Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Assessment

The following assessment template is placed at the top of each plant-related article's talk page. The parameters are used to assess specific needs for individual articles and are used in the form:




 * class=??? (assign a class, see below)
 * importance=??? (assign an importance, see below)
 * needs-image=yes (adds articles to Category:Wikipedia requested images of plants)
 * attention=yes (adds articles to Category:Plant articles needing attention, for cases where immediate attention is needed)
 * needs-cultivar-infobox=yes (adds articles to Category:Cultivar articles without infoboxes)
 * needs-taxobox=yes (adds articles to Category:Plant articles needing a taxobox

Analysis
The bar below is a color-coded representation of all Project:Plant related articles, grouped by classes within the quality scale detailed lower on this page.

Taxon-specific quality guidelines
WikiProject Plants has some project-specific guidelines for quality levels related to taxon pages (species, genera, families, and others) to better streamline the categorization of these types of articles by their quality.

Stub:
 * Only a sentence or two of information, but at least including its distribution
 * Few or no references
 * Often lack images (but having a photo does automatically upgrade an article from Stub to Start)

Start: To be a start the article should have: Also helpful but not required to be a Start are:
 * Taxobox (preferably automatic taxobox or speciesbox) and a taxonbar
 * List of descendant taxa
 * Basic description of its appearance (morphology)
 * Basic description of its distribution and habitat
 * Conservation status, if relevant
 * Reference at least one secondary scholarly source that goes beyond simply verifying that the species is valid
 * Image or illustration
 * Basic taxonomy, etymology, including synonyms listed in the taxobox, common name(s)
 * Touch on any subjects that are particularly relevant to the taxon, e.g. horticulture, agriculture, culture, etc., more of which are listed at the WP:PLANTS Template in detail

C: For many plants, having all of the information above may be all that is known about the species, and could already qualify it for C-class. Generally, in addition to the above, a C-class article should contain:
 * Image or illustration if available
 * Detailed description of appearance
 * Detailed distribution and habitat
 * Taxonomy, phylogeny including fossil record, subdivision, etymology, vernacular/common names with source language(s)
 * Known synonyms
 * One or more of the following if relevant (see WP:PLANTS Template for more detail on each):
 * Phytochemistry
 * Taxonomy
 * Ecology
 * Conservation
 * Toxicity
 * Uses
 * Culture

B: Meets all the C-class criteria in the table above. Additionally, it is well-written, formatted, and "does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies". It particular, it should cite and address the key findings in all the important secondary sources for the taxon.

GA / A / FA See criteria in the table above.

Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of botany.

''Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''

Assessment logs
See the plant articles by quality log.