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Move discussion in process

You are invited to participate in the move discussion at Talk:Chelís#Requested_move_26_September_2024. RedPatch (talk) 14:16, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Bees and toxic chemicals

Bees and toxic chemicals has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:06, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

There is a discussion at Talk:Insect euthanasia#Animal welfare that might be of interest. -- Otr500 (talk) 18:46, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened has been nominated for discussion

Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.

About 70 subcategories, the oldest from 2015, are also being proposed for deletion. HLHJ (talk) 04:01, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chrysolina fastuosa

Just want to ask here in case anyone else disagrees: would it be fine to rename Chrysolina fastuosa to Fasta fastuosa, reflecting its recent transfer to a genus of its own in [1]? (Fasta is a direct to FASTA, so I'll be following WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA and using the name of the species rather than the genus) This change has been accepted in the recently published Second edition of Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera volume 6/2 from earlier this year, and the name change has already been made on iNaturalist by its curators. [2] calls it by its old name, but a comment by its first author left on the online version indicates that he accepts the new name too. While most other web pages on the internet still call it Chrysolina fastuosa, these are mostly places that I expect are rarely or never updated (Fauna Europaea for one seems to be basically dead at present), and a google search for the new name indicates that some people have begun referring to the species by its new name already. Monster Iestyn (talk) 15:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coleoptera is a problematic order for sourcing and we don't seem to have a source we can rely on for deciding article titles and taxonomies for the taxobox (unlike the Species File databases for the polyneopteran orders. You have a primary source for the proposal and a newly published catalogue accepting the proposal as a secondary source (available from Wikipedia Library here). A second secondary source would be preferable, but there aren't likely to other new sources using alternative taxonomies. The comment in the second article adds support for the new name, as the article proposing the name changed was published after that article had been accepted. I think the move is justified based . — Jts1882 | talk 16:17, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jts1882 Yeah, based on a lack of clear consensus source for Coleoptera (or even just Chrysomelidae?), I wasn't sure if what I linked was available was good enough to justify the move, but if it is then that's good to know! I'll probably want to make updates to various other leaf beetle articles based on this new edition of the catalogue in the near future... though it itself proposes a large number of new changes in nomenclature and taxonomy too (as well as new country records and other data), so I'm not sure how to handle those exactly.

But anyway, thanks for your thoughts then, I'll go ahead and rename the article for this particular species in a bit. Monster Iestyn (talk) 21:09, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Entomology, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
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