Talk:Cylindropuntia imbricata

Cylindropuntia imbricata has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 12, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
August 18, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept

Current status: Good article

Some information from personal experience. —JerryFriedman 17:23, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article nomination has failed

The Good article nomination for Cylindropuntia imbricata has failed, for the following reason:

At the moment the article is not structured very well, although the content is fine. It looks very cluttered - there's not enough text to justify that many images, and the huge one on the left is definitely too large. You should summarise the article's contents in a couple of paragraphs, then break the text up into, say, three sections - something like 'description' and 'range' to add to cultivation which you already have. Worldtraveller 20:46, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Renominated

Still looks a little cluttered to me, with too many heavy headers for the length of the article. I'd cut out the first two headers, and just have their paragraphs free-standing, and reduce the cultivation to a ===header=== to remove the underline that splits the page across. I'd also replace the aboutgardenplants.com (too overly commercial) hardiness cite with another non-comm reference (I'll dig one out later). The distribution in Mexico also needs expanding to bring it to state level (as the US distrib already is); the info is at the USDA ARS GRIN page on the species. Also, note that Cylindropuntia is now generally treated as a distinct genus, not a subgenus of Opuntia (so the page will need to be moved). - MPF 09:28, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! As long as you notice that the previous reviewer thought it was too cluttered because it didn't have enough headers (and because a photo was too big). —JerryFriedman 16:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naming

The reference I believe Kalmia was referring to was this one which states that Opuntia imbricata is a synonym for Cylindropuntia imbricata. I don't really have the expertise to comment on plant naming issues but there may be some merit in Kalmia's move. Please consider the issue thoughtfully. Cedars 00:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GA Re-Review and In-line citations

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GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Cylindropuntia imbricata/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

I'm reassessing the article as part of GA sweeps, to double check older GAs to make sure they still meet the criteria. For the most part this article's still good, though I have the following issues:

Is there really all there is on this plant? It looks like something that would have a decent amount on it.
All citation needed tags need to be addressed.
The gallery is a nice touch; if all could have captions though that'd be a plus.
"(or walking stick cholla, tree cholla, chainlink cactus, etc.)" I'd stick to keeping a few most common names and leaving out the etc.
Second part of range and habitat should probably be cited.

I'll put this on hold for five days so these issues can be fixed. Since it's a small article there's not too much at least. If fixed this will remain a GA, if not it won't. Wizardman 02:23, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's clearly a lot of progress being made on this article, so it'll remain a GA. Wizardman 19:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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