User talk:Kdubzfr

This user is a student editor in Catawba_College/BIOL_3575_Plant_Taxonomy_-_2024_(Fall_2024) .

This user is a student editor in Catawba_College/Dendrology_BIOL_3509_(Fall_2023) .

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Reliable sources

Hello Kdubzfr,

I removed a section you added to Galium circaezans about uses for the plant. One of the sources you cited, the Selina Wamucii website, has known problems regarding its reliability. I outlined them on the talk page for Selina Wamucii with links to some of the discussions by editors regard it. Botanikks was new to me, but looking at the prose at the site does not make me at all confident in the reliability of the site. In addition it appears to be churning out a large number of pages about plants each day. I think this is another LLM AI written site and should not be cited on Wikipedia. I suggest searching books freely available on https://archive.org/ as a way to find more reliable information about modern or traditional uses. Though it is better to pick books that are written specifically about a topic. For example for the best information go to a gardening book for gardening uses, a ethnobotany book for information about traditional uses, etc. Wildflower guides will often indiscriminately lump in hearsay about a plant's uses without actually having the direct experience or deep historical research. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 02:45, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]