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Hello, RBGE Plant rec. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Whilst your edit was mostly up to standard I made a couple of corrections, Thanks!

Thanks - You are correct I am a staff member but I am interested to know what the issues and corrections were (just so I don't make them again when dealing with other pages).

13:26, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


There was a stray 'The' and an incorrect capitalisation, nothing major really! I've seen you have changed some figures regarding the number of plants at the RBGE, it would be good if you could provide references (or a citation) for these figures. Reading this might help you. NotMiserable (talk) 17:19, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, will add references - the newest published version of our figures (of which these were taken) is currently at the printers and will be published at the end of next week. So will be able to stick in a good reff then. 18:43, 27 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.39.159.73 (talk) RBGE Plant rec (talk) 12:40, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

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Hello, RBGE Plant rec!

Now that we've created your userpage and learned the basics, I hope that you'll stay logged in and have a go at editing some articles. If you're not feeling bold enough to write an(other) article straight away, why not try a small edit first, or adding a link? Don't worry about being perfect, Wiki is a constantly evolving entity. Fortunately there's a whole team of editors just like you who can help.

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