Talk:Sequoia sempervirens

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National variety of English
I notice there's some inconsistency in spelling in this article: some uses of English spelling ("metre") and American spelling ("naturalized"). Per WP:ENGVAR, I don't think this species qualifies as having a "strong national tie", because it is cultivated worldwide. So, following the guideline, I went back to the on April 27, 2002, by. That version used "meter", and ClaudeMuncey is from California, so I believe this article should use American spelling. I'll mark it as such and clean up uses of English spelling.

Note that MOS:UNITS directs us to use metric units first (again, because of a lack of a strong national tie). I won't change the order. This was also inconsistent, so I changed them all to metric first.

Other opinions welcome, of course. — hike395 (talk) 08:17, 20 January 2021 (UTC)


 * American English is definitely the way to go for an article about a tree that is endemic to the United States and exists elsewhere only in isolated plantings, even if those plantings go back 150 years or more. 137.83.219.59 (talk) 22:58, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Adding images to begin improvements 2022
Today I added 2 IMAGES to the REPRODUCTION section of this page. I am new to working on this particular page, but have a lot of field experience and PHOTOS of Coast Redwoods. I believe that good images are vital not only for their "informative" content but also for helping a text-dense page be more inviting to readers/viewers. I recently added a lot of informative images (and vastly improved the text content) on the plant page I know most about: Torreya taxifolia. So if you are curious about what I do on wikipedia, check it out. In 2021, I also coauthored and continue to update the Assisted migration of forests in North America page. Offsite, you can see an annotated list of a 9-part COAST REDWOOD video series I published on youtube, featuring field experience in California and at horticultural plantings in Portland and Seattle areas: https://thegreatstory.org/climate-trees-legacy.html#redwood Given the current events in Pacific NW of escalating interest in helping Coast Redwood (and Giant Sequoia) move poleward to keep pace with climate change, I hope wikipedians can work productively together to return this vital page to "Good" status. Note: I am a retired science writer (4 books); see my wikipedia user statement.Cbarlow (talk) 11:54, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

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Good article problems
As shown in the header and the archived talk page this was previously a WP:Good article, but was removed in 2007 due to a lack of inline citations. I suspect that is not the only issue keeping the article from getting back to GA status and I would like to hear from other interested editors what they see as the parts of the article that need to be moved to other pages, deleted entirely, or are missing to get this back to being a Good Article. This is one of the most beloved and famous of all the plant species, it is a shame it is not better quality.

Previously there was a lot of discussion about the name of the page. A gap I see is the lack of a subsection under "Taxonomy" that would discuss the common names somewhat in depth including confusion with the giant sequoia for anyone wondering why this is.

There are also still a lot of paragraphs that lack citations even though we have 78 references. E.g. the (to paraphrase) "It grew in LA during the ice age" claim under distribution. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 00:39, 22 October 2023 (UTC)