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Lists of Salticidae species

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There are over 5000 species of spider in the family Salticidae. New ones are constantly being added and old ones are frequently synonymized or moved to different genera. There is no possibility of Wikipedia maintaining an up-to-date list of these 5000+ spiders while also constantly updating the redundant lists under the 560+ genera articles for this family. Indeed, this list already includes dozens, if not hundreds, of errors. The normal way this is handled is by having a list of genera (which we already have at List of Salticidae genera) and maintaining the species lists under each genus article. For comparison, the number of bird species is roughly the same order of magnitude, but no one has created List of bird species. Instead we have the manageable List of birds, which lists only the subgroups, while the actual species lists are one or two levels further down the article hierarchy. Also consider that there are dozens of editors working on birds and only 2 or 3 editors working on Salticidae (minus Philcha who passed away recently). Please have mercy on us! Kaldari (talk) 07:25, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Support, per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. There are already several online databases that are regularly updated, such as ITIS and Catalog of Life, that contain virtually the exact same data here.--Animalparty-- (talk) 08:34, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Neutral I created these pages, and they came in very handy when working on the spider section, but now that I don't have time for it, it is probably not of great use. Keeping it updated would not be a great problem though, I have a script somewhere that parses the World Spider Catalog and creates these Wiki pages. I just haven't been running it for a while. --Sarefo (talk) 11:34, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organisms-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:20, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:21, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:21, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

• Comment. None of the actual lists (e.g., List of Salticidae species (A–C)) are yet tagged or included in this nomination, only the master navigational list that links to those lists. postdlf (talk) 15:35, 4 January 2014 (UTC)