Talk:Iris japonica

Flowering time

This page claimed that Iris japonica flowers in March to April. But mine flower in September and October. In a global encylopedia, we shouldn't make assumptions about the relationship between seasons and months. I've changed the text to "early spring". Groogle (talk) 23:35, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have added many more refs with different dates and seasons, covering all bases.DavidAnstiss (talk) 11:15, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Citation overkill mitigation

I have tried to reduce the ridiculous citation overkill in this article. Honestly, the editor responsible should be trouted with something the size of a walrus. Over-citing to this extent is almost like public key encryption: really, really hard to undo without breaking everything.

I have resorted to the inelegant method of converting all multiply used cites into a named ref list, then chopping off all but the first cite for each in-text instance. This presumably still leaves in a lot of unnecessary stuff, but at least gets rid of the interminable mass cites in the text. If someone wants to wade through the sources in detail to find and remove doubled (or tripled, quadrupled...)-up information, please do. In total, this hatchet job already made a dozen sources or so superfluous.

I've also removed most of the 'Biochemistry' section. It's of no use to slap down something along the lines of "In 1999 a study was done on budding time in I. japonica.' and add nothing else. Either summarize the contents, or don't bother.-- Elmidae 10:30, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]