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Use of common plant names in infobox

Hello Sesamehoneytart, I've reverted a couple of your changes of replacing the scientific name with the common name of the plant in the infobox. But it looks like you're doing a wholesale change of these things, which is probably against consensus. You see, a plant has many "common" names. What might be the most common name in your part of the world is completely unknown in another part of the world. Where I live, "Scarlet sage" is the only vernacular name that is used — but in fact Salvia coccinea is also always used on the seed package because there are so many different common names. This is why the scientific name tends to end up being the most widely used name.

That's why nearly all plant articles use the scientific names for their titles, because they are actually the most commonly and widely used names for plants, as opposed to mostly regional nicknames, or vernacular names. First Light (talk) 06:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Sesamehoneytart, just echoing what First Light says, it is common practice to give the scientific names. As you have made a large number of changes, I'm tempted to use "rollback", which is typically used for vandalism, not because I think your contrtibutions are in any way "vandalism", but because it is a lot quicker than using the "undo" function. First Light, I see you are also a rollbacker, would you consider this a misuse of the tool? --Hillbillyholiday ^talk 07:06, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Reading the guidelines, it appears to be a justifiable use of the tools. I'm going to go ahead and rollback your edits. Apologies in advance for all the notifications you are about to receive. --Hillbillyholiday ^talk 07:30, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

I suppose I owe you an explanation. I was going through plant stubs and noticed that a lot of the taxoboxes were missing titles. I checked with more popular plants (which may have been a mistake, but I figured the popular articles would be doing it the proper way), and most of these use the common name in the title. After I did the first few, I started homogenizing all the plant articles I stumbled across that didn't follow the guideline or didn't have a title. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (flora) only explains conventions for the article title, and not the name in the taxobox, though considering I may have messed this up, perhaps it should be added there. Sesame honey tart 07:37, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Actually, when the taxobox is "missing" the title in the editing code, the taxobox automatically shows the binomial name when you see the page. I think that there does need to be an explanation of this somewhere, though not in the naming conventions page, since that's just for article titles. Probably at WP:Plants in the style guidelines. And thanks for the great flower photos you've been adding! First Light (talk) 07:44, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) No worries Sesame. Sorry to undo all your hard work. I'm not sure if there will a consensus to use common names in taxoboxes as there are many incidences of folk names being used for more than one species, however if I'm wrong let me know and I'll revert my changes. Thanks. --Hillbillyholiday ^talk 07:48, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

You point out the other problem with vernacular or local names, with the same name sometimes used for different plants. Blue sage is one, used for at least four different plants. Purple sage is used to name at least seven different plants. First Light (talk)

Parentheses in zoological authorities

Hi, the presence or absence of parentheses in zoological authorities is meaningful. It's explained a bit at Author citation (zoology)#Examples to illustrate practical use. At List of Udubidae species, for example:

Raecius aculeatus was first described under precisely this name by F. Dahl in 1901, so the author is cited as "Dahl, 1901" with no parentheses.
Raecius asper was described by T. Thorell in 1899 as Mnesitheus asper; P.T. Lehtinen transferred it to the genus Raecius in 1967. So the author of Raecius asper is cited as "(Thorell, 1899)" with the parentheses showing that "Thorell, 1899" is the author of the asper part of the name but not originally in the genus Raecius. [If this were the name of a plant, the authority citation would be "(Thorell) Lehtinen" showing that Lehtinen did the transfer; zoological citations don't show the transferer.)

So it's important to cite authors exactly as per the source (in this case the World Spider Catalog here). Peter coxhead (talk) 17:27, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Citing the World Spider Catalog

Hi, the publisher of the World Spider Catalog, which is a website, is the Natural History Museum Bern. So the citation should include |website=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern. Keep up your good work on spiders! Peter coxhead (talk) 08:22, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

That makes sense. I was wondering what the "NMBE" stood for- I always figured it was an acronym for something in another language. I'm surprised that anyone noticed a few spider genera here and there, but I'll go back as far as I can and revert the references I've already used just in case. Thanks! Sesame honey tart 16:31, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For many many arachnids. Even those who don't like spiders can appreciate articles on them. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:49, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Questions

First, are you using a script to enter all the genera of arachnids? Second, do you have the New Page privilege so that all of your pages are marked as reviewed? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:54, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

This is my Festivus present to the Spider wikiproject. I've been scraping the NMBE with a regex script, then manually copying and pasting after a quick spot check. I was hoping to get through all of them by the end of the year. As far as I'm aware, I have autopatrolled userright, so they should all be jumping the new page review process. Sesame honey tart 21:17, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	You messed up the new page by spamming it with all your arachnids! Which is actually a good thing since we need all the content we can have. Keep up the good work. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 04:10, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Ha! That's actually semi-hilarious. Thanks, though! It's not often I meet other Madoka Magica fans, so that's a fun bonus! Sesame honey tart 04:39, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

And Yet More Genera of Spiders

And yet more genera of spiders. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:55, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Just look at it! Keep up the good work! J 947 03:59, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

More spiders please

Definitely need more, please stop being lazy and create some.

:p

86.20.193.222 (talk) 02:47, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Uapou maculata

Please ask for deletion. Xx236 (talk) 08:35, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Will do, but for future reference, you can do it too. :-) Sesame honey tart 00:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Spider edits

I don't understand the logic of your edits like those to Tennesseellum.

You should not be changing the style of references, as per WP:CITEVAR. List-defined references are perfectly acceptable.
There's no point in having a list of species in both the taxobox and the text. It just invites the two becoming different in future when more species are added to the genus.
You unlinked the taxon author.

Peter coxhead (talk) 20:49, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm looking at it now. I think I remember this one; I'm pretty sure I saw a normal taxobox and only rewrote it so it would include an automatic taxobox (though looking at it now, it clearly was already an automatic taxobox). In rewriting it, I completely overlooked that link to the authority as well. The ref change was because I added a reference and was trying to keep all the references in the same style, also per WP:REF, though I wasn't aware of the WP policy you pointed out until just now. I think you were right to revert this one. Sorry- I've done about 5,000 of these over the last few months and I'm a human, not a robot ;-) I've been going back through to double check everything, but I can't promise perfection. If you see anything else that looks kind of questionable, feel free to change it, but I'd appreciate it if you let me know too so I can avoid making the same mistakes in the future. Thanks! Sesame honey tart 01:08, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I've seen your changes from manual to automated taxoboxes, which personally I applaud (but not all editors like automated taxoboxes), so I was surprised by this edit (and another recent one). I do understand that when you get into the habit of making a certain kind of edit you can easily apply it wrongly – I've done it myself. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:11, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Re Fijocrypta – the article is about both the genus and species as is normal for a monospecific genus. {{Speciesbox}} is the standard template used in these cases as clearly makes both taxa the 'targets'. If more species get put in the genus, then the article will be split, when the genus will use {{Automatic taxobox}} and the species articles will use {{Speciesbox}}. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:16, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Monospecific genera

Hi, note that articles on monospecific genera, like Montanidion which you just created, are about both the genus and the sole species. So in the opening, both the genus name and the species name should be in bold, and the species never wikilinked, since this just creates a circular link. We use {{Speciesbox}} as if it were a species article, but let the title (name) of the taxobox be the genus. This is in line with WP:NCFAUNA and Template:Speciesbox/doc#Monospecific genera.

Some other points:

It doesn't matter so much now that the core of the automated taxobox system is implemented in Lua, but it's good practice not to put templates inside templates when it can be avoided, since this increases the expansion depth, and there's a limit on the maximum allowed (see Wikipedia:Template limits). So put the actual citation template outside the taxobox template (e.g. in the body of the article or in |refs= in {{reflist}}), and only put <ref name=.../> inside the taxobox template.
For monospecific genera, use Category:Monotypic spider genera, not Category:Spider genera nor one of the spider family genera categories.
Use the most specific stub template – {{Spider-stub}} or for a few families the relevant family stubs (see Category:Spider stubs) – not {{Arachnid-stub}}.
Please add "|image-requested=yes" to the WikiProject Spiders template on the talk page if there isn't an image in the article (something I often forget).

Do keep on creating spider articles! Peter coxhead (talk) 14:28, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I've just been fixing some articles you created on monospecific spider genera that would need disambiguating. In case you don't know by now, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)#Monotypic taxa says to put such articles at the species name, e.g. Aotearoa magna, not Aotearoa (spider). Peter coxhead (talk) 10:04, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Younger family listed at Redirects for discussion

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Title in WSC citations

Hi, I notice that you usually give the family name as the title in a citation for a genus in the World Spider Catalog. An example is in this old page. It's not a good idea, in my view, because (a) it makes the citations look the same if there are citations to different genera in the same family (b) when genera are moved between families, which has been happening quite frequently recently, the citation is wrong. See the current version of Megadictyna. I think it's better for citations to genera to use the genus as the title – this is what is emphasized on the page by the use of shading, although it's also so emphasized in a family page with a full list of genera. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:45, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

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References to the World Spider Catalog

Hi, I don't know whether you work on spider articles these days, but when you did, you added reference to the World Spider Catalog like the one here, using the family name as the title of the page. The problem is that when the genus moves from one family to another, which seems all too common today, the title is wrong. If you click on the WSC link in the reference, the family is now Desidae. When referencing a genus, it's much better to use the genus name as the title of the web page. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:19, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

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Please change

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: Sesame honey tart

—Anomalocaris (talk) 23:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Done Sesame honey tart 23:33, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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I have created Category:Psilodercidae, but it's not my field, so please check it and fix if needed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:58, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Italic title template

Just to note that when you're otherwise editing a spider article (or indeed any other taxon article), you can almost always remove {{Italic title}} – it's not needed now (and is currently causing a blank line to appear at the start of the article). Peter coxhead (talk) 12:54, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Why is it no longer needed? Do the taxobox templates include am italic title template? It doesn’t look like it is obsolete- do those articles not require italic titles? It’s easy enough not to add them- less work for me- but I’m not clear on why that is. 66.87.125.138 (talk) 20:26, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Yes, taxobox templates automatically handle italicization in most cases. The major exception is that Taxobox (but not Speciesbox or Automatic taxobox) won't display italics when there is a value given for |name=. But |name= is mostly obsolete and should generally be omitted anyway. Plantdrew (talk) 20:38, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

WJ Rainbow: spider drawings

Hi, in case you're interested: Here are several plates of WJ Rainbow's spider drawings. He died in 1919, so copyright craziness should not apply here. I added one to Dorymetaecus. --Sarefo (talk) 06:05, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Update: I uploaded the whole plates:

--Sarefo (talk) 07:23, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Monotypic genera

See WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA. The genus name should be used as the title for articles covering a monotypic genus and it's sole species (except when the genus name is ambiguous with another topic on Wikipedia). Iberattus semiglabratus should be at Iberattus (several other articles you just created are also using the binomial title). Plantdrew (talk) 19:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Plantdrew- I read through it again just to make sure, and it looks like you're correct. I'll have to write a note to Peter coxhead as well; he told me that we redirect higher taxa to lower ones a while ago (the very last paragraph in the Monospecific genera section above). However, according to the naming conventions, it looks like genus to species is the exception to the rule. I think maybe he was only referring to genera that needed disambiguation pages. Good catch, thanks! Sesame honey tart 20:15, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Peter knows what the convention is (and is responsible for lots of moves from binomial to genus), he just must not have communicated it clearly. Sorry it's such a confusing hodge-podge of exceptions (lowest rank except no lower than genus, except when genus is ambiguous). My understanding of why it ended up the way it did is that paleontology folks weren't writing articles below genus rank anyway (and there are lots of monotypic genera in paleontology), and the genus title is more CONCISE (one of 5 article title criteria) than the binomial. I think it would've been better if it was "use the lowest rank for title except for paleontology", but here we are. Using the genus title is pretty consistently followed on Wikipedia except for fish, which are a huge mess (they have monotypic genus categories on articles with vernacular name titles). Plantdrew (talk) 20:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

That makes sense- I've been trying not to step on too many toes, but I'm also worried that I'm going to do a million things the wrong way then have to go back and fix them all (for instance I have a lot of "Italic title" templates to remove). I don't mind doing it one way or the other as long as we're all on the same page about it. Definitely let me know if I'm repeatedly doing something the wrong way, especially if it pertains to the confusing hodge-podge of exceptions. Sesame honey tart 20:55, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Browsing your recent contributions, things look generally excellent. You might consider adding {tl|Taxonbar}} and linking Wikidata to any new articles you create (but I do understand that can be an interruption of your work flow, and it's the kind of tedious thing that can and will be accomplished by a bot). Wikipedia really should be giving the original combination for any type species, but most Wikipedia articles that list a type species give the current combination (compare type species information at species:Phrurolinillus and Phrurolinillus). Never mind the previous sentence; I see that World Spider Catalog is showing the current combination as the type, and after checking the ICZN I see that citing is original combination is only a recommendation, not a requirement.

You may know about PetScan, but if not, it's a good tool to find articles that have some of the issues you've set as tasks for yourself. Here's a PetScan search for spider articles with automatic taxoboxes and italic title templates (note that the search parameters in this case are under the "Templates&links" tab). PetScan isn't very reliable; it tends to go down frequently, but is usually back up quickly, so if that link doesn't work, give it a couple minutes and try again. Plantdrew (talk) 21:24, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Sorry if I wasn't clear at some point; as Plantdrew says, I have made many moves of species to monotypic genera. If the article is at the scientific name, it can be argued that the genus name is likely to be better known than the full binomial, and you have to type the genus to search for the species anyway, so having the article at the genus makes sense. The irritation is switching to the species when the genus needs disambiguating.

Great work you've been doing on spiders! Peter coxhead (talk) 21:32, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

By the way, I wouldn't use the World Spider Catalog as a model for the finer points of taxonomy. They don't, for example, list synonyms as such, only mentions of a species in the literature, so you have to do some work to determine the origin of a species name. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:38, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Clarification

Just to clarify after the recent confusion. When a genus X is monotypic, i.e. it has only one species X y, then:

If the page title "X" is available, then the article should be at the genus name "X", with a redirect from "X y".
If the page title "X" is not available, because it's already in use for something else, then the article should be at the species name "X y", with a redirect at "X (spider)".

(I actually don't agree with the policy at WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA, but the preference for 'natural disambiguation' over parenthesized disambiguation seems to take precedence, and WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA is a well established guideline.) Peter coxhead (talk) 08:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Recent edits to spider articles

Hi, while I admire all the work you do updating these articles, there are some points I'd like to make:

MOS:HYPHEN is clear that we must use either spaced en-dashes or unspaced em-dashes. Spaced en-dashes seem the "tradition" in spider articles.
I see no reason to put the lists of genera or species in small font; they are not a "side issue" but an integral part of a family or genus article, and in any case MOS:SMALLTEXT is clear that you mustn't then have smaller text inside, which means you can't use it for authorities.
I question whether it's right to call a list article the "main" article; I personally think "see also" is better here, but it's not something I feel strongly about.
"As of" should be followed by the past tense, e.g. "As of April 2019, the World Spider Catalog accepted ..." See, e.g., the examples in the documentation of {{As of}} or at Wikipedia:As of. This is because for readers the date is mostly going to be in the past.
You seem to remove references in the taxobox, e.g. for the authority of the target taxon. Information not explicitly given a secondary source in the article, which this usually isn't, should be sourced in the taxobox.

Peter coxhead (talk) 06:38, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Peter, thanks for the observations.

The most relevant section of MOS:HYPHEN I could find is near the bottom:

Spaced en dashes are sometimes used between parts of list items. For example:
James Galway – flute; Anne-Sophie Mutter – violin; Maurizio Pollini – piano.

I agree that spaced en dashes should be the standard. My goal in updating the genus/species lists was to make sure the links were correct and locations updated; I didn't put much thought into which hyphen I used. After a quick survey of some pages I worked on yesterday, it looks like I've been using spaced em dashes. I wonder how long I've been using the wrong hyphen and how many genus pages use spaced em dashes for the species list? I think this is something we can request a bot to go in and fix for us.

MOS:SMALLTEXT is clear, and I'm not sure why the "small text within a small wrapper" situation never occurred to me. According to the Manual of Style for biology (here),

In the article body, wrap the author and date information in {{small}} or <small>...</small>

I've been going through families alphabetically, and I believe I started using small for the lists when I saw how overwhelming the list of 175 genera for "Araneidae" was in normal font size. This also addresses the question you had about linking the list of species as a "main" article. I didn't mean to infer that was the main list for the page, just the main page for that specific section. If it's misleading, I can remove it, but I though it was a more appropriate place to bring up the page's existence than at the very bottom of the page. Regardless, MOS:SMALLTEXT is clear about small text within small text, so there should be another solution for lists with >150 members.

I understand how the current use of "as of" is an issue and it's the reason I added the month instead of just using the year. In the long run, I don't think it's worth the effort to go back through and change all of them to "March" instead of "April", but I will start using the prior month rather than the current month.
Regarding the removal of citations from taxoboxes, I recall reading that cite tags shouldn't be in taxoboxes, but I'll need to look this up for clarification and get back to you.

Again, thanks for the constructive criticism. Sometimes I fear that I look like a vandal when I make the same mistake 500 times in a row, but at the end of the day, I think our goals are the same. Sesame honey tart 16:54, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Content is what really matters, not formatting, and you've done great work on content, so don't reproach yourself!

Re citations in taxoboxes, at one time there was a bot that went round doing the following: if there was a full named reference in the taxobox and the short form of the reference occurred in the text, it swapped them, so there was a preference for not having a long reference in a taxobox – I'm not sure why. I haven't seen the bot for several years. Given that there are the parameters |synonyms_ref= and |diversity_ref=, there can't be a general ban on refs in taxoboxes. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:07, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

@Sesamehoneytart: Sorry to lurk into your conversation – I ended up here seeing if the origin of the username "Sesamehoneytart" happened to be mentioned, as it made me chuckle when I saw it in the history of Deinopidae. However, as to the above, I don't think decrementing the month by 1 from the actual value in {{as of}}s because of the verb tense issue is something that makes sense. Saying stuff like "As of May, blah blah blah was the case" is common even in newspaper articles, which have a much higher expectation than Wikipedia articles of being read in the same month they're written. I don't think the month and/or year specified in such a construction would be read by normal readers to imply that the condition being described was necessarily true throughout the time period specified, just that it was true at some point during that period. Ergo, past tense always makes sense, and there's no need to artificially decrement the month.

P.S. The "spaced en-dashes or unspaced em-dashes" standard on Wikipedia just came to my attention recently for the first time as well, and I was a little flustered to realize I'd been incorrectly using (albeit acceptable in some other typographical contexts) spaced em-dashes here for over a decade. 😅 --Dan Harkless (talk) 13:42, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

just a thought from oz

there is a sort of unwritten (but not inconsistently applied) thing in the oz project - biota items - that when there are 4 or more states that are identified - or when all states are - that the biota-yes and biota-importance-low can be sufficient to take the overload of state divisions on the project tag - it is not hard and fast and no doubt the whole thing will get blasted from others - but we are currently trying to reduce the biota-importance unknown to 0 sometime soon (less than 5 k now) - perhaps irrelevant for your effort but just a heads up about it JarrahTree 01:17, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

also as we wander through the vast array of one liner items about every species of everything found in oz the archetypally unhelpful item is:

x is a y which is found in oz - I doubt that there is any species of anything other than rabbit that is found everywhere - a state/region - IBRA region ever better would be very much appreciated JarrahTree 01:23, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

That makes sense. As a fellow wanderer of one-liner articles, I understand the ocean of copy-paste laziness. My current strategy has been to mark all the states they've been found in, but I can keep the states out of it if there are 4+. I'm not familiar with the IBRA, but I'll take a look at it if it's more helpful. That's the point of these tags, isn't it? I'm fairly sure I've marked the importance in the tags I've put on talk pages, but I might have missed a few. Thanks for the heads up. Sesame honey tart 01:30, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

no problems - thanks for acknowledging the message - the rabbits rule of course (camels, donkeys, goats and wikipedia editors follow down the trail) - one small problem is the one liners that have links that do not work, or dont have adequate habitat range info... part of the whole game I suppose - thanks anyways for your contributions. IBRA is not worth worrying about too much if it doesnt make sense - as many remain red links JarrahTree 04:24, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Due to a potential collaboration between biota and other things my assertion about the 4 or more being left off will have to be reversed for the sake of genuine misunderstanding on my part.

A very big thank you for your particular effort in identifying states and regions !!! very much appreciated, and a big thank you !!! JarrahTree 00:25, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

and thank you for your continued addition to australian biota material JarrahTree 22:03, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

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Spider family change

Hi, I remain amazed and deeply impressed by the amount of work you do on spider articles!

The World Spider Catalog no longer recognizes the family Prodidomidae, accepting its reduction to the subfamily Prodidominae of the Gnaphosidae. I've fixed the article, the table of spider families and the Araneae template, but the Gnaphosidae lists of genera and species need to be fixed and the Prodidomidae list redirected. Can you take care of that, please? Peter coxhead (talk) 08:49, 5 June 2019 (UTC)