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Talk:List of botanists

message: Does anyone know the forename of the botanist with the surname Paris , as in Hylocomium splendens var. obtusifolium (Geh.) Paris? I've tried to Google it, but it drowns in the large amount of other meanings of Paris. Vivo (talk) 10:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: www.ipni.org doesn't list mosses, of course, but under authors it says that Paris, Jean Édouard Gabriel Narcisse (1827-1911), whose abbreviation is Paris, worked on Bryophytes. Circumstantial evidence, but perhaps that gives you enought to work with. Nadiatalent (talk) 18:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paris? 

message: Does Wikipedia really need this list of botanists or the alphabetical list? Surely other databases will eventually be much more complete, even if they aren't yet. Nadiatalent (talk) 03:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. 212.253.222.79 (talk) 05:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Wikipedia really need this article ? 

message: I am unclear why a particular set of botanists has been included in this list, and on what basis.  Can someone explain?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.104.113.175 (talk) 19:43, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: evidently not! Plantsurfer 17:23, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basis of inclusion? 

message: Just in case any editors with an interest in this list are unaware, there is another list of Plant Scientists, which is currently up for deletion at AfD here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_plant_scientists#List_of_plant_scientists
I'd invite anyone to comment, regardless of viewpoint.
To admit my personal bias: I have slight concerns that if the result of that AfD is to merge, there is a risk that the nature of this list (Botanists) will change quite dramatically. At the moment, it has a bias towards rather old-fashioned, traditional botany: it has a bias towards bewhiskered explorers who discovered species in wild corners of the world, and those who peered down brass microscopes in mahogany-lined institutions to describe plants and their diseases. To be honest, I'm not sure this is a bad thing. It makes it a useful list of those who founded the subject, and worked in it while it had a stable, routine existence. But the subject, like many sciences, has blossomed, and gone through a 'paradigm shift'. There are now huge numbers of notable plant scientists now, whose interests have little on common with the botanists in this list. They will have nowhere else to go, and this could rapidly become a rather indiscriminate list of people who do wildly, wildly different things related in some way to plants.
We may need to contemplate what is the reason for/aim of this list, and who it ought to contain. I don't think it's going to be very useful if it becomes a sort of all-inclusive category-list of plant scientists. But if we don't keep a plant scientist list, then we really will have to update this botanist list quite dramatically as it's missing vast swathes of modern plant scientists with articles in Wikipedia. Elemimele (talk) 09:05, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related AfD for Plant Scientists
Talk:Canada at the 1968 Winter Olympics

message: I doubt the John McKenzie listed is correctly linked to "John Albert ("Johnny", "Pie") McKenzie (born December 12, 1937 in High River, Alberta, Canada)".  WWW.olympic.org states a player named "MCKENZIE, John Barry". Also, John Albert ("Johnny") McKenzie was a pro hockey player in 1968 and therefore would not qualify to play at the 1968 Winter Olympics.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.145.19 (talk) 19:50, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Talk:List of Canadian plants by family A

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Warnstorfia exannulata. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Plantdrew (talk) 04:09, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Warnstorfia exannulata" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Diocletianic Persecution

message: This quote: "As the author Stephen Williams wrote in 1985, "even allowing a margin for invention, what remains is terrible enough. Unlike Gibbon, we live in an age which has experienced similar things, and knows how unsound is that civilized smile of incredulity at such reports. Things can be, have been, every bit as bad as our worst imaginings." 
It references to a book by Williams written in 1997, and the quote is not in that book, and I cannot find any reference of any kind to anyone ever saying this.  It's a great quote and I'd like to reuse it elsewhere, but I need to know where it comes from. 
Can anyone help me please? Where does this quote come from??? Jenhawk777 (talk) 22:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this blog  it's at Stephen Williams, Diocletian and the Roman Recovery (New York: Routledge, 2000), 179 (originally published in 1985). But gbooks wont let me peek at that page. WP:RX? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:13, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Gråbergs Gråa Sång What would I do without you?  Thank you so much! It did not have the 1997 version as originally printed in 85.  That explains everything!. Resource request here I come! Jenhawk777 (talk) 20:15, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help please!
Talk:Sins of the Father (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

message: The DPL bot chided me for linking to upconversion, as it's a disambiguation, but I think it was a better thing to link to than video scaler, since that deals more with televisions and computer monitors than remastering. Anyway, I just put this here so posterity won't think I'm incompetent. If anyone changes it, I won't have a tantrum. Promise. Sheavsey33 (talk) 12:27, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upconversion
Talk:List of species of special concern in Rabun County, Georgia

message: these images are currently listed on Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images
 
 
I think they also appear on this page. Pdbailey 02:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  images possibly unfree 
Talk:Magnoliidae

message: According to APG III, the whole Angiosperms are now at subclass level, with the name Magnoliidae. See e.g.  SyP (talk) 16:58, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it doesn't.  That was published as a minority opinion in an "accompanying paper" by two of the APG III authors.  The APG III (2009) recommendations include no specifications for names above the rank of order. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:36, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If someone has something on the use or non-use of that classification, I'd be interested in hearing about it.  But I agree that it isn't part of APG III, and kind of hope we'll be able to ignore it. That's mostly because it upends long-standing classifications even more than APG does. Less relevant for wikipedia purposes is my own opinion - that it makes no sense to cram 300,000 species of land plants into a single class in order to avoid elevating green algae classes to phylums (affecting 10,000 green algae species). Kingdon (talk) 19:31, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It also assumes that clades of equal geological age must be given equal rank under a Linnaean system, which is more shoehorning than I care for.  They should try to make the zoological community fit in as well.  Since the tetrapods evloved about the same time as seed plants, the two should have equal ranks, right?  So the Amphbibia, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia and extinct groups of land vertebrates should all be combined into a single subclass...just for the sake of misguided consistency.  If zoologists can live with the inconsistency that class Aves lies within class Reptilia, then botanists can live with the fact that old algae clades are not ranked in the same way as the clades in their more diverse sister taxon. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:26, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magniliidae = Angiospermae
Talk:Marcescence

message: I think this is a great, focused article! The only suggestions I have are related to the writing style. For instance, instead of saying "as Autumn kicks in", try saying something more appropriate, such as "During Autumn" or "When Autumn comes." Try using the website "Grammarly" if you need additional assistance.
The only other thing I would check into is the validity/credibility of some of your sources, per the standard of the Wikipedia training. This comment is referencing citation 17 in particular.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madeline Geffert (talk • contribs) 21:09, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer Review 

message: "For those trees which don't shed their foliage, they do hold some forms of disadvantages"
What does "they" refer to? Certainly not the "trees".  I assume somewhere it is meant to refer to marcescent, but there is no antecedent "marcescent".  Hoping you can fix this up. I found it a very interesting article with English which needed a little cleaning-up.  But could you have another go at making the meaning of this sentence clearer? Thanks. MargaretRDonald (talk) 22:05, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: I am unable to comprehend this sentence

message: I would like to delete the section on disadvantages.  The single (poor quality) reference given  for all statements within this section fails to adequately justify the statements made. MargaretRDonald (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 06:50, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disadvantages 

message: The last image in the gallery is labelled as Quercus rubra.  It is definitely not a Quercus rubra, and judging by the bark and the leaves which appear to be opposite, it's not even a Quercus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.2.12.97 (talk) 23:50, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Gallery 

message: — Assignment last updated by PeggySOH (talk) 16:53, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Practical Research Methodology
Talk:James Earp

message: This page appears to be drawn almost exclusively from the two recent Earp movies "Tombstone" and "Wyatt Earp".  I have made a few changes to reflect fact rather than a Hollywood screenplay.
Kelly A. Siebecke 22:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hollywood?
Talk:Mary Gillham

message: I have switched to British. Generally 'nationality' is the citizenship of the subject. This however gets complicated when it comes to the UK. The general consensus that has evolved over time is that where someone has a strong associated identity with one of the component nations (Scotland, N.Ireland, Wales, England) that is what is used as their nationality. So Sean Connery is a Scottish actor, Shirley Bassey is a Welsh singer, David Lloyd George is a Welsh politician (despite being born in England) and so on. Where there is no strong association, the nationality most often defaults to citizenship. In Mary's case she has no strong association with England, living and working substantially in Wales. While it is unlikely she would be described as Welsh, absent anything tying her specifically to England or a self-declaration from her somewhere she preferred to be English, her nationality should be British. This is quite common for English biographies, as English notables do not make a big an issue out of their nationality. (The other minor issue is that when linking internally, do not link to disambiguation pages as by their existance they are there to direct you somewhere else. If you know the exact article, link straight to that.) Only in death does duty end (talk) 13:49, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. Natchristie (talk) 10:17, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  English > British 

message: Only in Death, I have been updating the Mary Gillham page and am wondering if you could have a quick look at it to see if I'm making any errors? It would be a big help!
I am having issues with the 'International travels' section... When I press 'enter' on the keyboard twice to begin a new paragraph, it is not working. The text is just continuing on from the sentence before it. For the time being I've been putting "< br >" (without the spaces) to get the text on the line underneath, but it doesn't look right, the writing is too close together...
Thanks, Natchristie (talk) 15:26, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: That is odd. I will take a look. Only in death does duty end (talk) 16:04, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

text: Looks like it was the close blockquote tag in the text that was causing it. I think it might have been a function of the visual editor maybe? I have removed the br and blockquote tags and it appears to be displaying correctly now. If it keeps happening, just go ahead and ping me when you are finished and I will go back over it. Only in death does duty end (talk) 16:10, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help
Talk:Baghdad Jewish Arabic

message: Incorrect passage: Baghdad Jewish Arabic (and Baghdadi Christian Arabic) resemble the dialect of Northern Iraq, and more distantly that of Syria, rather than the Baghdad Arabic spoken by the Muslims. The Muslim dialect is classified as a gilit dialect (from their pronunciation of the Arabic word for "I said") while the others are qeltu dialects. It is thought that the qeltu dialects represent the older Arabic dialect of Mesopotamia while the gilit dialect is of Bedouin origin. 
Bedouin's are Arabs and Muslim... The Baghdadi Jewish Arabic dialect resembles the dialect of Northern Iraq and that of Syria, both had Arab populations. The dialects have nothing to do with religion but instead with regions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.208.123.27 (talk) 03:37, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But Baghdad Muslim Arabic is different from Bedouin Arabic precisely because of the qualifier "Baghdad", so I don't see what the issue is. Mo-Al (talk) 05:25, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baghdad Jewish vs. Muslim Arabic 

message: I've been having a strange bug occur when trying to merge the two "Salaam" cells of the table under "Orthography". Perhaps someone else could try? Mo-Al (talk) 05:23, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table rendering problem 

message: The link for Jewish Baghdadi recordings current leads to a 404 and I wasn't able to find an archive for the page. Looking at the website, however, I was able to find the site's archive which looks like it contains the recordings but they can only be linked individually. CapnJackDaniels (talk) 01:43, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link "Jewish Baghdadi recordings"
Talk:2 Step (song)

message: I'm not sure why someone wrote this, but there are many grammar errors, and it is clearly not written from an objective point of view. Look at this part; <I>"The video is all about how to 2 step. Unk is telling everyone to do the 2 step and get jiggy with it."</I> That line seems to me to be completely opinion based. I'd delete this entirely.
Max Elstein 22:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So fix it. --Geniac 14:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits

message: Compare page views In ictu oculi (talk) 10:23, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: [[2 step]]
Talk:Toptable

message: The comment from the website's user seemed particularly advertish in nature and also can't really be described as a wikipedia-suitable source, so i went ahead and removed it.Spike iron 22:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed comment
Template talk:Defunct Armed Armenian Organizations

message: I suggest that we rename this to "Former Armed Armenian Organizations" as all of these groups are defunct now. -- Aivazovsky 22:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not crazy about that.  They're still organizations, just inactive.  Think like categories: We have :Category:Artists and we don't put the dead ones in :Category:Former artists. —dgiestc 07:38, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can't compare such categories that is nonsense. This name is inappropriate "Armed Armenian Organizations" what the hell is this supposed to mean? why not have Armed American organizations, Armed Turkish organizations. But "Armed" is nonsense, these are organizations that are inactivate they haven't done a attack for decades its history. This is also neologism. Also having "Armenian terrorism" is nonsense also you can only find that from bias historians like Turks. We need something that is efficient and also clear and crisp. So we should add "former" or renew the title to "Armenian Organizations" but that obviously does not have enough description. Maybe something more neutral and less POV. I say we find something from a neutral author. The name sounds like a bank robbery scheme or some crap. We only have 3 Organizations we DO NOT NEED A TEMPLATE. This is made by Cool Cat to piss off people for no reason. She has a history of disruption at Wiki. I'm surprised she hasn't been blocked indefinitely. Artaxiad 07:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The template may need a rename, but the construct "former organizations" seems very odd.  "Defunct" or "inactive" makes more sense. —dgiestc 07:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Thats it, we should rename it to Inactive organizations but if we add Armenian its to long. Artaxiad 12:38, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I say we rename "Defunct Armed Armenian Organizations". It's long but it gets rid of the implication that the groups still exist. -- Aivazovsky 14:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

text: But that doesn't solve anything.  It still implies that there are active armed Armenian organizations when they no longer exist. -- Aivazovsky 17:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I think the category should be deleted all together. This category "Armenian_paramilitary_organizations" is good enough IMO. But if you insist on having the category, it should be re-named to defunct or former. ASALA is pretty much done, it's leaders have all been killed, it hasn't committed an attack it's been years and all its goals have been "accomplished". Even ASALAonline.com doesn't work, this site says they're done . - Fedayee 17:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure its official. -- Aivazovsky 22:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New name
Talk:Micropropagation

message: It should be....
micropropagation=plant tissue culture
Ayyah tubby 11:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

message: The article now says
:It is very expensive, and can have a labor cost of more than 70%
This is 70% of what, and how does that compare to the labor cost of any other propagation method?  How much actual case study experience is this comment based on? This item should be removed or rewritten as for an encyclopedia, with a citation. Anomalocaris (talk) 22:25, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  70% of what? 

message: User:Chris_Capoccia added the copyvio template, rightfully, as the lede was copied from the linked ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Micropropagation&oldid=889045637
However, the problematic text was, IMO, redundant since there was already a decent summary directly below it. I removed the copyvio block, since the copied text was already removed in the edit which added the copyvio. There is no longer any copyvio text in the article that I can find, and the Duplication Detector/Copyvios reports do not show anything. I'm newish to editing, so please let me know if I should have proceeded differently.
HerbertCattington (talk) 21:15, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed copyvio
Talk:Monandrous

message: This article is unuseful. It should redirect to stamen or orchidaceae.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aelwyn (talk • contribs) 08:31, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It also contradicts Orchidaceae about whether the primitive orchid had one or three stamens. I'd probably say we should redirect to wiktionary (or transwiki, or whatever the procedure is - I'm not saying the text currently at Monandrous is worth keeping).  Trying to turn Orchidaceae or Stamen into a long list of term definitions is not likely to be good for those articles. Kingdon 13:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

text: If that's right, then that detail should be included in the article monogamy. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a dictionary, so things are grouped according to what they are, not what they're called.  dummelaksen  (talk • contribs) 21:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Tails (comic character)

message: I think we need a different picture of Tails.  It is old and out dated.  I believe this picture was taken off an old Sonic Comic cover, and then his eyes were outlined with blue.  Spottedstripe 18:07, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. It's not a good picture anyway. I think it makes him look drunk! 58.174.98.29 (talk) 09:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I too agree. I'm gonna try and find a better recent photo, because the current one is simply weird.  Dylanlip  (talk) 15:33, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Would this do. Tails It's older than the one we've got now, but it certainly not as creepy as the other one.Fairfieldfencer FFF 15:48, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it doesn't matter. This page and all the comic characters are going to be merged it seems.(Details here.)Fairfieldfencer FFF 08:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: I don't think we should merge this article with anything else (we could put some of this information into the main Tails article, though).  It's far too long to have a merge with anything.   Spottedstripe(Talk2Me) 00:35, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you don't want the article merged I suggest you go to where the discussion about the merge is being held, then make your points about why it should be kept.Fairfieldfencer FFF 07:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is full and major discussion on the future of Sonic (particularly character) articles here, you should add your opinion here. --tgheretford (talk) 14:41, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Hey!! Do you mind putting up notification before making a major edit like that?Fairfieldfencer FFF 08:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes
Talk:Bozo language

message: Is, and if so how is, Bozo written?  Acwilson9 (talk) 08:15, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing and alphabet(s)
Talk:Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback

message: Joanne Frogatt is often incorrectly credited as Joanne Froggatt. Her name only has one 'g'. Dbromage 02:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: cretin.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.170.122.230 (talk) 18:43, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cast 
Talk:Languages of Syria

message: The section Languages of Syria#Arabic presently does not cite any sources. I searched, and specifically, could not find any reliable sources that refer to something named "South Syrian Arabic". Google hits for the phrase all seem to be copied from this article, so it is spreading misinformation that such a standardized sub-dialect of Levantine Arabic exists, and is recognized by this name, and is common to the listed cities. Whereas for example according to this discussion (which can't be used as a reliable source), there are significant differences among the regions. Please help to update the article according to reliable lingustic sources and terms for the information given in this section, thanks. Some starting points could be here: . For example, the dialect spoken in Damascus seems usually to be called "Damascus Arabic" or "dialect of Damascus", and never "South Syrian Arabic", a term that appears to have been invented in this article. --IamNotU (talk) 15:49, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dialect names