Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening

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Gardening portal Shortcuts: WP:H&G WP:WPHORT WP:WPGARDEN

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Horticulture and Gardening. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Parentage 2.1 Related projects 3 Structure 4 Goals 5 Open tasks 6 Participants 6.1 Active members 6.2 Inactive members 7 Articles 7.1 Article alerts 7.2 Statistics 7.3 Wikipedia articles on Horticulture and Gardening 7.4 Articles needing work 7.5 Templates needing work 7.6 New articles 7.7 Requests 8 Templates 8.1 COTM 8.2 Infoboxes 8.3 Project banner 8.4 Stubs 8.5 Userboxes 8.6 Welcoming 9 Categories, portals and subpages 9.1 Categories 9.2 Portals 9.3 Subpages 10 Wikipedia surveys 10.1 Ad hoc surveys 10.2 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys 10.2.1 Votes for deletion 10.2.1.1 WikiProject Deletion sorting 11 Resources 11.1 Sisterlinks 11.2 Related pages

[edit] Scope

The Horticulture and Gardening projects aims at enriching and organising wiki content that is related to or important for horticulture and gardening. Subjects include gardens, horticultural practices, plants, animals and pathogens that affect plants and gardens, soil, and so on. Currently, many of the category pages related to this field are in serious disarray.

[edit] Parentage

Parent projects include:

• WikiProject Science
• WikiProject Biology
• WikiProject Plants
• WikiProject Tree of life

[edit] Related projects

• WikiProject Agriculture
• WikiProject Ecology

[edit] Structure

Formats for articles covered by this project should follow those established in each category. However, some changes might be needed in some of the articles, such as adding culture, pest and disease, hardiness, etc. to plant articles.

[edit] Goals

1. To organise and clean up the related categories, including gardening, horticulture, compost, organic gardening, etc.
2. To improve pages related to this project.
3. To add horticultural information to plant articles, including growing conditions, horticultural techniques (as wiki links), pest and disease issues, cultivars, etc.

[edit] Open tasks

1. Clean up and better organize this page.
2. Work on disambiguation for the genus Chrysanthemum, members and former members of which appear under many names due to recent reclassifications.
3. Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of gardening
4. Clean up and add to Category:Organic gardening. Probably a bit of trawling through the agriculture categories will be needed. Also many organic techniques are not well described, so new pages would be helpful.
5. Pests and Diseases of Garden Plants: Linked lists of particular pests and diseases on the plant articles may be helpful. Perhaps use "Insects and Mites that Feed on this Plant" as the heading. Reciprocally, lists of plant hosts on articles about pests and diseases.
6. Regional Lists: Regional lists of weeds, garden plants (perhaps by hardiness zones), public gardens, etc. may be useful to those who do garden research on wiki.
7. Work to improve the horticulture stubs.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Active members

Please feel free to add your name to this list, if you would like to join the project, by clicking on the 'edit' button; you are also encouraged to participate in any of area of Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening that might interest you.

1. Carbonrodney (talk · contribs)
2. Casliber (talk · contribs) - am trying to expand a bit on horticulture of Australian plants under their individual headings.
3. Confusedlittlepanda (talk · contribs) - Professional gardener in Banff, will work on species native to the park.
4. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk · contribs) - I am trying to create articles about the plant hunters employed by Veitch Nurseries of Chelsea, London as well as some of the plants they introduced
5. Doc Tropics (talk · contribs) - I'll do what I can  :)
6. Doug (talk · contribs) - joined 20 October 2007 - Coordination between this project and WikiProject Farm
7. First Light (talk · contribs)
8. HelloMojo (talk · contribs) - I have a Diploma of Horticulture, I will help too, but might do more damage than good! lol
9. MegaMom (talk · contribs) - avid gardener!
10. Meng.benjamin (talk · contribs) - I am SARE certified in Sustainable Agriculture. Im In!
11. NoahElhardt (talk · contribs) (Most of my edits are plant related already anyway...)
12. Payxystaxna (talk · contribs) - Interest in Southern African plants of horticultural value as well as any geophytes. Propagation of bulbs and succulents.
13. Quercusrobur (talk · contribs) (count me in, although I'm not sure how much and persistence I'll be able to dedicate to this project...)
14. SB_Johnny (talk · contribs)
15. SilkTork (talk · contribs)
16. Slowart (talk · contribs) Botany, arboriculture, living trees used as art.
17. Strobilus (talk · contribs) - Plant science student in Canada.
18. Tum_Dushul (talk · contribs)
19. Tyciol (talk · contribs) - Biology student, gardener
20. ChickenWings (talk · contribs) - Amateur gardener, obsessive reader of garden books.

There is also a separate list of inactive members that includes those contributors who have not edited for at least six months. If you have returned after a long absence and can't find your name above, it may have been moved there; please feel free to move it back.

[edit] Inactive members

This list includes those members of the project who have not edited for at least six months; it is manually updated on a periodic basis. If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active members section upon your return.

1. Lynnathon (talk · contribs) - I am a member of WikiProject Plants and will help where I can.
2. Plantscience (talk · contribs) - BS horticulture, MS plant science. Willing to help in all aspects of project.

[edit] Articles

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[edit] Statistics

Horticulture and gardening articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			1			1
	GA			1		1	2
	B	2	2		1	1	6
	C		2	5	1		8
	Start	3	5	20	28	14	70
	Stub	1	1	5	7	78	92
	List					10	10
	Assessed	6	10	32	37	104	189
	Unassessed				3	46	49
	Total	6	10	32	40	150	238

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Horticulture and Gardening

• Horticulture
• Gardening

[edit] Articles needing work

• Horticulture and Gardening Collaboration of the Month

[edit] Templates needing work

• {{Hortibox}}
• Hortibox

[edit] New articles

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening/New articles
• Slug tape - created 25 May 2008

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Requests

• Thelocactus - Some information on cultivating and specifically cultivation in non-native areas would be appreciatedCrushacm (talk) 02:23, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

[edit] COTM

• {{Horticulture and Gardening Project COTM}} — Template informing editors of the Horticulture and Gardening Project Collaboration of the Month

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Horticulture and Gardening}} — Infobox for Horticulture and Gardening articles

[edit] Project banner

• {{Horticulture and Gardening Project}} — Template to add to talk pages of Horticulture and Gardening Project-related articles

[edit] Stubs

• {{horticulture-stub}} — Stub template for Horticulture and gardening-related articles
• {{Agri-stub}} — Tag to be added to stubs relating to agriculture

[edit] Userboxes

• {{User WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening}} — Userbox for members to show off and advertise our project!

[edit] Welcoming

• {{InviteHorticulture and Gardening}}— Template for invitation to join this WikiProject!

[edit] Categories, portals and subpages

[edit] Categories

• Category:Horticulture and gardening
• Category:Organic gardening

[edit] Portals

• Portal:Gardening

[edit] Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

[edit] Votes for deletion

• Votes for deletion (Article deletion):
• Votes for undelete (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Sisterlinks

[edit] Related pages

• List of garden and horticulture books
• /List of garden and horticulture online resources
• List of garden features
• List of garden plants
• List of garden types
• List of gardening topics
• List of gardens
• List of gardens in England
• List of horticultural magazines

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