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Hi, was wondering if fungal-related drugs and chemicals are covered within the scope of WikiProject Fungi. I'm thinking about articles like lentinan, muscimol, usnic acid, ibotenic acid, LSD, ganoderic acid, and many more of that nature. Many of these articles also fall under the domain of other projects like WP:CHEMS or WP:PHARM, so it might be possible to get some cross-project collaboration in the future. Comments? Sasata ( talk) 04:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Doing my head in this article, I want to get it to GA and then FAC once and for all - feel free to drop in with some comments/help etc. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 05:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
It has been suggested that Wikipedia change its naming convention for all articles on biological organisms to use scientific names. This is being discussed here at WP:NC. It may be in your interest to take part. -- Jwinius ( talk) 15:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I've spent today creating the above portal. It has sections for selected articles (any good or featured article), selected picture (any featured picture here or on Wikimedia Commons, as well as other nominations- see the page for details), did you know (for did you know items that would go on the main page, so they can hang around a little longer), selected species (any decent article on a specific species) and various links and "you can help" type content. It was based on various other portals of high quality and/or similar subject matter. I'm now interested in attracting readers, as it were- would anyone be opposed to adding a link to this in articles, using this template? Also, this is by no means complete- I've added all our good/featured articles, and most eligible images (I think) but there are still a lot of potential "selected species" out there, and new ones of all three (plus DYKs) will be springing up all the time. Also, I'm sure it could be improved in other ways.
Basically- comments? J Milburn ( talk) 19:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I intend to nominate it for featured portal status, so I have submitted it for a peer review here. Hopefully some portal regulars can offer some advice. J Milburn ( talk) 18:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Different projects handle portal linking in different ways- personally, I think linking to the portal from all articles about fungi with a "see also" section would be best, but I would say that, being the creator. Would anyone have an objection to doing that, which is the approach favoured by, for example, the Cetaceans portal and especially the Scouting portal? Such linking would be done using the template on the right. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle the linking? J Milburn ( talk) 17:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I've created {{ Fungiportal}} to place in fungi articles with "see also" sections. I'm going to run through the articles on AWB to get it into as many as I can to start with. Otherwise, feel free to add "see also" sections (links to lists the article appears on is usually a good link) and then adding the template. If you want to add the template to other articles without a see also section, be my guest. J Milburn ( talk) 21:50, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Here is something I got betacommand to set up way back when (not updated since March 2008) - it was modelled on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/dinosaur articles by size. Given betacommand's current status, I was musing on asking another bot whiz whether it was worth updating. Do people think this is useful at all?
Casliber (
talk ·
contribs) 23:44, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Strike bits above. Some very much appreciated person is running the bot again :)))) Casliber ( talk · contribs) 23:45, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Any bets on whether the article Cyathus gayanus Tul. (1844) would survive speedy deletion? :) I might have to try for the humor factor. A double-DYK hook with that and Phallus impudicus on April fool's day would be just about the funniest thing I ever seen here :) Sasata ( talk) 06:44, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
I realised I never nommed this to WP:GAN - anyone see anything else it needs before going there? Casliber ( talk· contribs) 23:15, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I thought I'd take advantage of the increasing momentum of WikiProject Fungi and invite all fungus lovers that would like to see this top-importance article become featured to add comments on the talk page. Sasata ( talk) 05:29, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Amanita muscaria is at FAC. So help with corrections and last minute improvements, and honest opinions all welcome :) Casliber ( talk · contribs) 06:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
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Ampulloclitocybe clavipes? See here. I made a stub as I thought it would make an interesting little page as it has been reported as having antabuse-like properties and I thought it was the tye species of clitocybe - this last is interesting (I guess) as to how taxonomists classify and change things sometimes for utility (e.g. designating a new Type etc.) Anyway, this change is well-accepted yes? Anyone who knows may Move to the proper scientific name. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I've been doing a bit of work on Chorioactis geaster. I notice there's no page for the genus. From what I can tell, this genus only contains the one species. Is it worth creating the page for the genus or would a redirect to the species page with some suitable explanation in the text be better? Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:16, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Since I seem to be in to bugging everyone this evening, I have another question. A lot of the fungi which are plant pathogens are lacking images. Is it possible to use some of the images from this website http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1504091 ? They've got a Creative Commons tag. If so, how do I go about doing it? Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
By the way, if you register with one of these websites, you can get the images at very high resolution. You can also under the terms of the liscence edit them to remove the black box with the numbers in the corner. Million_Moments ( talk) 20:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Now 110 kb long... Sasata ( talk)
Hi, could some people possibly weigh in here to help identify the species? If it can be positively identified, I think we have a new FP- if not, we don't. J Milburn ( talk) 17:37, 10 March 2009 (UTC)\
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Yippee! OK now to watch for edits... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 01:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
I've submitted Cyathus for approval at FAC and hope some of you will drop by and offer your opinions. Thanks! Sasata ( talk) 04:47, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Some of you may remember that a few months ago I brought up the subject of establishing a consensus for writing descriptions of mushroom species; see here. Only Casliber and I had anything to say about it at the time. I recently changed the description format for Psilocybe naematoliformis, and couple of editors have expressed they do not like the prose format for descriptions of fungi (see the talk page). Since the Fungi project is more active now, perhaps it is time to revisit this issue? On a related note, it might be a worthwhile idea to create a Fungi:MOS to help standardize the format for species, genus and family articles. I'd like to get a consensus on this issue, as I have hundred of articles in the planning stage. Sasata ( talk) 19:01, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated some of the edibility categories for a rename, for consistency and clarification, and so that non-mushrooms can be included, which would certainly be useful. Please direct any comments you have to the CfD discussion here J Milburn ( talk) 17:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, folks. I recently opened a discussion at WT:TOL that needs your input regarding the categorization of species by year of description. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Category:Species by year of formal description for more info. Thanks! -- Rkitko ( talk) 23:11, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi - what are the feelings of the group on Wiki pages on unpublished taxa (as in unofficially published under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature)? Currently there is a page on Psathyrella aquatica that refers to an exciting find, but the name is not validly published (as of yet). The citations only refer to publicity, not actual documentation. Heliocybe ( talk) 12:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
I've taken a whole bunch of fungi images on a bushwalk today, which should be useful in a large number of articles. I really need some help identifying them however.
Thank you in advance. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
(out) I've started some articles on the new (to Wikipedia) species and will try to work them up for DYK's, depending on how much info I can find. Sasata ( talk) 18:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Went for a walk to Marriott Falls today. Its located in the Mount Field national park. There was a small pine plantation right at the start of the walk, where I found what look like Amanita muscaria to me. 12, 13, 14 and 20 were also in amongst the pines, I think 20 is probably Amanita muscaria, but 12 and 13 were more orange in colour and may not be. The rest were found in cool temperate rainforest. I'll post them to the mushroom observer tomorrow or so. Noodle snacks ( talk) 14:23, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Could someone create an article on Histoplasma duboisii? I just created a redlink at African histoplasmosis. kilbad ( talk) 21:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
... pushing towards FAC... any comments highly welcome! Sasata ( talk) 07:30, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
This ECAM article has enough information to seed a section on medicinal effects of mushrooms, but I don't have time to rewrite to avoid copyright violation. http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/2/3/285 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Turpin ( talk • contribs) 03:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Is there a case for keeping the number of binomial synonyms in articles on species to just 2 or 3 in the Taxobox. Maybe just the most recent, chronologically. While taxonomic history is very interesting, i feel that the place for this info is within the article itself..preferably under the 'Taxonomy' heading. I don't see the need for a great big syns list running down the entire length of the right hand side of the page. What do you all think? Luridiformis ( talk) 17:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou all... Luridiformis ( talk) 05:54, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Wow, if you do this, the article name is italicised.
(a) do we like it (I am warming to it)
(b) a bot to do it?
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 22:19, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Can you review this page I recently created? Jatlas ( talk) 00:33, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I've started an article (stub) on the brilliant blue Mycena interrupta.
Can anyone please add a mycomorphbox thing (or help in any way for it to be less stubby?). Thanks. — Pengo 22:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey folks, I wrote a proposal to move Oyster mushroom to Pleurotus ostreatus since the majority of the article is specific to that species. Please have a look and comment if you see fit. -- E poch F ail ( talk| contribs) 19:32, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Dear all, how do we feel about this template being added? I think it makes the top of the article a bit 'busy' and reduplicates information already in the mycomorphbox. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 03:21, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello everyone at wiki-fungi. I want to create an article for Puccinia jaceae. It's the rust fungus that is being tested to control Yellow Starthistle. I can't seem to find where it fits. Is it a species of Puccinia? I notice at Puccinia there is quite a list of species with a ... at the end of the list. Does that mean some are absent? Is jaceae a synonym? If someone could just point me in the right direction I will make the stub and begin my voyage into learning about these peculiar, and sometimes ear-shaped lifeforms. Thanks all.-- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 13:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much for taking the time on the naming issue. I took your advice and called it Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis. I love the edits you made.
Perhaps a nice hook for DYK is the bit about it being the first the first pathogen approved by the USDA as a classical biological control agent.
If any redirects are needed, please let me know. Thanks again.-- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:46, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I started Rhodocollybia and Hericium. I have no clue what I'm doing. I know nothing about mushrooms except that if you are very small, they are good to sit under when it is raining. I added a really long list of species for Rhodocollybia. Please feel free to fix it up and delete what you will. Thanks all. -- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 02:15, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
We have an awful lot of articles that have been placed in this category directly. The use of the category is redundant to the fact that they are already use stub templates. This clutters the master category, and generally looks poor- it also means that people may miss the category when removing stub tags, and it will be ignored if the stub type is being sorted. Basically, they shouldn't be there- I noticed this while I was running through some fungi articles with AWB, and someone else has picked up on it, even requesting a bot to remove them. Would anyone have any objections if I set my bot to remove them? J Milburn ( talk) 20:34, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
... and all comments are welcome! Sasata ( talk) 04:33, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi all, was wondering if the Fungi project could come to a consensus about how to format species and genus article titles. See Casliber's message above and associated links for background if you're interested. Do we agree that species and genus article names should be italized? (I think this would be an uncontentious yes, but bring it up just in case...) Assuming "yes", I think the options are:
A problem arises in the case of genera that have (fungus) or (genus) attached to their name because of a naming conflict at the time of article creation; am not sure if there's any way to display these article names italicized, and without the parenthetical information. I ask because I intend to go through the several thousand fungi stubs in the coming months and improve them, and it would be nice to have this parameter consistent. Sasata ( talk) 21:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Just noticed that most of the articles in a number of the species lists are redlinks. Would there be any objection to a bunch of them being filled along the pattern of articles such as Mycosphaerella angulata, for instance? I don't want to step on any toes, but I can do a lot of stuff fairly quickly if you'd like. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 23:50, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Okay folks, can anyone think of any species of deadly or potentially deadly (note second section for isolated mortalities) fungi that are not currently on the List of deadly fungi list for which we have a source? Casliber ( talk · contribs) 14:01, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
So A. muscaria has never caused deaths? It would surely fit into the second column? Found some more possibilities. According to
Psilocybin mushrooms of the world: an identification guide,
Galerina autumnalis is very deadly, and
Galerina cinnamomea and
Gallerina venenata are also listed as deadly (see page 195). Page 196 mentions
Pholiotina filaris as deadly.Already listed. Apparently, all those listed above produce "the same toxins as the destroying angels". I'm guessing this list could be expanded massively- according to
this article, there are over 20 deadly mushrooms in Quebec alone, and I doubt that even counts non-mushroom fungi (are we including them on this list?)
J Milburn (
talk) 15:23, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi all. In a current fungal FAC about the monotypic genus Polyozellus, Jimfbleak raised a good point about the naming convention for this type of article. Are there reasons I'm missing for not naming it after the species rather the genus? I guess some issues may arise in the future if another species is discovered, and the article has to be modified. Opinions? Sasata ( talk) 07:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Polyozellus is languishing at FAC... would appreciate any comments on how to improve the article. Also, I'm thinking of trying to get List of Armillaria species to featured list status, and was wondering what other info (if any) I should put in there. There's room for hundreds of similar "list of xxxx species" articles, so perhaps this might serve as a sort of template for further efforts? Also, compare List of Cyathus species; in that case, I had an excellent monograph available to easily fill in the details, but maybe there's too much technical info for a Wikipedia article? Sasata ( talk) 19:19, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Another mushroom taxon at FAC. As always, comments gratefully received! Sasata ( talk) 17:30, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Both found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (North Carolina side). Kaldari ( talk) 00:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Any opinions on the Ramariopsis species? Kaldari ( talk) 21:54, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
I sat down with the local mycologists at the university and managed to get quite a few old photos with more precise ids. Unfortunately they were not interested in taking herbarium specimens of future photos (assuming that I could get a permit) due to time constraints. Most of these are redlinked or redirects if anyone is looking for articles to write. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:21, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Oh, some of the papers here: [3] would be quite useful. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:25, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
This delightful picture was uploaded to commons by User:Multimotyl, who also added it to Aspergillus. Multimotyl says it's Aspergillus based on what a friend who studies biology said ( [4]). Two questions:
Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 13:27, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Gah, sorry folks, I shouldn't try to write so late at night. Let me rephrase:
Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 05:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm used to studying animals, so I have no idea what's expected in a paper about a fungus. For example, if I write about Danio rerio, it's appropriate to mention the order and family (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) and also the authority (Buchanon-Hamilton, 1822). However, I'm getting ready to do a study on baker's yeast and am not sure how to address it. I am aware that botanists omit the year, order, and family, and abbreviate the authority's name where possible, but seem to include more authorities than I am used to crediting. Do fungi follow similar quirky rules? Thanks! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 01:07, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to advise our collaborators to practice more caution when adding categories to fungal articles, especially those with taxonomic standing higher than species level. Adding categories relating to edibility or locale to articles (e.g. Cyathus) is incorrect as these are not characteristics of the Genus Cyathus itself, but rather individual species. Now, we all strive to wikify our articles to the greatest extents, but it's necessary to address this issue.-- Paffka ( talk) 12:34, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
By the way, I just created a new article on Pholiota flammans, and if anyone is interested, you're more than welcome to fix it up and submit to DYK. :)-- Paffka ( talk) 23:11, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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I have posted a question at the Science reference desk asking for help identifying a species of mushroom. I have a beautiful set of five photographs of three of these mushrooms. I'd like to use them on Wikipedia. Jason Quinn ( talk) 18:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
This picture is currently used in the taxobox for Oomycete, I just wanted to see if people are sure that this is actually an oomycete and not a fungus that grows in water. It's pretty confusing that water moulds are not in fact what most people would call mould and therefore I can see someone making a mistake with this image. It's particularly relevant as the image is also used in the oomycete stub notice. I posted here as I thought people here would be most likely to know, whilst on the topic, should oomycete really have a wikiproject fungi tag? They're more related to algae than fungi... Cheers Smartse ( talk) 17:43, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
There is a proposal at the Village Pump [5] to add featured picture stars to featured pictures in article space (below the featured picture, in its caption box, or image caption box in the case of taxoboxes with featured pictures.
The discussion includes asking the question whether they should be added to all featured pictures in articles including in taxoboxes, added just to featured pictures in caption boxes only and not to featured pictures in taxoboxes, or not added at all. Currently to find out if an image is a featured picture the user has to click on the image and its file page indicates with a star in the upper right hand corner that it is a featured picture.
To join the discussion and express your opinion go to the Village Pump. -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 08:32, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
How about merging silver leaf (fungal disease vernacular name) into Chondrostereum purpureum? -- Una Smith ( talk) 04:45, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've created a little tutorial for how to make those nifty species distribution maps that people sometimes add to taxoboxes: Wikipedia:Distribution maps. Enjoy. Kaldari ( talk) 23:25, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Seeing as this year's DYK list has suddenly stopped short of 147, with two and a half weeks remaining, I was wondering if anyone had any plans for such a target. Personally, I'm working on Cystodermella cinnabarina which I'm planning to upload in a couple of days, and maybe with a bit more info and an image which are hard to come by, it could be done DYK worthy.-- Paffka ( talk) 00:28, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
It might be worthwhile to create a template for common name disambiguation pages, analogous to {{plant common name}} [6]. This could promote a format more specifically utile than a basic dab page. ENeville ( talk) 01:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, was wondering if fungal-related drugs and chemicals are covered within the scope of WikiProject Fungi. I'm thinking about articles like lentinan, muscimol, usnic acid, ibotenic acid, LSD, ganoderic acid, and many more of that nature. Many of these articles also fall under the domain of other projects like WP:CHEMS or WP:PHARM, so it might be possible to get some cross-project collaboration in the future. Comments? Sasata ( talk) 04:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Doing my head in this article, I want to get it to GA and then FAC once and for all - feel free to drop in with some comments/help etc. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 05:45, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
It has been suggested that Wikipedia change its naming convention for all articles on biological organisms to use scientific names. This is being discussed here at WP:NC. It may be in your interest to take part. -- Jwinius ( talk) 15:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I've spent today creating the above portal. It has sections for selected articles (any good or featured article), selected picture (any featured picture here or on Wikimedia Commons, as well as other nominations- see the page for details), did you know (for did you know items that would go on the main page, so they can hang around a little longer), selected species (any decent article on a specific species) and various links and "you can help" type content. It was based on various other portals of high quality and/or similar subject matter. I'm now interested in attracting readers, as it were- would anyone be opposed to adding a link to this in articles, using this template? Also, this is by no means complete- I've added all our good/featured articles, and most eligible images (I think) but there are still a lot of potential "selected species" out there, and new ones of all three (plus DYKs) will be springing up all the time. Also, I'm sure it could be improved in other ways.
Basically- comments? J Milburn ( talk) 19:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
I intend to nominate it for featured portal status, so I have submitted it for a peer review here. Hopefully some portal regulars can offer some advice. J Milburn ( talk) 18:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Different projects handle portal linking in different ways- personally, I think linking to the portal from all articles about fungi with a "see also" section would be best, but I would say that, being the creator. Would anyone have an objection to doing that, which is the approach favoured by, for example, the Cetaceans portal and especially the Scouting portal? Such linking would be done using the template on the right. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to handle the linking? J Milburn ( talk) 17:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I've created {{ Fungiportal}} to place in fungi articles with "see also" sections. I'm going to run through the articles on AWB to get it into as many as I can to start with. Otherwise, feel free to add "see also" sections (links to lists the article appears on is usually a good link) and then adding the template. If you want to add the template to other articles without a see also section, be my guest. J Milburn ( talk) 21:50, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Here is something I got betacommand to set up way back when (not updated since March 2008) - it was modelled on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/dinosaur articles by size. Given betacommand's current status, I was musing on asking another bot whiz whether it was worth updating. Do people think this is useful at all?
Casliber (
talk ·
contribs) 23:44, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Strike bits above. Some very much appreciated person is running the bot again :)))) Casliber ( talk · contribs) 23:45, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Any bets on whether the article Cyathus gayanus Tul. (1844) would survive speedy deletion? :) I might have to try for the humor factor. A double-DYK hook with that and Phallus impudicus on April fool's day would be just about the funniest thing I ever seen here :) Sasata ( talk) 06:44, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
I realised I never nommed this to WP:GAN - anyone see anything else it needs before going there? Casliber ( talk· contribs) 23:15, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I thought I'd take advantage of the increasing momentum of WikiProject Fungi and invite all fungus lovers that would like to see this top-importance article become featured to add comments on the talk page. Sasata ( talk) 05:29, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Amanita muscaria is at FAC. So help with corrections and last minute improvements, and honest opinions all welcome :) Casliber ( talk · contribs) 06:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot ( Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:28, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Ampulloclitocybe clavipes? See here. I made a stub as I thought it would make an interesting little page as it has been reported as having antabuse-like properties and I thought it was the tye species of clitocybe - this last is interesting (I guess) as to how taxonomists classify and change things sometimes for utility (e.g. designating a new Type etc.) Anyway, this change is well-accepted yes? Anyone who knows may Move to the proper scientific name. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I've been doing a bit of work on Chorioactis geaster. I notice there's no page for the genus. From what I can tell, this genus only contains the one species. Is it worth creating the page for the genus or would a redirect to the species page with some suitable explanation in the text be better? Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:16, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Since I seem to be in to bugging everyone this evening, I have another question. A lot of the fungi which are plant pathogens are lacking images. Is it possible to use some of the images from this website http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1504091 ? They've got a Creative Commons tag. If so, how do I go about doing it? Ka Faraq Gatri ( talk) 23:50, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
By the way, if you register with one of these websites, you can get the images at very high resolution. You can also under the terms of the liscence edit them to remove the black box with the numbers in the corner. Million_Moments ( talk) 20:27, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Now 110 kb long... Sasata ( talk)
Hi, could some people possibly weigh in here to help identify the species? If it can be positively identified, I think we have a new FP- if not, we don't. J Milburn ( talk) 17:37, 10 March 2009 (UTC)\
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Thanks. — Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:10, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)
Yippee! OK now to watch for edits... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 01:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
I've submitted Cyathus for approval at FAC and hope some of you will drop by and offer your opinions. Thanks! Sasata ( talk) 04:47, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Some of you may remember that a few months ago I brought up the subject of establishing a consensus for writing descriptions of mushroom species; see here. Only Casliber and I had anything to say about it at the time. I recently changed the description format for Psilocybe naematoliformis, and couple of editors have expressed they do not like the prose format for descriptions of fungi (see the talk page). Since the Fungi project is more active now, perhaps it is time to revisit this issue? On a related note, it might be a worthwhile idea to create a Fungi:MOS to help standardize the format for species, genus and family articles. I'd like to get a consensus on this issue, as I have hundred of articles in the planning stage. Sasata ( talk) 19:01, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated some of the edibility categories for a rename, for consistency and clarification, and so that non-mushrooms can be included, which would certainly be useful. Please direct any comments you have to the CfD discussion here J Milburn ( talk) 17:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, folks. I recently opened a discussion at WT:TOL that needs your input regarding the categorization of species by year of description. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Category:Species by year of formal description for more info. Thanks! -- Rkitko ( talk) 23:11, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi - what are the feelings of the group on Wiki pages on unpublished taxa (as in unofficially published under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature)? Currently there is a page on Psathyrella aquatica that refers to an exciting find, but the name is not validly published (as of yet). The citations only refer to publicity, not actual documentation. Heliocybe ( talk) 12:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
I've taken a whole bunch of fungi images on a bushwalk today, which should be useful in a large number of articles. I really need some help identifying them however.
Thank you in advance. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
(out) I've started some articles on the new (to Wikipedia) species and will try to work them up for DYK's, depending on how much info I can find. Sasata ( talk) 18:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Went for a walk to Marriott Falls today. Its located in the Mount Field national park. There was a small pine plantation right at the start of the walk, where I found what look like Amanita muscaria to me. 12, 13, 14 and 20 were also in amongst the pines, I think 20 is probably Amanita muscaria, but 12 and 13 were more orange in colour and may not be. The rest were found in cool temperate rainforest. I'll post them to the mushroom observer tomorrow or so. Noodle snacks ( talk) 14:23, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Could someone create an article on Histoplasma duboisii? I just created a redlink at African histoplasmosis. kilbad ( talk) 21:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
... pushing towards FAC... any comments highly welcome! Sasata ( talk) 07:30, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
This ECAM article has enough information to seed a section on medicinal effects of mushrooms, but I don't have time to rewrite to avoid copyright violation. http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/2/3/285 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Turpin ( talk • contribs) 03:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Is there a case for keeping the number of binomial synonyms in articles on species to just 2 or 3 in the Taxobox. Maybe just the most recent, chronologically. While taxonomic history is very interesting, i feel that the place for this info is within the article itself..preferably under the 'Taxonomy' heading. I don't see the need for a great big syns list running down the entire length of the right hand side of the page. What do you all think? Luridiformis ( talk) 17:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Thankyou all... Luridiformis ( talk) 05:54, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Wow, if you do this, the article name is italicised.
(a) do we like it (I am warming to it)
(b) a bot to do it?
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 22:19, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Can you review this page I recently created? Jatlas ( talk) 00:33, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I've started an article (stub) on the brilliant blue Mycena interrupta.
Can anyone please add a mycomorphbox thing (or help in any way for it to be less stubby?). Thanks. — Pengo 22:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey folks, I wrote a proposal to move Oyster mushroom to Pleurotus ostreatus since the majority of the article is specific to that species. Please have a look and comment if you see fit. -- E poch F ail ( talk| contribs) 19:32, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Dear all, how do we feel about this template being added? I think it makes the top of the article a bit 'busy' and reduplicates information already in the mycomorphbox. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 03:21, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello everyone at wiki-fungi. I want to create an article for Puccinia jaceae. It's the rust fungus that is being tested to control Yellow Starthistle. I can't seem to find where it fits. Is it a species of Puccinia? I notice at Puccinia there is quite a list of species with a ... at the end of the list. Does that mean some are absent? Is jaceae a synonym? If someone could just point me in the right direction I will make the stub and begin my voyage into learning about these peculiar, and sometimes ear-shaped lifeforms. Thanks all.-- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 13:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much for taking the time on the naming issue. I took your advice and called it Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis. I love the edits you made.
Perhaps a nice hook for DYK is the bit about it being the first the first pathogen approved by the USDA as a classical biological control agent.
If any redirects are needed, please let me know. Thanks again.-- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:46, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I started Rhodocollybia and Hericium. I have no clue what I'm doing. I know nothing about mushrooms except that if you are very small, they are good to sit under when it is raining. I added a really long list of species for Rhodocollybia. Please feel free to fix it up and delete what you will. Thanks all. -- Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 02:15, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
We have an awful lot of articles that have been placed in this category directly. The use of the category is redundant to the fact that they are already use stub templates. This clutters the master category, and generally looks poor- it also means that people may miss the category when removing stub tags, and it will be ignored if the stub type is being sorted. Basically, they shouldn't be there- I noticed this while I was running through some fungi articles with AWB, and someone else has picked up on it, even requesting a bot to remove them. Would anyone have any objections if I set my bot to remove them? J Milburn ( talk) 20:34, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
... and all comments are welcome! Sasata ( talk) 04:33, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi all, was wondering if the Fungi project could come to a consensus about how to format species and genus article titles. See Casliber's message above and associated links for background if you're interested. Do we agree that species and genus article names should be italized? (I think this would be an uncontentious yes, but bring it up just in case...) Assuming "yes", I think the options are:
A problem arises in the case of genera that have (fungus) or (genus) attached to their name because of a naming conflict at the time of article creation; am not sure if there's any way to display these article names italicized, and without the parenthetical information. I ask because I intend to go through the several thousand fungi stubs in the coming months and improve them, and it would be nice to have this parameter consistent. Sasata ( talk) 21:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Just noticed that most of the articles in a number of the species lists are redlinks. Would there be any objection to a bunch of them being filled along the pattern of articles such as Mycosphaerella angulata, for instance? I don't want to step on any toes, but I can do a lot of stuff fairly quickly if you'd like. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 23:50, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Okay folks, can anyone think of any species of deadly or potentially deadly (note second section for isolated mortalities) fungi that are not currently on the List of deadly fungi list for which we have a source? Casliber ( talk · contribs) 14:01, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
So A. muscaria has never caused deaths? It would surely fit into the second column? Found some more possibilities. According to
Psilocybin mushrooms of the world: an identification guide,
Galerina autumnalis is very deadly, and
Galerina cinnamomea and
Gallerina venenata are also listed as deadly (see page 195). Page 196 mentions
Pholiotina filaris as deadly.Already listed. Apparently, all those listed above produce "the same toxins as the destroying angels". I'm guessing this list could be expanded massively- according to
this article, there are over 20 deadly mushrooms in Quebec alone, and I doubt that even counts non-mushroom fungi (are we including them on this list?)
J Milburn (
talk) 15:23, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi all. In a current fungal FAC about the monotypic genus Polyozellus, Jimfbleak raised a good point about the naming convention for this type of article. Are there reasons I'm missing for not naming it after the species rather the genus? I guess some issues may arise in the future if another species is discovered, and the article has to be modified. Opinions? Sasata ( talk) 07:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Polyozellus is languishing at FAC... would appreciate any comments on how to improve the article. Also, I'm thinking of trying to get List of Armillaria species to featured list status, and was wondering what other info (if any) I should put in there. There's room for hundreds of similar "list of xxxx species" articles, so perhaps this might serve as a sort of template for further efforts? Also, compare List of Cyathus species; in that case, I had an excellent monograph available to easily fill in the details, but maybe there's too much technical info for a Wikipedia article? Sasata ( talk) 19:19, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Another mushroom taxon at FAC. As always, comments gratefully received! Sasata ( talk) 17:30, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Both found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (North Carolina side). Kaldari ( talk) 00:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Any opinions on the Ramariopsis species? Kaldari ( talk) 21:54, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
I sat down with the local mycologists at the university and managed to get quite a few old photos with more precise ids. Unfortunately they were not interested in taking herbarium specimens of future photos (assuming that I could get a permit) due to time constraints. Most of these are redlinked or redirects if anyone is looking for articles to write. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:21, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Oh, some of the papers here: [3] would be quite useful. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:25, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
This delightful picture was uploaded to commons by User:Multimotyl, who also added it to Aspergillus. Multimotyl says it's Aspergillus based on what a friend who studies biology said ( [4]). Two questions:
Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 13:27, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Gah, sorry folks, I shouldn't try to write so late at night. Let me rephrase:
Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 05:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm used to studying animals, so I have no idea what's expected in a paper about a fungus. For example, if I write about Danio rerio, it's appropriate to mention the order and family (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) and also the authority (Buchanon-Hamilton, 1822). However, I'm getting ready to do a study on baker's yeast and am not sure how to address it. I am aware that botanists omit the year, order, and family, and abbreviate the authority's name where possible, but seem to include more authorities than I am used to crediting. Do fungi follow similar quirky rules? Thanks! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 01:07, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to advise our collaborators to practice more caution when adding categories to fungal articles, especially those with taxonomic standing higher than species level. Adding categories relating to edibility or locale to articles (e.g. Cyathus) is incorrect as these are not characteristics of the Genus Cyathus itself, but rather individual species. Now, we all strive to wikify our articles to the greatest extents, but it's necessary to address this issue.-- Paffka ( talk) 12:34, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
By the way, I just created a new article on Pholiota flammans, and if anyone is interested, you're more than welcome to fix it up and submit to DYK. :)-- Paffka ( talk) 23:11, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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I have posted a question at the Science reference desk asking for help identifying a species of mushroom. I have a beautiful set of five photographs of three of these mushrooms. I'd like to use them on Wikipedia. Jason Quinn ( talk) 18:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
This picture is currently used in the taxobox for Oomycete, I just wanted to see if people are sure that this is actually an oomycete and not a fungus that grows in water. It's pretty confusing that water moulds are not in fact what most people would call mould and therefore I can see someone making a mistake with this image. It's particularly relevant as the image is also used in the oomycete stub notice. I posted here as I thought people here would be most likely to know, whilst on the topic, should oomycete really have a wikiproject fungi tag? They're more related to algae than fungi... Cheers Smartse ( talk) 17:43, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
There is a proposal at the Village Pump [5] to add featured picture stars to featured pictures in article space (below the featured picture, in its caption box, or image caption box in the case of taxoboxes with featured pictures.
The discussion includes asking the question whether they should be added to all featured pictures in articles including in taxoboxes, added just to featured pictures in caption boxes only and not to featured pictures in taxoboxes, or not added at all. Currently to find out if an image is a featured picture the user has to click on the image and its file page indicates with a star in the upper right hand corner that it is a featured picture.
To join the discussion and express your opinion go to the Village Pump. -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 08:32, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
How about merging silver leaf (fungal disease vernacular name) into Chondrostereum purpureum? -- Una Smith ( talk) 04:45, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've created a little tutorial for how to make those nifty species distribution maps that people sometimes add to taxoboxes: Wikipedia:Distribution maps. Enjoy. Kaldari ( talk) 23:25, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Seeing as this year's DYK list has suddenly stopped short of 147, with two and a half weeks remaining, I was wondering if anyone had any plans for such a target. Personally, I'm working on Cystodermella cinnabarina which I'm planning to upload in a couple of days, and maybe with a bit more info and an image which are hard to come by, it could be done DYK worthy.-- Paffka ( talk) 00:28, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
It might be worthwhile to create a template for common name disambiguation pages, analogous to {{plant common name}} [6]. This could promote a format more specifically utile than a basic dab page. ENeville ( talk) 01:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)