Talk:William Jackson Hooker/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 10:58, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Comments

I'm almost ready to pass this directly, but have a few small suggestions on the side.

• It would be helpful to readers to wikilink species names, which have often changed since Hooker's time, to the modern species. Applies especially to image captions.

Done.

• Hookeria must be linked in both text and caption. You might consider adding "named in Hooker's honour" to the caption.

Done.

• Same goes for mentions of publications in captions, e.g. Curtis's botanical magazine.

Done.

• "but only after his notes and specimens were destroyed" - perhaps "even though his notes...".

Done.

• His founding of the Herbarium at Kew, and I think his enlargement of the gardens and arboretum there, should be mentioned in the first paragraph of the lead; so too perhaps should be the fact that he was a Regius prof of botany. Just saying he was a botanist doesn't really say much about his success and fame. He was the first director of Kew as a public botanic garden under state ownership - that might be material for the opening sentence.

Done.

• I think we should be linking (e.g. in lead and in infobox) to Kew Gardens not to RBG Kew which seems to be a modern quango.

Done.

• "Gallery of selected illustrations" seems verbose. "Examples" would do, for instance.

Done.

• "more than 20 major botanical works": do these not require rather more treatment? There could be a separate list article, I suppose, in which case this article is missing a redlink... or the paragraph could give a little more detail here (I'm not sure an embedded list would be a good thing).

A list article exists already (I had no idea...). Now included. Amitchell125 (talk) 18:23, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

• "West Park" seems to be West Hall, Kew, please wikilink. There is a nice photograph of the house on Commons.

Done.

• He's made a Knight but "according to the author Mea Allan, from June 1839 the 'dignity of the position was stripped to one of ridicule and his work was dismissed as of no account'." Explain? Is being a Knight even "a position"? It's highly counter-intuitive at the moment.

Not sure what happened there. Now sorted. Amitchell125 (talk) 18:36, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Aha, that's what it was! Ok, all seems fine now, passing. Good work on a major figure. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:39, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap:Thanks for the review. Now do can I find my copy of The Lord of the Rings somewhere...? Amitchell125 (talk) 18:49, 30 September 2020 (UTC)