Talk:Hypericum perforatum
Hmm. The linked picture is marked with the copyright notice "(C) USDA, NRCS" which appears to state that USDA NRCS is the copyright holder. No photographer is credited. But surely NRCS is an agency of the U.S. Federal Government, and therefore unable to assert copyright, thus putting the image into the public domain?
- The U.S. Federal Government is allowed to own and assert copyrights if they purchase the copyright from the owner and the originator of the work (author, photographer, etc.) is not an employee of the U.S. Federal Government. This typically happens if the originator is a contractor working for the government. Stephen C. Carlson
Before: St John's wort is a common name for a perennial herb, the botanical name of which is Hypericum perforatum.
After: St John's Wort is the common name for the herb Hypericum perforatum.
The structure of the old sentence is awkward, it can be read to imply that "St John's Wort" refers to any perennial herb. Compare with the handling of Basil, Rosemary, Digitalis, etc.
- Sounds good. Still, it'd be nice to know that its a perennial herb. Please, don't call your edits "removed gayness." Its unneccessary and impolite, when it would be much better to quickly summarize changes. May I suggest you also choose a user name? Atorpen 22:39 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
- Making sentances less awkward is a worthy goal-- but try not to cut out information while doing so (in this case, the fact that St. John's wort is perennial was lost). Also, 128.193.88.208, what do you mean by describing your edits as reducing "gayness"? As far as I can tell, they have had nothing to do with either homosexuality or excessive joy. Wondering simply, -- Infrogmation
- I noticed that "perennial" has been dropped and I inserted it into the second sentence in my last edit.
- St John's Wort is the common name for the herb Hypericum perforatum implies that the botanical name is the one true name, and that the common name is somehow less valid. If you are confused and/or overgayified by my original wording, we can always put the botanical name in parentheses. Also, why do you keep capitalizing "wort"? Mkweise 23:11 Feb 17, 2003 (UTC)
I seem to recall some drug interaction problems with St. John's wort.
See http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/aboutcc/media_resources/news_features/wortfinal.html for an example.
What is all this rubbish about 'removing gayness'? I haven't seen the slightest 'gayness' on this page, nor would I, as it is about St. John's Wort, which isn't exactly your average 'gay' topic. maybe whoever is ludicrously placing that nonsensical term explain what they mean? JTD 01:13 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
Yes that was a rather offensive thing for the person to say. --mav
- Actually it doesn't appear to be a once off. They used the same offensive term on all there changes here and on a slight change to Ring (1998 movie). No change had anything to do with 'gayness'. Obviously they have an 'issue' here. JTD 01:31 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
St John's wort is the name of a family of plants, some of which are perennials and some of which are annuals. Hypericum perforatum (Common St John's wort) is a perennial. Article gave the impression that all species of St John's wort are perennial.