User:Peter coxhead

"Wikipedia: The encyclopedia that anyone who understands the norms, socializes him or herself, dodges the impersonal wall of semi-automated rejection and still wants to voluntarily contribute his or her time and energy can edit." (From "Wikipedia losing editors, study says", phys.org)

Why is there information about me here? Because I'm very uneasy about anonymous editing. I understand why in some countries there are good reasons for editors to be anonymous. However, this doesn't apply to most regular editors on the English Wikipedia. In all blogs and wikis, anonymity appears to encourage aggression and abuse; sadly Wikipedia is far from being an exception. I am now fully retired from the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. My retirement interests include: Should you wish to know more about me, see my personal web site.
 * botany of all kinds
 * gardening – as a plantsman rather than a designer
 * natural history in general
 * taxonomy – I studied zoology at University many years ago, and maintained an interest in taxonomy through computational statistics, including numerical taxonomy.


 * Edit raw watchlist
 * Subpages – Work page – Useful templates – Sources – Useful old sources online – Lua test module
 * Taxoboxes: Autotaxobox cleanup – No taxobox color  – Error taxobox colour  – Others
 * Taxonomy templates: Unrecognized ranks – Anomalous ranks  – Others  – Unmatched name and link text
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=hastemplate%3ASpeciesbox+insource%3Aparent+-%22genus%3A%22&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1 Speciesboxes with apparently bad parent parameter]
 * Plant articles: without from para in taxonbar, Possibly fixable species articles with manual taxoboxes
 * Spider articles: possibly missing a taxonbar, missing a taxonbar, without from para in taxonbar, with manual taxoboxes
 * Example of many taxonbar paras: Pseudognaphalium gaudichaudianum

To do

 * × Rhaphiobotrya – see Plantsman, n.s., 7: 164 (2008)
 * Araneus needs some work
 * Sphodros rufipes
 * User_talk:DavidAnstiss
 * Araneomorphae is terrible!
 * Brassicaceae, Alliaria petiolata in North America
 * See Talk:Sicarius_(spider)
 * brassicas, origins of edible Pns16(3):180
 * Zygophylloideae
 * Spider web renewed daily?
 * Dipluridae needs Taxonomy to deal with why?
 * Dolomedes and spp. – some still need copy and paste fixed
 * Consider introducing "/×" variants in taxonomy templates to handle nothogenera, as per Plantdrew's suggestion.
 * graft hybrids, nomenclature – Pns15 (3): 162
 * Codonopsis subscaposa (see Flora of China)
 * Expand Fritillaria eduardii using The Plantsman (New Series) 11(4), Dec 2012
 * Expand Gladiolus dichrous using The Plantsman (New Series) 11(4), Dec 2012
 * See Ornithogalum, The Plantsman (New Series) 11(1), Mar 2012
 * See Kniphofia, The Plantsman (New Series) 12(1), Mar 2013
 * Expand Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses
 * Mammillaria rekoi
 * Daphne needs expanding, plus species in cultivation
 * Early Polysporangiophytes:
 * Expand/check these articles as per User:Peter_coxhead/Work/Early_polysporangiophytes
 * Eucrosia – expand species articles based on Meerow monograph


 * Inactive but not done or dead
 * Cactoideae and Cacteae
 * Sagana rutilans – Sagana is junior homonym
 * Talk:Confuciusornis raises issue of better support for incompatible taxonomic hierarchies
 * Separate section in for genus syns?  Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life/Archive_38
 * Symbol in automated taxoboxes to show there are refs in the taxonomy templates?
 * Monophyly, Paraphyly and Polyphyly
 * Consider whether a single article would be better