Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Collaboration

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The current WikiProject Plants collaboration article is Ginkgo biloba.
Last month's winner was: none. Feel free to cast your vote for next month's article

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The monthly Plant collaboration is a coordinated effort by WikiProject Plants to improve Wikipedia's plant-related content. Being a member of WikiProject Plants is not a prerequisite for participation in this collaboration (nor, conversely, is participation here a requirement for membership in the WikiProject). All Wikipedians, regardless of their level of expertise in the subject area, are welcome to contribute. There are many plant articles in particular that have very large articles because of their complexity. These may be better worked on in a collaborative manner, rather than by a single editor, in attempting to reach Featured status.

Aside from the main benefit of creating better plant articles on Wikipedia, it is hoped that a successful initiative will: a) Attract new editors to work on the Project; b) Improve the writing skills of existing editors; and c) Demonstrate the value of collaboration on Wikipedia. The ultimate goal of the Plant Collaboration is to get at least one plant or botanical article featured every couple of months. This is currently a draft to see how well it can work.

[edit] Nomination procedure

Any user may nominate an article to be collaborated upon. Nominees should:

Be about any plant or directly plant-related topic (including prehistoric ones).
Need a significant amount of work in terms of content, organization, prose, etc.
Not be in any edit conflict or be under protection.

If you would like to nominate an article, please add it at the bottom of the list of nominees along with a short note describing why you think it should be chosen.

For Nominators:
Please use the following code when nominating an article.

===[[ARTICLE NAME]]===
''Nominated [[MONTH DAY]], [[YEAR]];''

Support:

# (sign with four tildes)

Comments:

* (put your reason for nomination, sign again)

For Voters:
Please use the following code when voting to support an article. Note that you are allowed to vote for more than one, though it will dilute your vote if you feel very strongly about one candidate. Finally, if you feel inclined, noting what material should be included or gotten rid of to satisfy comprehensiveness may be very valuable on the article's talk page.

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[edit] Nominations...

A list of past collaborations can be viewed here.

Please list nominees below using the code laid out in the above section. Newer nominees should be placed on the bottom of the list. Feel free to vote for as many nominees as you wish, but only once per nomination. Please only vote to indicate support, do not vote in the negative. If you like, add a comment in the comment's section under nomination, or on the collaboration talk page. Articles will remain on the list for 3 months, after which time the list will be blanked/refreshed and voting started anew. For the current collaboration, see the template at the top of the page.

The next Plant collaboration will be chosen on April 28th.

[edit] Eucalyptus (2 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
cygnis insignis 11:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

one for the aussies....lots of economic issues too.

[edit] Flowering plant (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

hmmm, fairly important this one. However, complicated and may not be best one to start off with, but then again.....

[edit] Pinophyta (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

hmmm, conifers. Also fairly important. However, complicated and may not be best one to start off with, but then again.....

[edit] Plant (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

Pros - obvious choice. Cons. Will be a big job

[edit] Pollen (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

most of the core parts of this article seem to be from 1911. See the discussion page for further suggestions for improvements.

[edit] Plant stem (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

unusual choice. all too close to a glossary plus some random observations like "many stems are eaten" (which would be trite except that it goes on for quite a few paragraphs, with little focus).

[edit] Deciduous (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

need to figure out the scope of this article (abscission and related processes? the ecology - kind of like hardwood forest but broader? And is the suggested merge with evergreen a good or bad idea?).
Also, us aussies may get bored with this one..

[edit] Banana (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008; Support:

Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

may require less work, and folks from food and drink may like to join in. Would require less expertise in botany

[edit] Jasmine (1 vote)

Nominated March 14th, 2008;

Support:

--Melburnian (talk) 22:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Comments:

In a very poor state for a high-profile genus, even though the article has existed since 2002, no in-line references --Melburnian (talk) 22:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)