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In view of the confusion that runs rampant in wikipedia it would be silly to remove this small beacon of light.
Besides why merging with dicotyledon? Looks like a random choice. Brya 11:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I think we should merge because the Magnoliopsida page has substantially less information than the Dicotyledones page. I propose merging them so that there will be one good, easy resource. Into which article is another matter, but I suggest Dicotyledones because it has more information, and refers to the common name. Animalia is under animal. Tracheophyta is under vascular plant. we should try to merge the pages in some way, or at least have taxoboxes on both pages. I have noticed that there is great inconsistency in this matter, and it would be best in my opinion if we resolved it by combining the articles. VashiDonsk 04:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Do not merge but I agree with some of the other suggestions such as: (1) make taxoboxes point to eudicot or magnoliid, not Magnoliopside, and (2) make those articles more informative.
Do not merge; as pointed out by Lavateraguy, "Magnoliopsida" can mean any of several different things, depending upon whose classification you are talking about. It most certainly is not the same as "dicots" except in one of those circumscriptions. (The taxoboxes are another headache entirely, and this article and discussion show one reason why they are problematic.) MrDarwin 16:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Could we have a disambiguation template then? It took a while to get back on the taxoboxed pages when I ended up here. Bendž| Ť 12:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
This page has lots of technical detail but is lacking a general description useful to a non-technical user. -- cmh 01:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, I'm going to revisit this old debate. Specifically, I'm going to propose that Magnoliopsida be turned into a redirect to Dicotyledon. I think that the latter already has enough information about what "Magnoliopsida" means and such, for example APG and Cronquist circumscriptions, although it could be expanded if people think that is needed (I certainly most often run into Cronquist or APG or variants of the latter, so I'd lean towards a mere mention of other systems rather than trying to go into detail). My reasoning is to try to straighten out the taxoboxes. My previous suggestion that taxoboxes point to eudicot, magnoliid, or one of the smaller groups went nowhere. Fixes involving Rosopsida, Magnoliidae, etc seem to make things worse, in terms of the problems of discrepencies between different systems. The piping of Magnoliopsida to Dicotyledon (like this: Magnoliopsida) is used in perhaps half the taxoboxes, which has been my preferred solution (in the sense of not seeing a better way), but many taxoboxes just say Magnoliopsida without piping and the pipe seems kind of like a workaround anyway. I don't think that making Magnoliopsida a redirect to Dicotyledon means that the two terms are always synonymous, any more than having Pepys Diary redirect to Samuel Pepys means that those two terms are. It just means that: (1) the Dictotyledon article is where we discuss the term and/or concept magnoliopsida, and (2) in taxoboxes we'll link to Magnoliopsida for all the non-monocot angiosperms (which is already partially current practice). OK, fire away. (Just try to say what you think we should do, not just what is wrong with X, Y, or Z). Kingdon 15:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
After the section on the Cronquist system comes a section on Dahlgren and Thorne systems, but only the first sentence of this section refers to Dahlgren and Thorne systems. The next sentence goes back to the Cronquist system. And the third sentence expands this to "Cronquist-based systems" plural. I am sure that many people already know what all this means, but the section should be re-written for people who do not already know it. Colin McLarty ( talk) 13:15, 10 August 2016 (UTC)