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The following assessment template is placed at the top of each plant-related article's talk page. The parameters are used to assess specific needs for individual articles and are used in the form:
- {{WikiProject Plants|class=|importance=}}
- class=??? (assign a class, see below)
- importance=??? (assign an importance, see below)
- needs-image=yes (adds articles to Category:Wikipedia requested images of plants)
- attention=yes (adds articles to Category:Plant articles needing attention, for cases where immediate attention is needed)
- needs-cultivar-infobox=yes (adds articles to Category:Cultivar articles without infoboxes)
- needs-taxobox=yes (adds articles to Category:Plant articles needing a taxobox
Statistics
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Plant articles by quality statistics}}
Explanation
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Plants}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Plants|class=???}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class plant articles) |  FA |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class plant articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class plant articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class plant articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class plant articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class plant articles) | Stub |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
| Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class plant articles) | Draft | |
| FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class plant articles) | FM |
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| ??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed plant articles) | ??? |
Analysis
| Plant articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
The bar below is a color-coded representation of all Project:Plant related articles, grouped by classes within the quality scale detailed lower on this page.
Quality scale
| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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| FA |
The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:{{Wikipedia:Featured article criteria}}
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. |
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| FL |
The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:{{Wikipedia:Featured list criteria}}
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of basil cultivars (Dec. 2011) |
 A |
The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
{{Wikipedia:Content assessment/A-Class criteria|raw=yes}} |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | None as of December 2018[update] |
| GA |
The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
{{Wikipedia:Good article criteria}}
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. |
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| B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. |
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| C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. |
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| Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. |
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| Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. |
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| List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of Grevillea species (Feb. 2012) |
Taxon-specific quality guidelines
WikiProject Plants has some project-specific guidelines for quality levels related to taxon pages (species, genera, families, and others) to better streamline the categorization of these types of articles by their quality.
Stub:
- Only a sentence or two of information, but at least including its distribution
- Few or no references
- Often lack images (but having a photo does automatically upgrade an article from Stub to Start)
Start:
To be a start the article should have:
- Taxobox (preferably automatic taxobox or speciesbox) and a taxonbar
- List of descendant taxa
- Basic description of its appearance (morphology)
- Basic description of its distribution and habitat
- Conservation status, if relevant
- Reference at least one secondary scholarly source that goes beyond simply verifying that the species is valid
Also helpful but not required to be a Start are:
- Image or illustration
- Basic taxonomy, etymology, including synonyms listed in the taxobox, common name(s)
- Touch on any subjects that are particularly relevant to the taxon, e.g. horticulture, agriculture, culture, etc., more of which are listed at the WP:PLANTS Template in detail
C:
For many plants, having all of the information above may be all that is known about the species, and could already qualify it for C-class. Generally, in addition to the above, a C-class article should contain:
- Image or illustration if available
- Detailed description of appearance
- Detailed distribution and habitat
- Taxonomy, phylogeny including fossil record, subdivision, etymology, vernacular/common names with source language(s)
- Known synonyms
- One or more of the following if relevant (see WP:PLANTS Template for more detail on each):
- Phytochemistry
- Taxonomy
- Ecology
- Conservation
- Toxicity
- Uses
- Culture
B:
Meets all the C-class criteria in the table above. Additionally, it is well-written, formatted, and "does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies". It particular, it should cite and address the key findings in all the important secondary sources for the taxon.
GA / A / FA
See criteria in the table above.
Importance scale
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Plants}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
| Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance plant articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance plant articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance plant articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance plant articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance plant articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance plant articles) | ??? |
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of botany.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
| Importance | Criteria | Example |
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| Top | Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. | Flower, Plant physiology |
| High | Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | Herbivory, Banana |
| Mid | Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | Oil body, Noxious weed, Solanum nigrum |
| Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | Aaron Aaronsohn, Buddleja fusca, Hangdown (apple) |
| NA | Non-articles, such as disambiguation pages and category pages | Category:Plants |
| ??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. | All those in Category:Unknown-importance plant articles |
Assessment logs
See the plant articles by quality log.