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Categorization of plant articles

Hi, welcome to Misplaced Pages! The system for categorizing plant articles is not well documented so it's not surprising that mistakes get made. (I've been trying to explain it a bit better this morning.) There are separate category hierarchies for taxa and for taxa by rank. See the first two sections at WP:PLANTS/Categorization. So there should be a category Category:Podocarpaceae genera as well as a category Category:Podocarpaceae.

Whether this parallel system is necessary or desirable is open to debate, but it is widely used in plant articles. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:07, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

I see, thank you for letting me know. I hadn't noticed this being the case for most plant categories, so I thought Category:Podocarpaceae genera was the exception and not the norm. Does the same hold true for taxonomies for animal, fungi, etc?AioftheStorm (talk) 00:09, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

See e.g. Category:Genera. Coverage over the tree of life is very patchy indeed (and quite often not correctly set up). For genera, birds seem to be covered well, other organisms generally not. Hence this category system doesn't seem useful to me for most groups of organisms because you can't actually use it for navigation. User:Hesperian did quite a bit of work at one time building it up for angiosperms, where the coverage is fairly good. I think that actually Category:Podocarpaceae genera was an exception for gymnosperms, and what I should have done was empty it and ask for it to be deleted, rather than populate it, fairly pointlessly. Sigh...

The important point, though, is that the "taxonomic category hierarchy" should always exist, and is distinct from the "taxonomic rank category hierarchy" in those groups where this latter exists. I don't at present see that it's worth creating the "rank" version if it doesn't exist. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:09, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect use of PROD

Please use WP:PROD tags only in article space. I noticed you PRODed several articles in the Misplaced Pages:Articles for Creation space. I dePRODed them and instead nominated most of them for speedy deletion as hoaxes. Thanks. Safiel (talk) 01:43, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

I will go ahead and do that then, thanks. I had actually consulted CSD about this and asked if they should be SD'ed or PRODed and while most agreed they could be SD'ed no one appeared to realize that they couldn't be PRODed and one editor told me it would probably be a gentler option to SD so I did that. Perhaps the PRODing guidelines should be updated since they were probably written before AFC was a thing and just never considered the possibility of large amounts of pseudo-article content existing in the WikiTalk space.AioftheStorm (talk) 02:00, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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Microbeads (research)

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You come to my page and leave comments, you'd best sign them and leave them in a proper order. If you cannot do that, then stay off my talk page. And you'd best read the policies you quote to others, for example where you do not understand what I'm "supposed" to be quoting - I suppose I am quoting the policy where it says '""It is not normally appropriate to edit or remove another editor's comment. Exceptions include to remove obvious trolling or vandalism.... Pay attention, eh? Dreadstar ☥ 22:04, 30 August 2014 (UTC)