Talk:Citizendium

Note: the current follies are being reported at WIGO CZ and discussed at its talk page.

Ongoing discussion on this article by new user concerning acceptable vs unacceptable humor
See User_talk:Stigmatella_aurantiaca

Why close CZ?
I’m sure people here have many answers. Now CZ has a thread for you:

Why close CZ?

(there's also Has the project failed? for more existential musings)

--109.158.46.231 (talk) 22:32, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Felis silvestris catus
I suggest to delete this entirely:

* Cat &mdash; For four years used the redundant scientific nomenclature for the domesticated cat, Felis silvestris catus. The accepted nomenclature is Felis catus, see for example ITIS taxonomy. Note that silvestris is a wildcat ancestor, not domesticated cat. Encyclopædia Britannica, Tree of Life (TOL), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), and Wikipedia all use Felis catus for domesticated cat. Has since been corrected.

Felis silvestris catus is not redundant, it is a trinomen referring to a subspecies. Domestic cats were classified as a species by Linnaeus, but today it is also common to view them as a subspecies of the wildcat. Quoting from Wikipedia:


 * The domestic cat was first classified as Felis catus by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae published in 1758. Because of modern phylogenetics, domestic cats are usually regarded as another subspecies of the wildcat, F. silvestris. This has resulted in mixed usage of the terms, as the domestic cat can be called by its subspecies name, Felis silvestris catus.   Wildcats have also been referred to as various subspecies of F. catus, but in 2003, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature fixed the name for wildcats as F. silvestris. The most common name in use for the domestic cat remains F. catus, following a convention for domesticated animals of using the earliest (the senior) synonym proposed. Sometimes, the domestic cat has been called Felis domesticus or Felis domestica, as proposed by German naturalist J. C. P. Erxleben in 1777, but these are not valid taxonomic names and have been used only rarely in scientific literature, because Linnaeus's binomial takes precedence. A population of Transcaucasian black feral cats was once classified as Felis daemon (Satunin 1904) but now this population is considered to be a part of domestic cat.



-- Ivan (talk) 12:11, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Larry Sanger article on Wikipedia in The Sunday Times
Anyone care to add a reference to the article in The ST (though a paywall may be in operation)?

Key flags in the article - LS complains about Wikipedia's 'liberal/left wing bias' (though an element of sour grapes may apply) and is home-schooling his sons. Anna Livia (talk) 12:56, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Formatting errors WRT references
There's some formatting issues that I'm having trouble figuring out how to correct. Specifically WRT why the formatting for a citation inside a note doesn't work. Vee (talk) 18:41, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * It seems that nested references are not allowed. Just replace with 19:40, 11 November 2022 (UTC)