User talk:Bdbart

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Plant categories
Please stop your edits to categories, like this one. Be sure to read the guidelines at WikiProject Plants/World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions before making any further edits in this area. Declangi (talk) 20:24, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Tsuga mertensiana, you may be blocked from editing. ''Applying many categories which are sibling categories, daughter categories of parent categories is deeply unhelpful. If a plant is present throughout North America, for example, then the one category is sufficient. Add USA, Canada, Mexico etc is very unhelpful.  Velella  Velella Talk 21:02, 5 July 2020 (UTC)''  Velella  Velella Talk  21:02, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
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Sorry, I thought I was helping.--Bdbart (talk) 21:08, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * OK. Lets start again. You are very welcome to add categories to articles, but it is important to understand how categories work. Categories should, in general , be exclusive. So , for example, a plant that only occurs in the State of Texas should be categorised in Plants of Texas. The categorisation system will automatically know that this is also a plant of the USA or of the Americas because categories are in a nested hierarchy. Please have a look at how these work and don't be put off by an early learning experience. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 21:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Another example is Fagus grandifolia. If a category is present and justified, in this case Category:Trees of North America, then we don't add any subcategories of this category, i.e. any categories that have the category that is already present as their parent, grandparent, etc. Categorization is actually quite a complex activity, with guidelines all over the place, so I know it's easy for new editors to make mistakes – I certainly did. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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