User talk:Amin Bio

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March 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Total-MAdMaN (talk) 19:55, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Grusonia article
Please see Talk:Grusonia.

Although the information you added to the article was potentially useful, there are several problems with it:


 * It's not at the right level for Wikipedia, which is a general encyclopedia. Very botanical descriptions, in note form and containing botanical jargon, need to be re-written to become easier to understand text.


 * It looks to me as if this text was just copied from another source, possible by using optical character recognition software. If this is the case then (i) the source MUST be known to be free of copyright (ii) the source MUST be explicitly acknowledged by "inline citations". It's enough to describe the source and put it inside tags at the end of each copied paragraph. (Don't worry about getting the formatting of references exactly right at first; others will sort this out for you.)


 * Information on the species of Grusonia should be in separate articles, as e.g. Grusonia parishii or Grusonia pulchella.

Wikipedia really needs new editors, so please don't let all this put you off editing! You just need to learn how to do it properly. I'm happy to help; you can leave questions at my talk page; add them to the bottom. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:43, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The material you added to Grusonia was copied from the online Flora of North America. This source is copyright to the Flora of North America Association (see the bottom of this web page and cannot be copied into Wikipedia. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:05, 14 April 2012 (UTC)