Talk:Gonepteryx rhamni

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Editing Wikipedia Page
Hi all, I will be editing this page very heavily for the next few days - I will be adding a lot of general content and citations to bring more information about the Common Brimstone into the page. I am also planning on removing uncited content or finding citations for the information on the page already and reorganizing the overview so that they better fit the overall article. jerryshen (talk) 14:14, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi all, I removed uncited information, added more information to the taxobox, edited existing sections to provide more content, and added multiple sections about geographic range, habitat, food resources, parental care, migration, enemies, protective coloration and behavior, genetics of color patterns, physiology, and conservation. I also changed the overview to better fit the overall article, and added images to illustrate some of the information added. Please let me know if there is anything I should change or fix! jerryshen (talk) 23:38, 24 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Great work on this article! It is very in-depth and comprehensive, and you did a good job using photos. I made a few grammatical edits and changed wording in a few places to make the article more concise and clear. I also added a couple internal citations to the article. One suggestion I have is to change the name of the section about the butterfly's coloration. This section doesn't describe the genetics of the butterfly's coloration, but more about its chemistry. Thanks! Hanna peterman (talk) 22:56, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I think this is a great article worthy of good article status. The lead section is well written. I found quite a few grammatical errors, repeated words, run on sentences, and so on. I would suggest future editors first read through the entire article and revise any mistakes we might have missed. I think the language in many of the sections is kind of overly jargony and sounds like it is from a primary source, rather than an encyclopedia. I would suggest "dumbing it down" a little bit. Felderp (talk) 09:56, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Certainly getting to the stage where a look through Good article criteria would help, before nominating for good article status. William Avery (talk) 10:12, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Taxobox usage
I have removed some of the entries from the taxobox after having read the guidance in the WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage article. Too much removed? Not enough? --AjAldous 20:21, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Developing the Brimstone page
Hi, everybody

The Brimstone (butterfly) is a palearctic butterfly which is also an important species to be found in the Indian Himalayas. We have a List of Butterflies of India (Pieridae) as part of the Wikiproject for Indian Butterflies under WikiProject Arthropods where we have a detailed writeup. The Indian butterfly effort has the aim of being a useful resource for amateur naturalists in India.

We have one image and some information on Brimstone to add. However, while doing so, we would prefer to switch from the general article format, as is presently the case, to a structured encyclopedic type of format. The existing information would be merged appropriately into the new format.

While I am of the opinion that this is a positive development, we solicit the views of the wikiaurelian community. This is because this is a butterfly which existed before in the British butterfly wikispace and the Indian butterflies wikibase has de facto inherited it.

Do see some pages of our work. We would ideally like to bring all articles to the standard of Plain Tiger Danaus chrysippus, Red Pierrot Talicada nyseus and Common Mormon Papilio polytes.

AshLin 12:46, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Behavioral ecology peer edit
This is overall a very thorough and well written article! I had a couple suggestions. In the side panel in Wikipedia, there is a large section about subspecies of the butterfly. It could be beneficial to add in information about the taxonomy of the butterfly and some of the similarities and differences between the various subspecies and related species of the common brimstone. The food resources and life cycle section should be switched for a better flow so that the reader first knows the basics of oviposition and each life cycle before learning what they eat. I changed this ordering in the article. Additionally, it is mentioned in the conservation section that the butterfly is univoltine, but I think it could be beneficial to mention it earlier as well, in the oviposition section. I added it a sentence about it in oviposition and also internally linked to a wiki page about voltinism. S.srivatsa

Peer edit
Overall really good work! I made a few small edits to the wording. I would recommend removing some of the technical language in the olfaction and pigmentation sections and streamlining those some more but otherwise nice job! Mllutz (talk) 00:35, 1 November 2017 (UTC)Mllutz

Etymology of "butterfly"
A couple of assertions are made in the lead section regarding the origin of the word "butterfly": This is referenced to "DK Handbook: Butterflies and Moths", which I have not seen, but is a dubious source for questions of etymology. I see dictionaries that include the "butter-coloured fly" etymology, as one of a number of alternative theories. I've seen nothing that links it to G. rhamni specifically. I think material about the etymology of 'butterfy' should be removed from this article. William Avery (talk) 09:45, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) That if derives from "butter-coloured fly"
 * 2) That the "butter-coloured fly" in question was G. rhamni

March sighting
In case it's very unusual (article mentions adults in April), just recording here that I saw a brimstone in Hampshire, England, on 10 March 2022. Unfortunately, no photo.  Tony Holkham   (Talk)  10:48, 13 March 2022 (UTC)