User talk:Aviceda

Field Guides
Hi Aviceda,

I'm very excited that someone else is coming along to work on the FG's. Any images that are on the Commons are directly usable here. It's as if they already were here in fact. Articles on Wikipedia are also usable here, but it's a little more tricky. There are two approaches. The first is to request an import by leaving a message on Requests for Import, and an administrator will import the text from WP to WB. You could also leave a request on my talk page, but it's better to ask where other admins can see the request. If you wish to import only a couple of sentences, you can cut and paste and then leave a link in the summary field, such as " import text from some bird ". Importing is better, but if you cannot wait, the second method will do the trick too.

If you find range maps (etc) on WP that are not on the Commons, you can transfer them. This is a mosty manual process though, and if you need info on that, just ask.

My work on the FG started out when I was putting Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Birds together. I realized after a while that it would be better to collect the info into a FG, so I started on that. I still need to move several of the pages, as they are still under the old name. We are also exploring options for improving Template:Bird id. So if you have any ideas on that, please do not hesitate to share them on the template's talk page.

Thanks for your interest! --Jomegat (talk) 12:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)