Taxonomic changes

Mary Sue Ittner msittner@mcn.org
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:01:47 PST
It is customary on the wiki when the decision is made to accept the 
renaming of a genus or species (which isn't done immediately waiting 
for some time to see if the proposed change is accepted) to keep the 
old name and link on the old page to the new name. So on the 
Zigadenus wiki page there is a link to the species now listed on the 
Toxicoscordion page. Even if some of the species are poisonous, they 
are so pretty and Toxicoscordion is such an ominous sounding name 
that I wish they had come up with a better name.

The wiki was created and maintained by volunteers so whether this 
always happens depends on someone taking the time to add the links. 
As David Pilling has said a number of times there is a lot of work 
that could be done on the wiki by new volunteers.

Mary Sue




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