Ting Chen, 03/06/2013 11:29:

I happened to worked with a few biology interwikis on WikiData today and saw the taxnomical data on it. Given that WikiData is growing and more potential would not it be a good idea to merge WikiSpecies data into WikiData

Yes,

and close WikiSpecies (hope now there will no stones or rotten tomatos flying for this naive question ;-) )?

no. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2013/02#Include_Wikispecies_into_Wikidata http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikispecies-l/2013-January/thread.html TL;DR: Wikidata offers only a partial way to store information and no real interface at all for browsing it.

Nemo