Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Horticulture and Gardening. 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 there.

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[edit] Scope

The Horticulture and Gardening projects aims at enriching and organising wiki content that is related to or important for horticulture and gardening. Subjects include gardens, horticultural practices, plants, animals and pathogens that affect plants and gardens, soil, and so on. Currently, many of the category pages related to this field are in serious disarray.

[edit] Parentage

Parents include:

[edit] Participants

user:SB_Johnny
quercus robur (count me in, although I'm not sure how much and persistence I'll be able to dedicate to this project...)
user:NoahElhardt (Most of my edits are plant related already anyway...)
Cas Liber - am trying to expand a bit on horticulture of Australian plants under their individual headings.
User:Doc Tropics - I'll do what I can :)
Lynnathon - I am a member of WikiProject Plants and will help where I can.

[edit] Structure

Formats for articles covered by this project should follow those established in each category. However, some changes might be needed in some of the articles, such as adding culture, pest and disease, hardiness, etc. to plant articles.

[edit] Goals

To organise and clean up the related categories, including gardening, horticulture, compost, organic gardening, etc.
To improve pages related to this project.
To add horticultural information to plant articles, including growing conditions, horticultural techniques (as wiki links), pest and disease issues, cultivars, etc.

[edit] Projects

Clean up and add to the Organic Gardening category Probably a bit of trawling through the agriculture categories will be needed. There is some concern about having 2 separate pages for organic_horticulture and organic gardening. Also many organic techniques are not well described, and so new pages would be helpful. (Previous discussion here moved to the discussion page).
Pests and Diseases of Garden Plants: Linked lists of particular pests and diseases on the plant articles may be helpful. Perhaps use "Insects and Mites that Feed on this Plant" as the heading. Reciprocally, lists of plant hosts on articles about pests and diseases.
Regional Lists: Regional lists of weeds, garden plants (perhaps by hardiness zones), public gardens, etc. may be useful to those who do garden research on wiki.
Work to improve the horticulture stubs.

[edit] Tasks

Clean up and better organize this page.
Work on disambiguation for the genus Chrysanthemum, members and former members of which appear under many names due to recent reclassifications.

[edit] Adopt an article

Vermicomposting needs work.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

/General
/Strategy

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

**Culture**

: Hortibox

[edit] Stub templates

{{Horticulture-stub}}
{{Horticulture-stub}}
- and the associated stub category Category:Horticulture_stubs

[edit] Categories

Category:Horticulture
Category:Gardening
Category:Organic_gardening (seems to be a page link problem, or category was not set up correctly?) The page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organic_gardening

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Horticulture and Gardening

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Horticulture and Gardening

Wikipedia:Horticulture and Gardening
meta:Horticulture and Gardening

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Horticulture and Gardening

Please feel free to list your new Horticulture and Gardening-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Requested moves:
Requests for Comments:

[edit] Votes for deletion

Votes for deletion (Article deletion):
Votes for undelete (Article undeletion}:
Templates for deletion:
Categories for deletion:
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Redirects for deletion:

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Horticulture and Gardening-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Horticulture and Gardening.