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Your submission at Articles for creation: Flora of Samoa has been accepted

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 Vanilla  Wizard 💙 13:45, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Emmanbotan, well done! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 13:52, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

omg tyy and yipeeeee Emmanbotan (talk) 18:59, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on the botany of Samoa

Thanks for your work in creating new articles about the botany of Samoa. This is a great contribution to the encyclopedia. Well done. One small point - I notice that you have made a number of edits without providing an edit summary. Please do this for future edits. The summary can be really short (eg add wikilink, fix spelling etc, but for longer additions the edit summmary could be one full sentence. For a few more details and the rationale behind edit summaries, please see WP:EDITSUM. Thanks again for your contributions._Marshelec (talk) 23:44, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. And i will make a summary of my edits 😄 Emmanbotan (talk) 00:18, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

Flora of Samoa feedback

Hey @SunloungerFrog I improved my flora of samoa page and it looks way better and im so proud of it! I really hope you can look at it and give me some feedback and stuff i needa work on... I added some more Vegatation zones consisting of Volcanic scrub, Mangrove, and swamp forests, also littoral scrub Emmanbotan (talk) 11:16, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

Invitation to NZ Species editathon 2026

Talofa and kia ora. Because of your interest in botany, I would like to invite you to attend the NZ Species editathon - 17 October 2026. Although it will be held in Wellington, if you are available and definitely interested in attending, it is possible that Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) may be able to provide a travel grant to assist you with your travel expenses. You would be very welcome to attend this event, and I am sure you would find it inspiring. Please give it some thought and get back to me.

Even if you are not able to attend the NZ Species editathon, you might enjoy taking part in the regular face-to-face meetups that are convened by WANZ members in Auckland. The next meeting in the series is on Saturday 29 August from 10:00am at the Central City Library. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Meetup/T%C4%81maki_Makaurau_Auckland_50. Finally, there is lots of support available from members of WANZ, including experts in botany, who may be able to assist you. One of the WANZ members is Stitchbird2. You will see from her user page that she is a botany curator at Te Papa. She is also one of the organisers of the NZ Species Editathons._Marshelec (talk) 00:20, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

I will think about it Emmanbotan (talk) 02:53, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vaccinum whitmeei has been accepted

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Pandanus reineckei has been accepted

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Sulfurboy (talk) 06:16, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Vaccinium whitmeei

It's obvious you are proud of your Samoan heritage, and rightly so. I applaud you for the work you've done in creating articles about Samoan botany. Your attempts at tweaking this article are pulling it further from our Manual of Style, and I believe this is linked to wanting to highlight everything Samoan. I've reverted you twice now to bring things back to alignment. Now, I suggest you move on from this article to something else. I would be pleased if you made more drafts, whether taxonomic or otherwise, and I can assist you in improving your article creation skills. - In solidarity, UtherSRG (talk) 14:28, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Yes Emmanbotan (talk) 04:04, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Heliconia laufao has been accepted

Heliconia laufao, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been accepted!

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Sulfurboy (talk) 09:33, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

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		message Thank you so much for your work on articles about the endemic plants of Samoa. You are making a great contribution._Marshelec (talk) 18:46, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

i have never received a barnstar before, i feel so honored thank you Emmanbotan (talk) 21:45, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

Talofa lava, it is a real pleasure to see your work, and it reminds me of my visits to Samoa.

Have you thought any more about attending the NZ Species editathon - 17 October 2026 ?. The people running this event would be delighted to have you attend, and you would be made very welcome. If you are definitely interested, please email me via Wikimail and I will let you know how you can apply for a travel grant to cover your costs. If you wanted, you could possibly stay overnight in Wellington and we could arrange visits to Zealandia and Ōtari-Wilton's Bush on the Sunday. Don't worry about being new or less experienced than some others who may attend. You would be very welcome, and I am sure you would find it inspiring. It might also be something worth including in your CV. Please think about this and get back to me. Tōfā soifua _Marshelec (talk) 04:33, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I am still thinking but i would love to attend Emmanbotan (talk) 09:55, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mammea glauca has been accepted

Mammea glauca, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been accepted!

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Invitation to NZ Species Workshop

Talofa, I want to again invite you to attend the NZ Species editathon - 17 October 2026 in Wellington. The people running this event would be delighted to have you attend, and you would be made very welcome. If you are definitely interested, it is now time to make travel arrangements. Please email me via Wikimail and I will let you know how you can apply for a travel grant to cover your costs. If you wanted, you could possibly stay overnight in Wellington and we could arrange visits to Zealandia and Ōtari-Wilton's Bush on the Sunday. Don't worry about being new or less experienced than some others who may attend. You would be very welcome, and I am sure you would find it inspiring. It might also be something worth including in your CV. Please get back to me. Tōfā soifua. _Marshelec (talk) 07:46, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

ok I need to tell you the truth. Im not sure about coming because I don't got a laptop or a charger and I'm under 18. I only use a computer which is my mom's and yea. I would love to attend but I don't think my parents will say yes. I'm really sorry for not saying this too sooner. Plants has been really interesting for me and I want to go and learn more but I don't think I'm old enough yet. I didn't want to inform you because I thought you would be really disapointed I really hope you understand and thank you for giving this opportunity, and i appreciate you for praising my efforts on working on the Flora of Samoa. Emmanbotan (talk) 08:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

OK, I understand. However, being young is not a barrier, and this opportunity could possibly make a significant contribution to your future directions. Would it make a difference if we arranged a computer for you on the day ? WANZ could possibly also make and pay for travel arrangements for you, with your permission and agreement, if that made things easier for you. If you want to take things any further please email me using Wikimail._Marshelec (talk) 09:49, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Well I havent told my aprents yet Emmanbotan (talk) 05:43, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

I will respect whatever decision you make. The invitation remains open, and if you want any more details about how WANZ might assist you to attend, please email me._Marshelec (talk) 06:52, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

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September 2026

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Hellwigia nutans image

Hi, I've enjoyed working on Hellwigia which you started and on some of its species. I wondered how you got the image you uploaded at File:Hellwigia nutans flower.jpg, because this species is only found in the Maluku Islands according to reliable sources. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:45, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

uhh gooigle Emmanbotan (talk) 07:02, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi, Wikimedia has a strict policy of not infringing copyright. Editors are not permitted to upload images that are owned by others, unless the owner of the copyright has explicitly granted an open licence such as CC-BY-4.0 or similar. Even then, if you do upload such an image, the policy requires that you must attribute the image to the owner, and state the licence. You can't claim these as your own work if you found them on the internet, or took a photograph of an image in a book. Only original photos that you took of a scene yourself can be uploaded as your own work. If you have uploaded images that are owned by someone else, then you should nominate each of them for deletion in Commons. See: . Copyright is taken seriously so I recommend you resolve this promptly._Marshelec (talk) 09:09, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Oh i will delete it Emmanbotan (talk) 09:11, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Medicinal properties of Samoan plants

Hi, I have come across a scientific article that reports on a study of the in vitro antibacterial activity of 14 medicinal plants used in Samoan traditional medicine for healing of wounds, burns and sores. The article is: A Frankova; L Vistejnova; T Merinas-Amo; et al. (2020). "In vitro antibacterial activity of extracts from Samoan medicinal plants and their effect on proliferation and migration of human fibroblasts". Journal of Ethnopharmacology: 113220. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2020.113220. PMID 32805355. Wikidata Q98509350.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link). This article is available to me in the Wikipedia library, but at present you are not eligible to access this, because access requires that the user account is >6 months old. If you are interested, I can probably find a way to provide you with a PDF copy. Although the paper is highly technical, it has an interesting conclusion that there are definite prospects for new wound-healing agents to be extracted from Samoan endemic plants.

By the way, I have used the Cite Q template in producing this note - to render the citation. For scientific papers, the cite Q template is a really easy way of producing a citation, and there are tools to help create the necessary Wikidata items for scientific papers if they are not already in Wikidata (this one was already there). Let me know if you would like to see a copy of the paper, or get more info about citing scientific papers, or the cite Q template._Marshelec (talk) 07:44, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Omg thank you so much. Hey, also I was making a Submission of a Samoan Fruit dove. Which is a seperate species of bird native to the samoan Islands, But It got declined because It was a duplicate page, So idk If it was a mistake or just a misunderstanding. But thank you so much. I had a book of Samoan medicinal plants i got from school, My librarian said i could issue It but only for one week. I had to return it tho but i had so much fun reading It. Its by Arthur Whistler himself. Emmanbotan (talk) 07:47, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Try this link, and let me know if you can access the article: [https://1drv.ms/b/c/d8bc8e11cd35399b/IQATJanArg8qQo9Ptw2Afa0NAfGWiD1D4wh_e-ZeeISF_Pg?e=2ZT6X5} Marshelec (talk) 08:34, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Yep I do! Emmanbotan (talk) 08:45, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

We are really not supposed to write much about primary studies only showing in-vitro activity; see WP:MEDINVITRO. Plantdrew (talk) 18:22, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Vailima Botanical Gardens

I have just published a start-class article Vailima Botanical Gardens. I hope that other editors will be able to add to this article in time. One of my Wiki colleagues is an experienced photographer and is planning to visit Apia fairly soon, so I hope that this may lead to some good images of plants in the Vailima botanical gardens._Marshelec (talk) 00:18, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I was thinkong of makong the article but i focused on plants. I hope they visit savaii as well cuz they got lpts pf endemics Emmanbotan (talk) 01:06, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Hello. I got the courage to tell my parents about Wikipedia. They applaused my contribuions then after i told them abou the editathon and ask if i csn come, I cant attend because my parents work all day and it would be busy. I wouldvee love to go but i cant and i hope u can understand... Thank you Emmanbotan (talk) 09:28, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. There will be other opportunities, including online sessions and workshops that you might be interested in joining. On the weekend of 29-30 May next year, the annual Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand conference (Wikicon) is being held in Auckland. You would be very welcome to attend. As with our previous Wikicon events, it will be a friendly event, open to people with a diverse range of experience, including those who are just beginners with less experience than you already have. I will provide more details as they become available, and hope you will consider attending. The conference is mostly funded by WANZ, and the cost of individual registration is small - I will let you know later._Marshelec (talk) 10:37, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

hmm I might come an when I get older I will go o more opportunities Emmanbotan (talk) 11:11, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

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Progress with Flora of Samoa

Great progress with this article :). I have done some minor tidying up today, and a few copy edits to address undue similarity to source text (although some more of this is probably needed). With regards to placing images in the article, some editors prefer minimal images. However, I think that well-chosen images can be helpful for the reader. If you have several on a related theme (such as Use by humans), you might find a gallery format useful. Please have a look at the gallery that I put at the bottom of Bushy Park (New Zealand). You may find that the gallery format is useful._Marshelec (talk) 05:20, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

I took a look at the gallery format, i might make one of Use by humans Emmanbotan (talk) 05:30, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Good. Please note that medical claims are forbidden on Wikipedia unless they meet the strict criteria of WP:MEDRS policy, basically insisting on citing each claim to a systematic review of multiple clinical trials. Reporting news items or individual research studies is insufficient. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:35, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Oh ok ill just use basic information like what Samoans use them for but not healing properties Emmanbotan (talk) 11:41, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:45, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

Uploading openly licensed images from iNaturalist into Wikimedia Commons

Hi, if you don't already know about this tool, I highly recommend adding this script to your setup. See: Once it is in place, it will show an 'iNaturalist import' button alongside the category name at the top of a Wikimedia Commons Category page for a species (eg c:Category:Vaccinium whitmeei. When you click on the button, it will show a selection of images from iNaturalist that have suitable licenses of that species, and you can select the ones you want to upload. A script does most of the rest of the work :).

Note that the taxon MUST have the iNaturalist species ID linked in Wikidata. (So this is likely to be a bit more work for you to do with all new articles about plants. I have just added the species ID to the Wikidata entry for Vaccinium whitmeei, and the iNaturalist import button now appears when I view the category in Commons. Here is the Wikidata ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17250348 Adding the iNaturalist species ID is simple, and the button appeared in Commons immediately. :) I am sure you will find this useful.

Let me know how you get on, then as time permits, I recommend you add the iNaturalist species ID to all the entries in Wikidata for species that you have recently documented in new articles, and then see if there are any additional useful openly licensed images of those species in iNaturalist that you might wish to incorporate into articles._Marshelec (talk) 01:57, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

Wait, is it the some rights resered images?? Emmanbotan (talk) 04:54, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

My words "openly licensed" are perhaps a bit vague. What I really meant was a compatible licence, such as CC-BY. All the images that I imported from iNaturalist into Wikimedia Commons have a compatible licence (and the tool enforces this anyway). There are species where there are no compatible licenced photos at present, because the contributors have a default setting of CC-BY-NC - and the NC means that it is not "open" in our terms and is not compatible. I hope that is a clear explanation. :)_Marshelec (talk) 06:17, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

thanks. I found an image of Hellwigia samoensis that was CC.BY. although it was still named alpinia I flagged it. Emmanbotan (talk) 06:26, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

Removing images from Commons

Hi, I recommend that you now tidy up these image issues:

• The file C:File:Vaccinium whitmeei plant.png is currently used in the articles Flora of Samoa and Vaccinium whitmeei. If there are uncertainties about the licensing, I recommend that in each article, you substitute these images for one of the recently uploaded images that have compliant licensing. Then, if the file File:Vaccinium whitmeei plant.png is not compliant, you should nominate it for deletion in Commons
• The file c:File:Heliconia laufao.jpg is no longer used in any articles but is still in Commons. If there are uncertainties about the licensing, you should nominate it for deletion in Commons.
• The file c:File:Abutilon_whistleri.png remains as a possible anomaly. It is currently used in Flora of Samoa. My suggestion is that you remove it from the article and nominate it for deletion in Commons. If you are able to persuade the contributor to iNaturalist who has uploaded photos of this species to change licensing to a compatible licence, then the images could be uploaded again at a later date.

_Marshelec (talk) 07:27, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

I saw the email tom sent me, Im really happy because many of Samoan plants get to be photographed. Emmanbotan (talk) 00:30, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

Update:

• I see that C:File:Vaccinium whitmeei plant.png is nominated for deletion. That's good, but it must also be removed/replaced in the gallery in Flora of Samoa where it currently still appears. There are several options for replacement photos in Commons that you can select.
• If c:File:Heliconia laufao.jpg is not a photograph taken by you "in the field", then it should also be nominated in Commons for deletion.
• I see that c:File:Abutilon_whistleri.png is nominated for deletion. That's good, but it must also be removed from the gallery in Flora of Samoa.

Thanks,

_Marshelec (talk) 08:48, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

Inominated for deletion Emmanbotan (talk) 08:51, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

hi I deleted it Emmanbotan (talk) 09:25, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Cordyline indivisa - for your interest

Hi, I went out hiking today, and took this photo of a NZ endemic plant you may not have seen before. See: c:File:Cordyline indivisa at Mt Climie.jpg. It is Cordyline indivisa and typically grows in montane forests. I photographed this example at around 750m elevation on the track up Mt Climie above Upper Hutt. From its appearance, it could perhaps be mistaken for a tropical species, but does not do well at sea-level in New Zealand, and prefers cool, damp conditions. It is noticeably different from the common cabbage tree Cordyline australis. There are many good examples of Cordyline indivisa on the Mt Climie track, from 650m up to the tops at 850m elevation. It is one of my favourite New Zealand endemic plants._Marshelec (talk) 05:17, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

I live infront of a forest beach and i think i saw smth like that or maybes it something else, beautiful plant though. New Zealand is a place full of wonders, especially with flora. Emmanbotan (talk) 05:21, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

Cordyline australis I think Emmanbotan (talk) 05:24, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

I have found that there is a different species of Cordyline that is known in Samoa. It is Cordyline fruticosa, and is known as lau tī, or just tī, the same name that Māori in New Zealand use for Cordyline australis. The article about Cordyline fruticosa is interesting. There are numerous references on the web to lau tī being used in traditional Samoan medicine._Marshelec (talk) 07:05, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

I have it in my garden right now. I like the purple leaves Emmanbotan (talk) 07:15, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

Hello. I have an I naturalist account with observations around my area. Can I upload it to commons? Emmanbotan (talk) 07:31, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

Photos in iNaturalist have a copyright licence assigned by the contributor. It is common to find that contributors assign a default when they setup their account, and may be unaware of the implications. Some will choose CC-BY-NC, and if they do, that means none of their images can be uploaded to Commons. If you are proposing to upload images from iNaturalist (whether taken by you, or any other contributor), they must have licences that are compatible with Wikimedia Commons requirements. Have you tried installing the tool:  ?? If so, it makes the uploading process simple, starting from within Commons, and will only shown you images that are compatible.

I also found that there is a Chrome browser extension that operates from within iNaturalist to upload images to Commons (provided there is the right licence). It adds a button inviting you to upload to Commons. I have installed this and it seems to work well. There seem to be other brower extensions that do something similar (including in FireFox) but I have only tried the Chrome one. I hope this helps. Let me know how you get on._Marshelec (talk) 08:21, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

DYK nomination

Hi, the criteria of 5 x expansion of an article requires that the readable prose size has increased five-fold within 7 days. At present, the prose size gadget says that Flora of Samoa has 2699 words. If we go back to 8 September, it was 1193 words. So this is not a 5 x expansion unfortunately. If the article passes Good Article (GA) assessment, you will have an opporunity to submit a fresh DYK nomination at that point, providing you nominate it within 7 days of it being passed as GA. :)_Marshelec (talk) 10:15, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Alr il change it Emmanbotan (talk) 10:17, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Flora of Samoa has passed

Your good article nomination of the article Flora of Samoa has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:05, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations on your first GA

Well done. You have put a great deal of work into the Flora of Samoa article and shown enthusiasm and persistence that is to be commended. You can now nominate this for DYK. There is no rush - you have 7 days to think of several possible "hooks". These need to be as interesting as you can make them - so as to draw a reader's attention. The guidance says "..likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest in the topic." Please carefully review all the instructions and criteria for DYK. You should submit several alternatives if possible, so that reviewers can choose the best one. Here is a suggestion for one of the alternatives: " .. that the Falealopu Rainforest Preserve was protected by a covenant with village owners after the ethnobotanist Paul Cox agreed to raise funds for a new schoolhouse." (this is within the 200 character limit). Depending on the hooks you decide to offer, you will need to do some minor amendments in the article, because the criteria are that the facts stated in the hook must be supported by a citation in the text of the article, and that citation must immediately follow the sentence in which the hook fact(s) are stated.

Now that it has been accepted as meeting the GA standard, it is essential that all future expansion of this article is of a consistently high standard. GA-rated articles can be submitted for re-assessment at any time, if editors note that the quality has slipped, and may lose that status. I have some ideas for expansion, and as time permits I may add some further content._Marshelec (talk) 09:23, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I got so much facts to think of!😄 Emmanbotan (talk) 09:25, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

You may perhaps have noticed that I found additional photos of some of the endemic plants covered in the stub articles you have recently created. I have added photos to several image categories in Commons, and also added some of those to Infoboxes in articles where there was previously no image. All of those stub articles could do with improvement, providing there are sufficient useful sources. I have also sent a message in iNaturalist to a contributor who has many great images of Samoan plants, to ask if they would change the licence - they currently do not have a compatible licence. I will let you know of any progress._Marshelec (talk) 09:36, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

I also nominated the article, I did two facts

1. Did you know that ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox made a promise to village leaders Falealupo to fund for a school, if they protected the rainforest?

2. Did you know that Samoa has 225 species of ferns, making it have more than New zealand, a country 85 times larger? Emmanbotan (talk) 10:25, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

@Marshelec yea, It would be great to have more pictures of Samoan plants here in Wikipedia Emmanbotan (talk) 09:38, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Reviewing in draft space or sandbox

I highly recommend preparing all significant content in draft space or in a sandbox, and carefully reviewing it before posting into an article. Please read over the Geography section you have just added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_of_the_Cook_Islands#Geography You will find duplication of content, words missing, content that doesn't flow well, and excessive coverage of some points. If you are editing using a mobile device, this might be part of the problem - you are not able to see all the content in a glance. Is that the case ?

It helps to slow down a bit, and look at your work in a sandbox, reading it over several times to make sure you are happy with it, before inserting it into an article. It can sometimes be useful to deliberately hold off for a day, and come back to what you have drafted. Sometimes you see things in a different light, and can make a better job because of the mental space created by holding off from immediately publishing. This will also help to avoid having another editor revert your work. You want to avoid that, because it is inevitably quite upsetting._Marshelec (talk) 07:31, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

i mostly use mobile Emmanbotan (talk) 07:36, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

I will learn from this thank you. Emmanbotan (talk) 07:39, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Creating lead sections of articles

Here are a few links that will be helpful when you are working on a lengthy article that requires a decent lead section:

• WP:LEADDD
• MOS:LEAD

The lead is arguably the most important section of an article, but can often be the most difficult to write. The lead section should briefly summarize the most important points covered in an article, in such a way that it can stand on its own as a concise version of the article.

It is normal to have to take multiple iterations to get the lead as good as it can be. Editors will often avoid including citations in the lead section, but all significant facts included in the lead must appear in the body of the article, appropriately supported by citations. _Marshelec (talk) 21:12, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Progress with Flora of the Cook Islands

I see you have made good progress with Flora of the Cook Islands, and that you have nominated it for DYK. One of the criteria for acceptance of a DYK nomination is that the article is "presentable" - because if accepted, it will appear linked from the main page of Wikipedia. See: WP:DYKCRIT. At present, there are multiple minor issues that in my view need to be addressed before the article could be considered "presentable". In particular, the lead must be of a high standard, but at present there are words missing, punctuation missing, capital letters missing and some other issues. It is not right to rely on DYK reviewers to fix up these things, and it is likely that instead, they will fail the nomination.

I recommend slowly and carefully reading the article out loud - this can often help to identify where things need to be corrected. While I could offer to proof-read and fix up these things, it is better if you develop the techniques of proof-reading. I would like to see this DYK nomination accepted, and will help out once you have taken a pass through the article to clean it up as much as you can._Marshelec (talk) 07:30, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you

		The Plantae Barnstar
		By the power vested in me by myself, I hereby award you the plantae barnstar. You're doing awesome work on Samoan flora, it's nice to see some give it some attention. AxonsArachnida (talk) 19:31, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much, working on Samoan flora makes me happy :) Emmanbotan (talk) 23:28, 29 September 2026 (UTC)