Talk:Lysurus periphragmoides/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Rcej (Robert) - talk 03:42, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

He smells! A few issues:

• The lead, statement "...is a species of fungus in the stinkhorn genus Lysurus."

• Is Lysurus traditionally the 'stinkhorn genus'?

• Well, it's one of the many stinkhorn genera, but I changed the sentence, as in retrospect it's pretty obvious that a species named Lysurus periphragmoides is in the genus Lysurus! Sasata (talk) 06:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

• In Taxonomy, sentence "Donald Malcolm Dring's 1980 monograph on the Clathraceae (a family now synonymous with the Phallaceae) transferred the taxon to Lysurus, explaining "a distinction between "Simblum" and Lysurus in the original restricted sense cannot be easily maintained because there are examples of intermediates states", and he lumped 18 synonyms under L. periphragmoides."

• How did Dring's 're-evaluation' of Clathraceae specifically associate to the transfer to Lysurus from Simblum? Was his 1980 monograph any factor in the later consideration of synonomy between Clathraceae and Phallaceae? I'm inferring that on purpose; it could read like there is backstory and/or correlation between "Clathraceae = Phallaceae" and "Simblum -> Lysurus". Rcej (Robert) - talk 05:23, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

No correlation as far as I know... his monograph was called "Contributions towards a rational arrangement of the Clathraceae", so at the time he thought they were Clathraceae. I've changed the wording to "Donald Malcolm Dring's 1980 monograph on the Clathraceae (a family that has since been subsumed into the Phallaceae) transferred the taxon to Lysurus ..." Is that better? Sasata (talk) 06:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

• The caption for image:Lysurus periphragmoides 83532.jpg reads "Close-up of latticed receptaculum; gleba has been removed by visiting insects". Since gleba removal affecting this specimen isn't mentioned in the file description, let's throw a ref there or ce :) Rcej (Robert) - talk 05:23, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

• Ok ok, I removed the OR from the caption :) Sasata (talk) 06:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Very good! Rcej (Robert) - talk 09:27, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Results of review

GA review (see here for criteria)

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The article Lysurus periphragmoides passes this review, and has been promoted to good article status. The article is found by the reviewing editor to be deserving of good article status based on the following criteria:

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail: Pass