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ahhh so white, so quiet

At this stage I am in process of writing a report about discussions in Australia about https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017 the cycle 2 of the broader wikimedia strategy -

You may well have responded elsewhere - but if you at all interested - not the slightest bother if you are not - please feel free to contact on or off wiki - thanks JarrahTree 06:40, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Request for openion

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Thanks and regards

Mahitgar (talk) 07:41, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:57, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for today's Banksia telmatiaea, described: "f ever an article was ready to go to FAC, this is. We have plumbed the depths of obscure sources until convinced we have referenced everything that has ever been written about this plant. We've scaled cyclone fences in search of photographs. We've harassed the world authority on Banksia to verify doubtful photos for us. We've polished and polished and polished." Thanks go to everyone included in the "We"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:55, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Seven years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

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wow

happy new year for, 201-, and so on - almost a decade since suggestion lunch feels like JarrahTree 01:19, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

i know

the probable answer but just fyoi anyways

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/50 - apologies for late notice - hope you are able to make it or some time!! JarrahTree 04:49, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

G'day. Thanks heaps for the heads-up. I got back from two weeks up north yesterday afternoon, so right now I'm drowning in dirty washing etc, but I would like to get to this if I can. Hesperian 04:58, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

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Austral season's greetings

	Austral season's greetings
	Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:08, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Cas! And you! Hesperian 00:55, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

christmas and new year

trust you have had a good christmas- hope to catch up in the new year some time.. JarrahTree 00:13, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Cheers you too! Hesperian 00:55, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

You're the guy who wrote Banksia oblongifolia, today's featured article, didn't you? I'd like to say, CONGRATULATIONS! GhotiGhoti (talk) 21:54, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

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me thinks despite your good sense - they are ignoring you - clueless imho - this seems a good excuse - when's a good time for lunch...(limited days available - but maybe an email or phone thing to check)JarrahTree 05:59, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

the elusive hesp - out of the silence - appears! JarrahTree 00:31, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

found another [1] there are still a few out there ! JarrahTree 01:00, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

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Yup. Hesperian 01:23, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Prasiola crispa

Yesterday I started an article on this alga. I had hoped to add to it but find you have deleted it. I had hoped for advice as two references had been arranged not as I had hoped/expected. Due to computer problems I had to re-enter using a new username. I would be keen to start again and would be grateful for your advice.Gigartina (talk) 12:59, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

@Gigartina: The article was deleted in 2008 by Hesperian, as a redirect to the genus, there would be no need for permission to start an article on the species. I may be able to help, and without spoiling the surprise I am curious to see what it turns out to be. cygnis insignis 13:13, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Huon tells me I should not have put apostrophes at the name of an author " " - He/she corrected it. But now I cannot find the article he/she corrected!! - I will be grateful for your help.Gigartina (talk) 13:39, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Hesperian press

Are you related to the publishing company that shares your name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.126.106.240 (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

No. Hesperian 23:49, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

couldnt believe more diametrically opposed items - never take user names as having anything to do with reality (as such) JarrahTree 00:11, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

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Awesome

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Synaphea spinulosa Taxonomic history (Mabberley's account)

David Mabberley (Botanical Revelations,2019, p7) tells a far more likely story:

"The surviving specimen said to be from such 'herborisings' is held in the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques in Geneva, Switzerland, and represents one of the the two species notable for being the first plants restricted to Australia to be named according to the Linnaean binomial convention in the 'sexual system' of the Swedish doctor and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-78), a classification of plants base on the numbers of sexual parts (stamens and pistils) in the flowers.... They were named and illustrated in the Flora Indica (1768) of Nikolaas Burman (1733-93), a Dutch doctor and botanist, at least one of them coming from surgeon-botanist Christiaan Kleijnhoff (d. 1777), who established the first botanic garden in the tropics, in what is now called Jakarta, Indonesia. It is not known whether they were young plants from Kleijnhoff's garden (though neither is obvious from the names in his 'Descriptio plantarum'). However, if they had been raised from seeds collected on the voyage, this would perhaps help explain the absence of flowers, though Vlamingh was too late for the flowers of both species in any case. Indeed, as they have no flowers, the scraps were at first taken to be from ferns. The first is a wattle, Acacia truncata (Leguminosae), ..... The second, his 'Polypodium spinulosum', of which a specimen survives in Geneva, is a Synaphea (Proteaceae). Although these are technical 'firsts', no-one at the time knew where they had come from, and they therefore had no contemporary effect in revealing the flora of Australia to Europeans".

Thus, Mabberley believes that the specimens were grown in Jakarta from seed collected by Vlamingh and then later, with little idea of provenance, specimens sent to Burman... Thus what continued to exist from Vlamingh's men's herborising on the Swan, has very little to do with the careful pressing of specimens collected on site to be carried on a voyage, but rather more to do with a relatively swift collection of seed. So the statement "it is difficult to credit that far more abundant and showy plants would have been passed over in favour of the unremarkable S. spinulosum", would seem to be not to be the case.

Additionally, APNI gives the Burman reference as: Burman, N.L. (1768), Flora Indica: cui accedit series zoophytorum indicorum, nec non Prodromus Florae Capensis: 233, t. 67, fig. 1 in which Burman describes the type as "ex Java" (from Java).

I think there is a need to rewrite the last two sentences in the second paragraph of this section, to accommodate Mabberley's account, and am hoping you might be of the same view. MargaretRDonald (talk) 01:50, 3 April 2020 (UTC).

Hi Margaret, thanks for an interesting read. I'm not very active here at the moment. However I'm delighted to know that there are other people in the world who share my obsession with botanical taxonomic history. Mabberley's material is very interesting; please do add it to the article. Hesperian 02:09, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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Mind-boggling that someone would remove pictures of old notes from Australian fifty-dollar note. Clearly encyclopedic, clearly fair-use. Hesperian 02:16, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

you have no idea what current geniuses are up to here... its as crazy as ever JarrahTree 05:05, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

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May songs

Precious

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Thank you today for Banksia integrifolia, introduced (in 2006) as a "comprehensive and well-written article on an important Australian tree"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

today performances in Ukraine - for Ukraine - for peace, at the bottom an imaginary set of eight DYK - and more May pics--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:17, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

today more pics, and should this woman have an article? - or only her sons? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:32, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

I like my talk today (actually mostly from 29 May - I took the title pic), enjoy the music, two related videos worth watching! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

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Nice. Hesperian 23:42, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

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I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:44, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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Look what I found after all these years...

Finally online, this - with the original names Solander coined but were never published for Banks and Solanders 1770 haul of plants. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:57, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi Cas! Good to hear from you. Oh, that's lovely. It's a pity they couldn't do colour photos though. Hesperian 23:48, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

True. I've returned to dungeon-mastering in DnD after many years, so free (and wikipedia) time chewed up by (fantasy) world-building Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:01, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

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This bot is broken. At the time this message was posted, I'd made 114 edits in the past 60 months. A little over-eager to strip people of their admin rights, eh? Hesperian 10:47, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

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North Polar Spur

Hello, thanks for creating this. Can you please add your sources? Thanks, Boleyn (talk) 17:20, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Trove referred to, contact sometime JarrahTree 11:13, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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Sad. Hesperian 03:06, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

I hope you're doing well. I hate this new feature for what it represents at times like this. Guettarda (talk) 21:36, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

It's not a problem. Thanks Guettarda, nice to hear from you. I hope you're going well too. Hesperian 23:37, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

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I recall positive encounters with you in the past when we were both much more active on Wikipedia. I wish you well in whatever you are doing now. Scott Davis ^Talk 23:43, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Oh hi Scott! A blast from the past. Someone who was around when I first joined -- OMG -- nearly twenty years ago. Yeah, I'm going really well, thanks. Way too busy for Wikipedia at the moment, but I still love the place and will be back one day. And you? Hesperian 00:39, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Very positive memories as well - back one day - hopefully not too long, sorely missed... JarrahTree 09:51, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Only somethingteen years until retirement :-) Hesperian 23:38, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Weren't you this younger guy? (At least relative to Casliber or me). How did 20 years pass? I'm at WikiConference North America right now, seeing people in person for the first time in five years. And I'm baffled by all the grey hair that has appeared from nowhere. Guettarda (talk) 20:14, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm keeping busy doing similar kinds of things - WikiTree is getting more of my time at present. I spent a lot of effort on places in South Australia in Wikipedia. Wikitree and gradually increasing interest in a few organisations that focus more on the colonial people who lived there. --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:49, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Yeah...good ol' real life. I returned to dungeonmastering in Dungeons and Dragons a few years ago, which really chews up my desktop hours :) But I try to keep my toe in Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:17, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

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