User:Animalparty

Hi, welcome to my user page. I tend to edit biological articles, with interests in invertebrate zoology, evolution and paleontology, and biographies of scientists (and sometimes their notable family members). I also enjoy articles on artists, actors, and journalists: the people influencing how we see the world.

My philosophy/tips/musings on editing and article creation:
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. However, many Wikipedia articles are poorly constructed, looking more like montages assembled from newspaper clippings, or are just plain terrible. Read actual encyclopedias and longform biographical dictionaries written by competent, professional writers. Don't use other Wikipedia articles as examples of "how an encyclopedia article should look". As Wikipedia becomes an increasingly dominant form of information, this has concerning implications for the future of information and media literacy. Every bad Wikipedia article risks perpetuating bad practices. Do everything you can to make a good encyclopedia article, whether it consists of 100 words or 10,000.
 * Context is key.
 * One good comprehensive article is better than a dozen isolated stubs. Merge when appropriate.
 * Emphasize quality over quantity.
 * Make technical articles understandable.
 * Avoid overlinking, and don't link purely because an article exists by that name. Keep the reader focused on your article, and don't use multiple wikilinks when they draw emphasis away from the primary target (e.g. "described by the British naturalist Charles Darwin", not "the British naturalist Charles Darwin")
 * Do not start lists with "This is a list of..."! We know! And give those lists some introductory context!
 * Be aware of the FUTON (full text on net) bias and the Digital divide: the vast majority of scholarly human knowledge is not freely available online, and an easily accessible source (e.g. first hit on Google) doesn't always mean a reliable or authoritative source. Don't be afraid to find and cite a book!
 * Eschew obfuscation.

Useful tools:
 * reFill - automatically expand bare url citations
 * Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books - converts a url into a formatted reference
 * Move-to-Commons assistant - easily move properly licensed files to Commons

Articles created

 * Many articles have subsequently been edited by others, to varying degrees, as Wikipedia is a dynamic collaborative project

Did You Know? appearance Good Article Composed mainly or entirely from Public Domain sources. Disambiguation pages, redirects, categories, and other miscellaneous pages not included.

Scientists and physicians
• Charles Elmer Allen

• Robert S. Arbib Jr.

• János Balogh (biologist)‎‎

• Harlan Parker Banks

• Arthur M. Banta‎‎

• Charles Reid Barnes PD-icon.svg

• Harley Harris Bartlett

• Helen Battle

• Mario Baudoin

• William H. Behle

• Patricia Berjak

• Peter B. Best

• Dorothy Bliss

• Charles Harvey Bollman

• Herbert Bolton (palaeontologist)

• Reed Brockway Bontecou PD-icon.svg

• Edward George Boulenger

• Henry Wilfred Brolemann

• Stewardson Brown

• Harry E. Burke

• John Caskey

• José Luis Castro Aguirre

• Willard Joseph Chamberlin

• M. K. Chandrashekaran‎

• Donald Chant

• Henry Cadwalader Chapman PD-icon.svg

• Edward Waller Claypole

• George Perkins Clinton

• Guy N. Collins

• Lincoln Constance

• Alice Carter Cook

• Robert C. Cook

• H. Basil S. Cooke

• Raymond B. Cowles

• Gertrude Crotty Davenport

• Walter Deane

• Albert George Dew-Smith

• Mary Cynthia Dickerson

• Rennie Wilbur Doane

• Stephen David Durrant

• Ivan Alekseevich Dwigubski

• Richard M. Eakin

• Arthur Johnson Eames

• Wilton R. Earle

• Karl Escherich

• Daniel Frederik Eschricht

• James A. Estes

• Isaiah Fawkes Everhart

• Adriance S. Foster

• Madeleine Fritz

• F. E. J. Fry

• C. Stuart Gager‎‎

• Beverly Thomas Galloway

• Arthur White Greeley

• William B. Greeley

• Vera Gromova

• Robert Hardwicke

• William Jerome Harrison

• Karl-Johan Hedqvist

• Ottó Herman

• Henry Barker Hill‎‎

• Elise Hofmann

• Richard L. Hoffman

• Joseph Bassett Holder

• Arthur Hollick

• Henry Dwight Holton

• Catherine Cooper Hopley

• Harrison E. Howe

• Marjorie Hoy

• James A. Hyslop

• C. A. W. Jeekel

• Lewis Judd

• Calvin Henry Kauffman

• Henry Granger Knight‎

• Fred Conrad Koch

• Ezra Jacob Kraus

• Otto Kraus

• Louis Otto Kunkel

• Ivey Foreman Lewis‎‎

• Margaret Reed Lewis‎‎

• Warren Harmon Lewis

• Eduardo Liceaga

• Denis Gascoigne Lillie

• Michael Locke (biologist)

• Harold F. Loomis

• Robert Latzel

• Catharine Macfarlane

• Samuel Joseph Mackie

• Pavel Iustinovich Marikovsky

• Ignaz Matausch

• James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist)

• Manly Miles PD-icon.svg

• John Miller (botanical illustrator)

• John Miller (entomologist)

• Loye H. Miller

• John Traherne Moggridge

• Erna Mohr

• Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr.

• Walter Mulford

• John P. Munson

• Ann Nardulli

• Aven Nelson‎‎

• Frederick Charles Newcombe

• Ida Shepard Oldroyd

• Ernest Olivier

• Ephraim Laurence Palmer

• Octavio Paredes López

• Marianna Paulucci

• Alexei Petrovich Pavlov

• Maria Pavlova

• Florence Peebles

• Robert Hibbs Peebles

• George James Peirce

• Claire Penn

• Leonard Radinsky

• Jesús Emilio Ramírez

• Brayton H. Ransom

• John Howard Redfield

• Nathaniel Reed (environmentalist)

• Jules Richard (oceanographer)

• Edgar Riek

• Margaret Rioch

• Frank H. H. Roberts

• William Jacob Robbins

• Lewis Rowland

• Frank Russell (anthropologist) PD-icon.svg

• John A. Ryder‎‎

• Armand Sabatier

• Simón Sarasola

• Naima Sahlbom

• Katherine Sanford

• Jay M. Savage

• R. J. G. Savage

• Charles Schäffer PD-icon.svg

• Jacob R. Schramm

• D. J. Scourfield

• Robert K. Selander

• Aaron John Sharp

• Avery Judd Skilton

• Joseph Richard Slevin

• Wendy Sloboda

• Igerna Sollas

• Effie A. Southworth

• John Edward Sowerby‎ PD-icon.svg

• Volney Morgan Spalding‎‎

• Sally Hoyt Spofford

• Robert C. Stebbins

• William Campbell Steere

• Neil Everett Stevens‎‎

• David Humphreys Storer

• Francis Humphreys Storer

• Tracy I. Storer

• Harvey A. Surface

• Mary Talbot (entomologist)

• Vasco M. Tanner

• Oswald Tippo

• Edgar Nelson Transeau

• Robert L. Usinger

• Bernardo Villa Ramírez

• Ilya Voznesensky

• Marvalee Wake

• David Wasawo

• Vladimir Wagner

• F. L. Washburn

• Charles James Watkins

• John Alexander Watt

• Barbara D. Webster

• John Welsh (biologist)

• Ralph H. Wetmore

• Edith Grace White

• Tony Whitten

• Karl McKay Wiegand

• Harris Hawthorne Wilder

• Inez Whipple Wilder

• George Bacon Wood PD-icon.svg

• Angus M. Woodbury

• Dixon M. Woodbury

• Bernard Henry Woodward

• Samuel Bayard Woodward

• Amos Henry Worthen

Artists
• Leon Barritt

• Luther D. Bradley

• James T. Berryman

• Charles G. Bush

• V. Floyd Campbell

• Purita Campos

• J. Campbell Cory

• Thomas Crane (1843–1903)

• Louis Dalrymple

• Louisa Finch, Countess of Aylesford

• Constantin de Grimm

• William Hahn

• Henry Hetherington Emmerson

• Edward Hopley

• Victor Gillam

• Isobel Lilian Gloag

• Gabriel Harrison

• Larry Ivie

• David Johnson (photographer)

• George Frederick Keller

• Udo Keppler

• Martin M. Lawrence

• Charles Lederer (cartoonist)

• Ross A. Lewis

• Charles R. Macauley

• John Alexander McDougall (artist)

• Walt McDougall

• John M. Miller (artist)

• John Austin Sands Monks

• William Charles Morris

• Charles Nelan

• Fred L. Packer

• Robert S. Redfield

• Tige Reynolds

• Allen Saalburg

• Charles W. Saalburg

• William Schmedtgen

• John George Sowerby

• Millicent Sowerby‎‎

• A. W. Steele

• Charles Henry Sykes

• H. M. Talburt

• Frederick Theodore Weber‎‎

• Robert Weber (cartoonist)

• Edith White

• True Williams

• Gertrude Mary Woodward

Other
• Margaret Chanler Aldrich

• Louise Allen (actress)

• Susan Mary Alsop

• Jane Amsterdam

• Cecil Hamilton Armitage

• Brian Babylon

• George Washington Ball (Iowa Democrat)

• George Washington Ball (Iowa Republican)

• Charles Belden (screenwriter)

• Francis Walter Belt

• Louis Bennison

• Curtis Benton

• Gwenda Blair

• Hal Brands

• Oliver Bell Bunce PD-icon.svg

• Nathaniel Burbank

• Robert Chamberlain (poet)

• William Henry Chamberlin (philosopher)

• Robert W. Criswell

• Samuel F. Dale

• Michael D'Antonio

• Millia Davenport

• John Dickson (American poet)

• Seymour Eaton

• Nathaniel Egleston

• E. E. Ericksen

• Steve Fainaru

• Edward Carey Francis

• Daniel Friberg

• Bird Stein Gans

• A. Minor Griswold

• Mary Hall (actress)

• Charles B. Hanford PD-icon.svg

• Grace Carley Harriman

• Joseph William Holder PD-icon.svg

• Georgia Hopley

• John Hopley (editor)

• Max Hugel

• Harry Hurt III

• David O. Ives

• Richard Johnson (columnist)

• Charles Henry Jones (editor)

• Thomas W. Keene ‎PD-icon.svg

• Eugene Kelly (banker) ‎PD-icon.svg

• Howard Keltner

• Lillian Kemble

• Engelbert Krauskopf

• Melville D. Landon

• Jonathan Z. Larsen

• Margaret Lawrence (actress)

• Kate Everest Levi

• Charles Bertrand Lewis

• John Lillie (minister)

• D. Herbert Lipson

• Mary Rogers Miller

• Rush & Molloy

• James Alan Montgomery

• Thomas Harrison Montgomery PD-icon.svg

• Thomas Lynch Montgomery PD-icon.svg

• Joanna P. Moore

• Cavendish Morton (actor)

• Gustav Adolph Mueller

• Anita Owen

• Germán Paoloski

• Mark Schoofs

• Tom Sellers (athlete)

• Craig Silverman

• Harry James Smith PD-icon.svg

• Cyril A. Stebbins‎‎

• John W. Sweeterman

• James H. Tillman

• William Turnage

• Neal Travis

• Gertrude Vanderbilt (actress)

• Walter Wesché

• John P. Young

Arthropods
Myriapods • Ammodesmidae

• Anadenobolus monilicornis

• Anethoporus

• Apheloria

• Aprosphylosoma

• Archipolypoda

• Archidesmida

• Archidesmus

• Bollmania

• Boreohesperus

• Branneria

• Californiulus

• Californiulus yosemitensis

• Callipodida

• Chamberlineptus

• Chicobolus spinigerus

• Chordeumatida

• Colobognatha

• Condexenus‎‎

• Cryptopidae

• Cyphopod

• Dalodesmidae

• Eucarlia

• Eumillipes

• Floridobolus

• Gosodesmus

• Greenhouse millipede

• Glomeridesmida

• Gonatotrichus

• Gonatotrichus minutus

• Gonopod (expanded from redirect)

• ''Haplogona

• Harpagomorpha (millipede)

• Harpaphe

• Hiltonius

• Juliformia

• List of millipede families

• List of Paradoxosomatidae genera

• Mammamia

• Narceus woodruffi

• Ommatoiulus avatar

• Ommatoiulus sabulosus

• Orthomorpha

• Paeromopodidae

• Paeromopus

• Paeromopus angusticeps

• Paeromopus paniculus

• Palaeosoma

• Pentazonia

• Platydesmida

• Polyxenida

• Polyxenidae

• Polyxenus (genus)

• Polyzoniida

• Sinocallipus

• Siphoniulus

• Siphonophorida

• Synxenidae

• Template:Millipedes

• Titanophyllum

• Trachysphaera

• Trichopetalum (millipede)

• Tylobolus

• Urochordeuma

• Xenobolus

• Xenobolus carnifex

• Xyloiuloidea

• Zanclodesmus

• Zosterogrammidae

• Spiders, insects, etc.

• Aphonopelma behlei

• Aphonopelma chamberlini

• Aphonopelma hollyi

• Argennina

• Armadillidae

• Bannana (spider)

• Calculus bicolor

• Dalmasula

• Entychides

• Eucteniza

• Glenognatha

• Hagenomyia

• Iandumoema

• Khamul (genus)

• Labulla

• Latina (genus)

• Melpomene (spider)

• Neoapachella

• Orsonwelles

• Orsonwelles graphicus

• Orsonwelles malus

• Orsonwelles torosus

• Palindroma

• Panjange

• Pinkfloydia

• Shireplitis

• Unicorn (spider)

• USFWS list of endangered arthropods

• Wockia

• Xiombarg (spider) --

Paleontology
• Abdounodus

• Apterodon

• Bombur (genus)

• Chipetaia

• Cipactlichthys

• Cleopatrodon

• Edenopteron

• Eocteniza

• Fortiholcorpa

• Furca (genus)

• Gagadon

• Geolabididae (trans. from French)

• Halecomorphi

• Haplolambda

• Hedstroemia (trilobite)

• Hondadelphys

• Kelba quadeemae

• Lahimia

• Lambertocyon

• Leptolambda

• Micropalaeosoma

• Miriholcorpa

• Olbitherium

• Ouled Abdoun Basin

• Prolimnocyon

• Ptolemaia

• Qarunavus

• Widanelfarasia

• Xenokeryx --

Miscellaneous
• 1911 Brigham Young University modernism controversy

• Aipysurus apraefrontalis

• Aipysurus foliosquama

• AllSides

• Bald sculpin

• Baylor Scott & White Health

• Butler College (Texas)

• Cadea palirostrata

• Chondrocidaris

• Cutaneous respiration

• Diastema (plant)

• Embiotoca lateralis

• Herpetological Conservation and Biology

• Folia Primatologica

• Genome (journal)

• Knowledge (magazine)

• Lonchophylla inexpectata

• Makere people

• Manhattan, inc.

• Mayogo people

• Meroles ctenodactylus

• The Nobel Duel

• North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (split and expanded)

• Organ of Tömösváry (expanded from redirect)

• Peckoltia greedoi

• Public Accountability Initiative

• Sea centipede

• Slevin's bunchgrass lizard

• Sonatsa

• Southwestern fence lizard

• Spermonde Archipelago

• Spicule (nematode)

• Suku people

• The Ultimate Experiment

• Zamia erosa

• Zetland (company)

Major contributions

 * Ocepeia
 * Edwards Davis
 * Millipede
 * Glomerida (expanded from stub)
 * Microlophus albemarlensis (expanded from stub)
 * Ralph Vary Chamberlin (expanded from stub)
 * Denis G. Lillie (expanded from stub)
 * Kyphosichthys
 * Eozostrodon
 * Insect trap