Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Taxobox task force
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Welcome to the taxobox task force of WikiProject Tree of Life.
Scope
[edit]The taxobox task force is responsible for all aspects relating to taxoboxes, from maintenance to assistance to patrolling to coding.
The taxobox task force is not responsible for inventing new taxonomic classifications, though revisions per research are usually encouraged, provided there is reasonable scientific consensus prior to revising Wikipedia's taxonomies.
Participants
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To do
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Guidelines
[edit]Where possible, replace manual taxoboxes with automatic taxoboxes as per consensus at WP:TOL. If doing so will alter in any way the manner in which the taxonomy is displayed, make sure the edit is uncontroversial before proceeding.
In zoology, use "unranked" instead of "clade". For botany, the upper-level taxa should all be listed as "clade" instead of "unranked" and should use the common name rather than the Latin name.
Tagging and assessment
[edit]All articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Tree of Life or one of its daughter projects.
Categories
[edit]- Category:Taxobox cleanup ( 25 )
- Category:Automatic taxobox cleanup ( 0 )
- Category:Invalid conservation status ( 0 )
- Category:Missing taxobox ( 3 )
- Category:Taxoboxes needing a status system parameter ( 0 )
- Category:Taxoboxes with an unrecognised status system ( 34 )
Templates
[edit]The primary templates associated with this task force are:
- {{automatic taxobox}} - an advanced taxobox that uses a relational database and a complex algorithm to generate taxonomies
- {{speciesbox}} - automated taxobox specialized for handling species
- {{virusbox}} - automated taxobox for viruses
- {{subspeciesbox}} - automated taxobox specialized for handling ranks below species for taxa regulated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- {{infraspeciesbox}} - automated taxobox specialized for handling ranks lower than species (an infraspecific rank) for taxa governed by the ICN (the botanical code).
- {{Paraphyletic group}} - automated taxobox specialized for handling paraphyletic and polyphyletic groups
- {{Hybridbox}} - automated taxobox specialized for handling hybrids of 2 species within a single genus
- {{Hybridbox/lua}} - automated taxobox specialized for handling more complicated hybrid organisms
- {{ichnobox}} - automated taxobox for ichnotaxa
- {{oobox}} - automated taxobox for ootaxa
- {{taxobox}} - a manual taxobox that can still be used for taxa that can not easily use an automated taxobox (i.e. one of the above)
- {{Missing-taxobox}} - a banner for articles that need a taxobox
- {{Taxonbar}} - not a taxobox, but should be applied to all articles that include a taxobox
Additionally, there are tens of other templates referenced by the templates listed above (such as {{Biota infobox}}) which may need debugging or revisions as further developments may occur. The relational database that the automatic taxobox family uses is made up of thousands of templates, each representing an individual taxon.
Userbox template
[edit]User warning templates
[edit]- {{uw-taxonomy1}}
- {{uw-taxonomy2}}
- {{uw-taxonomy3}}
- {{uw-generic4}}
Resources
[edit]The following preferred taxonomies have been voiced by various WikiProjects; please use them when there is a question as to which taxonomy is preferred:
- Viruses: "International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)".
- Flowering plants: APG III system#Detailed version (with all families)
- Gastropods: Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) and Changes in the taxonomy of gastropods since 2005.
- Cephalopods: CephBase
- Spiders: Norman Platnick's World Spider Catalog
- Lepidopterans: "LepIndex Home".
- Fishes: Fishes of the World
- Marine Life: World Register of Marine Species
- Amphibians: "Amphibian Species of the World". and Frost et al. 2006
- Reptiles: "Integrated Taxonomic Information System".
- Dinosaurs: Benton 2004
- Mammals: "Mammal Species of the World - Browse".
When in doubt, please consult the relevant WikiProject on their talk page.