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Diadophus regalis

hi dawson,

do you have any idea what subspecies this may be? thanks :) --Sarefo 21:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Assuming it actually came from northern California as the image comment says, my guess would be a D. p. occidentalis, but it could possibly also be a D. p. pulchellus. The two subspecies share range and intergrade, so it can be hard to tell them apart unless you know exactly where it came from. -Dawson 20:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Dawson! What an interesting bot. I was the person who requested this delete, but I did so because this name is misspelled: catetanus should be catetnaus. It's also not mentioned as a synonym. Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 00:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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Neopetrolisthes sp

Hi Dawson,

Do you have a higher-resolution version of ? I'd love to nominate it for featured picture status. Cheers! SingCal 17:37, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid not... all the photographs I've uploaded to Wikipedia were actually taken with an old model Sony Handycam, so weren't high quality to begin with. Thanks though. -Dawson (talk) 19:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

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Boidae cleanup

Hi Dawson, Good to see you're still around. Thanks very much for your support regarding the Calabar Python article move. After receiving some criticism for the way I moved many of the python articles last year, I wanted to do things by the book this time with the Boidae section. It's less stressful, but it certainly requires more patience.

Wanting to do a thorough job, however, I ran into this page -- Sand boa -- the other day. Apparently, you created it yourself back in February 2006. To avoid repeating information found elsewhere, would you be opposed to the idea of splitting it up and merging its contents with Erycinae, Eryx and Gongylophis? I figure sand boa should then make an effective disambiguation page. Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 11:04, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

You'll get no complaints from me at all about it. -Dawson (talk) 17:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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Anal spurs.jpg

Hello, I've made a video about vestigial organs and it's on Youtube right now, it includes your image (Anal spurs.jpg), and I am going to add an annotation to credit you. What exactly should I say? Anal spurs.jpg © (who?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elecbullet (talk • contribs) 19:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Dawson@Wikipedia would be perfectly fine. Thanks! Dawson (talk) 21:53, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, good. If you're interested here are some links.

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Both will jump directly to the part with YOUR picture. Elecbullet (talk) 00:17, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Dawson! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot notifying you on behalf of the the unreferenced biographies team that 2 of the articles that you created are currently tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 943 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Katie Richmond - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 07:46, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Joy Dawson

The article Joy Dawson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not Notable. See Wikipedia:Notability#Self-promotion_and_indiscriminate_publicity. Also: No reliable sources. Subject or someone with the same family name may have created this biography.

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Science lovers wanted!

Science lovers wanted!

Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 19:55, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Slender Glass Lizard picture

Hi,

The slender glass lizard picture you contributed is actually not an ophisaurus I don't believe. The slender looks a lot like the eastern glass lizard. I think your picture is probably a Russian legless lizard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Millmoss27 (talk • contribs) 14:20, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Photo usage

Hi, I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I wanted to let you know I've used one of your pictures.

I found your picture here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eunectes_murinus2.jpg

And I attributed the picture like this: LA Dawson with this link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dawson and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en

I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case. You can find the game here: http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbum

Regards, Garfunkel Jansen

P.S. Thanks for taking the picture and making it available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garfunkel Jansen (talk • contribs) 22:17, 19 June 2012 (UTC)