Talk:Greasewood
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Hike395 in topic Disambiguation page to common name page
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Disambiguation page to common name page
editI propose converting this from a disambiguation page to a common name page similar to Saltbush. Greasewood, Arizona would be a hatnote at the top. There are presently 12 greasewood links to this page - all are marked disambiguation needed and I suspect that in most cases greasewood is being used as a common name to refer to multiple species. I'll mention this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants and Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links. If there's no objection, I'll make the change in about a week. SchreiberBike talk 01:04, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- I completely agree with that. Other than the little-known location, this is basically a set index for plants known by a common name. bd2412 T 04:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Go for it. There's some other pages floating around Category:Plant common name disambiguation pages that are similar; a common name for multiple plants with one non-plant sense of the term (e.g. Soapweed, Possum grape, Mountain laurel). If the non-plant meaning can be handled with a hatnote, I'd like to see these converted from dabs to set indices. Blue lily is an example of a fairly good plant set index; it includes photos and a brief description to help readers find the plant they are looking for. As long as pages on plant common names are kept as DABs, it's hard to put in photos and extended descriptions and stay in compliance with WP:MOSDAB. The downside to converting from a DAB to a set index is the loss of tools like DPLBot. Plantdrew (talk) 19:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
- Fixed and the linked pages are no longer tagged disambiguation needed. SchreiberBike talk 22:27, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- One nice feature of an SIA: it does not have to adhere to the strict style of disambiguation pages. I added some information to help distinguish the different species. Feel free to add more. —hike395 (talk) 06:41, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
- Fixed and the linked pages are no longer tagged disambiguation needed. SchreiberBike talk 22:27, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- Go for it. There's some other pages floating around Category:Plant common name disambiguation pages that are similar; a common name for multiple plants with one non-plant sense of the term (e.g. Soapweed, Possum grape, Mountain laurel). If the non-plant meaning can be handled with a hatnote, I'd like to see these converted from dabs to set indices. Blue lily is an example of a fairly good plant set index; it includes photos and a brief description to help readers find the plant they are looking for. As long as pages on plant common names are kept as DABs, it's hard to put in photos and extended descriptions and stay in compliance with WP:MOSDAB. The downside to converting from a DAB to a set index is the loss of tools like DPLBot. Plantdrew (talk) 19:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)