User talk:Delvethedragon

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 * Thanks for the welcome, my friend! And thanks for the links; I appreciate them! As for my contributions, no problem! I only wish to help! I hope to see you around. And have a nice day! — Delvethedragon (talk) 21:29, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Lists of Plants
I saw you mention that you were/are thinking about a list of grassland plants for the SE to replace your Category. What about a Flora of Alabama? I'm currently working on Draft:Flora of Colorado. Why? Because that is my place of interest and it gives me a systematic reason to look at and check every species and genus. Even if I don't end up publishing it I'm learning at lot by experimenting with my draft and I'm fixing problems on all sorts of pages I might not have visited otherwise as I build my list.

I estmate I'll be done in about two years at my current rate. MtBotany (talk) 00:48, 2 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Maybe. I've honestly been busy with other things recently, but we'll see. A list of the Flora of Alabama could be a good idea. Delvethedragon (talk) 00:55, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * @Delvethedragon If you ever want help with one, let me know. I figured out how to get a list of accepted species out of Plants of the World Online into a table that can then be fairly easily exported to the Wikipedia table format. I've got all the species for Colorado listed now in my draft. Just working on getting all the common names and Nature Serve information into it. MtBotany (talk) 18:15, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, that's pretty cool. Thanks. Although, I think I'd probably prefer to use the Alabama Plant Atlas (APA) for that (it's a local authority which offers an easy way to export a list of plants, which can also be filtered by certain parameters like nativity in the state). POWO is usually pretty good, but sometimes they have some odd claims in their data, like saying that Opuntia is native to Tibet (which it definitely isn't) or disagreeing with most authors and considering Prunus alabamensis a variety of P. serotina, which the APA disagrees with. Delvethedragon (talk) 19:41, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I entirely agree about the occasional oddness of POWO data. They are, for now, the source we use for species names on Wikipedia but some of their classifications make me quite skeptical. I always put in all the disagreements with POWO from WFA, PLANTS, VASCAN, and FNA when writing individual plant articles.
 * It is why I am going over my list using Flora of Colorado by Ackerfield for information about native status and to add in species they missed as well as adding in the NatureServe status. Wish I had a nice easy to use local database. And I still have not figured out how to use the API from NatureServe to get their data into a spreadsheet. MtBotany (talk) 13:55, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

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