Orchidabar

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:19, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Apis florea

Really nice job expanding the Apis florea article. One thing I noticed though - in a lot of cases, you have added several sentences after the citation; e.g., in the diet section, the first sentence is followed by a citation, but the next three sentences are not. It's unclear, in a case like that, what the source is for everything after the first sentence. You've done this in quite a few sections. It should be possible to connect every statement in an article with the supporting citation.

Problems like these tend to become greater as articles grow and other people add information. It would be very helpful if you made sure that the connection between the statements and the supporting citations was clearer. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:37, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Ian. Indeed I did purposely add the citation after the first sentence, and the remainder of that paragraph or section used the same citation. How can I cite one resource for an entire section that includes a few sentences? Thanks! Orchidabar (talk) 16:10, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

The best way to do it is to simply use the citation at the end of the paragraph. You can, if need be, use the same reference more than once. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:27, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Yellow bumblebee

Again, very nice work. You didn't include a reference for the conservation status though, and that sort of information needs a specific reference. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:33, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for your help!Orchidabar (talk) 23:24, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Copy and pasting

We run "copy and paste" detection software on new edits. One of your edits appear to be infringing on someone else's copyright. See also Wikipedia:Copy-paste. We at Wikipedia usually require paraphrasing. If you own the copyright to this material please follow the directions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials to grant license.

It looks like your edit [1] needs to be paraphrased. Thanks for contributing (it seemed well cited, but I didn't follow all the links). --Lucas559 (talk) 23:49, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Although I did not copy and paste, I will paraphrase further. Thanks again.Orchidabar (talk) 00:19, 11 December 2015 (UTC)