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Potential significant change to species notability
editOver on Wikipedia talk:Notability, several editors are working on a draft proposal to replace our current notability guidelines for species (all species are notable) with something much more restrictive (only species that go beyond certain limited pieces of information would be allowed their own articles). If you have opinions on this issue, now would be a good time to weigh in there. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:20, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Also now at Village Pump (Policy): Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Species_notability Crossroads -talk- 01:40, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi guys, can you help me combine the two phylogenetic trees? Thanks, Wolverine XI (talk to me) 08:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
Nature has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 20:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
RetractionBot
editI posted this story from the Signpost last month. Things have evolved a bit and now Retraction bot handles {{Erratum}}, {{Expression of concern}}, and {{Retracted}}. These populate the following categories:
- Arsenic biochemistry
- Bioeconomy
- Biotechnology
- Hypoxia-inducible factor
- Stephen Jackson (biologist)
- Liposome extruder
If the citation is no longer reliable, then the article needs to be updated, which could be as minor as the removal/replacement of the citation with a reliable one, to rewriting an entire section that was based on flawed premises. If the citation to a retracted paper was intentional, like in the context of a controversy noting that a paper was later retracted, you can replace {{retraction|...}} with {{retraction|...|intentional=yes}}/{{expression of concern|...}} with {{expression of concern|...|intentional=yes}}/{{Erratum|...}} with {{Erratum|...|checked=yes}}.
I put the list of articles within the scope of WP:BIOL in sub-bullets. Any help you can give with those are greatly appreciated. Feel free to remove/strike through those you've dealt with. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:57, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
RfC: On discovery of the 23 nonmetals
editShould this content on the discovery of the 23 nonmetals be removed from the nonmetal article?
RfC is here. --- Sandbh (talk) 00:03, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Request to merge Frisson into Goose bumps
editI have noticed that these two articles talk about the same thing. I have created a proposal on Goose bumps's talk page to discuss a merger. 80.0.166.171 (talk) 01:05, 2 August 2024 (UTC)