Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to User talk:Less Unless, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Other than leaving your own comments, you should not edit other editors' talk pages. Schazjmd (talk) 06:42, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for attempting to start new articles on various redlinked plant taxa. I noticed you’ve placed some useful text on your userpage as a template to help you start each new article. Please don’t use it in that form again as the structure of the English is not very good and it lacks the correct formatting. A few simple changes should get you sorted. See Festuca alpina edits to view the changes from your templates text that were necessary. The taxon name should be first (in bold), with a few words saying what kind of thing it is. There is no need to say the taxon name is “accepted” because if it were a synonym it should be a WP:REDIRECT to the valid name. Do check you’ve transcribed the authority names fully (I had to fix your templated example for you). Finally, avoid words like “seem to” unless that lack of certainty is explicitly reported by scientific sources. I spotted one recent example where it sounded to me more like you were describing ‘’your own’’ uncertainty about something. Hope this helps you make better plant stubs in future. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 08:11, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
OK, so I don't think you're intending to do damage. But somehow you have deleted large chunks of other users' talk pages whenever you posted there. See this diff for when you posted on my talk page, and this diff for when you posted on Schazjmd's talk page. Plus there's a warning above about this edit to @Less Unless's page. We need to get to the bottom of this asap, or you're going to get blocked for disruptive editing, whether you intended to do this, or not.
So please explain what system you're using to edit from and how you're doing it. Are you visiting via a normal computer browser, or a mobile app? Please list any scripts you have loaded up, or any browser extensions that might be deleting stuff when you try to edit. I believe Schazmd already asked this when they wrote "perhaps you have a script installed or some sort of browser extension that is causing the problem, because you made the same incorrect changes to my talk page when you posted your message. I suggest you figure out the problem and fix it. You may be able to get assistance at and WP:HELPDESK or WP:VPT. "
The place to look first is anything you've added to your COMMON.JS or COMMON .CSS files (which only you can see), but another problem could be if you are using Grammarly, or some other automatic text-checking/editing tool. If so, please try deactivating it. Some (rather unclear!) information is available at WP:NOGRAMMARLY.
I would say that, whenever someone posts to your talk page, you should answer them there, and not on their own userpage as you did with me today. Its rather unhelpful to reply somewhere else as it spreads discussions into different places, and I personally still want to follow up our discussion and steer you to use better species stub text than your current templated text which I raised above and which you responded to on my user page.
Finally, as an aside, but on the subject of templates: Can I ask you if you would let me delete User:BloxyColaSweet/SpeedyDeletionNotice! (SDN!) VIEW and the redirect to it? It's not at all helpful and, to be honest, rather suspicious to see. I notice you've not used it recently, so I suggest you agree to me removing it as we never want to see it being left for any other users again. Hoping this makes sense. In the meantime I advise you not to post to any other tlak pages until we can get to the bottom of how you're doing all this weird deletion when using Source Editor. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 16:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
I'm glad you resolved the issue above. Following on from my comments about using templated text to make stubs articles, here are a few observations which I hope you'll take on board. Firstly, avoid using just a bare url as a reference. Make it a really good one using the Cite button in [[WP:VE, or the Template>Cite web or Cite Journal in Source Editor. Try to get as full a reference as you can. To help you, there's a 'look-up' magnifying glass icon you can click after pasting in the url . It attempt to retrieve as much of the citation as it can, though you may have to add a few extra bits like page number, access date. A 'Ref name' is always worth adding so that you can reuse the same citation later on and find it again easily whilst doing later edits. Avoid stating the obvious, but do spend 10 minutes or so, reading through your sources. You found a really interesting on for Festuca alpina which I've used to copy edit what you started. It's always worth trying to extra as many of the basics as you can. These aggregate groups can be quite confusing, so don't delve too deeply if you're not sure about it, but always check for the same name being used by different authors to refer to different taxa - many of which are no longer valid. I'm still not hugely keen on your wording of the templated example on your userpage. The English is still a bit clunky. You can put the family link as a wikilink to the type of plant that it is (e.g. grass), which avoids stating the obvious or using the word 'species' three times in three consecutive sentences. But all in all you're doing ok. Shout if you need any other help.
BTW:On your own talk page, I'd suggest removing the NOTOC template as you'll find it helps people to navigate your talk page. You can set up auto-archiving, but I recommend leaving past discussions on your page for quote a while. It helps others help you to see past discussions. If I think of anything else to suggest, I'll come back and add them to this thread. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 10:05, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
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For your involvement in this discussion and for coming to the right conclusion on Chondrilla acantholepis, which you created. Nick Moyes (talk) 09:36, 21 August 2022 (UTC) |
Thank you. BloxyColaSweet (talk) 03:31, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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For many species of grasses. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:37, 14 January 2023 (UTC) |
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Thank you for creating plant stubs. Its nice that you seem to be stepping up your pace of contributions. However, I note that you inserted two superfluous sources into Limonium bourgeaui; one was already in the article, and the other was a generic, computer-generated treatment on caring the plant that was not supporting any statement in the article. I also note that you aren't italicizing species names in the references; species names are to be italicized everywhere that they occur, even if the references didn't do it. Keep up the good work. Abductive (reasoning) 12:04, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm BloxyColaSweet. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. STOP BloxyColaSweet (talk) 22:36, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I'm BloxyColaSweet. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Warning BloxyColaSweet (talk) 01:34, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
I have tidied up Festuca minutiflora to conform with WP:PLANTS consensus on what a plant stub should look like. In particular, the list of synonyms should not include the extraneous publication information. And as I mentioned above, species names should be italicized. Abductive (reasoning) 08:29, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
A now-blocked account posted a long attack on an Administrator on your Talk page. I deleted it. David notMD (talk) 18:08, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
You posted a Welcome! for User:A12922391 who has been active for many years. I reverted it. The reason the Talk page was empty was because A12922391 had blanked it. I suggest you check View history for editors before posting a Welcome on Talk pages. David notMD (talk) 18:14, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
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