Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of inventoried conifers in the United States/archive1


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

The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 18 July 2024 (UTC).

List of inventoried conifers in the United States

 * Nominator(s): - Dank (push to talk) 23:57, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Next up: US conifers. Licensing information for the images (there are a lot of them) will be up shortly on the list talk page. (Part of your reviewing work is already done here, since some rows are almost identical to the ones at List of inventoried conifers in Canada ... if you sort on the 3rd column, these rows will be displayed first. ) Once again, there's some basic information here about some trees that are common in North America (and many are common in temperate zones around the world). Feedback is welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 23:57, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Pseud 14

 * Support on prose. Found nothing that require further improvement. Another great list! Pseud 14 (talk) 14:57, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thx much! - Dank (push to talk) 15:26, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Reviewed the additions and changes to the list that Dank has notified me about. No changes in my declaration above. Pseud 14 (talk) 20:05, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * MPGuy2824
 * Pinus palustris: "A forest" OR "Forests" instead of "Forest". Also change the "have" to "has", if the singular is more appropriate. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:13, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. - Dank (push to talk) 14:20, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * , in case you wanted a ping. - Dank (push to talk) 17:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support promotion. Couldn't find any other issues with the prose. A few of the ref are missing their archive links, though. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:16, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've relied on IABot for this when I've been asked before ... I did the run and checked "Add archives to all non-dead references", and it claimed the run was successful ... but it found no references that it wanted to add archive links to. I'm not seeing any evidence here that the bot is having problems. Not sure what to do. - Dank (push to talk) 15:14, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * (FWIW, it's very unlikely that https://plants.usda.gov is going to disappear without a trace anytime soon.) - Dank (push to talk) 15:18, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Withdrawing support until I can go through the merged list again. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:58, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * You can rethink the "Key" section since the lists are now merged.
 * It seems odd that Abies concolor "Grows best, ... in the mid-latitudes of California's Sierra Nevada.", but its distribution doesn't include California.
 * Some of the "Uses" end with a full-stop, some don't. I think they should all be removed.
 * Wikilink "Mississippi River states".
 * Going with "except for ... states bordering the river".
 * "one specimen was found to be 1650 years old." It would be nice to get an online citation for this fact.
 * "sometimes living 500 years or more" add an online citation for this one as well.
 * "principle provider of timber" to "principal provider of timber"
 * Sometimes the "Uses:" sentence is a different paragraph, sometimes not. Please make it consistent.
 * Wikilink the first usage of "subalpine".
 * In a sortable table, either all need to be linked or none (although as a practical matter, that means it's best to find an excuse to link it once somewhere above all the rows of the table). There were two, I linked both.
 * That's all I got. Please ping me here when you are done. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:22, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, all done, but you might want to wait until I add the eastern-only species before you take another look. - Dank (push to talk) 15:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Ping me here when you finish merging. I wrongly assumed you were done with that. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 16:01, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's done. If it helps: the rows that were added were copied from the current version of User:Dank/List of forest-inventory conifers east of the Mississippi. (Another way to identify them is: they're the ones with no distribution data on western states.) - Dank (push to talk) 19:05, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oops I saved the ping wrong. Repinging in case that didn't work. - Dank (push to talk) 19:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I found it easier to go through a diff:
 * Pinus rigida: "The wood which is resinous and rot-resistant,"
 * "into baskets and drums by the Indigenous peoples of California." - Get a second opinion on this.
 * That's all I got. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. - Dank (push to talk) 04:36, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support promotion of the merged list on prose and table accessibility. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

My comments on List of forest-inventory conifers east of the Mississippi apply here as well. With the substantial overlap, the unusual limitation of the distribution within each list, and the fact that a division based on the Mississippi River does not appear to be in the sources, I would oppose these lists being separate FLs. List of conifers of the United States would make more sense as a title. Reywas92Talk 17:14, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's done. For a discussion of the page title, see User talk:PresN. - Dank (push to talk) 19:05, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

This nomination has stalled out, it seems; I do think the combination of the east and west lists along with the new name are improvements. No concerns found to stop promotion, source review passed, so, promoting. -- Pres N  19:09, 17 July 2024 (UTC)


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