Talk:Metrosideros excelsa

Goal for this article?

So Christmas and December have come around again, alongside the flowering of our native "Christmas Tree". Having seen the recent featured article for the Australian "Banksia brownii" shrub (on Dec 24th), I thought that as a country we could do one better, and planned to nominate the Pohutukawa tree as a coming featured article. Sadly however, though this article is very high quality, I found that the entry for our Pohhutukawa just doesn't quite meet Wiki's criteria for nominating a featured article, so I held back making a nomination. The point to this story? I believe that with a rewrite to enhance/improve some of the language and style features of this article, alongside more infomation, citations and references, this could become a featured article on the main page, if not in this December then at least by Christmas Day 2007. Therefore I propose that the goal of editing this article should become the eventual attainment of "featured article status", something that can be achieved through dedicated casual editors, possibly through the members of groups like Project Crimson. The benefits of doing so are pretty clear: recognition for one of NZ's national icons, informing the world about this beautiful plant under threat, and of course, one up on the Aussies. So what you think? Too far-fetched, or definitly a possibility? Post in the talk page and after new years holiday I'll check back and email Project Crimson. (Please feel free to contact them yourself or keep on editing!)

P.S. Great job to the editors (especially Kahuroa) who have already made this article what it is today

Ca7ch 06:03, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Citation Needed

We _really_ need a citation for the claim that "San Francisco's Friends of the Urban Forest estimates that it is the third-most-commonly planted street tree in San Francisco over the last two decades." I've scoured the net for a reference but have been unable to find one. Maybe it appeared in the print media?