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I have identified these in Lycaenidae.Will you fix them please.
Always grateful for your help.Best regards Robert aka Notafly ( talk) 16:15, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I think the taxonomy templates work like this, for disambiguation. I'll use Lithocharis as an example.
Since there's not currently a template used for the lepidoptera Lithocharis, there really only needs to be one template, not both "template:taxonomy/Lithocharis" and "template:taxonomy/Lithocharis (beetle)"
...and, of course, I could be wrong on any of this. It's easy to get mixed up! Bob Webster ( talk) 00:50, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Would you redirect Keraunogramma to Semanga Distant 1884 please. Best regards Notafly ( talk) 16:08, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi SchreiberBike, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! - TNT 💖 18:10, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Pseudozarba mianoides. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in red at the top of the page. Thanks! Zackmann ( Talk to me/ What I been doing) 06:54, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm reaching out to you because I saw that you signed up as a labelling volunteer at Wikipedia:Labels/Edit quality. I'm starting a new project that builds on Edit quality, to predict Newcomer quality. That is, to predict the damagingness and goodfaithness of "sessions" (multiple related edits) of users within 1 day of their registration. With this AI trained, we could help automatically distinguish betewen productive and unproductive new users. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at this new labelling campaign and label a few sessions I would be very grateful. In addition if you have any feedback or discover any bugs in the process I would appreciate that too. You can find the project page at Wikipedia:Labels/Newcomer_session_quality or go directly to labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/ and look for the campaign titled "Newcomer Session quality (2018)". Thanks so much!
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Thanks very much for the edit on Heliconisa; I could not locate a similar article for a monotypic genus that also had an automatic taxobox, so was uncertain how it needed to be formatted. I'll make a note of this for future reference, I've seen a few other such cases and left them alone. Dyanega ( talk) 01:09, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for the nice words! When writing a new article (or translating one) should I put references before or after punctuation marks on the english wikipedia? Have a nice day! Okimeolvx ( talk) 08:30, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi SchreiberBike, I created a draft of the first issue of the Tree of Life newsletter. If you're still interested in glancing it over for a c/e, it would be appreciated. Thanks, Enwebb ( talk) 16:39, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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WP:ACCESSIBILITY favors that. For the dire whelk DYK, what is "being eaten" is unclear in the text, but that's how it was on the DYK. If you want to change that back, that makes sense; your call. I think the April DYKs section looks better showing rather than being behind the "show" button, but again, your call. I'm not good with tables, but if the tops of the "Newly recognized content" and "Newly nominated FAs" tables were vertically even, that would look better.Mihran Hakobyan's Wikipedia Monument, located in Słubice, Poland |
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I am sure you are right about Closs. They are most likely one and the same.I will change the page Best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:55, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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BigDwiki ( talk) 05:14, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
COMMENT: there is a problem with this elimination of initial capitals from vernacular names. You can't tell if "small brown warbler" is a warbler that happens to be small and brown, a Brown Warbler that happens to be small, or a species called the Small Brown Warbler.
I'm not convinced of the wisdom of this as a general policy. Foiled circuitous wanderer ( talk) 14:22, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Help expand for article Akane Yamaguchi from 山口茜. Thanks you. Ghyuw5 ( talk) 03:06, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hello again Schreiber Bike Rock grayling redirects to Hipparchia alcyone. The valid name in most sources including Fauna Europaea and Wikispecies is Hipparchia hermione and I think we should use this. Will you rename the page (I have changed the text and will add more) and fix the redirect. I see other language pages vary in this respect but not much can be done here (Or can it?) Very best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:23, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
In the blink of an eye.Very many thanks Notafly ( talk) 20:52, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Regarding misuse of automated tools: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Bot_like_edits_from_User:BigDwiki. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:05, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
I think I accidentally edited an older version of the article which also undid your edit. Sorry about that. S0091 ( talk) 04:26, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from The time allocated for running scripts has expired.'s Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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I’m curious. You edited the image I just placed on List of mammals of Brazil. You changed [[ to “ I will need to scout up the guides to find out what I did wrong. However, why did you not make the same change on all the other images? Thanks Johnson-Bob ( talk) 22:24, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
Greetings SchreiberBike Will you take a look at Theodor Gottlieb von Scheven. The added templates -living person (he died in 1810) and notability (he described the well known moth Zygaena lonicera) are (unwittingly) unjust to this early naturalist.I hope they will be removed or worse the page deleted.No doubt more will be added to this page but not by me my German isn't up to it. Best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
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Dear SchreiberBike. Thanks for correcting mistakes on the article George Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Abercorn, to which I contributed and which is therefore on my watchlist. I agree with all the other corrections you made but have doubts about replacing the BR HTML tag with BR/. I thought Wikipedia uses HTML5, which does not require closure for the BR. I have heard that some people maintain that BR does confuse the Source Editor's syntax highlighting, but I have always used just unclosed BR and did not notice anything going wrong with the syntax highlighting, which I have always on. Can you please explain why BR/ is necessary? I have used BR a lot. I want to be sure and understand why, before I change all that. With many thanks Johannes Schade ( talk) 12:23, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
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The vital articles project on English Wikipedia began in 2004 when an editor transferred a list from Meta-Wiki: List of articles every Wikipedia should have. The first incarnation of the list became what is now level 3. As of 2019, there are 5 levels of vital articles:
Each level is inclusive of all previous levels, meaning that the 1,000 Level 3 articles include those listed on Levels 2 and 1. Below is an overview of the distribution of vital articles, and the quality of the articles. While the ultimate goal of the vital articles project is to have Featured-class articles, I also considered Good Articles to be "complete" for the purposes of this list. Animals (1,148 designated out of projected 2,400) The time allocated for running scripts has expired.
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With the outbreak of a novel coronavirus dominating news coverage, Wikipedia content related to the virus has seen much higher interest. Tree of Life content of particular interest to readers has included viruses, bats, pangolins, and masked palm civets. Viruses saw the most dramatic growth in readership: Coronavirus, which was the 105th most popular virus article in December 2019 with about 400 views per day, averaged over a quarter million views each day of January 2020. Total monthly viewership of the top-10 virus articles ballooned from about 1.5 million to nearly 20 million.
From October 2019 – December 2019, the top ten most popular bat articles fluctuated among 16 different articles, with the December viewership of those 10 articles at 209,280. For January 2020, three articles broke into the top-10 that were not among the 16 articles of the prior three months: Bat as food, Horseshoe bat, and Bat-borne virus. Viewership of the top-10 bat articles spiked nearly 300% to 617,067 in January. While bats have been implicated as a possible natural reservoir of SARS-CoV-2, an intermediate host may be the bridge between bats and humans. Pangolins have been hypothesized as the intermediate host for the virus, causing a large spike in typical page views of 2-3k each day up to more than 60k in a day. Masked palm civets, the intermediate host of SARS, saw a modest yet noticeable spike in page views as well, from 100 to 300 views per day to as many as 5k views per day. With an increase in viewers came an increase in editors. In an interview, longtime virus editor The time allocated for running scripts has expired. identified the influx of editors as the biggest challenge in editing content related to the coronavirus. They noted that these newcomers include "novices who make honest mistakes and get tossed about a bit in the mad activity" as well as "experienced editors who know nothing about viruses and are good researchers, yet aren't familiar with the policies of WP:ToL or WP:Viruses." Disruption also increased, with extended confirmed protection (also known as the 30/500 rule, which prevents editors with fewer than 30 days tenure and 500 edits from making edits and is typically used on a very small subset of Wikipedia articles) temporarily applied to Coronavirus and still active on Template:2019–20 coronavirus outbreak data. New editors apparently seeking to correct misinformation continuously edited the article Bat as food to remove content related to China: Videos of Chinese people eating bat soup were misrepresented to be current or filmed in China, when at least one such video was several years old and filmed in Palau. However, reliable sources confirm that bats are eaten in China, especially Southern China, so these well-meaning edits were mostly removed. Another level of complexity was added by the fluctuating terminology of the virus. Over a dozen moves and merges were requested within WikiProject Viruses. To give you an idea of the musical chairs happening with article titles, here are the move histories of two articles: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Awkwafaba noted that "the main authorities, WHO and ICTV, don't really have a process for speedily naming a virus or disease." Additionally, they have different criteria for naming. They said, "I remember in a move discussion from the article then called Wuhan coronavirus that a virus name cannot have a geographical location in it, but this is a WHO disease naming guideline, and not an ICTV virus naming rule. ICTV may have renamed Four Corners virus to Sin Nombre orthohantavirus but there are still plenty of official virus species names that don't abide by WHO guidelines." |
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many thanks for your edits. There is one major point of issue - the classification of Noctuidae; Athetis is not (nor has been, if ever) in Acronictinae (which was redefined in a much stricter sense in, &/or following, work by Zahiri, and others). Please see my comment at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lepidoptera#Article_and_task_requests for a more detailed list of references that give the situation more completely. Many thanks. HKmoths ( talk) 07:47, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
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Dear SchreiberBike, your edits on Alec H. Chisholm make the article look and read so much better - thank you for your sterling efforts! James Jamesmcardle (talk) 22:11, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi SchreiberBike, about a year ago you merged Psaliodes fervescens with the genus page, Psaliodes. However, the references provided on the article page do not support that it is indeed monotypic. Perhaps a point of confusion is that the North American Moth Photographers Group (MPG) lists a single species only for North America north of Mexico. The references that do not draw from MPG list many more species worldwide. Is there a newer classification that would contradict this? 'Cheers, Loopy30 ( talk) 22:32, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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Inspired by a March 2020 post at WikiProject Medicine detailing the growth of Featured Articles over time, we decided to reproduce that table here, adding a second table showing the growth of Good Articles. Tree of Life articles are placed in the "Biology" category for FAs, which has seen a growth of 381% since 2008. Only two other subjects had a greater growth than Biology: Business, economics, and finance; and Warfare. Percentage Growth in FA Categories, 2008–2019, Legend: Considerably above average, Above average, Average Below average , Considerably below average, Poor
*subset of natural sciences Unsurprisingly, the number of GAs has increased more rapidly than the number of FAs. Organisms, which is a subcategory of Natural sciences, has seen a GA growth of 755% since 2008, besting the Natural sciences overall growth of 530%. While Warfare had far and away the most significant growth of GAs, it's a clear outlier relative to other categories. |
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My apologies for not checking before accepting that we already had an article. Theroadislong ( talk) 21:51, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
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Not sure how but I accidentally duplicated [ /info/en/?search=Leptarthus_brevirostris this page.I merged the content.Now the duplicate has to go.Would you be so good as to fix this for me.Very best regards Notafly ( talk) 13:47, 1 June 2020 (UTC) PS It showed as a red link here List of soldierflies and allies of Great Britain.
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This month we're joined by The time allocated for running scripts has expired., who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves. How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of? As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group. What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by The time allocated for running scripts has expired. and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation. My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{ clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly. What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms? The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page. Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for
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Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia? As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{ taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem. Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{ Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{ Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{ Phylogeny/Squamata}}). A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{ BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use. What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want. Anything else you'd like us to know? My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge. With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so. This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia. |
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Wikipedia:Atylotus plebeius No idea what I did but this should be Atylotus plebeius.Sorry I didn't ask Notafly ( talk) 19:58, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi SchreiberBike, the example "The genus Nodocephalosaurus has a redirect from its sole species, Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis." at the guidelines would suggest that Hypocephalus_armatus should be at the genus. Shyamal ( talk) 03:21, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
The time allocated for running scripts has expired." That means that rather than call the article Hypocephalus (genus), we call it Hypocephalus armatus. Does that make sense to you? If I'd been around when that decision was made, I would have argued to do it differently, but it has worked for a long time and I don't see a need for change. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 03:42, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
This began as a stub. It was almost immediately removed and retitled as a draft itself then retitled thus Draft:Eduard Enslin]. Now a review with a seven week wait is requested. I see no reason for this. Do you? Notafly ( talk) 20:45, 8 July 2020 (UTC) I see you are helping Ettore (Hectonichus). Prolific isn't he.Very best regards Robert aka Notafly ( talk) 20:45, 8 July 2020 (UTC) NB Fixed now He is here Eduard Enslin again
And very useful additions too.Many thanks.Between us all we are making good progress.Very best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:14, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, in the absence of a list like the IPNI for zoological scientific names, there's always an issue as to how to present the names of authors. For spiders, we've always followed the usage of the World Spider Catalog, which is the source for spider names and taxonomy. Peter coxhead ( talk) 08:20, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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Cross posted from the Signpost On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member The time allocated for running scripts has expired. discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year. [1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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This month's spotlight is with The time allocated for running scripts has expired., author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count.
I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
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Please stop adding social media endorsements. Thank you. Lima Bean Farmer ( talk) 01:52, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for correcting my page Noble Consort Cheng. Deidonata ( talk)20:24,27.09.2020 (UTC) |
Hi and good afternoon SchreiberBike, as you see i tried everything to provide a strong reliable source for the tiger and the yak to prove their former presence in North America but it looks like i failed. I am truly sorry for adding these two species. I should know by now that tigers and yaks were never present in North America vice versa. If and only i had found actual reliable sources for the yak and tiger that will demonstrate that they were in North America for 13,000 to 10,000 years, i would let them remain on the list because the source would make total sense. Unfortunately, i could not find a strong wealthy sources. That is all could say. Sincerely. Animalworlds314 ( talk) 18:00, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. I'm helping with a contributor copyright investigation, and many of the articles are about Lepidoptera. I was wondering if you'd be interested in rewriting articles which contain (or are, in their entirety) copyright violations. An example is Artifodina strigulata, of which over 2/3 is a copyright violation. Others, such as Platyptilia isodactylus, may not require such complete revision, but will benefit from an eye for detail and familiarity with the subject area; I immediately thought of you. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 07:54, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
What was the point in changing all those headlines to lower case? As they were they reflected exactly the newspaper headline. Lexysexy ( talk) 00:49, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Is it really lowercase there? To me it looks like it should be capitalised. Ddum5347 ( talk) 03:38, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
You made a general statement about "Historians" instead of specific to the authors who hold certain views (way back when) - I'll be correcting this with alternative viewpoints soon. One source alone does not a general consensus in our discipline make. Just FYI. 104.169.22.74 ( talk) 08:44, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi, hope you are well. The reason I got rid of that edit which was introduced in July is that it seems to push a narrative contrary to academic consensus and impose it on the lead. Let me know what you think. I can open an account if you like so we can discuss further. 88.5.205.1 ( talk) 21:15, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Concerning this change: [ [2]]. You said it's not a possessive, but it is. jeweller's is short for jeweller's shop (jeweller is British, whereas jeweler is American, but that's irrelevant here), just as baker's is short for baker's shop, grocer's for grocer's shop, dry cleaner's for dry cleaner's shop, etc. It might look weird, but it's true. Someone else has changed it to jewellery store now, which is also fine. All the best — caoimhinoc ( talk) 21:09, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for educating me and helping me retain a person on List, Bruce Marks, whom I believe is important due to unique way he became a Pennsylvania State Senator. I find it helpful to see on the list the connection to the List. In this case the List is University of Pennsylvania. Since this list concerns University of Pennsylvania, why not identify the year the person was due to graduate and if that person earned a degree. For example, President William Henry Harrison is an alumnus of University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine Class of 1795, BUT he only spent a single semester at Penn (in fall of 1791. See https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/01/william-henry-harrison-history ). I think it's important on quick glance to realize how tenuous that person's connection to University in question. Hence, I think adding the year the person affiliated with Penn (or any university) was due to graduate and if that person earned a degree is important information and see that on this and many similar lists it is is often provided. I agree that providing such should be consistent and it is often not consistent. I would rather future Wikipedia editors of all Lists of alumni of colleges add this information of year due to graduate band if they earned a degree. I see on some lists they do provide such info and in some they do not. It's helpful to aspire to add this info. I thank you in advance if you have time to reply to my post. You have literally made over a 100 times more edits than me so I know I will learn from you and that you are more knowledgeable about Wikipedia than me. Thanks again for taking the time to care. OneMoreByte ( talk) 09:30, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting my grammar correction: for some reason it didn't register with me that it was a quotation. Thanks for correcting my error! RomanSpa ( talk) 21:37, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
FTFY Torzsmokus ( talk) 12:17, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
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I'm impressed you noticed my mistake so quickly. Turns out I was wrong about hyphenated adverbs. I suppose I should read the rest of the MOS more closely. Kudos for being such an assiduous copyeditor. Anon423 ( talk) 20:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC) |
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Hey! I noticed that you said the word "several" does not mean seven. I both agree and disagree. It's meaning seems to vary a lot no matter where it's used. A lot of the time I"ve seen several as meaning seven (hence the seve part of several), however I've also seen it meaning a lot of something which was why I undid the edit. I do agree that many would be better to use there and I replaced it with that. I would've changed it to that however I couldn't think of a better word that fit until you proposed many. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:44, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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I have identified these in Lycaenidae.Will you fix them please.
Always grateful for your help.Best regards Robert aka Notafly ( talk) 16:15, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I think the taxonomy templates work like this, for disambiguation. I'll use Lithocharis as an example.
Since there's not currently a template used for the lepidoptera Lithocharis, there really only needs to be one template, not both "template:taxonomy/Lithocharis" and "template:taxonomy/Lithocharis (beetle)"
...and, of course, I could be wrong on any of this. It's easy to get mixed up! Bob Webster ( talk) 00:50, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
Would you redirect Keraunogramma to Semanga Distant 1884 please. Best regards Notafly ( talk) 16:08, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm reaching out to you because I saw that you signed up as a labelling volunteer at Wikipedia:Labels/Edit quality. I'm starting a new project that builds on Edit quality, to predict Newcomer quality. That is, to predict the damagingness and goodfaithness of "sessions" (multiple related edits) of users within 1 day of their registration. With this AI trained, we could help automatically distinguish betewen productive and unproductive new users. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at this new labelling campaign and label a few sessions I would be very grateful. In addition if you have any feedback or discover any bugs in the process I would appreciate that too. You can find the project page at Wikipedia:Labels/Newcomer_session_quality or go directly to labels.wmflabs.org/ui/enwiki/ and look for the campaign titled "Newcomer Session quality (2018)". Thanks so much!
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Thanks very much for the edit on Heliconisa; I could not locate a similar article for a monotypic genus that also had an automatic taxobox, so was uncertain how it needed to be formatted. I'll make a note of this for future reference, I've seen a few other such cases and left them alone. Dyanega ( talk) 01:09, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for the nice words! When writing a new article (or translating one) should I put references before or after punctuation marks on the english wikipedia? Have a nice day! Okimeolvx ( talk) 08:30, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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WP:ACCESSIBILITY favors that. For the dire whelk DYK, what is "being eaten" is unclear in the text, but that's how it was on the DYK. If you want to change that back, that makes sense; your call. I think the April DYKs section looks better showing rather than being behind the "show" button, but again, your call. I'm not good with tables, but if the tops of the "Newly recognized content" and "Newly nominated FAs" tables were vertically even, that would look better.Mihran Hakobyan's Wikipedia Monument, located in Słubice, Poland |
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I am sure you are right about Closs. They are most likely one and the same.I will change the page Best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:55, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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COMMENT: there is a problem with this elimination of initial capitals from vernacular names. You can't tell if "small brown warbler" is a warbler that happens to be small and brown, a Brown Warbler that happens to be small, or a species called the Small Brown Warbler.
I'm not convinced of the wisdom of this as a general policy. Foiled circuitous wanderer ( talk) 14:22, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Help expand for article Akane Yamaguchi from 山口茜. Thanks you. Ghyuw5 ( talk) 03:06, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hello again Schreiber Bike Rock grayling redirects to Hipparchia alcyone. The valid name in most sources including Fauna Europaea and Wikispecies is Hipparchia hermione and I think we should use this. Will you rename the page (I have changed the text and will add more) and fix the redirect. I see other language pages vary in this respect but not much can be done here (Or can it?) Very best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:23, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
In the blink of an eye.Very many thanks Notafly ( talk) 20:52, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Regarding misuse of automated tools: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Bot_like_edits_from_User:BigDwiki. OhNoitsJamie Talk 23:05, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
I think I accidentally edited an older version of the article which also undid your edit. Sorry about that. S0091 ( talk) 04:26, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, The time allocated for running scripts has expired.: *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: The time allocated for running scripts has expired.
What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from The time allocated for running scripts has expired.'s Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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I’m curious. You edited the image I just placed on List of mammals of Brazil. You changed [[ to “ I will need to scout up the guides to find out what I did wrong. However, why did you not make the same change on all the other images? Thanks Johnson-Bob ( talk) 22:24, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
Greetings SchreiberBike Will you take a look at Theodor Gottlieb von Scheven. The added templates -living person (he died in 1810) and notability (he described the well known moth Zygaena lonicera) are (unwittingly) unjust to this early naturalist.I hope they will be removed or worse the page deleted.No doubt more will be added to this page but not by me my German isn't up to it. Best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
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Dear SchreiberBike. Thanks for correcting mistakes on the article George Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Abercorn, to which I contributed and which is therefore on my watchlist. I agree with all the other corrections you made but have doubts about replacing the BR HTML tag with BR/. I thought Wikipedia uses HTML5, which does not require closure for the BR. I have heard that some people maintain that BR does confuse the Source Editor's syntax highlighting, but I have always used just unclosed BR and did not notice anything going wrong with the syntax highlighting, which I have always on. Can you please explain why BR/ is necessary? I have used BR a lot. I want to be sure and understand why, before I change all that. With many thanks Johannes Schade ( talk) 12:23, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
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The vital articles project on English Wikipedia began in 2004 when an editor transferred a list from Meta-Wiki: List of articles every Wikipedia should have. The first incarnation of the list became what is now level 3. As of 2019, there are 5 levels of vital articles:
Each level is inclusive of all previous levels, meaning that the 1,000 Level 3 articles include those listed on Levels 2 and 1. Below is an overview of the distribution of vital articles, and the quality of the articles. While the ultimate goal of the vital articles project is to have Featured-class articles, I also considered Good Articles to be "complete" for the purposes of this list. Animals (1,148 designated out of projected 2,400) The time allocated for running scripts has expired.
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With the outbreak of a novel coronavirus dominating news coverage, Wikipedia content related to the virus has seen much higher interest. Tree of Life content of particular interest to readers has included viruses, bats, pangolins, and masked palm civets. Viruses saw the most dramatic growth in readership: Coronavirus, which was the 105th most popular virus article in December 2019 with about 400 views per day, averaged over a quarter million views each day of January 2020. Total monthly viewership of the top-10 virus articles ballooned from about 1.5 million to nearly 20 million.
From October 2019 – December 2019, the top ten most popular bat articles fluctuated among 16 different articles, with the December viewership of those 10 articles at 209,280. For January 2020, three articles broke into the top-10 that were not among the 16 articles of the prior three months: Bat as food, Horseshoe bat, and Bat-borne virus. Viewership of the top-10 bat articles spiked nearly 300% to 617,067 in January. While bats have been implicated as a possible natural reservoir of SARS-CoV-2, an intermediate host may be the bridge between bats and humans. Pangolins have been hypothesized as the intermediate host for the virus, causing a large spike in typical page views of 2-3k each day up to more than 60k in a day. Masked palm civets, the intermediate host of SARS, saw a modest yet noticeable spike in page views as well, from 100 to 300 views per day to as many as 5k views per day. With an increase in viewers came an increase in editors. In an interview, longtime virus editor The time allocated for running scripts has expired. identified the influx of editors as the biggest challenge in editing content related to the coronavirus. They noted that these newcomers include "novices who make honest mistakes and get tossed about a bit in the mad activity" as well as "experienced editors who know nothing about viruses and are good researchers, yet aren't familiar with the policies of WP:ToL or WP:Viruses." Disruption also increased, with extended confirmed protection (also known as the 30/500 rule, which prevents editors with fewer than 30 days tenure and 500 edits from making edits and is typically used on a very small subset of Wikipedia articles) temporarily applied to Coronavirus and still active on Template:2019–20 coronavirus outbreak data. New editors apparently seeking to correct misinformation continuously edited the article Bat as food to remove content related to China: Videos of Chinese people eating bat soup were misrepresented to be current or filmed in China, when at least one such video was several years old and filmed in Palau. However, reliable sources confirm that bats are eaten in China, especially Southern China, so these well-meaning edits were mostly removed. Another level of complexity was added by the fluctuating terminology of the virus. Over a dozen moves and merges were requested within WikiProject Viruses. To give you an idea of the musical chairs happening with article titles, here are the move histories of two articles: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Awkwafaba noted that "the main authorities, WHO and ICTV, don't really have a process for speedily naming a virus or disease." Additionally, they have different criteria for naming. They said, "I remember in a move discussion from the article then called Wuhan coronavirus that a virus name cannot have a geographical location in it, but this is a WHO disease naming guideline, and not an ICTV virus naming rule. ICTV may have renamed Four Corners virus to Sin Nombre orthohantavirus but there are still plenty of official virus species names that don't abide by WHO guidelines." |
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many thanks for your edits. There is one major point of issue - the classification of Noctuidae; Athetis is not (nor has been, if ever) in Acronictinae (which was redefined in a much stricter sense in, &/or following, work by Zahiri, and others). Please see my comment at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lepidoptera#Article_and_task_requests for a more detailed list of references that give the situation more completely. Many thanks. HKmoths ( talk) 07:47, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
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The newest Tree of Life WikiProject is about a taxon that is dominating the headlines, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and its many effects. We interviewed The time allocated for running scripts has expired., the founder of WikiProject COVID-19. This interview has been edited for length. Find the full interview here. The time allocated for running scripts has expired.
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Dear SchreiberBike, your edits on Alec H. Chisholm make the article look and read so much better - thank you for your sterling efforts! James Jamesmcardle (talk) 22:11, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi SchreiberBike, about a year ago you merged Psaliodes fervescens with the genus page, Psaliodes. However, the references provided on the article page do not support that it is indeed monotypic. Perhaps a point of confusion is that the North American Moth Photographers Group (MPG) lists a single species only for North America north of Mexico. The references that do not draw from MPG list many more species worldwide. Is there a newer classification that would contradict this? 'Cheers, Loopy30 ( talk) 22:32, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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Inspired by a March 2020 post at WikiProject Medicine detailing the growth of Featured Articles over time, we decided to reproduce that table here, adding a second table showing the growth of Good Articles. Tree of Life articles are placed in the "Biology" category for FAs, which has seen a growth of 381% since 2008. Only two other subjects had a greater growth than Biology: Business, economics, and finance; and Warfare. Percentage Growth in FA Categories, 2008–2019, Legend: Considerably above average, Above average, Average Below average , Considerably below average, Poor
*subset of natural sciences Unsurprisingly, the number of GAs has increased more rapidly than the number of FAs. Organisms, which is a subcategory of Natural sciences, has seen a GA growth of 755% since 2008, besting the Natural sciences overall growth of 530%. While Warfare had far and away the most significant growth of GAs, it's a clear outlier relative to other categories. |
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My apologies for not checking before accepting that we already had an article. Theroadislong ( talk) 21:51, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
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Not sure how but I accidentally duplicated [ /info/en/?search=Leptarthus_brevirostris this page.I merged the content.Now the duplicate has to go.Would you be so good as to fix this for me.Very best regards Notafly ( talk) 13:47, 1 June 2020 (UTC) PS It showed as a red link here List of soldierflies and allies of Great Britain.
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This month we're joined by The time allocated for running scripts has expired., who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves. How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of? As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group. What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by The time allocated for running scripts has expired. and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation. My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{ clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly. What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms? The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page. Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for
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Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia? As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{ taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem. Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{ Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{ Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{ Phylogeny/Squamata}}). A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{ BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use. What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want. Anything else you'd like us to know? My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge. With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so. This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia. |
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Wikipedia:Atylotus plebeius No idea what I did but this should be Atylotus plebeius.Sorry I didn't ask Notafly ( talk) 19:58, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi SchreiberBike, the example "The genus Nodocephalosaurus has a redirect from its sole species, Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis." at the guidelines would suggest that Hypocephalus_armatus should be at the genus. Shyamal ( talk) 03:21, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
The time allocated for running scripts has expired." That means that rather than call the article Hypocephalus (genus), we call it Hypocephalus armatus. Does that make sense to you? If I'd been around when that decision was made, I would have argued to do it differently, but it has worked for a long time and I don't see a need for change. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 03:42, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
This began as a stub. It was almost immediately removed and retitled as a draft itself then retitled thus Draft:Eduard Enslin]. Now a review with a seven week wait is requested. I see no reason for this. Do you? Notafly ( talk) 20:45, 8 July 2020 (UTC) I see you are helping Ettore (Hectonichus). Prolific isn't he.Very best regards Robert aka Notafly ( talk) 20:45, 8 July 2020 (UTC) NB Fixed now He is here Eduard Enslin again
And very useful additions too.Many thanks.Between us all we are making good progress.Very best regards Notafly ( talk) 20:14, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi, in the absence of a list like the IPNI for zoological scientific names, there's always an issue as to how to present the names of authors. For spiders, we've always followed the usage of the World Spider Catalog, which is the source for spider names and taxonomy. Peter coxhead ( talk) 08:20, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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Cross posted from the Signpost On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member The time allocated for running scripts has expired. discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year. [1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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This month's spotlight is with The time allocated for running scripts has expired., author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count.
I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
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Please stop adding social media endorsements. Thank you. Lima Bean Farmer ( talk) 01:52, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for correcting my page Noble Consort Cheng. Deidonata ( talk)20:24,27.09.2020 (UTC) |
Hi and good afternoon SchreiberBike, as you see i tried everything to provide a strong reliable source for the tiger and the yak to prove their former presence in North America but it looks like i failed. I am truly sorry for adding these two species. I should know by now that tigers and yaks were never present in North America vice versa. If and only i had found actual reliable sources for the yak and tiger that will demonstrate that they were in North America for 13,000 to 10,000 years, i would let them remain on the list because the source would make total sense. Unfortunately, i could not find a strong wealthy sources. That is all could say. Sincerely. Animalworlds314 ( talk) 18:00, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. I'm helping with a contributor copyright investigation, and many of the articles are about Lepidoptera. I was wondering if you'd be interested in rewriting articles which contain (or are, in their entirety) copyright violations. An example is Artifodina strigulata, of which over 2/3 is a copyright violation. Others, such as Platyptilia isodactylus, may not require such complete revision, but will benefit from an eye for detail and familiarity with the subject area; I immediately thought of you. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 07:54, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
What was the point in changing all those headlines to lower case? As they were they reflected exactly the newspaper headline. Lexysexy ( talk) 00:49, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Is it really lowercase there? To me it looks like it should be capitalised. Ddum5347 ( talk) 03:38, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
You made a general statement about "Historians" instead of specific to the authors who hold certain views (way back when) - I'll be correcting this with alternative viewpoints soon. One source alone does not a general consensus in our discipline make. Just FYI. 104.169.22.74 ( talk) 08:44, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi, hope you are well. The reason I got rid of that edit which was introduced in July is that it seems to push a narrative contrary to academic consensus and impose it on the lead. Let me know what you think. I can open an account if you like so we can discuss further. 88.5.205.1 ( talk) 21:15, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Concerning this change: [ [2]]. You said it's not a possessive, but it is. jeweller's is short for jeweller's shop (jeweller is British, whereas jeweler is American, but that's irrelevant here), just as baker's is short for baker's shop, grocer's for grocer's shop, dry cleaner's for dry cleaner's shop, etc. It might look weird, but it's true. Someone else has changed it to jewellery store now, which is also fine. All the best — caoimhinoc ( talk) 21:09, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for educating me and helping me retain a person on List, Bruce Marks, whom I believe is important due to unique way he became a Pennsylvania State Senator. I find it helpful to see on the list the connection to the List. In this case the List is University of Pennsylvania. Since this list concerns University of Pennsylvania, why not identify the year the person was due to graduate and if that person earned a degree. For example, President William Henry Harrison is an alumnus of University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine Class of 1795, BUT he only spent a single semester at Penn (in fall of 1791. See https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/01/william-henry-harrison-history ). I think it's important on quick glance to realize how tenuous that person's connection to University in question. Hence, I think adding the year the person affiliated with Penn (or any university) was due to graduate and if that person earned a degree is important information and see that on this and many similar lists it is is often provided. I agree that providing such should be consistent and it is often not consistent. I would rather future Wikipedia editors of all Lists of alumni of colleges add this information of year due to graduate band if they earned a degree. I see on some lists they do provide such info and in some they do not. It's helpful to aspire to add this info. I thank you in advance if you have time to reply to my post. You have literally made over a 100 times more edits than me so I know I will learn from you and that you are more knowledgeable about Wikipedia than me. Thanks again for taking the time to care. OneMoreByte ( talk) 09:30, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting my grammar correction: for some reason it didn't register with me that it was a quotation. Thanks for correcting my error! RomanSpa ( talk) 21:37, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
FTFY Torzsmokus ( talk) 12:17, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
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I'm impressed you noticed my mistake so quickly. Turns out I was wrong about hyphenated adverbs. I suppose I should read the rest of the MOS more closely. Kudos for being such an assiduous copyeditor. Anon423 ( talk) 20:19, 3 September 2021 (UTC) |
Apologies for not following the rules on redirecting and deleting a page. I am relatively new to Wikipedia so excuse my ignorance. J0ngM0ng ( talk) 16:06, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
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Requesting some copy edit support @ newly added article section #2021 Minar-e-Pakistan mass sexual assault.
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Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 18:41, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey! I noticed that you said the word "several" does not mean seven. I both agree and disagree. It's meaning seems to vary a lot no matter where it's used. A lot of the time I"ve seen several as meaning seven (hence the seve part of several), however I've also seen it meaning a lot of something which was why I undid the edit. I do agree that many would be better to use there and I replaced it with that. I would've changed it to that however I couldn't think of a better word that fit until you proposed many. ― Blaze The Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:44, 8 October 2021 (UTC)