Talk:Companion planting/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Eviolite (talk · contribs) 00:18, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

I'll take this and try to get to it today or tomorrow. eviolite (talk) 00:18, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

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 and other media, where possible and appropriate.

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

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Notes:

• Quite concerned about the sourcing: why are Mel's Garden, Country living and farm lifestyles, and Garden & Greenhouse reliable? (Also refs 9 and 11 are the same and should be combined.) I would recommend searching for more journal-level sources, or at least sources from reputable institutions, for these statements.
  • Removed. Have used other sources including NGA, see below.

• I would also appreciate some consistency in date format, what's being linked and what's not, fixing bare links like 20 and 22, but I guess that's not strictly necessary.
  • Formatted.

• I suggest incorporating the information from the National Gardening Association external link into the article and removing it as an external link - there's a lot of information in there about specific plants that could be added.
  • Done.

Prose:

• Remove the references in the lead per WP:LEADCITE. Additionally, the information in the main image caption is not mentioned in the pest suppression section which should be done.

• Link "fixes nitrogen" on first occurrence (first paragraph of history section) and unlink from second paragraph
  • Fixed.

• The "different species of plant" link seems much like a WP:EASTEREGG to me. I also recommend linking that list more obviously somewhere in the article, since it is rather crucial.
  • Moved into article body, linked, described, and cited.

• One-sentence paragraphs in "provision of nutrients" section can be combined into one paragraph.
  • Fixed.

• Unlink fixing nitrogen, which has already been linked above.
  • Fixed.

• How recent are these "recent studies" (host-finding disruption section)? See MOS:RECENT
  • Removed.

• Same section: semicolon in "The insect must accumulate sufficient stimuli from the host-plant to lay eggs; so it must make a certain number of consecutive 'appropriate' landings" should be a comma.
  • Reworded.

• Be consistent in single vs double quotes when referring to (in)appropriate landings.
  • Fixed.

• Same section: "same disruptive effect" - same as what?
  • Reworded.

• The entire systems section does not make much sense to me. It wants to be a list but is not formatted as one, and what "systems" actually means is not clarified at all.
  • Formatted as list; reworded.

• Square foot gardening: Long and unwieldy sentence; can be split.
  • Split.

• Forest gardening: The phrasing "actual ecosystem" is weird - what makes the ecosystem "actual"? And what does "intermingling" actually mean in this context? What are "levels" of plants?
  • Reworded.

That's it for my comments; @Chiswick Chap: placing the review on hold for the above. Thanks, eviolite (talk) 01:08, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

A few more

Thanks for the edits, Chiswick Chap. I still have a few comments as follows:

• The info in the caption should also be in the article
  • Done.

• The lead mentions cottage gardens in England but this is not covered in the body; either remove from lead or add to history section
  • Removed.

• There is still a citation in the lead - as the info should also be in the body it can be removed.
  • Done.

• Can reference [23] be swapped out? It appears to be self-published.
  • Removed.

That's all - nice work cleaning up this article and just a few things before I am happy to promote it as a GA. Thanks, eviolite (talk) 13:22, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap: Apologies for the confusion (really should have used ref names instead of numbers), but for [23] I meant the Self-Sufficient Gardener podcast. Otherwise I am satisfied with the article. eviolite (talk) 14:36, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Removed. Eviolite: Many thanks for the review. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:46, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits - promoting to GA now; great work on the article. eviolite (talk) 14:50, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Mr. Chiswick Chap why is the article Companion planting have many cites with have no number pages? help me Khả Vân Đại Hãn (talk) 05:46, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

We don't normally continue GAN discussions once they're closed. However, either page numbers or named chapters are now indicated throughout. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:36, 9 February 2022 (UTC)