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Trevor37, good luck, and have fun. -- Badgernet ₪ 17:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the welcome, Badgernet, looking forward to working with you!
Trevor37 (talk) 11:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just a quick heads-up for you in case you haven't seen it yet... :) --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 18:37, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Budgies, again
Hello again, Trevor.
I've been putting together a navbox template to place at the bottom of the budgerigar mutations articles you've been working on. I don't know exactly how many mutations you were planning to write about, so this is just a basic 'first draft', knocked up in a few minutes from the list on the site mentioned below. If there's any changes that you'd like me to make to it, or anything that you'd like me to take off there, just let me know.
So, I've made a few alterations to the template (to save me cluttering up your talkpage, see User:Kurt Shaped Box/Sandbox). I've made the changes you suggested and piped the links to avoid repeating 'budgerigar mutation' ad nauseam. Actually, if there's anything on there that you don't like the look of (I'm still not sure whether the various mutations should be presented in alphabetical order or whether the most common mutations should be placed first - or whether there should be a separate section for the rarer mutations), feel free to make changes if I'm not online. I'm sure that I've still missed a few out... --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 01:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've made a few changes. I prefer the one-line-per-mutation layout (makes it easier to check ordering and add new lines). Hope I got the formatting right! I removed the Lacewing - this is a composite (cinnamon and ino) variety, not a mutation. Trevor37 (talk) 12:32, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Am I correct in thinking that there's a recessive grey mutation too? That sounds familiar to me... --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 02:59, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but it's either extinct or very rare now. We should have a page for it though. Trevor37 (talk) 09:59, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Recessive grey budgerigar mutation? Oh yes, while I'm here, I might as well point you to the Whipper (budgerigar) article. It's in pretty poor shape and I've been meaning to work on it for ages. As you seem to be the 'go to man' (heh) when it comes to budgie genetics, do you think that you would be able to write a couple of lines explaining this bird's mutation (feather duster, it looks like) at some point in the indeterminate future? More than once, I've tried to draft an explanatory section but failed miserably to explain it *well*. Just an suggestion for when you get the time. Thanks. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 03:11, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Recessive Grey budgerigar mutation is fine. Is the navbox ready to be used now? Trevor37 (talk) 10:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Feather Duster is a known mutation - not a very desirable one though. It will be one of the last ones I write about (if I last that long). In the meantime I'll add a sentence or two to the Whipper page sometime soon. Trevor37 (talk) 10:13, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The navbox can now be found at Template:Budgerigar mutations and has been added to all currently existing articles. No hurry on the Whipper thing, if you're busy - just a suggestion for sometime... --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 22:32, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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