2012 ARCHIVE :
If you are still interested, I have taken the article to have a peer review ( Wikipedia:Peer review/Bambusa vulgaris/archive1). Please, check and comment. Aditya( talk • contribs) 04:34, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Hamamelis,
Thank you for your note about your plans. I wish you a very satisfying college experience, and a major career boost from certification! I'm impressed that keeping databases inline isn't just an occasional hobby for you.
I too have had much less time to work on wikipedia for several months now because of a confluence of things, rather than a single time sink. Just coping with the usual vandalism/silliness patrol is about all that's possible most days. I've added Ruiz y Pavón to my watch list; what an astonishing amount of work you put in there!
It seems possible that very now and then a weekend of comparative boredom might open up and make it possible to put in a serious effort on dehiscence and shattering ... I hope ... (a bit of boredom right now would be very welcome) ... there might be one or two photos from a trip that I just made to a botanic garden that could move it along slightly. The amount of thought and reading that is required for each little addition is indeed daunting, but it would certainly be a different kind of resource. A rather funny thing happened at the botanic garden: there were some pomegranate trees with fruit hanging on them that looked for all the world as if they had exploded, so I just did a bit of a search to see if pomegranates, perhaps the wilder uncultured kinds, might be prone to explosive dehiscence. There's no evidence that I can find of that at all, in fact it would be ridiculous that pomegranates sitting in fruit bowls on kitchen counters could possibly explode, but those fruit looked for all the world as if that had happened!
Many best wishes for your new venture!
Nadia
... for correcting my mistaken removal of an entry at List of botanists by author abbreviation when adding a new one. Peter coxhead ( talk) 09:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Hamamelis, I'm so sorry that I left you and Rkitko to do battle for the dehiscensce/indehiscence categories. I had thought that you were off working on more promising things, and got so discouraged that I took that discussion page off my watch list. In case you haven't seen the resolution, the categories have (just) survived the latest Alan Leifting attack, thanks to you and Rkitko.
I've listed myself as retired in wikipedia, but since doing that I'd had to sign in again several times to respond to nice messages from Choess (on User:JonRichfield's page) and Rkitko, and have had nice email from two other editors. I've added a few plants to the categories, but not many.
I do hope that in your studies you are with a cheerful group of people.
Best wishes, Nadiatalent ( talk) 20:58, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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thanks for your interest Satu Suro 11:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
In a recent edit to the page
Zilla (plant) which you labelled "Italics fixes", you changed the DISPLAYTITLE
tag from {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Zilla'' (genus)}}
to {{DISPLAYTITLE|''Zilla'' (genus)}}
. That was actually the opposite of a fix: DISPLAYTITLE
is a
magic word, not a template, and is meant to use a colon.
That said, really the best thing to use would have been {{Italic title}}
, which is a convenient standard and completely dodges the whole problem of remembering whether a colon is correct. (And with titles that have a bit in brackets at the end, it knows not to italicize that bit, in case you thought that might be a problem.)
Hope this helps. — Paul A ( talk) 01:36, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
What is your objection to the cited edits from the foremost authority in the English language? 81.106.127.14 ( talk) 08:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
2012 ARCHIVE :
If you are still interested, I have taken the article to have a peer review ( Wikipedia:Peer review/Bambusa vulgaris/archive1). Please, check and comment. Aditya( talk • contribs) 04:34, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Hamamelis,
Thank you for your note about your plans. I wish you a very satisfying college experience, and a major career boost from certification! I'm impressed that keeping databases inline isn't just an occasional hobby for you.
I too have had much less time to work on wikipedia for several months now because of a confluence of things, rather than a single time sink. Just coping with the usual vandalism/silliness patrol is about all that's possible most days. I've added Ruiz y Pavón to my watch list; what an astonishing amount of work you put in there!
It seems possible that very now and then a weekend of comparative boredom might open up and make it possible to put in a serious effort on dehiscence and shattering ... I hope ... (a bit of boredom right now would be very welcome) ... there might be one or two photos from a trip that I just made to a botanic garden that could move it along slightly. The amount of thought and reading that is required for each little addition is indeed daunting, but it would certainly be a different kind of resource. A rather funny thing happened at the botanic garden: there were some pomegranate trees with fruit hanging on them that looked for all the world as if they had exploded, so I just did a bit of a search to see if pomegranates, perhaps the wilder uncultured kinds, might be prone to explosive dehiscence. There's no evidence that I can find of that at all, in fact it would be ridiculous that pomegranates sitting in fruit bowls on kitchen counters could possibly explode, but those fruit looked for all the world as if that had happened!
Many best wishes for your new venture!
Nadia
... for correcting my mistaken removal of an entry at List of botanists by author abbreviation when adding a new one. Peter coxhead ( talk) 09:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Hamamelis, I'm so sorry that I left you and Rkitko to do battle for the dehiscensce/indehiscence categories. I had thought that you were off working on more promising things, and got so discouraged that I took that discussion page off my watch list. In case you haven't seen the resolution, the categories have (just) survived the latest Alan Leifting attack, thanks to you and Rkitko.
I've listed myself as retired in wikipedia, but since doing that I'd had to sign in again several times to respond to nice messages from Choess (on User:JonRichfield's page) and Rkitko, and have had nice email from two other editors. I've added a few plants to the categories, but not many.
I do hope that in your studies you are with a cheerful group of people.
Best wishes, Nadiatalent ( talk) 20:58, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
1850
thanks for your interest Satu Suro 11:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
In a recent edit to the page
Zilla (plant) which you labelled "Italics fixes", you changed the DISPLAYTITLE
tag from {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Zilla'' (genus)}}
to {{DISPLAYTITLE|''Zilla'' (genus)}}
. That was actually the opposite of a fix: DISPLAYTITLE
is a
magic word, not a template, and is meant to use a colon.
That said, really the best thing to use would have been {{Italic title}}
, which is a convenient standard and completely dodges the whole problem of remembering whether a colon is correct. (And with titles that have a bit in brackets at the end, it knows not to italicize that bit, in case you thought that might be a problem.)
Hope this helps. — Paul A ( talk) 01:36, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
What is your objection to the cited edits from the foremost authority in the English language? 81.106.127.14 ( talk) 08:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)