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Hi, I don't wish to be harsh, specially with newer editors, but we really don't need to have articles filled with lists. The process goes like this: an author describes a topic, and mentions it can be found in species A and B. Another editor supposes another example is needed, and amends it to A, B, and C. A third editor notes that his favourite group isn't covered, and amends it to A, B, C, and D1, D2, D3, and D4. A student in a class with a Wikipedia project task then adds "and also in Nanowormioides unimportantissimus"[4][5][6][7][8]", thus gaining a mark for managing to insert a fact in an existing article without being detected by the Vandalism Patrol. And, yup, suddenly we have a ***LIST*** slap bang in the middle of what was briefly a well-written article.

So, what to do. I think it makes sense to have a 'Taxonomic range' section in something like Lek mating, with the clear understanding that a list is basically an accretion (yeah, we call it "list-cruft") of random stuff selected on the basis of goodness-knows-what criteria (big, fierce, hairy, and stings a lot, probably) rather than anything more scientific. Perhaps a tree will make better sense - it's less of a "cruft magnet", and easier to appreciate (and less tediously repetitive). You didn't notice, by the way, that Ghost moth was already in the ever-expanding ... which is exactly how it always goes. So, a tree it will be. Hey ho. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:10, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

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Regarding her Catholicism, Sitwell's conversion is well-documented. Regardless of how devout she was or wasn't, she definitely counts as a English Catholic poet. The Oxford DNB doesn't give much detail, but does say that she filled a "spiritual void" in her life in accepting the Catholic faith; and also mentions that her funeral service was ecumenical, with both a Catholic priest and an Anglican vicar - so certainly there is nothing to suggest that she had ceased being Catholic. In any event, the dead do not control what is done with their funerals. Gabrielthursday (talk) 21:13, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

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Hello: I would like to check your awarding of German citizenship to Gmelin. By my reckoning he was born a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire, and spent his active life within German principalities, none of which was actually "Germany". Did "Germany" not exist before ca 1870?. Cordially Foiled circuitous wanderer (talk) 13:16, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

I agree, and in general I would like to get rid of citizenship and nationality entries altogether. When I think it is obvious (for example, someone born lived, worked and died in the same country) I just delete it. In other cases I leave it to avoid too much argument. In the case of Gmelin I think the information was there before I touched the various Gmelin articles, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, I won't complain if you just delete it. Athel cb (talk) 08:51, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

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Was Gmelin a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire

For Smasongarrison Hello there: please take this as a friendly enquiry. You've reclassified Gmelin as being not a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire. We (me and another guy) a year or two back agreed that he wasn't a citizen of Germany--a country that didn't exist in his day--but could usefully be described as a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire. Whch if you check up the dates for the Empire he would have been by date, and if you check up where he was born and died (Tubigen) he must have been by geography.

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