Talk:Banksia ilicifolia/GA1
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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 18:13, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
At first glance, this looks great. More detailed comments to follow soon. J Milburn (talk) 18:13, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
- "Appearing from late winter to early summer, the inflorescences are dome-shaped flower heads rather than spikes as many other banksias. They arise from stems that are around a year old, with no lateral branchlets growing on from the flower head base." This isn't as clear as it could be.
- "The name Banksia aquifolium was published in 1814 and reduced to synonymy.[1]" It's not clear what that line is doing there, considering you discuss it in the next paragraph? It's also not clear where the name "Sirmuellera ilicifolia" fits in.
- "Because of its dome-shaped flower heads, the Holly-leaved Banksia is placed in the subgenus Banksia subg. Isostylis.[5] It is the only common member of that subgenus; the two other species are rare and threatened,[6] and are protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999." Would this information not belong in the subsection on the infrageneric placement?
- There also seems to be a lot of crossover between the infrageneric placement subsection and the phylogeny subsection.
- "(‘community type 22’)" ?
- "seasonally inundated" With what?
- "include M. preissiana," Shouldn't this be the common name for consistency?
- "a beetle of the species Liparetrus," Genus?
- The ecology section could probably do with a little more wikification- there are a few unlinked technical terms.
- You don't explicitly mention in the cultivation section that it is not often used.
- Check the formatting of notes 9, 17
- What precisely is the document note 18 references?
- On note 33, could we have all the authors?
I'm assuming that this will be going to FAC, so a few pieces that could be adjusted before it's nominated-
- The lead feels a tad short.
- "and variously obovate (egg-shaped), elliptic, truncate or undulate in shape, and 3–10 cm (1–4 in) long. The leaf edges are generally serrated with broad v- to u-shaped sinuses" A little technical
- I feel that the article is missing a close-up picture of the leaves, which are clearly characteristic
- Damn....I am a bit far, but can ask gnangarra or hesperian to pop outside somewhere and take a snap. I guess the best candidates otherwise are File:Buisson de fleurs blanches.jpg, File:Banksia inilicifolia 01 gnangarra.jpg or File:Banksia ilicifolia2 orig.JPG of what we have already. Might see what I've got on an old drive....Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:18, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Generally very strong. I made a few small edits. J Milburn (talk) 19:04, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
- your edits are ok. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:07, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
- Looking again, I'm happy that this is ready for GA status. I do hope you push for FA- my notes above will hopefully be helpful there, and I do feel you should look again at the M. preissiana point above. However, these are niggles, and certainly will not stop this from being a strong GA. Good job! J Milburn (talk) 11:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
- your edits are ok. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:07, 6 June 2012 (UTC)