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Protandry/Protogyny: suggestion to make standalone or disambiguate rather than redirect

Hi. Until yesterday I had not noticed, despite years editing Wikipedia articles, that the terms protandry and protogyny both redirect to Sequential hermaphroditism. This strikes me as extremely odd and even inappropriate, since out of the four most common uses of the terms (see here), that particular use is probably the third. "Protandry" is, I think, most commonly used in ecology, and also used commonly in botany in cases that do not involve sequential hermaphroditism (to quote the article: "Sequential hermaphroditism in plants is very rare"). It is likewise a very small portion of the world's animal fauna that are sequential hermaphrodites, nearly all of them being fish, and I can't imagine why that rare phenomenon would be the ONLY use of the terms protandry and protogyny that are discussed in Wikipedia, except that people have written so many articles about fish, and nearly every fish that exhibits sequential hermaphroditism has protandry linked. What is especially odd is that other editors working on articles discussing ecology and botany do appear to use these terms and wikilink them, but they are all getting unknowingly redirected to an article that has literally nothing to do with what those editors had in mind (e.g., Speyeria mormonia). This is a serious problem, in my opinion, but I'm not sure how best to address it. Should there be a single article that discusses, in sections of that article, the four most common definitions, or should it be a disambiguation page that points to separate articles related to each definition? Offhand, given how many hundreds or thousands of links exist presently, the latter approach is not practical, because a link to "protandry" won't automatically point to the disambiguation article. Thoughts? Dyanega (talk) 14:52, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for noticing this, Dyanega. Protandry is currently a redirect page; if you click on it, and then the "(Redirected from Protandry)" link at the top of the Sequential hermaphroditism article, you will be able to edit it to point to a disambiguation page for both terms. A disambiguation page called Protandry and protogyny seems the best idea to me. HLHJ (talk) 04:11, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ludwig Franzisket

I am looking for more information on Ludwig Franzisket's academic career. Thanks MisterBee1966 (talk) 14:08, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NIH BIO art

This collection of freely licensed clip art was just pointed out to me: https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/. Some of these could be useful for illustrating articles. RoySmith (talk) 15:45, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Endangered species by reason they are threatened has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.

About 70 subcategories, the oldest from 2015, are also being proposed for deletion. There is debate about whether it is possible to list some threats to a threatened species without oversimplification and omissions amounting to misinformation. Comments from anyone with expertise in conservation biology would be particularly welcome. HLHJ (talk) 04:02, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In Talk:Current sources and sinks we are discussing to move the article to a better name. As it seems like a neurobiology topic I cannot tell what would be the best name. Any help is appreciated. --ReyHahn (talk) 14:28, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now at Talk:Current source density analysis.--ReyHahn (talk) 17:36, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Lipid bilayer

Lipid bilayer 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) 22:26, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Entomology, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pedanius Dioscorides#Requested move 20 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 19:18, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of your articles that are in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors, 2025

Currently, this project has about ~7 articles in need of some reference cleanup. Basically, some short references created via {{sfn}} and {{harvnb}} and similar templates have missing full citations or have some other problems. This is usually caused by templates misuse or by copy-pasting a short reference from another article without adding the full reference, or because a full reference is not making use of citation templates like {{cite book}} (see Help:CS1) or {{citation}} (see Help:CS2). To easily see which citation is in need of cleanup, you can check these instructions to enable error messages (Svick's script is the simplest to use, but Trappist the monk's script is a bit more refined if you're interested in doing deeper cleanup). See also how to resolve issues.

These could use some of your attention

To do

If you could add the full references to those article/fix the problem references, that would be great. Again, the easiest way to deal with those is to install Svick's script per these instructions. If after installing the script, you do not see an error, that means it was either taken care of, or was a false positive, and you don't need to do anything else. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:28, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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