User:Paul L. Walker

What's wrong with Wikipedia?

 * The Onion: Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
 * Essay of another expert editor who left wikipedia gives some good reasons, although I do not agree with every aspect of that essay.
 * Wikipedia:Expert Retention‎

Factual correctness

 * I just fixed the taxonomy section Jaguar, the featured article of Sept 24 2006.


 * Take a look at this: Parrot (English Wikipedia), Eigentliche Papageien (German Wikipedia), Psittaciformes (Spanish Wikipedia) and Psittacidae (French Wikipedia). All four have a different taxonomy...


 * In reality, there is no single established phylogeny, but this is a sub-field that is dramatically in movement and will take some time before it gets really worked out.... In the view of Wikipedia, that is what should be presented....


 * It took more than a year to fix some completly incorrect information about genetic recombination, a major source of new genetic information. It got introduced in November 2005, and it took till January 2007 to get fixed.....
 * The type specimen of the genus Drosophila is Musca funebris. Unfortunately, someone who does not know anything about the nomenclature has changed it to Drosophila (Musca) funebris. That notation is normally used to indicate a subgenus within Drosophila, but Musca is still its own genus of flies. The notation as it was, with Musca funebris was correct.