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Good articleCarl Linnaeus has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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Section size for Carl Linnaeus (46 sections)
Section name Byte
count
Section
total
(Top) 9,270 9,270
Early life 15 7,228
Childhood 3,432 3,432
Early education 3,781 3,781
University studies 23 4,516
Lund 1,250 1,250
Uppsala 3,243 3,243
Expedition to Lapland 4,658 4,658
Years in the Dutch Republic (1735–38) 829 12,630
Doctorate 3,812 3,812
Publishing of Systema Naturae'' markup removed; cannot link (help) 1,488 1,488
George Clifford, Philip Miller, and Johann Jacob Dillenius 6,501 6,501
Return to Sweden 2,625 17,989
Öland and Gotland 1,554 1,554
Västergötland 1,142 1,142
Scania 1,545 1,545
Rector of Uppsala University 1,054 1,054
Philosophia Botanica 361 361
Nutrix Noverca 2,196 2,196
Species Plantarum 2,348 2,348
Ennoblement 5,164 5,164
Final years 3,410 3,410
Apostles 1,777 4,699
Early expeditions 1,155 1,155
Cook expeditions and Japan 1,767 1,767
Major publications 60 5,527
Systema Naturae 2,771 2,771
Orbis eruditi judicium de Caroli Linnaei MD scriptis 628 628
Species Plantarum'' markup removed; cannot link (help) 545 2,068
Genera Plantarum'' markup removed; cannot link (help) 727 727
Philosophia Botanica'' markup removed; cannot link (help) 796 796
Collections 6,713 6,713
System of taxonomy 3,096 18,347
Human taxonomy 15,251 15,251
Influences and economic beliefs 668 668
Commemoration 1,880 1,880
Commentary 4,854 4,854
Standard author abbreviation 59 59
Selected publications by Linnaeus 4,634 4,634
See also 214 214
References 15 9,687
Notes 66 66
Citations 29 29
Sources 9,577 9,577
Further reading 3,512 3,512
External links 5,706 5,706
Total 126,201 126,201

To-do list for Carl Linnaeus: edit·history·watch·refresh· Updated 2021-11-10

Major revamping
  • Revamp "Major publications" section
  • Revamp "Linnaean taxonomy" section
  • Create a Linnaues' Children section
  • Create Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus subpage.  Doing... More help on the subpage is welcome Esuzu (talkcontribs) 17:27, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
  • Expand "Philosophical views" (Perhaps with religious views?)
  • Re-write lead (could perhaps be done after the most of the article has been written)
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He was asked to teach at The university at the age of 23 ,the student found his subjects interesting in the year 2002 he travelled far and wide to be able to classify plants and animals 81.77.49.18 (talk) 07:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

The 'Commentary' section starts with the following sentence: "In the 21st century, Linnæus's taxonomy of human "races" has been problematised and discussed". However, a number of references for that paragraph predate the 21st century. Therefore, "in the 21st century" should be changed to something like "in recent decades", for accuracy purposes. Thank you. 2A00:23C4:6B13:D801:3CC4:5106:CDFC:9E72 (talk) 19:35, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Change formalise to formalize in the first paragraph. 2600:1700:2371:1C20:AD4F:B4B0:946A:9350 (talk) 23:21, 15 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: The article is written in British English, which uses the spelling "formalise". ULPS (talk) 23:25, 15 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Please remove nationality parameter is necessary per MOS:INFONAT. 112.204.223.12 (talk) 05:47, 27 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Done Paper9oll (🔔📝) 05:53, 27 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

In two places in the article, it says, as of writing, that he was ennobled in 1761. At the Uppsala University's Linnaean Gardens website, it says that the man's ennoblement/knighthood was officially accepted in 1762 (here). After googling, I also found a short biograghy in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon on the Swedish National Library's website, that was presumably originally published 1980-1981, that confirms the 1762 date (here). Which is the correct date? Torr3 (talk) 01:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

1762 is by the correct date. The king suggested his ennoblement in 1757, but it was not until 1762 that it was formally passed by the Council of the realm [1] (the king was at this point in time virtually powerless). According to Gunnar Broberg (Mannen som ordnade naturen), he started writing his name as "Linné" in 1760, and added "von" after 1762 (unclear date, SBL says 1763).
Andejons (talk) 12:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC)Reply