User talk:Dale Kloppenburg

January 2015
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Hoya. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 13:51, 21 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I think that was an attempt to add botanical information about Hoya sect. Eriostemma, aka the genus Eriostemma. Unfortunately, the journal Fraterna where the genus name was published is not available online and expensive to obtain on CD ROM (if online discussion is a guide to the price). Adding the link to the blog looks like an attempt to provide a substitute, and I think should not have been interpreted as spam. The usual botanical databases are, unfortunately, not much help yet: IPNI only gives the place of valid publication (Fraterna 14(2): 1. 2001). The Plant List is not yet sure what it thinks, giving a low confidence rating to a statement that Eriostemma is a synonym. It's a pity the Hoya Society hasn't decided to make its publication more accessible, such as by negotiating with The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:10, 25 January 2015 (UTC)