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Good articleUtricularia inflata has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
January 8, 2008Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 28, 2007.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Utricularia inflata is one of the few invasive species of carnivorous plant?

GA review

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Problems

  • 1a prose
    • float (noun, under Description) - what does it mean?
      • Fixed.
    • Its filiform leaf-like structures (often called leaves for lack of a better term) - it's not clear what part of the plant this senstence is about.
      • Hopefully explained more clearly.
    • Although both early discoveries of populations in Massachusetts and New York have been met with skepticism when possibly regarding them as northern range expansions of the species - "when" is used strangely.
      • Sentence was important to an earlier version of the page before I expanded on the New York paragraph, so I simply removed it. Think it flows better without it, anyway.
  • 2a references
    • first paragraph of Invasiveness - reference?
      • 1st paragraph was a sort of "introduction" to the invasiveness section, references added from material below it.
        • Oh, you're right.
    • it only says perennial in the lead. Add a sentance about how long it lives in Description, or reference perennial in the lead.
      • Mention of perennial added to description. There's no verifiable information on how long the plants live, but they survive from year-to-year by producing those tuber-like structures, hence perennial.

Otherwise it is GA level. A photograph wouldn't hurt though. Narayanese (talk) 15:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review. I'll have the time tomorrow to address the issues. A photo would be nice, but a lengthy search revealed no PD photos and it's the wrong time of the year for me to create my own (but I have plans in the works to locate it this spring). Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 00:29, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hope I addressed all of the issues above. I left some notes on how I approached each one above. If you have any further comments before you pass it, let me know! Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 00:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yup, everything fixed. Nice article, it was interesting to read (I'm used to thinking about carnivorous plants as poor things barely able to survive). Narayanese (talk) 01:02, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]