Talk:Formosissimum

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Plantdrew, for my awareness, what is the reason for changing this article from a Set Index to a Disambiguation page? My understanding is that SIAs were a type of List article (which this is) and are about a specific Set of articles – in this case that would be "species that have the specific epithet formosissimum". If the issue is a set of shared characteristics, then I would justify that by saying that the specific epithet of a taxon denotes a particular characteristic it has; ergo, by sharing specific epithets then these articles would also share a characteristic. Fritzmann (message me) 22:39, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fritzmann2002:, it is not a set index on plants if it doesn't include more than one plant and includes non-plants. Most of the other pages that list organisms that share an epithet are in Category:Taxonomy disambiguation pages. A number of pages that once were lists of organisms with a shared epithet have been converted to redirects to List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names.

I don't think lists of organisms that share an epithet are a good idea. What belongs on such a list? Only species that have Wikipedia articles? Every accepted species with the epithet regardless of whether it has an article? Species names that are regarded as synonyms (and does it matter if redirects exist for those synonyms)? If included species should have a Wikipedia page (as an article or redirect), will you be updating this to add species as Wikipedia pages are created?

Set indices are intended to fulfill a navigation function. Does this page enhance navigation over just using Wikipedia's search function to find pages with "Formosissimum" in the title?

Disambiguation pages are supposed to have a minimal amount of information, and shouldn't contain references. Since this is formatted more like a set index than a disambiguation, I've changed the category to Category:Set index articles on organisms, but there is no template that sets that category. Plantdrew (talk) 23:32, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]