Guide Cleanup

I'm in the midst of making guide changes as have been discussed in this forum. My first goal is to make the guides more closely and consistently match the taxonomy and to make future errors less likely. There will still be nested guide pages just like now, except there will be rules enforced about how they are created.

Rather than entering all the taxons on each page, there will be just one per page. The rest will be inferred from the parents. The taxon will need to be specified (e.g. this is a family or a genus) as well as the scientific name. I will fix up all the existing pages with the appropriate taxon and scientific name.

New pages will have various validations in place to ensure consistency. For example, a species page may only be created beneath a genus page. Scientific names should be one word only. Family names should always end with 'idae'. And everything else I can think to check for.

I am currently running some checks against the existing guide pages and have identified various problems. It's not as bad as I thought it would be. I will be cleaning up the existing data so that when I eventually do the conversion everything will migrate cleanly.

My primary reason for posting is to make everyone aware that guide pages might be changing to be consistent with these new rules. If you notice one of your pages has changed in an unexpected way, you should contact me before changing it back.