Talk:List of mosses of Great Britain and Ireland

Prod notice removed - there are lists for many other British taxonomic groups, so there should also be one for this group. SP-KP 22:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Illogical article title

Rather than cause upset by unilaterally renaming this article without discussion, I'll just question why it needs 'the' in its title.

To me, 'List of mosses of Britain and Ireland', or 'List of moss species of Britain and Ireland' or even 'List of species of moss in Britain and Ireland' all seem more logical, and all more likely to be searched for by a user. Any thoughts? Nick Moyes (talk) 22:29, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

@Nick Moyes: 'List of PLANT TYPEs of REGION' seems to be the most common way to title lists like this across Wikipedia (see other plant lists here). But this title is consistent with List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland and its 8 sublists. I'd support moving this and the 9 vascular plant lists to eliminate the first "the"; the new titles would be more concise and more consistent with similar lists. Plantdrew (talk) 23:28, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

That's good to hear. The 'the' is quite acceptable in a published book or checklist, but certainly doesn't seem compatible with Wikipedia's naming style. I'll put the moving on my 'to do' list, but will await any further observations. Nick Moyes (talk) 01:01, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 27 June 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Skarmory (talk • contribs) 05:54, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

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• List of the mosses of Britain and Ireland → List of mosses of Great Britain and Ireland
• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (ferns and allies) → Lists of ferns and fern allies of Great Britain and Ireland
• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (conifers) → List of conifers of Great Britain and Ireland
• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (dicotyledons) → List of dicotyledons of Great Britain and Ireland
• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (Rosaceae) → List of Rosaceae of Great Britain and Ireland
• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (Superrosids) → List of supperosids of Great Britain and Ireland
• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (Asteraceae) → List of Asteraceae of Great Britain and Ireland
• List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland (monocotyledons) → List of monocotyledons of Great Britain and Ireland

– Per previous concerns in 2017 about the unnecessary use of the definite article, as well as the ambiguity of Britain alone and misuse of the disambiguator for the vascular plants categories. See also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_27#Category:Lists_of_the_vascular_plants_of_the_British_Isles for the category associated with the vascular plant lists. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:34, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Support - I agree it makes sense. Elfguy (talk) 20:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.