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This archive spans from the first posted discussions for the new project in September 2007, up to the end of May 2008. Not all issues have been resolved, but the archived text is currently inactive in any case. Richard001 ( talk) 08:45, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
??? What about WikiProject Tree of Life? There is no need for two tables in articles on animals. -- mav
I didn't know there was one i searched and searched and coudlnt find anything. -fonzy
There are currently several different naming conventions by subprojects and sister projects of WP:ANIMALS, including WP:PLANTS and WP:BIRDS. I think it might be a good idea to have a formal discussion on the guideline we will use, and then individual subprojects can depart from that if they have a system that works better. Personally, I think we should use the standard WP:TOL guideline, but depart in that common names for article names should always be capitalized ( Cane Toad but not Komodo dragon). If subprojects choose to ignore that, that's fine, but there are a LOT of phylum and orders that don't have their own projects. J. Hall • ( Talk) 17:54, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
If there's a seperate page to sign up on ( Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals/Participants), then why does this page have it's own "participants" section? Should this be removed? -- Luai lashire 22:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to get input on this but I'm not having much luck. Basically the problem is that we have no article on coloration in general. Should we have one on animals specifically, or are the principles too similar with coloration in other organisms, such that there would be too much duplication? Richard001 22:24, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I suggest this be merged with territory (animal), which I also think we should move to territoriality. Thoughts? Richard001 07:53, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Organisms Wiki was recently started as a wikia to educate on all types of organisms and their biological counterparts. This wiki will aim to provide free, excellence-quality and concise articles dealing with organisms and habitats. Organisms Wiki is a wikia, and is also very small and new, which is why I would like to leave a note here that we appreciate any helpful contributions.
I have had people criticizing the sense of making a wiki on this topic when indeed Wikipedia covers just about anything related to organisms. Sure, this may be true - but a major advantage of having Organisms Wiki hosted at wikia is to cover the topics in broader depth. Thank you. Organisms Wiki Paul Davey 00:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Should we just redirect all animal requests not covered by daughter projects to our requests page? Richard001 08:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated the Animal article for the Article Improvement Drive. Justin chat —Preceding comment was added at 20:20, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
There is a discussion here. Permalink is here. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 14:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikimedians,
This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).
The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests
If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.
The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.
thanks, pfctdayelise ( talk) 13:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)
There is a current proposal to change an animal-related naming convention, which directly effects the the Manual of Style guideline, and the naming conventions policy. If you are interested, your input would be appreciated. Justin chat 06:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
There is a current CfD discussing a potential change to Category:Animal articles without taxoboxes. There are two proposed changes: Category:Animal articles needing a taxobox and Category:Animal articles without infoboxes. At present time there is no consensus, so input from the WP:ANIMAL editors would be appreciated. . Justin chat 19:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
List of animals displaying homosexual behavior is up for AfD. Benjiboi 17:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I am making this Wikiproject and I would like to get some backing, as I think it would be advantageous. User:Jourdy288/Wikiproject Aquatic Inverts Jourdy288 ( talk) 22:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I am new to WikiProject Animals. On the Article Requests page, I made " Kamtjatka bear" redirect to Kamchatka Brown Bear. If I've done anything inappropriate, please let me know. Thanks. -- Writtenonsand ( talk) 20:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Do we have any current article that is more or less the synonymous with this? (cf. Britannica article) There's social behavior, which is very stubby, and I'm not entirely sure of its future direction. Should this redirect there, or somewhere else, or should we create a new article from scratch? Richard001 ( talk) 08:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Requests are currently being taken at m:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.
If there are any related (or unrelated) WikiProjects you think might have some suggestions then please pass this request over. Thanks. -- Cherry blossom tree 16:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Fighting redirects to the shamelessly anthropocentric combat. We need an article on physical conflict between animals (it could be mentioned in interference competition and male-male competition, and contain a summary of blood sport. What would be a good name? Richard001 ( talk) 03:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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It pains me to see articles deteriorate, but I've seen too many instances to pretend it doesn't happen. Write a great article and, to be sure, it will gradually deteriorate given enough time, especially if a lot of people edit it. This can only be prevented by watching the article and healing its every injury. I've tried several times to try to get the community to think about doing something about this problem, but people seem unwilling to even acknowledge it. So maybe a bottom up approach might work (I'm pretty sure it won't, but I can at least say I tried...)
So today I see the article sponge, and note that several sections are missing. Surely enough, some IP idiot has come along, removed the section, and their vandalism has been lost in the almost daily flood of almost purely nonsense edits (but probably not quite enough to be protected...) and thereafter forgotten about. Obviously nobody watches the article, or if anyone does, they're doing a pretty bad job of it. In any case, I can't find out if anyone is, so I'm basically in the dark.
So, besides the idiotically narrow minded reactionary response of just fixing this one instance of vandalism, what can we actually do to treat the cause of this problem? My suggestion is, not surprisingly, that we need to have people responsible for articles. We need a system of article maintenance. There are potentially millions of articles that could be written on animals, so this is no easy thing to sort out. But if we can identify our most important articles (top importance, for instance) and make sure each and every one of those is watched and maintained by someone (ideally more than one person for the top articles, but one will have to do for a start), we can at least hope to prevent our most vital articles from falling victim to the steady deterioration that will otherwise be their fate.
Is anyone interested in doing this? Richard001 ( talk) 07:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Let's start with four: animal, zoology, ethology and invertebrate. None of these are particularly brilliant, but we're not concerned here with improving them, just with stopping them from getting any worse, and trying to minimize the time they are vandalized. So, if we're going to do this, how are we going to record who is maintaining what? Richard001 ( talk) 07:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I see Justin is going ahead with some modifications to the template. Hopefully we can give this a try. We might also try to identify some animal articles within the project that tend to receive a lot of vandalism. Richard001 ( talk) 08:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I note that a lot of the articles that formerly came under the TOL banner need updating. I've updated some of the major animal phyla articles ( nemertea, ctenophore, arthropod etc). I've also tended to lift the importance and often lower the rating ( arthropod was especially overrated, and apparently unmaintained as well [see above]). I think the TOL banner should only go on the animal article itself, just as our banner should only go on arthropod and not more specific taxa. Assessing the quality and importance of all the animal phyla articles might also be a good idea. Richard001 ( talk) 09:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Someone at Talk:Homosexuality#The word "homosexuality" or "homosexual" should not be used to describe same-sex animal bonding has begun criticizing the use of the word homosexual when referring to non-human animal behavior. My contention is that that is the term used in the scientific literature. Am I incorrect? Does anyone know of any serious ethological/zoological debate over what same-sex sexual behavior in non-human animals should be called? Given other discussions with this user, I am anticipating an escalation of his argument, and I would like to know that my footing is certain. (Is there anyone who can affirm or deny his contention with reference to the scientific literature?) Aleta Sing 19:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
I've written a stub for Funisia, a fossil which is in the news currently for being the oldest animal to have sex (or other such characterizations, many of which are surely wrong or just kind of vague and trivial, since Funisia is one of the oldest known animals period). Just to pick one, First sex was 570m years ago. I mention it here just in case this is cropping up on other wikipedia articles which should be linking to Funisia. If anyone feels like working more on this, the first step would likely be the Science (journal) article itself; I wrote the stub just from the abstract and some news articles. Kingdon ( talk) 20:39, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Audio requests are a very seldom utilized form of request here. The number is gradually growing though. Animals are the only form of life I know of that make sounds, one of the many unique properties that has arisen first in the animals. They don't appear in the "lower" animals, like sponges, box jellies and flatworms, but besides that they are seen in a range of taxa, from crickets to dolphins. I suggest we make a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia requested audio specifically for animal requests, something like Category:Wikipedia requested audio of animals. I've added an audio request feature to several templates, and I suggest we make it a standard among all animal projects that involve animals capable of producing sound, as there are bound to be many such species with no media available. As new categories become available (e.g. the one I am proposing, for a start), we can just modify the templates, changing the location of requests in the process. Richard001 ( talk) 06:47, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I have created Category:Wikipedia requested audio of animals and have modified the primates, arthropods and AAR banners. More remain to be done. Richard001 ( talk) 11:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Richard001 ( talk) 06:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Looking things over it doesn't seem there is much more to be done. Most templates have been modified besides the mammals one and some of its descendants. I'm waiting for the annoying full protection to be lifted from the mammal template first. Richard001 ( talk) 07:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Equine has been working on several articles having to do with gaits:
Help would be appreciated, particularly to expand the POV of all these articles from horses to encompass other relevant quadruped animals. -- Una Smith ( talk) 21:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Posted to the animal, gastropod and cephalopod projects; please discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animals
I'm guessing some of you have noticed that there is no mollusc WikiProject, despite there being both a gastropod and cephalopod project (two classes of the phylum Mollusca). Should anything be done about this? They could perhaps be merged, made into work groups of a parent molluscs project, or a parent project created and the two left as subprojects? Molluscs are the second most abundant animal phyla in terms of known species and an active project on them would certainly be an asset to Wikipedia. Richard001 ( talk) 11:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
This is sort of an extension of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animals#Audio requests, or at least it has to do with it.
I was trying to quickly find out which bony fish was the largest, so I visited the ocean sunfish page. I immediately turned my attention to the taxobox, forgetting that the taxobox did not function the same way as a normal taxobox would. Then I got to thinking...
I have a collection of animal fact cards called the Wildlife Treasury...or something like that. Each card had not only an article on the animal and the classification, but also a quick facts table listing things such as the size of an adult, the gestation period, the number of young per brood/litter, the life span, the distribution, the diet, the wingspan (when applicable), and possibly a few various other statistics. It all fit on a section of the card that was about 2x2 inches (it was small print, but it was still brief).
Here's my proposal: Could we possibly either redesign the taxobox or add a second infobox to pages? This new section would also give the audio section a better home.
Let me know your opinion. I'm going to do a bit of research on how to make infoboxes and try to come up with a rough example of what I am suggesting.
Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon ( talk) 01:23, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
This archive spans from the first posted discussions for the new project in September 2007, up to the end of May 2008. Not all issues have been resolved, but the archived text is currently inactive in any case. Richard001 ( talk) 08:45, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
??? What about WikiProject Tree of Life? There is no need for two tables in articles on animals. -- mav
I didn't know there was one i searched and searched and coudlnt find anything. -fonzy
There are currently several different naming conventions by subprojects and sister projects of WP:ANIMALS, including WP:PLANTS and WP:BIRDS. I think it might be a good idea to have a formal discussion on the guideline we will use, and then individual subprojects can depart from that if they have a system that works better. Personally, I think we should use the standard WP:TOL guideline, but depart in that common names for article names should always be capitalized ( Cane Toad but not Komodo dragon). If subprojects choose to ignore that, that's fine, but there are a LOT of phylum and orders that don't have their own projects. J. Hall • ( Talk) 17:54, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
If there's a seperate page to sign up on ( Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals/Participants), then why does this page have it's own "participants" section? Should this be removed? -- Luai lashire 22:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to get input on this but I'm not having much luck. Basically the problem is that we have no article on coloration in general. Should we have one on animals specifically, or are the principles too similar with coloration in other organisms, such that there would be too much duplication? Richard001 22:24, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I suggest this be merged with territory (animal), which I also think we should move to territoriality. Thoughts? Richard001 07:53, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Organisms Wiki was recently started as a wikia to educate on all types of organisms and their biological counterparts. This wiki will aim to provide free, excellence-quality and concise articles dealing with organisms and habitats. Organisms Wiki is a wikia, and is also very small and new, which is why I would like to leave a note here that we appreciate any helpful contributions.
I have had people criticizing the sense of making a wiki on this topic when indeed Wikipedia covers just about anything related to organisms. Sure, this may be true - but a major advantage of having Organisms Wiki hosted at wikia is to cover the topics in broader depth. Thank you. Organisms Wiki Paul Davey 00:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Should we just redirect all animal requests not covered by daughter projects to our requests page? Richard001 08:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated the Animal article for the Article Improvement Drive. Justin chat —Preceding comment was added at 20:20, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
There is a discussion here. Permalink is here. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 14:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikimedians,
This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).
The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests
If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.
The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.
thanks, pfctdayelise ( talk) 13:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)
There is a current proposal to change an animal-related naming convention, which directly effects the the Manual of Style guideline, and the naming conventions policy. If you are interested, your input would be appreciated. Justin chat 06:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
There is a current CfD discussing a potential change to Category:Animal articles without taxoboxes. There are two proposed changes: Category:Animal articles needing a taxobox and Category:Animal articles without infoboxes. At present time there is no consensus, so input from the WP:ANIMAL editors would be appreciated. . Justin chat 19:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
List of animals displaying homosexual behavior is up for AfD. Benjiboi 17:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I am making this Wikiproject and I would like to get some backing, as I think it would be advantageous. User:Jourdy288/Wikiproject Aquatic Inverts Jourdy288 ( talk) 22:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I am new to WikiProject Animals. On the Article Requests page, I made " Kamtjatka bear" redirect to Kamchatka Brown Bear. If I've done anything inappropriate, please let me know. Thanks. -- Writtenonsand ( talk) 20:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Do we have any current article that is more or less the synonymous with this? (cf. Britannica article) There's social behavior, which is very stubby, and I'm not entirely sure of its future direction. Should this redirect there, or somewhere else, or should we create a new article from scratch? Richard001 ( talk) 08:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Requests are currently being taken at m:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.
If there are any related (or unrelated) WikiProjects you think might have some suggestions then please pass this request over. Thanks. -- Cherry blossom tree 16:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Fighting redirects to the shamelessly anthropocentric combat. We need an article on physical conflict between animals (it could be mentioned in interference competition and male-male competition, and contain a summary of blood sport. What would be a good name? Richard001 ( talk) 03:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
![]() Issue I (March 2008) | ||
Welcome to the first issue of the Birds WikiProject newsletter. We hope to produce it monthly, to keep project members up-to-date regarding current efforts and issues. This month only, the full newsletter is being delivered to your mailbox. In future months, a link will be posted instead, though you can choose to continue receiving the full newsletter—or to receive nothing at all— here. |
New featured articles and lists – 2008: New good articles – 2008:
Special kudos to jimfbleak ( talk · contribs), who was lead editor on an impressive eight of these articles—with, of course, capable assistance from others in copy-editing and article review! | |
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Tobi4242 ( talk · contribs) has volunteered to help start up a Raptors task force, to fall under the umbrella of the Birds WikiProject, but is looking for another editor willing to serve as co-coordinator. Anyone who'd like to help is encouraged to get in touch. | ||
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It pains me to see articles deteriorate, but I've seen too many instances to pretend it doesn't happen. Write a great article and, to be sure, it will gradually deteriorate given enough time, especially if a lot of people edit it. This can only be prevented by watching the article and healing its every injury. I've tried several times to try to get the community to think about doing something about this problem, but people seem unwilling to even acknowledge it. So maybe a bottom up approach might work (I'm pretty sure it won't, but I can at least say I tried...)
So today I see the article sponge, and note that several sections are missing. Surely enough, some IP idiot has come along, removed the section, and their vandalism has been lost in the almost daily flood of almost purely nonsense edits (but probably not quite enough to be protected...) and thereafter forgotten about. Obviously nobody watches the article, or if anyone does, they're doing a pretty bad job of it. In any case, I can't find out if anyone is, so I'm basically in the dark.
So, besides the idiotically narrow minded reactionary response of just fixing this one instance of vandalism, what can we actually do to treat the cause of this problem? My suggestion is, not surprisingly, that we need to have people responsible for articles. We need a system of article maintenance. There are potentially millions of articles that could be written on animals, so this is no easy thing to sort out. But if we can identify our most important articles (top importance, for instance) and make sure each and every one of those is watched and maintained by someone (ideally more than one person for the top articles, but one will have to do for a start), we can at least hope to prevent our most vital articles from falling victim to the steady deterioration that will otherwise be their fate.
Is anyone interested in doing this? Richard001 ( talk) 07:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Let's start with four: animal, zoology, ethology and invertebrate. None of these are particularly brilliant, but we're not concerned here with improving them, just with stopping them from getting any worse, and trying to minimize the time they are vandalized. So, if we're going to do this, how are we going to record who is maintaining what? Richard001 ( talk) 07:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I see Justin is going ahead with some modifications to the template. Hopefully we can give this a try. We might also try to identify some animal articles within the project that tend to receive a lot of vandalism. Richard001 ( talk) 08:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I note that a lot of the articles that formerly came under the TOL banner need updating. I've updated some of the major animal phyla articles ( nemertea, ctenophore, arthropod etc). I've also tended to lift the importance and often lower the rating ( arthropod was especially overrated, and apparently unmaintained as well [see above]). I think the TOL banner should only go on the animal article itself, just as our banner should only go on arthropod and not more specific taxa. Assessing the quality and importance of all the animal phyla articles might also be a good idea. Richard001 ( talk) 09:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Someone at Talk:Homosexuality#The word "homosexuality" or "homosexual" should not be used to describe same-sex animal bonding has begun criticizing the use of the word homosexual when referring to non-human animal behavior. My contention is that that is the term used in the scientific literature. Am I incorrect? Does anyone know of any serious ethological/zoological debate over what same-sex sexual behavior in non-human animals should be called? Given other discussions with this user, I am anticipating an escalation of his argument, and I would like to know that my footing is certain. (Is there anyone who can affirm or deny his contention with reference to the scientific literature?) Aleta Sing 19:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
I've written a stub for Funisia, a fossil which is in the news currently for being the oldest animal to have sex (or other such characterizations, many of which are surely wrong or just kind of vague and trivial, since Funisia is one of the oldest known animals period). Just to pick one, First sex was 570m years ago. I mention it here just in case this is cropping up on other wikipedia articles which should be linking to Funisia. If anyone feels like working more on this, the first step would likely be the Science (journal) article itself; I wrote the stub just from the abstract and some news articles. Kingdon ( talk) 20:39, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Audio requests are a very seldom utilized form of request here. The number is gradually growing though. Animals are the only form of life I know of that make sounds, one of the many unique properties that has arisen first in the animals. They don't appear in the "lower" animals, like sponges, box jellies and flatworms, but besides that they are seen in a range of taxa, from crickets to dolphins. I suggest we make a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia requested audio specifically for animal requests, something like Category:Wikipedia requested audio of animals. I've added an audio request feature to several templates, and I suggest we make it a standard among all animal projects that involve animals capable of producing sound, as there are bound to be many such species with no media available. As new categories become available (e.g. the one I am proposing, for a start), we can just modify the templates, changing the location of requests in the process. Richard001 ( talk) 06:47, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I have created Category:Wikipedia requested audio of animals and have modified the primates, arthropods and AAR banners. More remain to be done. Richard001 ( talk) 11:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Richard001 ( talk) 06:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Looking things over it doesn't seem there is much more to be done. Most templates have been modified besides the mammals one and some of its descendants. I'm waiting for the annoying full protection to be lifted from the mammal template first. Richard001 ( talk) 07:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Equine has been working on several articles having to do with gaits:
Help would be appreciated, particularly to expand the POV of all these articles from horses to encompass other relevant quadruped animals. -- Una Smith ( talk) 21:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Posted to the animal, gastropod and cephalopod projects; please discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animals
I'm guessing some of you have noticed that there is no mollusc WikiProject, despite there being both a gastropod and cephalopod project (two classes of the phylum Mollusca). Should anything be done about this? They could perhaps be merged, made into work groups of a parent molluscs project, or a parent project created and the two left as subprojects? Molluscs are the second most abundant animal phyla in terms of known species and an active project on them would certainly be an asset to Wikipedia. Richard001 ( talk) 11:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
This is sort of an extension of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animals#Audio requests, or at least it has to do with it.
I was trying to quickly find out which bony fish was the largest, so I visited the ocean sunfish page. I immediately turned my attention to the taxobox, forgetting that the taxobox did not function the same way as a normal taxobox would. Then I got to thinking...
I have a collection of animal fact cards called the Wildlife Treasury...or something like that. Each card had not only an article on the animal and the classification, but also a quick facts table listing things such as the size of an adult, the gestation period, the number of young per brood/litter, the life span, the distribution, the diet, the wingspan (when applicable), and possibly a few various other statistics. It all fit on a section of the card that was about 2x2 inches (it was small print, but it was still brief).
Here's my proposal: Could we possibly either redesign the taxobox or add a second infobox to pages? This new section would also give the audio section a better home.
Let me know your opinion. I'm going to do a bit of research on how to make infoboxes and try to come up with a rough example of what I am suggesting.
Bob the Wikipedian, the Tree of Life WikiDragon ( talk) 01:23, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Issue III (May 2008) | ||
Welcome to the third issue of the Birds WikiProject newsletter. Good news: we've finally eliminated our massive backlog of unassessed articles! Never fear though; we have plenty of new group tasks to keep us busy. See details below... |
New featured articles and lists:
New good articles:
We've got a new greeting, which can be put on the talk page of new members to welcome them to the project. To use it, simply paste {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach/Welcome|~~~~}} into the talk page. | |
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A drive is on to bring all of our bird family articles up to at least start class. Currently, more than 40 families have only stub-class articles. See the list of families needing improvement here to help with the project. | ||
As a first step in creating templates for the bird family headers used in various country/state/province birds lists, there's a page here to set up and edit the information we'll put in the templates. Please help to improve our lists by writing a short summary of a bird family or two. We have nearly 270 to do! | ||
Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the Tip Line with your ideas! | ||
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