User talk:Hermionesgarden

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March 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Pedicularis canadensis has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://earthnotes.tripod.com/betony.htm#woodbetony.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 22:30, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Pedicularis canadensis do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://earthnotes.tripod.com/betony.htm#woodbetony.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:38, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Helleborus foetidus, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you! -- TimothyDexter (talk) 03:54, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Out-of-date information?

Hi!

I have recently noticed that you are enthusiastically editing various plant-related articles. This is to be encouraged... but I would add one note of caution - Be careful if you are changing the factual content. I wouldn't want to overstate the importance of that - Be bold is one of our sayings - but sometimes the original stuff was actually right.

The change I have in mind is this one. I am no expert in this area, but I get the impression from the article on Scrophulariaceae that Pedicularis was once considered part of Scrophulariaceae but is now considered part of Orobanchaceae. i.e. you replaced up-to-date info with out-of-date info.

As I say, I am no expert, but it might help if you were to check some of your facts.

If you have any questions I would be happy to help.

Regards,

Yaris678 (talk) 17:45, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It used to be that Orobanchaceae was restricted to the holoparasitic genera. However a few years ago it was discovered that Scrophulariaceae was an artificial taxon; that is its members were not all more closely related to each other than to all other plants. This has lead to a revision of the taxonomy such that. inter alia. the hemiparasitic genera (such as Pedicularis), and even a few non-parasitic genera, were transferred to Orobanchaceae. Lavateraguy (talk) 19:42, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]