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@Zakhx150: you asked me at WP:INSECTS for further comment, but let's take it to the article page now. I've invited @Geoff Oxford: to this discussion. He contributed to the article previously, and wrote some of the references currently appearing in the article. I don't know if he's currently engaged with Wikipedia in any way, but it would be great if he chimed in.
Taking articles to Good Article is not something I've been at all involved with. At the moment, there's one thing I notice missing; which subspecies occur in the UK and Scandinavia? Currently listed ranges for subspecies don't cover these areas where the species as a whole is said to occur. C. graminis graminis is probably what occurs in Scandinavia; that's where Linnaeus lived and he described it. And honestly, before I ventured to say anything about beetle subspecies, I should have been doing some investigation into the reliability of biolib.cz on this subject (I'm sure they're doing their best, but quality of taxonomic databases varies wildly across different groups of species and I know nothing about biolib.cz strengths and weaknesses). Plantdrew (talk) 04:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
@Plantdrew: I appreciate the effort so far. I'm not sure how active Geoff is on Wikipedia, so hadn't even thought of asking him directly. There has seen to be some discrepancy between the UK material I've used and the continental referenced stuff - mainly that the UK has been, generally speaking, more about conservation and action rather than taxonomy and subspecies variance. Perhaps this is just because I've found it easier to locate the material designed for general consumption. I appreciate the observations in any case, and will aim to work on really tying down these subspecies. Zakhx150 (talk) 13:07, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
I'd taken the liberty of emailing Geoff as well; he's sent me through 4 articles to reference in here and was very accommodating. Edits coming in near future.Zakhx150 (talk) 13:04, 2 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
