User talk:Begonial

Hello... Talk to me, I'm listening. --Begonial 20:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome

Welcome to Wikispecies, Begonial! We like having new people contributing to Wikispecies. Here are a few things that may be interesting: Have a look at Done and to do. Help:Contents provides a good introduction to editing Wikispecies. Templates are there to help you following syntax and formatting rules. Please ask further questions in the Village Pump. Please don't upload files to Wikispecies unless there's a special reason to do so; use the Wikimedia Commons instead. We hope you'll enjoy the time you spend on Wikispecies! You can sign your messages with ~~~~.

By all means please correct the Begonia information. I got the information from Germplasm Resources Information Network and I could easily have transcribed something incorrectly or they might not have up to date information. I do have one caveat for you. This site tries to keep the amount of prose to a minimum because not all users speak English. If you have a lot of information to share about begonias I would suggest you also work on Wikipedia and contribute to the begonia information there. Again, welcome. Open2universe 00:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Moving/deleting articles

see Talk:Begonia setulosopeltata Open2universe 19:21, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I don't think the history is worth saving. Open2universe 20:00, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Image on commons

Hello, thanks for all the work on begonias. I know you were left a message on commons, but I thought I would try here also. Apparently when you uploaded B._jairii.jpg you did not mark it with a license type. It has therefore been marked for deletion. Here is a link to the various options Commons:Commons:First_steps/License_selection. Open2universe 13:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

unknown Begonias

Hi. Could you please identify these begonias for me? So that I can upload them to commons. Thanks Lycaon 12:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I have never seen a species of Begonia with a flower like that. The only species I know that has a flower with an acute apex on the tepal is Begonia boliviensis, but as you can see in this picture [1] those tepals are glabrous. I have submitted your query to YahooGroups/Begonias, an online discussion of things Begonia and will report back if they have any ideas. Begonial 13:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Maybe it is not a Begonia at all!! I'm not so familiar with the possible flower morphology. It was the leaves that made me think it was one. Lycaon 14:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

My sources say it is most likely a Gesneriad. See this link: [2] Begonial 19:58, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips. It IS a Gesneriad, namely Alloplectus cristatus. You've got good sources. Lycaon 22:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Formatting tips

When you create new pages, "__NOTOC__" is not needed since the template at the top of all the taxonavigation hierarchies ( {{Main Page}} ) already has it. Also, the colon indenting has been dropped from the latest format. See my update to Begonia sublongipes for example. --Georgeryp 05:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. Should I go back and clean up my previous entries? Begonial 12:22, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't bother. Hopefully, someday soon, I'll finish writing a formatting bot that will automatically update such pages. --Georgeryp 09:30, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Using templates

This is a reply to your comments on Talk:Platycentrum: I'm assuming what you mean by the "multibracketed integers" is what you see here: Template:Sp? I'd just ignore that raw "sp" template code and follow the examples on this Template page. To make it easier to convert from the old, non-templated species format to the new format, I "recorded" a macro (i.e. no programming was required) with a word processor called TextPad. For each page, I copy the old text into TextPad, run the macro, and paste the formatted text back into Wikispecies. I guess the same could be done with MS Word or Excel macros - this saves a lot of repetitive typing and formatting. Hope that helps. Feel free to ask any questions on my talk page. --Georgeryp 00:02, 13 June 2007 (UTC)