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:I just thought that having a link with one taxon name linking to a different taxon was confusing. I do not necessarily believe that one name is better than the other, and I know next to nothing of the higher systematics of the group. As I tried to crowbar into the edit summary, having "Mycetozoa" (and linking it to [[slime mould]]) in the taxobox would be fine, as would having "Myxomycota" and linking to [[Myxomycota]]. It's only the mixing of the two that I consider undesirable. These areas where the taxonomy and nomenclature are changing are always difficult from an encyclopaedia point of view. Often, it's best to stick with a slightly out-dated taxonomy if it provides the stability that we need. It also makes it easier to find the necessary references, since there's often next to no secondary literature about more recently erected taxa. In any event, the articles should explain the different possibilities. The talk page of the article [[slime mould]] has been tagged by [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology|WikiProject Microbiology]], so that might be a decent place to get a discussion going. I don't know of any other applicable projects except [[WP:TOL]], which has a vast remit. Finally, the poor quality of an article is not usually a reason to remove links to it, but rather a reason to improve that article. --[[User:Stemonitis|Stemonitis]] 14:19, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
::how about if i just turn [[myxomycota]] into a redirect to [[slime mould]]. there's nothing of valuue in the [[myxomycota]] article. or rename [[slime mould]] [[mycetozoa]] and have everything redirect to that?
::i think all this phylogeny in flux will flumox us. all the old categories were of course artificial, life is a tangled bush of 100million branches with no well defined levels, but at least the old categories were fairly stable for human life times. For PhD students looking for a new organism to grind dna out of it's a fine game, but for an encyclopedia we need stable catagories.
::my preference is to find the most stable units, like the 6 i identified in the [[slime mold]] article and put the biology in each one of them. then you can have a nest of fluctuating taxo pages pointing to each other...[[User:Wikiskimmer|Wikiskimmer]]
:::i don't see much discussion in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology|WikiProject Microbiology]] and that strikes me as being focussed on medical. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Prokaryotes and protists]] seems most appropriate but is inactive. do i want to read the 20 archives in TOL discussion to see if there is a consensus? argghhhh[[User:Wikiskimmer|Wikiskimmer]] 14:48, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
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