation pages for the same reason. If I am allowed to contribute without hindering your work, please let me know.

Thanks for your great work to make WP a great encyclopedia, and again, I apologize for the extra work.

P.M.Ronchi

Some questions

• Can I assist your work in any way? (besides restraining my editions, I mean)
• After the revision case is closed, I would like to rewrite some of the text you find faulty. In order to be sure that I am not infringing the copyright policy, is there a forum where to ask or a a group of editors willing to help with doubts?

Pmronchi (talk) 19:01, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing preventing you from contributing further to Wikipedia, and there are plenty of ways to do so without writing large new articles or significantly expanding existing content. Some examples include

CAT:BACK. User:SuggestBot

aims to find articles in these categories that you may be interested in editing.

Furthermore, you can help fill out the red links at (say) List of non-marine molluscs of Brazil with short stubs. The stubs need not be more than one line long (for instance Dizoniopsis herberti), and you can always come back and expand them later when you are more confident about contributing non-copied content. There are similar lists at Wikipedia:WikiProject Marine life and Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods.

Can you recall any instances where you copied text verbatim from your sources, and what were these sources? (This will expedite the handling of your case.)

There is no formal forum for this, but MRG, VernoWhitney and myself are happy to assist with this matter. . MER-C 03:05, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]