Category talk:en:Taxonomic names

AFAICT, there is no good reason for this category to exist. There should not be 1822 members in it. There should be none. There must be some template-based miscategorization going on. DCDuring TALK 04:51, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The discussion is already ongoing above at as to what to do.  The question to be resolved is: Do we use Category:Taxonomic names for all of these (my own preference too) or Category:mul:Taxonomic names or Category:Translingual taxonomic names, each of which implies that these are possible in other languages.  I've determined that most of the problem was in the implementation of, which categorizes based on an imcluded language parameter and apparently defaults to English.  I've made an edit specifying "lang=mul" to at least empty the "en:" category of all but a fraction of the entries, but we still need to decide where we want all of these entries to end up. --EncycloPetey 05:05, 26 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: It is also possible that there are some pre-Code obsolete taxonomic names that never existed outside of English. See  for a possible instance. --EncycloPetey 05:10, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I forgot about the ongoing discussion. Thanks.
 * I also prefer Category:Taxonomic names for the main home for these. I'll keep my eye out for the ones like . Even those older terms were Latinate, were they not, and intended to be useful internatonally? Should they not be treated as also Translingual? DCDuring TALK 06:35, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
 * We have used "Translingual" to mean that a term is used identically across a wide range of (often unrelated) languages; see for example the citations I added to . So, I would call a word "Translingual" unless it actually can be shown as used in multiple languages.  Intention of use isn't really documentable in a case like Quadrumana, as this name was used pre-Code.  Once the international Codes came into acceptance, then it becomes clearer because authors are bickering about satifying international agreement requirements for publication.  However, if Quadrumana can be documented to languages like Swedish and Russian, then I think calling it "Translingual" makes sense.  --EncycloPetey 17:12, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Kept for lack of consensus and discussion. --Chicken is fun (talk) 15:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)