Category talk:Medicinal plants
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About the suggestion of merging the categories: 'Medicinal Plants' and 'Medicinal Herbs and Fungi' -
1) I think this would be a very sensible move. 'Herbs' is a relatively loose term (see 'herb').
2) All herbs are plants, not all plants are herbs. Someone looking under 'herb' might easily miss an entry.
3) The broader category would mean less chance of someone missing an entry by using the narrower search term 'herb'.
4) If there is strong feeling about it, a subcategory of 'medicinal herbs' could be set up within plants?
Kitb 19:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
- We're talking about merging herbs+fungi into plants, right? I think that is quite a sensible idea. I'm not sure why plants is currently a subcat of herbs+fungi... well, except that fungi aren't technically plants. But not all plants are herbs. Perhaps "Medicinal plants and fungi"? Also, what about the capitalisation? --Alynna 14:59, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Agree - merge these two into Medicinal plants and fungi - no capitalisation, and plants and herbs are much more defined than "herbs". If no one objects in the next couple of days - I will get to it. Lethaniol 16:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
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- The sensible way to deal with these two would be to split them into Category:Medicinal plants and Category:Medicinal fungi. That would avoid the logical problem noted by Alynna above that fungi should not be categorised under plants (or vice versa). --Stemonitis 14:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
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- I agree with Stemonitis. Axl 12:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Sounds good. All then that needs to be done is 1) Creating Category:Medicinal fungi and 2) Sorting pages at Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi. --Alynna 19:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- And then, I guess, a discussion could be started about renaming Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi to Category:Medicinal plants and fungi. But that takes more work ;) --Alynna 19:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- I've been bold and performed step (1), and started on step (2). --Alynna 19:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- Sounds good. All then that needs to be done is 1) Creating Category:Medicinal fungi and 2) Sorting pages at Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi. --Alynna 19:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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