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Hello and a big welcome to a gastropod expert!


Hello J. M. C. Hutchinson (I am assuming you are still of the Malacology Department at the Senckenberg Museum ↗ für Naturkunde Görlitz?) I wanted to specifically thank you for all your excellent contributions to articles about non-marine slugs and snails. These are all valuble additions to Wikipedia's WikiProject Gastropods. I would also like to give you this invitation:

{{Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gastropods/Invite}}

All of our best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 00:06, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Deroceras juranum



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DYK for Deroceras rodnae



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''Deroceras invadens ↗''



I wanted to thank you for this excellent new article and also for fixing up the ''D. panormitanum'' article to reflect the new research! It is very much appreciated. Invertzoo (talk) 17:37, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

New Deroceras invadens article



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Thanks again!



Happy New Year J.M.C. and thanks so much for the excellent article ''Ariunculus ↗''. Invertzoo (talk) 16:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Make Friends



I want to make pen pals by emails .My email adress is starsareintherose@163.com .I can talk about snails. Starsareintherose (talk) 05:51, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Win: Coll: refs



Hi, thanks for Horace Barlow and others. Could you make sure that the refs you add demonstrate that people went to Winchester College - the Barlow one doesn't, for instance, so another ref is needed for him. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:54, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Wonderful!



Thank you for fixing one of the funniest danglers ever ↗! Cheers DBaK-photo (talk) 17:50, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Response


Hi, I responded to you on my talkpage, but not sure if you get notified. Best, --Chescargot (talk) 13:40, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Not meeting eligibility criteria



Thanks for weeding the list. I suspect there are still too many cricketers. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:08, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
:: I've pruned some more after further deliberations. Are there any clearly distinguished medics? Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:16, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
:::Thanks. I have come across some research scientists with medical degrees, but not searched for distinguished surgeons or medical administrators, etc. It just seemed likely that Wykehamists might end up as such. I can have a look over the coming week. I still have a handful of FRSs who I think merit inclusion. Jmchutchinson (talk) 12:26, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
:::: That's great. FRS is basically a shoo-in. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

metre ↗



Hello! I just deleted the "mnemonic" bit on the metre page, which you had spent energy improving. Sorry; I hope you agree that really speaking this is just not relevant to the subject, because it is for people who don't really know what a metre is... Imaginatorium (talk) 06:37, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

:@Imaginatorium, thanks for leaving the message but I disagree. I know that a metre is a bit more than a yard, but this mnemonic provides more precision than that, and a good approximation is certainly useful for back-of-the-envelope calculations. In the same way, it is useful to know that 22/7 is a good approximation to pi, and that information is very prominent in the pi article. I don't think the informatin is in the way here, and believe others will find it useful and interesting, so I will restore the passage. If you think it worthwhile, you could seek to gain consensus for removal on the article talk page, perhaps copying this discussion from here. JMCHutchinson (talk) 07:29, 3 September 2023 (UTC)


Precious


{{user precious|header=gastropods help|thanks=for quality articles around research of slugs and snails, such as Deroceras invadens ↗ (2012), Andrzej Wiktor ↗ and Bibliography of Carlo Pollonera ↗, based on scientific background, for "Wow, if this long, scholarly, multifaceted article is deemed not complete enough to feature in DYK, what article is?" -}}
You are recipient no. 2913 ↗ of Precious, a prize of QAI ↗. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:20, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Edits over at white-lipped snail ↗



Hello! Thanks (really) for reverting my edit over at white-lipped snail ↗; I see now from your edit summary that the hatnote was indeed inappropriate. I have edited again ↗ but just to move the self-reference into a template because it is considered (I think, if my understanding of MOS:SELFREF ↗ is correct) "unprintworthy" as it is inter-article. I'm sure this isn't a big deal, but I thought I'd leave a message here just in case I was again mistaken. Thank you for your explanation in the edit summary{{snd}}as a new editor, I still have a lot to learn, and your edit summary turned the reversion into a learning opportunity. AlexGallon (talk) 21:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

:I didn't know about the crossref template, so I learnt something too, thanks. I confess that these sorts of rules are not my primary concern, as long as the text is readable, accurate and reference, but no harm in doing things the recommended way. JMCHutchinson (talk) 06:49, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Seasons greetings!



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'''Wishing you and yours a fantastic Christmas (or holiday season for those who don’t celebrate) and all the best for 2026.''' 🎄 ❄️☃️

Here’s to a collaborative, constructive year ahead — with good faith, good edits, and just enough discussion to get things done!

(and here's Sir Nils Olav ↗ inspecting his troops... one of my favourite POTDs ↗)

''Cheers &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;Amakuru (talk) 15:12, 21 December 2025 (UTC)''
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CS1 error on Rock wren ↗


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Precious anniversary


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