Talk:Banksia prionotes

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Archived[edit]

Archived horribly long talk page in anticipate of a whole lot more comments at FAC.

Issues to carry over from archive:

  • we need a seed pic  Done
    • I shot the seed separator too, but there was no need to jam it in here. Instead I made a Commons gallery. Check it out: Commons:Banksia prionotes. Hesperian 14:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Nice work - the seed is much more interesting than the "matte blackish seeds" in the text though, is there any further detail in the cited texts? Melburnian (talk) 14:35, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • add info on (individual) flower morphology
  • add info on foliar arrangement (scattered, opposite, whorled?)  Done
  • I'm not sure if "stilted language in taxonomic history section" has been fully addressed; I'll have a look tonight.tomorrow night.

Hesperian 05:06, 11 August 2009 (UTC) Hesperian 05:21, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

<gallery> doesn't support alt text[edit]

Closeup of a tree trunk. The bark has mottled patches of very light grey on a background of slightly darker grey.
Typical smooth, mottled light grey bark
Closeup of a tree trunk. The bark is dark grey and deeply furrowed.
Furrowed bark on the trunk of an older tree
Two long thin leaves with serrated margins, blunt tips, prominent light brown ridribs and long petioles. The leaf on the left shows its dull dark green upper surface. The leaf on the right shows its lower surface, which is light green, with a network of veins traced in light brown.
Leaves, upper (left) and lower (right) faces
An acorn-shaped head of flowers. The upper part is a tall dome of woolly white buds. The lower part is wider, and bright orange; it consists of bright orange styles and limbs sticking out from a background of open white buds.
Inflorescence, mid-anthesis.
An elongate upright brown cylinder covered in a regular pattern of small white dots. Embedded in it are about thirty woolly white follicles, each shaped roughly like an American football, but with a short hooked point at one end, and a horizontal seam.
Developing infructescence
A roughly egg-shaped red-brown woody structure growing at the end of a branch. It is covered in small grey spikes, and has about ten light-grey woody follicles embedded in it. Each follicle has opened unevenly, with one side barely open, and the other open wide. At the wide end of each follicle there is a pointed beak where the split has deviated from the seam.
Mature infructescence after seed release

I had a go at putting the gallery images into a table so that alt text can be supported, but it looks like shit so I didn't save it. I'm dropping it here, in case other people think the requirement for alt-text trumps aesthetics for the sighted. Hesperian 01:00, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also the text overlaps (as viewed on my screen) making it partially unreadable. I wonder why "gallery" doesn't support alt text ... is it difficult to implement? Melburnian (talk) 03:22, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"padding-left:1em;". Fixed now?
Still cut off, for instance the second caption reads:
"Furrowed bar
on the trunk c
an older tree"
I'll check on my home computer later tonight for comparison. Melburnian (talk) 04:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, same problem. Melburnian (talk) 13:29, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think the gallery syntax was formulated before the need for alt= was recognised. And it has never been updated. It is part of a broader problem: it doesn't accept any named parameters. This makes it impossible to display a DjVu page in a gallery. Hesperian 03:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Think it's worth me bringing it up at Village Pump (Technical)? Melburnian (talk) 04:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Seems it's already been reported. [1] Melburnian (talk) 05:25, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bravo![edit]

What a great article. Congratulations to all who were involved. 86.133.55.150 (talk) 08:19, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why thanks :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 15:47, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nyungar vocabulary[edit]

I was just about to update the dead link in the "Taxonomy" section to the Nyungar wordlist, which now appears to be at http://www.wheatbeltnrm.org.au/resources/nyungar-dictionary.pdf, however, I couldn't find Bwongka listed there. DrKiernan (talk) 18:04, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's on page 16 - there are two segments containing banksias and it is in the second....Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:18, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Too many pictures[edit]

Currently, I think this article has too many images, or just too many images grouped together, as it's affecting the article formatting somewhat. --UltimateKuriboh (talk) 16:46, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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