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On your recent page move, you may not have been aware that an RM kept the name 'Gypsy moth' in 2022. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:38, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn:, thank you, I hadn't looked and just did, from the dates, it does not look like the USDA decision was up by then, just the ESA. I would not argue for a change in the New Zealand article, but I am surprised that no notice of the discussion was posted on Talk:Lymantria_dispar. PS: just saw the discussion at Talk:Lymantria_dispar. Shyamal (talk) 14:53, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

File:Vernay-Faunthorpe 1923.jpg

Hi Shyamal. In 2019 you uploaded the file listed above to the Commons. It's a photo of Arthur Vernay and J. C. Faunthorpe, who collected south Asian mammals for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The photo is currently used in the WP article on Faunthorpe, but the source listed on the Commons page is incorrect: this photo does not appear in the article by Vernay in Natural History 31 (1931), pp. 75–80. Do you have any idea what the correct source might be? I know it's been five years since you uploaded it and worked on the article, but perhaps you can remember what other sources of images you used at the time? Otherwise, since it's not correctly sourced, I'm thinking about removing the photo from the article and substituting a different one. Thanks, Crawdad Blues (talk) 15:09, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

@Crawdad Blues: Thanks for checking. I have found the source and updated the metadata. Shyamal (talk) 15:23, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hi @Shyamal i am new in Wikipedia - want to learn and explore Wikipedia for better and upskilling. Thanks MPBhopal (talk) 10:33, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

For starters, why would you post such a message on a random user talk page? Shyamal (talk) 11:39, 2 November 2024 (UTC)