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Sminthopsis84, I came across this article, and I see "mesotrophic grassland" is a red link. I'm surprised that there is no article, or section in this article, that explains what "mesotrophic grasslands" means. I searched for information on it after I read about two types of grassland in the lede of Mendip Hills. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:31, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
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I see you decided to clear out your talk page and start fresh. I don't know if you are watching Zucchini, but if not I thought I'd ask you if you agreed with this edit: [1] Even if you think it is correct, what do you think of "X over zucchini"? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:48, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
You might both like to look at Talk:Zucchini#British usage. Peter coxhead ( talk) 15:20, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Like you, I at first assumed there must be a substantial number of botanically defined berries used as spices, but searching suggests not; like Piper nigrum most of those loosely called "berries" seem to be other kinds of fruit, especially drupes. The same seems to true of dyes: e.g. the list here, which would be a reliable source, has virtually no berries.
Apropos general fruit classification, I now know more about it than I previously wished to and hence realize that it's a very tricky subject, with substantially different classification systems in use. Thus although I'd written without a source that an aggregate fruit can be considered to be composed of individual fruits, and happily changed to "fruitlets" when you pointed out my "error", actually this is correct on some views. My old Foster & Gifford (1973), Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants has on p.719 "an aggregate fruit is said to consist of a collection of more-or-less separate simple fruits". It all depends on whether you take the basis of fruit classification to be a single carpel, a single ovary or a single gynoecium – all three exist in the literature. If the first is used, an aggregate fruit is a collection of fruits; if the second and particularly the third, an aggregate fruit is a collection of fruitlets, where a fruitlet is to a fruit as a leaflet is to a leaf (according to Foster & Gifford) – so that "compound fruit" would have been a better name, perhaps. Foster & Gifford also point out the difficulty in defining "accessory fruits". Since the receptacle comes away with the rest of the fruit in blackberries, they could be called "accessory fruits", like strawberries, whereas closely related raspberries, where the receptacle remains on the bush, aren't "accessory fruits". But this seems a very artificial distinction and I haven't seen it made, but surely it's strictly true of blackberries?
I'd really like to add something about berries and " seed dispersal syndromes" but am still searching for good up-to-date sources. The article is something of a personal essay, and needs quite a bit of work. Any ideas? Peter coxhead ( talk) 13:48, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
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help). Read one way (particularly the last sections) they seem to be suggesting using "pericarpium" for "fruit" (i.e. a matured ovary ± other parts of the flower) and extending "fruit" more widely, but it's not spelt out. I don't have access to Spjut, R.W. (1994), "A systematic treatment of fruit types", Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 70:1-182 – do you? If the Spjut terminology for what has been "aggregate" and "multiple" fruits catches on more widely, we are in for a lot of confusion – see below.
Peter coxhead (
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There's a redraft of this article at User:Peter coxhead/Sandbox2 which helps to sort out some of my confusion over terminology, caused by using Spjut-based sources alongside traditional ones, without realizing the radically different usages. Sigh... I doubt I'll have time to polish up the draft to "release" standards for the next week or two. Peter coxhead ( talk) 21:56, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing— Fresno pepper —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Falconjh ( talk) 13:06, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
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I was looking at the article Forb, and I saw near the beginning "a herbaceous...plant". I was surprised at the use of the article "a". Does that mean that the "h" in "herbaceous" is aspirated (pronounced with air)? In American English, "herb" is pronounced with a silent "h", so why would "herbaceous" be pronounced with an aspirated "h"? Then I looked at the article herbaceous plant, and the first sentence reads:
There are two things I want to say about this sentence:
1) I notice that the article "an" is used before "herbaceous plant" this time. That is the way I would have expected it to be (American English, at least). So there is some inconsistency between this article and the Forb article.
2) I was suprised by the statement in parentheses: "in American botanical use simply herb". I thought an herb was a green plant that was used in either cooking or for medicinal use. Do botanists extend the meaning to all green plants that don't survive the winter (ie., die down to soil level)?
Just curious. Corinne ( talk) 00:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
According to the OED and other dicts, an "herb" is a non-woody and therefore annual or perennial plant, and especially one whose leaves or leaves and stems are used in medicine or cooking. So general use of 'herb' is the same as 'herbaceous plant'. That's not specifically American usage, and not a clipping. Most of the time, of course, people intend the specialized reading.
In the UK the /h/ started being added to the word in the 19th century, and hasn't really caught on across the pond. You do hear /h/ in the US, but it isn't common. Where I am (west coast), if you use an /h/ people will correct you. It sounds a bit ignorant, like a spelling pronunciation -- which, of course, is exactly what it is. — kwami ( talk) 22:42, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Plue, Jan; Vandepitte, Katrien; Honnay, Olivier; et al. (2015) Isolation by 454-sequencing and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the tetraploid perennial herb Campanula rotundifolia. CONSERVATION GENETICS RESOURCES 7 (3) 721-722 Published: SEP 2015 Lee, Seung Youn; Rhie, Yong Ha; Kim, Ki Sun (2015) Non-deep simple morphophysiological dormancy in seeds of Thalictrum rochebrunianum, an endemic perennial herb in the Korean Peninsula. HORTICULTURE ENVIRONMENT AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 56 (3)366-375 Torang, Per; Wunder, Joerg; Obeso, Jose Ramon; et al. (2015) Large-scale adaptive differentiation in the alpine perennial herb Arabis alpina. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 206 (1) 459-470 Kameoka, Shinichiro; Higashi, Hiroyuki; Setoguchi, Hiroaki (2015) DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMORPHIC MICROSATELLITE LOCI IN THE PERENNIAL HERB HEPATICA NOBILIS VAR. JAPONICA (RANUNCULACEAE). APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES 3 (3) Article Number: 1400114 Lehndal, L.; Agren, J. (2105) Latitudinal variation in resistance and tolerance to herbivory in the perennial herb Lythrum salicaria is related to intensity of herbivory and plant phenology. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 28 (3) 576-589 Shi, Changguang; Silva, Lucas C. R.; Zhang, Hongxuan; et al. (2015) Climate warming alters nitrogen dynamics and total non-structural carbohydrate accumulations of perennial herbs of distinctive functional groups during the plant senescence in autumn in an alpine meadow of the Tibetan Plateau, China. AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY 200, 21-29. The search list in Web of Knowledge from which these came ran to >700. Plantsurfer 23:17, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Sminth, I happened to come across the article on Virola through a link at Myristica fragrans, and I saw a lot of external links, and a tag about them, at Virola#Species. I didn't know if you had seen them and whether you wanted to do something about them, so I thought I'd just point it out to you. Corinne ( talk) 17:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your work in moving the article out of The Twilight Zone. :) Hamamelis ( talk) 11:24, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
I knew I'd screw something up [3], particularly as I've done rephrasing in haste. Thanks for being watchful. If you could do better for the samuyao part, I'd appreciate it... As for the picture, there's nothing on Commons. These [4] are great, but not free :( No such user ( talk) 18:04, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could be able to help me with my article on Iris aphylla. I have a large list of synonyms in the infobox but it seems several are not being displayed and if I add the refs to it - they disappear. Is there a maximum limit to synonyms ?? It is probable something simple but don't seem to be able to fix myself ! DavidAnstiss ( talk) 11:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
about my edit in Kazakhstan article wasnt a test I just added its name in persian which is one the languages used in that country and also the stan in kazkhstan means province in persian language and its completely persian word means land of the khazaks and also in Gero bisanz and some article when I made them in persian wiki it didn't had link with persian eventhough I had all languages in persian page but in english it didn't show anything so plz say why its like that and also put the persian name of kazkhstan back in the article.Thanks Simsala111 ( talk) 22:28, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, it's Cityside189... I was trying to edit the petunia article and placed a note in the talk page there about my being new, and was looking for feedback. I am just a hobby gardener but have an interest in the science. I appreciate your correction on the species listing. I saw a red link for Petunia integrifolia and had the time today to try and create an article for the first time. I've asked my friends at the Tea House to take a look at it before I submit for review. Would you be willing to take a look as well and perhaps, if you had the time, to send me some feedback? The article is at User:Cityside189/Petunia integrifolia -- Cityside ( let's talk! - contribs) 00:16, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi again, I'm not sure which talk page you are referring to. Do you mean De Sciose, J.; Hill, L.; Hill, N. (2012),
The Flower Gardener's Bible: A Complete Guide to Colorful Blooms All Season Long; 10th Anniversary Edition with a new foreword by Suzy Bales, Storey Publishing, LLC,
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link)? I don't know that book personally, so it must have been someone else who mentioned it (who it was could, in principle, be discovered from the history of the talk page). The online version in Google Books can be searched for "Petunia", which shows what that part of the book is like.
Sminthopsis84 (
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12:11, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Mate, Thanks for reverting my edit on Mir Jafar. I was following a wrong wikilink but that's no excuse, I should have been more attentive. Thanks once again.-- jojo@nthony ( talk) 15:06, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Sminthopsis84. Thanks for removing more of the remaining material added by the IP plugging Tania Peitzker (currently at AfD). As for the paragraph you marked as needing a citation, it may be a quote from this which is subscription only. More likely, it is original and rather inappropriate prose. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
OK, sorry about that. It became a habit and I have OCD but I will try to stop, incrementally. Cold turkey would likely not be successful. Quis separabit? 12:38, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Should any of the redirects orange tree, orange (tree), orange wood, orangewood, orange trees and orange (plant) go to Citrus × sinensis instead of orange (fruit)? 17:05, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
I accidentally removed a valid space, but why did you undo my removal of the deprecated usage of "Image:"? Simply adding the space back would have resolved the issue. VMS Mosaic ( talk) 13:16, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 - I guess I don't understand logical quotes. I thought I was following MOS:LQ, specifically, the second paragraph, but I was reverted: [5]. This editor and I have disagreed about the placement of quotation marks in the past. Corinne ( talk) 19:02, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Marlin said: "I need to find Nemo."
Marlin needed, he said, "to find Nemo".
Oh, although it includes the end of the sentence (we presume), it probably doesn't include the beginning After the revert, the text is: He also developed a series of stage characters, including that of "John Willie", which is described by the cultural historian Jeffrey Richards as "the archetypal gormless Lancashire lad ... hen-pecked, accident-prone, but muddling through." As an aside, shouldn't a "stage character" be referred to with the pronoun "who" rather than "which"? (It's tough avoiding periods; now I have to decide whether to end all sentences with a question mark, and whether that possible question mark should be enclosed in parentheses (?)) Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:38, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Permanent odd polyploidy apparently occurs in Andropogon ternatus as well as Rosa canina. Redirecting the term to R. canina doesn't really seem appropriate. Your thoughts? Plantdrew ( talk) 02:50, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Sweet-scented flowers and fragrant leaves, interesting associations gathered from many sources, with notes on their history and utility ... Hafspajen ( talk) 11:48, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Gosh, thanks, that's an impressive assortment that you have gathered, and a magnificent title. Speaking of interesting associations, it is intriguing to note that the date of the third painting is 1853, and to wonder what Léon Foucault would have had to say about the position of the halo; perhaps it might relate in some way to his 1850 experiment that demonstrated that light travels more slowly through water than through air, or perhaps to his 1855 experiment with the rotation of a copper disc. So many possible connections that wikipedia doesn't yet explain ... Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 09:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, your (biological) fruit and (social) vegetable, important source of human food which play several roles in human culture
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Sminthopsis84:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable
Halloween!
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Hello, Sminthopsis84. Hakea cucullata, an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot ( talk!) 02:52, 19 November 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, Sminthopsis. I see that you have some replaced links to the cottonwood section with links to the specific eastern cottonwood species. I wonder, though, if this is correct for the Pacific Northwest, where eastern cottonwood is not native. It could be that links to Populus sect. Aigeiros used to be dab links for cottonwood, and that those links refer to the black cottonwood? P. trichocarpa is native to the Pacific Northwest.
I'm specifically thinking of links that you replaced in Stikine-LeConte Wilderness, Snake River Plain (ecoregion), and Mount Meager; although there may be others.
What do you think? One super-expert is MPF, but is only active on other wikipedias (e.g., Commons). I could ask him for his opinion over there. — hike395 ( talk) 18:52, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
You know, I wonder if all of this thrashing can be reduced by creating a set index list article called List of plants named cottonwood (looking something like Goat's head). Then we can link to that list article when it's truly ambiguous. (There's also the issue, which you alluded to, that the Populus species hybridize, so we're never really sure about any disambiguation of cottonwood. Perhaps they should all point to List of plants named cottonwood? Or List of Populus species named cottonwood ? — hike395 ( talk) 03:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 - If you have time, could you look at this edit to Panama? [6]. The edit summary says the scientific name of the tree should be in italics, but the editor didn't put it in italics. Perhaps s/he didn't know how. I didn't know whether to put it into italics or not. In the subsequent edit, s/he removed the "s" on "tree" which I guess is right. Corinne ( talk) 01:05, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
In the section Cooking#Carcinogens in Cooking, I found this sentence:
I don't think this sentence is clear. Can you think of a way to simplify and clarify it? Corinne ( talk) 01:05, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Talk:Microphyll#Microphyll. Paging participants: @ Peter coxhead: @ Plantsurfer: Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 03:30, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84! - I have just begun to read the article on Pine. When I saw height measurements in meters, I decided to add conversion templates. I did add them to two height ranges, but after previewing (and then saving) I saw that the feet measurements come out in decimals. For example, 9.8 feet. As I think I might have mentioned to you two or three years ago, this is not very helpful to readers used to thinking in feet and inches. What do you recommend? I thought of three possibilities:
(a) Delete the decimal (by adding a zero to the template, I believe, to show no numbers after the decimal point, but I would check that);
(b) Round up (or down) to nearest whole number; or
(c) Figure out the inches, and change it to feet plus inches. 9 feet X inches; or
(d) Forget the conversion template altogether and leave it as just meters.
I noticed, right after I saved the two conversions, that the next measurement is feet then meters! Consistency is needed – either meters then feet or feet then meters, but a lot depends upon what you advise regarding the height ranges. Corinne ( talk) 03:00, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
{{convert|173|m|ft|abbr=on|1}}
→ 173 m (567.6 ft){{convert|173|m|ft|abbr=on|0}}
→ 173 m (568 ft){{convert|173|m|ft|abbr=on|-1}}
→ 173 m (570 ft)|order=flip
which reverses the order of the units:
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→ 173 m (568 ft)I just happened to come across this short article on Ammi majus, and I noticed that there were three "citation needed" tags in it. I thought perhaps you could add some sources. Corinne ( talk) 02:24, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm really puzzled by something. The picture in this article looks something like what I have always known as "Queen Anne's Lace", but it says it's from the Nile River valley (or something). When I do a search for "Queen Anne's Lace", it leads to a kind of disambiguation page, with two species listed. One leads to an article that says it is called Queen Anne's Lace in the UK, but the flower in the picture doesn't look anything like the plant I know as Queen Anne's Lace. If you look at the collection of pictures in Apiaceae, the plant I know looks something like the yellow flower at the left, but with the bunches looking slightly flatter, and the flower is white, not yellow. What flower is that? Is there an article on it? Corinne ( talk) 02:35, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Sminthopsis84: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 19:17, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Hafspajen ( talk) 11:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC) |
A view of Lake Bondhus in Norway, and in the background of the Bondhus Glacier, part of the Folgefonna Glacier. |
I was just looking at the article on the Brigalow Belt. In the first paragraph in the section Brigalow Belt#Location and description, it says, "The Northern Brigalow Belt covers just over 13.5 million hectares and reaches down from just north of Townsville, to Emerald and Rockhampton on the tropic..." What is "the tropic"? That's a phrase I've never heard. I think it should be either explained or linked to something that would explain what it means. Also, later in that section it says "near the tropic", equally mystifying. Corinne ( talk) 02:53, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
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A Kusamono for you! Hafspajen ( talk) 17:08, 30 December 2015 (UTC) |
Situated near an unusual privy garden. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 21:01, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Wow. No FOP. Rather like if a tree falls in a forest ... Presumably that MLA of Karnataka won't have a page here for very long. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 18:46, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
The countries where I go are mostly okay too. It would be good if Freedom of panorama had a history section, so we could understand what has caused this problem. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 21:37, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
I find it rather too long, and many of the pictures are similar. People add their favourites, no doubt. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 15:55, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Is that better with "clear" instead of "-"? It looks better on my screen. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
I not only appreciate your seasonal good wishes in the usual senses, but esteem them as a great compliment from someone I respect in many ways.
May you have a year in which you do not just make a difference, but a difference that you feel as gaining ground rather than grimly resisting the rising tide. I sometimes recall what Ambrose Bierce said: "In combat everything that wears a sword has a chance -- even the right. History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise."
However, it is in that very majority that we seek minds and spirits that might catch the spark of hunger for knowledge, and nurture it for the power it wins. Humanity is on the brink of something very big; it might be disastrous or glorious, but it will be tremendous. Our history as a species cannot continue like this; I predict drastic changes within this very century. Meanwhile, the best that educators in the widest sense can do, is to increase the supply of sparks.
Look after, go well, protect your morale and your strength, and keep up your efforts.
All the best, Jon
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Thank you Fylbecatulous! They are much too cute to eat. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for your good wishes! 2016 had a good start, with a Bach cantata (a day late) and an opera reflecting that we should take nothing to seriuz, - Verdi's wisdom, shown on New Year's Day, also as a tribute to Viva-Verdi. (Click on "bell" for more.) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:59, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your New Year greeting on my talk page; sorry to be slow in replying but I've not been around Wikipedia much over the holidays. Best wishes to you for 2016! Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:14, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Just typing in some tests here for a discussion with user:Corinne about how to use a complicated template.
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Hi, in this edit you synonymized Equisetum ramosissimum Desf and Equisetum ramosissimum Kunth. However, they are not considered synonyms by TPL (based on Tropicos), and E. ramosissimum Desf. is used as an accepted name in the usually authoritative New Flora of the British Isles. So I've restored a separate article, at least for the present. Do you recall your source for treating both as synonyms of E. giganteum? Peter coxhead ( talk) 17:36, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
On 6 January 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hakea cucullata, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the leaves of the scallop hakea cup the stem and the axillary flowers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hakea cucullata. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), 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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Hello, Sminthopsis84! I came across a plant article that is a stub: Ginkgoales. I thought I'd point it out in case you hadn't seen it and would like to expand it. Corinne ( talk) 01:10, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
1) I was just looking at the article on Pinophyta, and in the section Pinophyta#Taxonomy and naming is the following sentence:
I don't understand to what the phrase "in the latter case" is referring. What is "the latter case"? Corinne ( talk) 01:21, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
If, by some chance, it means "Pinaceae (the pine family)", then I don't understand the sentence. The previous sentence described how higher taxa are named for a representative family within the taxa, or are given names that are descriptive, but what is the relationship between Conifera and Pinaceae? Is the sentence I quoted an example of how higher taxa are named? As a non-expert, I'm completely confused. Corinne ( talk) 01:25, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
2) In the section Pinophyta#Life cycle, is there any chance of putting a tiny bit of space between the right-hand edge of the Gymnosperm life cycle diagram and the column of numbers to the right of it? The numbers are right up against the outer edge of that diagram. Corinne ( talk) 01:51, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
3) In item 4 of that numbered list is the following sentence:
What's "an evolutionary characteristic"? Isn't everything in anything that is living "an evolutionary characteristic" in some form or another? Unless this phrase has a special meaning that I'm not familiar with, wouldn't this make more sense to say it is an example of an evolutionary adaptation that occurred in gymnosperms (or something like that), as alluded to in Pinophyta#Evolution? If not, then what does this phrase mean? Corinne ( talk) 01:58, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Or maybe that it is a characteristic that distinguishes gymnosperms from angiosperms (if indeed that is true)? A distinguishing characteristic? Corinne ( talk) 01:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
I think some of the information at Species description#Naming process is either not quite right or is out-of-date for ICN names, e.g. "Once the manuscript has been accepted for publication and printed, the new species name is officially created (and the new species officially existent)" – isn't electronic publication ok now? If you have time, you might be able to check this section/article. Peter coxhead ( talk) 17:09, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Why you removed the Category:Crops originating from Europe of the page Barley? Daniel Steinman ( talk) 20:37, 7 February 2016 (UTC).
My intention is not to offend and i want an explanation about Why my edition in talk page is trolling. - 201.81.64.163 ( talk) 17:55, 9 February 2016 (UTC).
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Why do you think it isn't a youth organisation? It may, of course, also fit into other categories. Rathfelder ( talk) 20:35, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Why undo the edit of category bangladeshi hindus, when from his name and from the references quoted stating that he was cremated it seems he is a hindu thanks Sidsahu ( talk) 18:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
he is the president of the hindu buddhist christian unity organisation of bangladesh thanks Sidsahu ( talk) 18:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- Can you respond to the question just posed at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Spelling#Spelled/spelt? – Corinne ( talk) 02:25, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
I looked up at your contributions you are improving Bangladeshi too many Related articles , but I think you didn't get anything from anyone who are living in this country, and I hope you are a mankind . You can improve Moju Chowdhury Hat article this page is needed another languages for others people's who want read it in his /her own languages, hope you are doing well i welcome to you in my country also wanted to know about yourself, where are you living now which country is your born places. and you are mostly spend a lot of time on Wikipedia, but I think you love to help people who needs help it could be better than you are a human. may God bless you all the time.
I don't do correspondence in Wikipedia you can Send me a message from your Facebook. [7] Nijamahmed ( talk) 21:35, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- Lunch is this week's article for improvement. I was just trying to improve the section on Lunch#Oceania, which is entirely about Australia. It seemed a mess when I started, but I'm not sure I made much of an improvement. The concepts of "brunch" and "lunch" seemed to be confused. (Since the article is about lunch, I think, if brunch is mentioned at all, it should be made clear what the difference is, if any, between brunch and lunch.) I also wonder if the distinction is the same throughout Australia. I also see a lot of "citation needed" tags in that section; I suppose some sources ought to be found. I don't know if you feel like finding some, but, if not, just fixing up the sentences would help. Thanks in advance. – Corinne ( talk) 14:38, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I've been reading the article on James Brooke, and in the section James Brooke#Honours and legacy, there is a plant name that is a red link. I wonder if anyone feels like writing an article for that plant? – Corinne ( talk) 02:23, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Mr. sminthopsis84 what's up. hope you're doing well, and I hoped it is not a fact Because may God bless you all the time. is that you spent your time on Wikipedia. I have a question for New article, Saifia Darbar Sharif this is a Central Mosque
if you able to help me i might be able create this article, i have sourced for this?. thanks for your Response in Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by PrinceNijam ( talk • contribs) 17:09, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
i wanted learn more Contribution from you. what Did I say you Mr Sminthopsis84 how to i create a Disambiguation page please tell me... — Preceding unsigned comment added by PrinceNijam ( talk • contribs) 18:23, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
"This plant is valued in cultivation as drought-tolerant groundcover". Well. -- Kku 17:10, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I was just reading the article on Tautonym, and I noticed a tag at the beginning of the article that has been there for a while. It's asking for more citations. I just thought you might be interested. – Corinne ( talk) 02:18, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I was just reading the article on Saprotrophic nutrition. In the last sentence, there is a phrase, "the facultative saprophyte". I didn't see "facultative" anywhere else in the article, and it's not clear to me what it means here. Can you explain and/or link this term or re-word the sentence? Also, I wonder about the use of the definite article "the", as if the reader should know what it refers to, but it hasn't been mentioned before. – Corinne ( talk) 03:05, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the article Ectomycorrhiza, and looking at the images. In the section Ectomycorrhiza#Heavy metals, there is a photo of a mushroom with the following caption:
I feel that something is missing in this caption. It somehow does not make sense. Can you fix it? – Corinne ( talk) 03:30, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the Amborella article and noticed a number of "citation needed" tags. I thought you might be interested. – Corinne ( talk) 00:28, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Is this edit to Daucus carota correct? Do all botany articles have to have metric measurements first? – Corinne ( talk) 19:23, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look into the discussion at Template talk:Eukaryota#Modifications proposal, please? Zorahia ( talk) 15:51, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Can you comment at Talk:Mountain ecology#Renaming article? I think it was already moved, probably before consensus had been reached, but it is being left as it is for the duration of the discussion. If "montane" is really the correct word, and I believe it is a word, I would prefer that it not be changed to "mountain", but I don't know about the rest of the phrase. – Corinne ( talk) 04:00, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I make a first draft of a merge at User:Hike395/sandbox. I think the merged article is stronger than the separate ones. Please take a look. if you could comment on the draft at Talk:Mountain ecology, that would be great. — hike395 ( talk) 14:55, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I am sorry for not spelling the name correctly. I was referring to you addition of a POV tag. Can you elaborate which part of the text is POV? FreeatlastChitchat ( talk) 12:38, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Sminthopsis84,
Help please! Some time ago, someone (whom I thought knew what they were talking about - but I can't remember who it was) complained about my repeatedly writing full species names (like Melaleuca citrolens). After looking at some of Cas Liber's pages (eg. Banksia integrifolia) I noticed that he often abbreviates a lot, including at the start of sentences. I often use his work as a model, so I've been working through all 600 or so of the plant pages to which I've contributed, (melaleucas and eremophilas mostly) abbreviating at least some of the binomial names. I noticed that you've changed one back to the full name with the note "Avoiding starting a sentence with "M."". (I happened to also notice that you did not make the same change to Banksia integrifolia when you edited it.) It's not a big deal to me (I promise!) but I would like to know whether to stop making the change and whether there is some RULE that I don't know about. I read at Binomial nomenclature that "the binomial name should generally be written in full" and I would prefer to do that all the time. Your opinion? All the best to you. Gderrin ( talk) 14:30, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
I misread the Raspberry page... Nobody's perfect, and sleep deprivation doesn't help the matter any. Thank you for catching the issue, and I am deeply sorry you needed waste time on the problem.
The privacy anonymity offers is a temptation far too alluring to deprive myself of it. I had an account once but was deterred with such vehemence as to push me away from any regular contributions or an account whatsoever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.207.5 ( talk) 19:08, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sminthopsis84 - I see you undid my edit here. You may be under a slight misapprehension about {{ horticulture-stub}}, which is used only for the science and methods of horticulture and for horticultural organisations and experts - not for individual plant types. So while articles such as Cloche (agriculture), Delaware Center for Horticulture, and Linear aeration are horticulture stubs, specific plants are stubbed with their appropriate family or genus-specific stub templates. Grutness... wha? 01:11, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for advising me of your article on Buddlejaceae, which I found most interesting; much appreciated. Regards, Ptelea ( talk) 07:31, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
I am afraid an unnecessary edit war is being stirred up in that page again. I implore you to take a look. It's extremely disingenuous to accuse one of things like "POV-mindset" when that person inserted important historical facts into the article, and those facts are used to accuse the same person of undermining them. One Pakistani user is hell bent on degrading the article's quality.-- Vaza12 ( talk) 00:36, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Mr Sminthopsis84 Good morning. hope you're doing well as always. because may god bless you all the time. Rahmat Khali Khal is a river in the south eastern Bangladesh with 3 Districts are joined in this river, and I I've got your great value for this article. and I'm so excited about how to do you know bengali language?. thank you so much for your contribution of this article . wikiguy ( talk) (10:00 11 June 2016 (UTC)
yes I'm back. Mr. hope you are safe with your Brilliant balance. Moju Chowdhury Hat Launch Terminal only 1 picture I've uploaded but. I don't know how many types it was uploaded. please be aware that and you can delete those extra pictures, thanks stay with us. :) wikiguy ( talk) 11:31 , 11 June 2016 (UTC)
You are right — I was confusing mould and mold. Thanks. -- 217.155.32.221 ( talk) 21:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I've had a modest 'go' (as we Brits say) at this article, which seemed to me to be covering only one angle on the subject, and that not terribly well; I've also illustrated it (couldn't help doing that!) and it at least looks and is cited a little better. What do you think most needs to be done to it? Chiswick Chap ( talk) 15:34, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Ah, I couldn't help noticing the state of History of agriculture as a result. Suffice it to say that the article has shrunk from 125,000 to 75,000 bytes! It's perhaps a little tighter than it was. I'd be amused and assisted as always by your comments. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 09:53, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Aaargh! I just discovered that Agriculture provided a History of agriculture section by ... including the whole article! Never saw it done before... for reasons obv. enough. Looking into this topic area, I feel like the climber on a crumbly shale cliff who said "it's like climbing a library". I think it was originally the Old Man of Hoy. i.e. whatever I look at and hope to rely on instantly crumbles into rubble. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 08:17, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
What do you think of [ SPA comment] on Arab_Agricultural_Revolution? Chiswick Chap ( talk) 11:21, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
I'm working on User:Chiswick Chap/Plants in culture... and guess what, I found plenty of text in the expected places, but practically no references! Must be a pattern to all this, surely. (I suppose there are SOME articles which are properly referenced somewhere?) Anyway, still at an earlyish stage, but any suggestions would be welcomed. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I always thought watermelon was a fruit. Apparently, in Oklahoma it is considered a vegetable. See Oklahoma#State symbols. – Corinne ( talk) 03:03, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Here's a mint julep for you all.
– Corinne ( talk) 01:52, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
hey Mr.Sminthopsis what's up. hope you're doing well as always being a great editor of Wikipedia I'm Nijam I hope you understand. that means I need a help. please look into the box below Wikipedia Commons Commons wikimedia see why there are too many duplicate files be been uploaded. I don't know please help us and fixed those files immediately as possible as soon? thanks your friend Nijam wikiguy ( talk) 09:33 , 22 June 2016 (UTC)
thanks for the nominated dear sminthopsis I wanna know about yourself. where are you living now, and which country. I'm living in Bangladesh, and I invite you to comes in my country, i hope you've know about Moju Chowdhury Hat Town it's need another language in wikidate if you are know others languages or which language is your natives please write a article in your own language. thanks for your response in the English Wikipedia. wikiguy ( talk) 00:09 23 June 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for finding out the contradiction in 'Handloom Industry of Tangail'. Tahmina.tithi ( talk) 05:19, 27 June 2016 (UTC) |
This article has its own category, and that is where most of the categorisation should be. But I don't think it meets the definition of International non-governmental organization. Rathfelder ( talk) 17:36, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Could you please look at the opening of Sorbus domestica, where the English name link to "wild service tree" and the scientific name seem to disagree. Sorbus is beyond me! Peter coxhead ( talk) 09:06, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I am aware that Commons category links are now on Wikidata. On ENwiki it's customary to also put them after the external links section of an article (which is why I was surprised the commonscat link wasn't there). Do you know if the guidelines around this have changed? WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:55, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the article Iranian plateau, and in the Economy section there is a list of plant products. I had never heard of lucerne, so I clicked on the link, and it led to an article on Lucerne, Switzerland. Then I looked at the disambiguation page for Lucerne, and saw that there are two plants that it could be, one alfalfa and the other a tree. I figure it's alfalfa, but I thought I'd leave it up to the botanists to disambiguate this link. Thanks. – Corinne ( talk) 00:32, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I was just glancing at the article on Manipur, and I decided to make a minor change to a caption. While doing that, I changed the wording of a sentence in the Manipur#Flora section. Now I'm wondering (a) whether "ranging from...to" was better (I didn't see particularly why grasses to bamboo to trees is a range, except for height, but I supposes that could be enough); (b) whether "Vegetation consists of plants" makes any sense. Isn't all vegetation made up of plants? Is there a word that can be left out here? Or is that correct wording? – Corinne ( talk) 01:46, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
some of the rankings in the intro of Oslo university should be removed from the intro since it is not a ranking chapter and the rankings is stated elsewhere. also it was a mistake that i changed the it from 2015 to 2016. but the THE ranking from 2015 is the newest world ranking the 200 is only an EU ranking. Anyway some rankings should be removed from the intro page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beboj3140 ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I was just reading the discussion on Peter coxhead's talk page about Hylotelephium telephium. Of course I understood only a little of it, but since I liked the look of the plant in the image in the article, I looked at a few of the linked articles. (Since I always thought sedum was a small plant with succulent leaves, I thought it was interesting that this one looked different.) I came upon this article: Crassulaceae, and I saw a tag at Crassulaceae#Genera that has been there since 2013. Just thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't seen it. – Corinne ( talk) 20:57, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sminthopsis84, I'd like to politely disagree with you about one of your recent edits. You capitalized the words "friar's balsam" and "vulnerable" in the article Styrax and I think they should be lower case. Your edit summary said they were "technical terms", but we don't generally capitalize technical terms. "Friar's balsam" seems to be a traditional name for a medicine produced by many companies and "vulnerable" is a category; neither are proper names. Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 02:27, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
classed as "vulnerable" by the IUCNor adding the abbreviation (which is always capitalized), e.g.
rated as vulnerable (VU). Sigh... Peter coxhead ( talk) 06:00, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
I've been led (hmm) to write a teleology article ... and to try to straighten out the mess at Eusociality, having more or less tidied up Group selection, and yes, they are all connected, unfortunately. There's a discussion of how to deal with teleology in, er, all biology articles (hmm), at WikiProject Biology which you and folks who stalk here might like to look at. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 11:17, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Before we all go reediting everything, let's resolve this issue on terminology. I've responded to you comment on Talk:Leaf_window#Inappropriate_page_name. Let's have a discussion there. -- Sjschen ( talk) 17:24, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand what is the purpose of your delete of the term fenestrate on the page, since you didn't go into you rational in your edit comments. Could you clarify why a bulk delete was preferable to actual correction and editing? -- Sjschen ( talk) 17:41, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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The heading of the section from which I removed the entry for fenestration is "List of leaf (or leaflet) shapes". It isn't a shape. But look, I just don't have the time and energy required to fix all the bad material in wikipedia, and it requires extra energy to argue with you about every point. I have added a smidgeon of accuracy to the leaf window page to simply demonstrate that most of these structures have only incidental epidermis and the rest is parenchyma, so calling them all "epidermal windows" is just plain wrong. The page is still a mess and needs a lot of work and citations. I've had enough, and will not discuss this further, and am removing all the affected pages from my watch list because I simply need to save some energy for real life (and other parts of wikipedia where people aren't arguing with me). Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 13:40, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
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Sminthopsis84, I came across this article, and I see "mesotrophic grassland" is a red link. I'm surprised that there is no article, or section in this article, that explains what "mesotrophic grasslands" means. I searched for information on it after I read about two types of grassland in the lede of Mendip Hills. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:31, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
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I see you decided to clear out your talk page and start fresh. I don't know if you are watching Zucchini, but if not I thought I'd ask you if you agreed with this edit: [1] Even if you think it is correct, what do you think of "X over zucchini"? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:48, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
You might both like to look at Talk:Zucchini#British usage. Peter coxhead ( talk) 15:20, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Like you, I at first assumed there must be a substantial number of botanically defined berries used as spices, but searching suggests not; like Piper nigrum most of those loosely called "berries" seem to be other kinds of fruit, especially drupes. The same seems to true of dyes: e.g. the list here, which would be a reliable source, has virtually no berries.
Apropos general fruit classification, I now know more about it than I previously wished to and hence realize that it's a very tricky subject, with substantially different classification systems in use. Thus although I'd written without a source that an aggregate fruit can be considered to be composed of individual fruits, and happily changed to "fruitlets" when you pointed out my "error", actually this is correct on some views. My old Foster & Gifford (1973), Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants has on p.719 "an aggregate fruit is said to consist of a collection of more-or-less separate simple fruits". It all depends on whether you take the basis of fruit classification to be a single carpel, a single ovary or a single gynoecium – all three exist in the literature. If the first is used, an aggregate fruit is a collection of fruits; if the second and particularly the third, an aggregate fruit is a collection of fruitlets, where a fruitlet is to a fruit as a leaflet is to a leaf (according to Foster & Gifford) – so that "compound fruit" would have been a better name, perhaps. Foster & Gifford also point out the difficulty in defining "accessory fruits". Since the receptacle comes away with the rest of the fruit in blackberries, they could be called "accessory fruits", like strawberries, whereas closely related raspberries, where the receptacle remains on the bush, aren't "accessory fruits". But this seems a very artificial distinction and I haven't seen it made, but surely it's strictly true of blackberries?
I'd really like to add something about berries and " seed dispersal syndromes" but am still searching for good up-to-date sources. The article is something of a personal essay, and needs quite a bit of work. Any ideas? Peter coxhead ( talk) 13:48, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
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help). Read one way (particularly the last sections) they seem to be suggesting using "pericarpium" for "fruit" (i.e. a matured ovary ± other parts of the flower) and extending "fruit" more widely, but it's not spelt out. I don't have access to Spjut, R.W. (1994), "A systematic treatment of fruit types", Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 70:1-182 – do you? If the Spjut terminology for what has been "aggregate" and "multiple" fruits catches on more widely, we are in for a lot of confusion – see below.
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There's a redraft of this article at User:Peter coxhead/Sandbox2 which helps to sort out some of my confusion over terminology, caused by using Spjut-based sources alongside traditional ones, without realizing the radically different usages. Sigh... I doubt I'll have time to polish up the draft to "release" standards for the next week or two. Peter coxhead ( talk) 21:56, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing— Fresno pepper —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Falconjh ( talk) 13:06, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
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I was looking at the article Forb, and I saw near the beginning "a herbaceous...plant". I was surprised at the use of the article "a". Does that mean that the "h" in "herbaceous" is aspirated (pronounced with air)? In American English, "herb" is pronounced with a silent "h", so why would "herbaceous" be pronounced with an aspirated "h"? Then I looked at the article herbaceous plant, and the first sentence reads:
There are two things I want to say about this sentence:
1) I notice that the article "an" is used before "herbaceous plant" this time. That is the way I would have expected it to be (American English, at least). So there is some inconsistency between this article and the Forb article.
2) I was suprised by the statement in parentheses: "in American botanical use simply herb". I thought an herb was a green plant that was used in either cooking or for medicinal use. Do botanists extend the meaning to all green plants that don't survive the winter (ie., die down to soil level)?
Just curious. Corinne ( talk) 00:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
According to the OED and other dicts, an "herb" is a non-woody and therefore annual or perennial plant, and especially one whose leaves or leaves and stems are used in medicine or cooking. So general use of 'herb' is the same as 'herbaceous plant'. That's not specifically American usage, and not a clipping. Most of the time, of course, people intend the specialized reading.
In the UK the /h/ started being added to the word in the 19th century, and hasn't really caught on across the pond. You do hear /h/ in the US, but it isn't common. Where I am (west coast), if you use an /h/ people will correct you. It sounds a bit ignorant, like a spelling pronunciation -- which, of course, is exactly what it is. — kwami ( talk) 22:42, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Plue, Jan; Vandepitte, Katrien; Honnay, Olivier; et al. (2015) Isolation by 454-sequencing and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the tetraploid perennial herb Campanula rotundifolia. CONSERVATION GENETICS RESOURCES 7 (3) 721-722 Published: SEP 2015 Lee, Seung Youn; Rhie, Yong Ha; Kim, Ki Sun (2015) Non-deep simple morphophysiological dormancy in seeds of Thalictrum rochebrunianum, an endemic perennial herb in the Korean Peninsula. HORTICULTURE ENVIRONMENT AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 56 (3)366-375 Torang, Per; Wunder, Joerg; Obeso, Jose Ramon; et al. (2015) Large-scale adaptive differentiation in the alpine perennial herb Arabis alpina. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 206 (1) 459-470 Kameoka, Shinichiro; Higashi, Hiroyuki; Setoguchi, Hiroaki (2015) DEVELOPMENT OF POLYMORPHIC MICROSATELLITE LOCI IN THE PERENNIAL HERB HEPATICA NOBILIS VAR. JAPONICA (RANUNCULACEAE). APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES 3 (3) Article Number: 1400114 Lehndal, L.; Agren, J. (2105) Latitudinal variation in resistance and tolerance to herbivory in the perennial herb Lythrum salicaria is related to intensity of herbivory and plant phenology. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 28 (3) 576-589 Shi, Changguang; Silva, Lucas C. R.; Zhang, Hongxuan; et al. (2015) Climate warming alters nitrogen dynamics and total non-structural carbohydrate accumulations of perennial herbs of distinctive functional groups during the plant senescence in autumn in an alpine meadow of the Tibetan Plateau, China. AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY 200, 21-29. The search list in Web of Knowledge from which these came ran to >700. Plantsurfer 23:17, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Sminth, I happened to come across the article on Virola through a link at Myristica fragrans, and I saw a lot of external links, and a tag about them, at Virola#Species. I didn't know if you had seen them and whether you wanted to do something about them, so I thought I'd just point it out to you. Corinne ( talk) 17:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your work in moving the article out of The Twilight Zone. :) Hamamelis ( talk) 11:24, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
I knew I'd screw something up [3], particularly as I've done rephrasing in haste. Thanks for being watchful. If you could do better for the samuyao part, I'd appreciate it... As for the picture, there's nothing on Commons. These [4] are great, but not free :( No such user ( talk) 18:04, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could be able to help me with my article on Iris aphylla. I have a large list of synonyms in the infobox but it seems several are not being displayed and if I add the refs to it - they disappear. Is there a maximum limit to synonyms ?? It is probable something simple but don't seem to be able to fix myself ! DavidAnstiss ( talk) 11:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
about my edit in Kazakhstan article wasnt a test I just added its name in persian which is one the languages used in that country and also the stan in kazkhstan means province in persian language and its completely persian word means land of the khazaks and also in Gero bisanz and some article when I made them in persian wiki it didn't had link with persian eventhough I had all languages in persian page but in english it didn't show anything so plz say why its like that and also put the persian name of kazkhstan back in the article.Thanks Simsala111 ( talk) 22:28, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, it's Cityside189... I was trying to edit the petunia article and placed a note in the talk page there about my being new, and was looking for feedback. I am just a hobby gardener but have an interest in the science. I appreciate your correction on the species listing. I saw a red link for Petunia integrifolia and had the time today to try and create an article for the first time. I've asked my friends at the Tea House to take a look at it before I submit for review. Would you be willing to take a look as well and perhaps, if you had the time, to send me some feedback? The article is at User:Cityside189/Petunia integrifolia -- Cityside ( let's talk! - contribs) 00:16, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi again, I'm not sure which talk page you are referring to. Do you mean De Sciose, J.; Hill, L.; Hill, N. (2012),
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link)? I don't know that book personally, so it must have been someone else who mentioned it (who it was could, in principle, be discovered from the history of the talk page). The online version in Google Books can be searched for "Petunia", which shows what that part of the book is like.
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Hi Mate, Thanks for reverting my edit on Mir Jafar. I was following a wrong wikilink but that's no excuse, I should have been more attentive. Thanks once again.-- jojo@nthony ( talk) 15:06, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Sminthopsis84. Thanks for removing more of the remaining material added by the IP plugging Tania Peitzker (currently at AfD). As for the paragraph you marked as needing a citation, it may be a quote from this which is subscription only. More likely, it is original and rather inappropriate prose. Voceditenore ( talk) 17:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
OK, sorry about that. It became a habit and I have OCD but I will try to stop, incrementally. Cold turkey would likely not be successful. Quis separabit? 12:38, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Should any of the redirects orange tree, orange (tree), orange wood, orangewood, orange trees and orange (plant) go to Citrus × sinensis instead of orange (fruit)? 17:05, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
I accidentally removed a valid space, but why did you undo my removal of the deprecated usage of "Image:"? Simply adding the space back would have resolved the issue. VMS Mosaic ( talk) 13:16, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 - I guess I don't understand logical quotes. I thought I was following MOS:LQ, specifically, the second paragraph, but I was reverted: [5]. This editor and I have disagreed about the placement of quotation marks in the past. Corinne ( talk) 19:02, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
Marlin said: "I need to find Nemo."
Marlin needed, he said, "to find Nemo".
Oh, although it includes the end of the sentence (we presume), it probably doesn't include the beginning After the revert, the text is: He also developed a series of stage characters, including that of "John Willie", which is described by the cultural historian Jeffrey Richards as "the archetypal gormless Lancashire lad ... hen-pecked, accident-prone, but muddling through." As an aside, shouldn't a "stage character" be referred to with the pronoun "who" rather than "which"? (It's tough avoiding periods; now I have to decide whether to end all sentences with a question mark, and whether that possible question mark should be enclosed in parentheses (?)) Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:38, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Permanent odd polyploidy apparently occurs in Andropogon ternatus as well as Rosa canina. Redirecting the term to R. canina doesn't really seem appropriate. Your thoughts? Plantdrew ( talk) 02:50, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Sweet-scented flowers and fragrant leaves, interesting associations gathered from many sources, with notes on their history and utility ... Hafspajen ( talk) 11:48, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Gosh, thanks, that's an impressive assortment that you have gathered, and a magnificent title. Speaking of interesting associations, it is intriguing to note that the date of the third painting is 1853, and to wonder what Léon Foucault would have had to say about the position of the halo; perhaps it might relate in some way to his 1850 experiment that demonstrated that light travels more slowly through water than through air, or perhaps to his 1855 experiment with the rotation of a copper disc. So many possible connections that wikipedia doesn't yet explain ... Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 09:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, your (biological) fruit and (social) vegetable, important source of human food which play several roles in human culture
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello Sminthopsis84:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable
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Hello, Sminthopsis84. Hakea cucullata, an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot ( talk!) 02:52, 19 November 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, Sminthopsis. I see that you have some replaced links to the cottonwood section with links to the specific eastern cottonwood species. I wonder, though, if this is correct for the Pacific Northwest, where eastern cottonwood is not native. It could be that links to Populus sect. Aigeiros used to be dab links for cottonwood, and that those links refer to the black cottonwood? P. trichocarpa is native to the Pacific Northwest.
I'm specifically thinking of links that you replaced in Stikine-LeConte Wilderness, Snake River Plain (ecoregion), and Mount Meager; although there may be others.
What do you think? One super-expert is MPF, but is only active on other wikipedias (e.g., Commons). I could ask him for his opinion over there. — hike395 ( talk) 18:52, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
You know, I wonder if all of this thrashing can be reduced by creating a set index list article called List of plants named cottonwood (looking something like Goat's head). Then we can link to that list article when it's truly ambiguous. (There's also the issue, which you alluded to, that the Populus species hybridize, so we're never really sure about any disambiguation of cottonwood. Perhaps they should all point to List of plants named cottonwood? Or List of Populus species named cottonwood ? — hike395 ( talk) 03:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 - If you have time, could you look at this edit to Panama? [6]. The edit summary says the scientific name of the tree should be in italics, but the editor didn't put it in italics. Perhaps s/he didn't know how. I didn't know whether to put it into italics or not. In the subsequent edit, s/he removed the "s" on "tree" which I guess is right. Corinne ( talk) 01:05, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
In the section Cooking#Carcinogens in Cooking, I found this sentence:
I don't think this sentence is clear. Can you think of a way to simplify and clarify it? Corinne ( talk) 01:05, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Talk:Microphyll#Microphyll. Paging participants: @ Peter coxhead: @ Plantsurfer: Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 03:30, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84! - I have just begun to read the article on Pine. When I saw height measurements in meters, I decided to add conversion templates. I did add them to two height ranges, but after previewing (and then saving) I saw that the feet measurements come out in decimals. For example, 9.8 feet. As I think I might have mentioned to you two or three years ago, this is not very helpful to readers used to thinking in feet and inches. What do you recommend? I thought of three possibilities:
(a) Delete the decimal (by adding a zero to the template, I believe, to show no numbers after the decimal point, but I would check that);
(b) Round up (or down) to nearest whole number; or
(c) Figure out the inches, and change it to feet plus inches. 9 feet X inches; or
(d) Forget the conversion template altogether and leave it as just meters.
I noticed, right after I saved the two conversions, that the next measurement is feet then meters! Consistency is needed – either meters then feet or feet then meters, but a lot depends upon what you advise regarding the height ranges. Corinne ( talk) 03:00, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
{{convert|173|m|ft|abbr=on|1}}
→ 173 m (567.6 ft){{convert|173|m|ft|abbr=on|0}}
→ 173 m (568 ft){{convert|173|m|ft|abbr=on|-1}}
→ 173 m (570 ft)|order=flip
which reverses the order of the units:
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→ 173 m (568 ft)I just happened to come across this short article on Ammi majus, and I noticed that there were three "citation needed" tags in it. I thought perhaps you could add some sources. Corinne ( talk) 02:24, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm really puzzled by something. The picture in this article looks something like what I have always known as "Queen Anne's Lace", but it says it's from the Nile River valley (or something). When I do a search for "Queen Anne's Lace", it leads to a kind of disambiguation page, with two species listed. One leads to an article that says it is called Queen Anne's Lace in the UK, but the flower in the picture doesn't look anything like the plant I know as Queen Anne's Lace. If you look at the collection of pictures in Apiaceae, the plant I know looks something like the yellow flower at the left, but with the bunches looking slightly flatter, and the flower is white, not yellow. What flower is that? Is there an article on it? Corinne ( talk) 02:35, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Sminthopsis84: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 19:17, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Hafspajen ( talk) 11:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC) |
A view of Lake Bondhus in Norway, and in the background of the Bondhus Glacier, part of the Folgefonna Glacier. |
I was just looking at the article on the Brigalow Belt. In the first paragraph in the section Brigalow Belt#Location and description, it says, "The Northern Brigalow Belt covers just over 13.5 million hectares and reaches down from just north of Townsville, to Emerald and Rockhampton on the tropic..." What is "the tropic"? That's a phrase I've never heard. I think it should be either explained or linked to something that would explain what it means. Also, later in that section it says "near the tropic", equally mystifying. Corinne ( talk) 02:53, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
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A Kusamono for you! Hafspajen ( talk) 17:08, 30 December 2015 (UTC) |
Situated near an unusual privy garden. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 21:01, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Wow. No FOP. Rather like if a tree falls in a forest ... Presumably that MLA of Karnataka won't have a page here for very long. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 18:46, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
The countries where I go are mostly okay too. It would be good if Freedom of panorama had a history section, so we could understand what has caused this problem. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 21:37, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
I find it rather too long, and many of the pictures are similar. People add their favourites, no doubt. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 15:55, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Is that better with "clear" instead of "-"? It looks better on my screen. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
I not only appreciate your seasonal good wishes in the usual senses, but esteem them as a great compliment from someone I respect in many ways.
May you have a year in which you do not just make a difference, but a difference that you feel as gaining ground rather than grimly resisting the rising tide. I sometimes recall what Ambrose Bierce said: "In combat everything that wears a sword has a chance -- even the right. History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise."
However, it is in that very majority that we seek minds and spirits that might catch the spark of hunger for knowledge, and nurture it for the power it wins. Humanity is on the brink of something very big; it might be disastrous or glorious, but it will be tremendous. Our history as a species cannot continue like this; I predict drastic changes within this very century. Meanwhile, the best that educators in the widest sense can do, is to increase the supply of sparks.
Look after, go well, protect your morale and your strength, and keep up your efforts.
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Thank you Fylbecatulous! They are much too cute to eat. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 17:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for your good wishes! 2016 had a good start, with a Bach cantata (a day late) and an opera reflecting that we should take nothing to seriuz, - Verdi's wisdom, shown on New Year's Day, also as a tribute to Viva-Verdi. (Click on "bell" for more.) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:59, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your New Year greeting on my talk page; sorry to be slow in replying but I've not been around Wikipedia much over the holidays. Best wishes to you for 2016! Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:14, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, in this edit you synonymized Equisetum ramosissimum Desf and Equisetum ramosissimum Kunth. However, they are not considered synonyms by TPL (based on Tropicos), and E. ramosissimum Desf. is used as an accepted name in the usually authoritative New Flora of the British Isles. So I've restored a separate article, at least for the present. Do you recall your source for treating both as synonyms of E. giganteum? Peter coxhead ( talk) 17:36, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
On 6 January 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hakea cucullata, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the leaves of the scallop hakea cup the stem and the axillary flowers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hakea cucullata. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), 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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Hello, Sminthopsis84! I came across a plant article that is a stub: Ginkgoales. I thought I'd point it out in case you hadn't seen it and would like to expand it. Corinne ( talk) 01:10, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
1) I was just looking at the article on Pinophyta, and in the section Pinophyta#Taxonomy and naming is the following sentence:
I don't understand to what the phrase "in the latter case" is referring. What is "the latter case"? Corinne ( talk) 01:21, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
If, by some chance, it means "Pinaceae (the pine family)", then I don't understand the sentence. The previous sentence described how higher taxa are named for a representative family within the taxa, or are given names that are descriptive, but what is the relationship between Conifera and Pinaceae? Is the sentence I quoted an example of how higher taxa are named? As a non-expert, I'm completely confused. Corinne ( talk) 01:25, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
2) In the section Pinophyta#Life cycle, is there any chance of putting a tiny bit of space between the right-hand edge of the Gymnosperm life cycle diagram and the column of numbers to the right of it? The numbers are right up against the outer edge of that diagram. Corinne ( talk) 01:51, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
3) In item 4 of that numbered list is the following sentence:
What's "an evolutionary characteristic"? Isn't everything in anything that is living "an evolutionary characteristic" in some form or another? Unless this phrase has a special meaning that I'm not familiar with, wouldn't this make more sense to say it is an example of an evolutionary adaptation that occurred in gymnosperms (or something like that), as alluded to in Pinophyta#Evolution? If not, then what does this phrase mean? Corinne ( talk) 01:58, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Or maybe that it is a characteristic that distinguishes gymnosperms from angiosperms (if indeed that is true)? A distinguishing characteristic? Corinne ( talk) 01:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
I think some of the information at Species description#Naming process is either not quite right or is out-of-date for ICN names, e.g. "Once the manuscript has been accepted for publication and printed, the new species name is officially created (and the new species officially existent)" – isn't electronic publication ok now? If you have time, you might be able to check this section/article. Peter coxhead ( talk) 17:09, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Why you removed the Category:Crops originating from Europe of the page Barley? Daniel Steinman ( talk) 20:37, 7 February 2016 (UTC).
My intention is not to offend and i want an explanation about Why my edition in talk page is trolling. - 201.81.64.163 ( talk) 17:55, 9 February 2016 (UTC).
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Why do you think it isn't a youth organisation? It may, of course, also fit into other categories. Rathfelder ( talk) 20:35, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Why undo the edit of category bangladeshi hindus, when from his name and from the references quoted stating that he was cremated it seems he is a hindu thanks Sidsahu ( talk) 18:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
he is the president of the hindu buddhist christian unity organisation of bangladesh thanks Sidsahu ( talk) 18:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- Can you respond to the question just posed at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Spelling#Spelled/spelt? – Corinne ( talk) 02:25, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
I looked up at your contributions you are improving Bangladeshi too many Related articles , but I think you didn't get anything from anyone who are living in this country, and I hope you are a mankind . You can improve Moju Chowdhury Hat article this page is needed another languages for others people's who want read it in his /her own languages, hope you are doing well i welcome to you in my country also wanted to know about yourself, where are you living now which country is your born places. and you are mostly spend a lot of time on Wikipedia, but I think you love to help people who needs help it could be better than you are a human. may God bless you all the time.
I don't do correspondence in Wikipedia you can Send me a message from your Facebook. [7] Nijamahmed ( talk) 21:35, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- Lunch is this week's article for improvement. I was just trying to improve the section on Lunch#Oceania, which is entirely about Australia. It seemed a mess when I started, but I'm not sure I made much of an improvement. The concepts of "brunch" and "lunch" seemed to be confused. (Since the article is about lunch, I think, if brunch is mentioned at all, it should be made clear what the difference is, if any, between brunch and lunch.) I also wonder if the distinction is the same throughout Australia. I also see a lot of "citation needed" tags in that section; I suppose some sources ought to be found. I don't know if you feel like finding some, but, if not, just fixing up the sentences would help. Thanks in advance. – Corinne ( talk) 14:38, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I've been reading the article on James Brooke, and in the section James Brooke#Honours and legacy, there is a plant name that is a red link. I wonder if anyone feels like writing an article for that plant? – Corinne ( talk) 02:23, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Mr. sminthopsis84 what's up. hope you're doing well, and I hoped it is not a fact Because may God bless you all the time. is that you spent your time on Wikipedia. I have a question for New article, Saifia Darbar Sharif this is a Central Mosque
if you able to help me i might be able create this article, i have sourced for this?. thanks for your Response in Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by PrinceNijam ( talk • contribs) 17:09, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
i wanted learn more Contribution from you. what Did I say you Mr Sminthopsis84 how to i create a Disambiguation page please tell me... — Preceding unsigned comment added by PrinceNijam ( talk • contribs) 18:23, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
"This plant is valued in cultivation as drought-tolerant groundcover". Well. -- Kku 17:10, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I was just reading the article on Tautonym, and I noticed a tag at the beginning of the article that has been there for a while. It's asking for more citations. I just thought you might be interested. – Corinne ( talk) 02:18, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I was just reading the article on Saprotrophic nutrition. In the last sentence, there is a phrase, "the facultative saprophyte". I didn't see "facultative" anywhere else in the article, and it's not clear to me what it means here. Can you explain and/or link this term or re-word the sentence? Also, I wonder about the use of the definite article "the", as if the reader should know what it refers to, but it hasn't been mentioned before. – Corinne ( talk) 03:05, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the article Ectomycorrhiza, and looking at the images. In the section Ectomycorrhiza#Heavy metals, there is a photo of a mushroom with the following caption:
I feel that something is missing in this caption. It somehow does not make sense. Can you fix it? – Corinne ( talk) 03:30, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the Amborella article and noticed a number of "citation needed" tags. I thought you might be interested. – Corinne ( talk) 00:28, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Is this edit to Daucus carota correct? Do all botany articles have to have metric measurements first? – Corinne ( talk) 19:23, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look into the discussion at Template talk:Eukaryota#Modifications proposal, please? Zorahia ( talk) 15:51, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Can you comment at Talk:Mountain ecology#Renaming article? I think it was already moved, probably before consensus had been reached, but it is being left as it is for the duration of the discussion. If "montane" is really the correct word, and I believe it is a word, I would prefer that it not be changed to "mountain", but I don't know about the rest of the phrase. – Corinne ( talk) 04:00, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I make a first draft of a merge at User:Hike395/sandbox. I think the merged article is stronger than the separate ones. Please take a look. if you could comment on the draft at Talk:Mountain ecology, that would be great. — hike395 ( talk) 14:55, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I am sorry for not spelling the name correctly. I was referring to you addition of a POV tag. Can you elaborate which part of the text is POV? FreeatlastChitchat ( talk) 12:38, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello Sminthopsis84,
Help please! Some time ago, someone (whom I thought knew what they were talking about - but I can't remember who it was) complained about my repeatedly writing full species names (like Melaleuca citrolens). After looking at some of Cas Liber's pages (eg. Banksia integrifolia) I noticed that he often abbreviates a lot, including at the start of sentences. I often use his work as a model, so I've been working through all 600 or so of the plant pages to which I've contributed, (melaleucas and eremophilas mostly) abbreviating at least some of the binomial names. I noticed that you've changed one back to the full name with the note "Avoiding starting a sentence with "M."". (I happened to also notice that you did not make the same change to Banksia integrifolia when you edited it.) It's not a big deal to me (I promise!) but I would like to know whether to stop making the change and whether there is some RULE that I don't know about. I read at Binomial nomenclature that "the binomial name should generally be written in full" and I would prefer to do that all the time. Your opinion? All the best to you. Gderrin ( talk) 14:30, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
I misread the Raspberry page... Nobody's perfect, and sleep deprivation doesn't help the matter any. Thank you for catching the issue, and I am deeply sorry you needed waste time on the problem.
The privacy anonymity offers is a temptation far too alluring to deprive myself of it. I had an account once but was deterred with such vehemence as to push me away from any regular contributions or an account whatsoever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.207.5 ( talk) 19:08, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sminthopsis84 - I see you undid my edit here. You may be under a slight misapprehension about {{ horticulture-stub}}, which is used only for the science and methods of horticulture and for horticultural organisations and experts - not for individual plant types. So while articles such as Cloche (agriculture), Delaware Center for Horticulture, and Linear aeration are horticulture stubs, specific plants are stubbed with their appropriate family or genus-specific stub templates. Grutness... wha? 01:11, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for advising me of your article on Buddlejaceae, which I found most interesting; much appreciated. Regards, Ptelea ( talk) 07:31, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
I am afraid an unnecessary edit war is being stirred up in that page again. I implore you to take a look. It's extremely disingenuous to accuse one of things like "POV-mindset" when that person inserted important historical facts into the article, and those facts are used to accuse the same person of undermining them. One Pakistani user is hell bent on degrading the article's quality.-- Vaza12 ( talk) 00:36, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Mr Sminthopsis84 Good morning. hope you're doing well as always. because may god bless you all the time. Rahmat Khali Khal is a river in the south eastern Bangladesh with 3 Districts are joined in this river, and I I've got your great value for this article. and I'm so excited about how to do you know bengali language?. thank you so much for your contribution of this article . wikiguy ( talk) (10:00 11 June 2016 (UTC)
yes I'm back. Mr. hope you are safe with your Brilliant balance. Moju Chowdhury Hat Launch Terminal only 1 picture I've uploaded but. I don't know how many types it was uploaded. please be aware that and you can delete those extra pictures, thanks stay with us. :) wikiguy ( talk) 11:31 , 11 June 2016 (UTC)
You are right — I was confusing mould and mold. Thanks. -- 217.155.32.221 ( talk) 21:07, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I've had a modest 'go' (as we Brits say) at this article, which seemed to me to be covering only one angle on the subject, and that not terribly well; I've also illustrated it (couldn't help doing that!) and it at least looks and is cited a little better. What do you think most needs to be done to it? Chiswick Chap ( talk) 15:34, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Ah, I couldn't help noticing the state of History of agriculture as a result. Suffice it to say that the article has shrunk from 125,000 to 75,000 bytes! It's perhaps a little tighter than it was. I'd be amused and assisted as always by your comments. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 09:53, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Aaargh! I just discovered that Agriculture provided a History of agriculture section by ... including the whole article! Never saw it done before... for reasons obv. enough. Looking into this topic area, I feel like the climber on a crumbly shale cliff who said "it's like climbing a library". I think it was originally the Old Man of Hoy. i.e. whatever I look at and hope to rely on instantly crumbles into rubble. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 08:17, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
What do you think of [ SPA comment] on Arab_Agricultural_Revolution? Chiswick Chap ( talk) 11:21, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
I'm working on User:Chiswick Chap/Plants in culture... and guess what, I found plenty of text in the expected places, but practically no references! Must be a pattern to all this, surely. (I suppose there are SOME articles which are properly referenced somewhere?) Anyway, still at an earlyish stage, but any suggestions would be welcomed. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I always thought watermelon was a fruit. Apparently, in Oklahoma it is considered a vegetable. See Oklahoma#State symbols. – Corinne ( talk) 03:03, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Here's a mint julep for you all.
– Corinne ( talk) 01:52, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
hey Mr.Sminthopsis what's up. hope you're doing well as always being a great editor of Wikipedia I'm Nijam I hope you understand. that means I need a help. please look into the box below Wikipedia Commons Commons wikimedia see why there are too many duplicate files be been uploaded. I don't know please help us and fixed those files immediately as possible as soon? thanks your friend Nijam wikiguy ( talk) 09:33 , 22 June 2016 (UTC)
thanks for the nominated dear sminthopsis I wanna know about yourself. where are you living now, and which country. I'm living in Bangladesh, and I invite you to comes in my country, i hope you've know about Moju Chowdhury Hat Town it's need another language in wikidate if you are know others languages or which language is your natives please write a article in your own language. thanks for your response in the English Wikipedia. wikiguy ( talk) 00:09 23 June 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for finding out the contradiction in 'Handloom Industry of Tangail'. Tahmina.tithi ( talk) 05:19, 27 June 2016 (UTC) |
This article has its own category, and that is where most of the categorisation should be. But I don't think it meets the definition of International non-governmental organization. Rathfelder ( talk) 17:36, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Could you please look at the opening of Sorbus domestica, where the English name link to "wild service tree" and the scientific name seem to disagree. Sorbus is beyond me! Peter coxhead ( talk) 09:06, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi! I am aware that Commons category links are now on Wikidata. On ENwiki it's customary to also put them after the external links section of an article (which is why I was surprised the commonscat link wasn't there). Do you know if the guidelines around this have changed? WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:55, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
I was just looking at the article Iranian plateau, and in the Economy section there is a list of plant products. I had never heard of lucerne, so I clicked on the link, and it led to an article on Lucerne, Switzerland. Then I looked at the disambiguation page for Lucerne, and saw that there are two plants that it could be, one alfalfa and the other a tree. I figure it's alfalfa, but I thought I'd leave it up to the botanists to disambiguate this link. Thanks. – Corinne ( talk) 00:32, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I was just glancing at the article on Manipur, and I decided to make a minor change to a caption. While doing that, I changed the wording of a sentence in the Manipur#Flora section. Now I'm wondering (a) whether "ranging from...to" was better (I didn't see particularly why grasses to bamboo to trees is a range, except for height, but I supposes that could be enough); (b) whether "Vegetation consists of plants" makes any sense. Isn't all vegetation made up of plants? Is there a word that can be left out here? Or is that correct wording? – Corinne ( talk) 01:46, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
some of the rankings in the intro of Oslo university should be removed from the intro since it is not a ranking chapter and the rankings is stated elsewhere. also it was a mistake that i changed the it from 2015 to 2016. but the THE ranking from 2015 is the newest world ranking the 200 is only an EU ranking. Anyway some rankings should be removed from the intro page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beboj3140 ( talk • contribs) 22:17, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Sminthopsis84 -- I was just reading the discussion on Peter coxhead's talk page about Hylotelephium telephium. Of course I understood only a little of it, but since I liked the look of the plant in the image in the article, I looked at a few of the linked articles. (Since I always thought sedum was a small plant with succulent leaves, I thought it was interesting that this one looked different.) I came upon this article: Crassulaceae, and I saw a tag at Crassulaceae#Genera that has been there since 2013. Just thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't seen it. – Corinne ( talk) 20:57, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Sminthopsis84, I'd like to politely disagree with you about one of your recent edits. You capitalized the words "friar's balsam" and "vulnerable" in the article Styrax and I think they should be lower case. Your edit summary said they were "technical terms", but we don't generally capitalize technical terms. "Friar's balsam" seems to be a traditional name for a medicine produced by many companies and "vulnerable" is a category; neither are proper names. Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨ 02:27, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
classed as "vulnerable" by the IUCNor adding the abbreviation (which is always capitalized), e.g.
rated as vulnerable (VU). Sigh... Peter coxhead ( talk) 06:00, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
I've been led (hmm) to write a teleology article ... and to try to straighten out the mess at Eusociality, having more or less tidied up Group selection, and yes, they are all connected, unfortunately. There's a discussion of how to deal with teleology in, er, all biology articles (hmm), at WikiProject Biology which you and folks who stalk here might like to look at. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 11:17, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Before we all go reediting everything, let's resolve this issue on terminology. I've responded to you comment on Talk:Leaf_window#Inappropriate_page_name. Let's have a discussion there. -- Sjschen ( talk) 17:24, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand what is the purpose of your delete of the term fenestrate on the page, since you didn't go into you rational in your edit comments. Could you clarify why a bulk delete was preferable to actual correction and editing? -- Sjschen ( talk) 17:41, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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The heading of the section from which I removed the entry for fenestration is "List of leaf (or leaflet) shapes". It isn't a shape. But look, I just don't have the time and energy required to fix all the bad material in wikipedia, and it requires extra energy to argue with you about every point. I have added a smidgeon of accuracy to the leaf window page to simply demonstrate that most of these structures have only incidental epidermis and the rest is parenchyma, so calling them all "epidermal windows" is just plain wrong. The page is still a mess and needs a lot of work and citations. I've had enough, and will not discuss this further, and am removing all the affected pages from my watch list because I simply need to save some energy for real life (and other parts of wikipedia where people aren't arguing with me). Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 13:40, 19 August 2016 (UTC)