User:Plantdrew/Rants

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- Well referenced bot created Cebuano taxon article ceb:Bodianus neilli
- Oh fuck, Lsjbot on Cebuano FTW. May as well shut down Wikispecies and let Lsjbot run Wikidata. ceb:Kermesia immaculata has a reference to the original description. Wikidata doesn't have the description ref, Wikispecies doesn't even have the species. Of course, it comes from CoL and the link for the CoL source (which apparently held the description ref) is dead, so there's that (but then again, the Swedish version has description ref for the synonyms, so there's that).

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[3]; sections 1, 5, 6 are a great model for an IPC section; funny though, people who actually write for pop culture audiences don't go the Wikipedia route of a random incomplete list of pop culture "mentions".

Bandersnatch. Well, it's pretty obvious how this IPC trainwreck happened. "I was just enjoying POP MEDIA FRANCHISE when it mentioned "bandersnatch". I kinda knew bandersnatch was an Alice in Wonderland thing, and was wondering whether there was some kinda canonical description of what exactly a bandersnatch was. Since there wasn't such a description, I added a mention of POP MEDIA FRANCHISE, so that other fans of POP MEDIA FRANCHISE will know that this is the best Wikipedia has to offer on the subject bandersnatches in POP MEDIA FRANCHISE." Bonus points for linking a redirectBandersnatch (POP MEDIA FRANCHISE) to [[List of creatures in POP MEDIA FRANCHISE]]? Bonus bonus points if that redirect link gets Wikipedia a more favorable search engine position than http://POP_MEDIA_FRANCHISE.wikia.com/wiki/Bandersnatch? That's the Goodsprings problem. (Tepuis probably should mention Up; core part of the plot). Goodsprings is encountered by every player, but little time is spent there (Nellis_Air_Force_Base takes more time to complete, but is it even referred to as such anywhere in Fallout?). Of course, Jurassic Park demands an article for Deinonychus modeled Velociraptors. And adrenochrome should mention Fear and Loathing and Q-Anon (but that thread should be under a section on Bullshit rather than IPC)

Autotaxobox rank thoughts Genus should know to display all ranks up to family, and species all ranks to genus (but I don't see any way around specifying display parents for a monotypic genus using speciesbox). Family to order, order to class might be getting into some problems. Maybe a parameter for a "pseudorank"; e.g. Template:Taxonomy/Synapsida is a "pseudoclass" and display when nothing else is around class.

Edmund Gilbert Baker (Baker f.); not all IPNI abbreviations omit spaces. Any more out there?

Are mergansers ducks? Anatinae seems to be poorly defined. Cardinalidae includes tanagers, grosbeaks and bunting (bird). Tanager is treated as a taxon, the other two as common names. Emberizidae and bunting contradict each other.

Portal talk:Plants is mostly visible on article talk pages and attracts (very few) edits that mostly would be better addressed at WikiProject Plants. Remove portals from WikiProject banners and add a clickable link that creates a section on the WikiProject talk with a link to the article in question (only applicable when tagged for a single WikiProject).

Wikidata query for items with Tropicos ID but no IPNI ID. Find misspellings in Tropicos such as Polypodium pustlulatum (Microsorum pustulatum).

Linguist discusses ornithological common names

My impressions of the WP:FOOTBALL view of WP:COMMONNAME. Team names as used in sports journalism, or fan conversations, are usually ambiguous (frequently with the name of a city). Initials such as FC provide natural disambiguation, that allows a CONSISTENT scheme of titling. Footy folks believe the common name should be displayed, and should not be ambiguously linked. Fair enough. Producing a common name display with an unambiguous link requires piping for this use case. WP:FOOTBALL goes of the rails in deprecatng redirect links outside of this use case. German teams (WP:KARLSRUHER reject the assumption that COMMONNAME mandates displaying a less official name via pipes instead of linking to an article titled with the official name (absurd! pipes should never bypass actual titles unless forced by word order/grammar). Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Football/Archive_95#"Football",_"association_football"_or_"soccer". Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_103#Piping.

If you create categories and can't be bothered to diffuse all appropriate articles downward from a parent category, you shouldn't be creating categories (but seek consensus if you're willing to diffuse 10k+ articles downwards (JPL and women authors)).

SMBC comic on edibile

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_127#RFC:_Should_lists_of_species_that_share_a_common_name_be_set_indexes_or_disambiguation_pages?; "thread plant"

Admin move: I should be able to collect this hat. Many moves. Not wanting to pull the trigger until more RM cases where vernacular name != WP:COMMONNAME. Would review WP:TM to help (Anthony Appleyard does most of it)

Admin templates: I should be able to collect this hat (2% of templates created, most other hurdles passed; want to be able to edit protected taxonomy templates and WikiProject Banners). Deleting contents of Category:Unnecessary taxonomy templates shouldn't need discussion.

Admin deletes: Eubot, Polbot (taxonomic garbage and vernacular diacritic failures). Neelix (frog vernacular names). Galacktapedia and Stemonitis (redirects from subtopics).

Admin history merge: Anthony Appleyard does it all, I could help

Admin blocks/discipline: No interest in this.

Deletion is the right I can't get outside of being an admin