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A welcome

For your information, the discussion regarding your article has been closed as a 'keep' - thank you for weighing in and explaining the changes you had made. I'm sure Wikipedia will benefit from your knowledge.

As it appears nobody has left this for you yet:

Hello Profberger! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Tony Fox (arf!) review? 21:04, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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I've cleared up the AFD tag for you - the fellow who closed the discussion forgot to remove it. Cheers! Tony Fox (arf!) review? 04:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Clarke

Thanks for the correction. I was working quickly with the immediately available material, so I may well have made errors. As there seems to be some dispute over the importance of his work, it would probably be best to expand the discussion in the article with the pertinent refs, saying who did what. Thanks, DGG 05:12, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar!

The Original Barnstar
Given in recognition for the work done by you on Makuleke article. keep up the editing :) JWJW Talk Long Live Esperanza! :) 09:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Nautilus

I must say I was very happy to see your Nautilus images when I logged on last night! N. belauensis is quite a rarity due to its restricted range and there are few images of it online. I would certainly be interested in seeing any other Nautilus images. If you plan to upload images under a free license then please consider using Wikimedia Commons. Images uploaded to Commons can be used by all language Wikipedias as well as other Wikimedia projects. Regards, Mgiganteus1 05:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Images released under a free license can be used by anyone. However, technical limitations mean that images uploaded to the English Wikipedia can only be used on the English Wikipedia. Mgiganteus1 05:37, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Makuleke

Hi Profberger. You are off to such a great start on the article Makuleke that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. The Main Page gets about 4,000,000 hits per day and appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Also, don't forget to keep checking back at Did you know suggestions for comments regarding your nomination. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 01:33, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On August 2, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Makuleke, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Excellent. Well done, very comprehensive and thankyou Professor Berger for sharing your research and expertise with us. Have a good day and happy editing, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

About being your own source.

This policy is probably what you want. Generally, citing yourself is OK as long as you aren't trying to use it to win a content dispute (for example, if I say the earth revolves around the moon, and you say the moon revolves around the earth, even if you're an astronomer, using your own experience would be highly inappropriate, and such things have caused Wikipedia trouble in the past), you aren't trying to boost your own appeal (get more people to buy your books, follow your opinion, or in other ways advertise), and you aren't soapboxing (for example, a Geologist using his obvious experience to support evolution in favor of creationism) From what I've seen, your sources are very non-controversial, but informative, and will almost certainly be appreciated here on Wikipedia, as long as you stick to the above rules.

That said, welcome to Wikipedia! We hope you enjoy it here, and feel free to ask us, the WP:N? or WP:HD boards. As a suggestion, you might also be interested in one of our sister projects, Wikibooks. Their goal is to create entirely readable and educational books, and that seems like something you're experienced with ^^

Ok, I actually read through Makuleke, and I have a couple suggestions. While the article is written very well, and is interesting, some parts of it show the 'bookiness' of it, instead of the encyclopedia we strive to me. For example, we try to avoid using words like "One" and "you". I'll list some examples below.
What it says What would be Better
(The other interesting facts) Most of these would probably be better off in the article on Limpopo or the Limpopo River
...Ancient, and Dying...Young, and Powerful... These are probably not needed at all. They do not sound entirely appropriate for an encyclopedia.
The landscape itself is ancient. The rocks in the area reach back over 250 million years recording at their base the greatest extinction event the planet has ever seen, an event heralding the end of the Palaeozoic and the beginning of the Mesozoic – the age of the dinosaurs. This extinction is known as the Permian extinction and well over 80% of all species on the planet vanished – a tragedy for some but an opportunity for others. Some rocks in the area reach back over 250 million years, and have records of the Permian extinction.
Now, to be quite honest, I prefer your style, but it's not really how Wikipedia is written, as that style of writing tends to lend itself to supporting points of view. Some things are just longer than they need to be, like the information about the Paleozoic and Mesozoic time periods, while useful in a book, are not so useful on Wikipedia when you can just say "The rocks record the Permian extinction", and they can click on the link to find out more. I can make these sorts of changes to the article for you if you want, and then you can just proofread them to make sure they're factually accurate, or you can try to make them yourself, and then I can cleanup anything you miss.
P.S. - Remember, Perfection comes not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing more to take away --Longing.... 20:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I'll have to put this off till tomorrow though, my typing accuracy falls off like cars on a collapsing bridge (what, too soon?) when I'm sleepy. This might seem like a bit of a random request, but if you happen to know anything about Kowlian, Afghanistan, or a source that has information on it, could you put it in that article, or at least put it on the talk page there? I'd like to have more than "It's a place." I realize you're a completely different part of the world than it is, but I figure hey, you might have a reference or something that I didn't try out that could be useful. --L--- 05:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I note that much of this article appears to be copied from ref 2. I'm working under the assumption that you are actually the author of that webpage; however, I believe a formal statement of copyright release will still be required from you. I've therefore listed the page at Wikipedia:Copyright problems, so that they can inform you how to go about formally releasing the copyright. Espresso Addict 00:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, keep in mind that any contribution you make to Wikipedia must be made under WP:GFDL, or in the public domain. You cannot use copyrighted text verbatim. If you wish to release the content into the public domain or GFDL, you must make a comment *on that (external) page* that specifically states that you do. --Longing.... 00:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm not an expert in free licensing, but I believe that you need only include a link to the license terms under which you are releasing the material. Regards, Espresso Addict 12:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for that source about fighting in Kowlian, even "it has been the source of fighting" is better than just "It's a place". --L-- 14:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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Re:Thanks

sorry for not replying quicker, (i was in a different part of the country far away from my PC-bristol in fact) yes I am interested in the contributions you have made, and i think i will keep track of the articles that you submit. anyway, happy editing.--JWJW Talk Long Live Esperanza! :)/Stronger Faster Better. 23:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nautilus_profile.jpg

Lee, I'm publishing a sequel to Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Seas and I'd like to use your wonderful photo on the book cover, if that use is covered by the Attribution 2 licence you gave it. Could you confirm that? I'd also like to send you a copy of the book when it is published. Please e-mail me from my Talk page and give me your address. -- Evertype·✆ 23:12, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Got your mail and just responded to it. Thanks! -- Evertype·✆ 00:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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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:Hemachatus-1.jpg

And I attributed the picture like this: Lee R. Berger with this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Profberger 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 Or through here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672

Kind regards, Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 08:22, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

P.S. Thanks for taking the picture and making it available.

I use one of your photos

Hi Profberger!

I have use a photo of Leptailurus serval from wikimedia in my free software educational proyect "Animalandia" (http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia)

You can see directly in the follow link and click over "Siguiente" ("Next"):

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=34312


If you wish, you can send me some letters or/and a photo for your "contributor card" in Animalandia:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Profberger

This is my "contributor card", for example:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Fernando%20Lis%F3n%20Mart%EDn


In the future, I use more of your photos, I sure!

Thank you for the licence and, of course, for your splendid photos!! Regards! Fernando Lisón

--Fernando.lison (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:38, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Rising Star Cave

Dear Lee, Thank you for your notes on the cave. The first thing I should bring to your attention is that I am an editor of the article, but not the only editor. Wikipedia frowns on ownership of articles.

  • The inclusion of Pedro Boshoff was done by an editor called Paleo Bonegirl.
  • "Lee Berger noted on Facebook that he assembled a skeleton from UW-102 materials.[6]" I perhaps think your using a facebook posting to leap to assembling what is implied as a whole skeleton is perhaps a bit much don't you think? I do indeed think it's a bit much, but if you examine the history of the page you will find that it was editor 68.97.5.247 who added the piece - perhaps it might be a good idea to address him/her with your concern. Did you, in fact, post such a statement on Facebook?
  • "The large number of individuals found in a tiny underground chamber, though, invites speculation on the cause. The difficulty of access as well as apparent early age of the site would seem to rule out formal burial; the only possibilities remaining are transport by water from another location, or an attempted escape from a catastrophic surface event. Interestingly, the Tswaing crater, some 200,000 years old, lies only 70km distant." The process by which the remains ended up in the chamber is indeed speculative. The sentence on the Tswaing crater has, as is noted, been added for interest - it is up to the reader to make a connection if he so desires.
  • The lack of information forthcoming, though, is not speculative, but very real, and if you would like to add any data to the article, it would be most appreciated. Paul venter (talk) 13:26, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

In response to the new note you posted on my page, I should point out that after your first note I amended the issues which you raised and which I did not consider problematic. Paul venter (talk) 17:30, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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Requested article

I see wikipedia has nothing like Timeline of discoveries in the Cradle of Humankind, and few persons may have the insight to start it. JMK (talk) 18:22, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Request for permission to use image

Dear Professor Berger, I am a publisher from Namibia. I would like to use your image of a rufous-tailed weaver in our publication of a Natural Science and Health Education Grade 5 Learner's Book. I kindly ask for permission to use your image in this publication. Please contact me via email: malimap@nph.com.na to discuss this further. Thank you. I look forward to hearing from you. Warm regards, Patrycja. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.216.39.190 (talk) 09:15, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Your voice and ORCID

Hi,

We'd love to add a recording of your voice to the article about you. Also, you can add your ORCID iD to your user page. Wikipedia:ABOUTYOU explains. Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:16, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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