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Wikipedia:WikiProject Paleontology
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This WikiProject, WikiProject Palaeontology, aims to organise an effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of paleontology-related articles.
These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles.
We aim to improve articles about palaeontologists and their work, extinct species, and areas that overlap with geology, life science, botany etc. There are also more specific projects on dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sea monsters, mammals and extinction - WikiProject Palaeontology provides a central portal for co-ordinated work across these areas, and smaller topics not lucky enough to have a dedicated WikiProject.
Participating
If you wish to participate in this project, please list your name to Participants. Feel free to include your area and degree of expertise, and what you feel you may bring to this project.
You are also welcome to help out with any of the tasks listed below that take your fancy!
Tasks
Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology/Tasks for the ongoing tasks of the project.
Articles needed or needing improvements
Topics requiring improvement
List maintenance
This includes adding newly described taxa, and creation of articles for genera (and redirects for synonyms).
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology/Lists for all the taxonomic lists
Vandal fighting
As with all other projects, we have a problem with vandalisation of articles (see vandalism and clean up for further information). Here is a quick guide for vandal fighters of this project:
- Revert edits (obviously).
- Leave a message on the user's talk page. See template messages and warning category for which templates to use.
- Report persistant vandals to administrator intervention against vandalism.
Conflict of Interest
For any academic editor(s) who wish to reference their own work in articles or their own biography, we have set-up a system that allows other wiki-editors to make the edits for you, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology/COI. This is to ensure there are no conflicts of interest, either real or in appearance.
Review
If you fancy expanding getting an article off the starting blocks, here's where you can find all our "stub" articles.
Recognized content
Good articles
Featured articles
Taxobox
Here is an example of a taxobox:
{{Taxobox
| name =
|fossil_range =
| image =
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption =
| regnum = [[]]
| phylum = [[]]
| classis = [[]]
| subclassis = [[]]
| infraclassis = [[]]
| ordo = [[]]
| familia = [[]]
| genus =
| genus_authority = [[]], [[]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision =
* '' '' <small> [[]], [[]]</small> ([[type species|type]])
* '' ''<small> [[]], [[]]</small>
|synonyms =
* '' ''<small> [[]], [[]]</small>
}}
The full taxobox guide is located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage.
Detailed taxonomic information, including notes on how taxa are defined and how they vary between different systems, belongs in the article proper. Where possible, however, a standard table will be provided to allow easier navigation between related groups and quick identification of what sort of organisms are being discussed. These are called taxoboxes. A typical taxobox is shown at right (it belongs on the top right of the page Dakosaurus). For extinct plants see Hymenaea protera.
There are three main sections to the taxobox:
- A header showing the name of the group, sometimes followed by a representative image.
- A table showing the placement of the group in a typical classification system.
- A footer, whose content varies, showing the binomial name or a species, or a list of subgroups for higher taxa.
For fossil species, there is to be no status field. The only extinct species this should be used for are recently extinct ones (e.g. Yangtze river dolphin):
Position: The taxobox generally belongs at the top right corner of the article, unless it has been decided otherwise on the relevant talk page - for instance, if the article is not primarily about the biological group.
Templates
For articles
For users
| Template |
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| {{User WPPa}} |
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This user is a part of WikiProject Palaeontology, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Palaeontology. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. |
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For user pages of members of the WikiProject |
| {{UBX Paleontology}} |
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This user is a member of WikiProject Paleontology. |
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Userbox for members of the WikiProject |
Peer-revierwed sources of information
Here are some links to websites that host peer-reviewed publications that will be of interest to all users of the WikiProject. Note that some do any free access to some recent articles, but you most likely will need a log-on to get full access.
For anyone with an academic log-in (e.g. Athens) then:
are fantastic resources for citation searches.
Other
Microformat
Please be aware of the proposed Species microformat, particularly in relation to taxoboxes. Comments welcome on the wiki at that link.
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