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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Dec 13, 2002

For those of you who get the DG newsletter, what do you think of having the new Botanary terms included? Dave surprised me - I had casually suggested it to him, and he immediately implemented it :)

I'd like to hear your feedback on whether it's helpful, interesting, etc (or not!) and if you find a term that looks "iffy" feel free to email me. Occasionally we get email when someone notices an inaccuracy with a term's pronunciation or definition - I'd rather have a member here alert me to a problem before the general public spots it :)

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Horseshoe Efland, NC(Zone 7a) Dec 13, 2002

Hmmmm...for some reason I didn't get my newsletter today. Also just went to the onsite newsletter link and got a blank page.

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Dec 13, 2002

'shoe, this probably wasn't the best day to ask my question (I think the newsletter was affected by whatever disaster befelled DG overnight!) But if you go back a day or two, you'll see some examples :)

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Horseshoe Efland, NC(Zone 7a) Dec 13, 2002

Whewww...did it! Thanks. (I was beginning to think my puter wouldn't accept pics again. Didn't like that when it happened once!)

Very good, I like the feature!

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Terry Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Dec 16, 2002

Bumping this back up for two reasons:

1) There have been dozens of views of this thread, but only one comment (excluding the dialogue between 'shoe and myself.) I'm not sure what that means: do y'all hate it and are too polite to say anything? (Remember, I'm asking for feedback, which means I'll take the good with the bad!)

2) Some well-meaning soul is entering a SLEW (30-80) of new terms late each night (at least late for me.) It's wonderful to have the new words, but I'm pleading for some relief. I spent 3+ hours yesterday scrambling to try to complete the terms that had been added late Saturday/early Sunday, much to my family's chagrin (they really wanted to get the tree decorated :)

Even with my efforts, you'll notice that in today's newsletter, about half of the terms have pronunciations and definitions that are formatted in a standard way. Then there are many more terms that have no pronunciations and some of the definitions are incomplete - those were added after I finished my cleanup efforts (around 10 pm CT)

So here's my plea - if you're adding to Botanary:

a) Add the complete entry, including pronunciation;
b) Focus on genus and species names that are already in the Plants Database (there are still many un-defined genus and species there.)
c) If you are adding some incomplete ones, only add a few at a time - and let me know that you've added them. That way I can try to research them and get them "ready for viewing" in the newsletter. It will reflect better on DG and the members if the newsletter isn't incomplete :)

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