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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 02:05, 9 July 2008 [1].

Ficus aurea[edit]

Nominator(s): Guettarda (talk)


I'm nominating this article for featured article because I believe it meets to FA criteria. It passed GA, and I have tried to tighten up the prose. Self-nom. Guettarda (talk) 05:40, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of the external links failed the link checker, but Wiley's website is apparently in the middle of an update. Guettarda (talk) 06:17, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conditional Support (moral or otherwise) - I created the stub and have seen the article grow and looked it over for prose several times. I feel it fulfils FA criteria pending one fix. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The use of the plant in bonsai needs to be in uses section as well as the lead as per MOS. my bad, musta missed it. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It was in the "effects in the built environment" section, but with the long quote cropped out that section is basically about "uses", so I merged the two.
Explain who Suzanne Koptur is (just an adjective or two - eg (nationality + 'botanist' will do fine) Works fine for me :) Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done. I used affiliation (Florida International University) rather than nationality, since it probably makes more sense here.

Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 07:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support (COI declaration - I made six edits to this article prior to this review).
Note, support above is from Jimfbleak even though subsequent indenting makes it look like he is responding to an unsigned support. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:24, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not a big deal, but I wonder if the table would look better full width? jimfbleak (talk) 12:08, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure - I like it better smaller, but here's full size and here's the original.
  • Support. Looks great, especially for being created within the past month or so. Do you still need images for this article? Please, if only to replace Mr. and Mrs. Happy Smiling Couple? Vanity shots in FAs are odd. --Moni3 (talk) 15:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I do have a minor nitpick--Exactly what is a "remnant tree". Should that be defined, wikilinked, or both? OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 18:18, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Reworded.
I fixed that. --Moni3 (talk) 16:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good, but there are a few more dash issues; a handful of dashes need to be changed to em dashes (or en, depending on how you want to use them). Also, I'm scared of editing FACs now :) Gary King (talk) 16:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Naught to do but get back on the horse. Don't know what has scared you, but I would so much rather have a reviewer fix these small things than bring them to my attention. Otherwise, it makes the reviewer seem that s/he doesn't have the ability (or doesn't care enough) to address much more comprehensive and serious issues like prose and content. --Moni3 (talk) 17:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Think I got the rest. Let me know if you see more. Guettarda (talk) 17:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh wait, n/m...emdashes. Gotta go fix. Guettarda (talk) 17:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OK, now I think I got them all. Guettarda (talk) 17:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Moni, using the path of policies, my reason would go something like WP:FAC → WP:OWN → WP:BOLD → WP:BITE :p (Note: Steps are not always in this order!) Gary King (talk) 17:21, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Not sure what that means, but since it has no more to do with the article in question, you can explain it on my talk page, or drop it. Whatever you wish. --Moni3 (talk) 17:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • Current ref 4, Flora de Nicaragua database is lacking a last access date
  • Same for current ref 25 Ficus aurea Nutt.
Otherwise sources look okay, and the links check out with the link checker tool. I wasn't able to evaluate the non-English sources. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Access dates added.
  • Support - took a read through and found nothing of note; a great read. —Giggy 13:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - I'm wondering what the specific epithet aurea refers to with regard to this tree - perhaps the colour of the figs (?), but noticed that fig colour hasn't been mentioned. Melburnian (talk) 08:49, 6 July 2008 (UTC) Support- a comprehensive article, nice work. --Melburnian (talk) 00:18, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Good point. Colour added.
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