Category talk:mul:Botanical author abbreviations

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Maybe this should be Category:Translingual botanical author abbreviations? --Bequw → ¢ • τ 23:45, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

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We are not an encyclopedia of botanists, as much as we don't have names of linguists or anyone else. I already deleted those that fail Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-12/Names of individuals. -- Liliana • 13:10, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Delete, sort of. I think this should be the other way around; delete the individual senses of the 100+ words in this category that refer to individuals, then delete this as an empty category. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:48, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikispecies has this very well covered- why duplicate? Chuck Entz (talk) 06:42, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

This is a reference explaining the use of words; binomial author abbreviations in this sense are words, so we are explaining something etymological here. That said, perhaps these should be in an appendix. bd2412 T 00:01, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Keep, as they are conventional words (and their use is not obvious at all e.g. I was not aware until recently that Linnaeus is never used in botany, only L. is used). They are worth an entry as much as surnames. They are not entries dedicated to botanical authors, but entries dedicated to abbreviations used for botanical authors. The contents is not encyclopedic at all. Lmaltier (talk) 07:56, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

• Kept by default due to no discussion. --ElisaVan (talk) 18:05, 20 October 2013 (UTC)