User:AshLin/Categorisation of Butterflies

DRAFT GUIDELINES FOR CATEGORISATION OF WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES ON 'LEPIDOPTERA'

The proposed method of categorisation for articles on 'Lepidoptera', and being implemented on a trial basis, is as follows :-

Category pages
 * Family. Each family should have a category page. This page must have category stubs for 'Lepidoptera' and 'Butterflies'/'Moths' (as appropriate).
 * Subfamily. Each subfamily should have a category page. This page must have category stubs for its parent family, as the case may be, and, 'Butterflies'/'Moths' (as appropriate).
 * Genus.
 * Each genus, for which a wikipage exists, should have a category page. It is not considered desirable to have a category page for a genus if no wikipages belong to it.
 * The genus category page should be named directly as per the scientific name, for example, Ochlodes genus category page will be named 'Ochlodes'.

Wikipages
 * Species. No category is being planned at the moment for a particular species.
 * Genera.
 * If a genus has a wiki page using the common name, for example, 'Grizzled Skippers', then it should have at least two categories - that of the family it belongs to(in this case 'Hesperiidae'), and the genus or genera it represents (one category per genus, if it represents more than one genus).
 * If a genus is named after the scientific name, firstly please ensure that it's wikipage is titled with the text ' (genus)' following it's scientific name. . It must also have two categories, that is, in the name of the genus and in the name of the family it belongs to.


 * Species.
 * If a species has a wiki page using the common name, for example, 'Forest Hopper', then it should have at least two categories - that of the family say for example,('Hesperiidae'), and the genus it belongs to, say 'Ochlodes'. This helps it to be found easily.
 * If a species has a page named after the scientific name, firstly,please ensure that it's taxonomy is correct as per LEPINDEX. Secondly, the name of the page should be the binomial nomenclature itself. Thirdly, it must have one category in the name of genus, and NOT in the name of the family.

(Why? To prevent unnecessary clutterup! If a person can name/find a species by scientific name, we assume he is able to recognise its family from the taxobox info, and follow up the category chain to the family. Please realise each family may have hundreds or thousands of species, and I'm being optimistic about wikipedia and wikieditors :) .)