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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:51, 5 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Taxon = Taxon name edit

taxon (Q16521) appears to be a way of declaring something is an instance of a "taxon", as a taxonomist would understand that term. However, it's actually a way of declaring that something is a "taxon name". This endlessly confuses editors who don't regularly work on taxon items; hence your request at Help talk:Merge#Merge request for Q4666317 and Q72725 was perfectly understandable.

If you are interested, I have an essay about this at en:User:Peter coxhead/Wikidata issues#Confusion between taxa and taxon names. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:29, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi Peter coxhead, thank you for your message. I can actually see that the taxonomy isn't so easy to understand. I will read your recommendation page with interest. --Ellicrum (talk) 16:56, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply