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WikiProject Plants

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WikiProject Plants
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom	Plantae
Project information
Founded:	20 August 2004
Participants:	Active Editors
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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

The purpose of this page is to provide an index to information and resources of particular value to those editing plant-related articles. All links are therefore specifically related to uses in such articles.

A–B

• Announcements
• Article alerts – automatic alerts for some discussions (deletions, article promotions, reviews, etc.)
• Article requests
• Article titles
  • WP:Naming conventions (flora) – main guidelines for plant articles
  • WP:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms – some other style guidance
• Assessment – assessing the importance and quality of articles
  • Importance
  • Quality
• Automated taxobox system – for plants, explains the use of {{Automatic taxobox}}, {{Speciesbox}} and {{Infraspeciesbox}}
• Article templates
  • Botanist template for a botanist article
  • Plant template for a plant article
• Author abbreviations
  • List of botanists by author abbreviation
  • Search IPNI
• Botanists – introduction
• Botanist template – template for a botanist article

C–L

• Categorization
  • Introduction
  • Distributions – using the WGRSP to categorize plant distributions
  • Historically recognized taxa – obsolete taxon names
  • Monotypic taxa
  • Redirects
  • Taxonomic rank – the main taxonomic categories
  • Year of description – categorizing by year of first formal description
• Cleanup listing for WikiProject Plants
• Collaboration
• Cultivars
  • Format of cultivar names
  • Format of trade descriptions (selling names)
  • Infobox cultivar – "taxobox" for cultivar articles
• Description in year categories – categorizing by year of first description
• Families
• Fern classification
• Historically recognized taxa (categorization) – categorizing obsolete taxon names
• Importance assessment – assessing the importance of plant articles
• Infoboxes – list of taxoboxes and other plant related infoboxes
• Infraspeciesbox – part of the automatic taxobox system, but not (yet) separately explained; see {{Infraspeciesbox}}
• Lycophyte classification

M–R

• Monotypic taxa
  • Article titles
  • Categorizing
• New articles
• Notability of species
• Obsolete taxa (categorization) – categorizing historically recognized taxon names
• Opening sentence – articles are about plants not names
• Outreach
• Participants
• Peer reviews
• Plant template – template for a plant article
• Popular pages
• Pteridophyte classification
• Quality assessment – assessing the quality of a plant article
• Redirects
  • Creating – when to create redirects
  • Categorizing redirects
• Requested articles
• Resources

S–Z

• Selling names – formatting selling names or trade designations
• Speciesbox – part of the automated taxobox system
• Strategy
• Style guidance
  • MoS#Animals, plants, and other organisms
  • "A" or "an" with "herb..." – avoid if possible because of English dialect differences
  • Common names (vernacular names)
    • Botanical names as common names
  • Opening sentence – articles are about plants not names
  • Singular and plural with taxon names – "Asparagaceae is ..." or "The Asparagaceae are ..."?
• Synonyms
• Taxoboxes
  • Template:Taxobox/doc – the template documentation for manual taxboxes has useful explanations, many of which also apply to automated taxoboxes as well
  • Automated taxobox system – explains its use in plant articles
• Taxonomic rank (categorizing) – categorizing articles by taxonomic rank
• Templates (article templates or outlines)
  • Botanist template for a botanist article
  • Plant template for a plant article
• Templates (wikitemplates)
  • List of templates for use in plant articles
• Titles of articles – main guidelines for plant articles
• Trade designations – formatting trade designations or selling names
• Unreferenced BLPs (biographies of living persons)
• Vernacular names (common names)
• World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGRSP) – used in categorizing plant distributions