Wloveral

William Leslie Overal
William Leslie Overal
Born	October 14, 1947; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Died	Date pending; Place not yet chosen
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Northwestern University ; University of Kansas
Known for	Amazon bugs
	Scientific career
Fields	Zoology, Entomology
Institutions	Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Doctoral advisor	George W. Byers
Notes
	Infobox placed here so I can find it again.

William Leslie Overal, known as "Mild Bill," has always liked bugs, and so he became an entomologist. He works at the Emilio Goeldi Museum, in Belém, portal city to the fantastic Brazilian Amazon. Bill studied biology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, before moving on to graduate studies at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence. Bill has written over 60 scientific papers and 90 newspaper articles on our arthropod friends.

Here at Wikipedia I like to make sure that folks and facts from Brazil become better know. The country is fantastic and merits our collective attention.

I think that science should not be off-putting or frightening. People can relate to scientific projects and conclusions through an appreciation of the history of science.

People, to me, have always been important, and biography tells us much about others and their times (perhaps, too, about us and our times).

As an entomologist, I study insects and other terrestrial arthropods. For the past several years, I have worked with Amazonian butterflies and their conservation.

Also, I enjoy reading about pirates, but I certainly would not want to travel the high seas by sailing ship during the Golden Age of Piracy.

I'm an archaeology buff, too, but there are only a certain number of things one can do and not look too silly.

Please leave messages on my talk page. Be patient: I am a learner.

Wloveral (talk) 22:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Userboxen

User:Wloveral/Userboxen with my collection of userboxen.

User:Wloveral/Babel with languages.

Created user pages

User:Wloveral/Sandboxes where I experiment with taxoboxes.
User:Wloveral/Sandbox2 where I experiment with a List of butterflies of the Amazon River basin.
User:Wloveral/Timelines now with Linnaeus' timeline.
User:Wloveral/Userboxen where I keep a herd of userboxen.
User:Wloveral/Babel where I let my tongues hang out.
User:Wloveral/Userboxes/Tail where my TAIL is caught in a userbox.
User:Wloveral/To-do list where I list my good intentions.
User:Wloveral/Recent changes window recent changes window.

Useful (to me) templates

Talk pages and stubs

{{WPBrazil}}
{{WPBiography}}
{{HistSci}}
{{ArthropodTalk}} and {{insect-stub}}
{{LepidopteraTalk}} and {{butterfly-stub}}
{{WPSpiders}}
{{WikiProject Plants}} and {{Botanist}}
{{Pirates}} and {{Pirate-stub}}
{{ExtinctionTalk}}
{{Brazil-scientist-stub}}

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