Wikipedia:Peer review/List of palms of the Caribbean/archive1

List of palms of the Caribbean

I would like feedback on this list. I am aware that it has too many redlinks (I need to fix that, but it takes time to write articles to fill redlinks), and that there are duplicate links to countries. I realise that the descriptive text after each genus is inconsistent - and feedback on which is better and which is horrible would be appreciated. I would appreciate any feedback, no matter how harsh (if something is crap, I'm not offended if you call it crap, but please, tell me how to fix the crap). Thanks. Guettarda 06:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's rather dry. Do you think this information more suited to wikispecies? Perhaps you should consider writing an article: Palms of the Caribbean rather than constructing a list? DrKiernan 08:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Regarding Wikispecies - no, this isn't the kind of information they include. This is consistent with other Wikipedia species lists by region, though I'm disappointed that it's dry - I am trying to make something more interesting (and informative) than the average species list (though I realise it isn't there yet). Thanks. Guettarda 15:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- After trying some what KC suggested I begin to see where you were coming from on the article issue. Guettarda 04:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, APR _t 20:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks - I tried that already. Guettarda 21:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I like the intro - as far as the earlier comment that the list seems a little dry, perhaps adding a brief blurb under each genera level might alleviate the overall list-i-ness of it? But that would be circumventing this being a List of, so perhaps that's a bad idea. I would much appreciate other feedback on this idea - am I barking up the wrong tree? (Please send complaints about my bad puns to my complaints department, which I intend to activate approximately in the year 2525.) KillerChihuahua^?!? 15:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks - I'll give it a try, see how that works. Do you think this should be in addition to the final comments about "other species", or it should replace it? Guettarda 16:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I was thinking incorporate and replace. KillerChihuahua^?!? 01:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Cool. I will give it a shot. Guettarda 04:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Featured list material. (Says someone who wouldn't know a featured list if it bit me.) You know about the duplicate links to countries already. I wouldn't sweat the red links, most are blue, showing the ones that are red deserve articles, and a few red links are invitations to write such an article. Good photos - a few more, up to one per paragraph, wouldn't hurt, but aren't mandatory. How about a few words in the header about how the palms spread around the area, and/or evolved? Were they carried by sparrows (gripping coconuts by the husk, naturally)? What fraction are cultivated, harvested, completely ignored by man? (There's probably a technical word for that.) Almost everything is cited to a single source, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. I guess that isn't terrible, since I doubt this is too controversial an issue, but if you do have a few other sources that you can spread the weight around, that might be preferable. Again, these are all nitpicks: drop a note on my talk page when most of these are fixed, and this is nominated for featured list, and I'll support. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 15:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]