Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Gerard Meijssen gja.meijssen@chello.nl wrote:
When it is an animal it should be [[Animalia]] and not [[Animal]]ia . Vernacular names are also difficult to use. The point being we have to discuss this and we have to be willing to cooperate. I would really welcome one Taxobox that is acceptable and usable by all wikipedia.
These are naming convention issues and are thus specific to each Wikipedia. On the English Wikipedia we use, well, English to name articles. Redirects should exist so that such a standardized taxobox would work on any language wiki.
-- mav
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mav, This list is not about en:wikipedia, it is about cooperation between the wikipedia's. Your rants and raves are about the en:ToL; how great it is. Well, it is and it is provincial because the data in en:ToL is of limited use.
Scenario: WikiSpecies has a general usable and available Taxobox. There is a parameter to the Taxobox function that is provided on call time by the local wikipedia. The parameter holds the local vernacular name, it is optional. Your choise. See my point? Nothing lost to en:ToL no problems with naming conventions, big gains to all wikipedias.
Road ahead: We have to discuss taxoboxes, how can we make taxoboxes more usable. If you refuse to discuss it, it is not very wiki, not according to the cooperative spirit of this wikiworld. So naming conventions need to be discussed. Do you have a clue about why the French or German Taxoboxes are as they are, what revisions they use of nomenclature? Might there be something in there for en: too? Do you know ??
As you dismiss all arguments without seeing further than just en: you invalidate all your arguments. To me it is all more of the same. Unhelpfull, hiding what you stand for .. What do you stand for ? How is it helpfull to others, to me ?
Thanks, GerardM