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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:48, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it implies shared use. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 17:50, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

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)

Bird taxonomy

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)

Sorry, I did not realise. I did check the Talk pages, but did not see anything regarding wp:consensus. I did notice that Anthropoides had been wp:BLAR with the note Change to a redirect to Grus - wikipedia follows IOC classification but no explanation of why, who decided this, etc. So I thought and wp:BeBold Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 11:21, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

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)

Taxonbar placement

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)

Thank you Plantdrew Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 17:41, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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)

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)

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

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins. Thank you for your work on Psalidodon fasciatus. Dcotos, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Hi, Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins Nice work!. Thank you.

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Dcotos (talk) 18:40, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

@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)

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

Sandbox

Please note that user sandbox pages, such as your User:Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins/sandbox, are not allowed to be filed in mainspace categories as if they were already finished articles. The page must stay out of categories while it's in sandbox, and categories are to be added only if and when the content is actually being moved into a real article. Since I've already had to remove the page from categories three times in the space of just one month, please also note that it is a thing you can be sanctioned for being disruptive if it continues, so please do not readd your sandbox page to categories again. Bearcat (talk) 13:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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)

Your submission at Articles for creation: No. 2 School of Technical Training RAF (July 21)

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Your GA nomination of Nuptial tubercles

The article Nuptial tubercles you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Nuptial tubercles and Talk:Nuptial tubercles/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ForksForks -- ForksForks (talk) 19:05, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nuptial tubercles

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Fish taxonomy

WP:Fishes follows the 5th edition of Fishes of the World for fish taxonomy above the level of genus, and Fishbase for genera and species. I have undid your revision to Template:Taxonomy/Tinca to reflect that. I put forward a proposal to change the taxonomic authority to a more recent paper but I withdrew it because it did not get any support. In addition, if you change a taxonomy template you should show the reference used, otherwise it looks as if you have just pulled the change out of thin air, Quetzal1964 (talk) 12:27, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Quetzal1964. I would support such a change if you propose it again. Although it is the seminal, definitive, and indeed, chosen work, it is hard to use, especially online. Those reference links that I have found are vulnerable to rot (indeed, the ref links on the template you reverted are dead). I can only find a copy of the index pages online, Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. which therefore cannot adequately cite Wikipedia articles. There are several good refs on both Tincinae and Tench pages regarding Tincidae. I trust you will leave these alone, as we are allowed to highlight taxonomic discrepancies within articles. They are not heresy!

As we are here to build an online encyclopaedia for the modern age, it seems a strange step to insist editors have to buy an eight year old book full of outdated ideas!!. I have also recently become aware, that even if I had added a cast-iron ref, it would have still been reverted Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 13:08, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

I have edited the article on tench and added information about the Fishes of the World classification and left in the alternative classifications. I have a pdf of Fishes of the World which was available online at one time. Quetzal1964 (talk) 13:30, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

The link you sent is not a full pdf. Like all others I have found, it is just the index, and references/biblography pages without paying a charge. The only extra bit in this resource is a (bad) full colour scan of the front cover. But, Thanks again. Big Blue Cray(fish) Twins (talk) 18:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

https://www.academia.edu/24402181/Fishes_of_the_World_5th_Edition

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A barnstar for you!

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