User talk:Proxima Centauri

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Exploring science through fiction
I do not know if you saw Exploring science through fiction, but I linked to How Life could Evolve in a Red Dwarf Star System from that page. --JWSchmidt 15:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I have only read a small part of The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun. I read Speculation about Why a female octopus dies after her eggs are hatched. There are only a few invertebrates that I had previously known anything about Drosophila, digger wasps, mealworms and Aplysia. The boundaries between instinct, learned behavior, conscious and unconscious brain activity are interesting. I wonder if you saw Nonkilling Human Biology, which deals with the question of human instincts. --JWSchmidt 21:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi ProximaC,

Nice to see you on this wiki! I remember you from EvoWiki and Palaeos. Btw, what is happening on EvoWiki? The server seems to have been down for a long time. What would you like to learn here, and how would you like to contribute? I'm happy to help/provide pointers about what is here. --AFriedman 16:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Evowiki goes offline periodically. Last time when the wiki recovered I suggested moving to a different server. I'll suggest it again this time. The wiki will probably recover but there is a risk that some time the server will break permanently. Natural selection can operate against wikis that are managed recklessly. Proxima Centauri 17:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Re: your page about the octopus that I saw you wrote, quite a number of species are what is called semelparous, which means reproducing only once in their lifetime and then dying afterward.  Semelparity tends to be associated with living in environments where one is not likely to survive to a second reproductive season, although it's nearly impossible to experimentally study why a particular trait evolved in a natural environment.  Other semelparous animals include most species of antechinus (a type of Australian marsupial).  I don't know offhand if all species of octopi are semelparous, or only some.  There is some very interesting research on the fitness tradeoffs of semelparity versus iteroparity (reproducing more than once in a lifetime), and it should be possible to perform further original research on this subject at Wikiversity.  A couple questions.  Are you interested in the physiological aspect of octopus semelparity, the evolutionary aspect of octopus semelparity, or both?  Also, do you have access to a major university library and the journals listed in the "References" section of Life history theory?  --AFriedman 20:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I've written back to you on my Userpage if you'd like to take a look. --AFriedman 14:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've written to you on my Userpage again. Did you know that you can change your settings so that pages you change are automatically added to your watchlist?  --AFriedman 14:53, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

vandal
Thanks for the heads-up on the vandal. The best place to notify about things like this is Request custodian action. You might also try #wikiversity-en if you think it is urgent. Leaving a note on my talk page is also fine. --mikeu talk 12:36, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

"genitals on the main page" <-- this has been going on for a couple of days now. I know it is no fun to see, but apparently this guy has nothing better to do. --JWSchmidt 15:25, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Block
User:Unstoppable Fandal needs a block. I've sorted out the Main Page and reverted all his (I doubt if that was a woman) edits. Here's one vandal edit that appeared on the Main Page and here's a second vandal edit that appeared on the Main Page, I've checked and the image is one of yours.

User:Silentassassin hasn't vandalized (yet?) though the account was created almost at the same time as Unstoppable Fandal. I don't know if that is an acceptable username at Wikiversity but the account certainly needs to be watched.

Are you a sysop? If you aren't do you know any sysop who is currently active? Proxima Centauri 08:34, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi, please contact the custodians to get these pages deleted. Thanks for your work. Eml4500.f08 17:19, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Vandal reporting
Hello. I noticed you had left a note about a vandal a couple days ago on JWSchmidt's page. He's not around much lately, and actually can't do much about it because his "custodian tools" were removed over a year ago. Best place to report is WV:RCA. --SB_Johnny talk 18:37, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

NDE
I made a link to a published journal article. This is a good example of a topic for which it is hard to get funding for scientific research, and probably even harder to get working scientists to spend time on. --JWSchmidt 21:37, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Proxima Centauri. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Proxima Centauri~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)