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Bob Corrigan commented on "Urtica":
@Maria Callaloro: Hi Maria, thanks for the tip. I added the Spanish common name "Ortiga" to that taxon page; you can see it on the common names suntab on the Names tab. If you would like to add Spanish common names on your own, let us know.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "Eating biodiversity":
Hi all, just wanted to let folks know that I've been adding culinary fruits to a collection and I've gotten through the B's in a list on Wikipedia. Trying to do a little bit every day.
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Bob Corrigan commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Eli Sarnat: Thanks Eli. It was a recommendation from Ed Wilson of all people.
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Bob Corrigan commented on "John Banta":
John, thanks for the offer. You can upload them to Flickr and add them to the EOL group there. EOL staff member Katja Schulz can provide some additional guidance. If you want to explore other avenues please send me a message.
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Bob Corrigan commented on "Erasmoneura variabilis (Beamer, 1929)":
We could use a brief description that tells how dangerous this insect is to crops. See for example the first sentence of the full text section in this article
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Bob Corrigan added the English common name "Variegated Grape Leafhopper" to "Erasmoneura variabilis (Beamer, 1929)".
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
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Katja Schulz commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
@Tanya Higgins: I have also just made you a manager for the Taxon Concept Management To Do List. This is a list of tasks to tackle once we get our new concept management tool. It will allow EOL admins to split and merge taxon pages based on curator recommendations. It's currently in the works and should become available before too long.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
@Patrick Leary: that's a good one Patrick. I'm wondering if you think it is helpful to do this manual review via EOL collections. We really should be using these lists behind the scenes.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
@Tanya Higgins: Here's a community that deals with these: Taxon pages to be merged
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Tanya Higgins commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
@Leo Shapiro: I've also come across a couple of genus that had more than one page for the same Kingdom classification (like Acanthopale), is there a place to note those pages so they can be combined?
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Tanya Higgins commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
@Leo Shapiro: I'm certainly willing to work through Z, I find the process oddly calming. *laughs* I haven't yet run into any genus from the wiki list that don't appear on EOL at all, but there have been plenty in which both genus were represented on a single page, and I'm not sure how an aggregator would deal with that (though, honestly, I'm not sure how an aggregator deals with anything).
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Patrick Leary commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
For those that are interested there is another good compilation at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Main/Index/Homonyms/A1.htm
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
@Cyndy Parr: Cyndy, I suppose we could ask Patrick to pull in these names from the Wikipedia list (or other sources) in a more automated fashion, but I am thinking we may be better off having this first pass being made by an intelligent actual human being (rather than computer code), such as Tanya (if she's willing to keep going through Z!) since she's actually annotating where appropriate. But if you think this is something we could be working with Patrick to do, that could save Tanya a whole lot of trouble! Also, not that this is supposed to be a list of homonyms ON EOL. If we just pull in homonyms from a bunch of sources, we may be pulling in names that are NOT in EOL. This has value if it points out omissions or confusions in our names infrastructure, in which case they should SOON be on EOL if we address the problem, but some of theses names might not be on EOL for a reason, in which case they are anot and will not be on EOL--and hence should not be in this collection. I'm just thinking out loud...
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
Hi Tanya, Yes that definitely makes sense and I think this is a great service you're providing by assimilating this list! In fact, those instances where we are missing apparently valid names highlight names we should possibly be adding--or, as in the case of Antillea for which (as you note) we have the name in classifications for both a coral and a plant but have just a single page--which should be split into two pages. I am thinking that the EOL bioinformatics guy who is in charge of our names infrastructure ought to be able (perhaps once that Wikipedia list has been entirely assimilated...) to pull out a list of these "singleton" names from Homonyms on EOL to look for possible problems with the "taxon concepts" in our system.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "Homonyms on EOL":
@Jennifer Hammock: We should be having this conversation in the Homonym Hunters community.
