User talk:Convolvulus sepium

Paclobutrazol
Hello Convolvulus sepium. Much of your edits are contrary to WP:SECONDARY, relying too much on primary sources. Besides that you are completely silent which makes me wonder about both WP:CIR and WP:Communication is required. We need you to come to Talk:Paclobutrazol and discuss. Invasive Spices (talk) 8 April 2022 (UTC)


 * To expand on what Invasive Spices has said, all editors on Wikipedia must conform to the Policies and guidelines. I'll provide some links to the important ones. Please read these and then join in the discussion at Talk:Paclobutrazol. First, I want to thank you for your enthusiasm for adding to the paclobutrazol article: it is easy for me to assume your good faith, the problem is that I (and other experienced editors) think that some of the content you have added is not appropriate and have made the article in its current state a bit of a mess. In any case, all the editors must reach a consensus as to what should be included and the onus is on the editor who wants to add something to justify doing so. Wikipedia relies on a process called bold, revert/remove, discuss. So it was great that you were WP:BOLD when you arrived at this version on March 17. However, Storcy felt it needed tidying up and I wanted to contribute by adding details of the chemical synthesis, the stereochemistry and the mechanism of action of the isomers. In doing that, with Invasive Spices also contributing, we arrived at this version. The article had been re-organised to be similar to others of the same type (for example creating a "Usage" section covering how PBZ is used by farmers etc. separate from an "Effects on the environment" section covering its side-effects). At this point, some of your additions had been reverted/removed. What happened next is that you proceeded to add back all that had been removed and much else as well, without any discussion with everyone else. That's against policy and starts to become an WP:EDITWAR, although that hasn't happened yet as everyone else has now stopped editing the article and awaits your contribution to the discussion on the Talk Page.


 * I have some specific questions for you: please answer them here on your Talk Page as they are not strictly about paclobutrazol. First, why are you working on this article and no others? Storchy thinks it is because you are doing some sort of student assignment. Is that correct and are you working to a deadline? You could create a User Page to (see WP:UPYES) to explain what you are planning to contribute to Wikipedia. Secondly, what is the source of the information within the file with the diagram of PBZ's metabolism? It contains a number of errors and omissions but I can't work out whether these are because of problems in the source or problems with the way you have re-drawn things. I want to help you make corrections but I need to know the source to be able to do that. Mike Turnbull (talk) 15:52, 10 April 2022 (UTC)