Talk:List of plant genera named for people (A–C)

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 * Some of the text is my translation from Lotte Burkhardt's copyleft book, in pdf form at https://www.bgbm.org/en/bgbm-press/index-eponymic-plant-names-extended-edition. - Dank (push to talk) 14:49, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Site links
In this edit, I removed (for each name that was redlinked) a link to the last section of the Wikidata page for that person. This section of Wikidata gives you links to relevant pages on other-language-versions of Wikipedia and on Wikispecies, Wikisource and Commons. There's a lot of information on some of these people that could be very useful for editors who want to create articles and lists here on the English Wikipedia. - Dank (push to talk) 15:41, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

New source
I've just added a second source, by Burkhardt ... if anyone is interested in taking info from it for these lists or for other articles, and if you'd like help with the German, I'll be happy to translate (if you tell me which entries you want translated). - Dank (push to talk) 03:27, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Dank, apologies for the late delay in replying to you. I would be interested in using the new reference for this article and other articles as and when it is needed. I think the best way to use the source, is to work out which entries are NEW (to the list) and add then them systematically from A-C onwards. I would be happy to add them to the list. If you could translate, as my German is terrible. I used to know the numbers and greetings but even that has faded!! DavidAnstiss (talk) 10:52, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Fantastic, thanks. We're looking for genera mentioned in Burkhardt's new entries that are accepted (i.e. not synonyms) at https://powo.science.kew.org (POWO). So, for instance, in Burkhardt's new entry for A. D. Elmer (this name appears in her 2018 edition also), she lists 8 associated genus names, including Adelmeria and Elmera ... and these two genera were the only ones I found that were accepted at POWO last year ... it's not guaranteed that they're still the only two accepted ones, but it's likely, and I don't plan to recheck POWO for the people that I already have listed. So I don't plan to add anything for Elmer. But if you can generate a list of namesakes that are listed in her new work but not in the previous work, and then find out which (if any) of those genus names are accepted at POWO, that would be a huge help ... I'll be happy to add the new rows and translate from the German. - Dank (push to talk) 13:54, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks David, good work. There's a trick that might help: go to POWO, search on anything so that you get a list of search results, then blank the search and they'll say you get some ungodly number of results. Then click on the click on the "Genera" and "Accepted names" buttons at the top ... that will reduce the number of hits to about 13,900 ... then click on the "list" symbol in the right upper right corner so that it displays a list only (no pictures), then click on "480 results per page" (lower left corner). That should give you 30 pages of hits. Block and copy each page into a single text file, and you've got a searchable list of accepted genera. (Around 1% of the hits will be for spore-bearing rather than seed-bearing plants ... we'll get rid of those entries later.) - Dank (push to talk) 15:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Finally, after a year of working on it. Got to the end of PDF source. Got waylaid a bit by adding details to various fungi and algae articles. But that was sort of fun and nice to add a lot of facts to a lot of plant articles. Also re-established a few genera that were also re-directs. Pushed my wiki 'contributions' number - well high. Now close to 30,000 edits ! DavidAnstiss (talk) 00:04, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Fantastic ... it was a pleasure watching you work, and it's great to see this being kept up-to-date. - Dank (push to talk) 00:17, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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