User:DexDor/Categorization of organisms by geography
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Wikipedia contains many thousands of articles about organisms (e.g. articles about species of plants and animals). Each such article should be categorized by the position of the organism in the tree of life (e.g. articles about birds should be in Category:Birds).
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This page in a nutshell: Categorization is not suitable for defining the distribution of a species. |
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Many organism articles have also been categorized by characteristics such as when the organism was first described.[lower-alpha 2] There are also characteristics such as being extinct or being edible that apply to some organisms and for which there are corresponding categories.
There are also categories based on the distribution (range) of the organism (i.e. which countries, continents etc the organism is/was found in). This categorization (e.g. putting articles in a category titled "Birds of Luxembourg"[lower-alpha 3]) is the subject of this essay.
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