--- Mirko Thiessen <wikipedia(a)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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