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Measured seeds

Dear sir, I created the gallery measured seeds and last year there was a push to have images in both a Gallery and identical Category. I feel this ruins the classification system I enabled in the Gallery. You have done a great job with your images and as they each have their own Category, I removed Category:Measured seeds and left the images in the species category and the gallery measured seeds, Hoping you agree and understand the edits I have done, thanks WayneRay (talk) 03:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Category:Britton & Brown, Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada

is the proper name as well as the Gallery by the same name, I moved your category from Botanical Illustrations (which I mostly developed) to the Category above WayneRay (talk) 03:31, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

File:Tanycolagreus_topwilsoni_and_Othnielia_rex_models.JPG

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FunkMonk (talk) 10:31, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Great SVG knot diagrams!

Dear Ninjatacoshell, thanks for your vectorization of knot diagrams, they look fantastic! -- Christian.Mercat (talk) 14:13, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Please don't over-categorize

Hi Ninjatacoshell, please don't over-categorize your images. For instance in File:NodARc-V (Me,C18-1).svg

• Category:Nod Factors of Azorhizobium caulinodans is okay,
• Category:Azorhizobium caulinodans is over-categorized as this is already parent category of Category:Nod Factors of Azorhizobium caulinodans.

For further information please read Commons:Categories and particularly paragraph Over-categorization. Thanks in advance for correcting the categories of your uploads! -- Ies (talk) 15:23, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Nice graphs!

Hi Ninjatacoshell, just wanted to say that I like your graphs on U.S. government debt very much! MartinD (talk) 20:07, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

The factual accuracy of the chemical structure File:Medicarpin.svg is disputed

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Fixed. Thanks!

Category:Reptilia_distribution_maps

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File:Botrytis_plate.png

Hi

can you contact me via my talk e-mail Ringpicker (talk) 07:52, 17 March 2012 (UTC) as I want to ask about using this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Botrytis_plate.png

rgds Tony young

Source information for maps

Hi there. I recently noticed that several of the range/distribution maps of various species (e.g. ticks) are not provided with valid sources of where the information for the map is derived from. This seems to be a rampant issue across many Wikipedia images. Too many maps of species distributions seem to be original research and have no sources presented. Could you help with resolving this issue since you have uploaded or edited several of these maps? I am particularly interested in finding the source material for the range of tick species since these articles are highly important for people researching into tick-borne infectious diseases at this time of year. Thanks for any help with this. 173.238.69.86 10:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Hey there, 173.238.69.86. Unfortunately I made those tick maps several years ago and I no longer remember where I got the information for the ranges. It is a lamentable oversight that I did not include my source information. I am now much more careful about that. I don't think this is where I got my information but you can take a look at the range map over at bugguide.net (here, follow the hyperlink) for the genus Dermacentor which has approximately the same information as some of my maps. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 01:43, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Photographer's Barnstar

Hello, I love your image of the white oak leaf (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autumn_White_Oak_Leaf.jpg) and was hoping to use it in a book of my poems that is coming out next summer. I realize it's in the Creative Commons; however, it has the "Share Alike" license, I need to obtain written permission since the publisher would likely not issue the entire book with that license. Please let me know -- & thanks for the great pics! -Nate Nshoks (talk) 20:49, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

xls/xlsx request

Hi. Do you still have the xls/xlsx file you used to create this chart? I want to update it to include 2010-2012 values. I tried to make it with MS Office but fail to divide it by colours like you did, and I didn't want to do it with paint =P. If you can, please upload it mediafire.com or somewhere and reply here. Thanks--Neo139 (talk) 00:14, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Neo139, I've regenerated his charts. I think the trick is that you need to make a "Democrat" column and a "Republican" column and use =SUMIF() to populate the columns, then each year that the president switches parties, you need an extra row that is slightly higher (eg: a row for year 2000 and a year for 2000.01) just to make the colored regions abut each other. Interestingly, even though your comment is over a year old, they still only have data through 2012 on whitehouse.gov. Everything beyond that is listed as "estimated".

-SColombo (talk) 21:04, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Polygaleae/Polygalaceae

I noticed that you tagged File:Polygaleae distribution.svg as a duplicate of File:Polygalaceae distribution.svg. You are correct that they are the same file, so one should be deleted. However, File:Polygaleae distribution.svg is the file that should be retained because the source map only described Polygaleae. Therefore I moved the duplicate tag to File:Polygalaceae distribution.svg, since that is the file that should be deleted. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 22:00, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

OK. I understand. Thank you. --►Cekli829 04:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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Update to Debt charts

Hi Ninjatacoshell! Thanks for making the various Debt charts. They're really informative. Since we have more data now (since we're a few years down the line), I'd be interested in helping to update the charts. I found the updated data for Debt as % of GDP by President and put it on the talk page. However, I'd be happy to help out with actual regeneration of graphs if you could give me some pointers. How did you get the areas under the lines to be different colors? I use Libre Office instead of Excel, but I imagine the nomenclature is the same. If there is a way to convince the charts to render like that, please let me know (or let me know if you just used an image program to do the coloring). Thanks again,
-SColombo (talk) 18:29, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

I figured out a way to generate the same style of chart in Google Spreadsheet (made a Democrat column and a Republican column, then populated them using =SUMIF() and made some overlap rows to make the colors abut each other. Will attempt to upload the new data.

-SColombo (talk) 20:04, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

@SColombo: That looks great, SColombo! While you're at it, do you mind updating Total debt by President, Debt as % of GDP by House Majority Party, Total debt by House Majority Party, Debt as % of GDP by Senate Majority Party, and Total debt by Senate Majority Party? Obviously maintaining these hasn't been a priority for me, so if you could do it that would be great. If you do make the changes, then I can migrate the namespaces so that they all say "(1940 to present)" instead of "(1940 to 2009)". Ninjatacoshell (talk) 04:47, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks @Ninjatacoshell! I'm happy that you like them :) I started in on the Total debt by President chart tonight... turns out the new budget values have been released in the last week, so now the numbers for 2013 are finalized instead of estimated! I just finished making the Presidents chart on Google Spreadsheet and will upload the pic in a sec, but I'm not sure I'll have time to go through all of these. Maybe over the next couple of weeks I'll keep picking them off (and probably update the first chart to be through 2013 instead of 2012.

-SColombo (talk) 23:27, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

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Biodiversity Hotspots.svg with borders?

Hi Ninjatacoshell, I´m Ökologix from the german Wikipedia (an my english is very bad ;-( I found your map „Biodiversity Hotspots.svg". Because I can´t draw in svg-files, I would like to ask you: Can you make a version of this very good map with white state-borders? I think it would be a good additional information! Thanks and greetings from Wuppertal --Ökologix (talk) 04:43, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

@Ökologix: Hi Ökologix, I looked at the available blank .svg maps of the world with national borders and none of them have the same map projection as Biodiversity Hotspots.svg, so it would be a lot of work to add national borders to the existing file. To be honest, it's not a project that interests me. But if it matters to you, I encourage you to take the time to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape and do it yourself! Alternatively, you can ask someone at the Wikipedia map project to do it for you. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 15:42, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

What a pity ... but thank you very much for the fast and friendly answer! --Ökologix (talk) 17:27, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Manacus vitellinus map

Dear friend, All references I had seen do not include Ecuador in the distribution of this species. Please look at these:

http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Manacus-vitellinus

http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/map/?cn=Golden-collared%20Manakin&sn=Manacus%20vitellinus&sc=gocman1&species=500556

http://maps.iucnredlist.org/map.html?id=22701109

Could you rework please? Congrats on this work, I have used all in my editions at Spanish Wikipedia. --Hector Bottai (talk) 22:15, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

@Hector Bottai: Hi, Hector. I've updated the map according to the links you provided. How does it look, now? Ninjatacoshell (talk) 19:32, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Great, many thanks! --Hector Bottai (talk) 14:08, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Manacus manacus map

Dear, This map is lacking a population west of Andes in coastal Ecuador, extreme northwest Peru and southwest Colombia. See: http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Manacus-manacus http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/map/?cn=White-bearded%20Manakin&sn=Manacus%20manacus&species=500716

Could you please rework it? Many thanks --Hector Bottai (talk) 16:02, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

@Hector Bottai: Hi, Hector. I've updated the map according to the links you provided. How does it look, now? Ninjatacoshell (talk) 19:32, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Looks perfect now. Many thanks!--Hector Bottai (talk) 14:05, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Data for margin of victory map

Where'd you get the data for https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_and_Blue_States_Map_(Average_Margins_of_Presidential_Victory).svg

@71.167.60.150: Alas, I don't recall. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 22:40, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

This is the only other source I can find: http://www.270towin.com/historical-presidential-elections/timeline/margin-of-victory/ and it's just colors, not numbers.

Attribution to File:Medicago italica root nodules 2.JPG

Dear Ninjatacoshell, I have found your image through Wiki Commons and wanted to verify that it is yours and is it under CC BY-SA 3.0 copyright? What is the credit line you wish to receive with this image, if it is your image. User:NatScience1 (talk) 03:15, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

@NatScience1: Yes, I took that photograph and made it available under CC BY-SA 3.0. You can simply cite me as Ninjatacoshell. If you'd rather not use an online handle, let me know. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 19:54, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

@Ninjatacoshell So glad to hear you are indeed the photographer. I would like to talk to you about an alternate citation, you may email me. If you prefer a different form of communication please let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.223.113.116 (talk) 21:31, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

@NatScience1: I emailed you. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 19:13, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

File:Planetary Boundaries 2015.svg

Hello, I want to create a German translation of this file, because of a request in the de.wikipedia Graphic Lab (de:Wikipedia:Grafikwerkstatt#File:Planetary Boundaries 2015.svg). It would be nice if you send me the original graphic with all text-elements per E-mail (habitator.terrae@e.mail.de) or upload the svg and revert, so that I could easily translate. Habitator terrae 🌍 15:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

@Habitator terrae: I'm afraid I did not keep a version of the file with the original text elements. You will have to replace them all manually. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 22:02, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

The factual accuracy of the chemical structure File:Peridinin.svg is disputed

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@DMacks: I've fixed the ambiguity in File:Peridinin.svg. Please let me know if this is satisfactory. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 16:40, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks! DMacks (talk) 16:54, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Biodiversity_Hotspots.svg

Hi Ninjatacoshell,

is it possible for you to add the 35th Region to the card, because I can´t work with SVG-files. Sources: Text, Original-map on commons. Thank you! --de:User:Fährtenleser 13:57, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

@Fährtenleser: Done! Ninjatacoshell (talk) 18:10, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

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Wetlands

File:US Wetlands.svg

Hi Ninjataco, I am interested in your historical wetlands map of the United States. I would love to be able to adapt it for a paper I'm working on. Do you have access to the underlying GIS files used to create the figure? If so, could you provide them to me? I will of course credit your contribution. Many thanks!

@Mallornthetree: I drew that map based on a photograph I took at a museum. So if there is GIS data, I don't have it. Sorry! Ninjatacoshell (talk) 20:21, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Robinsonian projection problem with your map

Hello, I've been trying to use your map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_Map_World_Secondary_Political_Divisions.svg#filehistory But looks like there are problems, as it doesn't seem to be in Robinsonian projection as opposed to what's stated. I.e. it cannot be fitted onto this map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Robinson_projection_SW.jpg/1920px-Robinson_projection_SW.jpg

Also, I've been trying to convert it to equirectangular projection with an assumption that it's robinsonian, and after projection, it doesn't fit equirectangular world maps as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Byamarro (talk • contribs) 11:37, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

@Byamarro: That map is based on File:BlankMap-World.svg, which claims to be a Robinson projection. So if there is a problem, it lies there. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 19:15, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Map update request

Hi Ninjatacoshell - could you update your map File:Oxyura distribution.svg to incorporate the split of Oxyura ferruginea from Oxyura jamaicensis, please. See File:Oxyura jamaicensis & Oxyura ferruginea distribution.svg for comparison. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 18:28, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

@MPF: Hi MPF, I'd be glad to do that. Please provide the primary research article that formalized the nomenclatural changes so that I can include it in the updated description. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 18:48, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks! From the IOC list (the taxonomy authority followed by Commons and Wikispecies for birds; scroll to near end of the list); also see e.g. Ridgely & Greenfield (2001), The Birds of Ecuador, Volume I. Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy and Jaramillo (2003), Birds of Chile. - MPF (talk) 20:06, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

@MPF: I've made the requested change. I also split "Oxyura jamaicensis & Oxyura ferruginea distribution.svg" into two separate files: File:Oxyura jamaicensis distribution.svg and File:Oxyura ferruginea distribution.svg. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 17:33, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Excellent, many thanks! - MPF (talk) 17:38, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Ninjatacoshell - another map update request, please; for File:Elaeagnaceae distribution.svg and File:Hippophae distribution.svg, could you extend the green area north up the east coast of Britain up to eastern Scotland, please, as Hippophae rhamnoides is native there. Reference: map at Den Virtuella Floran's Hippophae rhamnoides page (and also e.g. File:Sea-buckthorn, Kinshaldy, Fife - geograph.org.uk - 621762.jpg, geolocated photo at a native locality). Thanks! - MPF (talk) 09:12, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Addenum - the 'ring' of distribution in Asia also needs to be stretched much further east, including Nepal, southern Tibet, and western and northern China to not too far from the Yellow Sea (again, as in Den Virtuella Floran's map) - MPF (talk) 17:58, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

And addenum II (apologies for the multiple messages!), for the family map, the range should extend much more widely in eastern Asia, with Elaeagnus umbellata native in Japan, Taiwan, and much of mainland China: USDA (click on the 'Distribution' tab to see details). Thanks! - MPF (talk) 18:07, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

@MPF: Hi MPF, I'm really busy right now, so it might take me a while to get around to this. Don't hesitate to give me a nudge in a few weeks so that I don't forget about it. Also, it's going to be challenging to convert those polar projections to the Robinson projections I used for File:Elaeagnaceae distribution.svg and File:Hippophae distribution.svg. Also, since the USDA data is by region, I'm not sure how to combine that with a distribution map. In other words, you can represent distribution with a shape (like I've done for File:Elaeagnaceae distribution.svg and File:Hippophae distribution.svg). Or you can color regions based on presence or absence (the USDA data), but I don't see a way to do both. If you can find a map of the distribution of Elaeagnus umbellata, then I could incorporate that. Finally, there are other problems with the original source of the map. I live in the western United States and Elaeagnus angustifolia is very common here (see BONAP), but my original source shows very little presence of Elaeagnus in the United States. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 17:58, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Will do. The important thing with transferring between different projections, is to be aware of the climatic and ecological requirements of the plant or animal being mapped ("Ah, this is an alpine species, so put it where the mountain ranges are", etc.) and then to map it to the areas where its requirements will be best met. With Elaeagnus angustifolia in the USA, that is as a non-native invasive species. Distribution maps generally only show native ranges, so Elaeagnus would not be mapped for North America at all, or if they do include non-native areas, do so in a different colour to indicate clearly it is not indigenous there (as in e.g. File:Sus scrofa range map.jpg). Hope this helps! - MPF (talk) 20:43, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Biodiversity hotspots map update

Hi Ninjatacoshell, the North American Coastal Plain was added as the 36th CEPF biodiversity hotspot a while back, and thus needs be added to the hotspot map. This is the map that the edit should be based on. See this to compare its distribution to that of the other hotspots. Thanks! Geekgecko (talk) 02:29, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

@Geekgecko: Is there a scientific article that I can cite in the description? Or is cepf.net the only source for this information? Ninjatacoshell (talk) 04:51, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

This is the original article. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 13:45, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

@Geekgecko: , @Fredlyfish4: Done. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 08:01, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Geekgecko (talk) 19:22, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	is an awesome contribution. Thank you very much. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 19:56, 21 October 2023 (UTC)