Plants Wiki:Appropriate subjects

Anything about plants can be added onto this wikia.

Separate kingdoms
Articles about an organism in a separate kingdom are not appropriate on this wiki.

Real situation: These articles were formerly allowed, but this has come to an end, because they are often times off topic. The articles "Protist" and "Chromalveolate" were deleted for this purpose.

Pathogens and diseases that relate to plants?
In nature, plants often times obtain pathogens or diseases. On Plantspedia, you are encouraged to add information about pathogens and diseases in separate articles (e.g. List of strawberry diseases). You may make articles about the specific disease, but following the guidelines from above, you are recommended not to make articles about the pathogens themselves.

Confusion as of placement of a group
There are numerous organisms that have been formerly classified as plants, but creation of such articles are not encouraged on Plantspedia.

Examples:

For more information regarding this topic, see Organisms misidentified as plants


 * Seaweed has been recently classified as a type of brown algae, which is within the kingdom, Chromalveolata.
 * Lichens have been recently classified as fungi.
 * Fungi has been classified within its own kingdom.

Anatomy
Plants have an anatomy very unique among the other kingdoms. You are encouraged to make articles about the anatomy of organisms within the plant kingdom.

Individuals, places, and things
The only articles about people that are accepted on Plantspedia are ones about botanists who have studied plants, and are decently well-known (anything in the IPNI is acceptable as long as he or she has studied some type of plant). Other articles about individuals can include articles about individual (but named) plants.

The only articles about places that are accepted on Plantspedia are about specific forests, herbariums, gardens, etc.

Articles about things are very limited on Plantspedia. The most common article about a "thing" that isn't organic would most likely be about some noted publication about plants.

On-topic
All articles on Plantspedia must be related to the study of plants. If an article is off topic, or about something not relating towards plants, please report a problem (scroll to the bottom of the page, and find the http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb27571/common/skins/common/blank.gif icon. These will be added to the problem reports list.

Another way to tell about an off-topic article is to discuss it on its talk page (not recommended), or post a comment here.