User talk:ConorQuilligan

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Teucrium racemosum
Hello ConorQuilligan,

I appreciate your work on Teucrium racemosum and that you are a student at my alma mater (from a long time ago!). I definitely do not intend to bite. There are few things out of order in your edits though. I hope you don't think I am being a pain but I want to list some of the things that aren't quite right. (Normally I would revert them all, but in the cause of education....)
 * In your first edit you removed what are called "inline citations" and replaced them with with general references (e.g. "Conn, 2021"). No indication was given of which publication by Conn in 2021 you are relying on. At the same time, you removed a number of inline citations. As a result, there are no references at all at the end of the article.
 * In your second edit you changed the heading "Taxonomy" to "Taxonomy and Family" then went on to repeat information about the genus Teucrium already in the Wikipedia article about the genus. The heading should be "Taxonomy and genus" but the added information is already in the genus article - we wouldn't want to repeat it 300-odd times.
 * In your next edit you removed more references and added common names (must be lower case - forest germander) without giving a reference for them.

I would prefer you to undo the changes you have made (unless some editor other than me does it first), or replace the citations that you deleted. It is most important that there are references (preferably inline citations) for every statement in an article, listed at the end of the article.

A suggestion - to help with your university assignment: I am slowly working through the articles on the genus Hibbertia. (There's lots of them.) Some are only stubs (eg. Hibbertia riparia), often with incorrect or out-of-date information/links. Why not expand one or more of them, possibly using an already written article (eg. Hibbertia abyssus)? The Australian Plant Name Index is a useful source of inline citations.

Good luck with your studies. Gderrin (talk) 02:46, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Stop!
Stop editing Teucrium racemosum without making the changed I suggested. The article now has no references. I am about to WP:BITE. Gderrin (talk) 01:25, 16 May 2021 (UTC)