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''Very little of what's on that page [i.e., [[:AnimaliaAnimal|Animalia]]] is taxonomy - it's mostly an overview of the group, a discussion of what distinguishes them, and some notes about their origin. I know it's a little technical but that's mainly because I wrote it in excitement over finding out what unites sponges and metazoa; I'm not sure what the purpose of dividing pages like this would be.''

"Animal" is quite obviously a natural topic for biology! You might want to say ''something'' on the page called "animal," in less technical terms, and otherwise point to the [[:Animalia|Animalia]] page. Similarly, Wikipedia is not going to go through life never having a [[:plant|plant]] page ''(Yes, it now has one)''. There is no good reason to use the Latin words ''exclusively,'' is there? If only to avoid redundancy, well, of course you can avoid redundancy by monitoring what is put on the [[:animal|animal]] page and what is on the [[:animalia|animalia]] page. ''Maybe,'' you'll simply want the [[:animal|animal]] page point to [[:animalia|animalia]]. --[[User:LMS|LMS]]