Talk:Acer rubrum

	Acer rubrum 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.
Article milestones Date Process Result October 11, 2007 Good article nominee Listed January 15, 2026 Good article reassessment Kept
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GA

Hi - I feel this article is well-written and passes all GA criteria. congrats.

It is a nice platform for FAC at some stage but would require some more information (if known/researched/available) on:

ecology -any birds or insects make use of it?

Uses - expand information on use in lumber and maple syrup in terms of quantity/tunrover etc.

A Taxonomy section, who named it when and how?

The prose is good but there are a some sentences which could be rewritten (eg "species of tree" instead of "tree species" in first sentence and make 2nd sentence sound less repetitive)

Hopefully there'd be some more diverse references to assist in embellishing these.

Good luck. cheers, Cas Liber | talk | contribs 04:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I forgot to add the cultivar section would need a review before FAC - which are common, which are new, which are popular and why, and maybe a complete list on another page if this one sails over 35kb with a non-listy summary here. I am sure many plant articles will have this problem - I've been developing Banksia spinulosa :) cheers, Cas Liber | talk | contribs 20:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is lacking is a discussion of the fire ecology of red maple. I added that it was fire intolerant and took out the apparent irony of the absence of the tree from the prairie peninsula. While the "widespread" nature of the tree is covered well, the invasive aspect (into ecosystems where it was not in presettlement times to to fire suppression) isn't mentioned at all. A good article on this is at http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/27/science/eastern-forests-change-color-as-red-maples-proliferate.html but I don't yet know how to add references to my edits MApandr (talk) 16:25, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added material to the lead section regarding the red maple as being possibly considered to be invasive, using the USDA as well as the article you gave. I was concerned that someone reading just the basics would get an overly favorable impression, without any of the controversy. It may also be useful to add something about its shallow roots. This can be found at http://parks.cityofboise.org/community-forestry/street-trees/species-prohibited-on-public-rights-of-way/ though a better source should be found. Lena Key (talk) 15:04, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps (Pass)

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Corvus coronoides _talk 23:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adding something

Hi I think that this article is very well written and informative. I definitely appreciate the organization of the topics and the time spent creating this piece. However, I would like to add something to the distribution section. There is some evidence that phosphorous availability can affect the spread of Acer rubrum, and I would like to comment on that further. Also, I am interested in the ability of mycorrhizal fungi to increase the growth and spread of A. rubrum and would like to add some information about that as well. EllenCat (talk) 15:35, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links

The external link for the 4th link (US Forestry report) contains a link to a blog post about the report. I don't know how to modify links. The original link for the official report should be updated to: https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/catalog/CAT80450955 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brockpag (talk • contribs) 17:40, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possible image replacement

@Djlayton4: (pinging as primary contributor) - what do you think of File:Acer rubrum (red maple) female (32047765441).jpg as a replacement for the photo of female flowers in the article? Seems like the close-up would be better for that purpose, but since it's a GA I don't want to make an assumption. There's also File:Acer rubrum (red maple) Male (32047765001).jpg as a potential replacement for the male flowers (again a close-up on clean background). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:44, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article review

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 20:19, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Acer rubrum

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Result: Issues appear to have been addressed. Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:10, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Z1720 (talk) 03:00, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Engvar: this is currently mixed, and always has been, with no specification set; even the very first incarnation has both Canadian (grey, odour, colour) and US (meters) spellings, but with a preponderance of Canadian. A decision is needed on which engvar should be used. Canadian might be better given the significance of maples (in general) in Canada?

  Canadian English selected.

• Lead photo: this would be better with a natural-growing wild specimen, and probably better foliage and fruit (more reliably verifiable to identity), rather than a whole tree. A potentially dubious cultivated tree isn't the best; I'm not sure that the current lead photo isn't actually Acer × freemanii, as the leaves (what one can see of them!) look fairly deeply lobed, and this hybrid is much more commonly planted as a street tree than true A. rubrum.

  Changed.

• Grammar: English posessive -'s should never be used with Latin scientific names (rubrum's 🤢🤮); the three instances of this need eliminating. - MPF (talk) 18:22, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Fixed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:13, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Chiswick Chap: I have added citation needed templates to the article if you or any editor is interested in resolving the uncited statements. Z1720 (talk) 16:50, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Z1720 OK, I've tidied up the article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:49, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. My concerns are resolved. Z1720 (talk) 01:41, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.