Talk:List of Banksia species

Common names

Am I right in thinking (nearly) all the common names in this list should be lower case as per WP:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Common_names? I'm happy to make the changes if a "Banksia Person" will confirm that is the case. Gderrin (talk) 23:13, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Yep. It is indeed the case....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

A proposal

I propose to make the following changes to this list:

• list the species according to the Australian Plant Census with the six fossil species included;
• include subspecies and varieties from the APC, wikilinking only those that already have articles (such as Banksia armata var. ignicida);
• list the full binomial with the author(s) and the common names, reflected and referenced in the article;
• wikilink each author's name the first time it appears in the list;
• remove the numbers and the repeated linking of the states

... so that, for example the first three entries would appear as -

• Banksia acanthopoda (A.S.George) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele
• Banksia aculeata A.S.George - prickly banksia
• Banksia acuminata A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele.

Gderrin (talk) 21:30, 25 March 2020 (UTC)  Done Gderrin (talk) 01:15, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

thanks good idea, I have reduced it to two columns because it looked a little too cluttered as 3 columns Gnangarra 05:58, 30 March 2020 (UTC)