Category talk:Plants named after people
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I think this would be a worthwhile category, as there are many such plants, and the frequency with which plants have been named this way may interest gardeners and other wikipedians. I've just created the page with two such plant I can think of offhand, and I've found a book in my library that should help me to identify more. Even though it's a small start, please let this one be for the time being. Jbening (talk) 01:06, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I've just added a bunch more by scanning part of A Gardener's Guide to Plant Names by B.J. Healey, but I've only included plants in the category if the existing Wikipedia article already cites the origin of the name. More to come, once I'm confident this category won't be nominated for deletion based on someone's idea that it's trivial. Jbening (talk) 01:47, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
- This category will end up containing about 100,000 plants. At first I thought it ridiculous, but on reflection it can be made to work if we sub-categorise liberally:
- by vocation e.g. Category:Plants named after botanists (e.g. Banksia hookeriana), Category:Plants named after politicians (e.g. Acacia wiseana), Category:Plants named after explorers (e.g. Eremophila youngii), etc;
- by nationality (e.g. Category:Plants named after Australian people, etc.)
- by era perhaps?
- Also this category probably needs sister categories such as Category:Plants named after places
- Hesperian 13:02, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Alternate or additional split
The category as it stands is largely plant Genera named after people. If we did by specific epithets it would get ridiculous very quickly methinks? Cheers, Casliber (talk ยท contribs) 23:37, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, it's mostly genera, but there are exceptions (loganberry, poinsettia, McIntosh). I suggest we wait until it's actually a problem before worrying about sub-categorizing a la Hesperian's earlier suggestion. Theoretically, one could add an overwhelming number of individual species, but even that would be limited to those for which there are WP articles. And I think we can rely on contributors largely limiting it to the more notable examples of plants having been named after people, which would mean either genera or plants whose common names derive from a person's name (as in poinsettia). Jbening (talk) 01:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
