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This template does not seem suitable for botanical articles, since it produces a "trinomial" as used in the Zoological Code, and does not show the rank (i.e. "subsp.") as required in the Botanical Code. It might be possible to fix this and allow wider use (e.g. with varieties and forms, both of which can be found in plant taxoboxes) by having a parameter which specified whether or not an abbreviation like "subsp.", "var." or "f." was shown. At present I've not been able to use the template with plants. Peter coxhead ( talk) 10:22, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
The template doesn't handle extinction correctly. If the genus is marked as extinct in its taxonomy template, then the species and subspecies are marked as extinct, as they should be. But there was no way of showing that the subspecies alone is exinct, or that the species (and hence the subspecies) is extinct but not the genus. I'm working on correcting this. Peter coxhead ( talk) 21:32, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
|extinct=yes
(or |extinct=true
) will now place a † in the correct place for an extinct subspecies, whose genus is not extinct. No fix yet for an extinct species whose genus is not extinct.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
11:05, 11 October 2016 (UTC)I've been looking at the pages on Felidae species and subspecies and noted that there is considerable flux in the recognised subspecies. There are articles on subspecies that are no longer recognised, but no way of indicating this in the subspecies box. How about a subspecies status parameter that could either flag current or historical status (similar to the extinct parameter) or add a brief note? Jts1882 ( talk) 16:51, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
@
Peter coxhead and
Jts1882: I just noticed at
orange-bellied trogon that when |name=
isn't present, the top of the infobox shows the scientific name. When |name=
is present, but no value is specified, the page title is shown. That's weird and un-intuitive; I wouldn't expect a parameter with no value to have any effect at all (and in the past I've probably removed several blank name parameters from subspeciesbox without noticing what that did). It's the opposite of the logic in Speciesbox/Automatic taxobox, where the article title is displayed by default unless overrriden by |name=
. (I think at this point {{
Infraspeciesbox}} behaves the same with respect to |name=
as Speciesbox/Automatic taxobox in spite of the complication of italics with connecting terms)
Plantdrew (
talk)
02:53, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
| name = <!-- -->{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAMEBASE}}|{{first word|{{{genus}}}}} {{{species}}} {{{subspecies}}}|{{Italic title}}<!-- -->}}<!--end of #ifeq: statement; now generate the actual value of the name parameter -->{{{name|''{{first word|{{{genus|<noinclude>Panthera</noinclude>}}}}} {{{species|<noinclude>tigris</noinclude>}}} {{{subspecies|<noinclude>tigris</noinclude>}}}''}}}
|name=
isn't set it passes the trinomial as |name=
to {{
taxobox/core}}, which overrides the {{
taxobox/core}} use of PAGENAME:{{#if:{{{name|}}}|{{{name}}}|{{PAGENAME}} }}
|name=
if it is to override the trinomial. But if it does it then needs to handle potential disambiguators with all that entails. This way the taxobox always sets the name. —
Jts1882 |
talk
08:31, 7 December 2020 (UTC)|name=
parameter in
orange-bellied trogon now makes no difference, showing the trinomial both when |name=
is absent or empty. —
Jts1882 |
talk
15:16, 12 December 2020 (UTC)There was an inconsistency in how {{
Speciesbox}} and {{
Subspeciesbox}} set the name of the taxobox by default (i.e. when |name=
was absent). I've revised {{
Subspeciesbox}} to follow {{
Speciesbox}}, i.e. to use the page name as the default (previously it used the trinomial). This means that at
Dingo, for example, it's no longer necessary to put |name=Dingo
. Most articles using {{
Subspeciesbox}} will not have changed taxoboxes, because editors have usually specified the name parameter when the article is not at the scientific name. This is now redundant, but does no harm.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
09:28, 23 January 2022 (UTC)