User talk:Taraxacumseeds

November 2012
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Please be more polite to other editors
Your haste to revert the edits of others is not conducive to a good working relationship. In particular, for the Kalimeris indica page, you need to read WP:LAYIM and learn about the use of galleries in Commons. The change you reverted was superior to the one that you have left at the page because it linked to a gallery at Commons. Annoyed: Sminthopsis84 (talk) 21:05, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Response 1:

I agree with the statement: Please be more polite to other editors. My impression is that you were going around and change the work of others to suit your own personal taste. The change of "different parts of the world" to "some jurisdictions" in the Taraxacum page is a perfect example.
 * Okay, we got off on the wrong foot here, I hope that, especially since we are both interested in plants, that we can mend fences (just to mix metaphors). Your edits seemed quite competent, so I assumed that you had been editing for a while anonymously, but perhaps that is not the case.
 * A couple of things that you might have overlooked are
 * my edit summary with the "some jurisdictions" change, which was "It's a legal matter". To be more precise, in the area where I am, it is a very serious legal matter; if you have a weed listed as "noxious" on your property and you don't remove it, a government representative is likely to destroy it for you in some way that you find objectionable, and send you a very large bill. I'm still astonished that Taraxacum officinale is listed as a noxious weed in some places. You've now provided citations, but my first thought was that it is completely ridiculous that such a non-toxic, edible, frankly useful plant could be on a noxious weeds list. If it were listed here there'd be a huge outcry about hardship caused to land-owners.
 * that I spent some time in commons.wikimedia creating a category for your photos so that it could be linked from the Kalimeris indica page. Previously, your photos had an automatically added tag that they needed categories. You can see the changes using the history menu and comparing to previous versions.
 * that sometimes another editor has thought carefully about what they are doing. It's always a good idea to carefully study the difference comparison between the edited version(s) and the previous version(s) to see if there are some parts of an edit that you agree with, even if you object to some of it. "Reverting" is what we do to vandalism, our own blunders, and edits from people who seem to have made up a crazy story about Taraxacum being a noxious weed: it will help relations with other editors if you can keep "reverting" for those extreme cases.
 * Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 22:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Response 2:

Thanks for your perspectives on noxious weeds and other issues relating to editing Wiki. Editors like you deserve a lot of credit for making Wikipedia what it is today.

I undid your editing because it does not sit right with me to see two close-up pictures of Kalimeris indica deleted. These two pictures show the fine floral structures of this species nicely. I would have no problem at all if more pictures were added, or factual errors were corrected.