Template:Did you know nominations/Cortinarius glaucopus
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by — Maile (talk) 21:03, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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Cortinarius glaucopus edit
Old drawing of Cortinarius glaucopus
... that the German common name for Cortinarius glaucopus is Schwachknolliger Klumpfuss?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Love Vigilantes
- Comment: I just had to use that German name...
Created by Casliber (talk). Self-nominated at 10:21, 1 September 2015 (UTC).
Long enough; new enough; neutral; no naughtiness detected in the creative writing department ( a couple of uncheckables but that Casliber seems an honest sort); QPQ done; pic free and pretty at DYK size (if you like old toadstools); hook cited, but I checked Google for Schwachknolliger Klumpfuss and got only 4 results including this article, the source and two sites which look like they could have either taken their info from the source site or been the source for it (neither of which are German); a German fungi site calls it Reihiger Klumpfuß and searching for '"Cortinarius glaucopus" Klumpfuß' or '"C. glaucopus" Klumpfuß' gives only Reihiger Klumpfuß. That doesn't sound as funny to English ears (at least not to mine; heavily polluted with other languages but not German); you should hold out for Cortinarius occidentalis (Dunkler Purpurklumpfuß) or Cortinarius alboviolaceus (Weißviolette Dickfuß). Belle (talk) 23:57, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Roger Phillips has written plenty of guidebooks. Many organisms have shorter and longer names - for instance Australian magpie is generally just magpie in Oz, northern raven is just 'raven' etc. There are 2000 species of Cortinarius and many of them have swollen clubby stems - Klumpfuß I guess is more of a generic name. Maybe I will expand the others and we can have a double or triple nomination...hang on....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:52, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- I don't really get what your point is; I can't see any compelling evidence that this fungus is called Schwachknolliger Klumpfuss unless we say Roger Phillips can't be wrong; it's not as if it is being shortened to just Klumpfuss anywhere (like your examples), it is just being called Reihiger Klumpfuss instead of Schwachknolliger Klumpfuss. Maybe it's just too late at night for my brain to work out what you are saying; I'll look tomorrow. Belle (talk) 01:20, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- I guess I am rambling a bit - am thinking of options. I was commenting it might be rare as it is one of those common names that is more often abbreviated...but having looked around it is pretty hard to figure out except that no common names are common really for it....so I'm a bit stuck for a hook and need to have a think about it. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:16, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Belle: how's this - ALT1: ... that Cortinarius glaucopus forms unusually hydrophobic (water-repellant) ectomycorrhizae, which has led to interest in decoding its genome?
