User talk:84.208.233.134

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Happy editing! Aspening (talk) 22:22, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

May I repeat the welcome. I would like to mention that for scientific articles, we need to take special care with sources. News flashes are interesting but not ideal; better is to cite the original paper that the news flash is publicising. However, there is a deeper problem here, which is that a paper describing new scientific research is primary, i.e. it's new, original, and is the only source describing that new thing ... and so, might be wrong. What we want on the encyclopedia is reliable secondary sources, e.g. textbooks or review papers that look back over many primary papers and assess more objectively what the situation is.

So, 1) please cite real journal papers not news flashes; and 2) the papers we need to cite are not brand-new hot-off-the-press discoveries (sorry!) but solid, meat-and-potatoes, review articles that themselves cite dozens of primary papers and compare them. Hope this is clear. Good luck! Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:30, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK. If there is a possibility to find and access the journal papers, I'll give it a go.84.208.233.134 (talk) 17:11, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Red Algae[edit]

Thanks for your comment on my talk page. I reverted because you did not specify which seaweeds were being referred to. Perhaps you could edit the sentence to specify red algae, without using the generic term seaweed, which covers various sorts of organisms, not all of which are closely related.Plantsurfer 18:59, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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