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Why remove Trichoglottis quadriga. http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2023/08/trichoglottiq.html?m=1 New species, bruh, that's why Plants of the World Online has not added it yet.KungfuMantis (talk) 12:30, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello @KungfuMantis: Thanks for your interest in orchids. The main reason I made that change is that Wikipedia requires references. (WP:REFB) The reference you cited (above) is not a reliable source, (WP:RS) but a self-published blog ("pskhun"). I have updated the Trichoglottis species list since you added, and I removed Trichoglottis quadriga. You may notice that new species have been added by Plants of the World Online, and others removed. The name Trichoglottis quadriga has been published,^[1] but the fact that a name has been published does not mean that it is an accepted species. For example, the Trichoglottis names T. appendiculifera, T bataanensis, T. bicruris, T. brachiata, T. breviracema and many others have been published, but not accepted.

I hope you understand, but I'm happy to discuss further here, if you're interested. Gderrin (talk) 13:28, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

For sure, the one you provided is probably a synonym, which is true because they are not accepted. If you want me to have reliable sources, then sure, here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373449265_Trichoglottis_quadriga_Orchidaceae_Epidendroideae_Vandeae_Aeridinae_a_new_species_from_Central_Highlands_of_Sri_Lanka

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/185CEB06-FFC8-FF98-FF25-FAFF10FF956C KungfuMantis (talk) 13:56, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

The 5 I listed are published by reliable sources, but they are not accepted by Plants of the World Online. It might be a good idea for you to ask elsewhere, such as here. Gderrin (talk) 21:54, 9 September 2023 (UTC) It might also be a good idea to be patient. T. quadriga is not the only new species of Trichoglottis to be described. Trichoglottis najibii from Indonesia is also newly described,^[1] and Plants of the World Online is regularly updated. New species may be added to the list very soon. Gderrin (talk) 02:31, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello @KungfuMantis: Trichoglottis najibii and Trichoglottis quadriga are now listed at Plants of the World Online, and are now included in the list of species at Trichoglottis. Gderrin (talk) 00:47, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

I changed the height to 2.5m with a reference. Much respect for all your work, btw. BAPhilp (talk) 23:03, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks @SamX:,

I should have realised that. (You got me just in time, because I was going to do similar changes the same way!) Gderrin (talk) 05:24, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

No problem :) Have you moved any other pages this way? — SamX [talk · contribs] 05:26, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

@SamX: I don't think so. I recently moved some Astroloma pages the correct way. I really can't explain my stupidity this time. Gderrin (talk) 05:38, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

No worries, we all have brain farts sometimes. Hope you have a pleasant evening :) — SamX [talk · contribs] 05:39, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi, g'day from the steamy west (currently 35.8 according to BOM) - I have been processing some of the orchids of oz in my data/short descrip thing that I correlate the two (reason of no brain or gaseous production needed) and what has appeared in the data is: species of orchid endemic to Australia ((or western australia where it was clearly wa only))(I was beginning to see purple at 'species of plant' - along with billions of others hardly helpful) - are you ok with that? should it be better expressed, or is that ok for data description and short descrip - I am interested in your opinion on this.. JarrahTree 05:58, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello JarrahTree,

I am having trouble understanding what you mean. (Probably because of my being brain-dead from editing List of Caladenia species over the last few days.) If you mean do I object to changing "Species of orchid" to "Species of orchid endemic to Australia", or "Species of orchid endemic to Western Australia" - not at all. I'll leave it up to others (including you) to decide what goes at the top of the article. There may be a problem with "species of orchid endemic to the Australian Capital Territory" (- there's only one). Gderrin (talk) 07:17, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply

When in doubt or multiple states (or a territory) the default is planned as Australia. Thanks for replying in the affirmative. It is appreciated - at least it is checked. Thank you.

Also when I am sufficiently alert - I am also changing 'native' to 'endemic' in the texts.

Very impressed by your updating, well done! JarrahTree 07:32, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

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Merry Xmas and Happy New Year Geoff. Hope all is well. Doing a bit of work on Eucalyptus diversicolor and have two references contradicting each each as to the etymology. Does Sharr have anything to say about the origin of diversicolor? Cheers. Hughesdarren (talk) 12:33, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey Darren - thanks, and the same to you and yours. All good. Seen your great work on E. gomphocephala and E. diversifolia. Not at home at the moment, so no books, but will check out George/Sharr in a day or two. All the best to you. Gderrin (talk) 21:38, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Gderrin. Why did you revert all of my edits on this page, including additional references? Do you not think it was an improvement?  Junglenut |Talk  21:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Looking at the page you quoted in your edit summary, it seems you have misunderstood the meaning of the term "citation style". It refers to the way a citation is formatted and the information it contains, and it has nothing to do with the placement of a reference within the source code of a wiki page. If you look at the paragraphs just above WP:CITEVAR, you'll see these styles, such as ASA, Bluebook, Vancouver and others, mentioned and linked. I did not alter the citation style.

Please acknowledge your understanding of this by reverting your last edit. I had other edits planned for this page but I won't touch it until this is sorted. Cheers, Steve  Junglenut |Talk  22:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Junglenut: and thank you for your work.

Citation style is defined at WP:CITESTYLE - "While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style." Other styles are acceptable, such as the styles you've quoted, but WP:CITEVAR indicates "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style ..." The style used in Flindersia brayleyana has been consistent since references were first added to it on 12 July 2016.

Further down the WP:CITEVAR section, under To be avoided, is "changing where the references are defined, e.g., moving reference definitions in the reflist to the prose, or moving reference definitions from the prose into the reflist."

I do appreciate your work, and look forward to your improvements to the Flindersia brayleyana article, and others. Gderrin (talk) 23:55, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Gderrin,

I noticed you recently removed the Atherosperma -> Atherosperma moschatum redirect, as it's no longer monotypic in POWO. However, I can't find any indication of this on POWO or in broader literature searches, so I'm confused. Are the subspecies being treated as multiple taxa, or am I missing something? Cheers, Pademelon1 (talk) 11:53, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Pademelon1:,

I've not had a lot of practice at merging pages, and I hope I've done this correctly. Atherosperma is monotypic - only one species - Atherosperma moschatum (with 2 subspecies). So I wanted the article Atherosperma to be a redirect to Atherosperma moschatum. This is a relatively recent change at PoWO, because another Wikipedia editor advised them of the error. (See []) I hadn't included a reference to Plants of the World Online in the merged article - fixed now.

Please let me know if there is still confusion. And thanks for your work. Gderrin (talk) 13:10, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah ok I think I understand now, thanks; The POWO error played a trick on us all which needed to be rectified. Unfortunately the redirect should be the other way around - that's why I got confused in the first place! I'm not that well-versed in redirects, but will try to sort it out tomorrow. Also, I just had a peek, and you have an impressive contribution list, so thank you for your efforts! Pademelon1 (talk) 14:18, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Gderrin, I have reverted an edit you made on this article, in which you replaced two references. Firstly, there was nothing wrong with the existing references, and secondly, the new ones cited "Australian Plant Census" as the publisher. The APC is a database, it can't be a publisher. Cheers, Steve  Junglenut |Talk  22:26, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Junglenut:

The problem with using the APNI is that it includes synonyms. In many cases (eg. Banksia spinulosa) synonyms are included (eg. Sirmuellera spinulosa^[1] Banksia denticulata,^[2] Banksia collina,^[3] and Banksia denticulata.^[4]) The APNI is not a list of accepted species - it lists all names that have been used for any particular taxon. ("APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.") Your references (e.g (https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/90315) do not link to any authority. (Both the APNI and the APC are databases.) Gderrin (talk) 00:31, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

You overwrote my last message - I assume that was accidental. I repeat, there is nothing wrong with the reference I provided. It shows the red tick next to "APC", also in red, and they are linked to the actual APC page. I have to assume now that you didn't look at the page before removing the reference.  Junglenut |Talk  01:16, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

@Junglenut: so you are relying on the red APC tick to show that the name is an accepted one? In which case the obvious reference is APC itself. Why use an indirect reference instead of a direct one? Peter coxhead (talk) 14:16, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead As a former web designer, I tend to look at web pages in terms of the user experience, in other words the utility, functionality and clarity of a given page and how a visitor reacts to it. I consider the APNI site to be very poorly designed, often with numerous links on a page that lead to what would appear to the casual user as unrelated pages. The APC pages are particularly poor - there is a large dismissible notice at the top stating that this is an accepted name (which seems odd, since the visitor wasn't expecting anything other than that), followed by a large search field (which again to the casual user might suggest to them that they have not reached the page they were expecting). Only after that, at the very bottom of the screen does the taxon name appear. You and I will know what the page is telling us, but for anyone not familiar with the website's format (which, lets face it, is far more than 99% of the world) it is confusing. The pages I choose to link to present the information clearly and unambiguously, without distractions. If a visitor is familiar with the site, they will know that the red tick is a sign of an accepted taxon. If they are not familiar with the site, then the page they see from my link is likely to be enough for them, as it gives clear and precise information.  Junglenut |Talk  00:14, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

@Junglenut: I used to teach an undergraduate module on information and the web, and I share your concern over the design of these two websites, but it doesn't affect the issue of reliability. Can readers be absolutely sure that the red APC tick is up-to-date? Not unless they go to the APC website, which is the ultimate source and so should be the main reference. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:37, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead I have to strongly disagree with that - do you really believe that these pages are manually updated after checking the APC list? This is one database - or more likely an integrated set of databases - and the information provided on these pages is drawn from that one set of databases. If there is an APC tick on the pages I link to, it is therefore de facto citing APC, but with a far better presentation. We always assume a certain level of trust when using any source, be it APC, POWO or whoever.  Junglenut |Talk  00:16, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

@Junglenut: "We always assume a certain level of trust when using any source, be it APC, POWO or whoever" – but in this case we don't need to trust that APNI correctly displays APC, we can, and therefore should, cite it directly. Anyway, we'll have to agree to disagree. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:10, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, As I see you have mentioned in Eremophila anomala that category Category:Eremophila (plant) with different view name can be added. But Check Wiki Project shows error for using duplicate category. Your opinion?

Thanks, Aadirulez8 (talk) 23:14, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

@ Hello Aadirulez8 and thanks for your work,

I'm not sure what you mean by "Check Wiki Project". The category "Eremophila (plant)" has not been challenged since 2007. If you can suggest a better category to include all 220 species, it would be appreciated.

Hi Gderrin,

It's Wikipedia Project, to fix mainly linting related issues. Here you can find it Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia. It is mainly done by cleaning up Wikipedia content with different kinds of syntax issue. I have less knowledge in the Plant article you have mentioned, you can read the project and may be contribute to Wikipedia on the domain you have knowledge about.

Thanks, Aadirulez8 (talk)

@ Hello again Aadirulez8

Thanks very much for the link. I think the problems is with the WikiProject Check Wikipedia. I think it reports the same problem with articles on plants in many other genera, including Andersonia, Apostasia, Bartramia, Beaufortia, Eremaea, Johnsonia, Liparis, Microtis, Palmeria, Quoya, Scaevola, Senna, Trachoma and Tropidia as well as with articles on plants in Eremophila. Any help with solving the conundrum would be much appreciated. Gderrin (talk) 21:38, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

For cleanup at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conospermum_paniculatum - I got confused by what I thought was the placement of the scott river in the jarrah forest, cheers. JarrahTree 03:16, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

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Hi @Gderrin: I guess this is appropriate. After a long correspondece with Lachlan Copeland on iNaturalist, he licensed these a couple of days ago as CC-BY-SA 4.0. But it is not showing up yet, but it does for him!! I guess I will have to be a little more patient. MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:08, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Dear @Gderrin:, The image for Diuris byronensis at iNaturalist is showing for me as CC-BY-SA which is why I thought it might also be showing that way for you. There is clearly an enormous time-lag for iNaturalist to propagate the licensing information on its images. Hence I reverted your edit. (the licensing information will show up correctly for you soon) MargaretRDonald (talk) 00:07, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

I have now put in a Bug report at iNaturalist. It is immensely frustrating that everything is out of sync. (Lachlan changed the licence at iNaturalist at least two days ago, and it just showed up correctly for me at about 10 am eastern summer time, but was still not correct at 6 am) Clearly I am going have to wait a week for his images to relicense in future. MargaretRDonald (talk) 00:34, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

PS Do what you want with the page. I am resigned to having to do the task three times over. MargaretRDonald (talk) 00:34, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

@MargaretRDonald: The image of Diuris byronensis in Commons has been tagged as a copyright violation and a review has found "license review not passed". I did not tag it as a copyvio (although I did tag the images of Acacia atrox). It is of no consequence that "There is clearly an enormous time-lag for iNaturalist to propagate the licensing information." I wish it were otherwise. There are many other images in INaturalist that I would like to be able to use, but they do not have appropriate licenses. My understanding is that we have a legal obligation to ensure that images have an appropriate license before uploading. It is not acceptable to anticipate a future license.

I'd suggest not including Lachlan Coplands images on the Acacia atrox page, even if they do have an appropriate license in the future. I went to the site in Kirramingly Nature Reserve in the last week, where the subspecies planiticola grows, and will return there during the flowering season to photograph the leaves, flowers, bark and habit (maybe also fruit and seeds!). Gderrin (talk) 01:04, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

The licence I see at iNaturalist is CC-BY-SA. I have NOT anticipated anything here. However, I do now see the problem: at the bottom of page the licence is given as CC-BY-SA while when you click on the photo, the licence is CC-BY-NC. This would appear to be a bug in iNaturalist. MargaretRDonald (talk) 09:59, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry that I started using this template as a reference without checking that it worked. I do believe, however, that I have now fixed the URL code so that it does work, at least until the government moves the database again. I'd appreciate your checking that it also works for you and will delay further updating until I receive your reply. Oronsay (talk) 23:01, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Oronsay:

Thanks for your note. I think your original link to the SPRAT profile now works. (I guess you'll remember to use italics for the species name.) Best to you! Gderrin (talk) 23:15, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Gderrin, I'm a little confused by the reversions of my edits adding non-breaking spaces within hyperlinked names like G. victoriae. The guide at MOS:NBSP specifically provides for using non-breaking spaces inside "World War II" when it's Wikilinked. Am I missing something? Thanks! SimLibrarian (talk) 16:20, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello @SimLibrarian:, and thank you for your work.

If I am adding 17 kg, AD 565, 250 pm, £11 billion, May 2014, Boeing 747 or World War II (or any of the other examples) to text in an article, of course including a non-breaking space would be appropriate. But not in a link. The examples you mention in MOS:NBSP, are not hyperlinked to Boeing 747, World War II or Pope Paul VI, and the articles themselves do not include "nbsp" in their lead paragraphs. Including "nbsp" to G. victoriae to the Grevillea cyranostigma in no way prevents a line break.

It is a small point though, and I do appreciate your work. Also happy to discuss further. Gderrin (talk) 21:48, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Gderrin, I'm still confused -- the examples do include this sentence at the end of the section:

Inside wikilinks, a construction such as [[World War II]] works but [[World War{{nbsp}}II]] doesn't.

I took this to mean that 1) including "nbsp" inside the link works since this directly says it does, and 2) the style guide is endorsing including nbsp in links by giving this example. Am I missing something? Thanks again. SimLibrarian (talk) 23:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Firstly the difference between G. victoriae (without "nbsp") and G. victoriae (with "nbsp") is tiny. And your inserting "nbsp" in most other places is correct, and fine with me.

What I was trying to explain is that [[World War II]] is not a hyperlink, but World War II is a hyperlink. Similarly, both "constructions" you've listed are not hyperlinks. Also 17 kg and the other examples are not hyperlinks. The MOS is exhorting us to include "nbsp" between a number and kg, between AD and a year, between a time and pm or am, or between a month and a year. (I think there's a code somewhere that means we do not have to write "nbsp" between "World War" and "I" or "II" .)

Any clearer? Thanks for your feedback. Gderrin (talk) 06:47, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, I guess I'm lost on why [[World War II]] (using either nbsp method) isn't a hyperlink here when it seems to be explaining how to code non-breaking spaces within hyperlinks? I've had many other situations involving adding non-breaking spaces within linked text (especially names of kings/other rulers with I at the end, say, "Philip I") and never run into any issues before. Thanks again. SimLibrarian (talk) 16:50, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Okay - try this. Click on any of the "so-called" constructions you cited above above ([[World War II]]) at MOS:NBSP. These are not wikilinks, but simply examples of places in articles where "nbsp" is appropriate. I can't find which "Philip I" you mentioned, but I'm sure you are right, if it's a reference to (for example) Philip I of Macedon in an article on another subject. Gderrin (talk) 03:35, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

I know none of them are clickable, but I was under the impression that the style guide specifying this (emphasis on "Inside wikilinks" added):

Inside wikilinks, a construction such as [[World War II]] works but World War II doesn't.

Meant that it's appropriate to use nbsp inside wikilinks anywhere it would be appropriate to use a nbsp anywhere else in the article. What am I missing here? I'm trying to figure out if I'm misreading the style guide here because I'll often add nbsp, for example, before the "I" in a link to Pope Pius I and I want to stop if it's not actually appropriate. Thanks again. SimLibrarian (talk) 06:24, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

I reverted your edits to four articles on Grevillea species - G. cyranostigma, G. barklyana, G. laurifolia and G. hodgei. Having experimented on each article, by narrowing the page in a browser, sometimes to extremes, I can separate "G." and "species name" across lines. In other words, your edits were correct, I apologise, and will revert my own edits to those pages. Gderrin (talk) 10:33, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi Gderrin, thank you for putting so much into figuring out this fiddly little detail of non-breaking space use! It seems like the style guide could stand to be a touch more clear about the issue. SimLibrarian (talk) 17:35, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:07, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Gderrin

I have noticed that you recently removed the citation to Plantfileonline.net which I added in the article for Grevillea sericea. In the description of your edit, you mentioned Pinus radiata and when I clicked the link myself while logged out of the website, I notice the link took me to the article for that species. This is because the article for Grevillea sericea is locked behind a paywall on the website, which is why I added "subscription" to the URL access level section. It appears that both the paywalled article and the trial article for Pinus radiata share the same URL.

I have undone your edit for this reason. If there is any way I could possibly include the link for only the article of Grevillea sericea to avoid the redirect to the unrelated article, that would be very much appreciated.

Best regards, Lord.of.the.Proterozoic (talk) 11:09, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

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Fixed now.Gderrin (talk) 20:25, 5 March 2026 (UTC)