Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/Flora (plants)

Flora (plants)

 * Nominated on 09:14, 13 April 2006 (UTC); needs 9 votes by May 4, 2006.

This article is nominated as AID, but following discussion, it was agreed to change its nomination to COTW. Although it has a considerable length it was also agreed that it should be considered a stub, there is no much information on the subject itself. This article would interest, I believe, a large number of contributors, specially does who make biology-related contributions. The article is about a generic term and has many possibilities of following his sister article Fauna (animals) also nominated as COTW.

Support:
 * 1) Francisco Valverde 09:14, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Jasu 17:02, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) PDXblazers 00:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Scottwiki 06:07, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) St jimmy 17:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) EncycloPetey 11:20, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Avala 09:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Oppose: Comments:
 * 1) --Salix alba (talk) 10:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * My opposition is that I think that there is actually very little to do with this article which is not covered by plants. Flora by itself just means that the collection of plants which grow in an area. There is much to say about the flora of a particular country, but not about the general term itself. --Salix alba (talk) 10:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You have a point there Salix alba. Both expressions Flora & Fauna are getting old and are used less. But I would say it's still worth having them as short entries in the wp pointing to Plants and other articles. Flora also has the problem that sometimes it's used to include bacteria, or that it's meant as plants of an era. Jasu 14:01, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree; there is much that can be said here, since the term "Flora" can refer to a book about the vegetation of a region. The history, prepartaion, and utility of such a book does not yet have coverage on Wikipedia. --EncycloPetey 11:20, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Fauna (animals) is the new COTW. I recommend that Flora (plants) be edited in tandem with  Fauna -- though with more focus on Fauna, since it has received more votes.  (Unfortunately, I probably won't have time to do much work on the articles, since I'm taking classes and my final papers are due soon.) -Scottwiki 21:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)