Melaspileaceae from Arthoniales to Eremithallales; Monoblastiaceae from Pyrenulales to Monoblastiales; Xanthopyreniaceae from Dothideales to Collemopsidiales; Strigulaceae from Eurotiomycete incertae sedis to Strigulales; Trypetheliaceae from Pyrenulales to Trypetheliales. – ok
Coniocybaceae from old Lecanoromycetidae incertae sedis to Coniocybomycetes/Coniocybales; Fuscideaceae and Umbilicariaceae from old Lecanoromycetidae incertae sedis to Umbilicariales/Umbilicariomycetidae; Vezdaeaceae from old incertae sedis to Vezdaeales; Sporastatiaceae from Sporastatiales to Rhizocarpales; Thelenellaceae from top-level incertae sedis to Thelenellales. – ok
Agyriaceae was moved out of the obsolete Agyriales slot and placed under Pertusariales, but I am flagging this one for human review because Wikipedia is not fully tidy here. – ok
removed
Removed large non-lichen or no-longer-supported blocks from Leotiomycetes, Sordariomycetes, Tremellomycetidae, Urediniomycetes, and much of the old Dothideomycetes and Eurotiomycetes content. The old template included many families that English Wikipedia now treats as saprobic, pathogenic, lichenicolous only, or otherwise outside current lichen-family usage.
Removed obsolete or unsupported family entries such as Capnodiaceae, Adelococcaceae, Requienellaceae, Mycocaliciaceae, Sphinctrinaceae, Aspidotheliaceae, Mastodiaceae, and Lichenotheliaceae from the navbox. – ok
Requienellaceae in particular looks wrongly retained as a lichen family on some Wikipedia maintenance pages. – upgrade Requienella to figure it out Done but now Requienellaceae needs update ... Done
Removed old separate family concepts now superseded or redirected on English Wikipedia, including Pilocarpaceae, Megalariaceae, Variolariaceae, Anamylopsoraceae, and Helocarpaceae as a standalone family entry. – ok, but make redirect for Variolariaceae Done
added
Added classes missing from the old template but now used on English Wikipedia for lichen families: Candelariomycetes, Coniocybomycetes, and a minimal Leotiomycetes section for Lichinodiales/Lichinodiaceae. – ok
Added current order/family placements omitted by the old template, including Eigleraceae, Celotheliaceae, Dactylosporaceae, Aphanopsidaceae, Bruceomycetaceae, Carbonicolaceae, Ectolechiaceae, Lecideaceae, Lopadiaceae, Letrouitiaceae, Umbilicariales families, and the 2024-style Lichinomycetes families Lichinellaceae, Phylliscaceae, and Porocyphaceae. – ok, but update Lichinales
Added Thelocarpales/Thelocarpaceae, Harpidiaceae, and Strangosporaceae back only as conservative incertae sedis entries, because their higher placement is still unclear or unstable on English Wikipedia. – fix taxobox incertae sedis for Strangosporaceae; figure out why others are "unclear or unstable"
Added the current basidiolichen families/orders reflected by English Wikipedia's Basidiolichen coverage: Hygrophoraceae, Atheliaceae, Clavulinaceae, Corticiaceae, and Lepidostromataceae. – why is Corticiaceae included? is it a species of Marchandiomyces? needs clarification. Also check out eligibility of Atheliaceae, b/c the putative lichen Athelia epiphylla is something else
renamed/retargeted
Chrysothricaceae was corrected to Chrysotrichaceae. – ok
Pilocarpaceae was not retained separately; current English Wikipedia redirects it to Ectolechiaceae, and current genus pages such as Micarea and Byssoloma also use Ectolechiaceae. – ok
Megalariaceae was not retained separately; English Wikipedia redirects it to Ramalinaceae. – ok
Aspidotheliaceae was not retained separately because English Wikipedia now treats it under Thelenellaceae. – ok
deduplicated
Agyriaceae, Schaereriaceae, Arctomiaceae, Hymeneliaceae, Coccotremataceae, Thelenellaceae, and Sporastatiaceae were reduced to one placement each, following current article-level usage rather than the old duplicate parking in multiple orders or incertae sedis bins. – ok
Phlyctidaceae is kept once under Gyalectales; the older diffuse handling across older pages was not retained. – ok
structural cleanup
Removed the redundant blank <nowiki> subgroup wrappers, blank above, and other empty scaffolding inherited from the old template. – ok
Removed the orphaned empty References child navbox at the bottom of the old template; it was structurally unused and added no navigation value. – will add modern/updated refs later
Simplified Dothideomycetes to class→order level because the current subclass/category pages are not reliable enough to support a clean subclass split for lichen families. – upgrade Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae and cat as lichen subclass
Simplified Basidiomycota to the current basidiolichen-bearing Agaricomycetes orders instead of the old broad and partly non-lichen basidiomycete blocks.
Possible Wikipedia taxonomy issues to investigate
Graphidales
Apparent issue: Graphidales still presents a six-family framework, but Diploschistes, Fissurina, and Thelotrema currently place those groups in Graphidaceae or explicitly describe the alternative family splits as rejected or former. – Graphidales needs extreme update & overhaul
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Graphidales, Diploschistes, Fissurina, Thelotrema. – see above
Provisional judgement: the order page is behind the newer genus-level treatment; keeping only Graphidaceae, Gomphillaceae, and Redonographaceae is the safer navbox choice for now.
Bruceomycetaceae
Apparent issue: Bruceomycetaceae still places Resinogalea in the family in Lecanorales, but Resinogalea now says it belongs to Cryptocaliciaceae in Cryptocaliciomycetidae, Eurotiomycetes.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Bruceomycetaceae, Resinogalea.
Provisional judgement: keep Bruceomycetaceae in the navbox for now because the family page itself is current and explicit, but this article pair clearly needs reconciliation. – Bruceomycetaceae needs update
Lecanoromycetidae
Apparent issue: Lecanoromycetidae says the subclass contains seven orders while listing eight, and it still keeps Helocarpaceae as incertae sedis even though Helocarpaceae redirects to Helocarpon, whose taxobox places it in Ectolechiaceae within Lecanorales.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Lecanoromycetidae, Helocarpaceae, Helocarpon.
Provisional judgement: the subclass page is internally inconsistent; Helocarpaceae should not be kept as a separate family in the navbox.
Agyriaceae
Apparent issue: old Wikipedia handling kept Agyriaceae under Agyriales, but current Pertusariales and Agyriaceae pages place it in Pertusariales, while Ostropomycetidae no longer lists Agyriales.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Pertusariales, Agyriaceae, Ostropomycetidae, and remnants of older navigation/classification pages.
Provisional judgement: Agyriales should be retired from this navbox, with Agyriaceae kept in Pertusariales.
Lichinales / Gloeoheppiaceae
Apparent issue: Lichinales still gives the old three-family concept including Gloeoheppiaceae, while the newer Lichinaceae page says the 2024 restructuring of Lichinomycetes split the class into Lichinaceae, Lichinellaceae, Phylliscaceae, and Porocyphaceae, with Gloeoheppia included in a narrowed Lichinaceae.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Lichinales, Lichinaceae, Porocyphaceae, and associated family/genus pages.
Provisional judgement: the order page is stale; the navbox should follow the newer family pages and drop Gloeoheppiaceae as a separate entry.
Lichinodiaceae / Lichinodiales
Apparent issue: Lichinodium says Lichinodiaceae is the sole family of Lichinodiales in Leotiomycetes, but Leotiomycetes also says the family was later placed in Leotiales.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Lichinodium, Leotiomycetes.
Provisional judgement: I followed Lichinodium and kept Lichinodiales in the navbox, but the class page needs manual cleanup.
Dothideomycetes lichen orders
Apparent issue: the old template’s placements for Melaspileaceae, Monoblastiaceae, Xanthopyreniaceae, Strigulaceae, and Trypetheliaceae no longer match current order pages and family articles.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: older navigation/classification pages versus Melaspileaceae, Monoblastiaceae, Collemopsidiales, Strigulales, and Trypetheliales.
Provisional judgement: current family/order pages are much more coherent than the older subclass/template layout, so the template should follow them.
Dactylosporaceae
Apparent issue: Dactylosporaceae says the family belongs in Eurotiomycetes → Sclerococcales, but Category:Lecanoromycetes families currently includes it.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Dactylosporaceae, Category:Lecanoromycetes families.
Provisional judgement: the category looks wrong or stale; the navbox should keep Dactylosporaceae under Eurotiomycetes.
Requienellaceae
Apparent issue: English Wikipedia’s family page says members are not known to form lichens, but the family still appears on lichen-maintenance/category pages.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Requienellaceae, Category:Lichen families.
Provisional judgement: do not keep it in the navbox unless a current article is changed back to treating it as a lichen family. – upgrade Requienella to figure it out Done
Trichosphaeriaceae
Apparent issue: Trichosphaeriales describes the group as generally saprobic and pathogenic, but Category:Lichen families still lists Trichosphaeriaceae.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Trichosphaeriales, Category:Lichen families.
Provisional judgement: the lichen-family category inclusion looks wrong; I omitted the family from the navbox.
Category tracking pages
Apparent issue: the category network is behind the current articles. Category:Lichen classes omits classes now used on article pages such as Candelariomycetes, Coniocybomycetes, and Leotiomycetes; Category:Lichen subclasses omits Umbilicariomycetidae; Category:Lichen orders misses orders now used on current pages such as Graphidales, Gyalectales, and Sclerococcales.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Category:Lichen classes, Category:Lichen subclasses, Category:Lichen orders, alongside the relevant class/order pages.
Provisional judgement: these maintenance categories need a pass after the template update, because they are no longer reliable as a sole source of truth.
Daohugouthallaceae
Apparent issue: this fossil family is listed in lichen-family and Lecanoromycetes-family categories, but the fossil page itself says the phylum is Fungi incertae sedis and its placement is inferred from limited fossil evidence.
Pages that disagree or look outdated: Daohugouthallus, Category:Lichen families, Category:Lecanoromycetes families.
Provisional judgement: leave it out of the live-family navbox and review separately as a fossil/out-of-scope case.
Uncertain cases
Pachyascaceae — I kept this as Lecanoromycetidae incertae sedis rather than forcing it into Lecanorales, because Pachyascus says the family was classed within Lecanoromycetidae but with uncertain order placement, while Lecanoromycetidae currently parks it inside Lecanorales.
Thelocarpaceae — I kept Thelocarpales under Ascomycota incertae sedis because the family/order pages are clear, but the higher placement is still murky on English Wikipedia.
Harpidiaceae — I kept this under Ascomycota incertae sedis because its own page says it is uncertain within Pezizomycotina, while older treatments embedded it in Lichinaceae.
Strangosporaceae — I kept this under Ascomycota incertae sedis because Strangospora says the family was removed from Lecanorales and left with uncertain Ascomycota placement.
Bruceomycetaceae — I left it in Lecanorales because that is what the family page still says, but it remains a live clean-up target because of the Resinogalea conflict.
Done but now Requienellaceae needs update ... 