User talk:NeilandtheGiant

Hi there, Neil!

Your contributed article, Succulents of New York


Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Succulents of New York. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - New York Succulents. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at New York Succulents - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Avenue X at Cicero (talk) 15:13, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

advice
As a rather experienced editor here, let me offer you some suggestions about the article. We have normally avoided articles like this for narrower regions than a country, and, in fact, have even such articles as Flora of .... for only four of the US States. See Category:Lists of plants for a look at what we do have. I suspect some of the people who working this area may find your list excessively narrow for an encyclopedia, and perhaps insufficiently informative. There is also a strong opinion that it is better to do articles by ecological region than by political geography. I'm not sure I agree, but I think I am in he minority on this. There are two ways of doing such articles--see Flora of Ohio}] and [[Flora of Connecticut for lists endeavoring to be complete, and selective lists. Remember that we do have articles on all common individual plant species, so there may be no need to give details about the plant--for a regional list, it might be more helpful to give details about the distribution. In any case, the information must be referenced, including the information about ranking if you intend to go from the common to the rare.

If you want to work on botany, it might be better to work on other related things. I suggest you take a look at WikiProject Plants, add yourself to the list of members, and look at their suggestions for articles.  DGG ( talk ) 18:46, 14 August 2011 (UTC)