Talk:Vitis

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The article is full of typos despite being well-written. I suspect a copyvio typed in from an offline source, but am I jumping to conclusions? I didn't find hits putting a few phrases into Google or Google Scholar. Should we try to investigate, just start over, or what? Kingdon 11:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Either way, the article needs a major rewrite, which would probably automatically solve any possible copyright problems. I would also argue that Vitis should be a disambiguation page, rather than lead directly to an article about a small town in Austria. If anything it should be the other way around; "Vitis" should lead to the plant genus as it is a well-known and economically important plant, whereas the Austrian town is probably unknown to anybody outside Austria. MrDarwin 14:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I did some very basic cleanup, moved the article about the Austrian town to Vitis (town) and turned Vitis into a disambig page. I tried to move Vitis (genus) to Vitis as the grape genus is far better-known than the town because of its economic importance, but apparently because Vitis was originally an article about the town, I couldn't make the move. MrDarwin 17:00, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I've merged in a load of stuff that didn't belong in the grape article - it's still a mess, but at least it's started to go in the right direction. I filled the taxobox with the list of species from the grape article - looking more closely, it's got some of the hybrids like labruscana in there which presumably would be better off in the main text? FlagSteward 17:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)