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Sorry to revert you, but there has been a bitter battle for several years about this issue that came to a conclusion last year, where the community voted that we don't do capitalisation of bird names. I was (am) an advocate of capitalisation myself, but now several thousand bird articles have all been lowercased.... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:47, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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I thought I'd reply here so the links are on your talk page and you don't have to navigate back to mine to revisit them. There are many different ways to contribute to Wikipedia. I do a lot of behind the scenes stuff, organization and standardization of articles. I don't really do much to work expanding article content or adding new articles. I could suggest some tasks along the lines of what I do if you'd like. However, from what I've seen you like adding new articles and expanding content, and you do a good job while doing so. So, some suggestions for places to look for major content creation.
1. There are various lists of missing plant articles in Category:Missing_encyclopedic_articles_(plants). The most useful of these is User:Pengo/missing_plants. Pengo did a search of the literature corpus represented by Google Books, and compiled a list of the plants most frequently mentioned in books that don't yet have an article. Some of the red links in Pengo's will be synonyms where there is an article about that plant already under a different name. Some synonyms are explicitly noted in the list, but many are not, and sometimes there's a mistake in the explicitly noted ones. Double check the names in Pengo's list, but it's good place to find some badly needed articles on plants.
2. You'd have the biggest impact in terms of readers if you worked on expanding the articles they view the most; Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Popular pages. Many of these are in terrible shape. I find them difficult to work on, as there is often quite a lot of content, but it is in need of a complete overhaul. The quality ratings aren't necessarily up to date, but there are many highly viewed Start class articles that could use some attention.
3. There's a report of plant articles that have been tagged with various cleanup banners. The articles that entirely lack sources are mostly 1-sentence stubs and really need expansion and sourcing.
I hope this helps you find some valuable work to do. I've been assuming you're particularly interested in plants based on your contributions so far (and my own interests). If there are other subjects you'd like to work on as well, there are equivalent missing encyclopedic article categories, popular page reports and cleanup banner reports for many other topics.
EDIT: Oh, I should mention, I have User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult on my watchlist and check it on a near-daily basis. That's probably mostly why you see me all over your watchlist. If you want to check over new plant articles, I'd appreciate the help.
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Hi, I thought you might want to read this. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:03, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for creating Heteronympha cordace, Pagliaccious!
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Hey, I saw you added your name to the list of participants for the bats work group. Let me know if you'd be interested in collaborating on an article some time! Enwebb ( talk) 15:21, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
If you think the Oedera capensis article is too technical, you'd better have a look at the 1000 articles I have substantially contributed to thus far. You will see that all of them are at least as technical. One of them is GA and another FA. You'd be wanting to put your template with all of them. And a template like this basically says: do not attempt to read this, you will not be able to understand it. In that case, I would be tempted to reduce all of them to the level that no one puts a template there any more. It is so easy to discredit an article and let someone else guess what exactly should be improved. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 09:18, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Hypericum punctatum, Pagliaccious!
Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
Nice article. Just a couple of observations for you to consider fixing: Firstly, mixing dm, cm and mm in measurements i a bit confusing. Perhaps convert 5-10 dm to 50-100cm in the convert template, as the former is rarely used as a unit in this context. Then perhaps remove the capital letters from common names (which I personally like, but Wikipedia MOS doesn't) as well as from Syrphid and Halctid as these are not generic names, but adjectives describing the genera. (Again, I personally like to see caps there, but it's not a MOS convention to use them as far as I'm aware). This article could be a good candidate for a DYK if you're interested in putting in the work to take it there. Cheers.
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Nick Moyes ( talk) 14:58, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello Pagliaccious,
Thanks for fixing the mistakes I've been making on plant pages lately (for example on Habenaria propinquior). I'm a bit of a perfectionist and hate having even the smallest spelling/punctuation/syntax blunder. Your work is much appreciated. Gderrin ( talk) 23:08, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
On 10 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hypericum punctatum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that though caterpillars feed on the leaves of Hypericum punctatum, the foliage is toxic to mammals? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hypericum punctatum. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Hypericum punctatum), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Alex Shih ( talk) 00:02, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Dear friend,
First of all, let me extend my thanks to you for showing interest in an article created by me on an Indian tree and helping it extensively to become close to perfect.
My friend, I am a B. Tech in Comp. Sc. Engineer and not a Botany expert, but decided to give my 100% to this article because I am a tree and plant lover. I first got info about this tree during my general walk through of Ficus genus Wikipedia page. I started to find info about this tree on Google, but it came out that this tree didn't have too many studies published on internet. So, with whatever 7-8 websites I found, I tried to collect, join, modify and merge info from those websites to create and build a decent article on Wikipedia. Honestly, finding info about this tree on internet was an utterly tough task. I spent 3 days specifically finding that info itself. Then, I spent 4 days by combining and writing this article.
When you started editing this page by placing "copypaste" template on the top of it, my task had not finished yet friend. I had just taken break due to a scheduled interview and I would have edited this page extensively during the coming days. But all thanks to you, you made my task a lot easier.
Regarding the copy and paste edits, those edits were copied from a website where the content was available to be reused as it is under CC BY NC 3.0, with a condition to add a proper citation, which I did infact in every single line that I copied. That's why I had to copy same references every single time.
Lastly, I deeply feel that my task of writing a complete article on a tree about which too little info is available to be cited and used and considering the fact that I am not a Botany expert but just a tree lover, should have been at least appreciated and applauded once.
Anyway, Thank you for reading such a long paragraph with patience.
With Regards Deepanshu M. ( talk) 05:41, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Dear Pagliaccious,
Thanks once again for recognizing my efforts, and I will write more articles on trees of Ficus genus in forthcoming days. There was no need of sorry, as you were also doing your work. I honestly didn't talk to you here for a "sorry", but I thought that I should clarify my point of view to you regarding this article and its edits.
Cheers! Deepanshu M. ( talk) 14:21, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Hey Pagliaccious! I recently responded to your query at WikiProject Plants, and noticed the very well-written plant articles- and specifically Hypericum articles- you wrote or improved. My main line of the work in the wiki has been in that genus with most of it being focused on the creation of List of Hypericum species and I never thought I would find another editor who also worked a good deal in the genus.
Anyways, what I'm getting at is that I have wanted to spearhead a new WikiProject on the Hypericaceae family, the St. John's Wort family, which Hypericum is the main constituent of, following closely off of the structure and scope of the Banksia WikiProject. However, I wasn't confident in my abilities to "properly" create a WikiProject, and really was unsure if anyone would even want to join (and getting editors to collaborate is the main reason we have WikiProjects in the first place) so I never got around to doing it. But seeing another editor working in the same little niche as I do inspired me, and I think I will create that WikiProject after all. So what I'm asking is:
Either way, I'd love to hear back from you and I hope to see more of your great work on the wiki! Respectfully, Fritzmann2002 T, c, s, t 20:32, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for assessing Mimetes capitulatus and M. hottentoticus. Perhaps I could tempt you to have a look at the articles on the genus Mimetes, Mimetes cucullatus and Mimetes fimbriifolius, which I extended, but still are classified as stubs. Thank you in advance, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 15:37, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello Pagliaccious - thank you for you edits. In my opinion, there are too many "stub class" articles that are in fact start class (and difficult to improve upon at the moment). I wonder if you would like to contribute to the discussion at criteria before making any more reverts. Brgds. Roy Bateman ( talk) 19:52, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
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On 1 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fossil Grove, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1887, eleven Lepidodendron stump fossils were discovered in the Fossil Grove in Glasgow, Scotland, during excavation work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fossil Grove. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Fossil Grove), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi Pagliaccious, perhaps you may be willing to have a look at the classification of Mimetes arboreus and Mimetes chrysanthus. Thank you in advance! Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 16:52, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi there. I was initially happy you'd assessed the article I made about Butia archeri, but going through your edits I'm actually rather disappointed. I feel it would be best to revert your changes. Let me elucidate:
1.) You de-italicised the Portuguese vernacular names. This is wrong; the correct typography for all non-English words should be italics. See here. Some people don't like non-English words in these articles pro forma, but I feel it could be relevant in the case of plants otherwise largely unknown in the English world, as it might be handy should one try to visit these plants in situ. About putting these words in bold, I'm not sure about that; I just thought it looks better considering I put the (doubtful) English common name in bold.
2.) You exchanged 3 semicolons for commas. I checked up on this, but I believe my usage is largely correct. See here. I looked it over carefully again; one of my admittedly overly long sentence is rendered less comprehensible by switching punctuation marks (also particularly see using semicolons in a list-type sentence), although it would indeed be more correct in this case if I remove the conjunction 'and'. In the other two cases, and the three semicolons I just used here, I am putting two independent clauses in one sentence. In the case of the two sentences in the article I also omitted "parallel wording": 'it is', ' Butia archeri is', or 'this plant is'. One could rewrite the entire sentence to separate the independent clauses, but I feel the prose looks more childish that way.
3.) You want me to name a commercial vendor in the article? That seems grossly un-encyclopaedic, and also redundant, as the reference makes it clear which nursery is saying this. The only reason I added the clause "according to a nursery" was so that discerning readers might realise that the information needs to be taken with a grain of salt: obviously a nursery trying to market this plant as a 'hardy palm' might exaggerate its hardiness. It seems stupid to specifically mention one potential vendor of this plant among dozens (and not a particularly good one), and I doubt it is relevant to the plant.
So in conclusion I will rewrite that last part to make it a more complete sentence as per your edit, and remove the word 'and', but revert everything else. Sorry, but thanks for looking at it anyway. If you feel I am wrong -or, to use another foreign word, a mierenneuker, please let me know. Cheers, Leo 86.83.56.115 ( talk) 11:32, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Actually, in retrospect, I see that the omitted word(s) could be 'being' instead of 'it is', as such I removed the semicolon in those two cases, but still retained the one in the very long sentence. Regards, and thanks again, Leo 86.83.56.115 ( talk) 11:44, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Noticed NGC 136 doesn't have an info box. I am not at adding info boxes so could you help me. I helped add a stub box but that was pretty much it. AdrianWikiEditor ( talk) 03:56, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your help! AdrianWikiEditor ( talk) 02:04, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Pagliaccious,
Thank you for your many corrections to my blunders in plant articles. I've reverted your last but I want you to know I originally had the same Verner Hawsbrook Rowland as the author of this species (or its synonym). I also want to share with you this story:
The WCSP has the author as "F.Muell. ex. Rchb.f." but there is no mention of F.Muell. in the article published by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. [1] I wrote to Kew asking for an explanation for why there was no mention of Verner Hawsbrook Rowland. (The name given is "Rowl.") Rafaël Govaerts answered my question with "Verner Hawsbrook Rowland was not yet born when it was published so it cannot be him. The most information I can find is “Veitch through his friend Dr. Rowland, of Malvern, who was at first accredited as its sponsor. Mr. Bernays”".
So, I still do not know who wrote the original (manuscript) description. I have now written to the publishers of the APNI asking "who was Rowland?". They give "Rowland" as the original author. I will let you know when I have an answer. In the meantime, all the best to you. Gderrin ( talk) 23:55, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
As promised, here are the main points in the response from the very kind, helpful Anna Munro at the ANBG re the APNI page for Phaius bernaysii.
All of which means that we no longer have to worry about who "Dr Rowland" was. (I will make the necessary changes to the original article. All the best to you! Gderrin ( talk) 09:16, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I went through the little brown bat and added hidden text to the sections I haven't gotten around to doing much with yet, if you're interested in collab-ing for another GA. The biology and ecology section is fairly rough still (the only subsection I've done there so far is the reproduction subsection). It could definitely use some restructuring, too...But of course, feel free to add to or edit the content I've put in so far in other sections! Enwebb ( talk) 21:59, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
P. S. edited to add that there's basically no lead as well, though I think it's easiest to do that last once all the pieces are there to summarize. Enwebb ( talk) 22:00, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
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I didn't want to change this on the article and put it in the description, but
1. The other authors of the paper all have ResearchGate IDs and have published other papers. They're well known enough as herpetologists or photographers for that at least.
2. The two papers are the same. They have the same authors, titles, and abstracts.
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Hi Pagliaccious. I hope you are doing well and staying safe during these times! Apologize to bother and posting a random request. I have just started to work on a stub ( Fontainea Venosa)and had added some sections. Knowing your expertise, I would love if you can help me to review and left a comment on what I can do to improve my edits. I hope that this is okay, but no pressure if you are busy. That is completely fine and understandable :) Hope to hear from you soon. The article is Fontainea Venosa
Thank you so much :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sparklingkull ( talk • contribs) 02:21, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you so much for replying! Sorry about that Pagliaccious, that was my mistake hahaha. Alright, I look forward to your feedback. Have a good day!. Sparklingkull ( talk) 02:27, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on Bromus racemosus. As an aside, please feel free to change any text of mine in these stubs I'm creating. I'm never really sure that they're correct, plus I'm grammar-challenged. Abductive ( reasoning) 00:20, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey Pagliaccious! It's been a while since we've worked together, but I wanted to reach out to see if you were interested in tackling an article I've been eyeing for a long time in a collaborative effort. Hypericum got listed as a level-4 Vital Article, and the shape of the article is really rough right now. I'm wrapping up my second species Good Article in the genus, and once that's finished I'm really hoping to start working on Hypericum, but I could really use some help. I haven't attempted to bring a genus article to GA yet, and there's a lot of work to be done. I just wanted to see if you were interested in working on the project with me (and hopefully a few other editors) in a collaborative effort. Please let me know your thoughts! Very respectfully, Fritzmann ( message me) 03:07, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
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Sorry to revert you, but there has been a bitter battle for several years about this issue that came to a conclusion last year, where the community voted that we don't do capitalisation of bird names. I was (am) an advocate of capitalisation myself, but now several thousand bird articles have all been lowercased.... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:47, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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I thought I'd reply here so the links are on your talk page and you don't have to navigate back to mine to revisit them. There are many different ways to contribute to Wikipedia. I do a lot of behind the scenes stuff, organization and standardization of articles. I don't really do much to work expanding article content or adding new articles. I could suggest some tasks along the lines of what I do if you'd like. However, from what I've seen you like adding new articles and expanding content, and you do a good job while doing so. So, some suggestions for places to look for major content creation.
1. There are various lists of missing plant articles in Category:Missing_encyclopedic_articles_(plants). The most useful of these is User:Pengo/missing_plants. Pengo did a search of the literature corpus represented by Google Books, and compiled a list of the plants most frequently mentioned in books that don't yet have an article. Some of the red links in Pengo's will be synonyms where there is an article about that plant already under a different name. Some synonyms are explicitly noted in the list, but many are not, and sometimes there's a mistake in the explicitly noted ones. Double check the names in Pengo's list, but it's good place to find some badly needed articles on plants.
2. You'd have the biggest impact in terms of readers if you worked on expanding the articles they view the most; Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Popular pages. Many of these are in terrible shape. I find them difficult to work on, as there is often quite a lot of content, but it is in need of a complete overhaul. The quality ratings aren't necessarily up to date, but there are many highly viewed Start class articles that could use some attention.
3. There's a report of plant articles that have been tagged with various cleanup banners. The articles that entirely lack sources are mostly 1-sentence stubs and really need expansion and sourcing.
I hope this helps you find some valuable work to do. I've been assuming you're particularly interested in plants based on your contributions so far (and my own interests). If there are other subjects you'd like to work on as well, there are equivalent missing encyclopedic article categories, popular page reports and cleanup banner reports for many other topics.
EDIT: Oh, I should mention, I have User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult on my watchlist and check it on a near-daily basis. That's probably mostly why you see me all over your watchlist. If you want to check over new plant articles, I'd appreciate the help.
Plantdrew ( talk) 02:09, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I thought you might want to read this. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:03, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Dissotis rotundifolia, Pagliaccious!
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Many thanks for stepping up and rewriting the Pit (botany) page; even an ignnoramus like me who doesn't know an angiosperm from an abaxial can understand it now. Yunshui 雲 水 14:02, 24 October 2017 (UTC) |
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Hey, I saw you added your name to the list of participants for the bats work group. Let me know if you'd be interested in collaborating on an article some time! Enwebb ( talk) 15:21, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
If you think the Oedera capensis article is too technical, you'd better have a look at the 1000 articles I have substantially contributed to thus far. You will see that all of them are at least as technical. One of them is GA and another FA. You'd be wanting to put your template with all of them. And a template like this basically says: do not attempt to read this, you will not be able to understand it. In that case, I would be tempted to reduce all of them to the level that no one puts a template there any more. It is so easy to discredit an article and let someone else guess what exactly should be improved. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 09:18, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Hypericum punctatum, Pagliaccious!
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Nice article. Just a couple of observations for you to consider fixing: Firstly, mixing dm, cm and mm in measurements i a bit confusing. Perhaps convert 5-10 dm to 50-100cm in the convert template, as the former is rarely used as a unit in this context. Then perhaps remove the capital letters from common names (which I personally like, but Wikipedia MOS doesn't) as well as from Syrphid and Halctid as these are not generic names, but adjectives describing the genera. (Again, I personally like to see caps there, but it's not a MOS convention to use them as far as I'm aware). This article could be a good candidate for a DYK if you're interested in putting in the work to take it there. Cheers.
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Nick Moyes ( talk) 14:58, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello Pagliaccious,
Thanks for fixing the mistakes I've been making on plant pages lately (for example on Habenaria propinquior). I'm a bit of a perfectionist and hate having even the smallest spelling/punctuation/syntax blunder. Your work is much appreciated. Gderrin ( talk) 23:08, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
On 10 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hypericum punctatum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that though caterpillars feed on the leaves of Hypericum punctatum, the foliage is toxic to mammals? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hypericum punctatum. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Hypericum punctatum), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Alex Shih ( talk) 00:02, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Dear friend,
First of all, let me extend my thanks to you for showing interest in an article created by me on an Indian tree and helping it extensively to become close to perfect.
My friend, I am a B. Tech in Comp. Sc. Engineer and not a Botany expert, but decided to give my 100% to this article because I am a tree and plant lover. I first got info about this tree during my general walk through of Ficus genus Wikipedia page. I started to find info about this tree on Google, but it came out that this tree didn't have too many studies published on internet. So, with whatever 7-8 websites I found, I tried to collect, join, modify and merge info from those websites to create and build a decent article on Wikipedia. Honestly, finding info about this tree on internet was an utterly tough task. I spent 3 days specifically finding that info itself. Then, I spent 4 days by combining and writing this article.
When you started editing this page by placing "copypaste" template on the top of it, my task had not finished yet friend. I had just taken break due to a scheduled interview and I would have edited this page extensively during the coming days. But all thanks to you, you made my task a lot easier.
Regarding the copy and paste edits, those edits were copied from a website where the content was available to be reused as it is under CC BY NC 3.0, with a condition to add a proper citation, which I did infact in every single line that I copied. That's why I had to copy same references every single time.
Lastly, I deeply feel that my task of writing a complete article on a tree about which too little info is available to be cited and used and considering the fact that I am not a Botany expert but just a tree lover, should have been at least appreciated and applauded once.
Anyway, Thank you for reading such a long paragraph with patience.
With Regards Deepanshu M. ( talk) 05:41, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Dear Pagliaccious,
Thanks once again for recognizing my efforts, and I will write more articles on trees of Ficus genus in forthcoming days. There was no need of sorry, as you were also doing your work. I honestly didn't talk to you here for a "sorry", but I thought that I should clarify my point of view to you regarding this article and its edits.
Cheers! Deepanshu M. ( talk) 14:21, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Hey Pagliaccious! I recently responded to your query at WikiProject Plants, and noticed the very well-written plant articles- and specifically Hypericum articles- you wrote or improved. My main line of the work in the wiki has been in that genus with most of it being focused on the creation of List of Hypericum species and I never thought I would find another editor who also worked a good deal in the genus.
Anyways, what I'm getting at is that I have wanted to spearhead a new WikiProject on the Hypericaceae family, the St. John's Wort family, which Hypericum is the main constituent of, following closely off of the structure and scope of the Banksia WikiProject. However, I wasn't confident in my abilities to "properly" create a WikiProject, and really was unsure if anyone would even want to join (and getting editors to collaborate is the main reason we have WikiProjects in the first place) so I never got around to doing it. But seeing another editor working in the same little niche as I do inspired me, and I think I will create that WikiProject after all. So what I'm asking is:
Either way, I'd love to hear back from you and I hope to see more of your great work on the wiki! Respectfully, Fritzmann2002 T, c, s, t 20:32, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for assessing Mimetes capitulatus and M. hottentoticus. Perhaps I could tempt you to have a look at the articles on the genus Mimetes, Mimetes cucullatus and Mimetes fimbriifolius, which I extended, but still are classified as stubs. Thank you in advance, Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 15:37, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello Pagliaccious - thank you for you edits. In my opinion, there are too many "stub class" articles that are in fact start class (and difficult to improve upon at the moment). I wonder if you would like to contribute to the discussion at criteria before making any more reverts. Brgds. Roy Bateman ( talk) 19:52, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
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Alex Shih ( talk) 00:02, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi Pagliaccious, perhaps you may be willing to have a look at the classification of Mimetes arboreus and Mimetes chrysanthus. Thank you in advance! Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 16:52, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi there. I was initially happy you'd assessed the article I made about Butia archeri, but going through your edits I'm actually rather disappointed. I feel it would be best to revert your changes. Let me elucidate:
1.) You de-italicised the Portuguese vernacular names. This is wrong; the correct typography for all non-English words should be italics. See here. Some people don't like non-English words in these articles pro forma, but I feel it could be relevant in the case of plants otherwise largely unknown in the English world, as it might be handy should one try to visit these plants in situ. About putting these words in bold, I'm not sure about that; I just thought it looks better considering I put the (doubtful) English common name in bold.
2.) You exchanged 3 semicolons for commas. I checked up on this, but I believe my usage is largely correct. See here. I looked it over carefully again; one of my admittedly overly long sentence is rendered less comprehensible by switching punctuation marks (also particularly see using semicolons in a list-type sentence), although it would indeed be more correct in this case if I remove the conjunction 'and'. In the other two cases, and the three semicolons I just used here, I am putting two independent clauses in one sentence. In the case of the two sentences in the article I also omitted "parallel wording": 'it is', ' Butia archeri is', or 'this plant is'. One could rewrite the entire sentence to separate the independent clauses, but I feel the prose looks more childish that way.
3.) You want me to name a commercial vendor in the article? That seems grossly un-encyclopaedic, and also redundant, as the reference makes it clear which nursery is saying this. The only reason I added the clause "according to a nursery" was so that discerning readers might realise that the information needs to be taken with a grain of salt: obviously a nursery trying to market this plant as a 'hardy palm' might exaggerate its hardiness. It seems stupid to specifically mention one potential vendor of this plant among dozens (and not a particularly good one), and I doubt it is relevant to the plant.
So in conclusion I will rewrite that last part to make it a more complete sentence as per your edit, and remove the word 'and', but revert everything else. Sorry, but thanks for looking at it anyway. If you feel I am wrong -or, to use another foreign word, a mierenneuker, please let me know. Cheers, Leo 86.83.56.115 ( talk) 11:32, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Actually, in retrospect, I see that the omitted word(s) could be 'being' instead of 'it is', as such I removed the semicolon in those two cases, but still retained the one in the very long sentence. Regards, and thanks again, Leo 86.83.56.115 ( talk) 11:44, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
Noticed NGC 136 doesn't have an info box. I am not at adding info boxes so could you help me. I helped add a stub box but that was pretty much it. AdrianWikiEditor ( talk) 03:56, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your help! AdrianWikiEditor ( talk) 02:04, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Pagliaccious,
Thank you for your many corrections to my blunders in plant articles. I've reverted your last but I want you to know I originally had the same Verner Hawsbrook Rowland as the author of this species (or its synonym). I also want to share with you this story:
The WCSP has the author as "F.Muell. ex. Rchb.f." but there is no mention of F.Muell. in the article published by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. [1] I wrote to Kew asking for an explanation for why there was no mention of Verner Hawsbrook Rowland. (The name given is "Rowl.") Rafaël Govaerts answered my question with "Verner Hawsbrook Rowland was not yet born when it was published so it cannot be him. The most information I can find is “Veitch through his friend Dr. Rowland, of Malvern, who was at first accredited as its sponsor. Mr. Bernays”".
So, I still do not know who wrote the original (manuscript) description. I have now written to the publishers of the APNI asking "who was Rowland?". They give "Rowland" as the original author. I will let you know when I have an answer. In the meantime, all the best to you. Gderrin ( talk) 23:55, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
As promised, here are the main points in the response from the very kind, helpful Anna Munro at the ANBG re the APNI page for Phaius bernaysii.
All of which means that we no longer have to worry about who "Dr Rowland" was. (I will make the necessary changes to the original article. All the best to you! Gderrin ( talk) 09:16, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I went through the little brown bat and added hidden text to the sections I haven't gotten around to doing much with yet, if you're interested in collab-ing for another GA. The biology and ecology section is fairly rough still (the only subsection I've done there so far is the reproduction subsection). It could definitely use some restructuring, too...But of course, feel free to add to or edit the content I've put in so far in other sections! Enwebb ( talk) 21:59, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
P. S. edited to add that there's basically no lead as well, though I think it's easiest to do that last once all the pieces are there to summarize. Enwebb ( talk) 22:00, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
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I didn't want to change this on the article and put it in the description, but
1. The other authors of the paper all have ResearchGate IDs and have published other papers. They're well known enough as herpetologists or photographers for that at least.
2. The two papers are the same. They have the same authors, titles, and abstracts.
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Hi Pagliaccious. I hope you are doing well and staying safe during these times! Apologize to bother and posting a random request. I have just started to work on a stub ( Fontainea Venosa)and had added some sections. Knowing your expertise, I would love if you can help me to review and left a comment on what I can do to improve my edits. I hope that this is okay, but no pressure if you are busy. That is completely fine and understandable :) Hope to hear from you soon. The article is Fontainea Venosa
Thank you so much :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sparklingkull ( talk • contribs) 02:21, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you so much for replying! Sorry about that Pagliaccious, that was my mistake hahaha. Alright, I look forward to your feedback. Have a good day!. Sparklingkull ( talk) 02:27, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on Bromus racemosus. As an aside, please feel free to change any text of mine in these stubs I'm creating. I'm never really sure that they're correct, plus I'm grammar-challenged. Abductive ( reasoning) 00:20, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey Pagliaccious! It's been a while since we've worked together, but I wanted to reach out to see if you were interested in tackling an article I've been eyeing for a long time in a collaborative effort. Hypericum got listed as a level-4 Vital Article, and the shape of the article is really rough right now. I'm wrapping up my second species Good Article in the genus, and once that's finished I'm really hoping to start working on Hypericum, but I could really use some help. I haven't attempted to bring a genus article to GA yet, and there's a lot of work to be done. I just wanted to see if you were interested in working on the project with me (and hopefully a few other editors) in a collaborative effort. Please let me know your thoughts! Very respectfully, Fritzmann ( message me) 03:07, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
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