Overleg gebruiker:FelixReimann
Onderwerp toevoegenchanging articles into redirects[brontekst bewerken]
Dear FelixReimann, is saw you changed articles on the Dutch Wikipedia into redirects a couple of times. I figured it must have something to do with Wikidata, and after I had a look at your global list of contributions, I guess I figured that right.
I must say that on our project, you made a few very unlucky choices. Where you had the choice between Myrmeleon acer and Myrmeleon (Myrmeleon) acer, you choose to make a redirect out of the first one, whereas a subgeneric name is, when it comes to creating unique names, always redundant information, and is better omitted. You also redirected Araneus bipunctatus (Franganillo) to Araneus bipunctatus, Myrmarachne attenuata (Cambridge) to Myrmarachne attenuata (Karsch), Myrmarachne formosana (Matsumura) to Myrmarachne formosana (Saito) and Ichneumon bipunctatus (Gmelin) to Ichneumon bipunctatus (Cuvier). A redirect suggest two names are synonyms but in al these cases we dealt with homonyms and different taxa. Mistakes are made, even in scientific taxonomy. And as long as the situation has not been corrected, we have to live with homonyms denoting different taxa, and so our solution is to temporarily add the name of the author in order to differentiate between the names. I urge you not to "correct" such names again, as the outcome of your work was much more erroneous than the original situation.
Also, in the case of duplicate articles, it is customary to suggest a merge of two articles, not to just replace the content of one by a redirect. I noticed your home wiki is the German project, and I wouldn't blame you for not reading and writing Dutch well enough to merge two articles yourself. But in that case it would be advisable to place a {{merge}} template above both articles, so one of our own editors could do the job. In that case chances are it would be someone who is better at understanding the rules and the problems of taxonomy, and who would do a better job than you did so far. WIKIKLAAS overleg 25 jan 2015 00:17 (CET)