Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants

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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 below.

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Parentage 4 Descendant WikiProjects 5 Similar WikiProjects 6 Announcements 6.1 Recently promoted featured articles 6.2 Current featured article candidates 7 Assessment 8 Participants 9 Goals 10 Plant article naming conventions 11 General strategy and discussion forums 12 Infoboxes 13 Template 14 User Box 15 To do

[edit] Title

WikiProject on plants

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to describe all plants, that is, all species belonging to the kingdom Plantae.

[edit] Parentage

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Science.

WikiProject Biology

WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Plants

WikiProject Ecoregions works in flora articles by ecoregions.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Banksia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnivorous plants
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trees might be considered a subproject.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

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.

[edit] Announcements

This section is designed to allow you to let project members know about current featured article candidates, peer reviews, or other developments that might be of interest.

[edit] Recently promoted featured articles

• Banksia epica - nomination discussion
• Pinguicula moranensis - nomination discussion
• Durian - nomination discussion

[edit] Current featured article candidates

• ...

[edit] Assessment

This section displays the current status of assessed plant articles within this WikiProject. For details on the assessment and "class" and "importance" scales, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Assessment. For details on using the parameters within the {{WikiProject Plants}} template for talk pages, see the instructions on the template's page or Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Project banner. For browsing purposes, see Category:Plant articles by quality and Category:Plant articles by importance. Browse the subcategories (especially the "Unassessed-class" and "Unassessed-importance" categories to help assess our articles!).

See also:

• The bot-maintained Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Plant articles by quality.
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Plant articles by quality log

[edit] Participants

• User:TeunSpaans (initiator) Interwiki links, plants from Holland
• User:Iorsh - I mostly create substubs about the plants of Israel (taxobox + photo), and add some references and information to the higher taxa.
• User:Phyzome - I've been creating some plant articles and would like to help standardize the presentation and content.
• User:MPF - contributing on Pinophyta, other trees and shrubs, and to a lesser extent on other plants.
• User:JoJan - I have created and contributed to many botanical articles. Lately I've been working on orchids.
• User:Unnamed - I've just registered and contributed on a couple of articles and I will continue helping as much as I can what comes to botany
• User:Alan Liefting - I am updating and adding New Zealand plants.
• User:Circeus - working to disambiguate genus pages currently redirecting to other articles. Also adding material for Quebec and Northeastern plants
• User:Chilepine - For a list of my articles and photos please visit my user page.
• User:Mia Goff - will be contributing articles/stubs and original photos of Canadian/US Zone 4 perennial garden plants (see my user profile for planned work)
• Stevey7788 - will occasionally participate in articles on plant and fungi species
• Spawn Man 03:28, 10 October 2005 (UTC) Trying my hardest, already made start in here & here.
• Kiaparowits 21:29, 31 October 2005 (UTC) Noticed some local plants missing, intend to add them; Very impressed with the whole "tree of life" project and excited to contribute.
• User:Wsiegmund - contributing some text, but mostly images of plants from the Pacific Coast of North America.
• EncycloPetey 15:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC) - adding hornwort and liverwort taxa mostly, but have also added some taxa in the Caesalpinioideae and some fossil plants.
• Schzmo 23:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC) - adding as much as I know to trees and shrubs, especially conifers (Pinophyta).
• NoahElhardt- Adding and expanding pages mostly on Southern California natives.
• Punkmorten - Norwegian plants.
• Lynnathon 12:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC) - I keep finding myself editing plant articles. I am a keen gardener and also have the RHS general examination in horticulture. I am mainly interested in garden plants.
• Estarriol ^talk 10:54, 16 May 2006 (UTC) - I'm not a plant expert but I find the lack of consistency in plant articles irritating.  :-) I'm here to help where I can, I'm particularly interested in the scientific vs common name issue right now.
• SB_Johnny - Interested in cleaning things up, as well as making a messy plethora of stubs
• Cas Liber - Adding stuff on Proteaceae and other bits and pieces on Australian plants in general.
• Sunholm - willing to help, knows a bit about Compositae, Cruciferae and thistles.
• Shrimp wong 04:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC) - adding Hong Kong plants
• User:TheM62Manchester - knows a fair bit about European plants.
• User:Stan Shebs - western NA, particularly desert denizens, and photos
• User:Curtis Clark - California and Arizona plants; plant anatomy, morphology, and systematics; photos.
• User:Plantnerd - I would like to contribute information and images on the Australian flora, I am a trained botanist though new to Wiki, anyone want to help or comment on my first attempt Rhomnalda.
• User:Aelwyn - I'll try to correct errors in existing articles and to better describe species in the general description and in the most typical apomorphies. I'll also upload pictures.
• Peta
• Marialadouce Mostly, alas, botany-illiterate, but eager to contribute photos of Amazonian plants. All requests welcome (especially with some description of the plant in question so poor old me can know what to look for). Also available for translation to and from French, English and Spanish (as well as from Portuguese and Catalan), as I am studying translation.
• User:Gnangarra - mostly Australian plants, more specifically Western Australian plants.
• Earthdirt - I know a fair amount about eastern North American plants, I'm a pretty decent botanist.
• User:Fly traper - i edit bizare plants like carnivorous plants
• Anonymous Dissident 08:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
• Rkitko - operates BotanyBot and edits mostly carnivorous plant articles, specifically Stylidium
• Ram-Man - Mostly adding pictures and occasionally updating article content
• User:Alan Rockefeller - Specializing in ethnobotany, electrical engineering and the taxonomy of the Hymenomycetes.
• Ricardo - Adding Brazilian plants, and finding missing plants
• KarlM - Hawaiian plants
• User:Abridged - I will add things about medical, herbal and homeopathic uses of plants. Abridged 01:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Hesperian
• Australian Raven - Interested in learning about plants through research and helping with articles about plants with healing properties
• User:HelloMojo I am an Australian Horticulturalist with an interest in anything regarding plants, soils, plant pathology, identification, garden design. I love getting into the plant articles and expanding material.
• User:Acaramoy I am interested in endemic plants of Indonesia.

[edit] Goals

1. Describe all familes, genera and species of the kingdom Plantae.
2. For species, describe botanical properties, distribution, multiplication, usage in medicine, usage as food, pre 17th century documents where it was mentioned ('classical documents'), tips for garden cultivation, trivia such as 'this flower is the symbol of the Yukon district).
3. Develop and implement a robust method of naming plant article for the ease of navigation and searching for Wikipedia users.

[edit] Plant article naming conventions

See also Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(flora).

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 scientific name (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.

Common names are to redirect to scientific names.

• English sundew → Drosera anglica

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

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

In cases where multiple taxa share the same common name, a disambiguation page is to be used.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /Strategy

[edit] Infoboxes

• See infobox section of the parent project.

[edit] Template

For an examples of well developed plant-related articles, see the following featured articles:

• Banksia brownii
• Banksia epica
• Banksia integrifolia

Articles participating in the Plants WikiProject should be included in at least one of the Category:Plants subcategories; note that most of the subcategories listed at this page have lower-level subcategories that can be viewed by following a subcategory link. More than one subcategory can be listed at the discretion of the editor.

The following are templates which might come in handy:

• template:taxobox
• template:botanist
• template:plant-stub

[edit] User Box

Here is a User box that you can use if you would like to.

To add it to your user page type {{User WikiProject Plants}}

[edit] To do

• New article announcements — bot-assisted
• Biology pages needing attention - (cleanup, expansion, wikification, expert needed, etc.)
• Plant stubs - short articles needing expansion
• Commons:Category:Unidentified plants - Category unidentified plants on commons
• A List of plant articles without images might be useful but does not yet exist
• Missing encyclopedic articles in Botany.
• Missing encyclopedic articles in Hotlist of Plants