User:Abczuchra/sandbox

Wikipedia Evaluation:

Botany Article
 * In viewing the talk page, this is classified as a Good Article (GA) and written in British English.
 * This page is full of links to other wiki articles, with multiple links in almost every sentence.
 * Everything is cited very well, with sentences often containing multiple citations.
 * The introductory section of the article is rather long, but does a fantastic job of covering all of the material and staying unbiased towards any of it.
 * The contents section shows a robust article, with many subtopics to help divide up the information.
 * The writing style is very detailed.
 * The article's subsections contain links to other pages that may provide further and new information that is not presented in this Botany article.
 * This is a very good way of keeping the article more concise and brief, so as to not sound overly wordy and to take advantage of other articles which may present the information in a better way.
 * The use of images here is a tad odd, as some of them I think have poor placement.
 * The images are simple though for quick viewing.

Cyanobacteria Article Pinophyta Article
 * The talk page of this article says the article is rated as C-Class and is of interest to multiple wiki projects.
 * In comparison to the botany article, this introductory section is tiny.
 * There is also a banner saying that the introductory section may not adequately summarize the contents.
 * The contents section has a lot less subsections for the reader.
 * I think this article uses images in a much better way in comparison to the Botany article.
 * The images may be more complicated, but they provide much more information to the reader and are quite useful.
 * Links are used quite a bit less in this article.
 * Fewer citations, but this is also a smaller article.
 * The Morphology section has 0 citations with a banner showing this.
 * The Relationship to Chloroplasts section has 0 citations with a banner showing this.
 * The talk page of this article says the article is rated as B-Class and of interest to one wiki project.
 * Very short introductory section.
 * Only two citations in this entire section.
 * Content is shorter and less
 * There are many subsections, but only in the Morphology part of the article.
 * Images throughout the article are poorly balanced, with some sections being very full of images and others containing no images at all.
 * The quality and content of the images is quite good though.
 * Citations and general depth to the article seems to be lacking in comparison to the others.
 * This could be a result though of the topic of the article and the fact that there may just be less information out there.
 * I think this article does a much better job of not spamming links to other pages. It's much more balanced.

 Actual Article Draft for Plant Collecting: 

Abczuchra:

Poaching Section Additions:

A recent journal article on the risk of rare plant poaching has provided data showing possible connections between geography and the rate of poaching in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA. The openings for poaching were found to be increased in locations with easy accessibility, such as roads, trails, and developed areas. The condition of the environment can determine the levels of poaching, with regions of higher quality receiving more attention from poachers.

Collection of Herbarium Specimens (Add after the last sentence):

DNA barcoding, a new method of identification of plant vouchers, is being used in herbariums across the world. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History creates their barcodes from a short sequence of plant DNA, which can be easily identified from all healthy specimens of the species. This barcode is then printed and placed onto the plant mount. By creating these DNA barcodes, the process of organizing and loaning plant specimens becomes more streamlined.

Possible creation of a new section on plant collecting ethics (maybe place into Safety and Precautions):

The hobby and practice of plant collecting is known to have been the cause of declines in certain plant populations. This can be the result of hobbyists being oblivious to the status of a particular species or researchers over collecting to fill slots in herbariums. This issue can be solved with proper research on the statuses of species before a plant is collected and taking the smallest sample possible.

Jmdriscoll -comma added after word "cultivation" in first paragraph

-Unneeded "collection of live specimens" should be deleted from end of second paragraph

- added to end of second paragraph in "safety and precautions": "As travel to remote locations will most likely involve walking measurable distances in wild terrain, precautions synonymous with those related to hiking should be taken. "

-Citation added to end of first paragraph of "Safety and Precautions":" "

- Specified information at end of first paragraph of "Safety and Precautions": "As in Hiking there will be certain limitations to whether or not public access is granted on a plot of land and if collection from that land is allowed. For example, in a National park of the United States, plant collection is not allowed unless given special permission. Collecting internationally will involve some logistics as well as permits will most likely be required to bring plants both from the collected country and to the destination country. More significant herbariums can be useful to the average hobbyist in aiding them in acquiring these permits. "

-Reference added to end of second paragraph of section "Plant collecting as a hobby": " "

-Add: section about Voucher Specimens to section about herbariums.: ==Voucher Specimens== : Voucher specimens are select herbarium specimens. What distinguishes these specimens from others is that a voucher specimen is a "representative sample of an expertly identified organism." These specimens are usually associated with a professional research article and are considered to be more official references than a typical herbarium specimen. Voucher specimens can be useful in many ways such as use for comparison when scientists think they have found a new species or when dichotomous keys have narrowed the possible species down to a few that have minute differences.

-'''Can we change the "terminology" section to a section about plant discovery instead??? I feel like a "terminology section" is weak.'''