User talk:A Random Plant Wikipedian

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 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Robiquetia aberrans. Thanks! Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:25, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Hughesdarren (talk) 02:28, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

POWO vs. WFO
Hello, @A Random Plant Wikipedian. I don't know if you've run across this yet, but for non-ferns on Wikipedia the preferred database for taxonomic questions like synonyms and accepted names is Plants of the World Online. In your edit of Thelesperma filifolium you used World Flora Online as your source. It is fine, good and in this case agrees with POWO. When editing a plant native to the US I'll usually put in information from both of them and the USDA PLANTS database as well in the taxonomic section either to show there is agreement or disagreement. Example what I did with all the subspecies in Geum triflorum. But for the list of synonyms I always use POWO since for now that is the one that the WP:Plants project has collectively decided to follow. No need to change what you did since they are identical in this case. MtBotany (talk) 15:35, 10 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the information. I did look at both of the databases for T. filifolium, I was unsure of which one to use, so I chose World Flora Online. I will use POWO in the future for non-ferns.
 * Just out of curiousity, What taxonomic database is used for ferns? A Random Plant Wikipedian (talk) 15:48, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * We use World Ferns. More information about resources is under that tab at WP:WikiProject_Plants/Resources. If you go to the talk tab there you'll see me asking a lot of questions about exactly how to do things and the behavior of tags and so on.
 * I actually used WFO from my first edits of pages and had to move a page later on. Still need to get back to Drymocallis fissa and make it more complete now that I know so much more about editing.
 * Edit to add: One more thing. Do you know about the Flora of North America website? I is my goto for full botanical descriptions since it is freely available online. It occurs to me that I should update the resource list to link to the current site at beta.floranorthamerica.org . MtBotany (talk) 16:24, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the World Ferns link, and the WP:WikiProject_Plants/Resources link.
 * and yes, I do know FNA.
 * I have it in the bookmarks bar of my browser. A Random Plant Wikipedian (talk) 16:45, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Thelesperma nuecense has been accepted
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Thanks again, and happy editing! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:11, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

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Sorry to see you go
Best of luck in what you're doing next. I am sorry to lose a plant editor on Wikipedia. Drop me a line if you're ever in Colorado. 🌿 Mt B o t a n y (talk) 01:31, 7 June 2024 (UTC)