Dear friends
Through last few years we have developed a culture on this group, that has
been found to be most useful. Although there have often been suggestions
that people should give identification only if 100 sure, but if we follow
this, only 5 per cent of plants on this group would have been identified.
Thanks to the broad minded approach of some of our experts like Vijayasankar
ji, Pankaj ji, Dinesh ji, Prashant ji, Satish ji, Ritesh ji, Tanay, Balkar
ji and many others, we never hesitate to given a wild guess, if we do not
know identifications. This sets the ball rolling for more than 90 percent of
the uploads for identification. In fact the person giving the first reply
has all privileges, he/she can let imagine run wild to suggest any thing
near. Once that is done, it prompts many who may think this identification
to be wrong and come up with a more suitable match, but with limitations
that he/she has to give reasons for his conclusion and negating the previous
one. The subsequent replies have to be even more careful and give reasons
and evidence for their conclusions. This procedure has been found most
successful in this group, and luckily many on this group are ready to be
convinced with reason.
At the same time it sometimes creates confusion when an odd comment
comes in between without any supportive evidence, but then fortunately our
group is well equipped to sail through and reach conclusion. But then I
would request that all subsequent replies should be backed up with some
evidence that they are able to gather. This helps a lot in reaching
conclusion.
--
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
