User talk:Lmcmen

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Hello Lmcmen and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but user-generated sources such as plantvillage.com are considered unreliable. Furthermore, because you may be associated with plantvillage.com, you may have conflicts of interest in using that site as a source. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Joja lozzo  22:39, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
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Almond & Alfalfa Disease Entries
I write in response to your decision to remove my edits on diseases for both Almond and Alfalfa. These entries were written in good faith as I discovered when researching entries for PlantVillage that Wikipedia has a poor level of detail on plant disease symptomology. The referenced content you refer to is not, as you claim, user moderated. Indeed, all plant info pages referenced were written by plant biologists and it is actually only the user generated questions for each plant that are user moderated. Furthermore, PlantVillage is not for profit and all content (plant information, pictures, links and advice) is made freely available under creative commons licensing. I wished only to improve the content on plant diseases by sharing the additional information we have sourced with Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lmcmen (talk • contribs) 15:31, 11 March 2013‎ UTC (moved here from my talk page.  Joja  lozzo  16:21, 11 March 2013 (UTC))
 * I accept your claim that these edits were made in good faith, though I suspect you have conflicts of interest since it appears that your solution to the lack of information you found was to link to a web site with which you appear to be associated rather than add information about diseases particular to the subject plants. You simply posted two boilerplate sentences which you repeated in each article ("Almond/Alfalfa can be attacked by an array of damaging organisms, including insects, fungal pathogens, plant viruses and bacteria. Symptoms can be variable depending on the organism attacking the plant."), simply changing the name of the plant each time. I left those paragraphs so I assume you object only to my removal of the links to the web site.
 * I think plantvillage.com is a valuable web site but Wikipedia does not exist to serve as a portal for readers to find their way to other web sites, however important they are.
 * Plantvillage.com does not, in my opinion, rise to the standard of a reliable source. The authors are anonymous (or certainly difficult to identify) and the information is self-published and poorly sourced. I recommend we use other sources for plant diseases on Wikipedia, such as the university extension service web pages linked from the plantvillage.com web site, or even better, reliable plant disease publications. If you think plantvillage.com rises to the standards of a Wikipedia reliable source please post a request for clarification at Reliable sources/Noticeboard.
 * And to really help us out here and improve these pages, please add information about the particular "fungal pathogens, plant viruses and bacteria" that afflict those plants. Most anyone can post a link. What we need most is informed, able writers to add real content. If plant village.com content is available under a compatible license, consider copying content to Wikipedia. (Important note: you will need to add reliable sources since plantvillage.com content is currently insufficiently sourced for use here.) In that case it would be necessary to attribute the content to plantvillage.com (see Plagiarism and Plagiarism). Thanks. Joja  lozzo  16:21, 11 March 2013 (UTC)