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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:25, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Pholiota squarrosoides

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Pholiota squarrosoides

• ... that there are differing accounts on ifwhether the mushroom Pholiota squarrosoides (pictured) is edible?

• Reviewed: Tonic Trouble

Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:35, 10 August 2019 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good top go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:31, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

• @Hawkeye7: I have heard from Yoninah that the current hook may not be great enough to use the image. Would you be able to check these alts?
  • ALT1 ... that the mushroom Pholiota squarrosoides (pictured) is rarely found in Europe, but the first specimen in Poland was discovered in 2010?
  • ALT2 ... that the mushroom Pholiota squarrosoides (pictured) has decayed logs of the trees Acer saccharum and Tilia glabra in the Great Lakes states? SL93 (talk) 16:54, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

    Both ALTs are verified from source. I personally like the original, as amanita phalloides is common here, and no one would eat a mushroom to test if it is edible. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:59, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

• @Hawkeye7: I hear your opinion, but I'm not sure that the article gives enough variety of opinions as to edibility to verify the original hook. Two RS state that it's edible (though the first adds "with caution", which I added to the article); one RS says it's not; and the fourth source is a novel (Really? This is hardly an RS.) in which the fictional character eats the mushroom thinking that it is edible. I think ALT2 is actually a more surprising fact, that a mushroom could decay a tree. Yoninah (talk) 22:38, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

• I thought that the novel was used in an acceptable way with how it was phrased in the article, but I removed it. I think any hook can be chosen at this point. SL93 (talk) 22:40, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
  • @Yoninah: No worries. Go with the hook you think is best. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:07, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

• OK, thanks. Yoninah (talk) 23:20, 12 September 2019 (UTC)