User talk:Weedgarden

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Created articles

Hi, and thank you for your recently created articles. In case you didn't know, the title of the page is usually bolded in the lead sentence of the article as noted at WP:BOLDTITLE. Thank you again for your contributions, CTJF83 chat 20:11, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Impatiens flaccida

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Impatiens flaccida, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.gardenology.org/wiki/Impatiens_flaccida. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 04:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution

I came across your Impatiens flaccida article while following up the copyright notice from above. You are correct that the text is available for use on Wikipedia, but it does have some minor limitations since it's only licensed under CC and not GFDL. To that end it would be appreciated if you used Template:CCBYSASource for attribution as I added it to the Impatiens flaccida article instead of simply linking to the source page. Thanks for your contributions and if you have any questions, just ask! VernoWhitney (talk) 12:28, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

new articles

While you are adding new botany articles, you should add a {{taxobox}}. They're fairly easy to use. Please consider adding it to your regular new botany article routine, so that other editors don't have to come behind you and add them. Thanks! - UtherSRG (talk) 04:42, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A wiki is all about other editors editing after you! --Weedgarden (talk) 00:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Weedgarden, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Reliable sources

I just wanted to add a note to the welcome message above, which is that I redirected the article you created, Salvia aurea to it's proper place, since it is just a synonym for Salvia africana-lutea, which already has an article. Note that wikipedia is very strong about using Reliable Sources. The source that you used, gardenology.com, doesn't remotely qualify as a reliable source, which is how you got incorrect information. You could arguably have used gardenology's source for its Salvia aurea article, which was the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. Unfortunately that book is nearly a hundred years old, and many plants have been renamed, merged, or determined to not be unique species anymore. More recent sources are really much better for any species articles. Even then, you must go directly to the source itself, and not use an unreliable source like that website. Please read the Reliable Sources for more information, and again, welcome. First Light (talk) 22:12, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gardenology.org as a source

Since you are using gardenology.org as the main source for most of your edits, you would be interested in a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants#Gardenology.org as a source. First Light (talk) 03:28, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I came across this discussion and was wondering if the same tools could be used on all of those culturesheet.org links. I see that you are way ahead of me. Thank you, First Light (talk) 01:51, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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