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WikiProject Plants
Founded 20 August 2004
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to plants. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list. To join the project, add your username to the list at WikiProject Plants/Participants or just jump in.

Contents 1 Scope and goals 2 WikiProject family tree 2.1 Related WikiProjects 3 Guidelines 3.1 Plant article naming conventions 4 Open tasks 5 Participants 6 Articles 6.1 Article alerts 6.2 Assessment 6.3 Statistics 7 Templates 8 Categories 9 Resources

[edit] Scope and goals

This WikiProject aims primarily to describe all plants, that is, all species belonging to the kingdom Plantae. This project's scope also includes botanists and botany-related articles.

Goals:

1. Describe all families, genera and species of the kingdom Plantae.
2. For species, describe botanical properties, distribution, multiplication, usage (medicine, food, etc.), botanical history, cultivation information, and common names.
3. Develop and implement a robust method of naming plant article for the ease of navigation and searching for Wikipedia users.
4. Maintain Category:Plants and its subcategories.

[edit] WikiProject family tree

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life:

• WikiProject Science

• WikiProject Biology

• WikiProject Tree of Life

• WikiProject Plants

• WikiProject Banksia
• WikiProject Carnivorous plants
• WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
• WikiProject Plant Evo Devo an inactive subproject

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture Plants as food crops; forest products
• WikiProject Forestry, the science of managing forests and trees
• WikiProject Fungi is an analogous project concerning the Kingdom Fungi. WikiProject Fungi was originally modeled after WikiProject Plants, though modified to fit the needs of writing about mycological topics.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Prokaryotes and protists (inactive as of 2009) or Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology is where many algae topics fit
• WikiProject Ecoregions works in flora articles by ecoregions.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Plant article naming conventions

Article naming for flora articles differs from standard TOL policy in the following ways:

Scientific names are to be used as page titles in all cases except the following, as determined on a case-by-case basis through discussion on the WikiProject Plants talk page:

1. Agricultural and horticultural cases in which multiple different products stem from the same species (eg. brussel sprouts, cabbage & broccoli). In such a case, a separate page with the botanical description of the entire species is preferred (eg. Brassica oleracea).
2. Plants which are economically or culturally significant enough to merit their own page, using the common name as a title, describing their use. Example: Coffee. (A) separate page(s) with the botanical description(s) of the taxa involved, using the scientific name, is preferred.
3. Where a genus is monospecific (has only a single species), the article should be named after the genus, with the species name as a redirect. If a family contains only one genus, the article should still be at the genus name, as that is more likely to be commonly recognised.

Common names (vernacular names) are to redirect to scientific names.

• English sundew → Drosera anglica

The redirect page can be placed in categories and tagged as printworthy. For example see Golden bladderwort, which has the content

#REDIRECT [[Utricularia aurea]] {{R printworthy}}

[[Category:Utricularia species by common name]]

Ambiguous common names, applied to multiple taxa, are to be listed on a set index article.

• Tree peony (set index article)

All known common names for a taxon are to be listed in the article about that taxon.

• Hesperoyucca whipplei (syn. Yucca whipplei; Our Lord's Candle, Spanish Bayonet, Quixote Yucca, Common Yucca) is a species of flowering plant...

[edit] Open tasks

• /Article requests
• Attention requests
• Photo requests
• Taxobox requests

• Media related to Unidentified plants at Wikimedia Commons

[edit] Participants

[edit] Articles

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 5 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from R. A. Beaver (talk).

Articles for deletion

• 2 Jul 2009 – Hsinying Quatal (talk) nominated for deletion by Circeus; see discussion.

Stub types for deletion

• 3 Jul 2009 – Template:Tree-stub (talk) nominated for deletion by Hesperian.

Featured article reviews

• 3 Jun 2009 – Norman Borlaug (talk) is nominated by Slgrandson.

Good article nominations

• 30 Jun 2009 – Iridaceae (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.
• 24 Jun 2009 – Fertilisation of Orchids (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Mattisse (on hold); see discussion.

Requested moves

• 5 Jul 2009 – Move requested from Chestnut (talk) to Castanea by Richard New Forest; see discussion.
• 5 Jul 2009 – Euphorbia pulcherrima (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 3 Jul 2009 – Move requested from Lotus uliginosus (talk) to Lotus pedunculatus by Richard New Forest; see discussion.

Did you know

• 3 Jul 2009 – A fact from Moreae (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 30 Jun 2009 – A fact from Artocarpeae (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 29 Jun 2009 – A fact from Bagassa (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 29 Jun 2009 – A fact from John Lhotsky (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 27 Jun 2009 – A fact from Duguetia tobagensis (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 27 Jun 2009 – A fact from Nymphaea nouchali (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 26 Jun 2009 – A fact from Eucalyptus crebra (talk) appeared on the main page.

Bounty board

• 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing Uncaria tomentosa (talk) to FA status: $20 donation by Messedrocker.

Other news

• 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
• 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.

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[edit] Assessment

[edit] Statistics

Plant articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	4	11		17
	FL			1	2		3
	A		2		4		6
	GA	1	4	13	14		32
	B	36	112	132	140	1	421
	C	3	31	63	35	8	140
	Start	33	305	1106	1673	57	3174
	Stub	2	106	1648	8641	14178	24575
	List	2	12	48	111	60	233
	Assessed	77	574	3015	10631	14304	28601
	Unassessed			3	6	3736	3745
	Total	77	574	3018	10637	18040	32346

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