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Please
... stop replacing Fungus with Fungi when you change categories (see WP:NOTBROKEN); I have to go after you switch them back and it's wasting a lot of time I could be using to do other things! Thanks! Sasata (talk) 17:49, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * And why are you doing that? --Caftaric (talk) 17:51, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * See WP:NOTBROKEN. Sasata (talk) 18:05, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Very interesting article! I have nevertheless a good reason to edit these links, as there are quite often other links or redirects links (such as "fungus" or "fungal") used in the same article. Putting all the links to "fungus" avoids to have the page listed several times in the "what links here" tool of the "fungus" article. Hope it can convince you. --Caftaric (talk) 18:21, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Categorization of plant orders
Please see WikiProject Plants/Categorization. Categorizing plant orders is independent of the main taxonomic classification. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:33, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Minor changes
Hi, you appear to be annoying several experienced editors here. Could I make one small request, and a minor suggestion:

a) please stop deleting the blank line after the infobox, image, or other media and before the first line of the text: the spacing does no harm to anyone, and it makes editing easier as the format makes the text easier to perceive, so removing it is in fact injurious.

b) if you are making minor changes to categories or formats, please tick the "This is a minor edit" box so the rest of us don't keep getting alarm bells rung.

Many thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:45, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Marine edible fish
Nearly all marine fish species are edible... well over 20,000 species. So you have a long way to go before you fill this all but useless category. --Epipelagic (talk) 18:15, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Vietbocap
Hey, no need to type in references manually. Why not use the cite form on the edit window and then click on templates -> cite journal? That means all you have to do is paste in a PMID link and the reference is assembled automatically. That also means the references are in the text so you can put them next to the statements that you want to reference. Blythwood (talk) 08:39, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

on categorization
Hello! I can see you've been doing a good deal of categorizing lately. With regards to redirects, they should normally not be categorized, especially if they end up in the same category as their target article they redirect to: see Categorizing redirects. Case in point, in the Category:Geophilomorpha you've placed both Aspidopleres and its sole species redirect Aspidopleres intercalatus (and several other redirect/target pairs), which misrepresents the number of articles, introduces redundancy, and hinders navigation for readers (whose convenience and browsing experience should be prioritized above the editorial choices and hierarchical designs of Wikipedians). I personally think that not every rank-taxon needs its own category (Category:X-genera, X-suborders, etc.) and think that some of the categories you've created might be better off only categorizing other categories rather than articles, but I tend to be a lumper more than a splitter. In case you haven't already, see also Overcategorization. Someone has already mentioned your Category:Marine edible fish above, and I agree that may be a relatively trivial and non-defining category, possibly a future CfD candidate (ditto for all in Category:Edible fish by habitat.) Beware the impulse for runaway sub-categorization (Edible marine fish by Ocean, by year of discovery, etc...) By and large your contributions have been positive, but I just want to make sure you proceed cautiously and with knowledge of guidelines and consensus to prevent future conflict; a stitch in time and all that. All the best, --Animalparty! (talk) 07:47, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

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"Note: It is usually unhelpful to target an abbreviation like this to a single species: there are likely dozens of potential names (Squatina argentina for one). A disambiguation page would be most useful: see Category:Species Latin name abbreviation disambiguation pages for more info. I've converted a number of your redirects into disambiguation pages already (see P. cookei and S. aethiopica) . A simple web search can identify other likely targets. As for your redirects like cookei and pearsei, it is extremely unlikely that even if someone were searching 'Cookei' would intend the species Pseudocellus cookei, as a search indicates numerous species with that name (including those at P. cookei). While conceivably these could be made into disambiguation pages including every taxon ending with cookei or pearsei, it is probably best to simply not create such redirects or pages unless they can clearly and easily help people find articles."

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Category:Poisonous amphibians
Category:Poisonous amphibians, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 00:04, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Plant categorization
I can only repeat what I said above: please see WikiProject Plants/Categorization. Categorizing plants by taxon rank is independent of the main taxonomic classification. So if you want to put the "by rank" categories into Category:Angiosperm taxa by rank, you should not remove the main taxonomic category. Angiosperm orders are angiosperms. Peter coxhead (talk) 23:08, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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Species name abbreviation redirects
Hello,. I posted a comment previously about my concerns with the unhelpfulness of creating redirects from an abbreviated name to a cherry-picked species, but you are still continuing to do so, which creates more work for others. For instance, you created "C. solida" (and many others) as a redirect to Coelolepis, which is completely arbitrary, and ignores the other possibilities "C. solida" may refer to, including Corydalis solida, and Cellana solida. While it may be conventional and appropriate to redirect the unambiguous Coelolepis solida to Coelolepis, it makes no sense to redirect an ambiguous abbreviation. Please stop doing this. I strongly urge you to consider making a Species name abbreviation disambiguation page instead, similar to P. elegans. If you have any questions, please ask. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 19:35, 11 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I entirely endorse this comment. The likeliest meaning to me of C. solida is Corydalis solida. A disambiguation page is a better approach, although I question the value of any such pages, given the ability of searches to find all the species with that species name/epithet. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:15, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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Stub templates and double blank lines
Hi! Thanks for cleaning up all those hominid fossil-related articles. Minor detail per WP:Stub: "It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it." I guess the reason is that it looks better if there's some spacing before the stub template, and that it becomes clearer that it isn't part of the article (compare double blank lines vs. single blank line). Cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 12:19, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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xxxx in paleontology conodonts
Thanks for the addition of the Conodonts to the Year in paleontology pages (eg. 1931 in paleontology. When adding to those pages it would be of great help if you followed the table formatting that is already in place, and templated your citations.  Thanks a bunch. -- Kev  min  § 12:21, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * As an additional note, Conodonts are vertebrates, they should be placed as subsections of the Vertebrate sections on the pages.-- Kev min  § 16:15, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Again as a reminder, the conodonts need to be placed under the vertebrate sections of the xxxx in paleontology articles-- Kev min  § 12:32, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thanks for your cheerful advices. The thing is (and I don't to enter any kind of ideologic war stating that) I haven't seen any clear statement that conodont are definitevely vertebrates. Did you? Can you add the references to the right articles, if so? Again thank you for all of your concern! Caftaric.
 * Look at the page Conodont. They are placed as a class of vertebrates for the purpose of the wiki classification. Also current research papers are placing them as vertebrates, see here, here, and here.-- Kev  min  § 18:34, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

New Jersey Amber
Just so you know, I am working on a clean-up and expansion of the New Jersey amber stub you created [|here] so there will be a lot of changes in the near future.-- Kev min  § 12:50, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Cristaria elegans
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Cryptorrhynchus
Hello There,

I noticed that you requested this redirect to be deleted, but you didn't leave any valid reason. I have restored the previous version, please tag the redirect properly if you think that this should be excluded from Wikipedia. Happy Editing :) Hitro   talk  16:55, 28 August 2016 (UTC) Hi, I created the Cryptorhynchus page (with one r) instead. Caftaric (talk) 18:18, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hesperidin reverted
You have reverted my (minimal) edit of hesperidin, and as reason you state "Previous version better for the lede." I don't know what lede refer to, nor why you think it is better. In my view, my edit was useful for the reader 1. because it is specific about the nature of the glycoside, 2. as a guide to the related compounds from which it is derived, and importantly, to which it may be transformed (it's metabolic fate), or which it may mimic in pharmacology. I fail to understand the dynamics involved here; why do you (and others around here) revert an edit that is minimal, not wrong, add relevant information and is to the point, without bothering to consult with the contributor to ask if there may be good reasons behind, before they press "revert". When I make a contribution, I think of what information I would to find in the article, and in the case of hesperidin, it's specific nature and it's related compounds seems to me absolutely minimalistic, so what drove you to hastily dismiss it? I would really like to know, because of the time and energy I invest in edits (and waste, unless I invest more in a defence, and ultimately, conflict resolution). Carystus (talk) 00:02, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * No, I haven't reverted your edit. It was user: Zefr who did so. May user name appears only as the last revision to whom the article has been reverted to. Cheers. Caftaric (talk) 08:13, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I didn't know it worked that way, I'll take my complaint elsewhere ツ Carystus (talk) 19:28, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Never mind. Caftaric (talk) 14:47, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Categorization of plant articles
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Category:Clades
There may or may not be a point in a category for unranked clades – personally I doubt it – but there's certainly no point in a category for clades. The overwhelming majority of modern taxa are clades, so the category would be huge, containing virtually every subspecies, species, genus, subfamily, family, etc. and completely uninformative. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Avoiding redirects
According to WP:NOTBROKEN, links to redirects shouldn't be 'expanded', as for example you've been doing with Eukaryota in taxoboxes – it's described as "an unhelpful, time-wasting exercise". Personally, it doesn't bother me that much, but be aware that other editors think differently. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:35, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Moss categories
Thank you so much for undertaking this task. Please note, however, that if you were intending to reclassify the liverwort pages as well, it would be best to wait. The classification of liverworts just underwent a major revision (big paper came out), and this will probably mean changing the families and orders of many liverworts significantly. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:21, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the warning Caftaric (talk) 17:23, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Cactus categorization
Can I draw your attention to WikiProject Plants/Categorization. Although I wrote up most of this, the "dual system" (i.e. categorizing by taxon and by taxonomic rank) long predates my involvement, and I hold no particular brief for it. However, it's how it's supposed to be done. So "Category:subfamily genera" goes in "Category:family genera" which goes in "Category:order genera" and so on. (Apologies for my incorrect reversion of an earlier edit of yours.) Peter coxhead (talk) 18:01, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * As you will doubtless have noticed, and annoyingly in my view, "Category:Cactaceae" is actually called "Category:Cacti", which makes the categorization appear less logical. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:08, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You should possibly gripe to User:Rkitko who redirected "category:Cactaceae" to "Category:Cacti" in 2007. Cheers. Caftaric (talk) 18:22, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, I have griped about this and other such category names in the past. It's like this because the consensus view has been that categories should have the same name as the main article, so if this isn't at the expected scientific name, the category isn't supposed to be either. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:36, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Changing categories
Hi, thank you for your work here. I wish you a Happy New Year!

Having come across various changes that you have made to categories, I have the following requests: – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:22, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Please use a specific explanation of the change you are making in the edit summary, not e.g. "cleanup"
 * 2) Please use category redirect rather than soft redirect where you create a category page that already has a category (where this is a synonym likely to be used by other editors; for a page created in error, tag it with db-g7)
 * 3) Please use the WP:CFD process to rename categories, rather than doing it yourself, which appears to be what happened with the former Category:Grasshoppers. It is often useful to seek the views of other experienced editors on such proposals; and once consensus has been reached, the work can then be automated.

Category move
Why did you move Category:Historically recognized plant taxa to Category:Obsolete plant taxa? You had no consensus to make this move; the name was chosen by WP:PLANTS after careful discussion. I will ask for it the move to be undone, pending discussion and consensus. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:31, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have reverted the category.
 * Caftaric: I had not seen this when I left my earlier note above, but this is a prime example of the need to follow the WP:CFD process. – Fayenatic  L ondon 22:50, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * thanks.
 * not all "historically recognized" taxa are "obsolete"; a name that is "obsolete" to one taxonomist can still be in use by another. The phrase "historically recognized" was chosen by WP:PLANTS after discussion. Please propose changes like this either via the WP:CFD process, as Fayenatic suggested, or via the talk pages of the relevant WikiProject – in this case WT:PLANTS. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:55, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps related to this, I note that you have emptied and redirected Category:Cryptogams. Was there a consensus for this? – Fayenatic  L ondon 23:03, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Malcolm Burr


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 * 1878-1954, as mentioned in the artcle, are the dates of birth and deaths of Malcom Burr, so he is not a living person. Caftaric (talk) 18:33, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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Lepidoptera categorization
Hello! I'm glad to see there's someone else also interested in getting/keeping the whole Tree of Life categorization structure in good shape. Due to the sheer number of articles in the Lepidoptera part of that categorization structure, it's pretty difficult to get every applicable article in the right categories. As a result, the Lepidoptera categorization tree has, through the years, repeatedly suffered from halfway-aborted attempts at straightening it out, resulting in many categories with just a small portion of the appropriate articles in them while the rest languish one, two or sometimes three levels 'up' in the tree.

On top of that, fairly few people are interested in Lepidoptera on en.wiki, and an even smaller portion seems to be interested in the maintenance side of things. Unless the categories are in use on a sizeable amount of related pages, chances are most other Lepidoptera editors won't even see that new categories have been created, much less remember to use them when working on existing or creating new articles. As such, not only does the majority of articles that should get diffused into the new categories not get diffused there for a fair while, new non-diffused articles get added to the backlog stack as well.

As such, I'd like to ask you if you would please consider slowing down slightly in the creation of new Lepidoptera categories and spend a little bit more time in sorting appropriate articles in them/diffusing their parent categories, at least when it comes to new categories you're creating. (If you'd also be willing to tackle some of the older backlog, that'd be awesome, of course). I'm (understandably, I hope) not capable of sorting out the old messes, add missing categories to articles, diffuse from parent categories into new categories and stub-sort for about 1300 categories and 100,000 articles. (Not alone, but the number of editors regularly dealing with Lepidoptera categorization can be counted on the fingers of my hands, and most of the others are tree-of-life editors who also deal with Lepidoptera; not Lepidoptera editors who also dabble in other tree of life subjects) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 23:46, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for warning me about those problems. I will try to keep in mind your advice to fill more the categories about Lepidoptera in the future. Caftaric (talk) 05:41, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, and thanks! Figured you couldn't keep it in mind if you weren't aware&mdash;and the sheer scope and size of WikiProject Lepidoptera is kind of staggering (somewhere in the vicinity of 1.7% of all articles on the English 'pedia is about Lepidoptera. Wish that nearly two out of every hundred active editors worked on Lepidoptera...) should now be more-or-less complete, so there's no need to head back and work on that one.  (I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a few articles, but the great majority of them should be there, at least) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 06:03, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Moth/butterfly genera
I see you've removed from  again. Did you see my reasoning on Category talk:Butterfly genera for why I figure it's best it does stay in Lepidoptera genera?

As for, moths are an extremely paraphyletic group with a lot of overlap with the many taxonomic groups, but also enough difference it can't really be considered synonym to any one particular taxon. (Either the taxon also includes non-moths, like with the order Lepidoptera, or the taxon excludes some moths, like with Heteroneura (which, on top of that, also still includes the butterflies). That's because moths isn't a scientific term, and it doesn't really match with any of the scientific divisions. (The sheer difficulty of properly dividing Lepidoptera into monophyletic groups doesn't help at all, either).

As such, and because the classification-by-taxonomy serves a slightly different purpose than the classification-by-common-name/definition, the entire moth/butterfly categorization tree should, in my opinion, be treated as a mostly separate tree from the taxonomy tree which has a lot of intersection and overlap with the taxonomy tree. Among other matters, this overlap/intersection is visible in that the lower taxons can be definitely stated to be either 'moth' or 'butterfly', and some of the higher taxons can also (everything that descends from Lepidoptera or its descendants is either 'moths' (the smaller side-branches) or 'moths and butterflies' (the main tree) until you get all the way down the main tree to the divisions of Macrolepidoptera, where Rhopalocera and its descendants is 'butterflies' and everything else is 'moths'.)

As such, unless we want to outright delete the Moth/Butterfly categories (which I wouldn't recommend, nor would be something we can do on our own as that's prime CfD-material–and I have my doubts if it'd even be something that gets through CfD if one were to try it), the 'easiest' way to keep those two separate trees in working order and properly display the intersection is to categorize the highest level taxon of each 'branch' that can definitely be stated to be either butterfly or moth, but not 'butterflies and moths' as or. (Which would mean that, e.g. is in ;  is not, but all its subcategories except  are; etc.)

That way, the great, great majority of Lepidoptera genera articles are still directly or indirectly in either or. What remains are those articles that remain in the 'untagged' levels (Glossata, Heteroneura, Ditrysia, etc.) and cannot be diffused further down because there are too few of a particular taxon to justify a separate subcategory. There's not too many of those, and those can be separately tagged on-article with both the "taxon genera" and "moth genera" categories.

There are other possible options, but all those that I could think of are 1. a lot more work, 2. even less instinctive (which, I suppose, is saying a lot) and 3. have more risk of partway collapsing the categorization structure and/or keeping parts of it only partially implemented.

Do you have any other suggestions, or would you mind terribly if I re-add as category to  and  as category to the whole bunch of highest-level-taxon-of-a-moth-only-sidebranch? AddWittyNameHere (talk) 09:39, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * One of the problems with categorization on the English Wikipedia is that it generally "just grows" without any clear overall plan. We managed to improve plant categorization when we agreed on some diagrams I drew (see WikiProject Plants/Categorization). So, as an outsider to lepidoptera, I recommend trying first to agree on an overall plan, from genus to the highest level, and recording it within the WikiProject documentation. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:11, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd love to. Unfortunately, most of the (very, very few) folks who're active on the Lepidoptera side of things have anywhere ranging from 'very little' to 'absolutely zero' interest in the infrastructural/maintenance side of things, in my experience. On top of that, rather than the Lepidoptera categorization tree 'just growing', it's been the repeated victim of partway-implemented overhauls through the years that have then later been merged or submerged partway into the existing structures, leaving it an absolute mess. Combine that with Lepidoptera's general backlog, outdatedness of articles, the sheer number of articles missing various relevant categories and the fact we're dealing with ~100000 articles... The main parts have some measure of agreement/long-standing mostly-silent agreement, thankfully, even if not always fully implemented (purely by-taxon stuff is at least on the category side of things working reasonably well, even if not quite all articles are properly categorized; purely by-taxon-rank has on the higher levels (Lepidoptera [rank]s; Moth [rank]s; Butterfly [rank]s) been brought into line over the past few months; by-year is in working order on the moth side of things and as a result, butterflies would be easy enough to implement if anyone ever wants to bother; by-authority is outside the realms of Lepidoptera alone. By-location is a mess, but Lepidoptera's not alone in that. It's mostly the further subdivision and subcategorization of the main trees stuff, as well as intersections between the various trees, that brings potential issues with 'm. (Well, that and some of the more disputed taxa, sometimes, but that's more a 'real world' issue than an en.wiki issue) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 22:49, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * but where is categorization explained at WP:LEPID? My point is that editors willing to work on categorization need guidance from relevant wikiprojects. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:08, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Responding on User:Peter coxhead's talkpage to avoid cluttering up Caftaric's talkpage needlessly. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 18:13, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikilinks in taxoboxes
Hi, please leave wikilinks in taxoboxes to the scientific name, even if these are redirects. This makes it much easier to change globally should taxonomic opinions change. For example, what exactly is meant by "Plantae" is a matter of some dispute; at present Plant covers this, but if, say, there were a consensus that Kingdom Plantae = Archaeplastida or Kingdom Plantae = Embryophyta, a wikilink other than to the scientific name could become wrong.

often restores the scientific name wikilinks, so may wish to comment. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Lists of eukaryote species
Category:Lists of spider species is a child (albeit a good many levels down) of Category:Lists of eukaryote species, so the latter must not be added where the former is rightly present. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:18, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

The same applies to Category:Lists of arachnid species, etc. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:29, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Categories
Hi Caftaric, thanks for all your work on cnidarian articles. I have a question on your categorisation and its structure - how do you decide which categories to place or keep on a given article on an order/genus/species? I have never found categories that useful as a reader and rarely as an editor so have to admit I don't focus much on which to use for articles.

As an example in this edit to Zoantharia you removed Hexacorallia and added Cnidarian orders. Why did you choose that structure for this order?

One friendly request - as a watcher I find your edit summaries which are more specific quicker to follow, when you have used "cleanup" it doesn't indicate that you are changing categorisation, hence my questions! Best wishes |→ Spaully ~talk~ 08:40, 18 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Caftaric does a great job in cleaning up categorization, although I have to agree that more detailed edit summaries would be helpful at times (but then I know I'm guilty of not doing this myself when working at speed). An organism article should virtually always have two "taxonomic categories" – one category from the taxonomic hierarchy, and one "by rank" category, both at a level which makes a "sensible sized" category. So Zoantharia needs one category in the hierarchy shown in the taxobox (never two of these because you don't put an article in both a parent and child category) and, as it's an order, one "orders" category. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:15, 18 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Agreed I am also guilty of this at times, without even the prolific editing. Thanks for the response.
 * As another example, which I have probably incorrectly categorised: Lysmata amboinensis - has only the Category:Alpheoidea. Should this also have a "Species of ...", perhaps Lysmata as the genus? |→ Spaully ~talk~ 09:26, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * No; I was guilty of imprecision above. The "by rank" categories only apply above the level of species, usually starting at genus. I can't find a good explanation for animals, but see WikiProject Plants/Categorization for plants, which I think also applies to animals in principle if not in detail. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:14, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link, that makes it very clear - saved to useful pages. I had also tried to find a similar one for animals before coming here. (Sorry for the conversation on your talk page Caftaric!) BW |→ Spaully ~talk~ 11:33, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Year categories
Don't assume that you have to create lots of year in.. categories like here. In fact consensus has been moving against single-year categories for most things as one tends to end up with lots and lots of WP:SMALLCATs, the usual advice would be to start with centuries or decades first to see how they fill up. Bear in mind that a "good" category should have around 30-50 members. Also, can you please create any categories that you link to, don't leave them as red links? It's important both for humans trying to find things but also for all sorts of automatic processes that rely on the category hierarchy being complete. Cheers.Le Deluge (talk) 17:35, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 'by year' categories for plants and animals at the top-level&mdash;as well as certain diffusing subcats for some of the more prolific orders like Coleoptera and Lepidoptera&mdash;tend to if anything get far, far more than 30-50 members, it may just take a while for the categories to get added to the articles and for the articles to get created in the first place. Taxonomy is a rather active field. (~2000 plant species and many more times that in animals are described every year) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 21:05, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * For clarity - I wasn't talking about the plant/animal cats, but the parent year cats for zoology/botany - there's no reason why they have to be years rather than decades/centuries, as they tend to be on the empty side.Le Deluge (talk) 00:46, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, that makes sense. Those are in effect one step from being container-cats and there's not much need for endless layers of container cats, no. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 19:47, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Stub creation
You shouldn't create new stubs and stub types without first gaining consensus at WP:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. Since I can't see the likes of Precambrian-animal-stub on there I assume it was created out of process. You should run it and other stubs past them. Also it's important to only add existing categories - per WP:REDNOT you should either create a red-linked category or not add it at all. Working out what category to add also helps you scope out how the current category hierarchy works, which may in turn let you adjust what you're doing to fit in with the existing hierarchy. In this case there's no but there is  and. Given that the whole idea of "Precambrian plants" is a bit iffy at best, I'd suggest that the better name for the stub would have been Precambrian life. I know this can all seem a bit bureaucratic at times, but you have to take my word for it that experience says that it's for the best in the long term.Le Deluge (talk) 15:56, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Epiprocta or Anisoptera
Caftaric, I think you will find that Anisoptera is the generally accepted subdivision of the Odonata family that is used when referring to the bulk of dragonflies that are not damselflies (Zygoptera). You have used the word Epiprocta which is also a subdivision of the Odonata family, but not commonly used. The taxonomic difference between Epiprocta and Anisoptera appears slight (Epiprocta includes a small number of historically interesting species). If you are going to use subdivisions of Odonata for helping us to understand dragonflies better - and I think it is a very good way to discriminate between the damselflies and non-damselflies - then using the words Zygoptera and Anisoptera are the best terms to use.

I realise that you have put a lot of work into changing many links on dragonfly pages to point to the category, but it would make more sense if that category were called Category:Anisoptera genera. Can you change it, please?

John Tann (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi John! As you appear to be a new editor I must first thank you for helping the community of wikipedia. First thing to know is there's a lot of job to do! If you don't, nobody will do it at your place. As you have a strong opinion (which is obviously different from mine) on how to better sort out damselflies from dragonflies, I encourage you to push your views a step further and do the job yourself. It is part of the "be bold" politics of wikipedia. Doing so, you will find yourself browsing among all the pages of the topic, and have the opportunity to leave of mark of your passing here. Again a warm welcome to you John! Caftaric (talk) 15:33, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for responding Caftaric. I am happy to change the category to Category:Anisoptera genera, but firstly, I wouldn't want you to change it back again in a form of taxonomic arm wrestle - quite frankly I am not spending my time on Wikipedia to cause anyone grief. Secondly, you are right in that I am new to editing Wikipedia pages. I am certainly not on top of the automatic tools that seem to be available to edit multiple pages readily. I am concerned that should I change a category I might cause many broken links. Do you know if there is a way to fix those quickly? John Tann (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi again, John! I, myself dont't use any tools "to edit multiple pages readily". I edit each page one by one. For a category like Epiprocta genera, that contains 171 pages, it would take me something like two hours to do so. I don't know if this is quick enough! He re an advice you may need. Once you are done with the job, there is the template to redirect the old empty category to the new one that you created. Cheers, Caftaric (talk) 06:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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Two blank lines before a stub template
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Please join the stub sorting conversation
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Categorization of plant taxa
Hi, this is explained at WikiProject Plants/Categorization (as I've pointed out before). If you are going to do it differently (as you are with Category:Rosid taxa), you should discuss this at WikiProject Plants first so the documentation can be updated. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:35, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Addendum: You should probably wait on doing the liverworts (Marchantiophyta), and there is a paper out that will radically change the classification system we use. But it may be a month or two before the changes in classification are implemented here at Wikipedia. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:15, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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By year of description categories
These seem to me to be a mess now for spiders/arthropods/etc. I understand the logic of trying to subdivide "Animals described in ...", but it has to be done with consistency and consensus.

Consider the categories you added or changed at Carajas paraua. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:29, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Category:Spiders described in the 21st century was marked as a container category as the result of a deletion discussion. So it should never be used for individual articles, and all articles in the category should be removed.
 * Category:Arthropods described in 2016 is acceptable for Carajas paraua, but I find its immediate parent, Category:Protostomes described in 2016, odd. Can you point me to the consensus discussion that lead to the creation of this category? The other problem, of course, is that only random years seem to exist for "Arthropods described in ...", so it can't be used consistently.

"Arthropods described in ..." categories
Re your edit to Kankuamo marquezi (and similar edits): when the categories for "Arthropods described in ..." are fully completed it may indeed be useful to narrow down from "Animals described in ..." Until then, having what is effectively a random selection of years classified as "Arthropods" and the rest as "Animals" is not helpful to readers (or editors). Peter coxhead (talk) 08:00, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

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Authors of zoological names
Thanks for creating Silometopus elegans. It can be tricky to get the authors of the scientific names of animals right. Have a look at WikiProject Spiders/Style guide and in particular the section on Synonyms below. If the species name, in this case elegans, is the same, then for animal names the author remains the same, but is put in parentheses if the species is moved to a different genus.

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Please define
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 * Please delete since there is a spelling error in the word "Aprocrita". Correct spelling is "Apocrita" (with no "r" after the "p". Caftaric (talk) 10:30, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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Prehistoric Coelurosaurs
Hi Caftaric, I am not entirely happy with your replacement of Category:Ornitholestes with Category:Prehistoric Coelurosaurs. Could you explain to me why this is needed? Do you plan to do this consistently for other groups as well? Has this issue been discussed somewhere before? Thank you, --Jens Lallensack (talk) 12:31, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I also fail to see any reason for this category to exist. It currently contains a very random assortment of species and if it were comprehensive, it would contain hundreds or thousands of pages. Dinoguy2 (talk) 15:19, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Caftaric, please familiarize yourself with WP:DEFINING and WP:NON-DEFINING in relation to categorization. Not all factual aspects require categorization. --Animalparty! (talk) 17:57, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Caftaric, I see you continue to create multiple "Prehistoric taxon" categories and add them to articles. So far, you did not respond to our appeal to stop these actions. This is not how Wikipedia works. These categories are not wanted (see comments above and here). If you continue, I will have to list you at Administrator intervention against vandalism. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 11:05, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Arthropods described in 2013


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 * I'd like to see a wider discussion about diffusing the "Animals described in ..." categories. Having a complete set by year for arthropods seems sensible to me. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:18, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * We had the discussion: it was at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_November_26 and seemed fairly conclusive. I would have no objection personally to interested persons setting up coherent and fully populated subtrees for Category:Animals by year of formal description but instead we have editors such as NotWith and the remarkably similar Caftaric creating small twigs here and there: Category:Eukaryotes by year of formal description, Category:Species by year of formal description, Category:Species by period of description, Category:Deuterostomes by century of formal description, Category:Protostomes by century of formal description, Category:Ecdysozoa by century of formal description. Most of these would not be created if a consensus for creation had to be obtained first. Unfortunately creation of endless categories is much quicker than cfd. Caftric has created 500 new categories since October, mostly of dubious worth. Oculi (talk) 02:41, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I entirely agree about the creation of random categories that aren't properly populated, and some, like "Protostomes described in ..." are pointless. However, the discussion to which you link above had few participants and did not involve the relevant WikiProjects. I would like to see this topic properly discussed. There is, in my view, a good case for diffusing to "Arthropods described in ...", provided the categories are fully set up. A bot could use the taxobox information to fix "Animals described in ..." categories. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:16, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

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Names in taxoboxes
Hello! I noticed you are changing the links in taxoboxes to be the Latin singular, eg Mollusca instead of Mollusca. Is there a reason for this? Thanks! --TeaDrinker (talk) 19:26, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Not only is there no reason, it's contrary to WP:NOTBROKEN: "Piping links solely to avoid redirects is generally a time-wasting exercise that can actually be detrimental". It's detrimental in a taxobox to change a link to the scientific name to a link to an English name, because the former is unambiguous and constant, while the latter is not, and may not for ever go to the same article. If I see it happening to articles on my watchlist, I will revert it. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:16, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree with on this one.  Although it seems like a relatively minor issue, we should probably have consensus before making widespread changes.  I would ask that you (Caftaric) stop making the changes to the taxobox until there's consensus to do so. --TeaDrinker (talk) 00:22, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * (I should also add that, at least in the case of Mollusca, it is not piped to avoid a redirect but piped to insert one. The title of the article is actually "Mollusca" not "Mollusc" or "Mollusk.") --TeaDrinker (talk) 00:29, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

I see you are still changing taxoboxes without consensus to do so. Can you explain? --TeaDrinker (talk) 13:12, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

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trying for opinion
questions -


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Xenacoelomorpha - do you agree with the project tag? I keep thinking there is another project that might have a sharper focus on such items - ?


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Cnidarians - similarly - would you consider these the most appropriate tags ?

oh well - dissapointed you seem not interested in responding, I would have been interested in your opinion - cheers JarrahTree 07:50, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Monotypic genera articles
Hi Caftaric, I see you moved Bathypurpurata to Bathypurpurata profunda, so changing the article form that of a monotypic genus name to the specific name of its only species. I totally understand that move and, personally, I agree that this is how monotypic taxa should be treated. However, that does not follow the agreed style on Wikipedia, see Naming conventions (fauna) and in particular the section on monotypic taxa. Quetzal1964 (talk)  21:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Categorising spider articles by superfamily
I think it is a mistake to categorize spider articles by superfamily. In most cases, the superfamilies are unstable and hard to source – most recent spider phylogeny just uses clades above family level. For this reason, the articles rarely mention the superfamily, so categorizing in this way is unreferenced. As an example, Physogelenidae has recently been split off from Synotaxidae, so I put it in the same superfamily, but this isn't sourced. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:38, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Please stop this categorization now! Gnaphosoidea, for example, is an unsupported taxon – read the article – and completely unsuitable for use in categorization. Lycosoidea is another example: there may be a "core" clade, but the precise membership in terms of families is not agreed. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

RfD
I have nominated the redirect Atropurpurea for deletion. In hindsight I should have asked you about it first but I've explained my reasoning there. &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 08:30, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

"Alismatale" etc.
You created new categories using names like "Alismatale families". This is wrong; there's no such word as "Alismatale". When there is an acceptable English word for a taxon that can be used as an adjective, e.g. "rosid" for the clade Rosids, then it is used. Otherwise we use the exact Latin name of the taxon. I hope I've fixed all your incorrect titles, but please check. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:10, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Bothrops barnetti
Ignore the revert notice. I had a slow screen update that led to a misclick. Sorry. Meters (talk) 07:15, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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Reptiles
Be very careful when cleaning up articles on reptiles. Every time you do so, a redundant and unnecessary category shows up at the bottom of the page. (reptiles described in the 19th century is an example). Thank you for your time. Scorpions13256 (talk) 07:56, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Caryophyllus listed at Redirects for discussion
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Categorization of plant articles by year of description
The way in which plant articles are categorized by year of description according to the botanical code is described at WikiProject Plants/Description in year categories, where it is summarized in a diagram showing the category hierarchy that results.

If you want to change this system, e.g. by introducing an additional "column" of categories, then you need to (a) seek consensus at WP:PLANTS to change the existing system, which was arrived at by discussion and consensus; (b) update the documentation; (c) make the changes consistently.

What you actually did, without consensus and without documenting your actions, is to produce an essentially random subset of categories linked to "Eukaryotes described in ..." instead of "Species described in ..." I have restored the system as it should be. I'll be happy to join in a discussion at WT:PLANTS to decide whether there is a consensus to make changes, and if so how they should be made. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:23, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

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Flora categorization
There is a coherent system for categorizing plants by their distribution, described in great detail at WikiProject Plants/World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. If you want to add additional categories, you should first discuss this at WT:PLANTS and gain consensus. Do not keep creating categories by yourself! Peter coxhead (talk) 07:23, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of List of recently extinct birds
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Nomination of Wiebes for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tetrapods described in 1969


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Monotypic bony fish genera


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Merostomata


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Prehistoric wasp genera


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Cynipoidea genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Cynipoidea genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Pompilidae genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Pompilidae genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chalcidoidea genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Chalcidoidea genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chrysididae genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Chrysididae genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Category:Grape pest arthropods has been nominated for discussion
Category:Grape pest arthropods, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 14:20, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Extinct protostomes


A tag has been placed on Category:Extinct protostomes requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Vespoidea genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Vespoidea genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Prehistoric Apocrita genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Prehistoric Apocrita genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Holozoa genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Holozoa genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Amorphea genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Amorphea genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Podiata genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Podiata genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Opisthokont genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Opisthokont genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Monotypic chordate genera


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Prehistoric vertebrate subfamilies


A tag has been placed on Category:Prehistoric vertebrate subfamilies requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Prehistoric protostome superfamilies


A tag has been placed on Category:Prehistoric protostome superfamilies requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Apocrita genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Apocrita genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Monotypic deuterostome genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Monotypic deuterostome genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Protostome superfamilies


A tag has been placed on Category:Protostome superfamilies requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Category:Eukaryotes by conservation status has been nominated for discussion
Category:Eukaryotes by conservation status, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 21:38, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:Insects acting as insect pest control agents has been nominated for discussion
Category:Insects acting as insect pest control agents, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 10:27, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:Eukaryote ecology has been nominated for discussion
Category:Eukaryote ecology, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 12:42, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:Invasive plants biological control insects has been nominated for renaming
Category:Invasive plants biological control insects, which you created, has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 19:24, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Venomous tetrapods


A tag has been placed on Category:Venomous tetrapods requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Monogeneric tetrapod families


A tag has been placed on Category:Monogeneric tetrapod families requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Obsolete deuterostome taxa


A tag has been placed on Category:Obsolete deuterostome taxa requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Obsolete protostome taxa


A tag has been placed on Category:Obsolete protostome taxa requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Parasites of opisthokonts


A tag has been placed on Category:Parasites of opisthokonts requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Parasites of protostomes


A tag has been placed on Category:Parasites of protostomes requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Category:Echinoderms by location has been nominated for renaming
Category:Echinoderms by location has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 17:29, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Thysanura genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Thysanura genera requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Catfish and humans


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Denticollinae


A tag has been placed on Category:Denticollinae requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Category:Pollinator birds has been nominated for deletion
Category:Pollinator birds has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor(talk) 20:41, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Cheilostomata


A tag has been placed on Category:Cheilostomata requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Category:Extinct insect families has been nominated for merging
Category:Extinct insect families has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Hemiauchenia (talk) 23:43, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Araneomorph spiders of Europe


A tag has been placed on Category:Araneomorph spiders of Europe requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Bony fish families


A tag has been placed on Category:Bony fish families requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Prehistoric bony fish orders


A tag has been placed on Category:Prehistoric bony fish orders requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Bony fish orders


A tag has been placed on Category:Bony fish orders requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Bony fish taxonomy


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Calypsoeae genera


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Category:Prokaryotes taxonomy has been nominated for renaming
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Category:Eukaryote incertae sedis has been nominated for renaming
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Prehistoric alepisauriformes


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tanypezoidea stubs


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"Sb element" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Sc element" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"M element" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Sa element" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Diseae genera


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Category:Prehistoric animal genera enigmatic taxa has been nominated for renaming
Category:Prehistoric animal genera enigmatic taxa has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:24, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Biarmosuchian genera


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Gorgonopsia genera


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Nomination of Coelomomyces elegans for deletion
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Proposed deletion of Cenomyce elegans


The article Cenomyce elegans has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Not a valid taxon (i.e., not validly published); almost no mention in scientific literature (i.e., fails notability criteria)"

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Category:Animals in human culture has been nominated for renaming
Category:Animals in human culture has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:13, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Bikont subgenera


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Rhizaria classes


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Rhizaria families


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Rhizaria genera


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Rhizaria orders


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Stratiomyomorpha genera


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Alveolata classes


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Alveolata orders


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"Cercaria (trematode)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Enterogona


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"Phytophtires" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Proposed deletion of Geological Journal


The article Geological Journal has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "I did a quick search and I could not see how this is notable"

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Proposed deletion of Cyclosorus elegans


The article Cyclosorus elegans has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "This is an invalid name (nomen nudum) and it is not clear which taxon Ching was referring to. Probably not suitable for an article."

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Tridenchthoniidae


A tag has been placed on Category:Tridenchthoniidae indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Maxillarieae genera


A tag has been placed on Category:Maxillarieae genera indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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