Talk:Mandragora officinarum

message: A question: why is much of the information in italics? I can see no overt need for them.Exec. Tassadar  (comments, contribs) 14:02, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, where is the citation for the first part "We rate it 1 out of 5 for usefulness"?  This is not useful or relevant or appropriate.  Can someone with knowledge or resources edit this?  Also the resource is a general page, i.e. this entire article is currently uncited. --Tenniskh89 (talk) 03:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italics??? 

message: Does this page break copyright? It looks like it was copied straight from another site. There are annotations suggesting references, but no references provided except for Bibliomation. --Belfry (talk) 15:44, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright infringement? 

message: The text contains a confusion with Podophyllum aka. "American Mandrake", aka. Mayapple, which is a completely unrelated plant species.
This is the plant which has drastic purgative and emetic actions, not the Mandragora species, which has merely an action and indication based on Atropine/Hyoscine content as a smooth muscle spasmolytic, anticholinergic e.g. for Parkinsons, narcotic and sedative agent for premedication for full anesthesia etc. and has been historically also used for the like indications. The Mandragora is not emetic or purgative and not suitable for the named external application.
Other remarks in the text about external application also rely on the same confusion of "Mandrake" and "American Mandrake". This needs to be sorted out.
70.137.145.16 (talk) 04:43, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not seeing this where American Mandrake is discussed. All 4 references in the article are about Mandragora officinarum (some using the older name Atropa mandragora). Which references are about American Mandrake?Plantdrew (talk) 14:49, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusion with American Mandrake

message: Since M. autumnale and M. vernalis are synonyms of M. officinarum, surely the information about times of flowering and fruiting needs clarification. Nadiatalent (talk) 16:44, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time of flowering and fruiting 

message: It is potentially confusing that the lead photo for this plant shows what appear to be Iris leaves. Nadiatalent (talk) 16:44, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Photo replaced. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 18:55, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone take a better photo? 

message: As a result of the discussion at Talk:Mandrake (plant)#Requested move 7 February 2015, I performed the following steps:
* :Mandrake (plant) merged to Mandragora officinarum
* :Mandrake moved to Mandrake (disambiguation) (not done yet, waiting for an admin)
* :Mandrake redirected to Mandragora officinarum
In addition to that, on my own I:
* Redirected :Mandragora to Mandragora officinarum, as the type species
* Created Mandragora (genus) with short information about all three species in the genus. 
Maybe the last two could be reversed, but I felt that "Mandragora" is a common search term, and the readers would be better served with a comprehensive article about M. officinarum. No such user (talk) 10:42, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merges and moves 

message: *Support, the wording "Mandragora officinarum" does not appear in the article text following the initial wording.  GregKaye 07:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: These excellent principles can only be applied if the topic of the article is clear, i.e. WP:PRECISION is upheld. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: But name for what? Peter coxhead (talk) 11:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

text: What "other two species"? This isn't clear, since circumscriptions vary. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That paper looks definitive. There is no more recent taxonomic work on the genus listed in Kew Bibliographic Databases. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 19:57, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

text: But the proposed move eliminates that equation (mandrake=M. officinarum). Instead, the page can be about "a plant found around the Mediterranean, which has been, and still is, divided up into species differently by different reliable sources" without biasing the title for or against any particular division of species. Srnec (talk) 15:03, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: However, calling it a move is confusing. What is needed is a split, with the material about uses of all the various things called "mandrake" at a page called Mandrake, and discussion of each individual species  at its own page, including how that species has been defined by different authors. Wonderful work , you've expanded pages magnificently! Now if this "proposed move" can be put to bed, we can carry on with expanding the necessary pages. (I'd like for a user to be able to find something informative if they search for "male mandrake", "female mandrake", "spring mandrake".) Sminthopsis84 (talk) 21:04, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey and discussion