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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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Participants.
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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:
- Describe all families, genera and species of the kingdom Plantae.
- For species, describe botanical properties, distribution, multiplication, usage (medicine, food, etc.), botanical history, cultivation information.
- Develop and implement a robust method of naming plant article for the ease of navigation and searching for Wikipedia users.
- Maintain Category:Plants and its subcategories.
WikiProject family tree
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life
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- WikiProject Banksia
- WikiProject Carnivorous plants
- WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
- WikiProject Plant Evo Devo a subproject
- WikiProject Trees might be considered a subproject.
- WikiProject Herbalism might be considered a subproject that spans the WikiProject Plants and the WikiProject medicine.
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Related WikiProjects
- See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture Plants as food crops; forest products
Similar WikiProjects
- 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 is where most algae topics fit
- WikiProject Ecoregions works in flora articles by ecoregions.
Plant article naming conventions
See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (flora).
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:
- Agricultural and horticultural cases in which multiple different products stem from the same scientific name (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).
- 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.
- 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 are to redirect to scientific names.
All known common names for a taxon are to be listed in the plant article.
- Hesperoyucca whipplei (syn. Yucca whipplei; Our Lord's Candle, Spanish Bayonet, Quixote Yucca, Common Yucca) is a species of flowering plant...
In cases where multiple taxa share the same common name, a disambiguation page is to be used.
Recent activity on plants articles
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Article alerts for a list of plant articles proposed for deletion, featured article, and other such actions.
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 3 November 2008, at 12:36.
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