User:Eewilson/Editing plant articles

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Stub templates

• Plant stub

Content

Basic (Stub)

• Stub template
  • Short description using Template:Short description with text as such: "Species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to..." with no period; bonus points for then placing this same short description in the Wikidata record English field
  • Date formats: dmy (Template:Use dmy dates)
  • Footnote formats: sfn (Template:Use shortened footnotes)
    • Citations section
    • References section
  • Template:Speciesbox
  • Full synonym lists in Template:Speciesbox, generally from POWO, with citation to same
  • Parent at the taxonomic section level in Speciesbox, or subgenus if it is not in a section (see Template:Speciesbox#Parent taxon is not the genus)
  • Link to Wikipedia articles of authors of the species
  • Citation templates: CS1 (unless CS2 has been well-implemented). Vertical. In a References section. Bulletted. In alphabetical order by author name then publication date. While not required, they make viewing the Wiki markup (I use Wiki markup to edit) lots easier and are easily transferable from one article to another when a new one is created (with appropriate changes as required).
  • Conservation status in Speciesbox, usually from NatureServe, with citation
  • At least one image for the Species box, if one can be found
  • Lead to include the following:
    • (formerly Basionym basionym) or less common, but valid (formerly Aster most-recently-used) (see Symphyotrichum lateriflorum whose basionym is Solidago lateriflora but most recently known name was Aster lateriflorus, and because the former was rarely used, putting the latter in the first sentence of the article makes the most sense)
    • commonly known as common name — a few of the most used common names, each with a citation to a reliable source
    • "a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant"
    • "in the aster family Asteraceae" (alternatively "daisy family" or "sunflower family," but "aster family" seems to be most commonly used for aster articles; or it could also just say "in the family Asteraceae" because per the Taxon Template, the actual name of the family needs to be there, with link)
    • "native to ...."

Basic⁺ (Start)

• Sections, if existing, in accordance with Project Plants and its Taxon Template
• Author wikilinks of synonyms with full author name piped (e.g., [[Carl Linneaus|L.]])
• Additional conservation status in Speciesbox — if IUCN Red List or COSEWIC data exists for the taxon, this as well, with citation(s) to same
• Description section (at this point, just basic is fine)
• Basic image ALTs
• Template:Convert template - metric as main unit to imperial, using fractions for imperial units possibly with frac=4 or frac=5; spelling=us unless article is already significantly using other or plant is geographically mostly not native in the US (e.g., Symphyotrichum robynsianum); abbr=off the first occurrence
• Lead to include the following:
  • General range/distribution
  • Maybe habitat
  • Short summary of description

Intermediate (C)

• Range map in Speciesbox with reference
• Detailed image ALTs (imagine being blind)