Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Botanist template

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This is an essay on article content. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how the content policies may be interpreted within their area of interest. This information is not a formal Wikipedia policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

Note that this template is only a suggestion and not all botanist biographies will contain all these sections.

This article describes what would be an "ideal" article about a botanist. Such an article will be divided into sections like those suggested and described below. Ideally, all of these sections can be filled with relevant information. In many, maybe even most cases, this is not possible. A well-made GA usually should have sections entitled as in this guide (see, for example, Carl Linnaeus).

Because this is a biography, it also needs to adhere to the guidelines of Wikiproject biography.

Before you start:

1. You may find it easier to create the article in your own user space at your leisure first and then move it to the article name you have chosen once you are satisfied with it. Still will prevent anyone trying to delete your half finished article. To do this use the Article Wizard. If you are planning to write about John Smith, create the page User:Your username/John Smith and then save it. Write something like "creating stub" in the edit summary.
2. It is a good idea to search both Wikipedia and the web to make sure there is not already a biography under a different form of the name, and to see if there is a biography on one of the other language versions of biography, you can use as a guide. If another language version already exists, place a template on your page to access that easily. For instance if you are writing about John Smith, and there is a biography of John Smith on the French Wikipedia but not the English, place the template {{expand French|John Smith}} at the top of your page and save it. This will create a box with links to the French version as well as a Google translation.
3. Identify sources, such as

• Harvard Botanist Index e.g. "Calestani, Vittorio". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists. 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
• Tropicos Person Search e.g. "Alan W Meeerow". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015. (note: there are links to other databases there)
• Isely, Duane (1994). One Hundred and One Botanists. Ames: Iowa State University Press. ISBN 0-8138-2498-2. Retrieved 27 December 2015.