User talk:ThreeWikiteers

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Welcome to wikipedia.

I noticed that you signed up very recently and immediately began editing the arborist article. I think you are doing a fine job so far, but your familiarity with wikipedia so soon makes me wonder if you might have been a registered user of wikipedia in the past, perhaps using a different user name?

Wether so or not the case, your edits are contributing to the quality of the article. If you are completely new to wikipedia I would be happy to help such as I can given that I am fairly new here also. However, you seem a pretty quick study and I may be asking you for assistance soon enough. - Michael J Swassing (talk) 16:51, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lost Monarch

Hi ThreeWikiteers. Per Wikipedia's policies on verifiability and original research, all information in articles should be attributable to reliable, published sources. What is the source of the fern statistic? Mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

The source is Steve Sillett, the forest canopy scientist. It's from a document that probably should not be linked to. You probably won't find someone in the tree or horticulture profession that would distribute the information. Ever heard "his name is Mudd"? But the document is online. If you think it's that critical - give it a shot and find it. Feel free to be the one to propagate the document. Better you than some of us.

It's hard to explaing the rational, but the documents online were not a big deal, until Richard Preston wrote The Wild Trees. A few things leaked out in that book, and when coupled with the few existing documents online, the information can start to complete the puzzle as to where these rare trees are located.ThreeWikiteers (talk) 05:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)