User talk:Micanopyswampman

Welcome to Wikipedia
I have a favorite welcome template, but first a personal note about your first edit. Thanks for actually reading the source and recognizing that someone had put in nonsense that was pretty much the opposite of what the source said at Pistia. It is important to not take out the source, though, when it is being used elsewhere in the article as this one was. The problem was correct by a bot already, no harm done, but it is better to move the source than to rely on a bot or another editor catching the problem and fixing it.

As a bit of style, rather than a policy, I think it is better to mention a nonsense just so story and why it is wrong rather than deleting it entirely. If a story is widespread someone is going to mistakenly add it back later on if there is no information about it thinking that they are being helpful.

For example when I was working on Oxford ivy recently I kept on seeing the story that it was introduced to England with statuary shipped to Oxford and that is why it is given that common name. But I also came across a more scholarly source that convincingly said that it was introduced as a garden plant. So I put in the story but also cited that it was unlikely to be true so that people have the full story.

And now for the moderately useful welcome template with source about how to do stuff here on Wikipedia:

Welcome to Wikipedia, Micanopyswampman! Thank you for your contributions. This is an encyclopedia, so remember that it's a necessity to include references listing reliable websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you have used to write or expand articles. Please understand that these sources should verify the information in a fair and accurate manner. However, you must not copy and paste text you find anywhere, except for short quotations, marked as such with quote marks and carefully cited to the source the quote was taken from. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted by others if unreferenced or referenced poorly or if they are copyright violations. See referencing for beginners for more details.

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