Talk:Lactarius vietus/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sasata (talk) 01:18, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Grabbing this one! Do you realize that my first-ever GA review was almost two years ago, on a Lactarius species, written by you? Anyway, I'll have comments up in a day or two (and likely some stuff to add, you know me!) Sasata (talk) 01:18, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

I remember it :) And I remember thinking that, surely, you could spew out fungal GAs if you wanted to. You proved me right there! This one's an article I wrote around the same time that I have revisited. J Milburn (talk) 01:50, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

OK 1st pass—nitpicks: Sasata (talk) 16:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

• lead could be longer, especially more information about what it looks like. Link fungus, mushroom, birch; floor -> ground, or forest floor
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 19:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• taxobox width to 234 px? (I guess I'm foisting my personal preferences here, but I think it looks neater when the taxobox width is the same as the mycomorphbox)
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• synonyms ref and synonyms in taxobox? Mention Galorrheus vietus and Lactifluus vietus in taxonomy
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 18:10, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• Russulales News is well-respected for info about species in that order, and has further taxonomic synonyms
  • Done; where it conflicted with MycoWeb, I went with MycoWeb. J Milburn (talk) 18:10, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• link "first described" to species description
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• Systema mycologicum and Epicrisis systematis mycologici are both on Google books (and Biodiversity Heritage Library), so you can cite these publications directly
  • Done, in addition to the cites already there. J Milburn (talk) 18:10, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "L. vietus typically" No abbr to start para
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "(0.98 to 3.0 in)" suggest reducing convert template output to 1 decimal place, it's just an approximation anyway, based on a small sample size (other instances later)
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• link umbo
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• I like to replace jargony "incurved" with "curved inwards" or similar
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• link buff, adnate, decurrent, flesh
  • Done two, but defined adnate and decurrent, as we don't have articles.
• "lemellulae (gills that do not reach the cap margin)" -> "lamellulae (short gills that do not reach the stem from the cap margin)"
  • Massive fail on my part there... J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "which dries as a brownish or greenish grey"
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• link spore print
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "amyloid (staining blue in iodine)" Melzer's reagent is more than just iodine, so probably better to use the reagent name; could also link staining
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "well developed" needs hyphen
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "measuring between 8 and 9.5 by between 6.5 to 7.5" second between unnecessary, it's implied; there's a couple later as well that can be removed
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "The pleurocystidia (cystidia on the edge of the face of the gills)"
  • I'm sorry, I think I may have literally forgotten to read through this a last time before nominating it at GAC... J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "narrow spindle" -> spindles
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• 4-spored -> four-spored per MOS
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "and the mushroom as a whole lacks a distinctive smell."
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• "L. vietus is fairly common" no abbr
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• link conifer, hardwood
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• any more details about the distribution? Europe and North America are big places…
  • Expanded on the distribution and the ecology. J Milburn (talk) 19:39, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
• Refs: title case for books, sentence case for journal titles; endashes for page ranges; need page #'s for Trappe 1962; author format for ref #14 is different than the rest
  • Done. J Milburn (talk) 17:23, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I had my way with it as well, and am confident it meets all of the GA criteria. Pleasure working with you, JM! Sasata (talk) 22:33, 29 December 2010 (UTC)