User talk:Philthecoffeejerk

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Plants

I don't mean to be rude, but could you please take a little more care when preparing taxoboxes (listing both the abbreviated species name and the full binomial, getting the binomial authority from the PLANTS database, and so on)? Some errors (calling Galium triflorum "Galium trifolium" throughout the article, for instance) seem to have been made in haste, and there's no need for that — Wikipedia's not going to go away, and it's better to delay an article a bit to make it good than to insert incomplete or erroneous information. Thanks, Choess 06:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mean to imply that you need to be an expert to write articles on plants — I'm certainly not a botanist. But what I or anyone else can do when writing a plant article is go to the PLANTS database, which can supply all the necessary data to fill out a taxobox (the taxonomic hierarchy, genus and species name, and species authority). No, it's not a crime to create an article without a taxobox, and doubtless someone will come along and fill it in later. But in the interim, the article looks less than professional, something that could be avoided with just a little more care. That's really all I'm suggesting you do: if you going to create lots of plant articles, try to use the proper format for them. Regardless, thanks for the work and time you have put into them, and I hope you go on creating more. Yours cordially, Choess 03:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apocynum androsaemifolium

Hi there Philthecoffeejerk. I just stumbled on your article on the Apocynum androsaemifolium. It seems to be a stub with a lot of potential right now. Nonetheless, it seems that you created the article without adding any wiki-link or even categorizing it. That, in effect, makes the article a dead end and unreachable from other wikipedia articles. Could you please categorize the article and maybe include it in a nice stub category? --Mecanismo | Talk 12:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]