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Caitlin Dewey (10 June 2014). "The most influential person on Wikipedia is someone you've probably never heard of". Washington Post. The most influential historical figure on Wikipedia, per a recent paper by researchers at several European universities, is none other than the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus — a.k.a., the guy who invented the system we use to classify plants and animals.

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Please acknowledge the racist undertones of Linnaeus "classification" work on humans. During the 18th Century "Enlightenment Period" in Europe, racist ideologies were put forward under the auspices of science, starting with Linnaeus. Racism was ingrained in society during that time period. Saying his motives and "classifications" of people where not motivated by racist beliefs and ideology ignores the context of that time along side his overtly racist language and descriptions. He contributed greatly to the field of Biology, but was also racist. These facts are not mutually exclusive. Please update. For further details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism#Carl_Linnaeus Hefroehlich (talk) 18:56, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. If it was ingrained in society, then it's not particularly worthy of mention here, see WP:PRESENTISM. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There was a very notable controversy in Sweden regarding Linnaeus' ties to scientific racism during the summer of 2020, as a number of petitions demanded that statues of him be removed across the country. The issue of presentism doesn't extend to this controversy, so mention of this should be included in the "Commemoration" section! Lindra2 (talk) 17:22, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to provide an additional reference as to the human classification of Linnaeus.

Svensson Mats E. 2015. How Linnaeus classified humans: why red, white, yellow and black people were assigned particular temperaments. Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 17/2012. p.303-315. Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.17875/gup2015-888.

It provides a plausible explanation to his attributions of temperaments according to skin color. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matssven (talk • contribs) 22:21, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Carl linnaeus

His father Nills ignemaso linnaeus is an amateur botanist .He wanted to give the children standard education 81.77.49.18 (talk) 07:02, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Carl linnaeus 2

Carl linnaeus was given the opportunity to plant in their large garden. He was given a private lesson teacher which he found dull.The teachers expected him to be good at Greek, etc but he was not a teacher who discovered his love for plants and talked to his parents to send him to medical school in age 21 he was in university the parents were mad at him because he did not study theology . Meanwhile in the university one of the teachers saw his notes and saw that he knew botany than he did 81.77.49.18 (talk) 07:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Carl linnaeus a young university teacher

He was asked to teach at The university at the age of 23 ,the student found his subjects interesting in the year 2002 he travelled far and wide to be able to classify plants and animals 81.77.49.18 (talk) 07:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Commentary

The 'Commentary' section starts with the following sentence: "In the 21st century, Linnæus's taxonomy of human "races" has been problematised and discussed". However, a number of references for that paragraph predate the 21st century. Therefore, "in the 21st century" should be changed to something like "in recent decades", for accuracy purposes. Thank you. 2A00:23C4:6B13:D801:3CC4:5106:CDFC:9E72 (talk) 19:35, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Change formalise to formalize in the first paragraph. 2600:1700:2371:1C20:AD4F:B4B0:946A:9350 (talk) 23:21, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: The article is written in British English, which uses the spelling "formalise". ULPS (talk) 23:25, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please remove nationality parameter is necessary per MOS:INFONAT. 112.204.223.12 (talk) 05:47, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]