User talk:Cayuga3

Stub-to-Start Drive

Hello, @Cayuga3, and welcome to the Stub-to-Start drive. Please make sure to read and follow all of the instructions at WP:PLANTSSTS. If you have questions, leave a note on the talk page of the drive. Welcome! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the welcome! I'll be sure to ask questions if I need to. Cayuga3 (talk) 23:36, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of Bidens species has been accepted

List of Bidens species, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Ca talk to me! 07:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Distribution categories

Regarding the categories on Abronia villosa, there is a guideline for distribution categories that says that a plant should go in larger regions rather than subdivisions where appropriate. See: WP:PLANTS/Using the WGSRPD. So in this instance it should be Category:Flora of the Southwestern United States rather than California and Arizona individually since it also grows in Nevada and Utah. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 18:44, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for notifying me about this and for sending me a talk message. Cayuga3 (talk) 18:51, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think we may have been editing at the same time on the article - I notice that for some reason that one of my edits brought back a few of the categories that you had previously deleted in an edit published a few minutes prior.
Is there a gadget or something that I can enable that allows me to see if someone else is also editing the same article? Cayuga3 (talk) 19:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You are welcome. I have only been seriously editing Wikipedia for two years now so I well remember the overwhelming number of guidelines, rules, and sources when I first stepped into doing this. This is a sprawling project and even just limiting myself to mostly editing plants I still have things I do not yet know or where I make more work for myself. Just the other day I found I didn't need to go to the library for a particular book (Flora of Baja California by Ira Loren Wiggins) because I'd missed that there is a copy on Archive.org that I can access.
Regarding the second, the system should have said "edit conflict" when you went to publish. Though it may have had an error. I wish there were such a system because I hate dealing with an edit conflict, but I think it may not exist because it would need to maintain a connection to the editor's computer rather than just serving a page that will exist on their computer until it gets sent back. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 19:08, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]