Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Prokaryotes and protists

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In the tax boxes I tend to wiki-link genera but not indivudual species, unless there is already an article about them. Also what would be great on this page is a sample taxbox (or links to) showing the different ways they are done, for example the bolding where a genus is the only member of an order ect.. Onco p53 03:55, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Let's get this project up and running again

As the protists are being looked at with molecular phylogenetic techniques, and they're rather fascinating organisms. KP Botany 17:47, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikiproject proposal

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[edit] hi guys, i'd like to join.

i don't understand this: There should be articles for both phylogenetic and phenotypic groups

i've been finding something of a contradictory mess here. my interest is with the 'protistan' eukaryotes.

look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeboid from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protozoa

but there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebozoa

here is amoeba: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubulinea

ah then there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist

and then: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Slime_mould&diff=141780553&oldid=137191012

now i understand the need to discuss:

old classification systems so that people can make sense of the old literature
competing new ideas in classification.

but these competing WIKIs not only contain classification information, but actual details and examples about the critters. and they are often spotty and contradictory (as in the slime mold case). personally i think this phylogeny thing is a little out of hand. for instance: Lecointre and Guyader's "the tree of life: a phylogentic classification". it makes too much of subtle unique derived features but not enough of the features that actually describe ecologically well founded groups.

i'm thinking that at some low level of classification which is relatively stable, like the traditional protistan phyla, or some next lower level, we can have a single article for each group. then we can multiple articles that point to each other JUST for the competing classification ideas of all these newer fluctuating clades that include these groups.

whatya say? Wikiskimmer 12:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I think it is more important to expand articles about the new, more phylogenetic systems. More phenotypic groups (like protista, sarcodina) should be given a historical page, but not a taxobox (see Monera). Taxoboxes should reflect our most up-to-date knowledge. If that means changing them every week, so be it. Werothegreat 15:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
A new taxobox colour could be used for old taxons. 83.45.216.23 17:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
There are only so many colors, and they can get similar. We don't want like two shades of red. Keep it like it is. Werothegreat 01:47, 18 July 2007 (UTC)