User talk:Plantsurfer

Peer review

I have nominated Botany at peer review. I think it's in pretty good shape and hope we get good ideas for more improvement there. 512bits (talk) 01:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

About your deletion of the page "Evolution"

Hi, I'm cdh31211811. I understand why you deleted what you deleted. but I am really not a "anti-scientist". I am a person who supports science. But in this world, a lot of people don't know what REAL science is. I was only trying to make people know a little about what's wrong with the "science" most people know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CDH31211811 (talk • contribs) 23:47, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Please discuss this on Talk:Evolution - not here. Plantsurfer (talk) 00:17, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

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PR

I will need help to finish this: Wikipedia:Peer review/Botany/archive1. Can you help? 512bits (talk) 02:21, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, of course. I have been busy recently, but will get onto it. I thought the comments were very fair and constructive. Plantsurfer (talk) 07:16, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Me too. 512bits (talk) 23:07, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

I just answered the last Peer Review item. Thanks for your great help there. I'm not sure how long we should let that run. Some have mentioned getting this to "featured" status. 512bits (talk) 23:37, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

That's great. I am keen to move forward too, but I think it would be worth checking with Praemonitus that the changes we have made to the article are sufficient. Apart from his specific points he made a general comment about MOS:JARGON - "...dense technical text. A more even comprehension level would be preferable, and would perhaps make the text more engaging." Plantsurfer (talk) 00:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

He added a point about epigenetics being in the lead but not body. I added a section on it but it's rough and not my area (mostly copied from the article on that topic). I'd appreciate it if you'd look it over. The points I see left are: 1) the "too technical" stuff, 2) smooth epigenetics, and 3) smooth plant biochem. 512bits (talk) 21:25, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

I noticed that. I think I may have been the perpetrator! It's not my topic either, but I will have a look at it. It appears I have created some controversy over the biochem bit, for which I apologise. We don't need that at this time. Plantsurfer (talk) 21:38, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

I have a few more refs to fix, then please look at the epigenetics part. As for biochem, no worries, why don't you take the input given so far, tweak your first draft, and overwrite the biochem section accordingly? 512bits (talk) 21:41, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks, I'll deal with it in the morning. Plantsurfer (talk) 22:11, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Ref Problem

I can't tell if this is a book or journal nor find a few details about it. can you help out: Kolattukudy, P. E. (1996). "Biosynthetic Pathways of Cutin and Waxes, and Their Sensitivity to Environmental Stresses". Chapter 3, pp83-108 In: Plant Cuticles. Ed. by G. Kerstiens. (Oxford: BIOS Scientific Publishers Ltd). :512bits (talk) 20:18, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

It is a chapter in an edited book, ISBN 1 85996 130 4. BIOS Scientific Publishers Ltd., Oxford, UK Environmental Plant Biology Series. The article cited is Chapter 3, pages 83-108. http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Plant_cuticles.html?id=x3TwAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y Hope this helps. Plantsurfer (talk) 20:30, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. What's left to do now? 512bits (talk) 02:15, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Posted at the bottom of Praemontius' talk page. 512bits (talk) 19:27, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Great. I'll back off the editing for a bit until he replies. Plantsurfer (talk) 19:34, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

On Sep 1 he said "It should close automatically. I'd leave it open until then in case anybody else wants to comment". So i guess he's done. I'd suggest wrapping up whatever you have left and we move on. 512bits (talk) 21:22, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

That's good! I have a couple of things to do, but I will try to be quick and limit my enthusiasm! One task is to find a way to properly acknowledge the major advances that were made in 19th century plant anatomy. At present, it reads as though Katherine Esau did it all, but the descriptive anatomical work of people like Haberlandt and de Bary 50 years or more earlier was extraordinary. Another issue I would like to deal with is repeat links. What are your views on linking a topic more than once in the article. The article has reached the size where it becomes hard to find the first instances of a link, and repeat links may help the reader. Once these things are done, what is the next move? Plantsurfer (talk) 23:29, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

You always think of something to add, wink wink. I think you're only supposed to link the first occurrence of a word, but I don't know how hard and fast that is. After this it's get it to featured status but that's not something I have experience at. I asked MarshalN20 to answer here.512bits (talk) 02:11, 6 September 2013 (UTC)