Talk:Intecymbium

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Merge with Intecymbium antarcticum?

Hi,

This page is available in more languages but are not linked as it is referred to as Intecymbium antarcticum (the species, but the only species in this genus). How best to merge the two?

Cheers, Uninspired Username (talk) 23:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Uninspired Username: this is a perennial problem caused by Wikidata refusing to accept that articles in different language wikis are not in a 1:1 relationship to one another. In particular, different language wikis have different policies on monotypic genera; some have one article at the genus, some have one article at the species, some have an article each for the genus and species. There are two approaches you can take, neither ideal:

Look at all the language wikis and see what title is used by the majority of those who have one article. Move all the links to the one-article wikis to the Wikidata item with this majority title. The drawback is that it will look as if some language wikis have the wrong article linked.
Link each wiki article to the Wikidata item with the same title. The drawback is that some inter-wiki links won't show up.

What you should be able to do, but can't, because the Wikidata editors won't allow it, is to connect an article on a monotypic genus and its species to both the genus and species Wikidata items. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:55, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]