Template talk:Taxonomy/Pinus subsect. Nelsonianae

Abbreviating genus or not

@Peter coxhead: Why display the full genus name here (Pinus subsect. Nelsonianae) but abbreviate it at the parent taxon (P. sect. Parrya)? — Eru·tuon 02:06, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

@Erutuon: I think the right solution is to put the full name in the taxonomy template as per the title of the template, but then automatically abbreviate in taxoboxes unless it is the target taxon of the taxobox. This is in line with the way that both manual and autotaxoboxes handle species and subspecies – the final line (under "Binomial name" and "Trinomial name") is in full, lines above have abbreviated names, with the abbreviation being automatic.

So my proposal is to add a parameter to main at Module:TaxonItalics to specify abbreviation, get it working (first in the sandbox version), and then fix the autotaxobox templates to choose abbreviation or not appropriately. It needs some care to make sure that it works for both ICZN and ICNafp names and for cases where the wikilink isn't to the scientific name.

Then all the taxonomy templates can be changed. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:39, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: Ahh, that is a better solution than manually abbreviating the genus name in individual templates. — Eru·tuon 18:32, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

@Erutuon: good to know that you agree! I have a sandbox version mostly working, with tests at User:Peter_coxhead/Test#Module:TaxonItalics#main. A large part of the problem is coping with the multiple ways in which editors have chosen to handle hybrid names. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:37, 22 August 2018 (UTC)