User talk:Shadbush

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Thanks for trying to keep that species list on Serviceberry in line with current research. We should add Flora of North America as a reference, with a link to the relevant page at efloras.org (pages like Citing Sources or Footnotes discuss how, or you can emulate the existing use of &lt;ref&gt; on the page). Also, there are some formatting issues with your changes (for example, "north temperate zoneNorthern Hemisphere" needs a space - and some other punctuation - between "zone" and "Northern"). I see that you are actively editing, so it might be easier if I let you finish before trying to copy-edit.

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Amelanchier
Hi Shadbush - nice work on the Amelanchier page; I am concerned however that the text you added bears a very close resemblance to the text at the University of Maine page on the genus, and may be in breach of their copyright. Can you confirm that you have permission to use this text (i.e., if you are the copyright holder), please? - Thanks, MPF 10:40, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Edits
If some Amelanchier species are really not recognized, then you need to do something about the articles that have been written about them, not simply remove the links from the genus article. I note that the articles you orphaned have references themselves, so the expectation is going to be that you have an explanation for why those references are wrong, perhaps a publication demonstrating synonymy or some such. If they are synonyms of something else for instance, make a redirect to the correct species, and only then may you remove from the genus article. Stan (talk) 19:32, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Amelanchier canadensis
Hi Shadbush! What kind of plant material you want to receive? Photos, scanned images, living plants, herbarium specimen? Yours --Borealis55 (talk) 16:09, 5 August 2009 (UTC)