User:Paul L. Walker

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[edit] What's wrong with Wikipedia?

• The Onion: Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence^[1]
• Essay of another expert editor who left wikipedia gives some good reasons, although I do not agree with every aspect of that essay.
• Wikipedia:Expert Retention‎

[edit] Factual correctness

• I just fixed the taxonomy section Jaguar, the featured article of Sept 24 2006. ^[2]

• Take a look at this: Parrot (English Wikipedia), Eigentliche Papageien (German Wikipedia), Psittaciformes (Spanish Wikipedia) and Psittacidae (French Wikipedia). All four have a different taxonomy...

In reality, there is no single established phylogeny, but this is a sub-field that is dramatically in movement and will take some time before it gets really worked out.... In the view of Wikipedia, that is what should be presented....

• It took more than a year to fix some completly incorrect information about genetic recombination, a major source of new genetic information. It got introduced in November 2005, and it took till January 2007 to get fixed.....
• The type specimen of the genus Drosophila is Musca funebris. Unfortunately, someone who does not know anything about the nomenclature has changed it to Drosophila (Musca) funebris.^[3] That notation is normally used to indicate a subgenus within Drosophila, but Musca is still its own genus of flies. The notation as it was, with Musca funebris was correct.