User talk:Patvac-chs

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use common name in article, not scientific
look for plagiarism first, and make sure that the site is not just using the Wikipedia information
categories and interwiki links are needed
genus, species, and binomial names need to be italicized and species names need to also be bold in taxoboxes
use { { harvnb } }, remove brackets from footnotes

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Have a fantastic time! :D

Data Base

I'm not sure what your intent was regarding the addition to the data base. Please review and adjust as necessary.--JimmyButler (talk) 22:26, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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On plagiarism

http://books.google.com/books/about/Poeciliidae.html?id=UccfSgAACAAJ says "Source: Wikipedia". Many new books and web sites copy from wikipedia (and they may do so if they mention the source). But you don't need to rephrase what was copied from wikipedia. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 04:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I must have read right over it. I have already had plagiarism problems with other information.

Patvac-chs (talk) 05:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editing

I've not logged on in at least a year... and on the first day back, low and behold, I find a student still tweaking their article. Maybe should make it FA. I'll go back and edit your course grade! Nice! Cheers, --JimmyButler (talk) 16:56, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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