User talk:BlueCanoe

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Minor edits

I noticed that you mark all your edits as minor edits. However, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute, and I don't think this applies to adding images and paragraphs of text. You can switch off minor edits in My preferences under the Editing tab. Han-Kwang (t) 07:08, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have changed my preferences accordingly. -- BlueCanoe (talk) 18:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Pleurotus citrinopileatus

Hello! Your submission of Pleurotus citrinopileatus at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:14, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; issues addressed at Template_talk:Did_you_know#Pleurotus_citrinopileatus -- BlueCanoe (talk) 18:54, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks again! --Sainsf<^> (talk) 05:50, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Pleurotus citrinopileatus

On 16 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pleurotus citrinopileatus, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Pleurotus citrinopileatus, an edible mushroom, (pictured) has been found to lower blood sugar levels in diabetic rats? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:02, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

... for fixing up my errors in the Suillus salmonicolor article. I'm embarrassingly unknowledgeable about trees, a major weakness for a guy that likes mushrooms. Hope to remedy that somewhat this year, and maybe work on some tree articles later. Anyway, nice to see you working on fungus species, and drop a line if you'd like to collaborate on an article sometime. Sasata (talk) 17:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem -- I've been active on Pine-related articles in the past, so those red links jumped out at me. I've been enjoying working on fungi articles recently, and I run into your work all over the place, so thank you! -- BlueCanoe (talk) 18:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness

Hi! We've been doing a copyright cleanup on a few articles, completely unrelated to your editing, but when looking at Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness I found a bit of text that had been copied over from the Public Lands Interpretive Association website [1]. I've removed the text [2] - looking at the site it seems likely that someone would have missed the almost impossible to read copyright tag on the page, (well hidden at the bottom), and would have assumed that it was PD from the US government. Anyway, I figured I should let you know. If I get the chance I'll try and rewrite the text a bit to get rid of any concerns. :) - Bilby (talk) 13:39, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, Flatscan pointed out to me that you had referenced a map, ratehr than the page, so it may be that this was a case of reverse copying from Wikipedia. My apologies if that was the case - I tend to be very cautious with copyright problems, as generally it is fairly easy to fix them, and fairly problematic to leave them alone. :) - Bilby (talk) 05:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for working on copyright cleanup, Bilby. I suspect that, as you suggested, this is probably a reverse-copy from Wikipedia. I am aware of how important copyright is on Wikipedia, and as a rule I do not copy-and-paste text from external sources into Wikipedia articles, whether those sources are US Government public domain or not. I have worked on rewriting a couple of articles on Wikipedia that contained copyrighted text, for example the The Explorers Club and Duck Valley Indian Reservation articles. I see that I did indeed add the paragraph in question to the Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness article on May 14, 2009. This Jarbidge edit happened to be one day prior to my comment on the copyright violations of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation article. As you pointed out, the Public Lands Information Center website is copyrighted and is not the work of the US Government. Unfortunately, the Internet Archive does not seem to have an archived version of the PLIC Bruneau-Jarbidge website, so I don't know how to prove that I wrote, rather than copied, the paragraph in question. I recall writing that geographic description while looking at the cited Bureau of Land Management map; I unequivocally state that I did not copy-and-paste that paragraph. -- BlueCanoe (talk) 19:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, BlueCanoe. I looked at the map and the paragraph side by side, and I can see how you could have written it with a little extra information (I don't see a label for Indian Hot Springs). The PLIC pages for the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness Areas are of uneven length and quality, which makes me think that PLIC is more likely to have copied. Do you know a copyright cleanup regular who could take another look? Flatscan (talk) 05:13, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I don't see any reason not to just accept BlueCanoe's account. It seems odd for the PLIC to have copied a small part form the article, but I have no reason at all to doubt BlueCanoe. I might try a small rewrite so that there can be no issues, but I'm happy to put it back in. - Bilby (talk) 05:17, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't comfortable enough to restore it on my own, but I'll gladly go along. Flatscan (talk) 05:29, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for understanding. I am fine with a re-write of the paragraph in question to avoid any confusion in the future, but I'll leave that up to someone else in order to provide a new "voice". I don't know if you're using some sort of bot to check for copyright violations, but it may be worth checking other PLIC pages against Wikipedia to see if this is more than a single case of reverse-copying. -- BlueCanoe (talk) 20:17, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged the talk page with {{Backwardscopy}}. Flatscan (talk) 05:33, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of North Fork Brewery for deletion

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Proposed deletion of North Fork Brewery

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Spore dispersal of Pleurotus citrinopileatus

Hi there! I'm working on this species for my PhD thesis and I was wondering where/if you had a citation for the line "Spores are spread by the beetle Callipogon relictus”? I was trying to find it in the original German article and couldn't. As far as I knew, there haven't been any studies describing this, but perhaps I missed it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Gomgirl (talk) 20:47, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]