I've made a large number of small edits to various pages, but my longest single contribution was one of my first: the
Spoken Wikipedia
recording for
Submarine
. I've also written some stubs such as
Creeping blueberry
,
Helwingiaceae
(was easy to get to a decent stub due to having a French article I could translate),
Eupatorieae
and various others (especially plant articles).
I'm also at:
Random thoughts
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In
Foolish hobgoblins
(
Language Log
, March 04, 2007), Arnold Zwicky dares to defend inconsistency in language. Doubt he'll get anywhere (and he doesn't discuss collaboratively written works like wikipedia), but I have significant sympathies with him.
To dos
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Most of these notes are pretty old
Category:Plant articles needing attention
Think about enabling
User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings
for WP:PLANTS.
Should I try to write something about
Lobelioideae
? Right now it is unreferenced. A few journal articles:
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
.
Also note that
[6]
removed genera from the taxobox.
Keep browsing
R.L. Small papers
. Likewise
Schilling
.
Expand
Pimpinella
(e.g.
[7]
and
[8]
), per 4 October 2009 request at
WT:PLANTS
.
Category:Plant taxa by rank
is rather incomplete and might be a parallel hierarchy to some other categories (not sure about the latter part).
Add inkscape/SVG directions to
Wikipedia:Distribution maps
. Create a path with the pencil tool, but haven't yet figured out how to do the intersection with the oceans (and presumably, the lines between countries too).
Say more about diet of
Nectarinia newtonii
(and thus de-orphan
Leea tinctoria
).
Propose that
Gnetales
redirect to
Gnetophyta
. Check amjbot (2004) special issue to see what terminology they use. Maybe do some searches for Ephedrales. Find out who puts these genera in 3 orders (it is uncited at
Gnetophyta
, I think).
- Everyone agrees that the three genera
Gnetum
,
Ephedra
, and
Welwitschia
are related. The question is whether to call this group
Gnetales
or
Gnetophyta
(I'll leave out, for now, the idea that they would be classified in the
Pinales
- there is evidence which points that way but a formal taxonomic proposal along those lines would presumably be premature and I'm not aware of anyone doing so). And in particular whether
Gnetales
should redirect to
Gnetum
(as it does now) or
Gnetophyta
(which I think reflects common usage better).
Clean up
Polypodiales
.
these edits
changed the circumscription without updating text which was true for the old circumscription.
As of 11 Feb 2010,
Help:Wiki markup
recommends linking dates. Link to the
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
or some such.
Follow up on
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biology#Direct copies of species descriptions from external website
.
Follow up on merge of
Ancistrocladaceae
into
Ancistrocladus
(
GRIN
supports this being the only genus in the family). Probably move the text into a section classification. Include the family authority in the taxobox.
Unplaced in APG II
has more potential for stub creation.
Fact-check
this
and come up with better wording (this is a word-for-word copy of text which is all over diverse sites on the internet).
Follow up on
Physenaceae
/
Physena
merge.
Tools
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