User:Oiyarbepsy/Species abbreviation

The template Species abbreviation was taken to Templates for discussion with a consensus to delete at Templates for discussion/Log/2015 April 27.

There were many problems with the template, including the fact that it generated species names but didn't show the genus, and it provided no description for what the species might be. Most importantly, though, most of the entries it generated didn't belong on the disambiguation pages anyway. All of them were partial title matches and there is consensus that such entries have no place in disambiguation pages.

There are three possible actions to take for such pages:

Valid disambiguation
If the page will still have at least two entries after the template is removed, it is a valid disambiguation page. Removing the template is all that's required.

Suggested edit summary when removing this template:
 * Removing inappropriate species entries. See User:Oiyarbepsy/Species abbreviation

Redirect to page listed on disambiguation page
If the page will have only one valid entry after removing the template, it should be a redirect. Convert to a redirect to that remaining entry.

Suggested edit summary when converting to a redirect
 * Redirecting to only remaining valid entry. See User:Oiyarbepsy/Species abbreviation

Title ending in (disambiguation)
If the page title ends in (disambiguation), then once it is reduced to a single entry, and all links removed, it can be speedy deleted. In most cases, every single link will be from one of the species abbreviation disambiguation pages (eg M. armatus), where it's not needed. The template Db-disambig can be used for this.

Redirect to list article
If there will be zero entries left after removing the template, this page should be redirected to List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names. This action was decided at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tinctoria.

Nominated for deletion
There were nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Tinctoria‎:
 * Tinctoria
 * Tinctorius
 * Tinctorium
 * Innotata
 * Giganteum
 * Gigantea

The rest below will be redirected per the AfD.

Others
Suggested edit summary when converting to a redirect. The exception is those named after a person.
 * Redirecting per Articles for deletion/Tinctoria and User:Oiyarbepsy/Species abbreviation

Anyone can add entries to this list. Please keep in alphabetical order. • #Acaulis

• #Africanae

• #Africanum

• #Americanum

• #Amurensis

• #Angolensis

• #Angustifolia

• #Aromatica

• #Asiatica

• #Aurantiaca

• #Aurantium

• #Bicornis

• #Brasiliensis

• #Brevirostris

• #Californica

• #Californicus

• #Californiensis

• #Caprae

• #Chinense

• #Cinnamomea

• #Citri

• #Cordifolia

• #Digitatum

• #Digitatus

• #Diffusa

• #Dioica

• #Dubia

• #Dubius

• #Elegantissima

• #Emarginata

• #Esculenta

• #Europaea

• #Fallax

• #Glabra

• #Glabrum

• #Glandulosa

• #Glauca

• #Graveolens

• #Hybridum

• #Inaequalis

• #Irregularis

• #Japonicum

• #Japonicus

• #Laevis

• #Limosus

• #Maculatum

• #Madagascariensis

• #Marginata

• #Marginatus

• #Minuta

• #Monoica

• #Monspeliensis

• #Monspessulanus

• #Nigrescens

• #Nigrum

• #Nigrus

• #Nucifera

• #Occidentalis

• #Ovata

• #Pallida

• #Phenolica

• #Phenolicus

• #Plumosum

• #Purpurascens

• #Purpureum

• #Radicans

• #Reticulata

• #Similis

• #Sinense

• #Striata

• #Striatus

• #Sulcata

• #Syriacus

• #Tropicalis

• #Variegata

• #Verticillata

• #Victoriae

• #Viticola

• #Welwitschii

With article

 * 1) Balansae
 * 2) Berteroana (article created for this purpose)
 * 3) Boissieri
 * 4) Buckleyi
 * 5) Gardneri
 * 6) Greggii
 * 7) Haenkeana
 * 8) Mairei
 * 9) Maximowiczii
 * 10) Walkeri

Unable to determine meaning
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation/Archive 40

Unique circumstances
These pages can not be part of a bulk action as they have unique circumstances not seen elsewhere:
 * 1) Amphibium - nominated for deletion at Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 December 12. This never had the template, but is a somewhat related case
 * 2) Macrophylla & Microphyll - Macrophylla includes content that probably belongs in an article. For microphyll, see discussion at Talk:Microphyll. These topics are closely related
 * 3) Slevini - Doesn't use template, but every single entry is redlinked, almost speedy deletable.

Relevant discussions

 * the templates for discussion that agreed to delete the template
 * Discussion at Wikiproject disambiguation as to how to deal with these
 * Deletion discussion for several of the orphaned disambiguation pages
 * Discussion about redirecting orphaned pages to this list
 * What to do about species named for persons
 * The horrifying realization that there are so many more useless disambiguation pages that never even had the template on it