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Monotypic taxa: A genus with a single species is treated at the article for the genus.

This rule generates errors in article pages, because links in the left panel point to articles in different languages about genus, not species. And vice versa. Articles in different languagest don't point to an English article. Here is an example article about Orthilia secunda:
Gruszynka_jednostronna
It contains links to about 20 other articles about Orthilia secunda in the left panel, no one is English. Because English description is hidden in the article about genus Orthilia. But species is species, genus is genus. Why to hide articles in different ones ?
I tried to add Orthilia secunda article (redirect) here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162501#sitelinks-wikipedia
but it is impossible: "Could not save due to an error. The link enwiki:Orthilia is already used by item Q1552593." etc. Perhaps it could be fixed somehow on wikidata level, by omitting redirect template, so those articles about species hidden in articles about genera could stay. But in such situation English articles about genera would not be visible in articles about genera in different languages. Darekk2 (talk) 20:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Unfortunately, this is a problem with wikidata, which seems to be getting mired in various problems. I thought I could fix it by adding the Wikidata redirect template at Orthilia_secunda but it hasn't worked yet. Not sure if it might work later, after some batch process happens. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 01:59, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So far this this a bug in Wikipedia. Darekk2 (talk) 11:01, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is on the Wikidata end: Wikidata is not able to (easily) link to redirects. See bug T54564, and d:Help:Handling sitelinks overlapping multiple items, which describes the problem and the recommended resolution. Please read at least the second link, because it contradicts your accusations. Choess (talk) 14:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I had noticed that Wikidata is rigid. But today readers of Wikipedias other than English can't see some of articles because of hidding species descriptions in articles about genera. I think that most clear, natural solution would be if species and genera had separate articles. This is not the same as Bonnie and Clyde. Because Bonnie and Clyde are Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie is Bonnie, Clyde is Clyde, but genus is not species. And better solution would be to ommit articles about genera, not species. Darekk2 (talk) 16:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Menyanthes is connected to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156153#sitelinks-wikipedia (Menyanthes trifoliata)
So the article about Orthilia could be removed from Orthilia and connected to Orthilia secunda. But in this situation, readers of Wikipedia in other languages would not see English article about species. Darekk2 (talk) 17:20, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Darekk2: the problem is with Wikidata not any of the Wikipedias, as has been explained to you at Talk:Orthilia. It's nothing to do with genera and species particularly. A different example is that the English Wikipedia has two articles, Berry, about the general sense, and Berry (botany), about the botanical sense, since these are different in English. But they may or may not be in other languages, and certainly other Wikipedias don't all have two articles, so it's not clear which article to link to which. Restricting Wikidata to 1:1 links is just wrong.

It's completely pointless to have separate articles about monotypic taxa just because of an elementary design error in Wikidata, and we aren't going to do it. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:26, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think that much better would be have separate articles about species, not genera like currently, because description are about species. So in case of monotypic species only an article about species, no article about genus. Darekk2 (talk) 13:16, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Darekk2: It would certainly make the rule simpler if it was "treat monotypic taxa at the lowest rank" rather than "treat monotypic taxa at the lowest rank, but no lower than genus except when the genus name is ambiguous with another Wikipedia article". I kind of wish we had gone that route, but at this point that means moving 2194 articles (that's just for plants; animals also have monotypic genera at the genus title). That still wouldn't solve the problem for Wikidata. And there are a couple reasons why using the genus title is preferable; it's more concise, and it harmonizes with how fossil taxa are treated (my understanding is that people working on paleontological taxa settled on not having articles on species first, and that played a role in the decision to have living monotypic genera at the genus title). Plantdrew (talk) 17:45, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I had noticed this issue coincidentally a day before yesterday, wrote so many messages because of strong resistance to this information. You can do what you want. Darekk2 (talk) 01:26, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Cebuano, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Waray and Chinese Wikipedias have separate articles on Orthilia and Orthilia secunda; Wikidata must have two items for the genus and species to accommodate these Wikipedias. Arabic, Azerbaijani, Danish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias have separate articles for Menyanthes and Menyanthes trifoliata. Scots and English articles at the genus title that are connected to the Wikidata item for the species ought to be connected to the Wikidata item for the genus (although there's no great harm in leaving them connected to the item that holds the most interwiki links). As long as at least one Wikipedia has separate article for a monotypic genus and it's species, it won't be possible to keep all the interwiki links on one Wikidata item. Plantdrew (talk) 17:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If using Wikidata to do the interwiki links is causing a problem in this article... don't use Wikidata. Be creative, and find another way to do the interwiki links. Problem solved. Blueboar (talk) 17:54, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bolding synonyms

This guideline doesn't say much about putting synonyms in bold. So I guess MOS:BOLD takes precedence. Accordingly, I did this. Okay? Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:25, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Anythingyouwant: it's always a tricky issue. I would bold "major" synonyms, i.e. those widely used that have a redirect. Too much bold is distracting and unhelpful, in my view. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:41, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is "scientific name" equivalent to "accepted name", or does WP:COMMON come into play?

The article at Persicaria affinis currently tells us that the accepted name for the species is Polygonum affine. Is this sufficient reason to move the article, if I judge that Persicaria affinis is much more commonly used? Ie, should the recommendation to use scientific names be interpreted as using the accepted name (backed by taxonomical sources), or the name which people are most likely to THINK is the "scientific name" (as indicated by the use in other sources, comparison of Google page counts etc).

This flower (like so many others) is known by several vernacular names... and each of these vernacular names are “the most commonly used” in different areas of the world. However, no matter which vernacular name is used in a given area, it is UNIVERSALLY known also by its scientific name. Thus, the scientific name is actually the most commonly used. Blueboar (talk) 16:54, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@NisJørgensen:, the accepted name (as determined by consensus in recent taxonomic sources) should be used as the title. In some cases, there may not be consensus in recent sources. We don't need to wait for Google page counts for a recently accepted name to overwhelm results for a long-standing name now regarded as a synonym. However, neither do we want to rely on a single primary source; we don't immediately incorporate the nomenclatural results of every phylogenetic study that comes out; we wait for those changes to be supported by some secondary sources (this is basically the same logic that applies to changing title of articles on cities or other geographical features that have had a name change; new usage doesn't need to overwhelm old usage, but recent sources should demonstrate adoption of the new usage). Plantdrew (talk) 19:17, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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+== Monotypic taxa: A genus with a single species is treated at the article for the genus. ==
-== Clean up common names section ==
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-I removed irrelevant material about birds here[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ANaming_conventions_%28flora%29&diff=602771554&oldid=601762438], but this was reverted[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28flora%29&diff=next&oldid=602771554] with with an edit summary that doesn't seem to make sense in this context: "that matter is constantly raised in relation to plant names, outside wikipedia as well".  Whether there's a dispute about bird naming is {{em|not}} "constantly raised in relation to plant name", since it's not relevant at all here. Whether off-Wikipedia sources agree on style, with regard to birds or plants, doesn't determine what MOS does.  MOS is already clear at [[MOS:LIFE]] that common names of species are not capitalized.  {{Ping|Sminthopsis84}} If you have an issue with that, you need to take is up at [[WT:MOS]], since MOS supersedes its subguideline pages.  In the interim, this [[WP:SOAPBOX|wildly inappropriate]] pushing of bird-related strife about capitalization has absolutely no business being in a guideline about plants. <span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 21:35, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
-:I think there is instruction creep when you add information not directly relevant to the guidelines. However, I think that if you search the archives you might find that it was put there as a result of the irrelevant arguments constantly being brought up for using common names instead of scientific names, even though it doesn't have any bearing on that, either. I would rather it not be there. --([[User:AfadsBad|AfadsBad]] ([[User talk:AfadsBad|talk]]) 21:59, 4 April 2014 (UTC))
-::Yeah, it doesn't make any sense here at all.  The common vs. scientific names part is a different section, the quoted material is mostly off-topic here, and even most of those examples are about animals.  It's grossly inappropriate [[WP:SOAPBOX]] POV-pushing about bird capitalization, which has nothing at all to do with flora. <span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 05:18, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
-:::The issue is not really about birds in particular. It's about following official lists of "common"/vernacular names, which may or may not be more "commonly used" than scientific name. [[WP:COMMONNAME]] is going for "commonly used" names, but is widely read by the Wikipedia community to mean that vernacular names should always be preferred over scientific names. By [[WP:NCFAUNA]], if the Springfield Paleontological Society decrees that "King Tyrant Lizard" is the "common" name for ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'',  that dinosaur should be titled by a vernacular name. Official lists of vernacular names often have idiosyncratic conventions for capitalization and hyphenation (that contradict [[WP:MOS]]). I absolutely support abandoning the weird conventions used by official lists of "common" names, but would argue that many fish and reptiles (and some bird and mammals) would be better titled by the scientific name if the stylistic conventions of official lists aren't being followed.
+This rule generates errors in article pages, because links in the left panel point to articles in different languages about genus, not species. And vice versa. Articles in different languagest don't point to an English article. Here is an example article about ''Orthilia secunda'':<br />[[:pl:Gruszynka_jednostronna|Gruszynka_jednostronna]]<br />It contains links to about 20 other articles about ''Orthilia secunda'' in the left panel, no one is English. Because English description is hidden in the article about genus ''Orthilia''. But species is species, genus is genus. Why to hide articles in different ones ?<br />I tried to add ''Orthilia secunda'' article (redirect) here:<br />https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162501#sitelinks-wikipedia<br />but it is impossible: "Could not save due to an error. The link enwiki:Orthilia is already used by item Q1552593."  etc. Perhaps it could be fixed somehow on wikidata level, by omitting redirect template, so those articles about species hidden in articles about genera could stay. But in such situation English articles about genera would not be visible in articles about genera in different languages. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 20:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
-:::As far as plants go, the official list of vernacular names for British plants makes abundant use of capitals, which is way the birds capitalization has been included here.. The de facto official list of vernacular names for United States plants (as well as  the list for British plants, and the de facto standards for bird and mammal names) use hyphens in a way contrary to [[WP:MOS]]. Plants are mostly at scientific name, so the "official" vernacular names aren't much of an issue for title here. For animals though, getting away from weird conventions of the official lists (which I support doing) makes titling animal articles more frequently by scientific name much more logical (which I also support doing, although this is apparently to controversial for Wikipedia to consider). [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 05:49, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
+:Indeed. Unfortunately, this is a problem with wikidata, which seems to be getting mired in various problems. I thought I could fix it by adding the Wikidata redirect template at [[Orthilia_secunda]] but it hasn't worked yet. Not sure if it might work later, after some batch process happens. [[User:Sminthopsis84|Sminthopsis84]] ([[User talk:Sminthopsis84|talk]]) 01:59, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
+::So far this this a bug in Wikipedia. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 11:01, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
+:::The problem is on the Wikidata end: Wikidata is not able to (easily) link to redirects. See [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54564 bug T54564], and [[d:Help:Handling sitelinks overlapping multiple items]], which describes the problem and the recommended resolution. Please read at least the second link, because it contradicts your accusations. [[User:Choess|Choess]] ([[User talk:Choess|talk]]) 14:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
+::::Yes, I had noticed that Wikidata is rigid. But today readers of Wikipedias other than English can't see some of articles because of hidding species descriptions in articles about genera. I think that most clear, natural solution would be if species and genera had separate articles. This is not the same as Bonnie and Clyde. Because Bonnie and Clyde are Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie is Bonnie, Clyde is Clyde, but genus is not species. And better solution would be to ommit articles about genera, not species. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 16:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
+::::[[Menyanthes]] is connected to<br />https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156153#sitelinks-wikipedia (Menyanthes trifoliata)<br />So the article about ''Orthilia'' could be removed from ''Orthilia'' and connected to ''Orthilia secunda''. But in this situation, readers of Wikipedia in other languages would not see English article about species. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 17:20, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
+:::::{{ping|Darekk2}} the problem is with Wikidata not any of the Wikipedias, as has been explained to you at [[Talk:Orthilia]]. It's nothing to do with genera and species particularly. A different example is that the English Wikipedia has two articles, [[Berry]], about the general sense, and [[Berry (botany)]], about the botanical sense, since these are different in English. But they may or may not be in other languages, and certainly other Wikipedias don't all have two articles, so it's not clear which article to link to which. Restricting Wikidata to 1:1 links is just wrong.
+:::::It's completely pointless to have separate articles about monotypic taxa just because of an elementary design error in Wikidata, and we aren't going to do it. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 17:26, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
+::::::I think that much better would be have separate articles about species, not genera like currently, because description are about species. So in case of monotypic species only an article about species, no article about genus. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 13:16, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
+:::::::{{ping|Darekk2}} It would certainly make the rule simpler if it was "treat monotypic taxa at the lowest rank" rather than "treat monotypic taxa at the lowest rank, but no lower than genus except when the genus name is ambiguous with another Wikipedia article". I kind of wish we had gone that route, but at this point that means moving 2194 articles (that's just for plants; animals also have monotypic genera at the genus title). That still wouldn't solve the problem for Wikidata. And there are a couple reasons why using the genus title is preferable; it's more concise, and it harmonizes with how fossil taxa are treated (my understanding is that people working on paleontological taxa settled on not having articles on species first, and that played a role in the decision to have living monotypic genera at the genus title). [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 17:45, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
+{{outdent|:::::::}}I had noticed this issue coincidentally a day before yesterday, wrote so many messages because of strong resistance to this information. You can do what you want. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 01:26, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
+:::::The Cebuano, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Waray and Chinese Wikipedias have separate articles on ''Orthilia'' and ''Orthilia secunda''; Wikidata must have two items for the genus and species to accommodate these Wikipedias. Arabic, Azerbaijani, Danish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias have separate articles for ''Menyanthes'' and ''Menyanthes trifoliata''. Scots and English articles at the genus title that are connected to the Wikidata item for the species ought to be connected to the Wikidata item for the genus (although there's no great harm in leaving them connected to the item that holds the most interwiki links). As long as at least one Wikipedia has separate article for a monotypic genus and it's species, it won't be possible to keep all the interwiki links on one Wikidata item. [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 17:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
+::If using Wikidata to do the interwiki links is causing a problem in this article...  don't use Wikidata.  Be creative, and find another way to do the interwiki links.  Problem solved. [[User:Blueboar|Blueboar]] ([[User talk:Blueboar|talk]]) 17:54, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
+== Bolding synonyms ==
-::::This isn't really even a relevant debate here.  Plant species articles are at scientific names, not common names.  We all already think that common names, lower case and upper case, should be redirects to the scientific names.  There is virtually nothing relevant for NCFLORA to say here about common names and capitalization.  Whether to capitalize or not is a [[WP:MOS]] matter, not a [[WP:AT]]/[[WP:RS]] matter, anyway, if you want to have a side discussion about article content (which is off-topic in a naming guideline).  This has been gone over at both [[WT:MOS]] and [[WT:AT]] about 1,000 times.  Whether or not any particular outside list of animal names is a [[WP:RS]] for purposes of determining what the names {{em|are}} under [[WP:COMMONNAME]] has nothing to do with what Wikipedia should do with them stylistically.  Some editors refuse to accept this, but [[WP:CONSENSUS]] does not require unanimity.  There's been a consensus at MOS to not capitalize (yes, including in article titles the common names of species of organism, and that consensus is so stable not one word of it has changed in almost 2 years.  The section here is quoting MOS directly and extensively to support an {{em|incorrect}} idea, namely that there are all sorts of exceptions to [[MOS:LIFE]], of which bird are just one example. That's absolutely, positively not at all what MOS is saying (it's not even saying there is that exception; rather, it's warning that there's an unresolved [[WP:LOCALCONSENSUS]] dispute that leads to editwarring and is best avoided until a broader consensus resolves the matter). And it has nothing at all to do with article titles of flora. Whether "getting away from" vernacular names for fauna articles is or isn't a good idea, and would or would not be controversial, is a matter for discussion at [[WT:NCFAUNA]], not here. (Your argument about ''T. rex'' isn't actually correct &ndash; we would never put a dinosaur species article at a vernacular name, and certainly not on the basis of one institution's advancement of it as a common name vs. it aactually being the [[WP:COMMONNAME]] &ndash;, but that's another matter for WT:NCFAUNA.) <span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 23:34, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
+This guideline doesn't say much about putting synonyms in bold.  So I guess [[MOS:BOLD]] takes precedence.  Accordingly, I did [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alstonia_boonei&diff=prev&oldid=811898552 this].  Okay?[[User:Anythingyouwant|&#32;Anythingyouwant]] ([[User talk:Anythingyouwant|talk]]) 05:25, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
-===Proposed re-wording===
+:{{ping|Anythingyouwant}} it's always a tricky issue. I would bold "major" synonyms, i.e. those widely used that have a redirect. Too much bold is distracting and unhelpful, in my view. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 07:41, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
-{{ping|SMcCandlish}} There's no intention here to "push" bird naming conventions. The {{em|facts}} appear to be these:
-# There are a substantial number of biology-related articles, not just birds but also lepidoptera, where capitalized English names are used as a matter of policy by the WikiProject. Whether this should continue or not is a matter of controversy, currently being debated in an RfC. Members of WP:PLANTS have their own views, but the project as a whole does not. What is relevant to this guidance is that the practice of capitalizing '''actually exists''', rightly or wrongly, and so guidance is needed which takes reality into account.
-# As there has been no consensus within WP:PLANTS over capitalizing the English names of plants, the actual result is that some plant articles do capitalize (including GA and FA articles), particularly where there are national ties to countries which have "official" capitalized plant names (see e.g. [[:Category:Banksia taxa by common name]]). But equally some plant articles – perhaps the majority – don't capitalize. The important advice, given that there is no consensus among plant editors to go around changing capitalization styles, is "Use a consistent style for common names within an article." The consistent style should be applied to all organisms in that article, i.e. if the English names of plants are in sentence case, then the English names of birds, etc. should be the same, and similarly if title case is used.
-I do agree that the current wording isn't quite right, because it doesn't bring out the real issue which is ensuring consistency within an article and not following the style of any linked article, and because it isn't applied directly to plants. Rather than quoting the MOS directly, I would suggest something like this:
-::The [[WP:MOS|Manual of Style]] recommends the use of sentence case for the vernacular names of organisms, i.e. that they should be in lower case other than words that would normally be capitalized within a sentence. Thus "common bluebell", "meadow buttercup", "cuckoo-pint", but "Mount Cook lily", "Spanish bluebell" and "Adam and Eve". Some English plant names contain "proper names" but not used in a way which applies to specific individuals. Where sentence case is used, these names should be in lower case. Examples are "jack in the pulpit" and "ragged robin".
-::{{As of|2014|April}}, plant articles vary in whether sentence case or title case is used for English names, as do articles in other areas of biology. Use a consistent style within an article. Redirects from vernacular names of plants should be created for alternative capitalizations.
-However, any change requires consensus and should not be made by one editor acting alone. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 16:48, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
-:That's a {{em|misstatement of facts}} in several places, though I think the proposed wording changes is worth discussion (and correction).  The disputation part should be dealt with first, because most people who attempt to approach this vernacular names issue do so from multiple faulty positions.
-:#There is no such thing as a "wikiproject policy":
-:#*[[Wikipedia:Consensus#Level of consensus]] ([[WP:LOCALCONSENSUS]]): "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. For instance, unless they can convince the broader community that such action is right, participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope."  And: "Wikipedia has a higher standard of participation and consensus for changes to policies and guidelines than to other types of pages. This is because they reflect established consensus, and their stability and consistency are important to the community."
-:#*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Advice pages]]: "The best [wikiproject-based] advice pages do not conflict with the site-wide pages and avoid unnecessary duplications with site-wide pages. However, in a few cases, projects have wrongly used these pages as a means of asserting [[WP:Article ownership|ownership over articles]] within their scope, such as insisting that all articles that interest the project must [comply with the advice page], and that editors of the article get no say in this because of a 'consensus' within the project. An advice page written by several members of a project is no more binding on editors than an advice page written by any single individual editor. Any advice page that has not been formally approved by the community through the [[WP:PROPOSAL]] process has the actual status of an optional {{tlx|essay}}.
-:#The fact that some pracice exists off Wikipedia does not mean that Wikipedia has to account for it internally.
-:#The fact that some editors engage in a practice on Wikipedia that conflicts with guidelines or policies does not mean that those have to be rewritten to endorse that practice.  We might as well just delete all guidlines and policies if that were the case, since they would be meaningless.
-:#The fact that "there has been no consensus within WP:PLANTS over capitalizing the English names of plants" is precisely why this pro-capitalization activism has to stop.  You and I have been over this at least 4 times that I remember.  [[MOS:LIFE]] has already established a site-wide consensus, in one of the longest-running, most widely-advertised debates in its history (one that some bird-focused editors even dominated, canvassed and tried to disrupt[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive738#User:KimvdLinde:_Canvassing.2C_disruptive_editing.2C_false_polling.2C_etc.]), and it nevertheless settled on {{em|not capitalizing}} the common names of species.  No wikiproject has to "ratify" this, it just {{em|is}}, and consensus has not changed on it.  It does not matter whether a wikiproject, which is just a page at which individual editors agree to coordinate collaboration on a topic, not an autonomous authority, comes to some independent agreement with it.  The fact that various plant articles were capitalized way back when does not magically mean MOS:LIFE has new "exceptions", it means that no one's gotten around to moving them since consensus on lower case was reached at MOS in 2008 and reaffirmed in 2012. If moving them would be a big fight, it also indicates that some people don't understand [[WP:LOCALCONSENSUS]].  You seem to be unaware that wikiprojects did precisely the same thing at all the cetacean articles, all the primate articles, all the rodent articles, all the ovis articles, and many others, and yet they've all been methodically put back at lower case per [[MOS:LIFE]] {{em|without any strife at all}}.  This Chicken Little pretense, that heads are going to explode if moth or fern names aren't capitalized any longer, is untenable, and everyone knows this.
-:#This is patently a [[WP:OWN]]ership argument: "there is no consensus among plant editors to go around changing capitalization styles".  It {{em|does not matter}}, because there {{em|is}} a consensus to use lower case at [[MOS:LIFE]].  Members of a project that doesn't even have a local consensus for upper case are not some mystical force that can block the application of site-wide consensus in favor of lower case.  You've been making this weird argument for four years now and really need to drop it.
-:#"Ensuring consistency within an article" is MOS's job, and it has a standard for that (do not capitalize species common names, but allows that if for some wild reason this is ignored, then do be consistent about it).  AT/NC pages have nothing to say about that topic; they are about titles, and on style matters they necessarily defer to MOS.
-:As for your proposal, it {{em|is}} heading in the right direction, in spirit, but mostly fails to stay focused on naming conventions and keeps trying to rewrite the content guidelines of MOS. The first paragraph is arguably better written than MOS itself on the matter when it comes to capitalizing; putting it in terms of "proper names" has always been dicey, because there's a camp that insists (incorrectly) that common names of species are themselves proper names.  But anyway, the text has several serious problems in both segments:<ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;">
-:#It misstates MOS's position as being in support of sentence case (this would result in usage like {{!xt|Common bluebell}} in the middle of a sentence); sentence case only applies to article titles, and is handled by the software automatically.
-:#But wait; plant species (and genus, and subspecies, etc.) articles are at scientific names, not common names!  There is nothing for NCFLORA to actually do here other than to talk about how to title redirect pages, and we already know the answer is to redir from every reasonable version of a name!
-:#Not surprisingly, the examples you give are in-text usage, not article titles. This is MOS's job, and has absolutely no business being in a naming convention page.  You and others here keep saying no one is pushing bird capitalization on other topics, and that this being just a naming guideline it is not trying to contradict MOS on article content.  Yet what you've proposed is doing both.
-:#The "jack in the pulpit" cases could more succinctly be addressed with "Some plant names contain personal names not used in a way which refers to specific individuals (e.g. ''jack in the pulpit'' and ''ragged robin''); these names are normally in lower case, thus [[Ragged robin]]" (and note use of redir title as example), but this is {{em|also}} really an article content issue, not a naming conventions issue.  It needs to be addressed at the [[MOS:CAPS]] page, and I'll raise it for inclusion there myself.  <ins>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AManual_of_Style%2FCapital_letters&diff=602938559&oldid=602427309 Done] as of 05:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC)</ins>
-:#In the second segment, the entire purpose appears to be to advance a capitalization justification agenda, and it applies only to article content!  This is off-limits for naming conventions, even aside from its direct conflict with MOS.
-:#And the wording gets worse: "plant articles vary in whether sentence case or title case is used for English names" would have to be "plant article titles vary...", but well, they don't because they're not at common names.  For redirects, we'd actually want both capitalized and non-capitalized to work.  And most people don't what title case and sentence case mean.
-:#The "are used for" verb tense implies a MOS exception that does not exist. This wording would be a very wikipolitically problematic, despite looking minor; but again this entire section is trying to be an anti-MOS and has nothing to do with naming conventions, so it has to go.
-:#The "as do articles in other areas of biology" bit serves no purpose at NCFLORA, and is just fight-baiting.  It's also hardly true any longer.  I've have personally de-capitalized most of the articles in entire families (maybe even an order or two), and this cleanup work is ongoing by others are well.  There is no forest of "exceptions".  There are birds with a constantly controversial alleged local consensus to ignore MOS (in actual fact, only some birds editors agree with it), and there are some plant and insect articles, {{em|without}} any such consensus as you noted yourself.  It's just more anti-MOS posturing, since it has nothing to do with article naming conventions of flora!
-:#"Use a consistent style within an article."  This is off-topic for a naming convention, and is already covered at MOS, pretty much everywhere.</ol>
-:Making changes does not require consensus; consensus is required for them to stick.  See [[WP:BOLD]], [[WP:BRD]].
-:I'll take a stab at redrafting to resolve these problems.
-:<span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 23:34, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
+== Is "scientific name" equivalent to "accepted name", or does [[WP:COMMON]] come into play? ==
-===Alternative proposal===
-The concerns raised above would probably be mollified with something like this:
-{{quotation|1=The [[WP:Manual of Style#LIFE|Manual of Style]] recommends the use of lower case for the vernacular names of organisms, other than for words that would normally be capitalized within a sentence. Plant species articles are usually at the scientific name.  Redirects, which are automatically sentence-cased with an initial capital letter, should be created from common names to the scientific name, e.g. [[Common bluebell]], [[Cuckoo-pint]], but [[Mount Cook lily]], [[Adam and Eve (plant)]]. Redirects from vernacular names of plants should be created for alternative capitalizations &ndash; [[Common Bluebell]], [[Mount Cook Lily]]<strike>&ndash; because capitalization is common in many field guides and preferred in some academic disciplines</strike>.}}
-That's {{em|all}} that's needed, and it's really all that reasonably {{em|can}} be said here, without this leading to an eventual RFC or RFARB to stop NCFAUNA from being advanced as a competing, anti-MOS article prose style guide. Peter, you wrote "There's no intention here to 'push' bird naming conventions". Okay, so let's stop pushing them here.  (PS: Set index articles and disambiguation pages as alternatives to redirects are already covered further up the page, so we needn't reiterate anything about them here.)<span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 23:34, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
-<span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 23:34, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
-::I've <strike>struck through</strike> wording that, as pointed out below, isn't really necessary. <span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 05:35, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
+The article at [[Persicaria affinis]] currently tells us that the accepted name for the species is [[Polygonum affine]]. Is this sufficient reason to move the article, if I judge that Persicaria affinis is much more commonly used? Ie, should the recommendation to use scientific names be interpreted as using the accepted name (backed by taxonomical sources), or the name which people are most likely to THINK is the "scientific name" (as indicated by the use in other sources, comparison of Google page counts etc).
-:The reason is speculation, and should be omitted.
+*This flower (like so many others) is known by several vernacular names... and each of these vernacular names are “the most commonly used” in different areas of the world.  However, no matter which vernacular name is used in a given area, it is UNIVERSALLY known also by its scientific name.  Thus, the scientific name is actually the most commonly used. [[User:Blueboar|Blueboar]] ([[User talk:Blueboar|talk]]) 16:54, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
-:I utterly despise your attempt to make this page an extension of battles elsewhere. I'll take it off my watch list and ignore it. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 08:58, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
-::{{Em|I}} certainly didn't [[WP:POVFORK]] these NC pages and MOS subpages from [[MOS:LIFE]].  I'm not "making" this page anything; it's not possible to raise the problem of guidelines diverging from each other without being specific as to which guidelines they are and where they're conflicting.  I decline to feel like a bad guy for proposing that they be normalized back to MOS again (at which I have not advocated any relevant change).  Nor am I going to feel like a bad guy for pointing out that misuse of a naming conventions page to advance article content guidelines isn't proper.  To the extent that this is even about capitalization rather than wikiproject politics, there was a two-month long discussion in 2012, in which you were a major participant as were WP:BIRDS members who cared, and many, many other parties; the consensus that emerged from that to recommend lower case while noting the existence of a single [[WP:LOCALCONSENSUS]] dispute, in April 2012, is the broadest and most stable ever reached on Wikipedia about this stuff (the wording at MOS:LIFE hasn't changed at all since then).<p>I'm not sure what you mean about "speculation"; there is nothing speculative about the fact that field guides frequently capitalize and that some academic publications also do, and that this makes redirs from alternative capitalizations useful to readers.  It is certainly optional wording, though.  But its also not unusual for these guidelines to briefly explain their rationales for rules.  I don't care either way.  I've taken your personal-level objection to your talk page, and that discussion seems reasonable. <span style="white-space:nowrap"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|<font face="Trebuchet MS">'''SMcCandlish'''</font> ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ⚞(<sup>Ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅̆<sub>⚲͜</sub>ⱷ<sup>^</sup>)≼ </span> 05:35, 7 April 2014 (UTC)</p>
+:{{ping|NisJørgensen}}, the accepted name (as determined by consensus in recent taxonomic sources) should be used as the title. In some cases, there may not be consensus in recent sources. We don't need to wait for Google page counts for a recently accepted name to overwhelm results for a long-standing name now regarded as a synonym. However, neither do we want to rely on a single primary source; we don't immediately incorporate the nomenclatural results of every phylogenetic study that comes out; we wait for those changes to be supported by some secondary sources (this is basically the same logic that applies to changing title of articles on cities or other geographical features that have had a name change; new usage doesn't need to overwhelm old usage, but recent sources should demonstrate adoption of the new usage). [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 19:17, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
-:It's been over a week.  Does anyone even watchlist this page, or care about plant article title capitalization (for the few plant articles not at the scientific names)? <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 01:07, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
-::Nobody cares about article title capitalization. None of the remaining articles with capitalized vernacular name titles are good candidates to remain at the vernacular name. Some people do care about using specialist styles to present vernacular names in article text (and that's not just caps, but hyphens as in "[[Douglas-fir]]"). There's consensus that plant vernacular names should be sourced. There doesn't seem to be consensus whether specialist sources should be strictly followed in use of caps and hyphens.  Does the plants debate over presentation of vernacular names in article text belong in a policy on titles? No. Does it belong at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Plants#Common_names]]? For now, that's probably the best place for the text you wanted to remove. Straight up removal didn't go over very well. Moving it to a more appropriate place will likely ignite another lengthy discussion. If you're still wanting to get the controversial text out of the article title guideline, try moving it, not right out deleting it.  [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 03:25, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
-:::Much if not all of this is moot now, but this deserves a belated answer. MOS would never be okay with something as weird as "Douglas-fir"; there are virtually no sources for that, and all of them are specialist sources that conflict with other specialist sources.  This is a classic example of what [[WP:SSF]] was written to cover, and why the essay's become oft-cited even in my absence.  Every other day some specialist somewhere promulgates some linguistically freakish notion as a secret code, an insider shorthand of some sort, between specialists.  Normally no one cares, because it's just between them.  It becomes a problem when some of those specialists decide to try to push it on millions of encyclopedia users, however.  There {{em|is}} consensus whether specialist sources should be strictly followed in use of caps and hyphens, and the answer is an overwhelming "no".  MOS has entire subpages about both, and how to do them here.  There is no magical exception for plants just because some wikiproject wants to ignore MOS instead of trying to convince the rest of the encyclopedia's editors to change MOS to account for their quirk.  The "debate over" presentation of vernacular names in article text belongs at [[WT:MOS]] and was just administratively closed there in favor of lower case.  Any {{em|actual article-editing advice}} to contradict that site-wide consensus, which has actually been around since 2008, and very clear since 2012, does {{em|not}} belong here, or at [[WP:PLANTS#Common names]], or anywhere else, since it's a [[WP:LOCALCONSENSUS]] policy problem.  The "text I wanted to remove" was (now-incorrect) direct quotation of MOS on a dispute about capitalization of bird names, so it had nothing at all to do with either this page or the plants wikiproject.  We don't need to "move" any such material to some place to ignite yet another lengthy discussion.  The discussion's been had, many times, and it always ends the same.  No one is in a position to refrain from removing irrelevant material simply because the removal may not go over well with people who have latched onto the material inappropriately and were misconstruing it.  One or two people reflexively objecting to the removal without actually analyzing it isn't even evidence that it didn't go over well, only of reflexive reactions. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 08:52, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
-::::{{ping|SMcCandlish}} "MOS would never be okay with something as weird as 'Douglas-fir'; there are virtually no sources for that". Calling this style "weird" is insulting and offensive. I would never dream of writing "Douglas fir", except to quote others, because it's ignorant and wrong. Douglas-firs are not firs. To call this a "specialist style fallacy" is to say that whenever non-specialists use incorrect names for things, which they do all the time, an encyclopedia should do the same. What should count in Wikipedia is reasoned, reliable sources. As it happens, there are plenty of such sources which use "Douglas-fir", starting with [http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=psme USDA]. You obviously didn't try a Google search. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 09:24, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
-:::::{{ping|Peter coxhead}} I was already aware of the reason for this. I didn't say there {{em|are no}} sources.  They're simply grossly outnumbered by all those that do not hyphenate.  I was hyperbolic, and I apologize for that.  Ngrams for material since after introduction and some academic-circles acceptance of the hyphenated variant show about a 2:1 ratio in favor of {{em|no}} hyphenation (when accounting for capitalization variants), and no notable increase of use of the hyphenation in about half a century![https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Douglas+fir%2CDouglas+Fir%2CDouglas-fir%2CDouglas-Fir&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CDouglas%20fir%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CDouglas%20Fir%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CDouglas%20-%20fir%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CDouglas%20-%20Fir%3B%2Cc0]  It's not that I or anyone else here cannot understand that some specialists are choosing to operator-overload hyphenation to mean "false" in this sort of case, in their specialist publications (and notably in a way that other biological fields would not; i.e. is {{em|is}} weird, by both everyday-English and life sciences writing standards).  It's simply a terrible idea to push on a general audience publication, because most readers will certainly not understand this, even if they see the buried explanation of it somewhere, and then even if they agree (unlikely) that abusing hyphenation to make a point like that is acceptable.<p>Aside: Our own article [[Douglas fir]] should actually mention the Douglas-fir spelling and the tree not being a true fir, in the lead, I would think.</p><p>"We aren't stupid and we do have a real reason for doing this in our publications for each other" is not a significant justification for pushing on the whole encyclopedia any style quirk that violates English language usage norms and expectations.  It just does not work.  Virtually all people who encounter "Douglas-fir" are going to take it for a typographical error unless they work in forestry or botany.  I don't think tree people are stupid, and I'm not trying to insult them. I'm trying to hammer home that specialists cannot see the encyclopedic forest for their specialist trees (no pun intended) half the time, and have to be forced into it, usually repeatedly.  It's a completely different register of writing; it's like trying to use C++ constructs in Perl. Does not compute. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 10:30, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
-:::::PS: I'm not trying to play some "Stanton vs. Peter" logic game here; I'm just going by our own article.  If you wanted to make a [[WP:RM]] case that [[WP:COMMONNAME]] is trumped by "Douglas fir" being factually incorrect, just as "horny toad" or "horned toad" (by a huge margin more common names) are wrong for the [[horned lizard]], and suggested a move to what seems to be the #2 name, [[Douglas spruce]], I'd be in favor of that.  But a move request to "Douglas-fir" would almost certainly fail by a landslide, because we just don't use hyphenation for that purpose in English.  "Horny-toad" and "horned-toad" are not in any way, even slightly, less misleading names than "horny toad" or "horned toad" for something that isn't a toad; that addition of a hyphen doesn't signify "false" or "pseudo-" to anyone, anywhere, ever. Except, I guess, fans of the Douglas-fir. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 10:39, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
-::::::You are ignoring the point of the hyphen, as well as ignoring the fact that reliable sources hyphenate; merely counting hits is irrelevant. If an English name is "Foo fir", then it's common to write later "the fir ..." or "this fir ..." It would be quite wrong to do this for Douglas-fir as it's not a fir. The same applies to a name like "alternate-leaved golden-saxifrage". If this were written as "alternate-leaved golden saxifrage" it would imply that it's a saxifrage when it's not, and would encourage writing "this saxifrage", etc. rather than "this golden-saxifrage". Hyphenation and capitalization are quite different issues; the former carries significantly more meaning (which is why the MOS distinguishes hyphens and dashes). This is an encyclopedia, not a popular blog. Accuracy, not popularity, must always be the priority if Wikipedia is to command respect. The opposite of the specialist style fallacy is the fallacy that the majority who know little about a subject are better placed to decide than the minority who do. (Of course the correct move is to the scientific name.) P.S. the use of the hyphen is explained in the article. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 19:31, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
-:::::::I think we're just talking past each other. I'm not ignoring the point of the hyphen at all, I'm observing that this use of hyphenation to indicate "false" or "pseudo-" is a highly idiosyncratic botany insider usage that is not going to be recognized by anyone else, nor likely to be accepted well by anyone not already steeped in it.  I am also not advocating that the Douglas fir/Douglas-fir/Douglas spruce/Oregon pine/whatever-you-like should be referred to as "the fir". Not all reliable sources hyphenate this, even if you consider more of those that do to be further along the reliability curve.  The Dunning Kruger effect has more than one actual effect; a common one is the assumption by experts that something known and "obvious" to them is already known, easy to absorb, or even agreeable to everyone else, when  the opposite is often the case.  Anyway, the use of the hyphen in that case is buried in body of the article, not mentioned in the lead, which is whjy I suggested updating the lead if you want people to learn and understand the hyphenated version of the name. &lt;shrug&gt;  I'd support {{em|either}} a move to the scientific name or a move to one of the more accurate common names.  There's certainly no need to keep that article at [[Douglas fir]] given all the alternatives; [[WP:COMMONNAME]] is a default, not a law of nature.  :-)  <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 01:56, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
-::::::::It's not to mean "false"; it's to show indivisibility. It's not an idiosyncratic botany insider usage at all but a standard feature of English punctuation. It's perfectly normal in English for there to be a historical sequence whereby a two-word phrase is first spaced, then as it becomes more fixed it's hyphenated, and finally written with no space as a single word.  A good example is [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pigeon+hole%2Cpigeon-hole%2Cpigeonhole&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cpigeon%20hole%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bpigeon%20hole%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPigeon%20Hole%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPigeon%20hole%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPIGEON%20HOLE%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cpigeon%20-%20hole%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bpigeon%20-%20hole%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPigeon%20-%20hole%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cpigeonhole%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bpigeonhole%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPigeonhole%3B%2Cc0 pigeonhole]. The hyphenated form "Douglas-fir" is less common, but runs at about 2/3 of the frequence of the spaced form in the [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Douglas+fir%2C+Douglas-fir%2C+Douglasfir&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2CDouglas%20fir%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BDouglas%20fir%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDouglas%20Fir%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDOUGLAS%20FIR%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2CDouglas%20-%20fir%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BDouglas%20-%20fir%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDouglas%20-%20Fir%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDOUGLAS%20-%20FIR%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2CDouglasfir%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BDouglasfir%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bdouglasfir%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDouglasFir%3B%2Cc0 ngram]. Note that the unspaced form is attested, albeit very rarely (and there's always a problem with the accuracy of OCR in Google's digitized books). The point of my continuing this thread is not the specific case, but to explain the general importance of hyphenation in standardized English species names. They are there for good reasons in most cases. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 09:49, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
-:::{{Ping|Plantdrew}} If in "text you wanted to remove" you were including content-not-title-specific material, not just the animal-related MOS quote I was going on about in response, then yes, by all means have it over at the wikiproject page for now. Those points should all be worked into the [[MOS:ORGANISMS]] draft.  Despite our tooth-baring on these lame capitalization and other style squabbles, I think we all agree that the draft is nearing completion and is almost as comprehensive as it can be without non-biologist heads imploding, and in spite of all the difficulties of producing one WP standard from conflicting and shifting cross-disciplinary expectations. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 10:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
-== Discussion at Village Pump ==
-The [[Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(flora)#Principles|Principles section]] of this guideline has been raised for discussion at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#WP:FLORA issues]]. Regards, [[User:TransporterMan|<span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS; color:blue; font-variant:small-caps;">'''TransporterMan'''</span>]] ([[User talk:TransporterMan|<font face="Trebuchet MS" size="1">TALK</font>]]) 14:10, 23 January 2015 (UTC) <small>{{H:title|This is an informational posting only and I am not watching this page or discussion|(Not watching)|link=no|dotted=yes}}</small>
-×== Notice: RfC at VPPOL may have implications for NCFLORA and MOS:LIFE ==
-There's an RfC at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Wikipedia:Disambiguation and inherently ambiguous titles]] about the sentence in [[WP:Disambiguation]] that encompasses the long-standing practice at [[WP:RM]] of permitting [[WP:NATDIS|natural disambiguation]] for precision-and-recognizability reasons even in the absence of an actual article title collision. This frequently arises with breeds, cultivars, landraces, and other non-human populations the names of which may be confused with human ones (e.g. the move of [[Algerian Arab]], now a disambiguation page, to [[Algerian Arab sheep]], and of [[British White]] to [[British White cattle]] to ease confusion with the [[White British]]). The RfC is misleading and non-neutral due to failure to perform due diligence with regard to previous consensus discussions. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 17:14, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
-:That debate has no implications for this guideline, as it deals with a practice that's not documented here (and indeed isn't even commonly implemented for plant cultivars, unlike animal breeds). I have no objection to including additional words (beyond the minimum needed to prevent title collisions) for clarity. Right now, the guideline suggests using ICNCP names for cultivars, e.g. ''Malus'' 'Red Delicious'. While ICNCP styling is pretty well accepted in the real world for ornamental plants (as reflected in our titles in [[:Category:Ornamental plant cultivars]] and most other subcategories of [[:Category:Cultivars]]), ICNCP styling is less used for food plant cultivars, both in the real world, and on Wikipedia (see [[:Category:Food plant cultivars]] and it's subcategories). We don't even have consistency on whether it should be [[Jonathan (apple)]] or [[Jubilee apple]], let alone whether [[Red Delicious]] needs apple appended somehow.
-:I'd like to see if we can get consensus on a few points regarding food plant cultivar titles and document that consensus in the guideline.
-#Do we prefer plain English names for titles of food plant cultivars rather than ICNCP names? I.e., is [[Red Delicious]] preferable to ''Malus'' 'Red Delicious'?
-#If disambiguation is necessary to prevent title collisions, do we use natural disambiguation, or parenthetical disambiguation? I.e., should it be [[Jonathan (apple)]] or [[Jonathan apple]]?
-#Do we include any additional terms (not strictly needed to prevent title collisions) to clarify what something is when the minimal title is confusing or misleading? I.e., as [[Cornish Gilliflower]] suggests a species of wildflower, perhaps a ''Dianthus'' rather than a fruit tree, should it be "Cornish Gilliflower apple"?
-:Personally, I think: 1) Avoid ICNCP styling for food plant cultivars (this is the current status quo). 2) Use non-parenthetical disambiguation (no current status quo; we have a mix of parenthetical and non). 3) Additional terms are permissible, although I'm not sure where to draw the line as to whether they should be used ("Cornish Gilliflower" should probably get "apple" added, but I think "[[Granny Smith]]" is well known enough to be recognizable as an apple, [[Maria Ann Smith]] notwithstanding). [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]])
-::I agree entirely, though the only point that I have strong feelings about is 3). I just commented at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Wikipedia:Disambiguation and inherently ambiguous titles|the village pump]]. [[User:Sminthopsis84|Sminthopsis84]] ([[User talk:Sminthopsis84|talk]]) 21:05, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
-::I agree too. Where to draw the line can be decided by discussion, bearing in mind the need to take into account the international nature of Wikipedia – cultivars that are well-known in some countries aren't in others. [[User:Peter coxhead|Peter coxhead]] ([[User talk:Peter coxhead|talk]]) 22:22, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
-== Notability of cannabis / marijuana strains ==
-I do not see this discussed in the archives so I wanted to raise the issue.
-At [[WP:MED|WikiProject Medicine]] there have been discussions over the years about Wikipedia articles on specific cannabis or marijuana strains. The situation is that many varieties are marketed. Many individual types get journalism and recognition. The major concern in WP:MED is that some strains are advertised as being superior for treating some medical ailments as compared to other strains. Part of the discussion is what to do with cannabis cultivar articles.
-Currently there is a talk at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Cannabis_articles]]. If anyone cares to comment, please do. [[User:Bluerasberry|<span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">''' Blue Rasberry '''</span>]][[User talk:Bluerasberry|<span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">(talk)</span>]] 16:55, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
-== Monotypic taxa: A genus with a single species is treated at the article for the genus. ==
-This rule generates errors in article pages, because links in the left panel point to articles in different languages about genus, not species. And vice versa. Articles in different languagest don't point to an English article. Here is an example article about ''Orthilia secunda'':<br />[[:pl:Gruszynka_jednostronna|Gruszynka_jednostronna]]<br />It contains links to about 20 other articles about ''Orthilia secunda'' in the left panel, no one is English. Because English description is hidden in the article about genus ''Orthilia''. But species is species, genus is genus. Why to hide articles in different ones ?<br />I tried to add ''Orthilia secunda'' article (redirect) here:<br />https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162501#sitelinks-wikipedia<br />but it is impossible: "Could not save due to an error. The link enwiki:Orthilia is already used by item Q1552593."  etc. Perhaps it could be fixed somehow on wikidata level, by omitting redirect template, so those articles about species hidden in articles about genera could stay. But in such situation English articles about genera would not be visible in articles about genera in different languages. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 20:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
-:Indeed. Unfortunately, this is a problem with wikidata, which seems to be getting mired in various problems. I thought I could fix it by adding the Wikidata redirect template at [[Orthilia_secunda]] but it hasn't worked yet. Not sure if it might work later, after some batch process happens. [[User:Sminthopsis84|Sminthopsis84]] ([[User talk:Sminthopsis84|talk]]) 01:59, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
-::So far this this a bug in Wikipedia. [[User:Darekk2|Darekk2]] ([[User talk:Darekk2|talk]]) 11:01, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
-:::The problem is on the Wikidata end: Wikidata is not able to (easily) link to redirects. See [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54564 bug T54564], and [[d:Help:Handling sitelinks overlapping multiple items]], which describes the problem and the recommended resolution. Please read at least the second link, because it contradicts your accusations. [[User:Choess|Choess]] ([[User talk:Choess|talk]]) 14:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)