Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening

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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.

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[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.

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

Carbonrodney (talk · contribs)
Casliber (talk · contribs) - am trying to expand a bit on horticulture of Australian plants under their individual headings.
Confusedlittlepanda (talk · contribs) - Professional gardener in Banff, will work on species native to the park.
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
Doc Tropics (talk · contribs) - I'll do what I can :)
Doug (talk · contribs) - joined 20 October 2007 - Coordination between this project and WikiProject Farm
HeirloomGardener (talk · contribs) - I'm a gardener (in case you can't tell by my username)! My main interests are fruits, vegetables, and organic gardening methods.
HelloMojo (talk · contribs) - I have a Diploma of Horticulture, I will help too, but might do more damage than good! lol
MegaMom (talk · contribs) - avid gardener!
Meng.benjamin (talk · contribs) - I am SARE certified in Sustainable Agriculture. Im In!
NoahElhardt (talk · contribs) (Most of my edits are plant related already anyway...)
Payxystaxna (talk · contribs) - Interest in Southern African plants of horticultural value as well as any geophytes. Propagation of bulbs and succulents.
Quercusrobur (talk · contribs) (count me in, although I'm not sure how much and persistence I'll be able to dedicate to this project...)
SB_Johnny (talk · contribs)
Strobilus (talk · contribs) - Plant science student in Canada.
Tyciol (talk · contribs) - Biology student, gardener

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.

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

[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

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

[edit] Projects

Clean up and add to the Organic Gardening category Probably a bit of trawling through the agriculture categories will be needed. There is some concern about having 2 separate pages for organic_horticulture and organic gardening. Also many organic techniques are not well described, and so new pages would be helpful. (Previous discussion here moved to the discussion page).
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.
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.
Work to improve the horticulture stubs.

[edit] Tasks

Clean up and better organize this page.
Work on disambiguation for the genus Chrysanthemum, members and former members of which appear under many names due to recent reclassifications.
Images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of gardening

[edit] Templates

{{Horticulture and Gardening}} — Infobox for Horticulture and Gardening articles
{{Horticulture and Gardening Project}} — Template to add to talk pages of Horticulture and Gardening Project-related articles
{{Horticulture and Gardening Project COTM}} — Template informing editors of the Horticulture and Gardening Project Collaboration of the Month
{{User WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening}} — Userbox for members to show off and advertise our project!
{{InviteHorticulture and Gardening}}— Template for invitation to join this WikiProject!

[edit] Stub templates

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

[edit] Articles needing work

Horticulture and Gardening Project of the Month

[edit] Categories

Category:Horticulture
Category:Gardening
Category:Organic_gardening (seems to be a page link problem, or category was not set up correctly?) The page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organic_gardening

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Horticulture and Gardening

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Horticulture and Gardening

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Horticulture and Gardening

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.

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[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. The Horticulture and Gardening-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Horticulture and Gardening.

[edit] Requests

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