User talk:172.197.40.4

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If this IP address is shared between multiple users, then your edits may be unrelated to this vandalism. To avoid being included in any future sanctions such as temporary blocks or bans, we invite you to create a user account of your own. -- Jeff G. 18:02, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!! CC Poindexter Article
Thank you, I just knew that he had contributed something rather important, if minor, in the sciences. I had been researching maize a few months ago for a friend, and I study embryology, but not of the Monocots, and never would have found this again. I asked Jeff to unblock you. This happens a lot with IP addresses, that someone has used the IP to vandalize, and whoever catches the vandalism just goes in and corrects everything then notifies the IP or blocks the IP. In Jeff's defense, it can be very frustrating trying to figure out exactly who did what, and it often takes too much time to read everything. However, I appreciate your persistence, because I seldom check my talk page history and would not have caught your post had you not come back and reposted. This is precisely the article by Poindexter that I had seen before (I hadn't actually read it, and didn't save it). I very much appreciate your efforts and persistence in getting this to me. KP Botany 03:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry
I'm sorry, I had an itchy trigger finger. All I saw was two naked links (no human-readable descriptions), when I followed the first one and searched the resulting page for "Poindexter", my browser said it couldn't find anything, and I didn't feel like messing with Adobe Reader on that machine at the time. Descriptions of how the links could help each editor would have been helpful to me. I did not block this IP Address, as I am not an Administrator, but I support unblocking it. -- Jeff G.