User talk:TheNatureKid

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Leccinum aurantiacum. Your edits could be interpreted as vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use your sandbox. Thank you. Eric ^talk 00:58, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

I do not believe that I added any incorrect information. The only information I added was true, and I also cited a source. TheNatureKid (talk) 01:00, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

The source you cited for your assertions does not support them. It does state that this fungus was implicated as a contributing factor to a death, but does not state that it caused the death. The source does not mention other poisonings due to this fungus. Eric ^talk 01:01, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

You didn't even revert the edit, since it still says "It is considered a choice edible, but must be cooked thoroughly, as there have been a number of poisonings and at least one death caused by consuming it.". TheNatureKid (talk) 01:05, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Is namyco.org (the source I cited) an unreliable source? TheNatureKid (talk) 01:07, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

I am sorry for doing that. It was not my intention. I wasn't trying to mislead anyone. TheNatureKid (talk) 01:12, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Mushroom hunting, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. FutureFlowsLoveYou (talk) 18:28, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

I am sorry for doing that. Should I revert my edit? TheNatureKid (talk) 18:40, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I see you've been adding common names to mushroom species articles, citing Mushrooms Demystified as a source. However, what you are actually citing is not that book, but rather a book review of that book, published in the journal Mycologia. Could you please return to these articles and replace your added source with the correct one? Here is a named citation you could use to replace the ones you've added (of course, you should add the correct page# for each instance):

<ref name="Arora 1986">{{cite book |author=Arora D. |title=Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi |publisher=Ten Speed Press |location=Berkeley, California |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-89815-169-5 |page= |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/mushroomsdemysti00aror_0 }}</ref>

Have a good day, Esculenta (talk) 17:29, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

In the future, I will be sure to not keep making that mistake. However, there are so many pages that I've edited that I don't remember all of them. TheNatureKid (talk) 17:40, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

You can click on the "Contributions" link on the upper right to get a listing of all your edits. 17:45, 16 September 2023 (UTC) Esculenta (talk) 17:45, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Like this one from Gomphidius subroseus:

{{Cite book |last=Arora |first=David |title=Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi |date=1986 |publisher=Ten Speed Press |isbn=978-0-89815-169-5 |edition=Second edition |location=Berkeley}}

Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second edition ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:00, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

How do I avoid it? TheNatureKid (talk) 21:24, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Don't include the word 'edition' in |edition=.

You are using that abomination that is the visual editor so I presume that you are giving it an ISBN and asking it to fill in the other bibliographic detail. I don't use VE so I can't tell you how to fix malformed VE-created citations except to switch to the text editor and manually remove the offending text. You might ask about editing a template with VE at Wikipedia:Help desk.

Alternately, you can switch to the text editor, locate where you want the citation to go, and then use the WP:RefToolbar Cite > Templates > Cite book menu to create a citation from an ISBN. RefToolbar doesn't include the extraneous 'edition' in the citation that it creates:

{{cite book |last1=Arora |first1=David |title=Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi |date=1986 |publisher=Ten Speed Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=978-0-89815-169-5 |edition=Second}}

Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.

Please do at least one of these so that other editors aren't forced to cleanup after you.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:37, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I saw you used the name "Türkiye" as the name of the country generally known in English as "Turkey" in your recent edit.

Q: Why don't you use the name Türkiye, the correct name for this country?

A: Because the English-language Wikipedia has a WP:COMMONNAME policy. We use names for countries and places that are the names commonly used for them in English, regardless of what official organizations use. Technically, this kind of name is known as an exonym. For example, we use the name Germany, instead of the native endonym Deutschland, and we use the name Japan instead of the native name 日本.

Q: But the Turkish government, U.S. State Department, and United Nations all use "Türkiye", so it must be correct.

A: Indeed they do. But WP:COMMONNAME is not authority-based, but usage-based.

Notice that this does not apply when we are quoting a literal name in Turkish; for example, the newspaper is called Türkiye, not Turkey. To do that would be hypercorrection, and we don't do that. Nor do we mangle the name into English in direct quotations, including titles of documents, nor in URLs. But it does apply for all uses in Wikipedia's own voice in the English language, including article titles (so the capital is Ankara, Turkey, not "Ankara, Türkiye")

If or when that general English-language usage changes (as has happened in the past with place names such as Mumbai and Beijing), the same WP:COMMONNAME policy implies that the English-language Wikipedia will necessarily also follow suit. So far, that hasn't happened.

This has been discussed many times, with the same result every time because of the common name policy. If you'd like to discuss this further, please take it up at Talk:Turkey. However, for the reasons given above, there is currently a moratorium on further requests for name changes to the Turkey article until 1 December 2023. — The Anome (talk) 13:14, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey, the points are not point per byte :) You added 54.034 points in total. It is 1 point for 1000 bytes of text. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 16:35, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the awesome new fungus article Chroogomphus tomentosus! Hope this cupcake is more appetizing than the fungus would be. Shocksingularity (talk) 04:33, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! TheNatureKid (talk) 04:34, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

It looks like you are relying on field guides and websites like Mushroom Expert for your descriptions. This is fine as a place to start but I thought I'd drop these links here to expand your capacity for research since you will find many more species that do not appear in books but for which there are openly accessible papers. You can look up species here and then search the citation to find the paper or book in which the species was described.

https://www.speciesfungorum.org/

https://www.mycobank.org/

For example for your recent page Lactarius kauffmanii if you search the name on Species Fungorum you will find the citation goes to North American Species of Lactarius (Ann Arbor): 351 (1979). This book is accessible online here: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fung1tc/AAC3719.0001.001/363?rgn=full+text&view=image and includes a great deal more information about the species than you will find elsewhere.

As an example I've used this to add a taxonomy section to your page and included the etymology for the specific epithet as given in that text. If you like you could expand upon the description and habitat information you have written using the details in that book.

Have fun. MycoMutant (talk) 16:35, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Off-topic, but I intentionally left out the taxonomy section of that article due to confusion. Apparently Lactarius kauffmanii was described by Alexander Smith and Lexemuel Hesler in 1979, but Hesler died in 1977. Why is that? Was it published after his death, or something else? Perhaps a mistake or typo? TheNatureKid (talk) 04:20, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

You have been making a bunch of neat little articles about fungi! Just wanted to cheer you on!

Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:57, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello - on my talk page, you said: "I noticed that when you edited the article Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi, you added "citation needed" to the statement "In New Hampshire, infection rates have reached 85%, with organic farms reaching nearly 100% loss rates." However, I was citing a source. It's just that I didn't put the citation directly after it because there were three facts I was citing that source for and I put the citation on the last one. Why did you do that? Was I citing an unreliable source? Was it something else?"

Special:Diff/1331210302: Checking the USDA source, there is no mention of "In New Hampshire, infection rates have reached 85%, with organic farms reaching nearly 100% loss rates." That seemed to be a notable statement worth having a specific ref. It's a good practice to have each new fact cited. Which ref in that section says that specifically? Thanks. Zefr (talk) 06:56, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to say two sources. It wasn't the USDA source I was citing, it was this: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8022979/. In the introduction, it has that statement. I put the citation after the second fact I was citing this source for.

Thanks. TheNatureKid (talk) 07:06, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Fixed with Special:Diff/1331230549. Zefr (talk) 07:25, 5 January 2026 (UTC)