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Please do not add content that is not linked through higher taxa. They show up as orphaned pages and may end up as candidates for deletion. It is customary to fill the taxonomy top/down rather than bottom/up. Lycaon 10:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I second Lycaon's comment, also I'm not sure you are using a current classification of fungi. It certainly doesn't match the top level taxa in Wikispecies. For instance you have:

Main Page
Superregnum: Eukarya

Regnum: Fungi

Divisio: Ascomycota

Classis: Ascomycetes

Ordo: Lecanorales

Familia: Parmeliaceae

Genus: Cetrelia

Species: Cetrelia cetrarioides

while the top level taxa here follow the classification in ITIS which runs[1]:

Main Page
Superregnum: Eukarya

Regnum: Fungi

Divisio: Ascomycota

Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina

Classis: Lecanoromycetes

Ordo: Lecanorales

Subordo: Lecanorineae

Familia: Parmeliaceae

Genus: Cetrelia

Species: Cetrelia cetrarioides

Also you don't seem to be logged on at the moment so a lot of inserts are being recorded as anonymous.--Keith Edkins (Talk) 13:07, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

The 'reason', if it can be called that, it that classifications have been produced by different taxonomists at different times. The Plants database is using a rather pointless classification where Division Ascomycota is 'divided' into a single Class Ascomycetes. No doubt there is a primary source for this, but they don't appear to cite it. The scheme used on Wikispecies and ITIS seems to follow Eriksson O.E., (ed.) 2006. Outline of Ascomycota - 2006. Myconet 12: 1-82.[2] which would seem preferable because it is recent, citable, accessible and doesn't squander the available levels with one on one hierarchies.--Keith Edkins (Talk) 14:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

May I also urge you to use 'standard' wikispecies formatting? I.e. use  , italics and abbreviated generic names for enumerating multiple species under a genus. Have a look at the Recent Changes for corrections I made to your most recent contributions. An Excel-file that facilitates input of multiple taxa can be found here: taxa.xls -- Lycaon 15:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Linking to taxon authors

Hi there, would you please fix your links to authors? You have created links linking to the whole phrase and not the individual authors. E.g. in Hookeria lucens you have typed [[(Hedw.) Sm.]]. That should be ([[Hedw.]]) [[Sm.]] . The difference looks like this: (Hedw.) Sm. vs. (Hedw.) Sm. We do not have all taxon authors listed here, but I am working on it. You can look at Catalog:Taxon Authorities for what we do have. Thanks Open2universe 12:33, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I have never worked with bots. If you have experience writing bots, you should work with Ucucha. As far as I know he is the only one who has written bots for wikispecies. Open2universe 13:14, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Astragalus

Hi, I've filled in the taxonomy for Astragalus. Could you please adapt your entries as to reflect higher taxonomy? (i.e. with subfamilies and tribus). Thanks Lycaon 14:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, Could you please fill the species list under the genus before you continue adding the species? thanks. Lycaon 11:46, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm... time..., bummer. I'll see what I can do (if I find some of that time myself). Lycaon 13:45, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, me again. There is one thing you could do to make it easier for us: Before you start adding your species, could you first do a search for the genus and then use the higher taxonomy that you find there? E.g. with Bidens, you didn't take the Tribus or Subfamily into account, and then it's a lot of work to adapt each of the species you entered. The same happened with Astragalus and—I think—many others. Thanks for your effort. Lycaon 17:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed some of the pages for species names you have created have no links to them. I think it is because there are no pages for the genera that include them. I could create those pages, but I know almost nothing about those taxa. --Carlosp420 04:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)