Welcome to the 'pedia! Good work on the Library of Congress articles. maveric149
I'm not convinced that every article that uses the word "mores" needs a link to mores. Vicki Rosenzweig
- You're probably right. It's not a major issue with me, and I suppose I did get a little mechanical about it. As long as there are enough links to illustrate the breadt of the term, I'm happy. Certainly it's more than a synonym for taboo as was in there before. --Eclecticology
Good work on organizing wikipedia talk:naming conventions -- oftentimes these talk pages get so long that previous discussion becomes useless to more current discussion. However, it probably would have been a good idea to have moved the headings to the new parentheticaly named pages -- just to give people context as to where the original discussion took place and why (For example, the heading for the Linda Lovelace discussion). Cheers! --maveric149
About birds: I just added Falconiformes and Strigiformes (so that bird of prey would have some orders to link to) and found that ITIS is using a completely different set of orders than I'm used to and than Aves uses. (The one I'm used to is in Grzimek.) ITIS puts eagles, flamingos, and storks together. According to a tidbit about their parasites which I read in Grzimek, flamingoes are more like ducks than like storks. So I think ITIS is wrong here. -phma
What is ITIS? And why do we now have a bunch of taxonomic pages that don't actually define or identify their subjects beyond unlinked identification of their relations? (There's barely enough to tell that Hamamelidales is a group of plants.) Vicki Rosenzweig
I taxonomized Rubiaceae and found that Alberta and Augusta already exist as place names. How can we handle that without making the inhabitants madder? Also check out Uncaria - I first found out about this genus when someone picked "gambier" in a Fictionary game. -phma
Ah, I don't know enough about these genera to contribute to the enixorable progress of taxonomy. To me it is more interesting whether you can dope Rubia with Galium to get laser (and how that can happen, since laser is an umbellifer). Have to go now and lie in my bedstraw. --phma
Just in case you didn't notice it, I brought up the issue of the order of headers in date articles over in Talk:August 9. I think "Events, Births, Deaths" makes more sense, and presented my case for it over there. just mentioning because you shifted a few back to the old "Births, Deaths, Events" order in the course of editing recently. Bryan Derksen