User:Dalton Holland Baptista

I am an Architect born in Brazil, who have been working with garden plants, and mostly orchids, during the last 20 years. I am an authorized taxonomist of American Orchid Society and of Orchid Conservation Coalition. I am one of the reviewers of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - World Checklist of Monocotyledons. I have published a number of articles on Selbyana, Orchids Magazine, and some other journals, but I am more interested in publishing easily available online free articles, rather than publishing on paper.

Ok, so let me add some more about me here now that I've been accepted. I am not a native English Speaker therefore my grammar may seems odd sometimes, I will need assistance of English Speakers after I upload the articles I will work on. I joined wikipedia last September and have ever since dedicated much of my time to it. I creaded about two thousand new sketches or articles mostly on Orchids. From these, four have been featured and are completely original I have also uploaded more than a thousand of my own photographs to commons. After these 5 months editing there, I am not happy there and feel I need more serious environment.

Despite I can write in English, I feel much more confortable working in Portuguese for texts come much easier and bolder. I am ready to help whenever Portuguese articles are allowed here. I am also ready to translate any documentation page to Portuguese.

I see Botany pages are still on its baby steps. I have much to learn before starting etiding Citizendium and need to get used to the differences from Wikipedia, however it seems reasonable that I translate the article about Orchidaceae I wrote last month for Portuguese version of wikipedia. Any corretion or advice will be much welcome.

I applied to an Editor position also, but that is not important at this time, although I am sure I can help with general lines of development of orchid taxonomy related articles.