User talk:Forrestal

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Camellias
Hi Forrest - thanks for the e-mail note. This one is always a bit of a tricky decision. The southeastern CS link I removed partly as it is a .com link, i.e., commercial, and such links are generally frowned upon (see External links for guidance), but also (more importantly) because it only covers a very limited region - wikipedia is a global resource, and should not give undue weight to any local point of view. If the link provides useful peer-reviewed scientific data on the genus, then it is reasonable to add it as a reference for the text on the page (and feel free to add any information about the genus to the page, so long as it does not breach any copyright!).

For similar reasons, a US baseball player, famous though he may be within the US, is of little significance to Camellias on a world-wide basis. What might be more appropriate is (if he has a biographical page on wikipedia) to mention his Camellia interests there, with a link to the Camellia page from there. In general, people with interests rarely get mentioned (the Camellia page is very unusual in having an 'afficionados' section at all); have a look round some other plant pages to get a feel of what else tends to get included.

Hope this helps; if you have any more queries, please feel free to ask - MPF 18:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info! Forrestal 01:55, 13 August 2006 (UTC)