BlackGem

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Adder

Hi BlackGem! Welcome to Wikipedia! Are you wanting to move Adder to the title Vipera berus? The two contain the same content. Please let me know and I'll move it. Regards, Osiris (talk) 02:56, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Did you also want to move Viperidae to Vipers? You can do this by using the "move" button at the top of the page -- see Help:Moving a page. Though you won't be able to do it not that both pages already exist, but in the future, if the new title doesn't exist, you can just use the move button. :) Osiris (talk) 03:19, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

subspecies

In general, it is not helpful to list sub-species on this wiki. You should leave them out unless there are grounds for thinking they are of unusual biological importance. In which case, you could say what that amounted to. Even listing species in a genus can be too much. For example, there are 800 species of Drosophila in the Hawaiian islands... Regards, Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:47, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Please learn and follow our rules

1. Material brought over from English wiki must be acknowledged.
2. Claims of fact need a basis. Where are your references? Opinions of reliable sources also need references.
3. Please fill in the editing summary box with a brief account of what you have done. This is a community, and others have a right to know what you have been doing to a page.

Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:28, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi BlackGem! Hope everything is going well. I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind leaving me a message on my talk page, or replying to some of the messages left by others here on yours? Since Wikipedia is a team project, it's nice to be able to coordinate with others when working on the same articles.

Macdonald-ross has a few concerns that he's expressed above. To explain the first one: if you use content from the English Wikipedia, you need to add some form of credit -- you can read the step-by-step guideline, which tells you how to do this using either the edit summary or on the article's talk page. The other concern is the lack of references for your work. Where are you getting your information from?

Please leave a reply either here or on my talk page. Osiris (talk) 23:43, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Replied on my talk page! :) Osiris (talk) 08:57, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Replied again ;) Osiris (talk) 07:23, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Correct style for living things

The following is from WP:Manual of Style. It needs to be followed on all your pages about animals.

Animals, plants, and other organisms

1. Genus and species: Capitalize the name of a genus, but not the name of a species (and italicize both names): for example, the tulip tree is Liriodendron tulipifera.
2. Higher categories: (for instance phyla, classes, orders, families) are never italicized. If the Latin form is used it should be capitalized; if used as a common word, then not. So 'Dinosauria' (formal name for them), but 'dinosaurs' (common name).

So far, you have not done this, but I hope you will. It is important to do these things so the pages look right. Thank you, Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:56, 15 August 2012 (UTC)