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A barnstar for you!

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	Your help at Talk:Sex is being particularly useful to the community's improvement of such an important article. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 21:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Waiting for reply

I've waited two days for you to reply to me at Talk:Timeline of chemical element discoveries#Short description. Are you going to? SpinningSpark 16:09, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

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Revert on talk page

Hi! You got rid of my comment on the Glossary of botanical terms talk page. I don’t care. But I’m curious as to why? – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:59, 20 December 2022 (UTC) – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:59, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Fine!

I'll accept that in the snow world, "metamorphosis" might refer to the two general ways snow can change. But here in the real world, I'll still quietly stew in discontent. That aside, it's nice to meet you and I like your name; it conveys a sense of casually natural experience and authority. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:20, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

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Glaucophytes

You're probably right that we shouldn't mention this clade in the lead, given that we're trying not to be over-techie. Normally on a clade article I'd think it rather usual to mention the clade's sister as a key element in placing it and its relationships in people's minds, but given that nobody has heard of the glaucophytes, it isn't going to help much in this case! All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Request for Review

I noticed your good work on Plant, thanks for your efforts. If you have the time and inclination, I would appreciate having your sharp botanical eyes on some of the plant articles I've added or updated recently since I am only an amateur botanist. Geum triflorum, Penstemon albidus, Penstemon secundiflorus, Penstemon virens, or Penstemon whippleanus. If you're not interested, don't worry about it. I'm doing decently at catching my own mistakes, it just takes me a while. MtBotany (talk) 18:49, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Unit conversions

May I ask your advice on unit conversions? On the article Draba verna, someone has just added conversions to every measurement, rendering it quite unreadable in my opinion, with spuriously accurate inch measurements. Is this necessary? Isn't there a better way of doing it? I'm sure this must have been discussed many times before and I've seen the policy, which seems to say that it is acceptable to do this. Thanks. E Wusk (talk) 12:53, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

I think the use of conversions is proper, since our readership is split between users of imperial and metric units. However, you are correct that the precision is spurious. Syntax for control of precision is indicated at Help:Convert#Quick start. I have made some changes. See what you think of it now, and suggest any further changes as you think necessary. Plantsurfer 19:31, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you - that improves it considerably. I'm happy enough with that, although it does occur to me that there could be more elegant ways of doing this sort of thing (for example, a system whereby pointing the mouse at a unit pops up the alternative or a "translate" option to convert a page to American English). But that's fine for now, and I see how I can do it myself if it arises again. E Wusk (talk) 08:21, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

British Isles

The politically driven wish to replace "British Isles" by "Britain and Ireland" is problematic, as has been pointed out elsewhere before. It only works if "Britain" means "the British Isles less the island of Ireland and its offshore islands", but none of the definitions at Britain correspond to that meaning. So I support your reversions, although I've almost given up. Sigh... Peter coxhead (talk) 14:53, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Personally, I think BSBI's change of name was ill advised, but unfortunately they have handed some editors a precedent. Plantsurfer 15:11, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

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About the revert

When you reverted my edit on Carbon dioxide, please clarify what you mean by "Original was better". - Mox Eden (talk) 09:27, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

The period from late Cambrian until the start of the industrial revolution was in the past. The original wording was less than clear about that, but your rewording left open the interpretation that CO₂ concentration is still being regulated by organisms and geological phenomena, whereas it is now clear that they have lost overall control. Plantsurfer 09:44, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! Mox Eden (talk) 09:08, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

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Deletion of posting in talk/Spirogyra

I assume you mistook the edit to be in the article and deleted it? I have undone that. 20:36, 28 October 2023 (UTC) 2607:F140:400:A009:80BD:FA88:9354:1595 (talk) 20:36, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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Weldor vs Welder

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216.152.18.132 (talk) 09:26, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Reverted Edits on Gamete Article

Hello @Plantsurfer,

I am the user who has recently edited the article on Gametes. I am a student at the University of Plattsburgh, and I have been editing this article for a cell biology class project. I am just curious as to if there are any edits that are beneficial to keep on the page, or are there other parts of the article that would better benefit from the editing? I hope this helps with some clarification as to why I was editing this article in the first place. Please if you have any pointers, explain them, and I will thoroughly follow them.

Thank you! Anonymouslycool22 (talk) 18:04, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Hardnesses Scale

Hello @Plantsurfer,

I think that Iron is a relatively harder metal in its purest form and It is slightly resistant to scratching compared to Nickel, and Iron is more brittle than nickel, but in Vickers and Brinell's hardness, Nickel is harder than Iron, and it is inaccurate to say that Iron has Mohs hardness at 3.5-4, actually, Platinum has hardness of 4.6 to 4.95 and Iron has hardness around 4.5, but it is true that Co element has hardness around 5 to 6. and it is true that Nickel has hardness around 4 or 4.2. But Iron is slightly more harder in mohs hardness compared to nickel and fluorite, but it is true that Iron hass lesser brinell and vickers hardness than Nickel. While Iron's mohs hardness is slightly greater than nickel's, both iron and nickel are hard metals in a similar way, but they both are less harder than cobalt. And Iron shares mohs hardness similar to Platinum becuase they both have hardnesses arouund 4.5, but Nickel has hardness around 4 or 4.2. And Iron is not a very soft metal, it is a relatively hard metal. and it is true that Platinum has higher mohs hardness compared to Nickel and Platinum has mohs hardness around 4.95, but iron has mohs hardness around 4.5. Thanks, and have a nice day. Best Regards. 113.192.47.210 (talk) 02:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

@113.192.47.210Where do these numbers come from? The numbers you quote do not agree with those in the articles. If you feel that the hardnesses stated in the articles are incorrect, you should discuss the issue on the relevant talk page, present reliable sources and obtain consensus for any change. Plantsurfer 10:28, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Either fix or revert the refs in Electron microscope

For instance you reverted to

"The SEM also has a great depth of field, and so can produce images that are good representations of the three-dimensional surface shape of the sample."

The TEM did not exist in 1899! The others are similarly random.

References

Ldm1954 (talk) 15:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

N.B., they are all wrong, please don't just revert one. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:56, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Sources please in Metal

I agree with your latest edit; the carbon is only about 0.5 at%. Can you please add sources. The article is woefully short of them, I have been slowly adding some but there is far too much unsourced. Ldm1954 (talk) 21:16, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Britain and Ireland

I find even this substitute for "British Isles" less than satisfactory (omitting the Isle of Man is a clear example of why it's wrong). But I strongly agree with you that "Great Britain and Ireland" is worse. Sadly I suppose we have to follow the BSBI's mistaken change from "British Isles". Sigh... Peter coxhead (talk) 14:06, 9 September 2024 (UTC)