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December 31, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 1, 2025	Good article nominee	Listed

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Non-angiosperms in main image

The article's main image contains 4 images of non-flowers: reproductive structures of Picea abies, Pinus pinaster, Equisetum arvense, and Cycas revoluta, none of which are flowering plants. 171.66.12.183 (talk) 22:18, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well spotted - that's been fixed now. Junglenut |Talk 23:08, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 10 January 2024

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"I Bet Your Mother Would Be Proud Of You"- Frank Ocean.... WhoBeKnockingOnTheirDoor (talk) 17:24, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Your request doesn't seem to be relevant, provided the page. If I am misunderstanding, feel free to reply with a more specific proposition. Urropean (talk) 18:39, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a sunflower is not a flower?

Source: https://archive.org/details/james-d.-mauseth-botany-an-introduction-to-plant-biology-2017-jones-bartlett-learning-libgen.li/page/227/mode/2up

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/December 2011 Christchurch earthquakes

Improved to Good Article status by Dracophyllum (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Draco phyllum 05:13, 3 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Another cheeky one; a sunflower is actually an inflorescence or group of many flowers. Draco phyllum 05:14, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Recent GA article checks out on sourcing, length, copyvio, etc. Next stop featured article? @Dracophyllum: It would be nice to include a photo, the sunflower in the gallery at the top of the page is very eye-catching. BuySomeApples (talk) 06:16, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers, if the prep makers would like, the following is a nice image. Draco phyllum 06:21, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Listing this because I've been encouraged by some editors to get it through FAC. Not sure if I have it in me, given my only other FA is a super niche plant. But if I do submit it, I figured this would be a good place to start.

Thanks, Draco phyllum 06:24, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The image of flowers at the top includes the capitulum of Helianthus annuus which is a pseudanthial inflorescence, not a flower. Also, I think it desirable that text should mention pseudanthia, if only to distinguish them from flowers. Lavateraguy (talk) 14:14, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]