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WikiProject Plants
Founded 20 August 2004
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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 belonging to the kingdom Plantae. This project's scope also includes botanists and botany-related articles.

Goals:

1. Describe all families, genera and species of the kingdom Plantae.
2. For species, describe botanical properties, distribution, multiplication, usage (medicine, food, etc.), botanical history, cultivation information, and common names.
3. Develop and implement a robust method of naming plant article for the ease of navigation and searching for Wikipedia users.
4. 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

• WikiProject Banksia
• WikiProject Carnivorous plants
• WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
• WikiProject Plant Evo Devo an inactive subproject

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture Plants as food crops; forest products
• 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.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Prokaryotes and protists (inactive as of 2009) or Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology is where many algae topics fit
• WikiProject Ecoregions works in flora articles by ecoregions.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Plant article naming conventions

Article naming for flora articles differs from standard TOL policy 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:

1. 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).
2. 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.
3. 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.

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

[edit] Open tasks

• /Article requests
• Attention requests
• Photo requests
• Taxobox requests

• Media related to Unidentified plants at Wikimedia Commons

[edit] Participants

[edit] Articles

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 21 Dec 2009 – PROD tag removed from Phytopathologia Mediterranea (talk).

Did you know

• 28 Dec 2009 – A fact from Bulbine bulbosa (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 23 Dec 2009 – A fact from Hydnophytum (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 22 Dec 2009 – A fact from Argyroxiphium grayanum (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 20 Dec 2009 – A fact from Rubiaceae (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 18 Dec 2009 – A fact from Mauna Kea silversword (talk) appeared on the main page.

Bounty board

• 29 Dec 2009 – Uncaria tomentosa (talk) removed from the bounty board.

Other news

• 30 Dec 2009 – WikiProjects and Portals who want to have automatically-updated "Walls of Recognized Content" (see WikiProject Physics' WoRC) can go here and follow instructions. For details, contact JLaTondre.
• 28 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out
• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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[edit] Assessment

[edit] Statistics

Plant articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	3	13		18
	FL			1	2		3
	A		2		4		6
	GA	1	4	13	17		35
	B	34	99	139	142	2	416
	C	13	50	82	55	12	212
	Start	26	310	1158	1828	95	3417
	Stub	1	106	1662	10387	16001	28157
	List	5	12	51	125	60	253
	Assessed	80	585	3109	12573	16170	32517
	Unassessed		2	6	14	3670	3692
	Total	80	587	3115	12587	19840	36209

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