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23-04-2007, 08:25 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
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We are past the 10,000 threads mark. What a fantastic achievement for the site. Well done and a big thanks to all of the sites contributors |
23-04-2007, 08:28 PM
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Certainly is a big milestone Andrew. It is down to a combination of excellent members and a well run site so as Andrew says, a big thank you to all concerned.
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Originally Posted by Boddie  We are past the 10,000 threads mark. What a fantastic achievement for the site. Well done and a big thanks to all of the sites contributors | |
23-04-2007, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Boddie We are past the 10,000 threads mark. What a fantastic achievement for the site. Well done and a big thanks to all of the sites contributors | I echo that. 10,000 is a real milestone. Put these into a book format and you have a fair few volumes of interesting wildlife related reading!
.... Well done Fred   |
23-04-2007, 08:33 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent
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What a fantastic achievement 
Well done everyone and especially to Stu and Co for starting WAB 
Long may it continue
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23-04-2007, 08:35 PM
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Yep, well done everyone. |
23-04-2007, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by FungiJohn I echo that. 10,000 is a real milestone. Put these into a book format and you have a fair few volumes of interesting wildlife related reading!
.... Well done Fred |
Are You offering to do it
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23-04-2007, 09:25 PM
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10,000 , thats some number.
Glad I didn't have to count 'em
neil |
24-04-2007, 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Kymba Are You offering to do it |  No .... Seriously though, I did suggest a possible WAB book(s) about a year ago!
What we do have a lot on in WAB are many personal observations and experiences on a whole range of wildlife issues …. Things that are distinctly different to an individual writer’s view.
For example, not many books show all sides of the coin! WAB is also full of ‘debate type’ issues which would be ‘food for thought’ to many readers! Would possibly be quite controversial too!
And the photography on WAB ... Well, pretty difficult to better!
Meanwhile, I’ll stick to writing a book on fungi ... OK, I know its years late |
24-04-2007, 05:28 AM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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Originally Posted by FungiJohn No .... Seriously though, I did suggest a possible WAB book(s) about a year ago!
What we do have a lot on in WAB are many personal observations and experiences on a whole range of wildlife issues …. Things that are distinctly different to an individual writer’s view.
For example, not many books show all sides of the coin! WAB is also full of ‘debate type’ issues which would be ‘food for thought’ to many readers! Would possibly be quite controversial too!
And the photography on WAB ... Well, pretty difficult to better!
Meanwhile, I’ll stick to writing a book on fungi ... OK, I know its years late | Well done everyone! It certainly is a great achievement.
I like FJ's idea......... food for thought indeed, there's so many characters on here too!
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24-04-2007, 03:49 PM
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Hi
Many congrats on a fantastic achievement.
Mick
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24-04-2007, 05:55 PM
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Of course, great numbers of people, great people (in the main) and interesting topics. Well done all!
Can I suggest a (sort of) downside to the large numbers of threads? I will stress that I'm talking mainly, perhaps entirely, about the invertebrates forum. There is, in my view, a problem that there are so many posts that some get overlooked.
This is partly because the 'invertebrates' get one forum and yet there are many more species, genera, families of invertebrates than all the other animals and plants put together.
Obviously, you can't have beetle, butterfly, fly, myriapod fora for various reasons - most obviously because people sending in the queries don't know what they've got (whereas they can tell a bird from a mammal from a fish ... ). But in many cases people can tell a these apart and, indeed, recognise families - hoverflies, ladybirds &c..
So, would it be possible to introduce some sort of division in the invertebrates forum - sub-fora (subdirectories) for the more obvious groups (butterflies, beetles, bees ....)? I've raised this matter before and everyone who responded thought it a good idea ... but it doesn't seem to have been considered on high
I think that having sub-fora/sub-directories would actually be useful for people posting enquiries but it will also be extremely useful to those of us who answer most of the queries on our select groups of insects!
I do respond fairly well to queries about insects and, especially try to give opinions regarding beetleins and, certainly, lady and ground beetles. No problem, this is easy enough in the winter and I wish to do whatever I can to encourage other people to look at beetles and other insects. I know I'm not alone in this - we have some serious entomolgical experts here - but I, and I suspect, other people will not be available on a regular basis during the summer months. I certainly am (1) away from my computer, (2) very busy and (3) have to prioritise my minutes during the summer ((4) I also have holidays ) so, based on last year's experience there will be no way that I can track all the invertebrate queries - until November anyway, which is not helpful for people sending in queries. On the other hand, it would not be too difficult for me to scan through a sub-directory of 'Beetles' ..
So, can we have a discussion on this? Can the Invertebrate forum have separate sub-directories? What should those divisions be? I think most sensible to go for recognisable (to novices) groups such as butterflies (or butterflies/moths?), hoverflies, ladybirds, rather than subtly different groups such as Lepidoptera, Diptera?
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24-04-2007, 06:29 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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I told you all this was /is a good site
Now what about that superb gallery (sell it on disc?)
Just kidding
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