Talk:Omphalissa

Redirect?

The question has been raised as to whether this should be a redirect because it is an unaccepted name, however since it was defined and the term is used relatively widely and is not merely a horticultural term, I think it deserves its own page rather than clutter the GA genus page, from which it is linked. Similarly for the other subgenera. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 19:15, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

I am not sure that the name is used relatively widely, there are very few hits in Google books and those that do come up are old or reference the name in past tense to indicate that the grouping existed. Using Google Scholar, only two Spanish works have this name to be found in works published over the last 15 years, and one just says that the grouping existed in the past. I am not overly concered if the article remains, I am a splitter by nature, but Wikipedia is over run by those that need to remove redundancy. Maybe a single page on the subgeneric classification of Hippeastrum can be made, which would be a good place to put historical practices in since they woukld "clutter" up the genus page with info that most readers woukld not find of value. Hardyplants (talk) 02:59, 2 April 2014 (UTC)