Talk:Companion planting/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Eviolite (talk · contribs) 00:18, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take this and try to get to it today or tomorrow. eviolite (talk) 00:18, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Notes:

Quite concerned about the sourcing: why are Mel's Garden, Country living and farm lifestyles, and Garden & Greenhouse reliable? (Also refs 9 and 11 are the same and should be combined.) I would recommend searching for more journal-level sources, or at least sources from reputable institutions, for these statements.
- Removed. Have used other sources including NGA, see below.

I would also appreciate some consistency in date format, what's being linked and what's not, fixing bare links like 20 and 22, but I guess that's not strictly necessary.
- Formatted.

I suggest incorporating the information from the National Gardening Association external link into the article and removing it as an external link - there's a lot of information in there about specific plants that could be added.
- Done.

Prose:

Remove the references in the lead per WP:LEADCITE. Additionally, the information in the main image caption is not mentioned in the pest suppression section which should be done.

Link "fixes nitrogen" on first occurrence (first paragraph of history section) and unlink from second paragraph
- Fixed.

The "different species of plant" link seems much like a WP:EASTEREGG to me. I also recommend linking that list more obviously somewhere in the article, since it is rather crucial.
- Moved into article body, linked, described, and cited.

One-sentence paragraphs in "provision of nutrients" section can be combined into one paragraph.
- Fixed.

Unlink fixing nitrogen, which has already been linked above.
- Fixed.

How recent are these "recent studies" (host-finding disruption section)? See MOS:RECENT
- Removed.

Same section: semicolon in "The insect must accumulate sufficient stimuli from the host-plant to lay eggs; so it must make a certain number of consecutive 'appropriate' landings" should be a comma.
- Reworded.

Be consistent in single vs double quotes when referring to (in)appropriate landings.
- Fixed.

Same section: "same disruptive effect" - same as what?
- Reworded.

The entire systems section does not make much sense to me. It wants to be a list but is not formatted as one, and what "systems" actually means is not clarified at all.
- Formatted as list; reworded.

Square foot gardening: Long and unwieldy sentence; can be split.
- Split.

Forest gardening: The phrasing "actual ecosystem" is weird - what makes the ecosystem "actual"? And what does "intermingling" actually mean in this context? What are "levels" of plants?
- Reworded.

That's it for my comments; @Chiswick Chap: placing the review on hold for the above. Thanks, eviolite (talk) 01:08, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A few more

Thanks for the edits, Chiswick Chap. I still have a few comments as follows:

The info in the caption should also be in the article
- Done.

The lead mentions cottage gardens in England but this is not covered in the body; either remove from lead or add to history section
- Removed.

There is still a citation in the lead - as the info should also be in the body it can be removed.
- Done.

Can reference [23] be swapped out? It appears to be self-published.
- Removed.

That's all - nice work cleaning up this article and just a few things before I am happy to promote it as a GA. Thanks, eviolite (talk) 13:22, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Chiswick Chap: Apologies for the confusion (really should have used ref names instead of numbers), but for [23] I meant the Self-Sufficient Gardener podcast. Otherwise I am satisfied with the article. eviolite (talk) 14:36, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. Eviolite: Many thanks for the review. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:46, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the edits - promoting to GA now; great work on the article. eviolite (talk) 14:50, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mr. Chiswick Chap why is the article Companion planting have many cites with have no number pages? help me Khả Vân Đại Hãn (talk) 05:46, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We don't normally continue GAN discussions once they're closed. However, either page numbers or named chapters are now indicated throughout. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:36, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]