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=== Stub template/category page for Odostomia, under Pyramidellidae ===

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There's a large stub category for Pyramidellidae, a family of gastropods. It includes a very large genus, Odostomia. More than 400 entries on the stub page belong to this genus. I propose to create a stub template for Odostomia, then set up and populate a stub category page for it. Yes, it could take me several weeks; I have done many projects of comparable size. I notice that not long ago, someone set up a non-stub subcategory for Odostomia under the non-stub category for Pyramidellidae. Someone then moved 11 of the 400+ articles, and that someone has now left Wikipedia. So I want to go ahead and populate the non-stub category. If I do both projects simultaneously, it should save me time in the long run. [[User:AzseicsoK|Uporządnicki]] ([[User talk:AzseicsoK|talk]]) 14:05, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

*'''Support''' per nom. There are indeed hundreds of articles on ''Odostomia'' included in in the permcat for ''Pyramidellidae'', even though few of them have been added to the Odostomia permcat. Knowing nothing about biology or taxonomy, however, I don't know what the appropriate format would be for the template and category names. I observe that ''Odostomia'' are part of the subfamily ''Odostomiinae'' and wonder whether the template & cat should be named after the subfamily. More sciencey minds than mine, please comment. [[User:Pegship|Pegship]] ([[User talk:Pegship|talk]]) 18:11, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

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*Actually, I'm going to run it by the team (or whatever they call it) for the subject. I'm not an expert on gastropods; I just run around doing major surgery on categories wherever I find them. I've noticed that with categories (not the stubs) for families of gastropods, they want all the species to be listed in that family category--even when there's a subcategory for a genus in that family. That's not the usual Wikipedia procedure, but I don't want to second guess a consensus in one special group. [[User:AzseicsoK|Uporządnicki]] ([[User talk:AzseicsoK|talk]]) 13:39, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

:It seems that it is not a good idea. When I ran it up the flagpole at the gastropods project page, they explained that there's reason not to break up large family categories into genera; apparently, gastropod taxonomy is in a state of flux. So I'll leave it alone. [[User:AzseicsoK|Uporządnicki]] ([[User talk:AzseicsoK|talk]]) 13:44, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

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