User talk:Rkitko

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Plumcot, Apriplum, Pluot, or Aprium

Hi, I agree that the title of this page is clunky. The reason that I didn't go with something about interspecific prunus or IS plum, is that the fruit of these three (or four, since two of the names are synonymous) have become agriculturally important and are often confused with one another, but there are potentially many many more hybrids, including completely inedible ones. There are already wikipedia pages for peacotum and nectaplum, hybrids involving peach. I'd been trying for some time to improve those three separate pages, but it was difficult to get away from the hard distinction between plumcot and pluot that I find unattractive (as a botanist with the bias that later generations get the same name as the first-generation hybrid). Nadiatalent (talk) 12:12, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Color-related merger discussions

Hello! I've seen you commenting on various color-related AfD's and merger discussions, and thought that you might be interested in taking a look at some of the current discussions for mergers and redirects of color articles. The discussions are located at Talk:Redwood (color), Talk:Lion (color), Talk:Camel (color), Talk:Wine (color), Talk:Redwood (color), Talk:Flame (color), Talk:Brandeis blue, Talk:Byzantium (color), Talk:Amethyst (color), and Talk:Robin egg blue.--Slon02 (talk) 20:55, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Image problem

Hello again, I've moved an image from Gallery to Taxobox, to replace one deleted because of licencing problems. Alas, in doing so, the image has rotated 90° of its own volition, leaving it horribly distorted, and there's nothing I can do to remedy it. Any ideas? See: [1] Regards Ptelea (talk) 13:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Wow, that's a good one. I can't easily figure it out. I wonder if it's something to do with this image in particular or a software glitch. I asked for more advice here: Template talk:Taxobox#Image rotation. It seems like a technical issue to me and might be best to take it to WP:Village pump (technical). Sorry I couldn't help. We'll see what the other folks have to say. Rkitko ^(talk) 14:21, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Chamaebatus

Hi Ryan,

I noticed that you deleted Chamaebatus, stating that it was an improper redirect. I do not see what is improper about it; it seems very useful to me. Would you mind if I recreated it?

Neelix (talk) 01:34, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Neelix. Sorry for the delay in responding. Yes, that redirect may have been a casualty of my cleaning up and moving a bunch of improperly titled infrageneric articles. Per WP:FLORA, subgenera and sections, etc. should be titled at their Genus abbr. Infrageneric-name title, e.g. Rubus subg. Chamaebatus. The rationale behind this is that many times the bald name without the genus can be shared among many different taxa. But you're right, it should be a redirect for now (a disambiguation page later if another taxon shares the name) and I'll reinstate it. My apologies. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 14:44, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Rita Milla

Rkitko, I had a Wikipedia page and have noticed that you deleted it. I did not create the page but since it was about me I would like to know why you deleted it. it was deleted 4 years ago but I just became aware of it now. Thank you, Rita Milla Rita Milla (talk) 04:35, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Rita. The page was deleted under the speedy deletion criterion regarding unambiguous copyright infringement. The article was clearly copied and pasted from other sources that did not license their text so that Wikipedia could use it (e.g. Creative Commons license) or release it into the public domain. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, so the appropriate action to take was to delete the article. There was no non-infringing content, otherwise the infringing content would have just been removed. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 11:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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Marionberry

Hi, I see that you removed the taxobox from Marionberry. Is there some other template that can be used for a cultivar? I can't find such a thing. I'd hope that it could list the higher taxa to which it belongs. (There is a template for cultivar group, but that isn't really appropriate.) Nadiatalent (talk) 12:46, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Nadia. Yes, as far as I could tell, the subject of the article is more of a cultivar and not a taxon, so the taxobox shouldn't be present on that article, especially since it just displayed the higher taxa. The only infobox that exists for cultivars that I know of is {{Infobox cultivar}}. It has parameters for cultivar group, yes, but you don't need to use that. Since this is a hybrid cultivar, use the |hybrid= parameter. Personally, I don't think cultivars need an infobox that displays all the higher taxa. The rationale behind including higher taxa on species articles is that it put them into the hierarchical context, whereas the context necessary to understand a cultivar is the hybrid origin and the genus or genera involved. However, if you feel strongly that the higher taxa are necessary, you could open a discussion on the template talk page and argue for including higher taxa (and advertise the discussion widely at WT:PLANTS, for example). Rkitko ^(talk) 14:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I hadn't found the Infobox cultivar template. The hybrid Rubus pages are quite a mess, so I might not get to this in the near future, but it is good to have an idea about what to aim for. I doubt that the higher taxa are needed when presumably the hybrid line can cover the parentage. It would be good to have a visual resemblance between the taxoboxen and what is done with these lower taxa, to show the connectivity. Nadiatalent (talk) 18:10, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I applied the cultivar infobox to Marionberry and hope that is ok. For the |origin= parameter, I used the release date and location, but you could also insert the location and date of first cross. The latter makes a bit more sense to me for this parameter, but there's no guiding documentation on how to use that parameter at {{Infobox cultivar}} (perhaps we should come to some decision and include a note on this). Overall, the cultivar infobox does have some visual similarity to the taxobox, and I'm glad it does. I'm still working my way through the Rosales to convert all the leftovers to APG III, so please let me know if you see any other edits that need addressed. If I remove any other taxoboxen, I'll be sure to convert them to the cultivar infobox if appropriate. Rkitko ^(talk) 20:23, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Limnocharitaceae

I've started the APG-III cleanup for monocot pages (both on the English Wikipedia and Wikispecies). However, I'm not sure what to do about the page for Limnocharotaceae. This family has been submerged back into Alismataceae, but the information on the page for the family is far more detailed than Alismataceae, and much of it is too general to split into generic pages (which do not yet exist). What do you suggest? And feel free to take action yourself, if you like. I can already see the APG-III cleanup of the monocots will be a larger task than I initially expected, since taxon authorities also have to be updated and corrected for some of the orders and families, in addition to the family mergers and checking correct placement. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:39, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Good question. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to remove the taxobox and tweak the lead to include a mention that APG III sank the family back into Alismataceae. Any descriptive info that is in the article may not apply more broadly to all Alismataceae, so it's hard to merge, as you noted. You might also want to check in with User:Peter coxhead as he was handling some aspects of the Asparagales, I think. Rkitko ^(talk) 20:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, just noticed this. I have been all through the Asparagales – all pages should have automatic taxoboxes with the correct APG III placement – but the advantage there is that subfamilies have been provided for almost all the families which have been submerged. So e.g. the old "Alliaceae" page was moved to Allioideae. If there really are no subfamily taxa provided for a merged family, it's more difficult. A short-term solution could be to have a section "Former Limnocharotaceae" on the Alismataceae page. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:03, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Do we want all the monocot taxoboxes to be automated? I know that for the liverworts it would be a watse of time given the inevitable overhaul the classification is likely to undergo soon, but monocot taxonomy seems reasonably stable at this point. I intend to update all the taxonomy and authorities while I'm at it (both here and on Wikispecies), but only intend to do the non-aroid Alismatales for the time being. I'm finding that there's a lot more to be corrected than I initially thought, and can't bring myself to simply fix the taxoboxes and leave all the other problems be. Look, for example, at the changes and basic cleanup I did for Zostera (which included merging Heterozostera per recent authorities and publications). --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Is MOBOT unreliable?

Hi Rkitko, I recently edited the article Vangueria madagascariensis, showing that the author was J.F.Gmel., and filled out the synonyms. I cited as a reference for both Tropicos.org, the online site of the Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT). Today a user eliminated the citation, and in the edit summary said it was an 'unreliable reference'. Maybe it is, and if so, I will not use it. Do you agree with the editor that it is 'unreliable'? Thanks, Hamamelis (talk) 21:48, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Happened to notice this, so I looked at the article. I'd be interested to know why Tropicos is "unreliable", although the Kew World Checklist of Rubiaceae is probably more reliable. I'd also like to know whether the editor in question followed WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT when using Systema Natura as a reference... Peter coxhead (talk) 22:17, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

>to Peter: I agree that Systema naturae is the source, and, speaking for myself, I showed where I got it from; this is what my two (now removed) Tropicos citations looked like:

<ref name=trop1> ''Vangueria madagascariensis'' was originally described and published in ''Systema naturae per regna tria naturae … editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata'' 2(1): 367. 1791. {{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/27904788 |title=Name - ''Vangueria madagascariensis'' J.F.Gmel. |work=Tropicos |publisher=[[Missouri Botanical Garden]] |location=[[Saint Louis, Missouri]] |accessdate=November 4, 2011}}</ref>

<ref name=trop2>{{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/27904788?tab=synonyms |title=Name - ''Vangueria madagascariensis'' J.F.Gmel. synonyms |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |accessdate=November 4, 2011}}</ref>

I guess I could have said "fide" in my citation, as that would be more accurate. Hamamelis (talk) 01:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I've been looking in detail at selected entries for IPNI and TROPICOS, and am finding lots of errors. I haven't noticed an incorrect authority yet, but wouldn't be surprised to see one. There are a lot of obsolete species and genera lying around in there without annotation to that effect. By contrast, the Kew checklists are double-checked and reviewed as they are assembled. FWIW, I've also noticed a couple of odd authorities in the FNA, in the sense that the FNA citation differs from every other published source I can find, without explanation. Weird. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:32, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I find that the Tropicos editors are very responsive to well-researched nomenclatural corrections, IPNI editors less so, apparently because they don't have time to consider these matters as promptly. I don't know what you would mean by "obsolete" species and genera; Tropicos states its mission as "All of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data accumulated in MBG’s electronic databases during the past 25 years are publicly available here." those matters are not taxonomic. There are a lot of mistakes still hanging on from older codes of nomenclature or literature that has priority but has been overlooked, but corrections are happening. FNA may well have corrected something that has been copied unthinkingly through many other sources. ... Nadiatalent (talk) 01:02, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Ulmus minor

Dear Rkitko, I notice the entire History page for Ulmus minor has been deleted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Elm. Don't know how to correct this, can you help? Regards, Ptelea (talk) 16:58, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for your (attempted) contribution to the article New Guinea Singing Dog!Chrisrus (talk) 05:04, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

See what I mean? Frustrating, isn't it? Chrisrus (talk) 05:05, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Unsuccessful Move

Dear Rkitko, I have tried to change the title of the article on the Japanese beetle to its correct scientific name Popillia japonica, but for reasons unspecified, 'Move' won't allow it. Can you assist once more? Regards,Ptelea (talk) 21:42, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

If the target you're trying to move the page to has more than one edit, the move must be performed by an admin who can delete the target page in order to make way for the move. In this case, Popillia japonica has two edits: [2], so that's why your attempt at the move failed. I, however, will decline to move this for you. As far as I know, Japanese beetle is a really well-known common name for the species. Moving it to the scientific name would probably run afoul of WP:COMMONNAME, in that "Japanese beetle" is the most commonly used name to refer to the species in reliable sources. It would be like moving Oak to Quercus. I don't feel comfortable doing that move for you, but you are more than welcome to open a discussion using the requested move (under the controversial heading) procedure. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 23:08, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Comment request

I posted a couple of questions in response to your posting at WT:WikiProject Tree of life#The place of the New Guinea Singing Dog on the canid branch of the tree of life and would appreciate any comments you may have. Thanks. Mojoworker (talk) 20:44, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Category:Dioecious plants

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to populate this category. Just be careful in your application of it, for example, not all species in the genus Juniperus are dioecious, so the category should not be placed on the genus article. Only categories that describe the higher taxon should be included, e.g. we also do not categorize genera into categories like "Flora of North America" if not all species are native to North America. For the most part, I see you applying it correctly, so please do carry on. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 20:30, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. I am an educator and paleobotanist, so this has been very helpful to organize my research. I apologize for not logging in, I have not logged into Wikipedia in many years and do not remember my log-in information. I'm not sure what you meant about the "Flora of North America" category. I have not added anything to that existing category. As for the junipers, that makes sense even though most juniper species are dioecious. Similarly for the genus Buddleja, I am unsure how to categorize this since only the New World species are dioecious. As for uncategorizing Juniperus, were there any others that you uncategorized? I'm trying to keep track of everything in the category and I've been thrown off by what articles have left the list. I noticed Cucurbitaceae isn't there anymore, which is good since I did not agree with it being in the category in the first place.--99.68.137.198 (talk) 20:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: Drosera capensis

... cultivar names, such as Drosera capensis 'Albino', always use single quotes as a matter of convention (ICNCP).

Says who? Some educationally-challenged Brit? I haven't checked into the history of this particular area of publication practice, but I wouldn't be risking much by saying this is a recent development, within the last 40-50 years, mirroring the horrible degradation of punctuation and grammar with which the UK press has become rife today. It's interesting that the Wikipedia ICNCP article, referenced in your comment on my Talk Page, contains multiple typographic and stylistic errors. See if you can spot them. — Quicksilver^{T @} 15:28, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

There's no need to be rude. It seems you haven't come across this before, so let me explain. Within the discipline of botany, single quotation marks are used to denote a cultivar. I'm not sure how long it's been the standard, but it is. If Wikipedia were to ignore convention and use double quotes for our plant cultivars, it would appear as if we don't know what we're doing. The ICNCP is the authority, not simply a style guide. If written any other way, you're doing it wrong. Your opinions on the "degradation of punctuation and grammar" are irrelevant. The usage of single quotation marks for cultivars is standard within the discipline and all I was trying to do was alert you to that fact. This particular usage was recently incorporated into WP:MOS#Quotation marks after this discussion. I admit that I struggle with typography, style, and grammar, so if you see a problem at the ICNCP article then WP:SOFIXIT. Rkitko ^(talk) 16:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

I suspect that what Quicksilver regards as "typographic and stylistic errors" in the ICNCP article are in fact prescriptions of the Code, which can look rather odd if you aren't used to them (e.g. "Group" is always capitalized whereas "grex" is not). As far as I can tell (and I've checked the article carefully) the article's use of quotation marks, capitalization, etc. follows either Wikipedia guidelines or ICNCP rules. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:29, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Image problems

Uploading a photo of a hawthorn bush, I notice the process of its own volition rotates the image through 90 degrees; very annoying. Can anything be done to right this? Crataegus monogyna, Ports Down.jpg. Regards, Ptelea (talk) 14:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

I've seen some uploaded images recently that had this problem, and they were tagged with a "rotation request" template. I can't recall offhand where I saw this last, but it might give you a start on looking for the template. Presumably, someone able to correct the problem then performs the requested rotation. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:49, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

More JSTOR

Help again, please! At User talk:Magister Scienta#Book of Habakkuk there are six bulleted articles that were recommended to me, and all should be available on JSTOR. I'm looking to work heavily on that article over my winter break and would like to have as many references at hand to ensure broad coverage. Thanks again for your continuing assistance to others in improving Wikipedia. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:49, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Linda D. Thompson

I note you deleted a facebook page reference showing a group whose aim is in seeking the resignation of the mayor citing it as an "unreliable" source. Why? It was not a reference to anything that she is doing but simply a viewpoint of citizens. Also as far as "unreliable" goes wouldn't that by necessity include the deletion of wikipedia? Most educational institutions will not allow the usage of the site as reference material. Thanks, Paul. 71.176.35.69 (talk) 16:39, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

To understand the removal, see WP:RELIABLE where our criteria for reliability of sources is explained. For articles about living persons, there are even more stringent criteria. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:58, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Exactly as 'Petey said. You need a reliable source that discusses the existence of citizen opposition to Thompson. Surely there is some newspaper article on this (if the journalists are doing their jobs correctly). Rkitko ^(talk) 17:37, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

MOS discussion that may be of interest

Because of your previous input on various iterations of the debate about the lower-casing vs. capitalization of the common names of animals (domestic cat, blue whale vs. Domestic Cat, Blue Whale), you may be interested in this thread proposing key points that should be addressed by the guidelines: WT:Manual of Style#Species capitalization points. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 05:50, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Revision history of Sequoia sempervirens

Hi, we're the first company to do commercial-scale propagation and planting of Coast Redwood in New Zealand, which is the culmination of about 15+ years of research. Until yesterday, the Sequoia sempervirens page referenced our website http://www.soperwheeler.com so people could learn more, and we would regularly get a good amount of traffic from Wikipedia.

We recently updated our website which caused the Wikipedia link to be pointed at a page that had been deleted, so I updated the link on Wikipedia yesterday (no additions, no content change).

User Tom Hulse then completely erased the entire passage, marking it as spam. As the passage had been there for a couple of years, our website is informational in nature, and we don't sell anything to the general public, I undid that edit this morning, only to have it deleted again.

How would you suggest I reinstate the link in a manner that's consistent with Wiki-etiquette? I don't understand your comment "don't link in-line like that ([[WP:EL), and the reference given doesn't say any of this that was added)"

Thanks!

-Dan Dan Kruger (talk) 00:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Dan, thanks for your note here. First, I might mention that you appear to have a conflict of interest, a guideline that you should examine. Beyond that issue, external links are discouraged from being presented in-text that way. There is an external links section at the bottom of the article for that purpose. You may also want to check out our external link guidelines, paying attention to links to be avoided. As a commercial link, I agree with Tom that it doesn't seem to belong on the article. However, if your research or company has been written about in reliable sources like newspapers or in scholarly journals, it would certainly help expand on the content already present in that cultivation section. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 01:39, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Hey thanks for the info- we'll be working to expand that section soon Dan Kruger (talk) 02:27, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Carnivorous plant books

Yeah, I figured there was a gap to fill, especially with Taylor's work and all the articles that cited it. I've got a few more CP book articles lined up (Lowrie's Carnivorous Plants of Australia being next on my list), but I received McPherson's humongous New Nepenthes just yesterday so will be preoccupied with that for the time being (lots of changes and additions to be made!). I'll take a look at the collapsible list discussion. mgiganteus1 (talk) 09:55, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Rkitko,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 04:19, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Revert of banned user

Re [3] The ban is here [4].

Chemotype

I note that although this word does seem to be used (uncommonly) in mainstream biology texts it seems to have an entirely different meaning to the definition given. The claimed inventor of this term Pierre Franchomme seems to be associated only with the pseudoscientific topic of Aromatherapy. In it's current form the article is pure nonsense. --Salimfadhley (talk) 23:02, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

I see you removed the reference to aromatherapy. I support that. The rest of it is pretty close to my understanding from the sources I reviewed. Yes, it needs a bit of clean up, but I wouldn't call it nonsense. It's far from that. And the term is fairly widely used. Google Scholar shows > 12,000 hits, including this one from Nature [5]. I'll see if I can clean it up a bit since I'm now curious where the term comes from. Rkitko ^(talk) 23:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

OK, lets let it stand. Thanks. --Salimfadhley (talk) 23:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening invitation

Hello, Rkitko: Thank you for your contributions to Horticulture – or Gardening – related articles. I'd like to invite you to join WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening, a WikiProject to improve horticulture and gardening articles on Wikipedia and coverage of these topics. If you would like to participate or join, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! Northamerica1000(talk) 04:07, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Drosera uniflora

Greetings Rkitko. I and my two classmates are relatively new to editing Wikipedia. Anyway, we were assigned the task of finding an article to improve, and we found Drosera uniflora. It was rather scant and inactive so we chose it. One of the team members apparently uploaded a photo lacking proper licensing. I noticed that you removed it and are also interested in carnivorous plants. We are searching high and low for information on this plant and are finding very little. As this seems to be an area of interest of yours, I was wondering if you could point us to any web accessible information, or where we might find a suitable photo. Thanks for any help you could give. — Preceding unsigned comment added by G1956w (talk • contribs) 11:49, 26 March 2012 (UTC) Sorry, I'm new to this and forgot to sign. G1956w (talk) 11:53, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello! Thanks for leaving a note here. I'm glad you chose Drosera uniflora for your project. Yes, the photo that was uploaded to Commons was originally uploaded to Flickr under the Creative Commons license, but Wikipedia has to make sure it's the proper CC license. The one on flickr stipulates the image must be used noncommercially and there must be no derivative works. While Wikipedia itself is non-profit, such a license is not "free enough" and thus all would be deleted. There are a few acceptable licenses, but one of the easiest ways I've found to get permission to post images is to ask the person from Flickr to change the license for that image so Wikipedia can use it. See more about image copyright licenses here: Wikipedia:Image use policy#Copyright and licensing.

As you've already noticed, there is usually little information out there on specific plants, especially ones that are not cultivated. Perhaps you've chosen the wrong article if you're not interested in diving into the library records. Finding information on some plants is often difficult and requires waiting on inter-library loan requests to arrive. I profess ignorance on the material available online about this species. You might try the articles that have been written in the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter that could have tidbits of information: http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Search.php. Best of luck! Rkitko ^(talk) 14:43, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Wow, I was not expecting such a speedy and helpful response. We will try your Flickr advice! Amazing that you would mention an inter-library loan request; I just received my first book that way today. Thanks for the good advice! G1956w (talk) 02:45, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello again! I hate to bother you but I was hoping you could help with two more questions. It was suggested to me that with the recent additions Drosera uniflora could be upgraded from stub class to start class but I am unfamiliar with this. Is this something that I am expected to do? Also, I think we can get the proper permission for a decent photo, but I have seen better photos. Do you think it would be appropriate to link to them in the "External links" section? Thanks again. G1956w (talk) 23:37, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Utricularia setion names meaning

Hey Rkitko. I'm translating Utricularia entries to Chinese. With mgiganteus1's help, I get most of species name meaning of Utricularia, but lack setions meaning. So I hope to get some information about Utricularia setion names meaning. Could you help me?乌拉跨氪 (talk) 11:57, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello, I'm so glad that you are working on the translations. I'm sorry, but I don't think I can be of much help on the section name meaning. I know many of them are named in honor of people and others, like sect. Aranella, were formerly genera that were reduced to sections. I briefly looked at Peter Taylor's 1989 monograph on the genus and he doesn't provide much (or any) information on the etymology of the section names. In particular, I tried to look up the origin of Aranella further by going back to Barnhart's 1913 description and even he provides no reason for choosing the name. For others, it would require going back to their original descriptions, some of which I may not have immediate access to their articles and I'm afraid I don't have much time to work on this at the moment. Good luck, Rkitko ^(talk) 18:29, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much.乌拉跨氪 (talk) 16:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Science lovers wanted!

Science lovers wanted!

Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 01:08, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Input for proposed deletions

Hello Rkitko - as someone who has been involved with Nepenthes, do you have any impartial feedback on the discussions regarding the proposed deletions for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stewart McPherson (geographer) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alastair Robinson ? Keeping those pages up to date has been a pet project of mine, so I can't really be called an impartial party, though I'll try to respond myself. Any thoughts either way welcome. Thank you for your time. Jeljen (talk) 23:27, 10 May 2012 (UTC)