User talk:Dougalc

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Taxoboxes
Hi Dougalc - my reason is that I think it is quite important that the taxobox head should be the same as the page title; though equally, precisely because it is a taxobox giving the taxon's scientific hierarchy, I'd say it could very reasonably be argued that the scientific name should be used there even where the page name is a common name. On a minor formatting aside, you'd also left the name in italics (2 x ' at the start and end of the italicised text), which common names of course aren't. - MPF 08:29, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The note at WP:TX is just copied from the same at WP:TOL, so it is in effect saying it should be the same as the page title. Page titling is likely to be changed 'officially' fairly soon; quite a lot of contributors feel that plants should all or nearly all be at sci names, so the formal recommendations are a bit out of date with current opinion (the common name recommendation was made long ago when there were several birders but few or no botanists contributing to wikipedia; birds have much more stable semi-official common names, plants don't). Have a look through the WP:TOL talk archives, it's been discussed a fair few times with a majority in favour of this change; while no formal change has yet been added to the project page, it is likely to happen sometime. BTW I like your other edits at Agathis australis, nice work! - MPF 15:49, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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Hi! I notice you've been editing here a couple of years without getting a welcome from another Kiwi (I presume that you're from NZ or at least interested in NZ from the contributions you list on your user page). So... er... welcome! You may (or may not) be interested in our Collaboration of the Fortnight, the occasionally updated list of NZ pages up for deletion (currently empty), or the NZ Wiki notice board. In any case, happy editing! Z iggurat 02:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

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