Category talk:Ceratosaurs
Well, I agree the two categories should be merged. I rather favour using the root word in plural rather than the Latin suffix. The Linnaean system uses different suffixes for different levels in the hierarchy. Now that has these disadvantages:
- It's less simple
- Experts disagree about the levels of taxonomy. Different sources put a group into a different level of the hierarchy. Humans have moved from being Hominidae to Homininae to Hominini to Hominina. It's crazy, and just about incomprehensible to a non-specialist.
- The whole Linnaean system may be on the way out. English wiki has largely moved to nests of clades, but still allows Linnaean if editors prefer it. On this wiki I have used the Linnaean system (its being more familiar) but have reduced the number of levels in the taxoboxes. And I have used the root term (eg "Ichthyosaur") for higher-level pages rather than the Linnaean term ("Ichthyosauria" or "Ichthyopterygia")
I regret we do not have consistency. Where possible I think we should use the noun in plural without its latin ending for categories above genus, so in this case I would choose "Ceratosaurs" and soft redirect Ceratosauria to it. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:26, 31 March 2014 (UTC)