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I have added a request on the Pump that you be able to help with. In addition, it is perfectly acceptable to use the term Paleospecies or genus. Andyboorman (talk) 09:16, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Dear colleague, I just follow the terms in the ICN: fossil-species and fossil-genera, no pal(a)eospecies or pal(a)eogenera. Fossil-taxa too. It seems to me more desirable and logical to follow the ICN in the nomenclatural terminology. IFPNI Staff (talk) 09:22, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks fr your reply. We do not have a rule here one way or another, but point taken about ICN. Maybe we can discuss on the Pump sometime and ask a bot to change if required. Andyboorman (talk) 09:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Good idea! I agree! IFPNI Staff (talk) 09:42, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, I want to create a page for a Russian author, can you please give a translation in english of the full name of this author: ru:Саидова, Хадижат Магомедовна? Christian Ferrer (talk) 19:20, 4 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

No problem: Khadizhat Magomedovna Saidova (1925—2022). Anna Pavlova IFPNI Staff (talk) 19:36, 4 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Great, thanks you Anna, I will create the page soon. Christian Ferrer (talk) 19:52, 4 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done: Khadizhat Magomedovna Saidova Christian Ferrer (talk) 04:57, 5 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I just edited Saidova's template of her 1981 monograph with full bibliographic data and free access link to the Google Books. Thank you for adding important zoo former Soviet monographs to WS! Anna Pavlova IFPNI Staff (talk) 21:22, 5 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please have a look at sect. Sogdosphace. WS places this section in Salvia subgen. Sclarea, but Turdiboev & Turdiboev (2021) seem to place it in Salvia subgen. Salvia. Unfortunately, the prototogue has become a broken link and also the originator of the page is no longer active. There are a number of confusions across the infrageneric circumscriptions of this genus and I am trying to untangle them as far as I can. Thanks for your help. Andyboorman (talk) 18:32, 11 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I corrected a link to the journal paper with a free access (Kamelin & Makhmedov, 1980). Turdiboev & Turdiboev (2021) is workable link, OK? IFPNI Staff (talk) 22:48, 12 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

​In the Q104580160 Wikidata item one of the authors are called "Turginov Orzimat Turdimatovich", with a link to this external reference. According to that reference "Turginov Orzimat" is the given ("first") name, and "Turdimatovich" is the family name. Surely that's wrong?!

If I understand it correctly, for the author Orzimat Turdimatovich Turginov, "Orzimat" is the given name, "Turdimatovich" is a patronym, and "Turginov" is the family name. Or am I wrong? Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 23:23, 12 August 2024 (UTC).Reply

Yes, I corrected WikiData and WS files about this Uzbek botanist; one page was superfluous and recommended to be deleted from WS. IFPNI Staff (talk) 23:27, 12 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! Do you know if it has been deleted yet? If not, I can instead merge it into Orzimat Turginov (Q26713418) (with the correct data, of course) in order to maintain all of the page history and inter-wiki links. Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 23:34, 12 August 2024 (UTC).Reply

Yes, your help is needed for WS - I placed old page in a basket for deletion. And for WD too. IFPNI Staff (talk) 23:43, 12 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

I am finding it very difficult to find a workable DJVU converter. Can anybody help? Andyboorman (talk) 14:40, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

There are lots of DjVu converters out there but – as I guess you've found out – almost all of them render bad results and/or are rather pricey. Also, most of them are web-based online services, and personally I don't feel comfortable uploading licensed, copyrighted or perhaps yet unpublished material to web servers I have no control over.

Instead, for many years my go-to DjVu converter (as well as DjVu viewer) has been DjVuLibre. It's not the most beautiful piece of software out there, but it's free to use and installs locally on almost any computer: Macintosh, Windows as well as Linux machines. Also, it's maintained and updated by the same gang of programmers who originally developed the actual DjVu file format, almost 30 years ago.

However, there are some caveats. Viewing DjVu files is very straight forward, but when exporting them to for example PDF one must often fiddle with the settings quite a bit in order to get a good result. Also, the end result is often a huge file. A small 5 or 10 megabyte DjVu file can easily result in an 80 to 100 megabyte PDF file, at least if it contains a lot of illustrations. That's not due to any shortcomings of the DjVuLibre software though: rather, it's the hallmark of the DjVu file format itself. It's often quirky to work with, but can render high quality material in very small files. PDF is quite the opposite: easy to handle, but it often produces fairly large files.

Last note: the DjVu format and DjVuLibre program is developed by a bunch of French (and French Canadian) guys. Hence the name: déjà vu. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 19:31, 13 August 2024 (UTC).Reply

THanks Tommy I will look into DjVULibre. Andyboorman (talk) 20:03, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks a lot the programme worked very well and it was quick leaving a reasonable sized file. Highly recommended I think a link on the pump might be appropriate, what do you think? In addition, although I can not read Russian, it seems pretty clear that Salvia sect. Sogdosphace belongs in Salvia subg. Salvia not subgen. Sclarea. I have made the corrections. Best regards. Andyboorman (talk) 13:51, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

It is great that DJVU links become easy for WS editors. Maybe it is appropriate to write any recommendation in the WS Pump for other editors? Anna Pavlova IFPNI Staff (talk) 19:58, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Superfluous Wikidata Turginov page, continued: Do you remember the name of the Wikidata page, or the item number? (Example: Q104580160.) Otherwise it will be very hard for me to find the page. Wikidata often have many page deletion requests, and they are generally not listed by name, only the "Qxxxxxxxxx" number.

I could not find it in the deletion logs, nor in the log of your Wikidata edits: I think that some of that data is hidden for me.
But maybe you can see it, and add the link here? You will find your Wikidata edit history here.
–Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 00:08, 13 August 2024 (UTC).Reply

Dear Tommy, perhaps, I had in mind the WS superfluous page, which I proposed for deletion/re-routing. It was too late at night to go to further editing of WD, therefore, the WD was left for further edits with no formal proposal now. Anna Pavlova IFPNI Staff (talk) 19:57, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply