Talk:Harrya chromapes/GA1

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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 10:24, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review to follow soon. J Milburn (talk) 10:24, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I worry that jumping straight into taxonomic controversies in the lead will be off-putting to non-mycologist readers.

This info now moved to the end of the lead. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are Ceriomyces and Krombholzia still in use? If so, redlinks would be useful; if not, mentioning as much, if possible, would be a helpful addition.

They are quite defunct, with near zero chance of coming back.M.E.Nuhn (talk) 02:29, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I added a note explaining their fates... Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Harria" I assume this is a typing error?

Must be, it is Harrya. M.E.Nuhn (talk) 02:29, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"and does not stain blue when it is bruised or injured" Worth mentioning that this is a useful identifying characteristic for boletes? There are lots of colours that it doesn't stain!

The vast majority of boletes stain blue or brown. There are others, but for Tylopilus, if it stains, usually staings brown/brown-red and "Boletus" usually stains blue, if it stains. M.E.Nuhn (talk) 02:29, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I personally know that bruising colour is important, I'm just worried that readers unfamiliar with the area may consider this a rather odd fact without providing this sort of context. J Milburn (talk) 09:28, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Added "(an important diagnostic feature of many bolete species)" and modified the page numbers in the citation to cover this fact. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"The tubes are depressed around the top of the stipe and are almost free from attachment." Do you mean the individual tubes are depressed, or the hymenium is depressed? This sentence is difficult to follow.

For boletes the tubes are the hymenium, so he means all the tubes near the stipe are depressed.M.E.Nuhn (talk) 02:29, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See here for a visual example. I reworded a bit, but am open to suggestions for prose tweaks to enhance clarity. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"layer of tangle hyphae" Do you mean tangled, or is "tangle hyphae" a term I'm unfamiliar with?

Typo, fixed. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"although it shares a similar yellow stipe base." I don't think it can share a similar yellow base- it either has a similar yellow base, or shares a yellow base.

Fixed. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Sciophila, and Mydaea" - species of the genera

Done. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing about the edibility of the species in the main article- at least a line or two would be good.

I already have "The mushrooms are edible and good, but popular with insects, and so are often infested with maggots." but can't find much more to add than this. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The formatting on the Singer 1947 note is throwing me a little. Same with "Martínez-Carrera D, Curvetto N, Sobal P, Morales P, Mora VM".

Singer 1947 is a journal citation, but it is part of a series, so that's why publisher info is included. I fixed up the formatting for the other one. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Edible fungi?

Done. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Images are great (shame the lead doesn't have the red on the stipe, but nevermind) and the sources seem completely appropriate. I'm sure I'll be able to promote once the above issues are resolved. (I made a couple of small edits.) J Milburn (talk) 10:57, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for a helpful review, JM. Sasata (talk) 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Very happy with the fixes/clarification; another look at the article reveals no further problems. Happy to promote. J Milburn (talk) 09:48, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]