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Rusts[edit]

It is great to see another editor with an interest in rusts. Just looking at your additions to Stem rust I see that you are incorporating quite a lot of material already included in Wikipedia elsewhere. For example your description of Telia replicates much work at Telia. It may be worth linking many of the technical words to see which produce blue links and which produce red-links. Where blue links exists it is usual to only provide a brief summary in the article you are editing and include detail about the technical term on its own page. Hope that that makes sense. Regards Velella ^{Velella Talk} 20:22, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Velella, thanks for your comments, I am glad to see someone is reading my additions. I accept your general point and will bear that in mind with future edits. However, in the specific case of the five types of rust fungi spores and the structures that produce them, I have two problems. 1. Many of the articles about these spores and structures are either stubs, contain no citations or simply do not exist (with the exceptions of Basidium and Basidiospore). 2. The papers I am reading are specifically about stem rust, so I do not know if the details I am writing about (and citing) are general for all fungi (for example, are all urediniospores brick-red?).Famedog (talk) 20:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As an aside, I have noticed that Rust_(fungus)#Spores lists the spore types with brief descriptions. Presumably this should somehow be merged with the pages for the individual spore types?Famedog (talk) 20:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think that what you have done in linking the spore types is absolutely correct. A brief description is always worthwhile even if a more detailed coverage is provided elsewhere. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 10:28, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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