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This is really exciting. I had no idea the tool existed! Joyous! Noise! 17:19, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jengod:, an additional step after adding an image should be to check the talk page and remove anything that puts the article into a requested image category. There might be a {{photo requested}} template, but more frequently (at least for organisms) there is a |needs-image= in a WikiProject banner. Talk:Bombus pauloensis is still marked as needing an image via the WikiProject Insects banner. The requested images categories aren't very useful because many articles that lack images were never added to them, but it doesn't help things to have articles that now have images remaining in the requested image categories. Plantdrew (talk) 20:32, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Ooohh! Good info! Never even occurred to me to check WP tags on the talk page but will do so going forward. Now I just need to find the smilax article I added a photo to...sometime...recently? jengod (talk) 20:44, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Have fun dancing through your contributions! Joyous! Noise! 20:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Jengod:, somebody else may have taken care of the image request for the Smilax, or (more likely) it was never in a requested image category in the first place. There is a tool to check for false positives (i.e. articles in a requested image category that have any images), and there are no Smilax articles in Category:Wikipedia requested images of plants that have an image.

Note that using the tool requires adding images to a blacklist; the thumbnail images used in stub-sorting templates will count as images until they are black-listed. I do try to keep the black-list for plants (and ) up-to-date, but there are still some false-false-positives; the article has an image, but it's a range map (or a related species), not an image of the organism itself. I don't think the blacklists for any other categories for requested images of organisms are being kept up-to-date (any most of them were never set-up in the first place).

I've worked some on removing image requests from plants that have images, but have never gotten close to removing all the fulfilled image requests, and it's been a few months since I've worked on it, so now there are more fulfilled image requests I haven't removed (when I was on top of it, I'd worked alphabetically from A through C and in reverse from Z through somewhere in P). Plantdrew (talk) 22:06, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Great article, super cool! Frostly (talk) 02:39, 15 February 2024 (UTC)