Template:Did you know nominations/Vanilla odorata

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The result was: promoted by Fritzmann2002 talk 18:33, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Vanilla odorata

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• ... that bees distribute the seeds of vanilla tlatepusco? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Władysław Umiński
  • Comment: The paper by Karremans et al. I'm referencing is not freely available, but if anyone wants to read it I have a copy and permission to share it by email to other researchers but not to post it online. Also, I did a QPQ, but this is only my 4th nomination.

5x expanded by MtBotany (talk). Self-nominated at 19:44, 24 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Vanilla odorata; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• A major recent expansion. Impeccable sourcing. Beautifully written. I believe that this article is already at GA level. Plant and animal species seems to be Wikipedia's weakest link and I am always so grateful when someone takes the time to write something as good as this. I was able to verify the hook fact using other sources. I wonder whether it would be possible to create articles about these bees too and include them in the hook, and the only reason I am not giving a green tick yet is so that the hook does not get promoted before this is considered. If you do not feel like writing articles about the bees too, please just write so and we will wrap this up! Also, have you considered proposing an image as well? I do not think we get many plant images in DYK. Surtsicna (talk) 08:17, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
  • Thank you for the complements about the article. I actually took a very long time to work on it. First learning basic German to understand the article there without entirely relying on machine translation, then a long time hunting for pictures, and digging through old books online. Though it looks like I did this in a week it was actually about six months behind the scenes with a final push in the last week. I could churn out a stub for each of the redlinked bees quickly, but I'm hesitant because I'm really very specialized in plants and do not know very much about insect description terminology or how to describe them to a non-expert audience. I did a search in the Wikipeadia library for articles on Euglossa bursigera and reading the key in one article I felt completely at sea. Plus I could not seem to find basic information like size of the species. I'm also moderately specialized in species of Northern America. Obviously I can branch out, but I can get a solid "B" class article on something from the western US done in about two weeks instead of months. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 19:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

That is perfectly alright. Someone else will get to it eventually. Let's send this one off! Surtsicna (talk) 21:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Article looks great, promoting. If a peer review / copyedit is desired I'd be happy to do one before it goes to GA. Fritzmann (message me) 18:32, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

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