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Thank you! And thank you for your advice in improving the article. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 07:41, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Theroadislong (talk) 11:10, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that was quick! I was a little concerned it might not pass muster because of the paucity of references, but I'll keep adding as and when I find them. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 11:14, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your prompt reply. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 16:12, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for that: I was puzzling over what disambiguation to use. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 07:25, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2024

Hello, ArthurTheGardener, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Belbury (talk) 12:39, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Belbury, This is my only active account. I used to have one years ago, but I lost the habit of editing (as well as my login details). Now I have more free time, I have started editing again. I don't have any connections, and I don't know any other editors in real life. I can assure you that all the work I have put into Wikipedia is my own. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 15:59, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you! ArthurTheGardener (talk) 15:22, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Theroadislong (talk) 10:32, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! ArthurTheGardener (talk) 11:18, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Categories in draft or sandbox space

It's fine to use categories in draft space if they have the extra colon placed before the word category. Theroadislong (talk) 16:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for making that clear, @Theroadislong. (I did wonder if you were making a cat/dog joke at first!) ArthurTheGardener (talk) 17:00, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you! ArthurTheGardener (talk) 08:04, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Minor issues

Thanks for all your work on various plant species. If I could offer some small suggestions, it is to take a look at the Manual of Style (particularly MOS:LIFE) and these article guidelines at WP:WikiProject Plants. I made some minor fixes to Anthurium lentii as hints. Abductive (reasoning) 10:16, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I'm still finding my feet here, and I appreciate your advice on this.ArthurTheGardener (talk) 15:11, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great! If you have questions ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants. It's an active WikiProject, unlike most. Also, consider creating your articles directly, rather than through Articles for Creation. Your articles are good enough, and will appear at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/New article listing for the members to review. Abductive (reasoning) 20:21, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you: I've been unsure whether all the articles I've created were notable enough (I tend to toggle between botany and books/authors), and I haven't felt entirely confident publishing directly to mainspace until now (I did try once or twice, but made such a mess of the links that I went back to doing things the safe way). However, I'll take your suggestion on board. Thanks again for your help. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 07:19, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Abductive: I've tried moving my new page directly into mainspace, but i think I've made some kind of mistake with the title. I'd very much appreciate eyes on wikipedia:lupinus exaltatus, if you have a minute to look at it, to tell me what I've done wrong, and how to avoid it next time. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 08:11, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I moved it into Mainspace. I suspect that where you went wrong was selecting Wikipedia from the pulldown menu. What you wanted was (Article). Abductive (reasoning) 08:39, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explaining this: the reason I've been submitting articles for scrutiny is largely because I keep cocking up the moving process! I'll try to do it properly next time. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 08:53, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now I put a {{Db-g7}} tag on the remnants. Hopefully some admin will come along and delete them. To avoid the need for this in the future, just create your stub directly in Mainspace as follows: search for the species, or find or create a redlink for it. Suppose that you wanted to make a stub for Lupinus cosentinii next. There is a redlink for it in List of Lupinus species so you would just click on it there, and paste your text, edit it, and hit 'Publish page'. Abductive (reasoning) 09:14, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much: I appreciate the advice. Just to be sure I understand what you're saying, could I then cut and paste an article I've created in my sandbox and put it directly into mainspace without losing any of the links? (Sorry if I'm being thick here, but I seem to remember being told not to do this). ArthurTheGardener (talk) 12:14, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can put together your text in a sandbox, sure. I used build my stubs using Windows Notepad since it looks like Wikitext. Then I would search for the title, click on the redlink, and paste my text in there. As I got more experienced, I learned to double-check for typos, and to click 'Shw preview' to look for mistakes before hitting 'Publish page'. I think you may be remembering a prohibition against using cut-and-paste to WP:move an article, which loses the history in the process. Abductive (reasoning) 09:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That might be it, thank you: I'll give it a try! ArthurTheGardener (talk) 11:56, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent! Keep up the good work. Abductive (reasoning) 18:46, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Careful

Please don't cite sources which are effectively some random person's blog. Thank you. DS (talk) 19:17, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you; looking back at that citation, it looks as if I inserted the wrong one by mistake: I've since replaced it with the one I originally intended to use. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 19:59, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I moved Kalimeris incisa to Aster incisus for you. Please look over the changes I made to the article. Thanks and keep up the good work. Abductive (reasoning) 04:57, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! ArthurTheGardener (talk) 07:41, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello ArthurTheGardener! I would like to invite you to join the WikiProject Plants Stub-to-Start Drive where we focus efforts on upgrading Stub-class plant species articles to Start-class. The instructions are straightforward and located on the page for the drive. If you wish to participate, you can join on the sign-up page, or feel free to ask for assistance on the talk page any time. Thank you for your contributions and for your interest in plant articles on Wikipedia! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 00:46, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Selina Wamucii as a source

I just removed a reference you added to the article Lavandula maroccana. I've looked at a number of entries for plants on the Selina Wamucii and each one usually contains inaccuracies that are either subtle or blatant. For example their entry for Elodea bifoliata claims "It can be grown in both fresh and saltwater aquariums," when it is an exclusively fresh water plant. It also claims that it grows in Europe and Asia even though I've not seen any reliable source that says it has been introduced outside its Northern American native range. I strongly suspect that they generated the entries with a large language model AI and so we should not use them as a source since we'll never know which parts of the description are accurate and which are garbage. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 19:44, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for the heads-up: I won't use that source any longer. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 08:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments for Buddleja filibracteolata in your sandbox

Hi, Arthur! Just a few things.

Place the Speciesbox just below the Short description, not in the Description section.
With your measurements, such as "0.9 -1.3 m", remove the space after the first number, and instead of using a hyphen, use an "ndash", which you can do with the {{ndash}} template. There are a couple of other ways, too, but they are harder to explain here (although not necessarily harder to do).
In general, we don't want to use words like "new", such as you did in the first sentence when you say it's a "new species", so you can just remove the word "new".
It's good that you Wikilinked the word "sessile", but if you click on it, you will see that it goes to a disambiguation page. You want the one that most applies (which will be for botany). Change your link to use it and pipe it like this so that the part about botany is hidden [[Sessile (botany)|sessile]].
You're missing a space between the citation after the word "bracts" and the word "to".
Go to "Step 9: categories" of the instructions and add categories to the bottom – only a few that apply. If you have trouble making sense out of the page it refers you to, let me know.
Your header that begins "Distibution" is misspelled.

All in all, it's a short article, but it's also a relatively new species that grows in a remote location. It has no descendant taxa and no synonyms (the latter would be helpful but not required for a Start-class article). You have populated the Speciesbox, given a basic description of the plant and it's distribution and habitat, cited your sources, and used reliable sources. Once you make the changes I list above (although the disambiguation link is not a huge deal, but it's best to get into the habit), it will qualify as a Start-class article. Good job! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for all this, @Eewilson: I really appreciate you taking the time to explain these things so clearly. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 08:25, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are very welcome, Arthur! Just let me know what other questions you have, and I'll be glad to see if I can help. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 13:43, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'm really grateful for your advice, @Eewilson. I'm finding editing very therapeutic, though at the same time quite challenging, and I really want to get better at it (and not cause unnecessary sweeping-up for others!) ArthurTheGardener (talk) 14:51, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur, I understand and agree with you. I enjoy the learning and editing. Wikipedia has so many nooks and crannies that it can make it difficult to find the information you need. The hard and fast rules are few, and the community builds the content. I think each of us tries to do our best even with smaller tasks, like upgrading a stub. Or most of us do. Keep up the good work! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 06:25, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

With your measurements, such as "0.9 -1.3 m", remove the space after the first number, and instead of using a hyphen, use an "ndash", which you can do with the {{ndash}} template. There are a couple of other ways, too, but they are harder to explain here (although not necessarily harder to do). Much better is to use {{cvt|0.9|-|1.3|m}} so that you get the automatic conversion to feet and inches. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:48, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip, @UtherSRG. I'll do that next time. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 17:14, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Short descriptions

I've reverted a number of your SD changes. Please read WP:SD40; they should be no more than 40 characters. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:46, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Using Cite POWO

Hi, ArthurTheGardener. Here is an example of how to use the template {{Cite POWO}}. This is of course optional, but you had mentioned it, and once you get the hang of it, you may find it easier to use than {{Cite web}} for the website. The example I am using is for Carex rupestris All.:

<ref name=powo>{{Cite POWO | id = see below | title = ''TAXON'' AUTHORS | access-date = DATEYOUACCESSEDPAGE }}</ref>

A URL to a taxon page on POWO looks like this example, below. The value to use in the parameter |id= for {{Cite POWO}} is the string 302034-1 from the end of the URL.

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302034-1

If you have followed a link that ends up looking like the following, the string for parameter |id= is still at the end of the URL after the "%3A".

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A302034-1

So your citation template values if you accessed the page on POWO for this taxon would look like this. Note that the date format you use would be based on whatever is consistently used in the article.

<ref name=powo>{{Cite POWO | id = 302034-1 | title = ''Carex rupestris'' All. | access-date = 6 November 2024 }}</ref>

The citation would then look like this on the article page.

"Carex rupestris All". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

I hope this helps. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 21:36, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Eewilson, that's very helpful. Thank you! ArthurTheGardener (talk) 15:54, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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