--- Mirko Thiessen wikipedia@mirko-thiessen.de wrote:
I was (and still am) supportive of the WikiSpecies project. You can't expect to have a Wikipedia article about every species of caddisflies, or about every ground-dwelling roundworm. As Andy pointed out, these articles would remain stubs, as mostly no information but the mere name would be available - plus some scientific stuff that is of no interest for the general reader. Some of these data might be the scientific name, its synonymes, the scientist first describing the species (the taxonomic author).
We already have the goal to cover every single species in Wikipedia. If all that is known about a certain species can only fill a stub, then that stub should be incorporated into an article on the genus.
-- mav
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