Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants

WikiProject Plants
	Founded 20 August 2004
	Shortcuts WP:PLANTS; WP:Plants;
	General information Main page; Participants; Announcements New articles; Article requests; Attention requests; Taxobox requests; Image requests; Image ID requests; ; Project category;
	Departments Assessment; Collaboration; Outreach; Peer reviews; Strategy;
	Resources Flora naming conventions; Plant article template; Resources; Templates; To do; Websites; Portal:Plants
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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians.

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Shortcuts: WP:PLANTS WP:BOTANY

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.

[edit] Scope and goals

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

Goals:

Describe all ranks and notable clades (particularly orders, families, genera, species, and natural hybrids) of the kingdom Plantae.
For species, natural hybrids, and notable artificial hybrids and cultivars, describe botanical properties, distribution, multiplication, usage (medicine, food, etc.), botanical history, cultivation information, and common names.
Develop and implement a robust method of naming plant articles for the ease of navigation and searching for Wikipedia users.
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

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Agriculture Plants as food crops; forest products
WikiProject Algae is where many algae topics fit
WikiProject Cannabis, a project dedicated to one particular plant and its impact on society
WikiProject Ecoregions works in flora articles by ecoregions.
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.
WikiProject Prokaryotes and protists (inactive as of 2009) or Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Plant article naming conventions

Article naming for flora articles differs from standard Tree of Life guideline 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:

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).
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.
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. There is currently no consensus regarding capitalization of common names in articles.

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

[edit] Open tasks

Media related to Unidentified plants at Wikimedia Commons

[edit] Participants

[edit] Articles

[edit] Article alerts

Articles for deletion

09 Mar 2012 – Buddleja 'Flutterby' Lavender (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DGG (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)

Featured article candidates

05 Mar 2012 – Xerochrysum bracteatum (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Casliber (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

03 Mar 2012 – Stephen Hales (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Adh30 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

10 Mar 2012 – Hybrid Tea (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by SLV100 (t · c); see discussion
23 Feb 2012 – Kola nut (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by SMcCandlish (t · c); see discussion
27 Feb 2012 – Glossary of plant morphology terms (talk · edit · hist) move request by Alan Liefting (t · c) was closed; see discussion
27 Feb 2012 – Giant Orchid (talk · edit · hist) move request by Raabbustamante (t · c) was closed; see discussion

[edit] Assessment

For the criteria used in assessing articles for this project, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Assessment#Quality scale. It is important to rate the quality of articles correctly; the number of Stub-class articles shown in the table below is much larger than the number of articles which are actually stubs. It appears that editors who expand stubs often forget to alter the quality rating.

[edit] Statistics

Plant articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	4	33			39
FL			1	3			4
A				4			4
GA	3	8	19	22			52
B	24	96	117	136		4	377
C	21	84	204	223		19	551
Start	32	317	1,342	2,811		389	4,891
Stub		114	1,827	14,187		20,198	36,326
List	5	15	55	146	7	92	320
Book					6		6
Category			21		1,468		1,489
Disambig		1	3	3	82		89
File					12		12
Portal					13		13
Project					12		12
Redirect				1	10		11
Template				4	101		105
Other		4	12	6			22
Assessed	85	641	3,605	17,579	1,711	20,702	44,323
Unassessed		1		24		4,446	4,471
Total	85	642	3,605	17,603	1,711	25,148	48,794

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[edit] Categories

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[edit] Resources

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