Thread:Dinoman972/@comment-32744161-20180522190533/@comment-47205-20180523081507

The description for Cytota, however, does currently state that it includes "animals with ... cellular machinery". However, just because we currently have things classified in a particular way doesn't mean they should stay that way. I agree with the principle that the taxonomy should be more focused on the overall morphology; e.g. merely using a Cell Editor spike instead of a Creature Editor one shouldn't be enough to reclassify a species into an entirely different taxon.

What might be better is for very simple creatures, especially those that could be made in the Early Creature Editor, to exist in a sister taxon to Monera. There's usually little more to them than cell parts, but because they aren't made in the Cell Editor, and sometimes because they have default legs, they can't go in Monera. This would incorporate many cell-like creatures without consuming all creatures that have any cell parts.

For Foliozoa, Opdagon's already made the obvious change: if creatures in it are just like members of another class but with added plant parts, then they might as well go into that class. Cytota is then for creatures that are dominated by non-animalian parts, e.g. entirely plant-like animals, or animals that are barely out of the Cell Stage.

This would also be a good time for me to tell both of you that, when you think a page should be deleted, what you need to do - and all you need to do - is add delete to the top of the page. Both blanking the page and adding a comment on the talk page certainly make your edits more visible in the RecentChanges, but if I do miss the former I might never delete the page (while pages with delete get put into a category that can be easily found), and the latter simply doubles the number of pages I have to go through.