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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
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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=}}

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Explanation

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An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Plants}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class plant articles category)   FA
FL (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class plant articles category)   FL
A (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class plant articles category)   A
GA (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class plant articles category)   GA
B (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class plant articles category) B
C (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class plant articles category) C
Start (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class plant articles category) Start
Stub (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class plant articles category) Stub
List (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class plant articles category) List
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class plant pages category) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed plant articles category) ???
For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:
FM (for featured media only; adds them to the FM-Class plant pages category)   FM
Category (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class plant pages category) Category
Draft (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class plant pages category) Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class plant pages category) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class plant pages category) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class plant pages category) Project
Template (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class plant pages category) Template
The following non-standard assessment grades for mainspace content may be used at a WikiProject's discretion:
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class plant pages category) Disambig
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds them to the Redirect-Class plant pages category) Redirect

Analysis

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Plant articles:
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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.

  • 2.9% List-Class
  • 63.2% Stub-Class
  • 27.3% Start-Class
  • 5.2% C-Class
  • 1.1% B-Class
  • 0.2% GA-Class
  • 0.1% FA-Class


Quality scale

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Taxon-specific quality guidelines

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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 guidelines

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  • 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 guidelines

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To be of Start-class, the taxon article should have the following:

  • 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

Helpful but not required for the article to be of Start-class are the following:

  • 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 guidelines

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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 guidelines

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Meets all the C-class criteria in the table above. Additionally, it is well-written, formatted, and "does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies". In particular, it should cite and address the key findings in all the important secondary sources for the taxon.

GA / A / FA guidelines

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See criteria in the table above.

Importance scale

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An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Plants}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Plants|importance=???}}

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.

Assessment logs

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See the plant articles by quality log.

See also

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  1. ^ Prose at the Good Article level is not expected to be at a professional level like it is for Featured Articles. Minor grammatical or style issues that do not impact clarity are not prohibitive of GA status.