Talk:Cirsium greimleri/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Иованъ (talk · contribs) 21:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Eewilson (talk · contribs) 16:51, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

Ivan, thank you for recently creating the article Cirsium greimleri. It had not been assigned a class, so because of the extent of the information and sources, I gave it a C. Good job!

It requires many changes before it can be a GA-class article, and quite honestly, at his time, I could legitimately do an immediate failure. I don't know if it's possible to bring it to GA class within a reasonable timeframe (certainly not within several days). But if you're willing to do the work, I'm willing to stick with the review for a bit to see how it goes. I encourage you to study the Plants project pages (including, and especially, Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants, Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Template, Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Assessment, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Assessment#Quality scale), and to join the Plants project. You can ask for others to take a look at the article and give input or make improvements, too. This should have been done before nominating it for GA-class since this is your first species article. I suggest that your next articles be at C or B class, having been evaluated by at least one, and perhaps several, experienced Plants editor(s), before nomination for GA.

I also encourage you to study the criteria for a Good Article, familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia Manual of Style, and study some plant species articles already classified as GA for examples, such as the following articles.

• Dacrycarpus dacrydioides
• Eucalyptus rhodantha
• Hypericum perforatum
• Ornithogalum umbellatum
• Symphyotrichum lateriflorum
• Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

With all that said, let's get started!

Here is the first list of items. More will be required before it can pass to GA.

• The Wikimedia Commons pages for each image need to not only have the link that takes us directly to the image, but also a link to the page that shows the copyright of the image. If it only has a link to the image and does not include the copyright information, please correct this on its Commons page. For example, the image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cirsium_pauciflorum_(Hallier).jpg on Commons gives only the following in the Source field: https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/31256788042.jpg. It also needs to contain a link to the web page for that image showing the copyright information so that it can be verified that we have the right to use it. Do this for all of the images used in the article.
  • Thank you. I have made some corrections to those pages. There are two types of image employed in the article. The example you gave is a scan of a public domain illustration, not eligible for copyright in the U.S., and thanks to Hallier's death in 1932 the original is not eligible for copyright elsewhere. It has therefore been tagged with {{PD-scan|deathyear=1932}}, which results in a text indicating as much. "Werner" remains unidentified, leaving his co-author Reichenbach who died in 1889 as the sole bearer of copyright. Schnorr died in 1872. This is now indicated in the copyright tag. The other photos were uploaded from GBIF pages where you can find the copyright information under "Suggested attribution".
• On this map image, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dinaric_and_Eastern_Alps_location_map.png, you have listed yourself as the author. What we need is the actual author of the map and a link to where the map was obtained as I described above, as well as information on where to find the copyright.
  • No, I am the author of the map as it currently stands (modifications to greyscale, tiling). Hans Braxmeier is provided as the source, and he has stated on the website linked to in brackets, "MFF-maps are released under Creative Commons CC0." Unfortunately, it is impossible to link directly to the copyright information because it can only be accessed via popup (check the upper left for an "i").
• The list of taxonomic synonyms in the Taxonbox looks wrong based on POWO. On what page did you see this in the source you cite (Bureš, Petr; et.al., 2018)?
  • I have added the page number and corrected to include species authors. The ante 2018 is from the paper's own date, as that paper separated it from C. waldsteinii.
• The "Lookalikes" section should be called "Similar species" and needs to be changed from being a list to being prose. See, for example, Eucalyptus rhodantha.
  • Done. Thank you.
• Rename "Life cycle" section to "Ecology", or create an "Ecology" section and place "Life cycle" as a subsection within it.
  • Done. Thank you.
• The sections should be arranged in the following order and named appropriately. See the plant Taxon template for further information.
  • Description
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Taxonomy (in which the Etymology is usually placed)
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Distribution and habitat
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Ecology
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Conservation
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Toxicity (if applicable)
  • Uses (if applicable)
  • Cultural significance (if applicable)
    • As a newly described subalpine species, it has seen very little unambiguous use.
• The color samples need to be removed from the body of the text. They are not necessary in the article, and this is not an appropriate use of them. These are typically used for keys to maps and tables.
  • I have moved the colour samples to their own paragraph, improving the legibility of the descriptions themselves without sacrificing the information, which was provided in the supplement to the Bureš article. The authors believed colour was important for distinguishing between C. greimleri and C. waldsteinii but used a nomenclature not accessible to most readers.
• The naked footnotes showing the ranges are cryptic, have no citations, and would be better placed throughout the text. For example, each with 1-8 flowers needs to be each with 1 to 8, and sometimes up to 12, flowers.
  • The range footnotes are now supplied with citations. I had relegated them to footnotes upon recommendation because the information hampered legibility, replacing the in-text values with approximations.
• There are sentence fragments and poorly-formed sentence structures. Please review.
  • Done (to the best of my ability).
• For ranges, use the ndash rather than a hyphen.
  • Done. Thank you.
• Use the Convert template for all measurements to show both metric and US measurements (not necessary if this plant has absolutely no presence in the US).
  • No presence in the US.
• Using the botanical terms when describing the plant is good, but sometimes they need to include a non-technical description the first time they are used. Here is an example from this article:
  • Current text: "Basal leaves" change to "Ground level, or basal, leaves", placing the less technical description first and Wikilinking "basal". See WP:TECHNICAL. Do this throughout the article except in the Lead, which should mostly have non-technical prose.
    • Done. Thank you.
• I have experience working with Asteraceae articles more than other families. With so many tiny parts to an Asteraceae flower, the Description section can become quite detailed, so I have found that it can be good to break it up into subsections for readability and clarity. In the order the plant should be described, from bottom to top, here are suggested subsections. If you choose not to use subsections, it won't cause it to fail GA. But it might make it a better article if you do. If there is not enough information for a subsection here, some can be combined. For example, in the case of this species, "Roots and stems" or "Roots, stems, and leaves" could be a subsection instead of "Roots" subsection, a "Stems" subsection, etc.
  • Roots
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Stems
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Leaves
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Flowers
    • Done. Thank you.
  • Fruit
    • Done. Your divisions markedly improve the legibility of the article. Thank you.
  • Chromosomes
  • Phytochemistry
• The Ellenberg values, rather than being listed and footnoted, would be better as prose and explained in your own words. You can include that the information comes from the Ellenberg indicator values, but find a way to make this better.
  • Thank you. Replaced with prose and cited Vavrinec for Ellenberg values in footnotes.
• "Coterminous" needs to be used with a non-technical term as I explained above.
  • Done. Thank you.
• The Lead will need expansion to include summaries from other aspects of the article. See MOS:LEAD.

There is so much more... but this is a start. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your patience. Sorry for submitting an article so divergent from GA standards. We have written a number of other articles (including Cirsium waldsteinii) but would like to bring one as close as possible to whatever is generally accepted here, to find out what we need to do to them to avoid draftification. I will take you at your word regarding "GA", but do you believe "B" could be achieved? Ivan (talk) 23:09, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Ivan. I'll have to look at this more on Sunday. In the meantime, why don't you ask on the Plants project talk page for some other eyes to look at it? You can tell them it is a GA nominee and is being reviewed. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 03:01, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Ivan, More review on 12 October 2024:

• Change the first sentence so that it begins:

Cirsium greimleri, in German Greimler-Kratzdistel (lit. 'Greimler's thistle')

• Normally, instead of saying "belonging to the family", we say either "of the family" or "in the family".
  • Done. Thank you.
• The placement of photo "File:Cirsium pauciflorum 1853 (102) - Carl Schnorr.jpg" of the 1853 illustration by Carl Schnorr is causing the text to sandwich when the browser width is changed. It would be best to align it to the right and allow it to display naturally below the Speciesbox.
  • Done. Thank you.
• In the Speciesbox, you have given IUCN 3.1 as the designating body but provided references from two sources that are not IUCN. What needs to happen here is that the species needs to be looked up in relevant secondary databases to see if it has an official conservation designation. If you can't find it, you can still write what the sources you have cited say, but that needs to be in the Conservation section.
  • Done. Thank you.
• You have given the synonyms in the Speciesbox from a primary source. These need to be from a secondary source, a reliable accepting body for synonymy. Use Plants of the World Online (POWO) (https://powo.science.kew.org/).
  • Text hidden. New species. Waiting for POWO to update.
• {{Location map+}} has a parameter called |border= that when set to infobox will format the map properly for an Infobox such as Speciesbox. Use that parameter set to that value when putting location maps with that template in the Speciesbox.
  • Done. Thank you.
• The Description section does not need to discuss historical information. Mentioning of C. greimleri f. depressum and C. greimleri var. ramosum are not well placed here. They should be in the Taxonomic history section. Additionally, the secondary source POWO does not show anything of any rank with the name Cirsium greimleri f. depressum or Cirsium greimleri var. ramosum. When you move this information, information needs to be provided, with source, on where these were accepted (not just designated) and by whom, and if they are currently accepted now.
  • Done (except for last sentence).
• The botanical words that you have linked to Wiktionary need to instead be linked to where the term is defined in Wikipedia, probably in the Glossary of botanical terms or Glossary of leaf morphology. Most, if not all, of them will have redirects that point to the botanical definition. For example, if you type in Ovate in the Wikipedia search field, one of the options is Ovate (botany) and another is Ovate (leaf). In this case, since you are describing leaves, the second one will probably work best, but you need to follow the links and verify, then use the appropriate Wikilink in the article. You should not need to go to Wiktionary very often, and if you can't find a term in the glossary manually, only then go to Wiktionary.
  • Done. Thank you.
• "Colour values are given in the Methuen system." should be moved to your footnote.
  • Done. Thank you.
• There are a significant number of similar species given. Only the species that occur in a range overlapping that of Cirsium greimleri are relevant. Please remove any others.
  • Condensed non-coterminous species. Retaining C. waldsteinii and C. hypoleucum as their relationship with C. greimleri is extremely close.
• For Bürgersee, use the template {{Ill}} (interlanguage link). There is a corresponding article in German that can be given through that.
  • Linked to the Cebuano article for Frauenlacke instead. The Bürgersee of the German article is a different place. Unfortunately, no edition has an article on the Bürgersee in question so I would have to resort to the redirect Bürgersee (disambiguation).
• You do not need to boldface Cnicus pauciflorus.
  • Done. Sorry, I had forgotten about C. waldsteinii.
• The Taxonomic history section is hard to follow and I'm not sure it's entirely correct.
  • Clarified, rectified errors.
• Associations should be a subsection of Ecology.
  • Done. Thank you.
• The sentence from Conservation "A similar situation exists for C. alsophilum, C. bertolonii, and C. carniolicum." is out of scope of the article.
  • Brought within scope.
• I don't know where information on the average dry weight of the seeds needs to be. Maybe as a part of the Description. However, in the Conservation section, you can say that seeds have been stored in the Millennium Seed Bank, which you already do.
  • Moved TKD clause to Fruit, retained Seed Bank clause as suggested.
• There are an extensive number of non-English sources. Let's start with in the citation templates, set the parameter |lang= to the proper value.
  • Done. Thank you.
• You need to set the author-link values to their corresponding Wikipedia articles.
  • Done. Thank you.
• Sources need to have publishers and locations.
• Use parameter |trans-title= to give an English translation of the title of the source.
• Everything you access through a URL needs to have parameter |access-date= set to the date you viewed or downloaded the information.
• The citation that begins "Reichenbach 1853" gives no information about the source.
• The lengths of the quotes in the citations make them border on plagiarism. They are not in English, which is a problem for English Wikipedia, so they are primarily unusable. What is their purpose? Please explain here.
• Section Description – measurements should be accurate and outside range values should be within the prose or if relegated to a footnote, they need to be in prose format, not the cryptic format of "[13.5–]14.5–18.0[–18.5]". If footnotes are used, they should be placed after the unit and the unit needs to be included within the footnote as well.
• Section Distribution and habitat – Second paragraph, instead of listing all of the locations, give a general description.
• Distribution and habitat – the similar distributions to other species outside the genus do not seem relevant here. I think the whole Similarities subsection is irrelevant. Stay focused on the topic.
• When giving a measurement for elevation, it is implicit that it is above sea level. You do not have to also say "above sea level" because that is redundant. Please remove.
• The second paragraph of Habitat has Wikilinks for common words and terms that do not need to be linked. For example, "temperature", "soil moisture", "fertile soil".
• Information about the chromosomes of this species should not go in the Hybridisation section of Ecology. It should be in the Description section after Fruit.
• When stating a hybrid formula, the value to the right needs to include the names of both species like this:

C. × juratzkae Reichardt ex Heimerl = C. greimleri × C. heterophyllum.

not like this:

C. × juratzkae Reichardt ex Heimerl = C. greimleri × heterophyllum.

• Do not italicize the "×" in a hybrid name or hybrid formula.

These are not all of the changes that need to be made. There is still quite a bit. Please make these changes and we will go from there. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 10:38, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Driveby comments by Esculenta

I saw the post soliciting feedback on WP:Plants talk, and so wrote these up before seeing the commentary above:

• lead is much too short to fully summarise article, see WP:Lead for guidance
  • Done. Thank you.
• suggest to link the authorities in the taxobox
  • Which field? Sorry.
    • Such as Bureš, Waldst., Kit., Spreng., etc. Esculenta (talk) 20:46, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
      • Done. Thank you.
• mini-colour chart should be in a footnote, not the main text
  • Done. Thank you.
• should review images captions per WP:CAPFRAG
  • Done. Thank you.
• Here's the main problem with the article: much of it reads like a technical description, sometimes not even in complete sentences. I think the entire article needs to be reviewed and the prose adjusted so it's rewritten to be more accessible for a general audience. An example:

current text:

Flowers are capitula, each with 1–8[f] flowers, solitary or corymbosely terminally clustered, rarely solitary on 1–5[g] lateral pedicels.[1] Involucre[h] dimensions are 13–21[i] mm long at flowering.[7] Phyllaries in 6–7[j] rows.[1] Individual bracts flare out from the bud, with distinct vittae, the outer and inner bracts being distinguished by the presence and absence, respectively, of a visible spine.[7] Involucres are purplish brown to purplish black.

suggestion:

The flowers of Cirsium greimleri are grouped in flower heads (capitula), with each head containing between 1 and 8 individual flowers. These flower heads are either solitary or arranged in clusters at the top of the stem, sometimes appearing on 1 to 5 side branches. The protective casing around the flowers (the involucre) measures 13 to 21 mm in length during flowering. The flower head's bracts (phyllaries) are arranged in 6 to 7 rows. These bracts spread outward as the bud opens, with the outer bracts having a visible spine, while the inner ones do not. The color of the involucre ranges from purplish-brown to purplish-black.

Now, I'm not a botanist, so don't take my word on the dejargonification. Chat GPT (and other LLMs) can be very useful for this purpose. For the above, I just used the prompt "Please rewrite the following technical description of the flowers of Cirsium greimleri into more accessible prose:" Hope this helps, Esculenta (talk) 19:34, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Review

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check.

   a (reference section): b (inline citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail: