User:Curtis Clark

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About me

I am not Curtis Clark (musician), but rather Curtis Clark (botanist). I live in California, and I am Professor of Biological Sciences at Cal Poly Pomona. I am an expert in botany and evolutionary biology, but it turns out I've contributed in many other areas as well.

• My contributions
• Drafts of articles in progress
• Copyright
• User:Curtis Clark/BOT 343
• My Wikimedia Commons page, with links to photos of California plants

My role with respect to Cal Poly Pomona

Because I have been employed at Cal Poly Pomona since 1980, and because when I was Web Coordinator I had an interest in the university on the web, I keep watch on, and occasionally contribute to, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, for some very specific reasons:

1. I watch for copyright violations of photographs and text that belong to Cal Poly Pomona. I have seen most of the information and photos that the university has placed on the web, and I can usually easily spot a copyvio. I do this not to make life miserable for some editors, but rather to protect the interests of the university, as part of my job. As I told students back when I taught, "Rewrite it in your own words." And it's easy to take your own photos of the campus (see the article for some good examples), which will often be more representative of what people really see than the publicity shots. (If any editor would like a specific photo taken on campus, let me know, and if I can get it, I'll put it on Wikimedia Commons.)
2. I do my best to maintain NPOV. After 31 years, I know many reasons both to hate and to love the university, and ironically the too-positive is the most common NPOV violation that I've seen. I've written PR for the university myself, I know what it looks like, and it has no place in Wikipedia. I serve both Wikipedia and my employer by doing what I can to ensure that the article is brutally fair.

If you think I'm not meeting either of those goals, let me know.

About the name "Cal Poly"

It seems that quite a few people outside the Pomona Valley are offended that people in the Pomona Valley refer to Cal Poly Pomona as "Cal Poly". Evidently their view is that the name "Cal Poly" "rightfully" belongs to California Polytechnic State University. There is some merit in the logic of that argument; Cal Poly Pomona officially disavows the name, and the San Luis Obispo university is calpoly.edu, and has trademarked "Cal Poly" for athletic wear.

Nevertheless, virtually all of Wikipedia policy supports the idea that Wikipedia is descriptive, not prescriptive. For many people in the Pomona Valley, "Cal Poly" unambiguously refers to Cal Poly Pomona; they refer to the other school as "Cal Poly SLO" or "Cal Poly San Luis Obispo". Technically, they are wrong. Officials at Cal Poly Pomona would be pleased if they'd stop. But (1) Wikipedia is not censored, and (2) these folks are not scalawags, low-lifes, and terrorists, they are neighbors. Many of them attend, or send their children. Some of them donate. It wouldn't be neighborly for Cal Poly Pomona to wave their error in their faces. And it wouldn't be NPOV of Wikipedia to suppress a common usage.

Photos for articles

• Abutilon Abutilon palmeri [1]
• Achillea Achillea millefolium [2]
• Aesculus Aesculus californica [3]
• Allium Allium haematochiton [4]
• Amsinckia Amsinckia intermedia [5]
• Anthriscus Anthriscus caucalis [6]
• Aquilegia Aquilegia formosa [7]
• Argemone Argemone corymbosa [8]
• Aristida Aristida purpurea [9]
• Aristolochia Aristolochia californica [10]
• Asclepias Asclepias fascicularis [11]
• Baileya Baileya multiradiata [12]
• Bloomeria Bloomeria crocea [13][14]
• Bouteloua Bouteloua gracilis [15]
• Bromus Bromus hordeaceus [16][17]
• Calystegia Calystegia macrostegia [18]
• Carex Carex spissa [19]
• Cercis Cercis occidentalis [20]
• Chilopsis Chilopsis linearis [21]
• Claytonia Claytonia perfoliata [22][23]
• Coreopsis Coreopsis maritima [24]
• Cornus Cornus sericea [25]
• Coryphantha Coryphantha vivipara [26][27]
• Cucurbita Cucurbita foetidissima [28][29]
• Cuscuta Cuscuta pentagona [30]
• Cylindropuntia Cylindropuntia whipplei [31]
• Cymopterus Cymopterus purpurascens [32][33]
• Danaus Danaus plexippus [34][35]
• Datura Datura wrightii [36][37]
• Dendromecon Dendromecon harfordii [38]
• Descurainia Descurainia pinnata [39]
• Dicentra Dicentra chrysantha [40]
• Dichelostemma Dichelostemma capitatum [41]
• Emmenanthe Emmenanthe penduliflora [42][43]
• Encelia Encelia californica [44]
• Encelia Encelia farinosa [45][46][47][48]
• Encelia Encelia frutescens [49][50]
• Epilobium Epilobium canum [51][52]
• Eremalche Eremalche rotundifolia [53]
• Erigeron Erigeron glaucus [54]
• Eriogonum Eriogonum cinereum [55]
• Eriophyllum Eriophyllum confertiflorum [56][57]
• Erodium Erodium botrys [58][59][60]
• Erodium Erodium cicutarium [61]
• Eschscholzia Eschscholzia minutiflora [62][63]
• Eucalyptus Eucalyptus globulus [64]
• Fallugia Fallugia paradoxa [65][66][67]
• Fragaria Fragaria vesca [68][69]
• Funastrum Funastrum cynanchoides [70]
• Galium Galium angustifolium [71]
• Galium Galium aparine [72]
• Geraea Geraea canescens [73]
• Glandularia Glandularia bipinnatifida [74]
• Gnaphalium Gnaphalium californicum [75][76][77]
• Grindelia Grindelia stricta [78]
• Heuchera Heuchera maxima [79]
• Hordeum Hordeum murinum [80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88]
• Hunnemannia Hunnemannia fumariifolia [89]
• Hymenoxys Hymenoxys acaulis [90]
• Hypochaeris Hypochaeris glabra [91][92]
• Iris Iris douglasiana [93]
• Langloisia Langloisia setosissima [94][95]
• Lavatera Lavatera assurgentiflora [96]
• Limonium Limonium californicum [97]
• Malacothrix Malacothrix saxatilis [98]
• Malva Malva parviflora [99]
• Marah Marah macrocarpus [100][101][102][103]
• Mimulus Mimulus aurantiacus [104]
• Mimulus Mimulus cardinalis [105]
• Mimulus Mimulus guttatus [106]
• Mirabilis Mirabilis californica [107][108]
• Mirabilis Mirabilis multiflora [109][110][111]
• Monoptilon Monoptilon bellioides [112]
• Muhlenbergia Muhlenbergia rigens [113]
• Opuntia Opuntia littoralis [114]
• Opuntia Opuntia phaeacantha [115]
• Palafoxia Palafoxia linearis [116]
• Phacelia Phacelia campanularia [117][118]
• Phacelia Phacelia tanacetifolia [119][120]
• Pinus Pinus edulis [121]
• Pinus Pinus monophylla [122]
• Pluchea Pluchea sericea [123]
• Pogonomyrmex Pogonomyrmex californicus [124]
• Prosopis Prosopis pubescens [125]
• Prunus Prunus ilicifolia [126]
• Quercus Quercus agrifolia [127]
• Rafinesquia Rafinesquia neomexicana [128][129]
• Ranunculus Ranunculus testiculatus [130][131]
• Raphanus Raphanus sativus [132]
• Ribes Ribes aureum [133]
• Ribes Ribes malvaceum [134]
• Ribes Ribes speciosum [135]
• Romneya Romneya trichocalyx [136][137]
• Rosa Rosa californica [138][139]
• Salix Salix exigua [140]
• Salvia Salvia columbariae [141]
• Salvia Salvia mellifera [142][143][144]
• Salvia Salvia spathacea [145]
• Sambucus Sambucus mexicana [146][147]
• Scirpus Scirpus californicus [148]
• Senecio Senecio flaccidus [149]
• Silybum Silybum marianum [150]
• Simmondsia Simmondsia chinensis [151]
• Sisyrinchium Sisyrinchium bellum [152]
• Solanum Solanum douglasii [153][154]
• Sonchus Sonchus oleraceus [155]
• Sphaeralcea Sphaeralcea ambigua [156]
• Stellaria Stellaria media [157]
• Tiquilia Tiquilia nuttallii [158]
• Trichostema Trichostema lanatum [159]
• Typha Typha angustifolia [160]
• Venegasia Venegasia carpesioides [161]
• Verbesina Verbesina encelioides [162]
• Yucca Yucca whipplei [163]

External links

Curtis Clark's home page