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[edit] Missing Information

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[edit] Project goals

Proposal:

1. To create an exhaustive treatment of gardening techniques and methods.
2. To capture "how-to" sections of WP articles related to gardening.

[edit] Project standards

[edit] MoS (Manual of Style)

[edit] First, Second, or Third Person?

[edit] Linking

[edit] Wikilinking

Best not to overdo them... this is not WP.

[edit] Templates

Seems a good idea to have some regular outline that all chapters follow, particularly on chapters about individual plants.

[edit] Transwikis from WP

Transwikiing from WP is somewhat problematic, as there is no way to "move a page" between WP and WB other than copy-paste. Two chapters are currently based on transwikis.

[edit] Additional volumes?

[edit] References

Most of the current chapters lack citations, which is fine as long as they're from passed down knowledge or "gardeners' experience" (as per previous discussions in the WB staff lounge, the verifiability for these is "in the doing"), but not so good it they're not from those sorts of sources.

[edit] Transwiki:How to distinguish a monocot from a dicot

Would you be interested in adopting this orphan? If the page will be useful, please integrate it into this book. By the way, I recommend you move the above to a "project information" or "to-do" page. --hagindaz 05:04, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Transwiki:Proper care of a cactus is another page you may find useful. I also suggest merging Potato growing into this book. By the way, there's some content that should be integrated at A Wikimanual of Gardening/Organic Lawn Care/transwiki. --hagindaz 07:51, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean by "integrated"? I'll check the TW and the potato book. SB_Johnny 17:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The monocot/dicot article probably falls under botany rather than hotriculture...so might not belong in this particular book (though an introduction to botany would be a useful book too!) SB_Johnny 17:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The difference between the two is essential to gardening as they will have very different nutritional, light, and other requirements. Also products such as the herbicide 24d are based on these physiological differences and are the reason that 24d will kill dandilions but not grass. 209.115.237.182 (talk) 19:45, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned page

Found A Wikimanual of Gardening:Garden bed cleanup when going through orphaned pages, not sure where it should go within the book so I'll leave it up to someone involved with the project. Xerol Oplan 03:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll grab it up. I'm kind of restructuring the whole thing anyway, so haven't been linking as much.SB_Johnny | ^talk 03:36, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Going through orphans again, found a bunch of pages (some stubs, some with content). The fact that there's so many leads me to believe a listing or index was removed/deleted somewhere.

[edit] Collapsing volumes...

I'm going to collapse all volumes of this project into one book (A Wikimanual of Gardening) for ease of linking from other wiki projects, the cookbook, etc. New entries should use the form [[A Wikimanual of Gardening/<Chaptername>]], preferably without subchapters, to make linking here as easy as possible. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 13:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cover images

Currently I'm changing the cover/template image once per month. SB_Johnny | ^talk 10:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Previous images (click to expand)

September, 2006:

[edit] List of templates using this image

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[edit] "Modifying Wikipedia Articles for Use in a Wikimanual of Gardening"

why isn't Modifying Wikipedia Articles for Use in a Wikimanual of Gardening a part of this discussion page? Hoogli 16:25, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

It's part of the meta side of this book. I didn't bring it up for discussion here because there wasn't really anyone to discuss it with :P. Nice to see you! --SB_Johnny | ^talk 19:15, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

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