Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Gyromitra esculenta


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 00:49, 15 July 2008.

Gyromitra esculenta

 * Nominator(s): Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs)

I'm nominating this article for featured article because I believe it is comprehensive, almost exhaustively so, the images are all correctly copyrighted, and the prose has been copyedited by several people and is succinct/concise and treads a line between technicality and losing meaning. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:57, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments
 * "(2½ in)" &rarr; "(2.5 in)" (throughout article) (I think I got them all)
 * I believe quotes should use double quotes (again, several times in the article) (I think I got them all) Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Gary King ( talk ) 05:42, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments
 * You've mixed using the Template:Citation with the templates that start with Cite such as Template:Cite journal or Template:Cite news. They shouldn't be mixed per WP:CITE. (I couldn't finure out whether that was a book or journal - it is a gov't report. I have made it book and will look for some isbn or something)
 * What makes http://www.mushroomexpert.com/gyromitra_esculenta.html a reliable site?
 * http://www.elcargol.com/bolets.htm current ref 65 (Bolets) should give the language the site is in. (done)
 * Current ref 72 Kevat on aikaa korvasienen ..is lacking a publisher (got one now)
 * http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-00–24–5/bot-24–5–6–97069.pdf deadlinks
 * Otherwise sources look good and links checked out with the link checking tool. I wasn't able to evaluate the reliablitiy of the non-english sources Ealdgyth - Talk 12:26, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * MushroomExpert has been used on several other Mushroom FAs. It's managed by a published author and speaker. The Turkish Journal of Botany link is not dead; direct linking to the PDF is not allowed even though the article are free to access. I tried replacing it with a link to the abstract. Circeus (talk) 16:39, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hm, on mushroom expert though, we need some idea of how reliable it is. To determine the reliablity of the site, we need to know what sort of fact checking they do. You can establish this by showing news articles that say the site is reliable/noteworthy/etc. or you can show a page on the site that gives their rules for submissions/etc. or you can show they are backed by a media company/university/institute, or you can show that the website gives its sources and methods, or there are some other ways that would work too. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:07, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The site is overseen by the main site-owner and contributor who I presume vets all contributions. This is tricky as mycology is somewhat obscure but I will see what I can find. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:35, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Given the extremely contentious nature of mushrooms (snickers), I'm pretty sure that if you can show that the guy who puts out the web page has managed to have something published in a third-party press on mushrooms, that'll go a long ways towards showing reliability. Ealdgyth - Talk 22:23, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * He has two books published and available on amazon - . I will have a look for some other 3rd party comments. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:19, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Support. Guettarda (talk) 14:04, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. nice to open the scoring on this one. Do you mind if I strike the above or put it in one of those collapsible box thingies or something? Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:31, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Guettarda (talk) 15:04, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Support. (COI declaration: I helped Cas a little bit to write the toxicology section) I believe it meets all the criteria, is well written, and all the medical info is up to date. M r Bungle | talk  23:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Support and comments ::fungi known as "False morels", and later (Snow morel) - query capitals (gosh, thought I had them all. gone)
 * It is also common in Central Europe and less commonly in the east, - is this grammatical? (commonly --> abundant)
 * As well as Europe, Gyromitra esculenta is consumed in the Great Lakes region and some western states in the United States. - I know Americans are hearty eaters, but doubt if they could swallow even a small continent. jimfbleak (talk) 13:59, 11 July 2008 (UTC) (changed first bit to 'Outside of Europe')


 * Reviewing only image licensing: looks good. --NE2 12:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
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