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"Wikipedia: The encyclopedia that anyone who understands the norms, socializes him or herself, dodges the impersonal wall of semi-automated rejection and still wants to voluntarily contribute his or her time and energy can edit." (From "Wikipedia losing editors, study says", phys.org)
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Why is there information about me here? Because I'm very uneasy about anonymous editing. I understand why in some countries there are good reasons for editors to be anonymous. However, this doesn't apply to most regular editors on the English Wikipedia. In all blogs and wikis, anonymity appears to encourage aggression and abuse; sadly Wikipedia is far from being an exception.
I am now fully retired from the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. My retirement interests include:
- botany of all kinds
- gardening – as a plantsman rather than a designer
- natural history in general
- taxonomy – I studied zoology at University many years ago, and maintained an interest in taxonomy through computational statistics, including numerical taxonomy.
Should you wish to know more about me, see my personal web site.
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The Plantae Barnstar
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I believe that you deserve this barnstar for your contribution and continuing to articles on plants and helping new editors. -Just some student on the web 2:17, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
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To do
- × Rhaphiobotrya – see Plantsman, n.s., 7: 164 (2008)
- Araneus needs some work
- Sphodros rufipes
- User_talk:DavidAnstiss#Reticulata_irises
- Araneomorphae is terrible!
- Brassicaceae, Alliaria petiolata in North America
- See Talk:Sicarius_(spider)
- brassicas, origins of edible Pns16(3):180
- Zygophylloideae
- Spider web renewed daily?
- Dipluridae needs Taxonomy to deal with why?
- Dolomedes and spp. – some still need copy and paste fixed
- Consider introducing "/×" variants in taxonomy templates to handle nothogenera, as per Plantdrew's suggestion.
- graft hybrids, nomenclature – Pns15 (3): 162
- Codonopsis subscaposa (see Flora of China)
- Expand Fritillaria eduardii using The Plantsman (New Series) 11(4), Dec 2012
- Expand Gladiolus dichrous using The Plantsman (New Series) 11(4), Dec 2012
- See Ornithogalum, The Plantsman (New Series) 11(1), Mar 2012
- See Kniphofia, The Plantsman (New Series) 12(1), Mar 2013
- Expand Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses
- Mammillaria rekoi
Daphne needs expanding, plus species in cultivation
- Early Polysporangiophytes:
- Eucrosia – expand species articles based on Meerow monograph
- Inactive but not done or dead