Talk:Pycnanthemum incanum

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An entry from Pycnanthemum incanum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 16 November 2006.

• "endangered": Shouldn't this say "listed as an endangered species at the far northernmost limits of its range, in Vermont and New Hampshire." The endangerment is local, is it not?--Wetman 11:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Vermont and New Hampshire were not the only places it was considered endangered. Canada also listed it as endangered per the Endangered Species Act listed in the references, but gave no further details in the document I found, such as which parts of Canada were affected. As most references I find on the internet are considered copyrighted, I have tried to stick only with the info that can be freely shared. There may be more specific info available out there, which begs a question: To fine tune a fact such as this, how do you handle it when most of the info available comes from various websites who do not appear to be free to share? I have chosen the course of being very cautious in this regard, not wanting to step on copyrighted toes.--Gypsyware 18:37, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Just put the information into your own words and put your source into a <ref></ref> reference. The specific text is copyright: the information and the words necessary to frame it ("endangered", "herb" etc) are not. The addition of Canada further demonstrates the "locally endangered" perspective of these sources: "an endangered species at the far northernmost limits of its range" would be more to the point. --Wetman 22:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)