Talk:Rosewood

Discuss Link

Is a link to photos of woods from the Dalbergia family with information on them a valid link. The site in question has no advertising www.russianwolfstudios.com/Rosewoods-%28Dalbergia%29.php Woodfanatic (talk) 17:27, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

This article pertains mainly to the species considered rosewoods. Aside from 2 photos, there's not much useful info on that page—even regarding Dalbergia in general the page is only marginally informative. More appropriate pages to link to would be educational/academic sites, news articles, research papers, etc. For example, these type of links would be more appropriate for an encyclopedic reference such as Wikipedia: [1], [2], and [3].
--71.104.232.71 (talk) 08:53, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Capitalization

I've corrected the capitalization of species names in a few places. I've noticed that the use of capitalization on tree names has been pretty inconsistent across Wikipedia, and even within the same article. This is probably due to the fact that we're used to plant names being used as common nouns (e.g. a bouquet of roses, a redwood forest, a lovely tulip, etc.). However, when referring to the species itself (e.g. the characteristics of Brazilian Redwood¹ are...), the name is used as a proper noun and should be capitalized as with any other proper noun. The exception to this being botanical/binomial names, in which case only the first word is capitalized.

If you disagree with this assessment or have a line of reasoning for an alternative capitalization convention, then please share them here before/after making those changes.

¹ Note: In this case, "Brazilian Redwood" is regarded as the common name of a plant species and does not simply refer to redwoods that are found in Brazil.
--71.104.232.71 (talk) 08:53, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure I care one way or the other, but your reasoning is not convincing. In the first place you have not corrected any species names, but trade names of woods, quite a different matter. It is fairly uncommon to capitalize both words in such names, or even the first word. This kind of capitalization is rather the mark of a commercial setting where they want the name to stand out, especially on web sites; I did not find it in any of the books I checked (and wasn't this supposed to be an encyclopedia?). - Ibbel (talk) 13:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki

Is the interwiki correct? Almost all of them linked to "Palisander" (Dalbergia retusa). I suppose the interwiki should go to that article instead, no? Bennylin (talk) 08:41, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

sonokeling

What is the etymology of sonokeling? This needs to be included.Curb Chain (talk) 15:50, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

More description for guitar back image

Specifically, that is a CF Martin & Co. D-14fret body guitar (Dreadnought), with style-28 purfling, with a high degree of certainty that it is a Martin D-28. Not sure if that can be added or not, based simply upon my visual identification. Thor214 (talk) 05:02, 5 April 2015 (UTC)