User talk:Fungus Guy

Hi there...just a quick comment about your Sault Ste. Marie-related edits. As you can probably imagine, there are separate articles for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Because of that, Sault Ste. Marie without the state or province specified is just a disambiguation page.

So could you please make sure, when you're including a link to one of the Saults in an article, to specifically link to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario or Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (whichever applies) rather than just "Sault Ste. Marie"? If you don't want the province or state name to appear in the text, you can pipe it like this: [[Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|Sault Ste. Marie]]. Thanks. Bearcat 08:24, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabetical order, or order by number of votes?

Hi Sup, thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you've been changing the order in which the results are presented from the current standard in a bunch of articles. I don't think that this is an improvement. I've started a discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada/Election results to find out what other people think. I think it would be a good idea to develop a consensus approach among editors before making any more changes of this sort. Please join the discussion. Thanks, Ground Zero | t 13:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. The consensus was pretty clear in favour of keeping the order by number of votes approach, so I've changed the tables back. I do like your idea of using italics to denote incumbents, and have kept that in. I'm sorry that your work on this particular issue turned out to be in vain, but I hope that you continue contributing to Wikipedia. Regards, Ground Zero | t 17:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flora of Canada

Hi Super cyclist - that's going to be one huge page when finished! Couple of grammatic points; first, the ligatures æ and œ are not used in scientific names, they are actually prohibited by the ICBN, see ICBN Article 60.6 "the ligatures -æ- and -œ-, indicating that the letters are pronounced together, are to be replaced by the separate letters -ae- and -oe-" (so I've removed them from the list); and second, the standard abbreviation for subspecies is subsp. (not ssp.). I've also taken out one or two introduced species (e.g. Ohio Buckeye is native only in the US) and added a few you'd missed - MPF 11:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note; it seems the sources I'd used for Aesculus glabra are wrong (mainly because of too-small-scale maps, I suspect, but also e.g. [1], [2]), so I'll add it back in (and also add Ontario on the Ohio Buckeye page). On subdividing the page, either alphabetically, or (compare e.g. List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland) by taxonomic order. Whatever you think easiest. On ligatures, that may well be why the ICBN decided to exclude them (they aren't too easy on UK or European keyboards either!); even diaresis is optional and rarely used (Isoetes is far more often used in print than Isoëtes). I don't have a lot of info on non-woody Canadian flora (I'm more into woody plants), but here's a link that might be useful for the west coast: E-Flora BC - MPF 21:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the same articles, please note that the correct procedure for applying categories is to apply only Category:Flora of Canada — that category is already a subcategory of Category:Canada, Category:Flora by country and Category:Flora, and Wikipedia has rules against filing articles simultaneously in both parent categories and subcategories of the same parent. Thanks. Bearcat 21:40, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]