User talk:MtBotany

🌿Welcome

I do not have all the answers, but I will do my best to answer questions if you have them. If you think I am wrong, I am open to being convinced otherwise by logically supported, evidence based, succinct reasons. And as I state on my user page if you have a plant from the Southern Rocky Mountains or surrounding countryside that needs an article I will give it a higher priority on my list of things to edit. —🌿MtBotany

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ESA categories

The articles you reverted my edits to are all species listed under the Endangered Species Act. 2600:1700:7558:1890:5902:AD88:BE5F:89B3 (talk) 04:04, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

That fact needs to be supported by the text of the article with a citation. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 04:05, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, that category should not be manually added, but added through an update to the taxobox. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:28, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @UtherSRG. I had missed that it was one of the categories that is automatically added. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 22:22, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Plantae Barnstar
		Co-awarded to you and Cremastra for your work at Castilleja chromosa. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 13:08, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Heterophyllous

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Unregistered users not allowed to edit articles?

I am at a loss to see how my contributions "did not appear to be constructive". I added the predominant units used in the Anglosphere. On English language Wikipedia. As WP:UNITS indeed appears to allow. 142.120.196.175 (talk) 21:30, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

You are not following the guidelines regarding units. For example in many places where the article said "kilometers" you added "(miles)". This is not following the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. In others you added fractions using Unicode characters contrary to MOS:FRAC. In almost every case you did not use the Template:Convert. This is disruptive editing behavior. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 21:48, 12 February 2025 (UTC)