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Thank for the tips. Are you a member of IAB or just editing their page? I created it a few weeks ago and suggested the groups members improve the page. I built it so they would have a place to hang their hat. I'm not a member. It was flagged for deletion, but I don't know if it has been unflagged for that. My talk page received a message on that topic. I told some folks in the group and suggested they deal with it. My main interests are sedges, Arkansas flora, and becoming fluent in Chinese (see my talk page for details). Sedgehead ( talk) 21:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)Sedgehead
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Hi. I saw your comment about the Kew Bulletin on the HighBeam page. There's some information I've been trying to track down regarding the Kew and since you are familiar with the publication, I was wondering if you could help. This comes from Amaranthus brownii:
During the 1981 expedition, A. bronwii seeds were collected by Sheila Conant and presented to the Waimea Arboretum on the Hawaiian island of Oahu and the Kew Gardens in London, England. Although the seeds at the Waimea Arboretum germinated and grew for a while, no plants survived beyond the stage of seedling development. Information about the outcome of the seeds sent to Kew Gardens is unavailable.
Any idea if the Kew Bulletin might say anything about this? Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 22:48, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, great List of Salvia species, which seems to be largely your work. I wondered what you thought about adding some of the horticultural hybrids, like S. × jamensis. If added, should they be in a separate section or among the species? Peter coxhead ( talk) 07:44, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Reading these interesting responses, and thinking about it some more, it now seems to me that there's a more general issue here, namely how to handle genera which have a strong botanical and horticultural interest. Salvia is a good example, but there are many others – some that spring to mind because I've worked on them a bit are Hemerocallis, Hosta and Hippeastrum. All of them have a significant number of naturally occurring species plus many artificial hybrids and cultivars. I agree that where there's enough information to warrant more than one article, the botanical and horticultural aspects should be kept separate, i.e. the answer to my original question is that the horticultural hybrids should not be added to the list of species. Peter coxhead ( talk) 07:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello! I noticed on my Watchlist that you have been removing some links that do not meet the criteria for external links as given in WP:EL. One of those you removed is links to species pages on PlantFiles. I added the link because it is a useful page to direct readers to, but looking at the policy page, I don't know whether it should or should not be included based on the criteria given. I'm wondering what your rationale for removing it is; which of the criteria for links that should not be added does it fulfill? — Eru· tuon 00:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
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I have to confess that I have often given up when faced with the apparently endless stream of unreliable information sourced to horticultural companies or blogs. You clearly have not! Carry on the good work. Peter coxhead ( talk) 09:30, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hey there, I'm a student revising the Chia Seed wikipedia page for a college project and was wondering if you could look at my work in a few days and try to give me any pointers. Thanks! Wclevid ( talk) 14:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC) Wclevid — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wclevid ( talk • contribs) 14:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your attention in the article Chilean corvette O'Higgins (1866). You (may) have noted that English is not my first language, therefore I try to build the sentences as simple as possible. I used "She arrived ...", "she had an active role ..." and "she sided ..." because I have seen such syntax in many other ship articles like HMS Albion (1802). The editors of the article used also "she" for the ship in question:
May be that the reader is confused because at the beginning of the article are mentioned two ships (O'Higgins and Chacabuco).
Why did you object the sentence?.
I thanks in advance for improving the wikipedia (and my English), --Best regards, Keysanger ( what?) 16:46, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello First Light,
and many thanks for commenting on my editing of the Euphorbia Leuconeura stub, which was in origin (I think) a translation of the French wiki. I think a much better start for a full article would be the German wiki. Unfortunately my French is a lot better than my German, so I just tried to add to the French-based stub, using also direct observation of one Leucocera I bought many years ago (between 20 and 40), and two more I've grown from its seeds.
Before I go on to more edits, I'd like to discuss two changes you made to my edits to date.
Concerning the greatest height of the plant, I wrote "1.8 m (almost six feet)" and you changed it to "1.8 m (5.9 feet)". In my opinion, 1.8 meter (which I took from the German wikipedia) is not meant as an exact value but only indicative of a range between, say, 1.7 and 1.9; it is misleading to pinpoint it as 5.9 feet. I'm not sure what to do, considering also that there is more to it. The German site says, in (Google-helped) translation:
Euphorbia leuconeura is an erect, usually unbranched, stem succulent shrub that reaches heights of growth up to 180 cm, when the tap root can grow down far enough.
I'm tempted to insert this in en.wikipedia as it is, leaving out the conversion of 180 cm to feet (but in any case I'd convert 180 cm to 1.8 m, because the cm is not an SI approved unit, and anyhow one cannot measure a plant this size with centimeter accuracy). You're welcome to improve the English of this sentence, which still sounds like German in translation. Also, I suspect most readers would not know off-hand what a "stem succulent" is (it's a plant that stores water in its stem, as opposed to a leaf succulent). There is no Stem succulent entry in en.wikipedia, although the distinction between types of succulents is made clear in the Succulent entry. The importance of a tap root should probably be mentioned: my old Leuconeura, which has no tap root, is only 80 cm tall and seems full grown. On the other hand, I've seen a Leuconeura in the Helsinki Arboretum that was much taller than mine and was growing indoors, presumably in a pot, without a deep tap root. I guess that, unlike my Leuconeura, it got the right amount of water at the right time of the year.
Next,I'd like to know why you have deleted the reference to http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/64943/ with the comment that it is not a reliable source, even in the loosest sense of the term. On the contrary, I found this source more reliable and informative than the old en.wikipedia stub or its sources. First, it correctly states that Leuconeura likes Partial to Full Shade, (with Full Shade listed one line below, and thus less desirable, I presume). This agrees with my direct experience and the German Wikipedia, and is contrary to the requirement of full sun in the French Wikipedia. Second, Dave's Garden has many photos of Leuconeura that are as good as those in Wikimedia. For instance, anybody who has E. Leuconeura in a pot will immediately recognize that it is the plant pictured in http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/50977/.
Dave's Garden also has information about hardiness that I could not find anywhere else. And it gives correctly the height of the plant, when grown in a pot (see above for the tap root story). Maybe we could list Dave's Garden as an Additional Source, or something, rather than as a Reference? If so, please help, I don't know how to do it.
Perhaps the problem is not that the source is unreliable, but that it has the .com extension, or something else that irks Wikipedia. If that's the case, please let me know.
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Umeboshi is made through a well-known process called "lactic acid fermentation." This is the same process by which almost all other naturally fermented vegetable foods are made. It produces, obviously, lactic acid. Not citric acid, which is the acid that, obviously, comes from citrus fruits. Which plums and apricots are not.
Here is a page on an umeboshi producer's website describing the process. Note that it discussed lactic acid. http://www.mitoku.com/products/umeboshi/making_umeboshi.html
I honestly could give half of a f-- whether you put my correction back. As you might have noticed, I don't even have an account here. But you should be aware that many of us anonymous editors actually know a thing or two about the edits we make. If you don't, just know that you are making this project worse. It is objectively, verifiably, true that lactic acid makes umiboshi sour. 76.105.194.158 ( talk) 21:48, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Almost 2 years ago, I created an account so that I could propose a move from Aluminium to Alumin(i)um. While I understood the rationale behind the negative responses, the way some of the editors responded was fairly disappointing, especially since I was new. Your response was "Clever idea, though! But creating a new spelling that nobody uses isn't the answer." and I thought I'd drop by and say thanks. Ryan Vesey 00:19, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
I saw your comments at Pass a Method's essay, and just wanted to point out one thing. FWIW, I myself have no objections to there being some sort of focused group on religious calendars in general and the individuals who are commemorated in them. And, FWIW, that is basically the criterion by which individuals are determined to be "saints" in Christianity. I was even responsible for the creation of the religious biography workgroup of WikiProject Religion, because I thought that the other religious traditions should be able to benefit from similar focused effort. But, pretty much ever since it was founded, and it has been around here longer than I have myself, WikiProject Saints was specifically focused on Christian saints, and, actually, I think more clearly specifically Catholic saints in the beginning before I and some others got involved.
One of the problems with a lot of saints of other faiths is trying to find a clearly non-controversial source wbich specifically states person X is a saint. Most academic sources aren't written by specialists in the field of "sainthood," but at the same time it is hard to disagree that, if the Roman Catholic church (or for that matter the Orthodox churches, Anglican church, or Luthern church) has in some way formally recognized someone as a "saint", the person can reasonably be called a saint. Unfortunately, I don't know how many other faiths actually use the same word for the same concept, and there are some SYNTH/OR problems in lumping them together as the same thing when the religions involved don't themselves necessarily agree on identity.
I started some work some time ago trying to get together lists of religious holidays around the world as a way of maybe getting an indication which individuals are considered by other faiths to be "saints" or their internal equivalent. Unfortunately, I haven't found that many sources for non-Christian "liturgical calendars" in general, so the effort was somewhat stymied. If you know of any sources which could be used to help gather together lists of people considered holy in other faiths, I would myself welcome seeing maybe a new subproject of WikiProject Religion proposed to get a bit more focused attention on those articles, and on the religious calendars themselves as well. John Carter ( talk) 21:46, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thank for the tips. Are you a member of IAB or just editing their page? I created it a few weeks ago and suggested the groups members improve the page. I built it so they would have a place to hang their hat. I'm not a member. It was flagged for deletion, but I don't know if it has been unflagged for that. My talk page received a message on that topic. I told some folks in the group and suggested they deal with it. My main interests are sedges, Arkansas flora, and becoming fluent in Chinese (see my talk page for details). Sedgehead ( talk) 21:35, 4 March 2012 (UTC)Sedgehead
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Hi. I saw your comment about the Kew Bulletin on the HighBeam page. There's some information I've been trying to track down regarding the Kew and since you are familiar with the publication, I was wondering if you could help. This comes from Amaranthus brownii:
During the 1981 expedition, A. bronwii seeds were collected by Sheila Conant and presented to the Waimea Arboretum on the Hawaiian island of Oahu and the Kew Gardens in London, England. Although the seeds at the Waimea Arboretum germinated and grew for a while, no plants survived beyond the stage of seedling development. Information about the outcome of the seeds sent to Kew Gardens is unavailable.
Any idea if the Kew Bulletin might say anything about this? Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 22:48, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, I think that you forgot to sign your input in the AfD for The Legacy Movement. Thanks! And Adoil Descended ( talk) 21:45, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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I've uploaded the two articles that you requested at the resource exchange. You can find the links at that page.
Best, GabrielF ( talk) 04:43, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, great List of Salvia species, which seems to be largely your work. I wondered what you thought about adding some of the horticultural hybrids, like S. × jamensis. If added, should they be in a separate section or among the species? Peter coxhead ( talk) 07:44, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Reading these interesting responses, and thinking about it some more, it now seems to me that there's a more general issue here, namely how to handle genera which have a strong botanical and horticultural interest. Salvia is a good example, but there are many others – some that spring to mind because I've worked on them a bit are Hemerocallis, Hosta and Hippeastrum. All of them have a significant number of naturally occurring species plus many artificial hybrids and cultivars. I agree that where there's enough information to warrant more than one article, the botanical and horticultural aspects should be kept separate, i.e. the answer to my original question is that the horticultural hybrids should not be added to the list of species. Peter coxhead ( talk) 07:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there. You recently commented at my move request for Kompressor. Another editor has some significant information, and in light of that, I'd like to withdraw my request, but I can't unless there is unanimous opposition. Can you take a look and consider changing your !vote to oppose? Thanks. — Torchiest talk edits 23:53, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I see you have made some constructive edits to remove linkspam, but this strikes me as unnecessary. What's the distinction between the electronic versions that you removed, and the ChristianBook link which you allowed to remain? The volume will very likely be purchased more as digital versions than on paper, so its availability in those formats is IMHO germane to the encyclopedia. FYI, I'm a reader, not a publisher. – Fayenatic L ondon 23:10, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello! I noticed on my Watchlist that you have been removing some links that do not meet the criteria for external links as given in WP:EL. One of those you removed is links to species pages on PlantFiles. I added the link because it is a useful page to direct readers to, but looking at the policy page, I don't know whether it should or should not be included based on the criteria given. I'm wondering what your rationale for removing it is; which of the criteria for links that should not be added does it fulfill? — Eru· tuon 00:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
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I have to confess that I have often given up when faced with the apparently endless stream of unreliable information sourced to horticultural companies or blogs. You clearly have not! Carry on the good work. Peter coxhead ( talk) 09:30, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your attention in the article Chilean corvette O'Higgins (1866). You (may) have noted that English is not my first language, therefore I try to build the sentences as simple as possible. I used "She arrived ...", "she had an active role ..." and "she sided ..." because I have seen such syntax in many other ship articles like HMS Albion (1802). The editors of the article used also "she" for the ship in question:
May be that the reader is confused because at the beginning of the article are mentioned two ships (O'Higgins and Chacabuco).
Why did you object the sentence?.
I thanks in advance for improving the wikipedia (and my English), --Best regards, Keysanger ( what?) 16:46, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for the welcome! I am wondering something about Wikipedia. Is it okay to ask Jimmy Wales about items that may cast Wikipedia in a bad light? I have seen him deleting numerous comments lately about Kazakhstan, and I am worried that he is too annoyed with criticism. - Checking the checkers ( talk) 16:45, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello First Light,
and many thanks for commenting on my editing of the Euphorbia Leuconeura stub, which was in origin (I think) a translation of the French wiki. I think a much better start for a full article would be the German wiki. Unfortunately my French is a lot better than my German, so I just tried to add to the French-based stub, using also direct observation of one Leucocera I bought many years ago (between 20 and 40), and two more I've grown from its seeds.
Before I go on to more edits, I'd like to discuss two changes you made to my edits to date.
Concerning the greatest height of the plant, I wrote "1.8 m (almost six feet)" and you changed it to "1.8 m (5.9 feet)". In my opinion, 1.8 meter (which I took from the German wikipedia) is not meant as an exact value but only indicative of a range between, say, 1.7 and 1.9; it is misleading to pinpoint it as 5.9 feet. I'm not sure what to do, considering also that there is more to it. The German site says, in (Google-helped) translation:
Euphorbia leuconeura is an erect, usually unbranched, stem succulent shrub that reaches heights of growth up to 180 cm, when the tap root can grow down far enough.
I'm tempted to insert this in en.wikipedia as it is, leaving out the conversion of 180 cm to feet (but in any case I'd convert 180 cm to 1.8 m, because the cm is not an SI approved unit, and anyhow one cannot measure a plant this size with centimeter accuracy). You're welcome to improve the English of this sentence, which still sounds like German in translation. Also, I suspect most readers would not know off-hand what a "stem succulent" is (it's a plant that stores water in its stem, as opposed to a leaf succulent). There is no Stem succulent entry in en.wikipedia, although the distinction between types of succulents is made clear in the Succulent entry. The importance of a tap root should probably be mentioned: my old Leuconeura, which has no tap root, is only 80 cm tall and seems full grown. On the other hand, I've seen a Leuconeura in the Helsinki Arboretum that was much taller than mine and was growing indoors, presumably in a pot, without a deep tap root. I guess that, unlike my Leuconeura, it got the right amount of water at the right time of the year.
Next,I'd like to know why you have deleted the reference to http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/64943/ with the comment that it is not a reliable source, even in the loosest sense of the term. On the contrary, I found this source more reliable and informative than the old en.wikipedia stub or its sources. First, it correctly states that Leuconeura likes Partial to Full Shade, (with Full Shade listed one line below, and thus less desirable, I presume). This agrees with my direct experience and the German Wikipedia, and is contrary to the requirement of full sun in the French Wikipedia. Second, Dave's Garden has many photos of Leuconeura that are as good as those in Wikimedia. For instance, anybody who has E. Leuconeura in a pot will immediately recognize that it is the plant pictured in http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/50977/.
Dave's Garden also has information about hardiness that I could not find anywhere else. And it gives correctly the height of the plant, when grown in a pot (see above for the tap root story). Maybe we could list Dave's Garden as an Additional Source, or something, rather than as a Reference? If so, please help, I don't know how to do it.
Perhaps the problem is not that the source is unreliable, but that it has the .com extension, or something else that irks Wikipedia. If that's the case, please let me know.
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Umeboshi is made through a well-known process called "lactic acid fermentation." This is the same process by which almost all other naturally fermented vegetable foods are made. It produces, obviously, lactic acid. Not citric acid, which is the acid that, obviously, comes from citrus fruits. Which plums and apricots are not.
Here is a page on an umeboshi producer's website describing the process. Note that it discussed lactic acid. http://www.mitoku.com/products/umeboshi/making_umeboshi.html
I honestly could give half of a f-- whether you put my correction back. As you might have noticed, I don't even have an account here. But you should be aware that many of us anonymous editors actually know a thing or two about the edits we make. If you don't, just know that you are making this project worse. It is objectively, verifiably, true that lactic acid makes umiboshi sour. 76.105.194.158 ( talk) 21:48, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Almost 2 years ago, I created an account so that I could propose a move from Aluminium to Alumin(i)um. While I understood the rationale behind the negative responses, the way some of the editors responded was fairly disappointing, especially since I was new. Your response was "Clever idea, though! But creating a new spelling that nobody uses isn't the answer." and I thought I'd drop by and say thanks. Ryan Vesey 00:19, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
I saw your comments at Pass a Method's essay, and just wanted to point out one thing. FWIW, I myself have no objections to there being some sort of focused group on religious calendars in general and the individuals who are commemorated in them. And, FWIW, that is basically the criterion by which individuals are determined to be "saints" in Christianity. I was even responsible for the creation of the religious biography workgroup of WikiProject Religion, because I thought that the other religious traditions should be able to benefit from similar focused effort. But, pretty much ever since it was founded, and it has been around here longer than I have myself, WikiProject Saints was specifically focused on Christian saints, and, actually, I think more clearly specifically Catholic saints in the beginning before I and some others got involved.
One of the problems with a lot of saints of other faiths is trying to find a clearly non-controversial source wbich specifically states person X is a saint. Most academic sources aren't written by specialists in the field of "sainthood," but at the same time it is hard to disagree that, if the Roman Catholic church (or for that matter the Orthodox churches, Anglican church, or Luthern church) has in some way formally recognized someone as a "saint", the person can reasonably be called a saint. Unfortunately, I don't know how many other faiths actually use the same word for the same concept, and there are some SYNTH/OR problems in lumping them together as the same thing when the religions involved don't themselves necessarily agree on identity.
I started some work some time ago trying to get together lists of religious holidays around the world as a way of maybe getting an indication which individuals are considered by other faiths to be "saints" or their internal equivalent. Unfortunately, I haven't found that many sources for non-Christian "liturgical calendars" in general, so the effort was somewhat stymied. If you know of any sources which could be used to help gather together lists of people considered holy in other faiths, I would myself welcome seeing maybe a new subproject of WikiProject Religion proposed to get a bit more focused attention on those articles, and on the religious calendars themselves as well. John Carter ( talk) 21:46, 18 February 2013 (UTC)