WikiProject Plants

WikiProject Plants
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom	Plantae
Project information
Founded:	20 August 2004
Participants:	Active Editors
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Shortcuts:	WP:PLANTS
	WP:Plants
Main page:	WikiProject Plants
Project subpages
Tools Assessments & statistics Article alerts Popular pages Project category Recognized content
Departments Assessments & statistics Collaboration Outreach Peer reviews Strategy
Resources Template for plant articles Resources Useful templates Websites
How can you help? Events   WP:PLANTSSTS To do list Article requests Taxobox requests Image requests Image ID requests Attention requests
See also
Flora naming conventions
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The following assessment template is placed at the top of each plant-related article's talk page. The parameters are used to assess specific needs for individual articles and are used in the form:

{{WikiProject Plants|class=|importance=}}

• class=??? (assign a class, see below)
• importance=??? (assign an importance, see below)
• needs-image=yes (adds articles to Category:Wikipedia requested images of plants)
• attention=yes (adds articles to Category:Plant articles needing attention, for cases where immediate attention is needed)
• needs-cultivar-infobox=yes (adds articles to Category:Cultivar articles without infoboxes)
• needs-taxobox=yes (adds articles to Category:Plant articles needing a taxobox

Explanation

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Plants}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class plant articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class plant articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class plant articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class plant articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class plant articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class plant articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class plant articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class plant articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class plant articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class plant pages)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class plant pages)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class plant pages)		Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class plant pages)		FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class plant pages)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class plant pages)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class plant pages)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class plant pages)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class plant pages)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class plant pages)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed plant articles)		???

The bar below is a color-coded representation of all Project:Plant related articles, grouped by classes within the quality scale detailed lower on this page.

WikiProject Plants has some project-specific guidelines for quality levels related to taxon pages (species, genera, families, and others) to better streamline the categorization of these types of articles by their quality.

• Only a sentence or two of information, but at least including its distribution
• Few or no references
• Often lack images (but having a photo does automatically upgrade an article from Stub to Start)

To be of Start-class, the taxon article should have the following:

• Taxobox (preferably automatic taxobox or speciesbox) and a taxonbar
• List of descendant taxa
• Basic description of its appearance (morphology)
• Basic description of its distribution and habitat
• Conservation status, if relevant
• Reference at least one secondary scholarly source that goes beyond simply verifying that the species is valid

Helpful but not required for the article to be of Start-class are the following:

• Image or illustration
• Basic taxonomy, etymology, including synonyms listed in the taxobox, common name(s)
• Touch on any subjects that are particularly relevant to the taxon, e.g. horticulture, agriculture, culture, etc., more of which are listed at the WP:PLANTS Template in detail

For many plants, having all of the information above may be all that is known about the species, and could already qualify it for C-class. Generally, in addition to the above, a C-class article should contain:

• Image or illustration if available
• Detailed description of appearance
• Detailed distribution and habitat
• Taxonomy, phylogeny including fossil record, subdivision, etymology, vernacular/common names with source language(s)
• Known synonyms
• One or more of the following if relevant (see WP:PLANTS Template for more detail on each):
  • Phytochemistry
  • Taxonomy
  • Ecology
  • Conservation
  • Toxicity
  • Uses
  • Culture

Meets all the C-class criteria in the table above. Additionally, it is well-written, formatted, and "does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies". In particular, it should cite and address the key findings in all the important secondary sources for the taxon.

See criteria in the table above.

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Plants}} project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of botany.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

See the plant articles by quality log.

• {{WikiProject Plants}}
• Category:Plant articles by importance
• Category:Plant articles by quality