Template talk:Disambig-plants

Bot needed
I'm responsible for many of the recent links to this template. I've been lazily adding "-plants" to articles with a disambig, relying on this templates redirecting to Plant common name, although I was following the examples I found in several existing articles. As I come to understand the distinction between DAB and SIA better, I agree that this template is inappropriately titled for way I and others were using it. All of the incoming links are set-indices; if somebody watching this page has experience with bots, could we get everything using this template replaced with the set index template Plant common name.

True disambiguations for plants are very rare; most plant articles are titled by unambiguous scientific names (ESPECIALLY when the common name is ambiguous). I'm not sure if this template is very useful, and it is potentially misleading; many people seem confused by the SIA/DAB distinction. Pretty much every time I've been using this template, I've been adding to "-plants" to set indices that were already inappropriately labelled as DABs. I'd suggest deleting this template, as it is more likely to be misused than used correctly.Plantdrew (talk) 00:52, 5 March 2013 (UTC)