User talk:Mycos

I would like to discuss a method of correcting or clarifying previous posts when the information isn't readily available through a web search, but is found among printed journals or field guides. There are a number of changes I would like to make, but my "reference to authority" isn't available on the web. Mycos (talk) 19:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Paxillus involutus
Aha, I will take you up on the offer. One article I was unable to come up with much more on was Paxillus involutus, which I wanted to add material I couldn't find online - clairying taxonomic issues (what it is related to - eg different populations and P. vernalis, and anything else which may be important. Can you see anything missed in the article which could be added? I want to make it a Featured Article at some point. cheers Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sure. It's late right now so I haven't gone through the Pax article with a fine-toothed comb, but what jumped out at me was the claim that Pax is "long been known" to belong to Boletacaceae. I've never heard that before. What I have seen is that Paxillus is an evolutionary link between the the all-gilled mushrooms (agarics) and all-pored boletes, which you rightly point out as being evidenced by the way that cross-walls appear so frequently near the base that the gills start to look more like pores. Modern genetic evidence reveals that this link theory to explain their presence was valid.
 * Further, it's my understanding that agarics, boletes and pax's are all represented by different families that reflect their different form, but that they all fall under Agaricales, and not bolete > pax with agarics as something separate. email me at and we'll hash this out so we can avoid an edit war okay? --Mycos (talk) 08:50, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * btw. As proper titles, shouldn't "poison pax" and others names there be capitalised (eg. Poison Pax) ?

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Closure
Two years ago, you inserted references to {Kruglanski 2003, Altemeyer, 1981, 1988, 1996, 1998) [sic] into Closure (psychology), but there is no description of these titles. Could you please do the needful?


 * 200.219.132.55 (talk) 12:40, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 200.219.132.55 (talk) 12:40, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

My apologies for the delay. It appears likely that I was referring to the publication dates of papers, by Altemeyer, referenced in Kruglanski et al's - Political Conservatism As Motivated Social Cognition (Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski & Sulloway) Psychological Bulletin 2003, Vol. 129, No. 3 Specifically: Altemeyer, R. A. (1981). Right-wing authoritarianism. Altemeyer (1988). Enemies of freedom: Understanding right-wing authoritarianism. Altemeyer (1996). The authoritarian specter. Altemeyer (1998). The other “authoritarian personality.” A title that refers to the Social Dominance-Oriented personality for which Pratto is usually credited with describing as a distinct syndrome or personality type. And given the rather vague connection these titles have to the NFC, I will go in and delete the Altemeyer dates in the article itself. Thanks for raising the issue to my attention. Mycos 02:29, 18 September 2014 (UTC)